- Tony Millionaire
Tony Millionaire (born Scott Richardson, 1956) is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author known for his syndicated comic strip "Maakies" and the "Sock Monkey" series of comics and picture books. - Regis Philbin
Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (born August 25, 1931) is an Emmy Award-winning American television personality best known for his roles as a talk show host, game show host, singer and presenter at various events. Appearing on television since the late 1950s, Philbin is often called (somewhat tongue-in-cheek and alternately attributed to James Brown), … - John Carpenter
John Carpenter (born 1967) was the first $1,000,000 winner on the United States version of the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". The historic event occurred on November 19, 1999. He held the record for the largest single win in United States game show history, until it was broken by Rahim Oberholtzer on another U.S. quiz show, "Twenty One". - Josh Homme
Joshua Michael Homme (born May 17, 1973 in Palm Springs, California) is an American Rock musician. He was a founding member of the desert rock band Kyuss, as well as the founding and only continuous member of the hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA), in which he sings and plays guitar. He co-founded and occasionally performs with Eagles of Death Metal as its drummer, and continues to produce and release a musical improv series with other musicians, … - James Morrison
James Morrison (1789 - 1857) was a British millionaire businessman and Member of Parliament. The son of a Hampshire innkeeper, Morrison married into a London drapery business and quickly made it one of the most profitable in the World. He later established the US trading company, Morrison, Cryder & Co. He invested heavily in foreign railways and also in art. His art collection included works by Constable, Cuyp, Jan Steen, Murillo, Poussin, Rembrant and Rubens. - Chris Gardner
Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and philanthropist who, during the early 1980s, struggled with homelessness while raising his toddler son, Christopher. Gardner's book of memoirs was published in May 2006 by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. As of 2006, he is CEO of his own stockbrokerage firm, Gardner Rich, based in Chicago, … - Madam C.J. Walker
Madam C.J. Walker or Madame Charles Joseph Walker (December 23, 1867-May 25, 1919) was an African American philanthropist and tycoon who made her fortune developing and marketing a hugely successful line of beauty and hair products for black women. Born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana, the first member of her family born free, she was raised on farms there and in Mississippi. She was born as a Christmas baby. - Tim Vanhamel
Tim Vanhamel (born 12 December 1977) is a Belgian rock musician who has been a member of and performed with a number of bands including Evil Superstars, dEUS and Eagles of Death Metal. He is also the frontman of his own band Millionaire. - John Jacob Astor
John Jacob (originally either Johann Jakob or Johann Jacob) Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) was the first of the Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, the creator of the first Trust in America, from which he made his fortune in the fur trade, real estate, and opium industries. - Edward James
Edward James Deep in the mountains of Mexico, amid waterfalls, birds, butterflies, and wild orchids, lies one of the art world’s best-kept secrets: LAS POZAS, a spectacular, surreal assemblage of enormous concrete sculptures and structures that spring from the lush, jungle vegetation. It is the extraordinary achievement of one of the least-known, compelling figures of our time, the eccentric English aristocrat Edward James, a poet, patron, and architect of dreams. - Aristotle Onassis
Aristotelis Sokratis (also Ari) Onassis (in Greek, was the most famous shipping magnate of the 20th century. - Sarah Kozer
Sarah Ann Kozer (born 1973) is a television personality best known for her appearance in the reality television series "Joe Millionaire", finishing as the runner-up to Zora Andrich. Kozer was born and raised in Hunker, Pennsylvania. She graduated from George Mason University with a degree in Philosophy and Women's Studies and attended Southwestern University School of Law. - Stavros Niarchos
Stavros Spyros Niarchos (3 July 1909 - 16 April 1996) was a millionaire Greek shipping tycoon, sometimes known as "The Golden Greek." In 1952, Stavros Niarchos built the first supertankers capable of transporting large quantities of oil, and subsequently earned millions of dollars as global demand for his ships increased. - Chamillionaire
Hakeem Seriki (born November 28, 1979), better known by his stage name Chamillionaire (pronounced Ka-MIL-yin-air, a portmanteau of "chameleon" and "millionaire") is an American rapper and the CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment. He stated that his aim is to prove that the South can produce quality lyricists. He is also a hook writer and usually sings and harmonizes with himself (using double-tracked vocals) on his own hooks. - Stephen Elliott
Stephen Elliott (November 27 1918 - May 21 2005) was an American actor. Elliott's first acting engagement was at the New York Neighborhood Playhouse in 1946. After serving in World War II, Elliott started a successful career on Broadway with his debut in Shakespeare's "The Tempest". In 1967, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for "Marat/Sade". Two years later he won the Death Wish". - Tom Farmer
Sir Thomas Farmer, CBE, KCSG, (born 10 July 1940, in Leith, Edinburgh) better known as Tom Farmer, is a Scottish entrepreneur and millionaire. One of seven siblings in a devout Roman Catholic family, he created his fortune, after having left his former school, Holy Cross, by founding the Kwik Fit chain of garages, which he has since sold. He was named Scottish Businessman of the Year in 1989. - Kevin Olmstead
Dr. Kevin Olmstead (born March 20, 1959) is an environmental engineer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He won $2.18 million on the TV game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" on April 10, 2001, at the time a record for highest total winnings on a game show. "Millionaire" at this time had an increasing bonus on top of the $1 million top prize, as there had been a drought of top-prize winners for five months. - Kevin Welch
Kevin Welch (August 17, 1955 in Long Beach, California) is an American singer-songwriter. Kevin Welch grew up in Oklahoma. He already toured as a teenager with several bands, before he moved to Nashville in 1978 to work as a songwriter. Singers like Ricky Skaggs, Steve Earle and Don Williams were using his material. At the same time he was very active in local clubs with his band - The Overtones. - Michael Oliver
Michael Oliver is an immigrant of Jewish descent, Las Vegas real estate millionaire and political activist. He was the founder of the micronation project the Republic of Minerva, a failed attempt to create a sovereign state in the South Pacific in 1972. In the following decades, Oliver and his Phoenix Foundation were also involved in similar projects on the Bahamian island of Abaco and in Vanuatu with the New Hebrides Autonomy Movement (MANH). - Minerva
Minerva plc is a London based British developer and property firm co-founded by the millionaire philanthropist Sir David Garrard. Its current chairman is Andrew Rosenfeld. Garrard and Rosenfeld took the company public in 1996. Minerva is involved in several major projects, including the proposed Minerva Building and The Walbrook in the City of London. - Nancy Christy
Nancy Christy was the first woman (May 8, 2003) to win the top ($1,000,000) prize on the United States game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". She was the second contestant to win the top prize on the syndicated version hosted by Meredith Vieira. Christy is a middle-school teacher from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her final question asked who painter Grant Wood used as the model for the farmer in his painting "American Gothic". - Gary Dahl
Gary Dahl, an advertising executive from Los Gatos, California, conceived the idea of selling rocks to people as Pet Rocks, complete with instructions. The 1975 fad only lasted about half a year, but that was enough to make Dahl a millionaire. In 2000, Dahl won the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, the San José State University sponsored competition that awards authors for crafting particularly bad "purple prose." Dahl's winning entry: :The heather-encrusted Headlands, … - Dabbs Greer
Robert William "Dabbs" Greer) was an American character actor who performed many diverse supporting roles in film and television for about 50 years. Greer, a Missouri native, died April 28, 2007 at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena California after a battle with kidney and heart disease. Greer was born in Fairview, Missouri and attended Drury University, where he was a member of Theta Kappa Nu. His Southern voice fitted well in shows featuring rustic characters, … - Ed Toutant
Ed Toutant was a contestant on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" in the United States in 2001. Toutant appeared on the show during the time it gave away an accumulating jackpot to anyone who reached the top prize question and answered it correctly (which Kevin Olmstead eventually did after Toutant's original appearance on "Millionaire"). However, due to an error with one of his questions, … - Matthew Harding
Matthew Harding (December 26, 1953 - October 22, 1996) was a British businessman and vice-chairman of Chelsea football club. - Tony Ryan
Dr. Tony Ryan, who lives in Ardclough Co. Kildare, is an Irish multi-millionaire, founder of Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) and co-founder of Ryanair with Christy Ryan and Liam Lonergan. Ryanair is believed to be the main source of his current wealth: the company is now one of the biggest airlines in Europe and is valued at several billion euro. Tony Ryan is believed to have a personal fortune ranging between €800m and €1bn. - Samuel Brannan
Samuel Brannan (March 2, 1819 - May 14, 1889), was the first publicist of the California Gold Rush and the first millionaire because of the rush. "Brannan Street" in San Francisco is named after him. Brannan was born in Saco, Maine. As a teenager, his family moved to Ohio, where Brannan learned to be a printer. He joined the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Brannan moved to New York in 1844, and began printing "The New York Messenger", … - Howard Ahmanson Jr.
Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Jr (born 1950) is an heir of the Home Savings bank fortune built by his father, Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson, Sr. Ahmanson Jr. is a multi-millionaire philanthropist and financier of the causes of many conservative Christian cultural, religious and political organizations. He has been highly influential and generous with conservative Republicans and Evangelicals. Ahmanson has recently joined a PCA Presbyterian church. - Richard Tarrant
Richard Edward Tarrant, (born August 6, 1942 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American businessman, millionaire, and politician. Most recently, he was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont (see Vermont United States Senate election, 2006) in 2006, but lost the election to Representative Bernie Sanders. Tarrant and his wife reside in Colchester where he is currently working on his charitable foundation. - Robert Coleman
Robert Coleman (August 14 1825) was an Irish-American industrialist who rose from a holding clerkship at a prothonotary's office in Philadelphia to bookkeeper at Cornwall Iron Furnace to becoming Pennsylvania's first millionaire. - Hans Rausing
Hans Rausing KBE (born in 1926), a British based Swedish born businessman, is among the world's wealthiest people with a reported net worth, in 2007, of 5.4 billion UK pounds (approx. 11 billion US dollars). He made his wealth from his co-inheritance of Tetra Pak (later Tetra Laval), a company founded by his father Ruben Rausing that is currently the largest packing production company in the world. - Jessica Paré
Jessica Paré is an actress who has mostly appeared in independent films and is making headway in Hollywood, in both movies and TV series. She starred as Courtney Benedict in the series Jack & Bobby. Some of her most memorable roles have included rebellious rich girl, Tori Moller, in "Lost and Delirious", murdered millionaire heiress, Nancy Eaton, and high school ice hockey player turned supermodel, Tina Menzhal, in "Stardom". - Barney Barnato
Barney Barnato (born Barnett Isaacs was a South African Randlord, one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later gold mining, in South Africa from the 1870s. He was born in 1852 in a slum in Whitechapel in the East End of London, and was educated by Moses Angel at the Jews' Free School. It was a hard life, and a young Barnato is reputed to have begged pass outs from theatre leavers at the Garrick Theatre in Leman Street, … - Patrick Burns
Patrick Burns (6 July 1856 - 24 February 1937) was a Canadian rancher, meat packer and senator. A self-made millionaire, he built one of the world's largest meat-packing empires, Burns Meats. He is honoured as one of the "Big Four" western cattle kings who started the Calgary Stampede in Alberta in 1912. - Dominic McVey
Dominic McVey is a British entrepreneur who started business at the age of 13, importing micro-scooters from the United States into the United Kingdom. He was a millionaire by the age of 15. As of 2006, he is worth £7 million (approx. US$12 million) according to the Sunday Times Rich List. - Emmanuel Kaye
Sir Emmanuel Kaye (29 November 1914 - 28 February 1999) was a millionaire British industrialist and philanthropist. He was also a member of the CBI council from 1976 to 1989, and its financial policy committee from 1985 to 1992. Once a strong supporter of the Conservative party, he was persuaded by Lord Levy to contribute substantially to Tony Blair's Labour Leader's Office Fund before the 1997 General Election. - Hank Asher
Hank Asher (born "c." 1951) is a businessman with a reported fortune of around US$500 million earned as the founder of several data mining companies that compile personal information about individuals from different electronic databases. Asher dropped out of school and 16 and worked as a draftsman in a local factory. Later he worked in a union job painting radio towers, with a housepainting business on the side. - Bobby Franks
Robert Emanuel "Bobby" Franks (September 19, 1909 - May 21, 1924) was the fourteen-year-old murder victim of the notorious teenaged thrill killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Franks was the son of Chicago millionaire Jacob Franks and a neighbor and distant relative of Richard Loeb. Leopold and Loeb had no real motive for their act; they kidnapped and murdered Franks because they wanted to commit the perfect crime. The press soon dubbed the murder a "thrill killing". - Malcolm Bricklin
Malcolm Bricklin born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an automotive entrepreneur from Phoenix, Arizona. In 1958, Bricklin dropped out of the University of Florida and built his father's Orlando, Florida, building supply business into a franchised chain of Handyman stores. A number of lawsuits from the franchises arose and Bricklin left the business having become a millionaire in the process. Handyman America Inc. soon went bankrupt. - Harrison Williams
Harrison Charles Williams (1873-1953) was an American entrepreneur, investor and multi-millionaire.
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