Biographies: Notable Business Biographies

Notable Business Biographies

Lido Anthony “Lee“ Iacocca

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• Notable Women in Busines
• Asian Pacific American Business and Media Leaders

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Biographies by Category

• Agnelli, family of industrialists
• Allen, Paul, business personality, inventor
• Alvarado, Linda, entrepreneur
• Appleton, Daniel, publisher
• Arden, Elizabeth, beautician, business executive
• Ash, Mary Kay, business executive
• Astor, John Jacob, merchant
• Astor, William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount, financier
• Babson, Roger, statistician, business forecaster, writer
• Baedeker, Karl, publisher
• Baer, George Frederick, financier
• Bailey, Maria, entrepreneur, writer, radio host
• Baker, George Fisher, financier and philanthropist
• Baldwin, Matthias William, industrialist and philanthropist
• Beers, Charlotte, advertising executive
• Sylvia Beach, publisher
• Bennett, James Gordon, newspaper proprietor
• Bezos, Jeff, business personality
• Biddle, Nicholas, financier
• Black, Cathleen, publisher
• Black, Conrad Moffat, financier
• Boeing, William Edward, aircraft manufacturer
• Bradley, Owen, record producer
• Brady, Diamond Jim, financier and philanthropist
• Branson, Richard, business personality
• Brookings, Robert Somers, business executive, philanthropist
• Brown, Moses, manufacturer and philanthropist
• Brown, Nicholas, manufacturer and philanthropist
• Brown, Tina, magazine publisher
• Browning, John Moses, gunsmith, inventor
• Bryan, John Henry, Jr., business executive
• Buffett, Warren Edward, financial executive
• Busch, Gussie, brewer
• Buss, Jeanie, sports management executive
• Butterick, Ebenezer, inventor, fashion business executive
• Cabot, George, merchant and politician
• Cadbury, George, manufacturer, social reformer
• Carey, Mathew, publisher
• Carlson, Chester Floyd, inventor
• Carnegie, Andrew, industrialist and philanthropist
• Carnegie, Dale, lecturer and writer on self-improvement
• Carrier, Willis Haviland, air conditioning pioneer
• Case, Steve, business personality
• Cessna, Clyde Vernon, airplane manufacturer
• Chang, Ming E., business leader
• Chao, Stephen, movie producer, TV executive
• Chen, Tei Fu, skin care entrepreneur
• Chrysler, Walter Percy, industrialist
• Chu, James, computer entrepreneur
• Chuang, John, entrepreneur
• Claiborne, Liz, fashion designer, business executive
• Colgate, William, manufacturer and philanthropist
• Collins, Edward Knight, shipowner
• Cook, Thomas, travel agent
• Cooke, Jay, financier
• Cooper, Peter, inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist
• Cudahy, Michael, meat packer
• Cuffe, Paul, ship captain, merchant, and abolitionist
• Cunard, Sir Samuel, pioneer of regular transatlantic steam navigation
• Curtis, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar, publisher and philanthropist
• Cushing, John Perkins, merchant, philanthropist
• Dale, David, cotton manufacturer and philanthropist
• Daly, Marcus, copper magnate
• De Pauw, Washington Charles, manufacturer
• Deere, John, industrialist
• Dell, Michael, entrepreneur
• DeLorean, John, car designer
• Deming, William Edwards, statistician and quality-control expert
• Derby, Elias Hasket, merchant
• Diller, Barry, media mogul, business personality
• Drew, Daniel, railroad speculator
• Drexel, Anthony Joseph, banker and philanthropist
• Du Pont, industrialists
• Du Pont, Coleman, chemical industry entrepreneur
• Du Pont, Eleuthí¨re Irénée
• Du Pont, Pierre Samuel, industrialist
• Duke, James Buchanan, industrialist
• Dun, R. G., merchant, financial services broker
• Durant, Thomas Clark, railroad builder
• Durant, William C., manufacturer
• Eastman, George, inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist
• Edwardes, Sir Michael, business executive
• Eisner, Michael, media executive
• Fairless, Benjamin Franklin, industrialist
• Fargo, William George, pioneer expressman
• Field, Cyrus West, merchant
• Field, Marshall, merchant
• Filene, Edward Albert, merchant
• Fiorina, Cara Carleton "Carly", business executive
• Firestone, Harvey Samuel, industrialist
• Fish, Stuyvesant, railroad executive
• Fisher, Carl G., entrepreneur, developer of racetracks, roadways, and resorts
• Fisk, James, financial speculator
• Flagler, Henry Morrison, financier and real-estate developer
• Forbes, Malcolm, publisher
• Forbes, Robert Bennet, merchant, author
• Forbes, Steve, publisher, political figure
• Ford, Henry, industrialist
• Frick, Henry Clay, industrialist
• Funston, Keith, lawyer and industrialist
• Garrett, Robert, financier
• Gary, Elbert Henry, lawyer and industrialist
• Gates, Bill, business executive
• Gates, John Warne, financier and promoter
• Gerber, Frank, baby food manufacturer
• Getty, Jean Paul, business executive
• Giannini, Amadeo Peter, banker
• Gilbreth, Lillian Evelyn, consulting engineer, household efficiency expert
• Gimbel, family of merchants and philanthropists
• Girard, Stephen, merchant, banker, and philanthropist
• Glidden, Joseph Farwell, inventor of barbed wire
• Godey, Louis Antoine, publisher
• Goodnight, Charles, cattleman
• Goodnight, Mary Ann Dyer, early settler, philanthropist
• Goodyear, Anson Conger, industrialist, art collector
• Gordy, Berry, Jr., record company founder and executive
• Gould, George Jay, railroad owner
• Gould, Jay, speculator
• Grace, William Russell, financier
• Graham, Katharine Meyer, publisher
• Graham, Philip Leslie, publisher
• Green, Hetty, financier
• Gregg, William, industrialist
• Gresham, Sir Thomas, merchant and financier
• Grinnell, Henry, merchant, philanthropist
• Grove, Andrew, engineer, technology executive
• Guccione, Kathy Keeton, publishing executive
• Guggenheim, family of industrialists and philanthropists
• Haas, Walter A., business executive
• Hammer, Armand, industrialist, art collector, philanthropist
• Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, capitalist and politician
• Harriman, Edward Henry, railroad executive
• Harris, Paul Percy, lawyer, founder of Rotary International
• Hartford, John Augustine, food merchant
• Havemeyer, Henry Osborne, industrialist
• Hearst, George, mining magnate
• Hearst, William Randolph, journalist and publisher
• Hefner, Hugh, publisher
• Heinz, H. J., food manufacturer
• Heinz, Howard, business executive, philanthropist
• Helmsley, Leona, business personality
• Hershey, Milton, chocolatier, philanthropist
• Hewitt, Abram Stevens, industrialist and political leader
• Hewlett, William, electronics entrepreneur
• Higgins, Pattillo, Texas oil pioneer
• Hill, James Jerome, railroad builder
• Hilton, Conrad, business personality
• Hock, Dee Ward, financial services pioneer
• Hollerith, Herman, engineer, computer inventor
• Holt, Henry, author and publisher
• Hoover, William, industrialist
• Hopkins, Johns, financier and philanthropist
• Hopkins, Mark, merchant, railroad developer
• Hormel, George A., meatpacker
• Hormel, Jay Catherwood, food industry executive
• Howard, Roy Wilson, newspaper publisher
• Hughes, Howard, business personality, aviator
• Huntington, Collis Potter, railroad builder
• Huntington, Henry Edwards, financier
• Iacocca, Lee, business executive
• Insull, Samuel, public utilities financier
• Jobs, Steven Paul, businessman
• Johnson, Eldridge Reeves, inventor, entrepreneur
• Johnson, Gary, businessman, governor, politician
• Johnson, Howard, restaurateur
• Johnson, John Harold, magazine publisher
• Johnson, Robert L., business personality, media mogul
• Johnson, Tom Loftin, businessman, U.S. representative, mayor
• Jones, Samuel Milton, inventor, manufacturer, reformer
• Jung, Andrea, business executive
• Kahn, Otto Hermann, banker and patron of the arts
• Kaiser, Henry John, industrialist, shipbuilder
• Karan, Donna, fashion designer, business executive
• Keith, Minor Cooper, magnate
• Kennedy, Joseph Patrick, banking, shipbuilding, investment banking
• Kim, James J., entrepreneur
• Kim, Steve, electronics entrepreneur
• King, Henrietta Chamberlain, rancher
• Knight, Phil, business personality
• Knopf, Alfred A., publisher
• Knox, Rose Markward, food products manufacturer
• Knudsen, William Signius, industrialist and U.S. government official
• Kresge, S. S., merchant, philanthropist
• Kroc, Raymond A., restaurateur
• Krupp, family of German armament manufacturers
• Kumar, Sanjay, computer software executive
• Lamont, Thomas William, banker
• Land, Edwin Herbert, inventor and photographic pioneer
• Lauder, Estée, cosmetics company founder
• Lazarus, Shelly, advertising executive
• Lever, William Hesketh, soap-maker, philanthropist
• Levitt, William Jaird, builder
• Lewis, Reginald, business leader
• Lloyd, Edward, business personality
• Loeb, James, banker and philanthropist
• Loeb, Solomon, banker
• Lowell, Francis Cabot, pioneer cotton manufacturer
• Lozano, Monica, newspaper publisher
• Luce, Henry Robinson, publisher
• Ludwig, Daniel K., shipping magnate
• Mackay, John William, financier
• Mars, Forrest Edward, candy manufacturer
• Maxwell, Robert, business executive
• Mayer, Louis B., movie executive
• McConnell, David Hall, toiletries pioneer
• McCoy, Joseph Geating, cattle-trade pioneer
• McElroy, Neil, business executive
• McGregor, Sir Ian, steel magnate
• McNamara, Robert S., business personality, presidential advisor
• Mellon, Andrew William, financier, industrialist, and public official
• Meyer, Eugene, financier and newspaper publisher
• Milken, Michael Robert, financial executive
• Minor, Halsey, Internet entrepreneur
• Morgan, family of financiers and philanthropists
• Morgenthau, Henry, banker, diplomat, and philanthropist
• Morita, Akio, business executive
• Motley, Arthur H., publisher
• Mow, William, clothing entrepreneur
• Munsey, Frank Andrew, publisher and author
• Murdoch, Rupert, media mogul
• Newberry, Walter Loomis, merchant and banker
• Nidetch, Jean, founder of Weight Watchers
• Nobel, Alfred, industrialist
• Nuffield, William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount, automobile manufacturer and philanthropist
• Ochs, Adolph S., newspaper publisher
• Oki, Scott, computer executive
• Onassis, Aristotle Socrates, shipowner and financier
• O'Neill, Paul Henry, business executive and government official
• Paepcke, Walter P., entrepreneur, philanthropist
• Parsons, Richard, media executive
• Patiño, Simón Ituri, capitalist
• Peabody, George, financier and philanthropist
• Peabody, George Foster, banker and philanthropist
• Pearson, Sir Cyril Arthur, publisher
• Perelman, Ronald, turnaround specialist
• Perot, H. Ross, business executive and political leader
• Petri, Angelo, tobacconist, vintner
• Philips, Anton, electronics manufacturer
• Piper, William, airplane manufacturer
• Plant, Henry , entrepreneur, railroad and steamship executive
• Pollock, Oliver, merchant
• Pratt, Daniel, industrialist
• Pritzker, Abram Nicholas, entrepreneur
• Pulitzer, Joseph, newspaper publisher and politician
• Pullman, George Mortimer, industrialist
• Putnam, George Haven, publisher
• Putnam, George Palmer, publisher
• Raeburn, Ben, publisher
• Redenbacher, Orville, business personality, corporate icon
• Remington, Eliphalet, gun manufacturer
• Reuter, Baron Paul Julius von, founder of Reuters Telegram Company (now Reuters Group PLC)
• Revson, Charles, cosmetics industry executive
• Rice, Linda Johnson, magazine publisher, executive
• Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon, airline executive
• Riordan, Richard J., businessman and politician
• Rockefeller, John Davison, industrialist and philanthropist
• Rockefeller, John Davison , Jr., industrialist and philanthropist
• Rockefeller, Laurance Spelman, business executive, conservationist
• Rockefeller, William, financier
• Rogers, Ralph Burton, businessman and philanthropist
• Rosenwald, Julius, merchant, retail executive, philanthropist
• Rothermere, Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount, publisher
• Rothschild, family of bankers
• Rothschild, Nathan Meyer, banker
• Rouse, James, real estate developer
• Rubinstein, Helena, cosmetics executive
• Rupert, Anthony Edward, financier, arts patron, conservationist
• Sage, Russell, financier
• Sanders, Harland, business personality, corporate icon
• Sarnoff, David, business personality, TV personality
• Sarnoff, Robert W., media executive
• Scardino, Marjorie, business executive
• Schiff, Jacob Henry, banker and philanthropist
• Schwab, Charles Michael, steel magnate
• Scott, Thomas Alexander, railroad president
• Scranton, George Whitefield, manufacturer
• Scribner, Charles, publisher
• Scripps, Edward Wyllis, newspaper publisher
• Sears, Richard Warren, merchant
• Siebert, Muriel Mickey, stockbroker
• Silverman, Sime, newspaper publisher
• Simon, Norton, food industry executive, art collector
• Slater, Samuel, pioneer in the cotton textile industry
• Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr., businessman and philanthropist
• Soros, George, stock trader and philanthropist
• Stanford, Leland, railroad builder
• Stanley, Francis Edgar and Stanley, Freelan O., inventor, manufacturer
• Starrett, Paul, builder
• Stetson, John Batterson, hat manufacturer
• Stevens, Harry, food industry executive
• Stewart, Alexander Turney, merchant
• Stewart, Martha, publisher, business personality
• Stiegel, Henry William, ironmaster, glassmaker
• Stinnes, Hugo, industrialist
• Stouffer, Vernon B., food industry executive
• Straus, merchants, public officials, and philanthropists
• Strauss, Levi, entrepreneur, inventor
• Strong, William Barstow, railroad official
• Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, newspaper publisher
• Summerlin, Jacob, Florida cattleman and entrepreneur
• Tang, Cyrus, entrepreneur
• Tappan, Arthur, merchant, philanthropist, abolitionist
• Tata, industrialists
• Taylor, Frederick Winslow, industrial engineer
• Thalberg, Irving G., movie executive
• Townsend, Robert, business executive
• Trippe, Juan Terry, pioneering aviation executive
• Trump, Donald, business personality, TV personality
• Tu, John, software entrepreneur
• Turner, Ted, television network executive
• Ueberroth, Peter V., businessman, baseball commissioner, Olympics chairman
• Vanderbilt, Cornelius, railroad magnate
• Vanderbilt, William Henry, railroad developer, financier
• Villard, Henry, journalist and financier
• Wachner, Linda, apparel industry executive
• Walker, Madam C. J., entrepeneur
• Walker, Maggie Lena (Mitchell), businesswoman
• Wallace, William, inventor, manufacturer
• Walton, Sam, retailing executive
• Wanamaker, John, merchant
• Wang, An, computer entrepreneur
• Wang, Charles B., computer software entrepreneur
• Warner, Ty, toy industry executive
• Watson, Thomas John, industrialist and philanthropist
• Watson, Thomas John, Jr., industrialist
• Weill, Sanford I., business executive
• Weisman, Frederick R., businessman, art collector, philanthropist
• Welch, Jack, business executive
• Wells, Henry, pioneer expressman
• Weyerhaeuser, George Hunt, lumber executive
• Whitman, Margaret C. , business executive
• Wiggin, Albert Henry, banker
• Willing, Thomas, merchant and financier
• Willkie, Wendell Lewis, industrialist and political leader
• Wilson, Charles Erwin, industrialist and cabinet officer
• Wilson, Kemmons, hotelier
• Winchester, Oliver Fisher, arms manufacturer
• Wong, Tim, high technology executive
• Woolworth, Frank Winfield, merchant
• Wozniak, Steve, computer industry pioneer
• Yale, Elihu, merchant
• Yale, Linus, lock manufacturer, inventor
• Yang, Jerry, Internet entrepreneur
• Ybor, Vincente Martinez, cigar industry entrepreneur
• Yerkes, Charles Tyson, financier
• Yuen, Henry C., high technology entrepreneur
• Zaharoff, Sir Basil, international financier and munitions manufacturer