- Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, New York) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, television personality and author. He is the CEO of Trump Organization, an American-based real estate developer, and the founder of Trump Entertainment, which operates several casinos. He received a great deal of publicity following the success of his reality television show, … - Sheldon Adelson
Sheldon Gary Adelson (born August 1, 1933) is an American billionaire businessman. He is a property developer and public company CEO based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited which operates the Venetian Casino Resort and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. - Larry Silverstein
Larry A. Silverstein (born 1932 in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York) is a Jewish American billionaire real estate investor and operator and the head of Silverstein Properties, a real estate development group. Silverstein is also a member of New York University's Board of Trustees. Silverstein is the developer and leaseholder of the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. - Milton A. Wolf
Milton Albert Wolf (May 29, 1924 - May 19, 2005) was an American real estate developer from Cleveland, Ohio. He was a Jewish community leader, a Democratic Party contributor, and served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria from 1977 to 1980. He was an alumnus of both Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve University and an honorary trustee. President Jimmy Carter named him as Ambassador to Austria in 1977. - Joseph Eichler
Joseph Eichler (1900 - 1974) was a California-based, post-war residential real estate developer known for building homes in the Modernist style. Between 1950 and 1974, his company, Eichler Homes, built over 11,000 homes in Northern California and three communities in Southern California, along with 3 homes in Chestnut Ridge NY, which came to be known as Eichlers and changed the California lifestyle. - Bruce Ratner
Bruce Ratner (born January 23, 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio) is president and CEO of Forest City Ratner, the New York division of Forest City Enterprises, which is based in Cleveland. Ratner was New York City's most active real estate developer during the 1990s. Ratner graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1967 and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1970. - James W. Rouse
James Wilson Rouse (April 26, 1914 - April 9, 1996) was a pioneering American real estate developer, civic activist, and later, free enterprise-based philanthropist. He was born in Easton, Maryland. He attended college and law school during the Great Depression; after graduating in 1937 he worked for the Federal Housing Administration and in 1939 he was a partner at a mortgage banking firm called the "Moss-Rouse Company", which would eventually become the Rouse Company. - Adolph Sutro
Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (April 29 1830 - August 8, 1898) was the 24th mayor and 2nd Jewish mayor of San Francisco, California, serving in that office from 1894 until 1896. He is today perhaps best remembered for the various San Francisco lands and landmarks that still bear his name. - John A. Sobrato
John Albert Sobrato owns Cupertino-based Sobrato Development Companies, a prominent Silicon Valley development firm specializing in commercial and residential real estate. He is also a noted philanthropist in the Bay Area as well. Together with his family, they have created the Sobrato Family Foundation. John Sobrato is #133 on the 2005 Forbes 400 list with an estimated worth of $2 billion. - Samuel Brannan
Samuel Brannan (March 2, 1819 - May 14, 1889), was the first publicist of the California Gold Rush and the first millionaire because of the rush. "Brannan Street" in San Francisco is named after him. Brannan was born in Saco, Maine. As a teenager, his family moved to Ohio, where Brannan learned to be a printer. He joined the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Brannan moved to New York in 1844, and began printing "The New York Messenger", … - Bob Corker
Robert Phillips "Bob" Corker, Jr. (born August 24, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee. He was formerly the mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee and a successful businessman. He is the only freshman Republican Senator in the 110th Congress. - Robert H. Smith
Robert H. Smith (b. 19??) is a successful builder-developer. Smith is chairman of Charles E. Smith Co. Commercial Realty, a division of Vornado Realty Trust, and chairman of Charles E. Smith Co. Residential, a division of Archstone-Smith, both REITs listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Smith is best known for spearheading the development of the Crystal City complex in northern Virginia. Smith has given generously to the University of Maryland, College Park, … - A. Alfred Taubman
A. Alfred Taubman is an industrialist and philanthropist from Metro Detroit who became rich developing shopping malls. His company is Taubman Centers Inc. He is the author of Threshold Resistance - The Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer (Harper Collins, April 2007), a New York Times Best Seller. He has been on the list of Forbes 400 Richest Americans for two decades. He studied architecture at the University of Michigan and Lawrence Technological University, … - Gerald Guterman
Gerald Guterman is a well-known real estate developer. He developed a reputation as a "real estate mogul" in the 1980s and the 1990s in New York. He is the founder of Patriot American Investors. He purchased the largest portfolio of office buildings and hotels in the history of the Resolution Trust Corporation and its successor, The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). - Steve Soboroff
Steve Soboroff (born August 31, 1948) is a real estate developer and president of Playa Vista. Mr. Soboroff is the Chairperson of the Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. He is also a Senior Fellow and member of the Advisory Board at UCLA's School of Public Affairs and is the former Senior Advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. - Alex Spanos
Alexander Gus Spanos, "Alex G. Spanos" (born September 28, 1923 in Stockton, California) is an American real estate developer and self-made billionaire of Greek origins who owns the San Diego Chargers. He is currently married and the father of four children. He lives in Stockton, California. According to "Forbes", in 2004 Spanos was worth $1.1 billon. - Fiona Fullerton
Fiona Fullerton (born 10 October 1956 in Kaduna, Nigeria) is a British actress. She is probably best known for her role as KGB spy Pola Ivanova in the 1985 James Bond film "A View to a Kill". Fullerton made her film debut in 1969 with a role in "Run Wild, Run Free". Subsequent credits include: "Nicholas and Alexandra", "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (as Alice) and "The Human Factor". - William Levitt
William Jarid Levitt (February 11, 1907 - January 28, 1994), is the real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia. He certainly did not invent the building of communities of affordable single-family homes within driving distance of major areas of employment; yet his innovations in providing affordable housing popularized this type of planned community in the years following World War II. - Guilford Glazer
Guilford Glazer (born in 1921) is an American real estate developer and philanthropist. Glazer was born in and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, one of eight children. After the United States entered World War II, he left college to join the Navy. After the war ended, he returned to East Tennessee and took over a family-owned steel business. Glazer's entry into the real estate business occurred in 1951, … - Charles Kushner
Charles Kushner is a New Jersey real estate magnate and a major donor to Democratic politicians, most notably to Governor of New Jersey Jim McGreevey. On August 19, 2004, he pleaded guilty to tax violations and charges related to witness tampering. The witness tampering charges dealt with an incident in which Kushner tried to use a prostitute in a blackmail scheme. The plea deal does not require Kushner to cooperate with investigators, however. - Jack Benaroya
Jack A. Benaroya (born 1921) is a noted philanthropist and prominent civic leader in Seattle, Washington. He supports cultural, educational and medical groups with his donations. He is a former director of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and the United Way of King County (Seattle). The largest commercial real estate developer in the state of Washington, Benaroya established the family-owned Benaroya Company in 1956. - Diane Nash
Diane Judith Nash was born on May 15, 1938 in Chicago was one of the founders of the SNCC, a key force in the American civil rights movement. - Fred Trump
Frederick Christ "Fred" Trump (October 11, 1905 - June 25, 1999) was the father of the prolific real estate/entertainment magnate Donald Trump, his fourth of five children. Fred Trump was born on October 11, 1905 in Woodhaven, Queens, New York. His parents, Friederich and Elizabeth Trump were German immigrants. His father, Friederich, was an entrepreneur who began his fortune running the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel in Bennett, British Columbia, … - Alan Casden
Alan I. Casden is a self-made real estate billionaire who lives in Beverly Hills, California. He is an accounting graduate of what is now the Leventhal School of Accounting at the University of Southern California. Mr. Casden enrolled at USC as a sophomore after an academically disappointing freshman year at UCLA. In 2000, he gave $10.6 million to USC to benefit the Institute for Study of Jewish Role in American Life, … - James Lick
James Lick (August 25, 1796 - October 1, 1876) was an American carpenter, piano builder, land baron, and patron of the sciences. At the time of his death, he was the wealthiest man in California, and left the majority of his estate to social and scientific causes. - Ronald Gerard
Ronald Gerard OBE, KSJ (born 1920) is an English property developer and philanthropist. Ron Gerard rose from humble beginnings in Hackney to become a successful property developer and also one of the most benevolent supporters of cricket and the theatre during the late 20th century. He has been a tireless supporter in every level of county cricket in Middlesex from the grass roots, through the colts and recreational system and into the county club. - Eric Miller
Sir Eric Miller (1927 - 22 September 1977) was an English-Jewish businessman who committed suicide while under investigation for fraud. - William Zeckendorf
William Zeckendorf, Sr. was one of America's master builders and real estate developers. Through his development company of Webb and Knapp (for which he began working in 1938 and which he purchased in 1949), he developed much of the New York City urban landscape. His most notable property acquisition, and potential development of a "dream city" to rival Rockefeller Center, was a seventeen-acre site along the East River between 42nd Street and 48th Street. - Benjamin Swig
Benjamin Harrison Swig (1893-1980) was a real estate entrepreneur and a philanthropist. Born in Massachusetts, he became a bank treasurer when he was nineteen years old. In the 1920s, he went into real estate. Following the Great Depression, he specialized in making business arrangements for department stores. By the 1940s, Swig and his partner, J.D. Weiler, were among the biggest real estate operators in the U.S. In 1946, … - John Hickenlooper
John Wright Hickenlooper (born February 7, 1952) is Mayor of the City and County of Denver, Colorado. He was born in Narberth, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Before becoming mayor in June 2003 he was a geologist turned entrepreneur: in addition to being very successful with real estate, he is also the owner of several popular restaurants, including Denver's first brewpub, the Wynkoop Brewing Company. - Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon is an American real estate tycoon. He lives in Indiana and is a billionaire. He was born around October 23, 1934 and educated at the City College of New York. - Samuel Newhouse
Samuel Newhouse (October 18, 1853 - September 22, 1930) was a Utah entrepreneur and mining magnate. He was born in New York City of Jewish immigrant parents and grew up in Pennsylvania. He studied law there before going to Colorado in 1879. In Leadville, he became involved in the freighting business. In 1883, he married Ida Stingly, whose mother ran a local boarding house. She was only 16. They ran a hotel, and Samuel acquired mining properties in Ouray, Colorado. - George H. Peck
George H. Peck (October 15, 1856 - January 9, 1940) was an American real estate broker, developer and millionaire. Born George Huntington Peck, Jr., in San Francisco, California, he began his career as a railroad conductor and is credited with driving the first Southern Pacific train into San Pedro. Convinced of the need for harbor facilities, he later bought land along the seashore and, … - Olav Thon
Olav Thon is a Norwegian real estate developer and listed by Forbes "List of Billionaires" as the 428th richest person in the world in 2006. His 2005 reported income was NOK 1.2B (US $179M), the highest in Norway. He lives in Oslo, Norway. His company owns 360 properties in Norway and 18 abroad, including shopping malls, office buildings, retail stores and hotels. His principal holdings are the private companies Stormgård AS and Thongård AS, … - Edward J. Debartolo Jr.
Edward John DeBartolo, Jr. (born November 6, 1946 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American businessman who developed shopping malls as part of his father's (Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr.) organization. His mother was Marie Patricia Montani DeBartolo, in whose honor the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame was posthumously dedicated. - Helmut Oberlander
Helmut Oberlander, born 1924, is a Canadian resident whose citizenship has been revoked twice since 1995. The reason given is his work as a translator for a Nazi-era death squad. Oberlander is a retired Waterloo, Ontario developer. His Canadian citizenship was restored the first time by the Federal Court of Appeal. A federal judge ruled in 2001, on a balance of probabilities, that when he moved to Canada from Germany in 1954, Oberlander had lied about his unit membership. - Samuel J. Lefrak
Samuel J. LeFrak (1918- April 16, 2003) was a noted housing developer who chaired a private building firm, The LeFrak Organization, which had revenues of $2.8 billion, as of 1999. The LeFrak Organization was also ranked 45th on the Forbes list of top 500 private companies. The development firm is best known for major development projects in Battery Park City, Lefrak City in Queens, and Newport, Jersey City. The LeFrak Organization was founded in 1883 in France, … - Aby Rosen
Aby Rosen is a real estate tycoon living in New York. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1960. As the son of Jewish holocaust survivors, he grew up in a traditional Jewish community and environment in Frankfurt. In 1987, he moved to New York City where he apprenticed at a real estate brokerage firm. He has two sons from a previous marriage and is currently married to Doctor Samantha Boardman, psychiatrist and socialite. - Herman Kountze
Herman Kountze (August 21, 1833 - 1906) was a powerful and influential pioneer banker in Omaha, Nebraska in the late 19th century. After organizing the Kountze Brothers Bank in 1857 as the second bank in Omaha, Herman and his brother August changed the charter in 1863, opening the First National Bank of Omaha that year. Kountze was involved in a number of influential ventures around Omaha, … - Richard Jacobs
Richard E. Jacobs is the chairman and chief executive officer of The Jacobs Group, a real estate development company that he co-founded with his late brother David. The company builds shopping centers, offices, and hotels. Among its properties are Key Tower, Westgate Mall, and Triangle Town Center. He also owned the Cleveland Indians from 1986 to 2001. Jacobs Field in Cleveland bears his name.
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