Cecil Rhodes

Cecil Rhodes

male, deceased (1902)
Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL, (July 5 1853 - March 26 1902) was a British-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the...
George Hearst

George Hearst

male, deceased (1891)
George Hearst (September 3, 1820 - February 28, 1891) was a wealthy American businessman, United States Senator and father of newspaperman William...
Barney Barnato

Barney Barnato

male, deceased (1897)
Barney Barnato (born Barnett Isaacs was a South African Randlord, one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later gold...
William Boyce Thompson

William Boyce Thompson

male, deceased (1930)
William Boyce Thompson, (May 13, 1869 - June 27, 1930), was an American mining engineer, financier, promoter of Western support for the...
Ernest Oppenheimer

Ernest Oppenheimer

male, deceased (1957)
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur and financier, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation...
Nicky Oppenheimer

Nicky Oppenheimer

male, 64 years old
Nicky Oppenheimer , chairman of De Beers, the world's top diamond producer, has previously said Angola and the DRC are the new great things in...
Meyer Guggenheim

Meyer Guggenheim

male, deceased (1905)
Meyer Guggenheim (February 1, 1828 - March 15, 1905) was the patriarch of what became known as the Guggenheim family. He was born in Lengnau,...
Marcus Daly

Marcus Daly

male, deceased (1900)
Marcus Daly (December 5, 1841 - November 12, 1900), was an Irish-born American businessman known as one of the three "Copper Kings" of Butte,...
Samuel Newhouse

Samuel Newhouse

male, deceased (1930)
Samuel Newhouse (October 18, 1853 - September 22, 1930) was a Utah entrepreneur and mining magnate. He was born in New York City of Jewish...
Daniel Guggenheim

Daniel Guggenheim

male, deceased (1930)
Daniel Guggenheim was an American industrialist and philanthropist, and a son of Meyer Guggenheim. Born in Philadelphia, Daniel Guggenheim won a...