Rustam Tariko (born 1962), one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Russian history, the owner and founder of the "Russian Standard" brand, which includes the Russian Standard Bank, consumer credit and insurance firms, plus the popular Russian Standard vodka. Unlike many Russian businessmen who created their empires through the corrupt privatization of state enterprises in the early 1990s, Tariko built his company from scratch.

Abigail Anne Folger was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee and member of the prominent United States Folger family. She was the great-great-granddaughter of J. A. Folger, the founder of Folgers Coffee.

John (Johnnie) Walker was a Scottish grocer, who originated what would become one of the world’s most famous whisky brand names. Walker was born near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, Scotland. When his father Alexander died in 1819 he was left £417 in trust. In 1820 the trustees invested in an Italian warehouse, grocery, and wine and spirits shop on the High Street in Kilmarnock. In 1833 John married Elizabeth Purves.

Charles Rosner Bronfman, PC, CC, LL.D (born June 27, 1931 in Montreal) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He is the fifteenth richest person in Canada, with a net worth of US$2.2 billion (according to Forbes). His fortune comes from the family liquor business. He was the majority owner of the Montreal Expos franchise in Major League Baseball from the team's formation in 1968 until 1990. He is currently in talks to purchase the American soccer club, …

Samuel Bronfman, CC (February 27, 1889 - July 10, 1971) founded Distillers Corporation Limited and a Canadian family dynasty the Bronfman family.

Edgar Miles Bronfman (born June 20, 1929) is a Jewish-Canadian businessman, a member of the Bronfman dynasty, and the father of Edgar Bronfman, Jr. He is the son of Samuel Bronfman the founder of Distillers Corporation Limited who purchased Seagram's in 1928. After graduating from McGill University with a B.A. degree and honors in history in 1951, he joined the family business. In 1957 he took over as head of Seagram's American subsidiary.

Joseph Emm Seagram (April 15, 1841 - August 18, 1919) was a Canadian distillery founder, politician, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses. Born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario, his parents died when he was in his teens and for several years, Joseph Seagram lived at William Tassie's boarding school (now Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School) in the city of Galt (also now part of Cambridge).

Alexander Walker was the son of John ‘Johnnie’ Walker. He inherited the company in 1857 and expanded its business, exporting whisky throughout the British Empire. In 1867 he registered "Old Highland Whisky", one of the earliest brands to be copyrighted. From that time it has had the now famous slanted black and gold label. In the late 1870s he switched to the distinctive square bottle design.

Robert Winship Woodruff (December 6, 1889 - March 7, 1985) was the president of The Coca-Cola Company from 1923 until 1954. With his enormous Coke fortune, he was also a major philanthropist, and many educational and cultural landmarks in the U.S. city of Atlanta, Georgia, bear his name. Woodruff was born in Columbus, Georgia, the son of Ernest Woodruff, an Atlanta businessman who, among other things, …

Asa Griggs Candler (December 30, 1851 - March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon who made most of his money selling Coca-Cola. He also served as mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 1916 to 1919. Candler Field, the site of the present-day Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was named after him, as is Candler Park in Atlanta. Candler was born in Villa Rica, Georgia. He began his business career as a drugstore owner and manufacturer of patent medicines.

George Paterson Walker, oldest son of whisky maker Alexander Walker, took over the family business’ London office in 1988, overseeing distribution and marketing. After their father’s death in 1889, his brother Alexander stepped into the production and blending role, …

James Athearn ("J.A.") Folger (June 17 1835 - June 26 1889), was the founder of the Folgers Coffee Company. Folger was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts. In 1860 he founded the San Francisco coffee firm after leaving Nantucket in the hope of striking it rich in the California gold fields. Instead he struck it big with the J. A. Folger Coffee Company, known today simply as Folgers Coffee.

Peter Folger (December 26, 1905- August 27, 1980) was an American coffee heir, socialite, and member of the prominent United States Folger family. He was also the long time Chairman of the board and President at the Folgers Coffee Company. He is the great-grandson of founder J. A. Folger, and the father of Manson murder victim Abigail Folger. Born and raised in California, Folger studied business and graduated from Yale University where he was an athlete on their football, …

Cindy McCain (Born in 1954) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the second wife of United States Senator John McCain. She serves as Chairperson of her family's business, Hensley & Company, and previously founded the American Voluntary Medical Team in 1988, leading many medical missions to developing and war-torn countries during the Team's seven-year existence.

Dietrich Mateschitz (born May 20, 1944 in St. Marein im Mürztal, Styria) is an Austrian businessman and billionaire. He lives in Salzburg, but also owns Laucala Island, off Fiji, which he bought from the Forbes family for £ 7 million. He holds 49 percent of shares in the energy drink producer Red Bull. Mateschitz was raised by two primary-school-teacher parents who separated when he was very young. Although never married, he reportedly has a son.

Hiram Walker (4 July 1816 - 12 January 1899) was an American grocer and distiller, and the eponym of the famous distillery in Windsor, Ontario, Canada directly across from Detroit, Michigan. Walker founded the distillery in 1858 in what was then Walkerville, Ontario. Walker was born July 4, 1816 in East Douglas, Massachusetts, and moved to Detroit in the mid-1830s. He purchased land across the river, just east of what was Windsor, Ontario, …

Sir Alexander Walker II was the younger grandson of John ‘Johnnie’ Walker. He and his brother, George Paterson Walker, took the control of the company after the death of their father Alexander Walker in 1889. Alexander took his father’s black labeled blend (called at the time "Walker’s Old Highland") and added two more blends—"Old Highland (white label)", "Special Old Highalnd (red label)"—to the line.

Hon. RoseMarie Panio is a Republican politician that ran the Westchester County, New York Republican Committee from 2004 to 2007. She was unanimously elected Secretary for the State GOP in 2006. Panio owns a liquor store in Peekskill, New York, and is a grandmother. She resides in Yorktown Heights, New York and is currently the Republican candidate for Town Supervisor.

George Constant Louis Washington (May 1871 - March 29, 1946) was an American inventor and businessman of Anglo-Belgian origin. He is best remembered for his invention of an early instant coffee process and for the company he founded to mass-produce it, the "G. Washington Coffee Company".

Cartter Lupton (1899 - 1977) was an American businessman and Coca-Cola Bottling Company magnate who lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee and founded the Lyndhurst Foundation (formerly The Memorial Welfare Foundation). He was the only child of John Thomas Lupton and Elizabeth Patten, and was married to Margaret Rawlings Lupton. At the time of his death, his $200 million dollar (USD) estate was the largest ever probated in the South.

Benjamin Franklin Thomas (1860 - 1914) was a Chattanooga, Tennessee businessman and industrialist who pioneered the development of the Coca-Cola bottling industry and founded the Coca-Cola Bottling Company. In 1899 Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead traveled from Chattanooga to Atlanta, Georgia to meet with Asa Griggs Candler, the owner of Coca-Cola, in hopes of securing the rights to bottle the beverage. At the time bottling Coca-Cola was seen as an untested industry, …

Juan Serralles (born c.1845-1921 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) was the founder of what was to become "Serralles Distillers, Inc.", producers of "Don Q", a world renowned brand of Puerto Rican rum.

John Thomas Lupton (1862-1933) was an American lawyer, industrialist, and philanthropist who along with Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler for the sale of Coca-Cola in bottles.

George Thomas Hunter (1886 - 1950) was a businessman and philanthropist in Chattanooga, Tennessee who inherited and ran the Coca-Cola Bottling empire from his uncle Benjamin Thomas. Hunter's most notable philanthropic efforts is the creation of The Benwood Foundation and The Hunter Museum of American Art.

Paul Carter (born 1927) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist in Chattanooga, Tennessee and nearby Lookout Mountain who, along with his father James Inman Carter and brother Garnet Carter (who also created Rock City and invented miniature golf) developed most of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee and Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Through marriage to his second wife, Ann Lupton Carter, Paul became the President over a large Coca-Cola Bottling Company territory.

Fernando Fernandez (c.1850 - 1940), born in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, was the founder of the oldest rum manufacturing company in Puerto Rico.