- 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, … - 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. - Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, … - John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (July 8, 1839 - May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. Rockefeller had always believed since he was a child that his purpose in life was to make as much money as possible, and then use it wisely to improve the lot of mankind. - Ratan Naval Tata
"One hundred years from now, I expect the Tatas to be much bigger than it is now. More importantly, I hope the Group comes to be regarded as being the best in India - best in the manner in which we operate, best in the products we deliver, and best in our value systems and ethics. Having said that, I hope that a hundred years from now we will spread our wings far beyond India..." Ratan Tata - Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 - 9 October 1974) was a Sudeten German industrialist credited with saving almost 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust, by having them work in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in Poland and what is now the Czech Republic. He was the subject of the book "Schindler's Ark", and the film based on it, "Schindler's List". - Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Nivas Mittal is a London-based Indian billionaire industrialist, born in Sadulpur Village, in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and residing in Kensington, London. He is the fifth richest person in the world, with a fortune of US$32 billion according to "Forbes". The "Financial Times" named Mittal its 2006 Person of the Year. In May 2007, he was named one of the "100 most influential people" by "Time" magazine. - John Brown
Sir John Brown (6 December1816 - 27 December1896), British industrialist, was born in Sheffield. He was apprenticed at fourteen years old to a Sheffield firm manufacturing files and table cutlery. In 1848 Brown invented the conical steel spring buffer for railway carriages. In 1860, after seeing the French ship La Gloire armoured with hammered plate, he went on to produce armour using a rolling process, … - Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791 - April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United States. - John Buchanan
John Buchanan was a Republican candidate in the 2004 Presidential race. He is a former journalist who lives in Miami, Florida. He has written a screenplay called "Operation Clear-Vision" on the subject of the Bush family, pharmaceutical companies and biological weapons research. It was during the research for this project that he discovered documents related to Prescott Bush's business dealings with Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen. - Norton Simon
Norton Winfred Simon (February 5, 1907-June 11993), in the United States was a billionaire industrialist and philanthropist based in California. A significant but unscrupulous art collector, he is the namesake of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. - Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly was a pharmaceutical industrialist and philanthropist from Indiana, United States - Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg) what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose dream was to create small, high speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. - Gianni Agnelli
Giovanni Agnelli, better known as Gianni Agnelli, was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GNP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investment in research. - Samuel Colt
Samuel Colt (born Hartford, Connecticut July 19, 1814 - died Hartford, Connecticut January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist. He was the founder of the Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now known as "Colt's Manufacturing Company"), and is widely credited with popularizing the revolver gun. - Jack Davis
John R. "Jack" Davis (born 1933) is an industrialist and Democratic politician from western New York. He is also the founder of the Save Jobs Party. - Mark Hanna
Marcus Alonzo Hanna (September 24, 1837 - February 15, 1904), best known as Mark Hanna, was an industrialist and Republican politician from Cleveland, Ohio. He rose to fame as the campaign manager of the successful Republican Presidential candidate William McKinley in the U.S. Presidential election of 1896, in the first modern political campaign, and subsequently became one of the most powerful members of the U.S. Senate. - John Ross
John K.L. Ross (1876? - July 25, 1951) was a Canadian industrialist, sportsman, and naval officer. - Ingvar Kamprad
Ingvar Feodor Kamprad (born March 30, 1926) is a Swedish entrepreneur who is the founder of the home furnishing retail chain IKEA. As of 2007 he is the richest person in Europe and the 4th richest person in the world according to "Forbes" magazine, with an estimated net worth of around US$33 billion. - Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater (June 9 1768 - April 21 1835) was an early American industrialist popularly known as the "Founder of the American Industrial Revolution". - Jamnalal Bajaj
Jamnalal Bajaj was an industrialist, a philanthropist, and Indian freedom fighter. He was also a close associate and follower of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi is known to have adopted him as his son. Several institutions in India bears his name, including the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies. He founded the Bajaj group of companies in the 30s. The group now has 24 companies, including 6 listed companies. - David Williams
David J. Williams is the Chief Executive of Avanti Communications Group plc, the UK's only Fixed and Broadcast Satellite Operator, listed on the London Stock Exchange. He also previously created Avanti Screenmedia Group plc (www.avanti-screenmedia.com), where he was instrumental in the development of the digital signage market in the UK between 2000 and 2006. - Dennis Washington
Dennis R. Washington, (born 1934), is a Montana-based industrialist and philanthropist who owns, or owns controlling interest in, a large consortium of privately held companies collectively known as the Washington Companies. With an estimated current net worth of around $2.8 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 98th-richest person in America. Born in Spokane, Dennis Washington grew up in Spokane, Bremerton, Washington, and Missoula, Montana. - Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly was an American journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker. She is most famous for an undercover exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. She is also well-known for her record-breaking trip around the world. - Ernest Solvay
Ernest Solvay (April 16, 1838 - May 26, 1922) was an Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Born at Rebecq, an illness prevented him from going to university. He worked in his uncle's chemical factory from the age of 21. In 1861, he developed the ammonia-soda process for the manufacture of soda ash (anhydrous sodium carbonate) from brine (as a source of sodium chloride) and limestone (as a source of calcium carbonate). - John McCone
John Alexander McCone (January 4, 1902 - February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence during the height of the Cold War. McCone was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1922 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. A prominent industrialist, McCone also served for more than twenty years as a governmental advisor and official. - K. C. Irving
Kenneth Colin Irving, OC, ONB (March 14, 1899-December 13, 1992) also known as K. C. Irving was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick. He was one of Atlantic Canada's foremost entrepreneurs of the 20th century and ranks as one of the world's leading industrialists. Today the Irving group of companies are owned and operated by his three sons, James, Arthur, and Jack, and their respective children. - John Wilkinson
John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 - 1808) was an English industrialist who suggested the use of cast iron for many roles where other materials had previously been used. His "iron madness" reached a peak in the 1790s, when he had almost everything around him made of iron, even several coffins and a massive obelisk to mark his grave. John Wilkinson was born in Clifton, Cumberland, the son of Isaac Wilkinson, who was then the potfounder at the blast furnace there, … - David Davies
David Davies (18 December 1818 - 20 July 1890) was a highly influential Welsh industrialist. He is often known as David Davies Llandinam (from the place of his birth, Llandinam in Montgomeryshire), in order to differentiate him from others of the same name. During his lifetime, he was also known by the nicknames, "Top Sawyer" and "Davies the Ocean". - Louis Renault
Louis Renault (February 15, 1877, Paris, France - October 24, 1944) was a French industrialist and one of the foremost pioneers of the automobile industry. The youngest of five children born into a Paris bougeois family, Renault was fascinated by engineering and mechanics from a very early age, and spent many hours in the Serpollet steam car workshop or tinkering with old Panhard engines in the tool shed of the family's second home in Billancourt. - Hugo Stinnes
Hugo Stinnes was a German industrialist and politician born in Mülheim, in the Ruhr Valley, North German Confederation. In 1890 he inherited his father's coal mining and other financial enterprises. At the age of 23 Stinnes invested heavily in the steel industry, and as a result of World War I and a strategy of vertical integration his companies flourished. Stinnes, a prominent capitalist, and conservative became a founding member of the DVP. - Soichiro Honda
Soichiro Honda was a Japanese engineer and industrialist, and founder of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.. Soichiro was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. Mr. Honda spent his early childhood helping his father, Gihei, a blacksmith, with his bicycle repair business. At the time his mother, Mika, was a weaver. At 15, without any formal education, Honda arrived in Tokyo to look for work. He obtained an apprenticeship at a garage in 1922, and after some vacillation over his employment, … - David Thomas
David Thomas (1794 - 1882) was a native of Wales who was influential in the birth of the Industrial Revolution. - Henry H. Rogers
Henry Huttleston Rogers (January 29 1840 - May 19 1909) was a United States capitalist, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist. During the Gilded Age, in the spirit of Horatio Alger, "Hen" Rogers, a child of working-class parents, worked his way to the top and became one of the key men in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. He also made many investments of his own in natural gas, copper, steel, coal, and railroad industries, … - Friedrich Karl Flick
Friedrich Karl Flick (February 3, 1927 in Berlin - October 5, 2006 in Auen on the Wörthersee, Austria) was a German-Austrian industrialist and billionaire. He was born the youngest of the sons of Friedrich Flick and Marie Schuss. After his studies, he worked in his father's company. In 1972, when his father died, he ("FKF") inherited the major part of the family business, which had made massive use of concentration camp laborers. - John Parker
John P. Parker (1827 - February 4, 1900) was an African American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist who secretly participated in the Underground Railroad resistance movement. His house in Ripley, Ohio is a National Historic Landmark - John Corbett
John Corbett ("bapt." June 29, 1817 - April 22, 1901) was an English industrialist and philanthropist, particularly associated with salt mining in Droitwich, Worcestershire. Born Brierley Hill, his father, Joseph Corbett, ran a canal transport business there. John joined the family business but by 1850 canals were facing increasing competition from the railways. Corbett sold his share of the business and, in 1853, … - Ernst Werner von Siemens
Ernst Werner von Siemens (known as Werner von Siemens) (December 13, 1816 - December 6, 1892) was a German inventor and industrialist. Siemens' name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. - Samuel Courtauld
Samuel Courtauld was an American-born industrialist and Unitarian, chiefly remembered as the driving force behind the early 19th century growth of the Courtauld textile business. The Courtauld family were descendants of Huguenot (French Protestant) refugees who ran a successful business in London as gold and silversmiths, before moving to America in the late 18th century. Courtauld was the eldest son of Unitarian George Courtauld. - Charles Tennant
Charles Tennant (May 3, 1768 - October 1, 1838) Scottish chemist and industrialist. He discovered bleaching powder and founded a mighty industrial dynasty.
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