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William Maxwell Aitken
British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
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Andrew Carnegie
United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
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Peter Cooper
United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883)
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Ezra Cornell
United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)
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Glenn Hammond Curtiss
United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930)
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Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900)
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John Deere
United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)
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George Eastman
United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)
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Henry Ford
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
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Edsel Bryant Ford
son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
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Henry Ford II
grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
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Henry Clay Frick
United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)
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William Henry Gates
United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
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King Camp Gilette
United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932)
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Meyer Guggenheim
United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905)
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Alfred Charles William Harmsworth
British newspaper publisher (1865-1922)
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Edward Henry Harriman
United States railway tycoon (1848-1909)
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Benjamin Harris
publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713)
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Charles Henry Harrod
English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885)
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Charles Digby Harrod
English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905)
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William Randolph Hearst
United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951)
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Henry John Heinz
United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)
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James Jerome Hill
United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)
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William Henry Hoover
United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
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Howard Robard Hughes
United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)
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Collis Potter Huntington
United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)
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Friedrich Krupp
German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826)
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Edwin Herbert Land
United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
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First Baron Marks of Broughton
English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)
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First Viscount Nuffield
British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)
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Wilhelm von Opel
German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948)
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Elisha Graves Otis
United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
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Robert Owen
Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
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Sir Frederick Handley Page
English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
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Joseph Pulitzer
United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911)
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John Davison Rockefeller
United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)
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David Sarnoff
United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971)
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James Edmund Scripps
United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908)
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Edward Wyllis Scripps
United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926)
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Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky
United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972)
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Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)
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Ernest Solvay
Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922)
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Leland Stanford
United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)
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George Stephenson
English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)
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Henry Villard
United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900)
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John Wanamaker
United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922)
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Aaron Montgomery Ward
United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)
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Frank Winfield Woolworth
United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919)
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Rudolf Wurlitzer
United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914)
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Gustavus Franklin Swift
United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903)
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accountant, comptroller, controller
someone who maintains and audits business accounts
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account executive, account representative, customer's broker, customer's man, registered representative
someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business
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agent, broker, factor
a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
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businessman, man of affairs
a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
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businesswoman
a female businessperson
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enterpriser, entrepreneur
someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
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exporter
a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale)
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importer
someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)
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merchandiser, merchant
a businessperson engaged in retail trade
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shipper
someone who ships goods
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provider, supplier
someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity
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auctioneer
an agent who conducts an auction
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amalgamator
a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies
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arb, arbitrager, arbitrageur
someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential)
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auditor
a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization
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baker
someone who bakes commercially
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baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon
a very wealthy or powerful businessman
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bean counter
an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures
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black marketeer
someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities
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book seller, bookdealer
a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books
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bookkeeper
someone who records the transactions of a business
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butcher, meatman
a retailer of meat
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caterer
someone who provides food and service (as for a party)
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CPA, certified public accountant
an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state
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chartered accountant
a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter
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clothier, haberdasher
a merchant who sells men's clothing
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connection
a supplier (especially of narcotics)
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consigner, consignor
the person who delivers over or commits merchandise
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cost accountant
a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production
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dispenser
a person who dispenses
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distributer, distributor
someone who markets merchandise
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grain merchant
a merchant who deals in food grains
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grocer
a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)
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hatmaker, hatter, milliner, modiste
someone who makes and sells hats
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industrialist
someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise
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general agent, insurance agent, insurance broker, underwriter
an agent who sells insurance
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investment banker, underwriter
a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities
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jeweler, jeweller
someone in the business of selling jewelry
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brothel keeper, madam
a woman who runs a house of prostitution
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oilman
a person who owns or operates oil wells
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operator
someone who owns or operates a business
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owner, proprietor
(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
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poulterer, poultryman
a dealer in poultry and poultry products
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purveyor
someone who supplies provisions (especially food)
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estate agent, house agent, land agent, real estate agent, real estate broker
a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land
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recruiter
someone who supplies members or employees
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retail merchant, retailer
a merchant who sells goods at retail
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rug merchant
a merchant who sells rugs
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salt merchant, salter
someone who makes or deals in salt
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schlockmeister, shlockmeister
(slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise
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marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor
someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
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ship broker
an agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge
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market keeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper, tradesman
a merchant who owns or manages a shop
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small businessman
a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people
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stationer, stationery seller
a merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies
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stockbroker
an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds
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stockist
one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods
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suit
(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
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provisioner, sutler, victualer, victualler
a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army
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syndic
one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions
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syndicator
a businessman who forms a syndicate
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bargainer, dealer, monger, trader
someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold
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transactor
someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations
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travel agent
someone who sells or arranges trips or tours for customers
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merchant-venturer, venturer
a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)
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vintner, wine merchant
someone who sells wine