List of entrepreneurs

This is a list of entrepreneurs by century. An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. This list includes notable entrepreneurs.

Pre-18th-century entrepreneurs

Regina Basilier (1572–1631), Swedish-German banker, trader and investor Birgitta Durell (1619–1683), Dutch-Swedish manufacturer-industrialist Jakob Fugger (1459–1525), German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker Louis De Geer (1587–1652), Walloon-born Dutch-Swedish businessman and industrialist; active mainly in the Dutch Republic and Sweden Flavia Seia Isaurica ( 140s), ancient Roman businesswoman in the brick industry Isaac Le Maire (c.1558–1624), Walloon-born Dutch businessman and investor; active mainly in the Dutch Republic Johan Palmstruch (1611–1671), Latvian-born Dutch-Swedish businessman, investor, and financial innovator; active mainly in the Dutch Republic and Sweden Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609–1680), French entrepreneur, creator of the Canal du Midi

18th-century entrepreneurs

Anna Elisabeth Baer 1878–1955 (shipping business), Finland Samuel Crompton 1753–1827 (spinning mule), Great Britain Caroline Gother 1761–1836 (banking), Sweden Johns Hopkins 1795–1873 (personal business), U.S. Anna Lohe 1654–1731 (banking business), Sweden Thomas Newcomen 1664–1729 (steam engine), Great Britain Charlotta Richardy 1751–1831 (manufacture), Sweden Brigitta Sahlgren 1694–1771 (sugar), Sweden James Watt 1736–1819 (tugboats), Great Britain Josiah Wedgwood 1730–1795 (pottery), Great Britain Robert Wood Johnson I 1845–1910 (medical device), U.S.

19th-century entrepreneurs

John Jacob Astor (real estate), U.S. Augusta Björkenstam (transportation), Sweden George Cadbury (confectionery), UK Andrew Carnegie (steel), Pittsburgh, U.S. and Scotland James Buchanan Duke (tobacco), U.S. Thomas Alva Edison (film, telecommunication, technology, scientific research, energy), U.S. Charles T. Hinde (shipping, railroads, hotels), U.S. Quah Beng Kee (Ferry, Shipping), Penang, Malaysia Pryce Pryce-Jones (mail order pioneer), UK Biddy Mason (real estate), California, U.S. J. P. Morgan (finance), U.S. Antoinette Nording (perfume), Sweden John D. Rockefeller (oil), U.S. Joseph Rowntree (confectionery), UK Joseph Seligman (banking), U.S. Eugene Sharrer (plantations, retail, river steamers), Nyasaland (present-day Malawi) Claus Spreckels (sugar industry), Germany Leland Stanford (railroads), California, U.S. Levi Strauss (retail), U.S./Germany Jamsetji Tata (shipping, steel industry, hotels, education), India Nikola Tesla (AC induction motor), U.S., Yugoslavia (born in Austro-Hungarian Empire) Alessandro Torlonia (banking), ItalyDaniela Felisini, Alessandro Torlonia. The Pope's Banker, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 Richard Trevithick (mining and steam engines), Great Britain Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads), U.S. George Westinghouse (railroad braking, switching, and signalling systems; commercialization of natural gas; development, transmission and application of AC electricity), U.S.

20th-century entrepreneurs

Agha Hasan Abedi (banking), Pakistan Paul Allen (computers, scientific research, real estate, media, education, entertainment, artificial intelligence, space, philanthropy), U.S. Dhirubhai Ambani (reliance industries), India Mary Kay Ash (cosmetics), U.S. Bang Si-hyuk (music), South Korea Otto Beisheim (retail), Germany William Boeing (aviation), U.S. Warren Buffett (investor), U.S. Richard Branson (media, transportation, space), UK Coco Chanel (fashion), France Jack Cohen (retail), UK Michael Dell (computers), U.S. Oscar Deutsch (cinemas), UK Richard M. DeVos, Sr. (multi-level marketing), U.S. Walt Disney (animation), U.S. James Dyson (vacuum cleaner), UK Larry Ellison (computers), U.S. Fan Hongwei (petrochemicals), China Enzo Ferrari (sports cars), Italy Henry Ford (automobile manufacturing), U.S. Bill Gates (computers, philanthropy, investments) U.S. Henry Hu (technology), Hong Kong Howard Hughes (aviation, film), U.S. John James (radio & TV retailing, manufacturing, philanthropy), U.K. Steve Jobs (computers, technology, animation), U.S. Dean Kamen (technology), U.S. Ingvar Kamprad (retail), Sweden Vinod Khosla (technology), U.S. Ferruccio Lamborghini (sports cars), Italy Estée Lauder (cosmetics), U.S. Jorge Loring Martinez (aviation), Spain Vijay Mallya (breweries), India Jim Marshall (music equipment), UK Terry Matthews (technology), Canada Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (biotechnology), India Vince McMahon (entertainment media), U.S. Sunil Mittal (telecommunication), India N. R. Narayana Murthy (information technology), India Nian Guangjiu (food), China Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu (transportation, manufacturing), Nigeria Qin Yinglin (agriculture), China Anita Roddick (retail), UK Michael J. Saylor (Internet), U.S. Magnús Scheving (entertainment, health), Iceland Carlos Slim (telecommunications), Mexico Alan Sugar (technology), UK J. R. D. Tata (steel, aviation, information technology, transportation, cosmetics, consumer products, education), France/India Ted Turner (entertainment media), U.S. Madam C.J. Walker (retail, philanthropy), U.S. Sam M. Walton (retail), US Oprah Winfrey (entertainment), U.S. Steve Wozniak (computers, technology, education, philanthropy), U.S. George Lucas (entertainment), U.S. Zhong Huijuan (pharmaceuticals), China

21st-century entrepreneurs

Brian Acton (Internet), U.S. Ritesh Agarwal (Internet), India Bhavish Aggarwal (Internet), India Charles T. Akre (securities), U.S. Folorunso Alakija (fashion, oil and gas), Rod Aldridge (business process outsourcing, education), UK Pierre Andurand (investments), France Trishneet Arora (Cyber Security), India Sachin Bansal (Internet), India Eike Batista (mining, oil and gas exploration), Brazil Steve Baxter (Internet), Australia David Benaron (digital health), U.S. Jeff Bezos (Internet, space), U.S. Constantin Bisanz (Investor), U.S. Joe Blackman (events, entertainment), UK/U.S. Ryan Blair (multi-level marketing), U.S. Sara Blakely (retail), U.S. Hernán Botbol (Internet), Argentina Sergey Brin (Internet), U.S. Tory Burch (retail), U.S. Malcolm CasSelle (Internet), U.S./China Lee Chambers (psychologist) (healthcare), UK Sean "Diddy" Combs (music and entertainment), U.S. Simon Cowell (music and television), UK Nancy Cruickshank (Internet), UK Mark Cuban (Internet), U.S. Nick D'Aloisio (Internet), UK Aliko Dangote (manufacturing, real estate, oil and gas), Nigeria Jack Dorsey (Internet), U.S. Helmy Eltoukhy (genomics), U.S. Shawn Fanning (Internet), U.S. Rihanna (cosmetics), Barbados Dylan Field (Software), U.S. Jon Fisher (Internet), U.S. Simon Fuller (music and television), UK Roland Fomundam (sustainable technology in agriculture), Cameroon Peter Gilgan (construction), Canada Vishal Gondal (video gaming), India Reid Hoffman (Internet), U.S. Alex Hofmann (executive), U.S. Bri Holt (Internet), U.S. Drew Houston (Internet), U.S. Arianna Huffington (Internet), U.S. Steve Huffman (Internet), U.S. Jessica Huie (greeting cards), UK Mohammed Ibrahim (telecommunication), Sudan Daymond John (clothing), U.S. Lisa S. Jones (technology), U.S. Elle Kaplan (finance), U.S. David Karp (Internet), U.S. Sal Khan (education), U.S. Jan Koum (Internet), U.S. Dominik Mate Kovacs (technology entrepreneur), U.S. Prescott Lee (technology industry), U.S. Jeremy Levitt (Internet), Australia Jack Ma (Internet), China Ana Maiques (healthcare), Spain Fadi Makki (trade), Middle East (Lebanon, Qatar) Strive Masiyiwa (telecommunication), Zimbabwe Javier Moll (media), Spain/Australia Dave Morin (Internet), U.S. Rupert Murdoch (media, entertainment), UK/U.S. Elon Musk (Internet, space, energy, neurotechnology, transportation, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, electric cars), U.S./South Africa Carrie Rose (Internet), UK Andrew Nisbet (catering), UK Alexis Ohanian (Internet), U.S. Larry Page (Internet), U.S. Sean Parker (Internet), U.S. Melanie Perkins (Internet), Australia Stefano Pessina (healthcare), Italy Michelle Phan (Internet), U.S. Manny Phesto (music, cannabis/CBD), U.S. Azim Premji (information technology services), India Kelsey Ramsden (construction, children's toys), Canada Burton Rocks (Internet), U.S. Kevin Rose (Internet), U.S. Vijay Shekhar Sharma (Internet), India Param Singh (Internet, property), UK Masayoshi Son (Venture Capital), Japan Lane Sutton (Internet), U.S. Kevin Systrom (Internet), U.S. Motoaki Tanigo (Virtual Reality), Japan Rodrigo Teijeiro (Internet), Argentina/Brazil Tânia Tomé (Consultancy, Investment & training), Mozambique Wang Jianlin (real estate development), China Emily Weiss (beauty), U.S. Anne Wojcicki (personal genomics), U.S. Wu Yajun (property developer), China Malala Yousafzai (education), Pakistan Mark Zuckerberg (Internet), U.S.

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