- Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from the state of New York. Formerly Mayor of New York City Giuliani is currently seeking the Republican nomination for President. A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a Republican from the 1980s onward, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney. - Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (74 years old) person to have held the position, as well as the only person to have held the position for two non-consecutive terms, and the second longest serving, … - Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. Although a lifelong Democrat, he ran on the Republican ballot and was elected mayor in 2001, and was reelected to a second term in 2005. - John Howard
John Howard is a British businessman/entrepreneur who plays a significant role in many companies in East Anglia, including being a member of the board of directors of Cambridge United F.C.. - Jeb Bush
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953), a Republican, was the 43rd Governor of Florida, in the United States, as well as the first Republican to be re-elected to that office. He is a prominent member of the Bush family: the younger brother of current President George W. Bush; the older brother of Neil Bush, Marvin Bush and Dorothy Bush Koch; and the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush. - Jack Abramoff
Jack Abramoff (born February 28, 1959) is a former American political lobbyist, a Republican political activist and businessman who was a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals. Abramoff pled guilty on January 3, 2006, to three criminal felony counts in a Washington, D.C., federal court related to the defrauding of American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials. - Boris Berezovsky
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky a.k.a. Platon Elenin is a Russian-born billionaire. He emigrated to the UK in 2001, where he was granted political asylum. - Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11 1847 - October 18 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, … - Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Phillip "Mick" Jagger CBE (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. He is best known as the lead singer of the English rock band The Rolling Stones. - Bill Frist
William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr., M.D., (born February 22, 1952) is an American physician, businessman, and politician. He is a former United States Senator from Tennessee. Frist was also Senate Majority Leader. Frist is a Republican and was frequently mentioned as a candidate for that party's 2008 presidential nomination, but decided in November 2006 not to run. - Warren Buffet
Warren Edward Buffett (b. August 30 1930, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American investor, businessperson and philanthropist. Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments managed through the holding company Berkshire Hathaway, of which he is the largest shareholder and CEO. With an estimated current net worth of around US$52 billion, he was ranked by "Forbes" as the third-richest person in the world as of April 2007, … - Robert Redford
Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18 1936), is a American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, and philanthropist. One of Hollywood's biggest superstars, Redford's appeal has lasted several decades. - Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S. Steel. Carnegie ["pronounce" ] is known for having built one of the most powerful and influential corporations in United States history, and, later in his life, giving away most of his riches to fund the establishment of many libraries, schools, and universities in America, … - Raymond Ackerman
Raymond Ackerman (born March 10 1931) is a Jewish South African businessman, best known for founding the Pick 'n Pay supermarket group, of which he is still (as of 2005) the chairperson. He is also well known for his philanthropic activities. After graduating from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Commerce, he joined clothing group Ackermans in 1951 at the age of 20 as a trainee manager. Ackermans had been founded just after World War I by his father, Gus. - John Roberts
John Charles Roberts (AO) (born January 23 1934 - June 8 2006) was an Australian businessman who was an Executive Director and the Founding Chairman of construction company Multiplex. - Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 - January 26, 1979) was the forty-first Vice President of the United States, governor of New York State, philanthropist and businessman. A leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, he was Governor of New York from 1959 to 1973, where he launched many construction and modernization projects. A descendant of one of the world's richest and best known families, he failed repeatedly in his attempts to become president, … - Jet Black
Jet Black (born Brian John Duffy; 26 August, 1938 in Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom) is an English drummer and one of the founder members of punk rock / new wave band The Stranglers. He is of Irish ancestry and currently lives in Gloucestershire. - Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers (born August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas) is a prolific American country music singer, photographer, producer, songwriter, actor and businessman. He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone. - Bill Simon
William Edward Simon, Jr. (born June 20, 1951), best known as Bill Simon, is an American businessman and politician. Simon was born in Neptune, New Jersey, the son of William E. Simon, Sr., the 63rd Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Coincidentally, Simon was a childhood friend of current Democratic party chair Howard Dean. Simon earned a B.A. from Williams College in 1973, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, … - Jon Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi Jr on March 2, 1962) is an American singer, musician, businessman and actor. As lead singer of the rock band, Bon Jovi he has sold over 120 million albums worldwide. - John Ross
CSgt John Ross, Esq. was a very successful Victorian businessman with substantial retail interests. His fortune was stolen by a lawyer on his death. - Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born April 8, 1947) is an investor, businessman, self-help author and motivational speaker. Kiyosaki is best known for his "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of motivational books and other material. He has written 18 books which combined have sold over 26 million copies. Although beginning as a self-publisher, he was subsequently published by Warner Books, a division of Hachette Book Group USA, … - Dave Thomas
Rex David "Dave" Thomas (July 2, 1932 - January 8, 2002) was an American businessman and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002-more than any other person in television history. - Mike Ashley
Michael James Wallace Ashley is an English billionaire retail entrepreneur, in the sporting goods market. He is also the largest shareholder in Newcastle United F.C after buying Sir John Hall's share in the club on 23 May 2007. Ranked 25th in the 2007 version of the "Sunday Times Rich List" with estimated wealth of £1.9 billion, Ashley is an intensely private person, who never attends industry functions or gives interviews. - John Hughes
John James Hughes was a Welsh businessman and founder of a city in what is now Ukraine. The city was originally named Yuzovka ("Юзовка") after Hughes, ("Yuz" being a Russian or Ukrainian approximation of Hughes) but was renamed Donetsk in 1961. His father was an engineer, head of one of the metal works in Merthyr. He started his career under his father's supervision. When he was 28, he acquired a shipyard, … - Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz (b. July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and entrepreneur most widely known as the chairman of Starbucks and a former owner of Seattle SuperSonics which he sold to Oklahoma businessman Clayton Bennett. Howard Schultz co-founded Maveron, his investment group, in 1998 with Dan Levitan. He grew up in a subsidized public housing project (Bay View Houses) in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York. - 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. - Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay (April 15, 1942 - July 5, 2006) was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely-reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. Lay and Enron became synonymous with corporate abuse and accounting fraud when the scandal broke in 2001. Lay was the CEO and chairman of Enron from 1986 until his resignation on January 23, 2002, except for a few months in 2001 when he was chairman and Jeffrey Skilling was CEO. - John Hall
Sir John Hall (b. Ashington, Northumberland, 1933) is a property developer in North East England. He is also life president and former chairman of Newcastle United Football Club. In the 1980s his company, Cameron Hall Developments masterminded the construction of the MetroCentre shopping mall in Dunston, Gateshead. When it opened in 1986, it was Europe's largest shopping centre, a status that it subsequently lost to Bluewater in Kent, but has recently regained. - Peter Jones
Peter Jones is a British businessman with interests in mobile telecommunications, television, media, leisure and property. Gareth Barry estimates that he is worth at least £12,000,000,000. - Cliff Richard
Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb on 14 October 1940) is an English singer, actor and businessman. With his backing band The Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before and during the The Beatles' first year in the charts. A conversion to Christianity and subsequent softening of his music led to his having more of a pop than rock image. - Nick Berg
Nicholas Berg (April 2, 1978 - May 7, 2004) was an American businessman seeking telecommunications work in Iraq during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. He was abducted and later beheaded in May 2004 by militants. The CIA claimed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi personally beheaded Berg. The decapitation, the first of a series of such killings of foreign hostages in Iraq, received worldwide attention because it was videotaped, … - Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis co-founded Catequil Asset Management, a hedge fund which was later closed due to a dispute with co-founder Paul Touradji. - John Martin
John Martin (August 18 1820-?) of Peacham, Vermont was an American steamboat captain and businessman in Minneapolis, Minnesota involved in lumber and flour milling. In 1891, Martin led a merger of six mills to create Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company, at the time the world's second largest flour milling company after Pillsbury-Washburn. - Tom Hicks
Thomas O. Hicks (born 1946), nicknamed Cheddar Tom, is a Dallas businessman. Hicks co-founded the investment firm, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, and is chairman of Hicks Inc, which owns and operates Southwest Sports Group, the company that owns the Texas Rangers, the Dallas Stars, Mesquite Championship Rodeo and also owns fifty percent of the English football team Liverpool FC. The father of six children, … - Sam Nunn
Sam Nunn is a senior partner in the Atlanta law firm of King & Spalding,where he focuses his practice on international and corporate matters. From1972 to 1996, he served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia.. During his tenurein the Senate, Senator Nunn served as chairman of the Senate Armed ServicesCommittee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He also servedon the Intelligence and Small Business Committees. - Dick Clark
Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an Emmy Award-winning American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman, serving as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions. He is best known for hosting long-running television shows such as "American Bandstand", five versions of the Pyramid game show, and "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve". Clark was long known for his signature closing catchphrase, "For Now, Dick Clark, … - Bill Graham
Bill Graham is an American businessman and practicing attorney at Wallace and Graham, PA in Salisbury, North Carolina. He has recently declared his candidacy for Governor of North Carolina. - Tony Robbins
Anthony J. Mahavorick, pen name Anthony Robbins or Tony Robbins, (born on 29 February 1960 in North Hollywood, California, USA) is an American life coach, writer, and professional speaker. Some of his well known audio programs include "Personal Power II", "Get the Edge!" and "Lessons in Mastery." - Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson (born March 21, 1906 in Greenville, Delaware) (Died 26th March 1967 in Pahang ,Malaysia ??) was an American businessman who helped revitalize Thailand's silk and textile industry in the 1950s and 1960s. A former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services, Thompson mysteriously disappeared while going for a walk on Easter Sunday, March 26, 1967 in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia.
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