- 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, … - 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. - Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt is the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 2004, he purchased a controlling interest of the Dodgers from Fox Entertainment Group, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Prior to purchasing the professional sports team, McCourt was a real estate developer, whose family resided in Brookline, Massachusetts. - Forest City Enterprises
Forest City Enterprises is a $9-billion diversified real estate management and development company based in Cleveland, Ohio. Its portfolio includes interests in retail centers, apartment communities, office buildings and mixed-use projects in the U.S. The company has recently expanded into military housing communities - Del Webb
Delbert E. Webb (May 17 1899 - July 4 1974) was an American construction magnate, real estate developer and sports-team owner who is significant for founding and developing the retirement community of Sun City, Arizona. He was born in Fresno, California and dropped out of high school to become a carpenter's apprentice. At the age of 28, he suffered typhoid fever, and as a result moved to Phoenix, Arizona to recover. - Bill White
Mayor Bill White was elected as Mayor of Houston in 2003, and has focused on the streamlining of city government as well as the improvement of neighborhoods, traffic, and air quality. Before serving as mayor, White was President and CEO of WEDGE Group, and served as Deputy Secretary of Energy of the United States. - Donald Bren
Donald Leroy Bren (born 1932) is a US real estate mogul born in Los Angeles, and currently residing in Newport Beach, CA. He is the son of Hollywood producer Milton Bren and the stepson of actress Claire Trevor. He attended the University of Washington, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi, on a ski scholarship and tried out for the Olympic team in 1956. He holds a degree in business administration and economics. After college he served in the Marines. - Kelly Doran
Kelly J. Doran (born November 22, 1957) is a Minnesota businessman. He ran for Governor as a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, but ended his bid in March of 2006, stating that the campaign was too difficult for his young family. Doran's wife, Maria, is an attorney, having worked in private practice and as general counsel for the Robert Muir Company. They have four children: Ali, Evan, Kramer and Sydney. - Jim Nicholson
Robert James "Jim" Nicholson (born February 4, 1938) is an attorney, real estate developer, and more recently, and a former Republican Party chairman. He has been the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs since January 26, 2005. On on July 17 2007, he announced that he was stepping down as Secretary, effective October 1 2007. - Kemmons Wilson
Kemmons Wilson (January 5, 1913 - February 12, 2003) was the founder of the Holiday Inn chain of hotels. He was born Charles Kemmons Wilson in Osceola, Arkansas, a son of Kemmons and Ruby "Doll" Wilson. His father was an insurance salesman who died when Kemmons was nine months old. Shortly thereafter, his mother, Doll, moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where she raised him. He opened the first Holiday Inn motel in Memphis in 1952, … - 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. - John Portman
John C. Portman, Jr. (born December 4, 1924) is an American architect and real estate developer known for creation of the multi-storied atrium hotel. A native of Walhalla, South Carolina, he graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1950. Portman also serves as the inspiration for the fictional character Charlie Croker, in Tom Wolfe's novel, "A Man in Full". - Tom Cousins
Thomas Grady Cousins (born December, 1931) is a prominent real estate developer primarily in Atlanta, Georgia. Important projects include CNN Center, the Omni Coliseum, 191 Peachtree Tower, the Pinnacle Building in Buckhead and the first phase of the Georgia World Congress Center. He and competitor John Portman completely remade downtown Atlanta in the 1970s and 1980s. He also helped revive and redesign East Lake Golf Club, which, … - 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. - Michael Alter
Michael Alter is an American businessman who is the president of his own company, the Alter Group, which is as of 2005, one of the nation's ten largest commercial real estate developers. In 2005, he became the principal owner and chairman of the WNBA team: the Chicago Sky. - Anthony Davis
Anthony Davis (born May 21, 1952) known as AD, was an American football running back. - 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, … - 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. - Yoshua Daely
Green Property and Resort Management. Has 30 years experience in Hospitality Industry, previously working with various hotels and resorts. Involved with The HITA properties. It is a luxury traditional home concept that will feature all exclusive private villas in a design that respects the surrounding environment, offer an enriching lifestyle experience that is based on local art, culture and community spirit. - Duncan McDuffie
Duncan McDuffie (September 24,1877-1951) was an architect, real estate developer, and conservationist in San Francisco, California, USA. McDuffie is best known for designing and developing the St. Francis Wood neighborhood of San Francisco, and the Claremont and Northbrae neighborhoods of Berkeley. McDuffie designed this neighborhoods according to his ideals, making them "residential parks". - John Dewberry
John Dewberry was a starting quarterback for Georgia Tech from 1983 to 1985. He graduated from Milton High School. He played for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League before starting his first company in 1989. Today, he is an Atlanta real estate developer. - Harry Wardman
Harry Wardman (April 11, 1872-March 18, 1938) was a real estate developer in Washington, D.C. during the early 20th century, whose developments ranged from landmark hotels to rowhouses. - 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. - Harry Triguboff
Harry Oscar Triguboff "A.O" (born March 3 1933) is an Australian property developer and billionaire. He was born in Darien (Dalian), China on March 3 1933, son of Moishe and Freda Triguboff. He spent his early childhood in the white Russian Jewish community in Tianjin (then spelled Tientsin) in south of Beijing before coming to Australia in 1947 to be educated at Scots College in Sydney. - Michael Swerdlow
Michael Swerdlow is a controversial developer responsible for many large-scale projects in South Florida.class="wikitable" |+ Swerdlow History !Year !Action |- |1977-1984||Specialized in bankruptcy liquidations selling over 30 million square feet of leases. |- |1985-1987||Now a developer, built 2 million square feet (180,000 m²) of retail and office space in Northern Virginia, Connecticut and Illinois. |- |1988 ||Florida Led a group of investors to take over Hollywood, … - John Vartan
John Vartan (February 8 1945 - December 15 2004) was an Armenian-American real estate developer, building contractor, banker, restauranteur and a noted educational philanthrophist in the Harrisburg area in which he lived. - Alex Madonna
Alex Madonna (November 19 1918 - 22 April 2004) was a prominent builder and real estate developer on the Central Coast of California. He is perhaps most noted for the Madonna Inn which he built for his wife, Phyllis Madonna. Madonna was a self-made man. He started his own construction company in his early years, served on the Army Corps of Engineers in World War II, built bridges and roads throughout California. His holdings included thousands of acres of property, … - William Rockhill Nelson
William Rockhill Nelson (March 7, 1841 - April 13, 1915) was a real estate developer and founder of The Kansas City Star. He donated his estate (and home) for the establishment of the [[Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art] - Roland W. Betts
Roland Whitney Betts is an investor, film producer, developer, and owner of Chelsea Piers in New York City. A classmate and DKE (Delta Kappa Epsilon) fraternity brother of George W. Bush, Betts was the lead owner in President Bush’s Texas Rangers partnership. He is a graduate of St. Paul's School ('64), Yale ('68) and Columbia Law School ('78). Roland and Lois Betts celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in 2002. They have two daughters, Margaret and Jessica. - Susan Peters
Susan Peters (born September 27) is a main anchor on KAKE-TV, the ABC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas. Susan graduated from Western Illinois University with a B.A. in Communications. - Eduardo Constantini
Eduardo Constantini (also known as "Eduardo F. Costantini") is an argentine millionaire real estate developer, philanthropist and head of the venture capital firm Consultatio, based in Buenos Aires. Some of his best known real estate projects in Argentina include the development of the Nordelta district (Consultatio was a 50 percent investor in the project) and the construction of luxury office towers in Catalinas Plaza. - 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, … - Randall Stone
Randall Stone was born in 1973 in Sunnyvale, California to Larry and Carmen Stone. He graduated from nearby Mountain View's St. Francis High School and graduated from Foothill College and California State University, Chico’s College of Business in Finance and the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences in Economics. Stone is a financial planner and real estate developer in Chico, California. - Robert Szasz
Robert Szasz, also known as The Happy Heckler, is a real estate developer and a well-known heckler at Tampa Bay Devil Rays baseball games. A native of Toronto, Ontario, Szasz relocated to Florida in 1984 and now resides in Clearwater, Florida. He holds season tickets for the Devil Rays, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and sits in the front row behind home plate at Tropicana Field during Devil Rays games. - Charles Wister Groff
Charles Wister Groff (b. 14 May 1898, New Haven, Connecticut - d. 25 October 1987) was a renowned southern California real estate developer and philanthropist. Groff was the son of Swiss-American landowner and philanthropist Ulysses Grant Groff and Julia Page Quick (the daughter of Anglican Bishop of Philadelphia, Charles W. Quick). - Anouska Hempel
Anouska Hempel (sometimes credited as Anoushka Hempel, now Lady Weinberg) (b. 13 December 1941, New Zealand) is a film and television actress turned hotelier and designer. Hempel was born Anouska Geissler in Wellington, New Zealand. As a teenager in the mid-50s, she attended Sutherland High School. In 1962 she moved to the United Kingdom, and two years later married Constantine Hempel, … - John Cutruzzola
John Cutruzzola is a Canadian real estate developer and artist. He was born in southern Italy, and by the age of 21, had been elected mayor of his hometown of Gagliato. Six months after being elected, he traveled to Canada, where he set up a small business and learned the English language. With little more than the skill of his hands and a sharp mind, he launched a successful career as a developer. - Michelle Fryatt
Michelle Fryatt is the Controller for Venture Development Group, a commercial real estate developer with projects in five western states. She has had extensive experience in finance and accounting and was Vice President of Finance and Accounting Manager at Bank of America, NTSA, in Las Vegas. Formerly Mrs. Nevada International, Ms. Fryatt was awarded the prestigious Mrs. International title in 2003. - Alan V. Tishman
Alan Valentine Tishman was an American real estate developer. He was the head of Tishman Management and Leasing Corporation. He helped bring coop apartment ownership to New York City and was one of the first brokers to bring office tenants to Park Avenue. His activism landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and served as vice president of the UJA Federation. - Harry B. Macklowe
Harry B. Macklowe is a New York City real estate developer and investor. His firm, Macklowe Properties owns a number of New York landmarks including the General Motors Building, 400 Madison Ave., 540 Madison Ave. and Two Grand Central Tower.
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