Field
Business
98 figures, most prominent first.
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Gwyneth Paltrow
American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer
b. 1972
Michael Bloomberg
American businessman and politician; 108th Mayor of New Y
b. 1942
Mark Zuckerberg
founder of Facebook
b. 1984
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George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist
b. 1930
Milton Friedman
monetarist economist
1912 – 2006
Calvin Klein
American fashion designer
b. 1942
Rahm Emanuel
American politician
b. 1959
Anne Frank
German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim
1929 – 1945
Sam Altman
chief executive of OpenAI
b. 1985
Larry Ellison
founder of Oracle
b. 1944
Larry Page
co-founder of Google
b. 1973
Mark Cuban
sold Broadcast.com; owns the Mavericks
b. 1958
Sergey Brin
co-founder of Google
b. 1973
Jon Ossoff
American politician and filmmaker
b. 1987
Neil Simon
American playwright, writer, and academic
1927 – 2018
Dario Amodei
co-founder of Anthropic
b. 1983
Naftali Bennett
Prime Minister of Israel from 2021 to 2022
b. 1972
Ben Bernanke
American economist
b. 1953
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
b. 1946
Jacques Offenbach
German-born French composer
1819 – 1880
Steve Ballmer
American businessman, former chief executive officer of M
b. 1956
Steve Cohen
American lawyer and politician
b. 1949
Paul Wesley
American actor
b. 1982
Josh Gottheimer
American politician from New Jersey
b. 1975
Miriam Adelson
American-Israeli physician and business billionaire (born
b. 1945
Brian Schatz
American educator and politician
b. 1972
David O. Selznick
American film producer
1902 – 1965
Alan Sugar
British business magnate, media personality
b. 1947
Carl Laemmle
German-American film producer
1867 – 1939
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Diane von Fürstenberg
Belgian-born American fashion designer
b. 1946
Isidor Straus
retailing magnate victim of the Titanic sinking
1845 – 1912
Michael Dell
American businessman and CEO
b. 1965
Amy Pascal
American film producer and business executive
b. 1958
Arthur Blank
American businessman and sports team owner
b. 1942
William Fox
Hungarian-American film producer
1879 – 1952
Bill Ackman
American billionaire hedge fund manager
b. 1966
Larry Summers
American economist and government official
b. 1954
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Lewis Strauss
American banker and chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Co
1896 – 1974
Sheldon Adelson
American businessman
1933 – 2021
Steve Wynn
American businessman
b. 1942
Carl Icahn
American businessman
b. 1936
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Harry Cohn
American film studio executive
1891 – 1958
Jacky Rosen
American politician
b. 1957
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Jewish German banker
c. 1743 – 1812
Robert Rubin
American banking executive, 70th US Treasury Secretary
b. 1938
Ruth Handler
American businesswoman
1916 – 2002
Samuel Gompers
American labor leader (AFL)
1850 – 1924
Ezer Weizman
Israeli politician, 7th president of Israel
1924 – 2005
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member
b. 1952
Marc Benioff
Founded Salesforce
b. 1964
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Nelson Peltz
American businessman and art collector
b. 1942
Adam Mosseri
Head of Instagram
b. 1983
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Irena Szewińska
Polish sprinter and sports official
1946 – 2018
David Tepper
American businessman
b. 1957
Levi Strauss
invented blue jeans
1829 – 1902
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Sara Blakely
American businesswoman
b. 1971
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Eugene Meyer
American financier, first president of the World Bank
1875 – 1959
Peter R. Orszag
American economist and Chairman & CEO of Lazard
b. 1968
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Ronald Perelman
American businessman and investor
b. 1943
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Edmond Safra
Syrian Brazilian Jewish banker
1932 – 1999
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Tory Burch
American fashion designer, businesswoman, and philanthropist
b. 1966
Guy de Rothschild
Jewish-French banker, art collector, horse breeder
1909 – 2007
Jim Simons
American mathematician and hedge fund manager
1938 – 2024
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Joseph Safra
Brazilian banker
1938 – 2020
Adam Neumann
Co-founder of WeWork and founder of Flow
b. 1979
Estée Lauder
built a cosmetics empire
1908 – 2004
Julius Rosenwald
American businessman
1862 – 1932
Benjamin Graham
American economist and investor
1894 – 1976
Isaac Abarbanel
Portuguese-Spanish Jewish businessman
c. 1437 – 1508
Jacob Schiff
American banker, philanthropist
1847 – 1920
Max Levchin
Co-founded PayPal; invented the CAPTCHA test
b. 1975
David M. Solomon
American banker and DJ
b. c. 1962
Marc Mezvinsky
son in law of Bill Clinton
b. 1977
Peter Schiff
American entrepreneur, economist and author
b. 1963
Seth Klarman
American investor, author and philanthropist
b. 1957
Amschel Mayer Rothschild
German banker
1773 – 1855
Gary Cohn
American businessman & politician
b. 1960
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Jay Pritzker
American businessman; uncle of J. B. Pritzker
1922 – 1999
MC Serch
American rapper
b. 1967
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Victor Niederhoffer
American statistician, businessman and squash player
1943 – 2026
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Élie de Rothschild
French banker and art collector
1917 – 2007
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Eddie Lampert
American businessman
b. 1962
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Lillian Copeland
athletics competitor
1904 – 1964
Renee Harris
American theatre manager and producer
1876 – 1969
Bernard Marcus
American businessman, philanthropist and political donor
1929 – 2024
Jan Koum
Co-founded WhatsApp
b. 1976
Marcus Goldman
American banker
1821 – 1904
Arkady Volozh
Co-founder of Yandex and Nebius
b. 1964
Joel Spolsky
co-founder of Stack Overflow
b. 1965
Robert S. Kapito
American businessman and investor
b. 1957
Andi Gutmans
Co-developer of PHP 3 and the Zend Engine
b. c. 1972
Zeev Suraski
Co-developer of PHP 3 and the Zend Engine
b. 1976
Jon Oringer
Founder of Shutterstock
b. 1974
Jonathan Medved
Founder of OurCrowd
b. 1955
Elena Bunina
Mathematician and former Yandex executive
b. 1976
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Alex Gerko
founder of XTX Markets
b. 1979
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Daniela Amodei
co-founder and president of Anthropic
b. 1987
Daphne Koller
co-founded Coursera
b. 1968