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Horace Marden Albright

Linda Alvarado

Elias Milton Ammons

Elizabeth Arden

Giorgio Armani

Aaron Arrowsmith

Mary Kay Ash

Laura Ashley

Roger Babson

Karl Baedeker

Robert Joseph Barro

Tomas Bata

Charlotte Beers

Charles Frambach Berlitz

Jeff Bezos

Conrad Moffat Black

Sir Basil Blackwell

Bill Blass

William Edward Boeing

Edward Bowes

Erskine Bowles

Richard Branson

Robert Somers Brookings

John Moses Browning

John Henry Bryan, Jr.

Arthur F. Burns

Sir William Burrell

Gussie Busch

Jeanie Buss

Billy Butlin

Ebenezer Butterick

George Cadbury

Robert Calvi

Henry Charles Carey

Andrew Carnegie

Willis Haviland Carrier

Bonnie Cashin

Clyde Vernon Cessna

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel

Ming E. Chang

Joyce Chen

Tei Fu Chen

George William Childs

René Auguste Chouteau

James Chu

John Chuang

Liz Claiborne

Robert Sterling Clark

Ronald H. Coase

Edward Knight Collins

Harry Sayles Conover

Peter Cooper

William Nelson Cromwell

John Perkins Cushing

Edward Davy

Warren de la Rue

Michael Dell

William Edwards Deming

Elias Hasket Derby

Richard D'Oyly Carte

Daniel Drew

Peter Drucker

R. G. Dun

Coleman du Pont

Henry Francis du Pont

Pierre S. du Pont

William C. Durant

James Eads

George Eastman

Sir Michael Edwardes

Michael Eisner

Clarence L. Elder

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

Harry George Ferguson

Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina

James Fisk

Henry Morrison Flagler

John Murray Forbes

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

Robert Bennet Forbes

Benjamin Franklin

John Freeman

Isaac Kauffman Funk

Keith Funston

Diane Von Furstenberg

Robert Garrett

Bill Gates

Frederick T. Gates

Frank Gerber

Amadeo Peter Giannini

Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth

Isaac Gimbel

Stephen Girard

Samuel Goldwyn

Anson Conger Goodyear

Charles Goodyear

Bill Graham

Merv Griffin

Henry Grinnell

Andrew Grove

Meyer Guggenheim

Simon Guggenheim

Solomon Robert Guggenheim

Thomas Guy

Walter A. Haas

Armand Hammer

Charles Handy

Edward H. Harriman

Paul Percy Harris

John Charles Harsanyi

George Huntington Hartford

H. J. Heinz

Howard Heinz

Milton Hershey

William Hewlett

Hewlett-Packard

Sir John Richard Hicks

Conrad Hilton

Dee Ward Hock

Herman Hollerith

William Hoover

Mark Hopkins

George A. Hormel

Collis P. Huntington

Currier & Ives

Georg Jensen

Steve Jobs

Eldridge Reeves Johnson

Howard Johnson

Tom Loftin Johnson

Samuel Milton Jones

Andrea Jung

Henry John Kaiser

Donna Karan

John Harvey Kellogg

James J. Kim

Steve Kim

Henrietta Chamberlain King

Rose Markward Knox

S. S. Kresge

Raymond A. Kroc

Sanjay Kumar

Jeanne Lanvin

Estée Lauder

Shelly Lazarus

Harvey Leibenstein

William Hesketh Lever

William J. Levitt

Reginald Lewis

Daniel K. Ludwig

Harry Max Markowitz

Forrest Edward Mars

Jerry Masucci

Robert Maxwell

David Hall McConnell

Neil McElroy

Sir Ian McGregor

Andrew Mellon

Jeremiah Millbank

Halsey Minor

Bernard Moore

Sir John Moores

Akio Morita

Levi P. Morton

Arthur H. Motley

William Mow

Arthur Negus

Scott Oki

Francoise Outelas

Walter P. Paepcke

John B. Pendleton

Ronald Perelman

H. Ross Perot

Tom Peters

Angelo Petri

Anton Philips

Eliza Lucas Pinckney

William Piper

Abram Nicholas Pritzker

Mary Quant

Eliphalet Remington

Charles Revson

Linda Johnson Rice

Richard Roberts

John Davison Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.

Laurance Spelman Rockefeller

Ralph Burton Rogers

Paul Rosenberg

Julius Rosenwald

Helena Rubinstein

Anthony Edward Rupert

Sir Gordon Russell

Martin Antoine Ryerson

Russell Sage

Haym Salomon

Marjorie Scardino

Elsa Schiaparelli

Richard Warren Sears

Percy Shaw

George Shillibeer

George Shima

Muriel “Mickey” Siebert

Sime Silverman

Norton Simon

J. Russell Smith

W. H. Smith

William Henry Smith

Michael A. Spence

Leland Stanford

Francis Edgar Stanley

Harry Stevens

Martha Stewart

Henry William Stiegel

Charles A. Stone

Vernon B. Stouffer

William Barstow Strong

Cyrus Tang

Arthur Tappan

Nikola Tesla

Irving G. Thalberg

Henry Timken

Pierre Toussaint

Robert Townsend

John Tu

Peter V. Ueberroth

Cornelius Vanderbilt

William Henry Vanderbilt

Linda Wachner

Maggie Lena (Mitchell) Walker

Sarah Breedlove Walker

William Wallace

Sam Walton

John Wanamaker

Charles B. Wang

Ty Warner

Thomas John Watson, Jr.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Josiah Wedgwood

Frederick R. Weisman

George Hunt Weyerhaeuser

Margaret C. “Meg,” Whitman

Albert Henry Wiggin

Charles Wiley

O. S. “Ozzie” Williams

Kemmons Wilson

Ross Winans

Oliver Fisher Winchester

Tim Wong

Steve Wozniak

Linus Yale

Jerry Yang

Henry C. Yuen


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