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Alan Rufus
Relative and companion of William I of England (the conquerer)
Anne Wojcicki
American entrepreneur
César Ritz
Swiss hotelier (1850–1918)
Conrad Hilton
American hotelier
du Pont family
Wealthy American family
Earl Bakken
American academic
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
French-American chemist
Elizabeth Holmes
American businesswoman (born 1984)
Ernest Oppenheimer
South African businessman (1880-1957)
Friedrich Weyerhäuser
German-American industrialist (1834-1914)
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche
Swiss businessman (1868-1920)
J. Bruce Ismay
English businessman
Jack Welch
American executive
James Buchanan Duke
Founder of the American Tobacco Company (1856–1925)
James Gamble (industrialist)
Irish-American industrialist
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Dutch statesman (1547-1619)
John Macarthur (wool pioneer)
British army officer, entrepreneur, politician, architect and pioneer in Australia (1767-1834)
John Warne Gates
American industrialist (1855–1911)
Josiah Wedgwood
English potter and founder of the Wedgwood company (1730–1795)
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Roman statesman
Mark R. Hughes
American entrepreneur, founder and president of Herbalife International, Inc.
Mir Osman Ali Khan
Last and 7th Nizam of Hyderabad, 1911–1948
Nicolas Hayek
Businessman (1928-2010)
Oliver Chace
American businessman (1769–1852)
Peter Manigault
Attorney and legislator in colonial America
Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel
Earl of Arundel
Samuel Slater
English-American industrialist
Tippu Tip
Swahili slave trader
Verghese Kurien
Indian entrepreneur
William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey
Norman noble who fought in the Battle of Hastings
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician (1851-1925)
William Procter (industrialist)
Co-founder of Procter & Gamble
William Weightman
American chemist