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Alan Mulally
American businessman
Alfred P. Sloan
American businessman (1875–1966)
Aristotle Onassis
20th-century Greek shipping tycoon
Bertha Benz
German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz
Charles Crocker
American railroad executive who founded the Central Pacific Railroad (1822–1888)
Charles Rolls
British motoring and aviation pioneer (1877–1910)
Chung Mong-koo
South Korean business magnate
Collis Potter Huntington
American businessman (1821-1900)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
American businessman and tycoon
Daniel K. Ludwig
American businessman
Donald Wills Douglas Sr.
American aircraft industrialist
E. H. Harriman
American businessman
Édouard Michelin (industrialist)
French industrialist
Eiji Toyoda
Japanese industrialist
Elon Musk
Businessman (born 1971)
Enzo Ferrari
Italian racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur
Ferdinand Piëch
Austrian industrialist (1937–2019), head of Volkswagen
Ferruccio Lamborghini
Italian industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini (1916–1993)
Gianni Agnelli
Italian businessman (1921–2003)
Giovanni Agnelli
Italian businessman
Harlow Curtice
American businessman
Harvey S. Firestone
American businessman (1868–1938)
Henry Ford
American business magnate (1863–1947)
Howard Hughes
American aerospace engineer and business magnate (1905–1976)
James J. Hill
American railroad promoter and financier (1838–1916)
Jay Gould
American railroad magnate and financier
John Insley Blair
American businessman (1802–1889)
Juan Trippe
American commercial aviation pioneer and founder of Pan American World Airways
Karl Rapp
German engineer
Kiichiro Toyoda
Japanese businessman
Lee Iacocca
American businessman (1924–2019)
Leland Stanford
American politician and railroad tycoon
Louis Chevrolet
Swiss race car driver
Marcel Dassault
French aircraft industrialist (1892–1986)
Mark Hopkins Jr.
American railway entrepreneur
Mary Barra
American businesswoman
Russell Sage
American financier and congressman for New York
Shoichiro Toyoda
Japanese businessman
Soichiro Honda
Japanese engineer and industrialist
Vanderbilt family
Prominent American family
Walter Chrysler
American automotive industry executive
William C. Durant
American businessman and co-founder of General Motors and Chevrolet
William E. Boeing
American aviation pioneer
William Henry Vanderbilt
American businessman and philanthropist
William S. Knudsen
Danish-American automotive industry executive and American general during World War II