- Rocco Forte
Sir Rocco Forte is a British hotelier born in Bournemouth. He went to Downside School in England as a child and went on to read modern languages at Oxford University. He is the son of Lord Forte from whom he took over as CEO of the Forte Group in 1992. In the mid-Nineties, the Forte Group was faced with a hostile takeover bid from Gerry Robinson's Granada. - Conrad Hilton
Conrad Nicholson Hilton, Sr. was an American hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotel chain. - César Ritz
César Ritz was a famous Swiss hotelier and founder of several hotels, most famously The Ritz Hotel. His nickname was "king of hoteliers, and hotelier to kings," and it is from his name and that of his hotels that the term "ritzy" derives. Ritz began his career at Le Splendide, a hotel in Paris and was maître d'hôtel at Chez Voisin, a restaurant which closed following the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. - Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was, in his time, an aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer and director, a playboy, an eccentric, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He is famous for setting multiple, world air-speed records, building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules airplanes, producing the movies "Hell's Angels" and "The Outlaw", owning and expanding TWA, and for his debilitating eccentric behavior in later life. - Leona Helmsley
Leona Helmsley (born Lena Rosenthol July 4, 1920, in Ulster County, New York) is a New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. She was convicted of federal income tax evasion and other crimes in 1989 and served 18 months in prison, after receiving an initial sentence of 16 years. United States Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who later became mayor of New York City and United States presidential candidate, was one of the two chief prosecutors. - 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, … - Barron Hilton
William Barron Hilton I (born October 23, 1927) is an American heir and co-chairman of the Hilton Hotel chain and paternal grandfather of Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton. - Vikram Chatwal
Vikram Chatwal (born 1 November 1971) is an American hotelier of Indian Sikh heritage. April 1999, at the age of 28, he created "Vikram Chatwal Hotels" which is an independent hotel group of 9 luxury hotels in 5 cities, with the flagship Dream Hotel. Chatwal has attended the United Nations International School in New York City, has a Bachelors Degree from Wharton Business School and has worked with Morgan Stanley. - J. Willard Marriott
John Willard Marriott (September 17, 1900 - August 13, 1985) was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation (which became Marriott International in 1993), the parent company of one of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains and food services company. His company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington D.C. in 1927 to a chain of family restaurants by 1932, to his first motel in 1957. - Lalit Suri
Lalit Suri (15 April 1947 - 10 October 2006) was the 'uncrowned hotel king' of India and a member of the Rajya Sabha (the Upper House of India's Parliament). Born on April 15, 1947 in Rawalpindi (Pakistan), Lalit Suri was elected to the Rajya Sabha as an Independent from Uttar Pradesh in 2002. He joined the family-run Delhi Automobile Ltd in 1971 but he struck gold when the group diversified into hospitality business in 1982 with Suri as its Joint Managing Director. - Cecil B. Day
Cecil B. Day was the founder of Days Inn Hotels. Cecil began his academic career at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, where he dropped out to join the United States Marine Corps. When Day completed his Marine training, he began schooling at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a business degree. By the time he had graduated, Day was married and had children. It was in Atlanta, Georgia, where he sold his first duplex for $4,000,000. - R. Donahue Peebles
R. Donahue Peebles (b.March 2, 1960) An African-American hotel pioneer, and real estate developer in Washington D.C. and Miami Beach, founder, president and chief executive officer of The Peebles Corporation (formerly Peebles Atlantic Development Corporation). Donahue Peebles served as a Congressional page in 1978. Appointed by Marion Barry to the Washington D.C. Board of Real Property Assessment & Appeal), he became chairman in 1984 and served until 1988. - Mohamed Al-Fayed
Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed state he is not entitled. Fayed is the owner of Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, the English Premiership football team Fulham Football Club and other business interests. He re-launched "Punch" in 1996, only to see it fold again in 2002. He is married to Finnish socialite and former model Heini Wathén, and has four living children: Jasmine, Karim, Camilla and Omar. - Tim Hadcock-Mackay
Timothy Hadcock-Mackay (13 April 1963-29 July 2006) was an English hotelier, television presenter and philanthropist. Hadcock-Mackay started his hotel career in 1985 as a night manager then sales manager at the "Stafford Hotel", St James, London. He founded a marketing consortium for hotels, "Grand Heritage Hotels" in 1992. In 2004 he was appointed chairman of "Distinguished Hotels" that went into liquidation with debts of more than £1m in April 2006. - Richard D'Oyly Carte
Richard D'Oyly Carte (May 3 1844 - April 3 1901) was an English theatrical impresario during the latter half of the nineteenth century. He is best known for producing the Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, founding the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and building both the Savoy Theatre and the Savoy Hotel. - Roger Sonnabend
Roger P. Sonnabend is an American hotelier and businessman, currently head of Sonesta International Hotels Corporation. Roger, the eldest of three brothers, graduated from MIT and took the helm at the Nautilus Hotel and Beach Club, in Atlantic Beach, New York, when he was 21. He graduated Harvard Business School in 1949. His political work landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents. - Reo Stakis
Sir Reo Stakis (born Argyros Anastasis) (13 March 1913 - 28 August 2001) was an Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate, longtime head of Stakis Hotels. He was born in Kato Drys, Cyprus 13 March 1913 and left for Great Britain in 1928, aged 14. He started selling his mother's handmade lace door-to-door and gradually headed north, settling in Glasgow. By the 1940s, Stakis was involved in his first restaurant, the Victory in Glasgow, … - Ernst Zahn
Ernst Zahn was a Swiss author. - Ellsworth Milton Statler
Ellsworth Milton (E.M.) Statler (October 26, 1863 - April 16 1928) was a U.S. hotel businessman born near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He built his first permanent Statler Hotel in 1907, in Buffalo, New York (it being the first major hotel to have a private bath or shower and running water in every room). Future hotels constructed by E. M. Statler were located in Cleveland (1912), Detroit (1915), St. Louis (1917), New York (the Hotel Pennsylvania, … - Ghaith Pharaon
Ghaith Rashad Pharaon, (b. September 7, 1940 in Riyadh (or by varying accounts, Jeddah or Onaira), Saudi Arabia) is a prominent Saudi businessman and financier, as well as a fugitive from judicial inquiries in several countries, most notably for his role in the BCCI scandal. - George Boldt
George Charles Boldt (1851-1916), a self-made millionaire, influenced development of the urban hotel as a civic social center and luxurious destination. He was proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City and built and owned The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia (now the Park Hyatt). He was a trustee of Cornell University, to which his daughter donated the Boldt Tower, a gothic residence hall. - Howard Deering Johnson
Howard Deering Johnson (February 2, 1897 in Boston, Massachusetts - June 20, 1972) was the founder of an American chain of restaurants and motels under one company of the same name, Howard Johnson's. - Francois Dupre
François Dupré was a French, hotelier, art collector, and owner of the Thoroughbred horse breeding and racing farm, Haras d'Ouilly. Dupré served in the French Army during World War I. Seriously wounded during battle, he was hospitalized for a considerable length of time. He went on to a career in business that saw him become the owner of two luxury hotels in Paris, the prestigious Hotel George V, Paris and the Hotel Plaza Athenée. - Noel Corbu
Noel Corbu was a hotelier in the Central French town of Rennes-le-Château. In 1946 Noel Corbu purchased the former estate of the Abbe Berenger Sauniere, the former priest of Rennes-le-Chateau between 1885-1909, and during Easter 1955 he opened a restaurant in the Villa Bethania, later also turned into a Hotel. The hotel itself faced some difficulties due to its fairly isolated location. Between 12th and 14th January 1956, the local newspaper, … - Jordan Palmer
Jordan Palmer (born September 7, 1976) is an American executive, and social activist, notable for founding several successful American companies (and serving as their chief executive officer) including Merus Holdings Corporation, and the Hotel Ivy lodging chain. - Victor Sassoon
Sir (Ellice) Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet GBE (20 December 1881 - 13 August 1961) was a businessman and hotelier from the Sassoon banking family. He succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father Edward Elias Sassoon in 1924. He had no issue, and the Baronetcy became extinct on his death. He lived in Shanghai up until the Japanese occupation. The Cathay Hotel, now the Peace Hotel, was confiscated by the PRC after 1949. - Charles Forte Baron Forte
Charles Forte, Baron Forte (26 November 1908 - 28 February 2007) was a hotelier. Charles Forte was born in Monforte Casalattico (previously Mortale), Italy in 1908, and emigrated from Italy to Scotland at the age of four and attended Alloa Academy and St. Joseph's College, Dumfries. He worked in a cafe chain owned by his father, then at 26 set up his first "milk bar" in 1935 as "Strand Milk Bar Ltd". Soon he began expanding into catering and hotel businesses. - Raymond Orteig
Raymond Orteig (1870 - 1939) was the New York City hotel owner who offered the Orteig Prize for the first non-stop transatlantic flight between New York and Paris. Orteig was born in the south of France, in Louvie-Juzon, Bearn, but moved to New York on August 24, 1912. He started working as a bus boy and cafe manager but soon managed to acquire two hotels (the Hotel Lafayette and the Brevoort Hotel in Greenwich Village). - Rupert D'Oyly Carte
Rupert D'Oyly Carte, born Hampstead, London, November 3 1876, was an English hotelier and impresario, best known as proprietor of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1913 to 1948. - Louis Davenport
Llewellyn "Louis" Davenport (b. circa 1869 - d. 1951) was a Spokane, Washington businessman best know for building the The Davenport Hotel (Spokane). - Helen D'Oyly Carte
Helen D'Oyly Carte or Helen Lenoir (May 12 1852 - May 5 1913) was the second wife of impresario and hotelier Richard D'Oyly Carte. She is best known for her stewardship of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and Savoy Hotel from the end of the 19th Century and into the early 20th Century. - Frank Goldsmith
Major Frank Adolphe Benedict Goldsmith (1878-February 14, 1967) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and luxury hotel owner in France and the United Kingdom. Born in 1878, the son of Adolf Benedict Hayum Goldschmidt and Alice Emma Moses (1835-98), daughter of Joseph Benjamin Moses. His grandfather was Benedict Hayum Salomon Goldschmidt, banker and consul to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, founder of the B.H.Goldschmidt Bank. - George D. Sax
George D. Sax (April 14, 1904 - March 12,1974) was the chairman of the board of Exchange International Corporation and Chicago's former Exchange National Bank (now part of LaSalle Bank). He was president of Sax Enterprises, Inc and was a business entrepreneur who owned the Saxony Hotel, the first luxury hotel to be built in Miami Beach. Sax was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He graduated from Brown's Business College (now Midstate College) in Peoria. - Virginia Fair Vanderbilt
Virginia Fair Vanderbilt (1875- July 15, 1935) was an American socialite, hotel builder/owner, philanthropist, and owner of Fair Stable, a Thoroughbred racehorse operation. Born in San Francisco, California , she was known throughout her life as "Birdie". Her father, James Graham Fair, was an Irish immigrant who made a fortune from mining the Comstock Lode and the Big Bonanza mine in Virginia City and Carson City, Nevada respectively. - Eric Sherbrooke Walker
Major Eric Sherbrooke Walker, MC (approx 1890-approx 1970) was a famous hotelier and founder of the famous Outspan Hotel and Treetops Hotel in Kenya, as well as being a British Army major. He is remembered as the host of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip when they visited the Treetops in 1952, receiving news of the death of George VI and Elizabeth II's accession in Kenya in the process. - George J. Maloof Jr.
George J. Maloof, Jr. (born George Joseph Maloof, Jr. on September 2, 1964), also credited as George Maloof Jr. of the Maloof Family, is the son of George J. Maloof, Sr. and a billionaire. He is Executive President and owner of the Maloof Companies and head of the hotels division. He is President of Maloof Hotels since 1989. He is owner of the Sacramento Kings, the Sacramento Monarchs, and the Palms Hotel and Casino in Nevada with his brothers Gavin Maloof, … - Wilhelmina Skogh
Lorentina Wilhelmina Skogh, born Wahlgren (14 December 1849 in the parish of Rute on Gotland, Sweden - 18 June 1926) was a hotel manager and owned a number of hotels and restaurants in Sweden. Family: In 1888, she married wine trader Per Samuel Skogh (1849-1904). Children: Gustav (Wahlgren) Skogh. - Abner Kirby
Abner Kirby (1818-1893) was an American businessman who served as mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Kirby bought a half interest in the City Hotel, which originally opened in 1845, at the corner of Mason and Water Streets in Milwaukee. The hotel was renamed the Walker House and later Kirby House, when Kirby became sole owner. Kirby also engaged in the jewelry and lumber businesses. A Democrat and a strong Union supporter during the American Civil War, … - Peter Beamish
Peter Beamish runs a hotel and an adventure tour company and claims to research animal communication in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. His focus is on the humpback whale and its capacity for what Beamish calls rhythm-based communication, a concept originally proposed by Soviet researchers in the 1970s and 1980s. Beamish's work has attracted support and attention from other researchers in this area, e.g. John Lilly, … - Amir Hamzah
1. Hard to handle when you know me well. 2. Kinda happening!! 3. Hard Working 4. Very Outgoing i.e :Mount Climbing,Sea Sport,Rock Climbing,Travel Alone.. 5. Love Good Food. 6. Big Spender (Bad Habbit) 7. Enjoy sex very much 8. Inconsistent 10.Love nature very much!! (Gardening) 11.Clubbing (lately like start to addicted)
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