William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, …

Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …

Samuel Moore Walton (March 29 1918 - April 6 1992), born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma was the founder of two American retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. He was the patriarch of the Walton family, one of the richest families in the world.

Unlike many other high-tech entrepreneurs, Omidyar didn't set out to become an Internet tycoon. Born in Paris, he moved to Maryland as a child when his father accepted a residency at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. Hewrote his first computer program at age 14, to catalog books for the school library. He graduated from Tufts University in 1988 with a degree incomputer science and went to work for a company that developed Macintosh software.

George Westinghouse, Jr (6 October 1846-12 March 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railroad air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. He is now best known for the brand of electrical goods that bear his name. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system.

Jerry Yang Chih-Yuan (born November 1968) is a Taiwanese American entreprenuer, co-founder with David Filo and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. He is also one of the two Chief Yahoo!s and board director of the company. As of 2007 his net worth is estimated to be US$2.2 billion and is ranked 432nd among the world's richest people according to Forbes.

Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and innovator. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada in 1870, and then to the United States in 1871, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1882. Bell was awarded the U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876; although other inventors had claimed the honor, the Bell patent remained in effect.

Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company.

Nolan K. Bushnell is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. Bushnell has received a great deal of recognition, including being inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, receiving the Nations Restaurant News “Innovator of the Year” award, and being named one of Newsweek's "50 Men That Changed America".

David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and a MS from Stanford University. Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, …

Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. Jimmy was born in Huntsville , Alabama in 1966, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama . He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in Chicago .

Dean L. Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American entrepreneur and inventor. Born in Rockville Centre, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating. His father is Jack Kamen, an illustrator of "Weird Science" and other EC Comics.

Chad Meredith Hurley (born 1977) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50 people who matter" list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google. According to an October 10 2006 "Wall Street Journal" article, …

Jeff Bezos loves being on the move. He sits in the back of a white van, beaming as usual, surrounded by an entourage of lanky young lieutenants from Amazon.com, the Web's biggest retail store and, someday, if Bezos gets it right, Earth's Biggest Store. The early-morning landscape of southeast Kansas hustles by: wood-frame houses, trailers, motels with lots of pickup trucks in their parking lots, a Kum & Go convenience store, cow pastures and the dull, forever flatness of the prairie.

Eugene Luskin is the CEO and founder of Lagotek. Previously Luskin worked as a software engineer at Intel and Microsoft. He and three other Microsoft employees came up with the idea of a Home Intelligence Platform, which is a combination of hardware and software to provide an open platform for home automation. In 2005 they founded Lagotek. The name "Lagotek" is abbreviation for their last names - Luskin, Grach, Tcherkachine and Kizherman.

Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA franchise; and Chairman of HDNet, an HDTV cable network.

Steve Case , Chairman As a businessman and philanthropist, Steve Case invests in diverse for-profit and nonprofit enterprises, with a particular interest in health care and the economic and social sustainability of Hawaii, his home state. To that end, he and his wife, Jean Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997. In April 2005, Steve launched Revolution, a company that seeks to drive transformative change by shifting power to consumers.

Hank Sullivan is an American entrepreneur. Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1955, Hank graduated from Georgia Tech in 1978 with a Batchelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering. He received his MBA from Georgia State University in 1981. Along with his wife and partners, Hank owns and operates a successful building business in Gainesville, Georgia. A few years ago, Hank began to take great notice of the blessings that freedom had bestowed upon him and those around him.

Stratton Sclavos currently serves as Partner of the investment firm Radar Partners. Sclavos formerly served as chairman and chief executive officer of VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of trusted infrastructure services to Web sites, enterprises, electronic commerce service providers, and individuals.

Randolph D. Lerner is an American entrepreneur and owner of the American National Football League (NFL) team, the Cleveland Browns, since October 2002. He has also been the Chairman of Aston Villa Football Club since 2006. Lerner graduated from Columbia University in 1984, spending 1983 at Clare College in Cambridge, England. During his time at Cambridge, Lerner followed English football, taking an interest in three teams: Arsenal, Fulham F.C. and Aston Villa.

For other persons named Charles Robinson , see Charles Robinson (disambiguation) . Charles W. Robinson Charles W. Robinson (born September 7 , 1919 ) is an American entrepreneur who has been involved with many successful business adventures in the mining and shipping industry. He also served as United States Deputy Secretary of State and is currently president of CBTF Co and M Ship Co. .