Rich Alphasort
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Forbes' Twenty Great Businessmen
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A
Philip Danforth Armour (1832–1901)
John Jacob Astor - John Jacob Astor (1763–1848) was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States. He was the creator of the first trust in America, from which he made his fortune in fur trading, real estate, and opium.
B
Amschel Moses Bauer (1700s)
Samuel Bernard (1651–1739)
C
Andrew Carnegie - Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) was a Scottish-born industrialist, businessman, and a major philanthropist. He was an immigrant as a child with his parents. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U.S. Steel. With the fortune he made from business, he turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Walter Chrysler
Jacques Coeur (c1395–1456)
Jay Cooke
Crocker
D
Dodge
Duke
E
Elkins
F
Ford
The Fugger Clan (15-16th Century)
G
Jay Gould
Hetty Green (1834–1916)
Thomas Gresham (c1519–1579)
H
Mark Hanna (1837–1904)
Harriman Clan
- Edward H. Harriman
- Averell Harriman
- E. Roland Harriman
Mark Hopkins
Huntington
Hutton
I
J
K
L
John Law (1671-1729)
M
The Medici Clan (13–17th century)
The Mellon Clan (19th century–present)
The Mitsui Clan (1622–present)
The Morgan Clan (1800–present)
- J.P. Morgan (1837–1913)
N
O
Ransom Olds
Gabriel-Julien Ouvrard (1770–1846)
Robert Owen (1771–1858)
Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of socialism and the cooperative movement. 'Robert Owen' in book on the rich...why?
P
Brothers Paris
William de la Pole (the younger) (d. 1366)
du Pont
Q
R
Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902)
Rockefeller Clan
- Amschel Moses Bauer (1700s)
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812)
S
Russell Sage
Selferidges
Leland Stanford
Stewarts
Hugo Stinnes (1870-1924)
Strauses
T
U
V
Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877)
W
Wanamakers
Warburg (Gm, banking)
Richard Whittington
Welser (Augsburg, spices)
X
Y
Z
Basil Zaharoff (1849-1936)
