- George Steinbrenner
George Michael Steinbrenner III (born July 4, 1930 in Rocky River, Ohio), often known as "The Boss", is an American businessman and the principal owner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. His outspokenness and role in driving up player salaries have made him one of the sport's more controversial figures, … - Carl Icahn
Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor. - Payne Whitney
William Payne Whitney (March 20, 1876 - May 25, 1927) was a wealthy American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. The son of William C. Whitney and Flora Payne, and younger brother to Harry, Payne Whitney attended Groton School and then Yale University. There, he was a member of Skull & Bones, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and captained the Yale rowing team. In later years, he helped finance the team, including donating funds to build a dormitory for the crew. - Merv Griffin
Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. (born on July 6, 1925, in San Mateo, California) is an American talk show host, entertainer, pianist, television personality and executive. He began his career as a singer and also appeared in movies and on Broadway; he later became host of his own TV show, "The Merv Griffin Show", and an entertainment business magnate. - Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 - June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s. One of his most notable performances was as Atticus Finch in the 1963 film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird", for which he won an Academy Award. - Jack Klugman
Jack Klugman (born Jacob Joachim Klugman on April 27, 1922, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American television and movie actor. Klugman began acting after serving in the United States Army during World War II. A struggling actor in New York City, Klugman was a roommate of another starving actor, Charles Bronson, before the two went onto bigger and better things. - Bobby Hurley
Robert (Bobby) Matthew Hurley (born June 28 1971 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a former professional basketball player. - Tim Conway
Tim Conway (born December 15, 1933) is an American comedic actor. Conway was born Thomas Daniel Conway, but changed his first name to "Tim" to avoid confusion with actor Tom Conway. He was born in the Cleveland, Ohio suburb Willoughby and grew up in nearby Chagrin Falls. He attended Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, majoring in speech and radio. - David Milch
David S. Milch (March 23, 1945, Buffalo, New York) is an American television writer and producer. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Yale and won the Tinker Prize in English. He earned an MFA from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. To avoid the draft during the Vietnam War, Mich enrolled in Yale Law School, but was expelled for shooting out a police car siren with a shotgun. - Louis B. Mayer
Louis Burt Mayer (born Eliezer Meir 1882 - October 29, 1957) was an early film producer, most famous for his stewardship and co-founding of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in its golden years. - Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 - May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1940s as the era's leading sex symbol. Although there was prejudice against Hispanic actors at the time, Hayworth is now widely regarded to be one of the first Hispanic-American "sex goddess" of "Golden Age" Hollywood with leading roles in film. - Elizabeth Arden
Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1878 - October 18, 1966) was a Canadian businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire in the United States. Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, where she lived until she was twenty-four years old. Joining her elder brother in New York City, she briefly worked as a bookkeeper for the E.R. Squibb Pharmaceuticals Company. While working there, she spent hours in their lab, learning about skincare. - Harry Payne Whitney
Harry Payne Whitney (April 29 1872 - October 26 1930) was an American businessman, thoroughbred horsebreeder, and member of the prominent Whitney family. Born in New York City, he was the eldest son of the very wealthy businessman and United States Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney and brother to William Payne Whitney. Harry Payne Whitney was sent to study at Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts then attended Yale University, graduating with a law degree in 1894. - Walter Chrysler
Walter Percy Chrysler was a German American automobile pioneer. He was born in Wamego, Kansas and grew up in Ellis, Kansas. He also lived in Oelwein, Iowa, where there is a small park dedicated to him. His automobile career began when the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) decided to diversify into the automobile business. Chrysler was the plant manager. ALCO had some racing success but less in the way of sales success. - Paul Mellon
Paul Mellon KBE (11 June 1907 - 1 February 1999) was an American philanthropist and Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder who is one of the only four people ever designated "Exemplars of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was co-heir to one of America's greatest business fortunes, created by his grandfather Thomas Mellon, his father Andrew W. Mellon, and his father's brother Richard B. Mellon. - W. Averell Harriman
William Averell Harriman (November 15 1891 - July 26 1986) was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Truman and later as Governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 1952, and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by President Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson. - Mc Hammer
MC Hammer (born Stanley Kirk Burrell on March 30, 1962) is an American MC who was popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s, known for his dramatic rise to and fall from fame and fortune, his trademark Hammer pants, and for leaving a lasting influence on hip hop culture and music. He became a preacher in the 1990s and now has his own television program. He lives in Tracy, California with his wife Stephanie and six children, 3 boys and 3 girls. - Louis Wolfson
Louis Elwood Wolfson (born January 28 1912 in St. Louis, Missouri) was a Wall Street financier and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder. Wolfson built one of the first conglomerates, before being convicted of securities fraud. His legal troubles led to the resignation of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. He grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was a top athlete. As a youngster, he boxed professionally under the name "Kid Wolf", … - Arthur B. Hancock
Arthur B. Hancock (June 26, 1875 - April 1, 1957) was an American breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses who founded the renowned Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. Born in Ellerslie, Virginia, Arthur Hancock was a brother to scholar and educator Harris Hancock (1867-1944). Their father, Capt. Richard Johnson Hancock, owned Ellerslie Stud in Albemarle County Virginia and Arthur chose to follow in his fathers footsteps. In 1908 he married Nancy Tucker Clay of Paris, … - Ogden L. Mills
Ogden Livingston Mills, Jr. (August 23, 1884 - October 11, 1937) was an American businessman and politician. The son of Ogden and Ruth T. (Livingston) Mills and grandson of Darius O. Mills, who bequeathed to his son a fortune in excess of $40 million amassed in banking, railroad and mining ventures on the Pacific Coast, Mills was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated Harvard University in 1904 and Harvard Law School in 1907. He became a lawyer in New York in 1908. - James R. Keene
James Robert Keene born 1838 - January 3, 1913 was a Wall Street stock broker and a major thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder. Born in London, UK, he was fourteen years of age when his family emigrated to the United States. As a young man, James R. Keene made a fortune through shrewd investments in California and Nevada mining companies and was eventually appointed president of the San Francisco Stock Exchange. - Claiborne Farm
Claiborne Farm is located just outside Paris, Kentucky, USA, and is one of the most famous thoroughbred horse farms in the United states. The farm was founded by Arthur B. Hancock, owner of Ellersbie Farm in Albemarle County Virginia and has been run by his family since its founding in c. 1911: * Arthur B. Hancock (1875-1957) * Arthur B. "Bull " Hancock, Jr. (1910-1972) * Seth W. Hancock (b. 1949) Arthur B. Hancock III (b. 1943) owns Stone Farm, … - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (February 20 1899 - December 13 1992) was an American businessman, film producer, writer, and government official, as well as the owner of a leading stable of thoroughbred racehorses. Born in Roslyn, New York, he was the son of the wealthy and socially prominent Harry Payne Whitney (1870-1932) and Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875-1942). As a scion of both the Whitney and Vanderbilt families, he inherited a substantial fortune. - William S. Paley
William S. Paley (September 28, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois - October 26, 1990 in New York, New York) was the chief executive who built CBS from a small radio network to one of the foremost radio and television network operations in America. - Albert R. Broccoli
Albert Romolo Broccoli, CBE (Hon) (April 5, 1909 - June 27, 1996) nicknamed "Cubby," was an American film producer who produced more than 40 movies, most of them produced in the United Kingdom, and often filmed at Pinewood Studios. Co-founder of Danjac, LLC and Eon Productions, Broccoli is most notable as the producer of the iconic James Bond series of films. He and Harry Saltzman saw the films from relatively low-budget origins to large-budget, high-grossing extravaganzas, … - Kenny Troutt
Kenny A. Troutt (b. 1948) was the founder of Excel Communications, a Texas based telecommunications company that used MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) to offer its main product, a long distance phone service. Troutt became an instant billionaire in 1998 when he sold the Excel business to Teleglobe for $3.5 billion, his share netting him a cool $1.4 billion. Troutt was the son of a bartender and was raised in the public housing projects of Mount Vernon, Illinois. - William Collins Whitney
William Collins Whitney (July 5, 1841 - February 2, 1904) was an American political leader and financier and founder of the prominent Whitney family. A conservative reformer, he was considered a Bourbon Democrat. William Whitney was born at Conway, Massachusetts of Puritan stock. His father was General James S.Whitney and his mother Laurinda Collins. William had a well known older brother, industrialist, Henry Melville Whitney (1839-1923), … - Craig Perret
Craig Perret (born February 2, 1951, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey. He began riding horses at age five and by seven was riding quarter horses in match races. At age fifteen he began his career in thoroughbred racing and in 1967 was the leading apprentice jockey in the United States in terms of money won. In 1987 Perret rode Bet Twice to victory in the Belmont Stakes. - Jack Kent Cooke
Jack Kent Cooke (25 October, 1912 - 6 April, 1997) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur who became one of the most widely-known executives in North American professional sports. He owned the Washington Redskins (NFL), the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA), and the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), and built the The Forum in Inglewood, California. - Jenny Craig
Jenny Craig (born Genevieve Guidroz in 1932 in Berwick, Louisiana) is an American weight loss guru who founded Jenny Craig, Inc. Raised in New Orleans, Genevieve Guidroz married Australian Sidney H. Craig. Although neither had formal training in nutrition or exercise, Mrs Craig developed a weight loss regimen that led to creating a weight-loss company in the mid-1980s with her husband. - Jess Jackson
Jess Jackson (born 1930 and raised in San Francisco, California) is an American wine entrepreneur and self-made billionaire. He started the Kendall-Jackson wine empire with the family's 1974 purchase of an 80-acre pear and walnut orchard in Lakeport, California that was converted to a vineyard. - Ogden Phipps
Ogden Phipps (November 26, 1908 - April 21, 2002) was an American stockbroker, Court tennis champion and Hall of Fame member, Thoroughbred horse racing executive and owner/breeder, and an art collector and philanthropist. Born in New York City, Phipps was the son of Henry Carnegie Phipps and Gladys Livingston Mills. - Arthur B. Hancock III
Arthur Boyd Hancock III (born February 22, 1943, in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses, the owner of Stone Farm, a 2,000 acre horse breeding operation in Paris, Kentucky, and a composer of Bluegrass music. Hancock is a member of one of the pre-eminent American horse racing families. His grandfather, Arthur B. Hancock (1875-1957), founded Claiborne Farm, his father, Arthur B. "Bull " Hancock, Jr. (1910-1972), … - William Edward Boeing
William Edward Boeing was an aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company. Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan to a wealthy German mining engineer named Wilhelm Böing who had made a fortune developing large low-grade taconite iron ore deposits and who had a sideline as a timber merchant. Americanizing his name to "William" after returning from being educated in Switzerland in 1900 to attend Yale University, … - John McShain
John McShain (December 21 1898 - September 9 1989) was a highy successful American building contractor known as "The Man Who Built Washington." Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the son of Irish immigrants, John McShain's father founded a successful construction company which he was forced to take over at age twenty-one when his father died in 1919. Under his management, the company became one of the leading builders in the United States. - August Belmont
August Belmont, Sr. (December 8 1813 - November 24 1890), was born in Alzey, Prussia to a Jewish family. He immigrated to New York City in 1837 after becoming the American representative of the Rothschild family's banking house in Frankfurt. On receiving his American citizenship, he married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry - Fair Stable
Fair Stable was an American Thoroughbred horse racing stable owned by heiress Virginia Graham Fair that operated during the 1920s and the first half of the 1930s. Ms. Fair was the daughter of the wealthy mining magnate James Graham Fair. - Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 - October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. One of the first multi-media stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. - William Kissam Vanderbilt
William Kissam Vanderbilt (December 12 1849 - July 22 1920) was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family. The second son of William Henry Vanderbilt, from whom he inherited $55 million, he was for a time active in the management of the family railroads, though not much after 1903. His sons William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878-1944) and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884-1970) were the last to be active in the railroads, … - Samuel Ogle
Samuel Ogle was the Provincial Governor of Maryland 1731–1732, 1733–1742, 1746/47–1752. Born a member of the aristocracy in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England, Samuel Ogle became a captain of a cavalry regiment in the British Army. Appointed on December 7, 1731, he was dispatched to Colonial America in 1732 to serve as Provincial Governor of Maryland and president of the Maryland Council. In 1741, Ogle married the much younger Anne Tasker (1723–1817), …
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