- John Davis
Sir John Davis (1906-1993) was an English accountant and film executive. He was the right hand man of J. Arthur Rank at the Rank Organisation for many years. He became Chairman on Rank's retirement and steered the company away from near bankruptcy to a strong financial position, by diversifying the group into different fields. He was married five times and among his wives was the actress Dinah Sheridan (1954-1965).
- Richard Causey
Richard Alan Causey (born 9 January 1960) is one of the prominent figures in the Enron accounting scandal. Causey was Enron's Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. Causey graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in accounting and an MBA. He then became a certified public accountant in the state of Texas.
- Chris Moneymaker
Christopher Bryan Moneymaker (born November 21, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP). His victory is generally credited for being one of the main catalysts for the poker boom in the years following his win. Moneymaker attended Farragut High School in Farragut, Tennessee and later earned a master's degree in accounting from the University of Tennessee.
- Sherron Watkins
Sherron Watkins is the former Vice President of Enron Corporation who alerted then-CEO Ken Lay in August 2001 to accounting irregularities within the company, warning him that Enron 'might implode in a wave of accounting scandals.' She has testified before Congressional Committees from the House and Senate investigating Enron's demise.
- David Duncan
David Duncan (born 1960), is the United States government's star witness in the Arthur Andersen trial. He has said fears over interpretation prompted him to order the shredding of documents relating to Enron. He was an Andersen employee for 20 years, who was in charge of the Enron account since 1997, for which he was paid over $1 million. He was fired from Andersen in January 2002 and charged with aiding in Enron's fraudulent bookkeeping.
- David M. Walker
David M. Walker became the seventh Comptroller General of the United States and began his 15-year term when he took his oath of office on November 9, 1998. Mr. Walker was appointed by President Bill Clinton. As Comptroller General, Mr. Walker is the nation’s chief accountability officer and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a legislative branch agency founded in 1921.
- Scott Sullivan
Scott D. Sullivan is an American Certified Public Accountant and the former Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary of WorldCom, who engineered WorldCom's $11-billion accounting fraud, the largest scandal of its kind in U.S. history. Sullivan entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea agreement in which Sullivan testified against former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, …
- Itzhak Stern
Itzhak Stern was a Jewish accountant to German industrialist Oskar Schindler. He worked alongside Schindler as the accountant for his Enamelware company (Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik) in Kraków and greatly helped in running the company. He is credited with typing the list of names known as "Schindler's list"; a list of Jews who survived the holocaust because of Oskar Schindler's intervention.
- Marta Andreasen
Marta Andreasen is an Argentinean born Spanish accountant (*1954), employed in January 2002 by the European Commission as Chief Accountant, and notable for raising concerns about fraud potential within EU, neglected by the Commission.
- Luca Pacioli
Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes "Paciolo") (1445-1514 or 1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace, Borgo Santo Sepolcro, Tuscany.
- David Richards
David Meachem Richards CBE (born 3 June 1952) is the chairman of Prodrive and the former Team Principal of the BAR and Benetton Formula One auto racing teams. After training as an accountant, Richards began his motorsport career as a rally co-driver. He partnered Ari Vatanen in a Ford Escort RS1800 from 1979 until the end of 1981. This was a short, but very successful partnership and they won the World Rally Championship together in 1981, shortly after which, …
- Brad Sherman
Bradley J. "Brad" Sherman (born October 24 1954) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing. He was born in Los Angeles, California, was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles and Harvard Law School, and was a lawyer and accountant before entering the House. He also served two terms on the California State Board of Equalization.
- Mark Harper
Mark James Harper (born 26 February 1970) British politician and accountant. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Forest of Dean.
- John Fletcher
John Feltcher is the CEO of Coles Group, the biggest retailer in Australia. In mid-2005 he was spotted in Coles Prahran (Victoria) Supermarket store rearranging stock items of shelves. At the time, he was probably participating in Coles Myer's "Working Together In Stores" programme, which Fletcher himself set up not long after he became CEO after he was criticised for not having spent any time during his career working in a retail environment.
- William Marshall
William Marshall (December 27, 1748 - May 29, 1833) is regarded as one of the greatest composers of Scottish fiddle music. Marshall was born in Fochabers, Scotland. He entered the service of the Duke of Gordon, eventually becoming his butler. James Hunter's "The Fiddle Music of Scotland" credits Marshall with writing 257 tunes. Many of these compositions were named in honor of the Duke's guests. Robert Burns called him "the first composer of Strathspeys of the age".
- Guru Nanak Dev
Guru Nanak Dev (') (Born in Nankana Sahib, Punjab, (now Pakistan) on 20th October 1469 - 7 May 1539, Kartarpur, Punjab, India), was the founder of Sikhism, and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. Beside followers of Sikhism, Guru Nanak Dev is revered by Punjabi Hindus and Sindhi Hindus across the Indian subcontinent. His primary message to society was recorded to be "devotion of thought and excellence of conduct as the first of duties".
- Cynthia Cooper
Cynthia Cooper is an internal auditor and consultant who is best known for being the whistleblower who exposed massive accounting fraud at WorldCom in 2002. A native of Clinton, Mississippi, Cooper worked as the Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom. After conducting a thorough investigation in secret, she informed the audit committee of WorldCom's board that the company had covered up $3.8 billion in losses through phony bookkeeping.
- David Robertson
Sir David Robertson (19 January, 1890 - 3 June, 1970) was a British accountant, company director and politician. From a Scottish family, he represented first a constituency in London and then the Scottish highlands constituency of Caithness and Sutherland. He was an expert on the fishing industry and his commitment to his constituents exceeded his loyalty to his party.
- David Bennett
David Bennett is a New Zealand politician. Bennett attended St. John's College, Hamilton before gaining an LLB and a BCA from Victoria University of Wellington. Bennett owns two dairy farms near Te Awamutu, and has also worked as an accountant in Auckland. In the 2005 election, Bennett stood as the National Party's candidate for the Hamilton East seat. He was successful, defeating the incumbent MP, Dianne Yates of the Labour Party.
- Peter Green
Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum, October 29 1946, in Bethnal Green, London) is a British blues-rock guitarist and founding member of the band Fleetwood Mac. A highly regarded figure in the British blues movement, Green inspired B. B. King to say, "He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats." Green's playing was marked with a distinctive keen vibrato and economy of style, …
- Peter Green
Peter Green (born May 29, 1978) is a football (soccer) referee in the Australian A-League. He also works as an account manager. Green was awarded a FIFA badge in 2006 and is now eligible to referee international matches.
- Sheila Fraser
Sheila Fraser (born September 16, 1950 in Dundee, Quebec, Canada) is the current Auditor General of Canada. She earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University in 1972. She then became a chartered accountant in 1974 and FCA in 1994. In 1981, she worked for Ernst and Young where she worked on assignment to the Auditor General of Quebec in some cases, and other Quebec government offices.
- Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel "Robinson Crusoe". Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote over five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, …
- Julian Hodge
Sir Julian Hodge (October 15, 1904 - July 17, 2004) was a London-born entrepreneur and banker who lived in Wales for most of his life, starting at age five. He formed the Bank of Wales, and later the Julian Hodge Bank in Cardiff. As the son of a plumber, he came from humble beginnings. At the age of 5 he moved to Pontllanfraith, Wales. He left school at age 13 but his mother encouraged him to read classic novels and recite poetry to further his education.
- Randy White
Randy White is an accountant and former Canadian politician. White was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Reform Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Fraser Valley West, British Columbia in the 1993 federal election. In the 1997 election, he was re-elected for the riding of Langley—Abbotsford, and became a Canadian Alliance MP in 2000 when Reform was joined by dissident members of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
- Fred Goodwin
Sir Frederick Anderson Goodwin (born 17 August 1958) is the current chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland group.
- Mark Clark
Mark Clark (Black Panther) was a member of the Black Panther Party. He was killed with Fred Hampton in an infamous Chicago police raid on December 4, 1969.
- Brian Souter
Brian Souter (born 1954 in Perth, Scotland), is a businessman, who was the co-founder of the Stagecoach Group, along with his sister, Ann Gloag. He was educated at Perth Academy and University of Dundee, before he completed training as a Chartered Accountant. Souter has gained notoriety for his business practices, his controversial public statements, and for his attempt to block the repeal of Section 28, …
- Shekhar Kapur
Shekhar Kapur, born 6 December, 1945 in British India (in an area which became part of Pakistan) is a renowned filmmaker from India. His basic schooling was done at the Modern School, New Delhi. His works include "Elizabeth" (1998),a historically inaccurate account of the early reign of Queen Elizabeth I; it was nominated for 8 Oscars. In 2000, he was awarded the Padma Shri. Films directed by Shekhar Kapur: * "Masoom" * "Mr.
- Craig Norgate
Craig Norgate is a former chief executive of Fonterra. An accountant Craig Norgate is a director of PGG Wrightson Limited and Managing Director of Rural Portfolio Investments Limited, which owns 30 percent of the shares in PGG Wrightson. Prior to his involvement in Rural Portfolio Investments, Craig had 15 years experience as a leader in the New Zealand dairy industry, including two years as the inaugural CEO of Fonterra Co-operative Group and, prior to that, …
- George Watson
George Watson, (23 November 1654, Edinburgh - 3 April 1723) was born in Scotland to parents John Watson (a merchant) and Marion Ewing. He was orphaned at an early age, but thanks to his aunt, Elizabeth Davidson, he was sent in 1672 to be educated in book-keeping at Rotterdam. He returned to Edinburgh to become, in 1676, private secretary to Sir James Dick. Based partly on this experience he became one of Scotland's most famed accountants of his time, …
- Tom McEvoy
Tom McEvoy (born November 14, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) is a professional poker player and author. McEvoy was an accountant, but after he was laid off from his job, he took up poker full time in 1978. He first learned to play poker when he was five years old and would regularly get in trouble for playing it in grade school. McEvoy won the 1983 World Series of Poker main event, and still plays regularly today.
- Ira Glass
Ira Glass started working in public radio in 1978 when he was 19, as an intern at National Public Radio's Washington Headquarters. Over the course of the next 17 years, he worked on nearly every NPR news show, and did nearly every production job they had: he was a tape cutter, desk assistant, newscast writer, editor, producer, reporter and substitute host. He moved to Chicago in 1989.
- Hugh Henry
Hugh Henry (b. 12 February 1952, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Paisley South since 1999. He was appointed Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care in the Scottish Executive in 2001, and moved to become Deputy Minister for Social Justice in 2002. He was appointed Deputy Minister for Justice after the Scottish Parliamentary Election, 2003, and became Minister for Education in 2006.
- Jim Mather
Jim Mather is a Scottish National Party politician, the Minister for Enterprise, Energy and Tourism and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Argyll and Bute. Mather was educated at Paisley Grammar School and Greenock High School before attending the University of Glasgow. Before his election to Holyrood he worked as a chartered accountant and ran his own business. He joined the SNP in 1996 and acted as the SNP’s National Treasurer from 2000.
- Bob Murray
Bob Murray CBE (born 3 August 1946, Consett, County Durham) is a businessman and former chairman of Sunderland Football Club. An accountant by trade, he made his fortune through the growth and sale pof the Spring Ram kitchen manufacturing company. He became chairman of Sunderland AFC in 1986, replacing the motor magnate SirTom Cowie, who had become hugely unpopular with the fans.
- Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer (Sydney, 12 March 1966 -), Australian Liberal Party candidate for the New South Wales legislative election, 2007 for the NSW seat of Blacktown. Mark is an accountant and has a Bachelor of Business degree and a Masters of Labour Relations and Law. He is married to wife Melanie, and has three children.
- Allen Carr
Allen Carr was most notable as the author of books on how to stop smoking (having given up after 31 years as a five-pack-per-day chain smoker) and, as he stressed, escape nicotine addiction.
- Alan Reid
Sir Alan Reid has been Keeper of the Privy Purse, Treasurer to the Queen and Receiver General to the Duchy of Lancaster in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom since 2002. As Keeper of the Privy Purse, he is responsible for the expenditure of public funds voted by the Parliament to the Sovereign, usually called the Civil List. As Treasurer to The Queen, Sir Alan is also responsible for the Sovereign's private finances.
- Mike Conaway
K. Michael Conaway, usually known as Mike Conaway, is a Republican from Texas who represents that state's 11th Congressional district (map). The district is located in West Texas and includes Midland, Odessa, San Angelo, and Brownwood. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2004. He was born June 11, 1948, in Borger, Texas, though he calls Midland, Texas home.