List of World's Business Elite
From The Matrix
The following are some of the world's most influential current and historical business leaders, many of whom have supported and influenced the economic and political development of historical and modern capitalism, or components of it:
- Aitken, William Maxwell, 1st Baron Beaverbrook - newspaper magnate
- Andersen, Arthur - Arthur Andersen
- Ando, Kunitake - Sony
- Astor, John Jacob - fur trading and real estate
- Barnevik, Percy - investor
- Baruch, Bernard - financier, investor, Presidential advisor
- Bechtolsheim, Andy - Sun Microsystems
- Berlusconi, Silvio - Italian media
- Bezos, Jeff - Amazon.com
- Boeing, William - Boeing Aircraft
- Boulton, Matthew - metal products
- Branson, Richard - Virgin
- Bronfman, Samuel - distilling
- Buffett, Warren - Berkshire Hathaway
- Candler, Asa - Coca-Cola
- Capellas, Michael - Compaq, Worldcom
- Carnegie, Andrew - American Steel
- Cunard, Samuel, passenger ships
- Dell, Michael - Dell Computers
- Deere, John - John Deere
- Disney, Walt - Disney
- Ellison, Larry - Oracle Corporation
- Ericsson, Lars Magnus - Ericsson
- Fiorina, Carly - Hewlett-Packard
- Ford, Henry - Ford
- Gates, Bill - Microsoft
- Gerstner, Lou - IBM
- Getty, J. P. - Getty Oil
- Gillette, King C. - Gillette Razors
- Gould, Andrew - Schlumberger
- Grove, Andy - Intel
- Hearst, William Randolph - media magnate
- Hilton, Conrad - Hilton Hotel
- Honda, Soichiro - Honda
- Huizenga, Wayne - Blockbuster
- Hughes, Howard - Hughes Aircraft
- Hunt, H. L., oilman
- Hurwitz, Charles - CEO, Maxxam
- Iacocca, Lee - Chrysler
- Immelt, Jeff - General Electric
- Isawaki, Yotaro - Mitsubishi
- Jobs, Steve - Apple
- Johns, Michael - Gentiva Health Services
- Jurvetson, Steve - Hotmail
- Kelleher, Herb - Southwest Airlines
- Kennedy Sr., Joseph P. - investor
- Kozlowski, Denis - Tyco
- Kumar, Sanjay - Computer Associates (CA)
- Kravis, Henry - financier
- Kroc, Ray - McDonalds
- Krupp, Alfred - Krupp
- Law, John - banking
- Le Ray, Jacques-Donatien - ship building
- Limbaugh, Rush - right-wing media
- Ludwig, Daniel - cargo ship building
- Marconi, Guglielmo - Marconi
- McNealy, Scott - Sun Microsystems
- Mellon, Andrew - banking, steel, oil, ship building
- Milken, Michael, High-Yield Bonds
- Morgan, John Pierpont - J. P. Morgan Bank
- Morita, Akio - Sony
- Murdoch, Rupert - News Corporation
- Omidyar, Pierre - e-Bay
- Onassis, Aristotle - shipping
- O'Reilly, Tony - INM
- Owen-Jones, Lindsay - L'Oreal cosmetics
- Packer, Kerry - Australian media
- Palmisano, Samuel - IBM
- Pemberton, John S. - Coca-Cola
- Perot, Ross - Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
- Paul Julius Baron von Reuter - Reuters
- Rhodes, Cecil - mining, etc
- Rockefeller, John D. - Standard Oil
- Roddick, Anita - Body Shop
- Rothschild, Mayer Amschel - banking
- Sarnoff, David - RCA
- Sculley, John - Apple
- Sloan, Alfred - G.M.
- Stewart, Martha - Omni Media
- Tanzi, Calisto - Parmalat
- Taylor, E. P. - Argus Corrporation, Windfields Farm
- Trump, Donald
- Vanderbilt, Cornelius - shipping
- Vanderbilt, William Henry - shipping, railroads
- Wallenberg, Peter - investor
- Walton, Sam - Walmart
- Wanamaker, John - Wanamaker Department Stores
- Wang, Charles - Computer Associates (CA)
- Welch, Jack - G.E.
- Whitney, Eli - American System
- Yang, Jerry - Yahoo!
