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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)

Edward Henry Harriman

United States railway tycoon (1848-1909)

James Jerome Hill

United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)

Collis Potter Huntington

United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)

First Baron Marks of Broughton

English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)

David Sarnoff

United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971)

Leland Stanford

United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)

George Stephenson

English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)

Henry Villard

United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900)

John Wanamaker

United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922)

Aaron Montgomery Ward

United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)

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)

Rudolf Wurlitzer

United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914)

William Maxwell Aitken

British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)

Andrew Carnegie

United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)

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)

Glenn Hammond Curtiss

United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930)

Gottlieb Daimler

German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900)

John Deere

United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)

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)

Henry Ford

United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)

Edsel Bryant Ford

son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)

Henry Ford II

grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)

Henry Clay Frick

United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)

King Camp Gilette

United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932)

Meyer Guggenheim

United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905)

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth

British newspaper publisher (1865-1922)

Benjamin Harris

publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713)

William Randolph Hearst

United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951)

Henry John Heinz

United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)

William Henry Hoover

United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)

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)

Friedrich Krupp

German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826)

Edwin Herbert Land

United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)

First Viscount Nuffield

British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)

Wilhelm von Opel

German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948)

Elisha Graves Otis

United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)

Robert Owen

Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)

Sir Frederick Handley Page

English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)

Joseph Pulitzer

United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911)

John Davison Rockefeller

United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)

James Edmund Scripps

United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908)

Edward Wyllis Scripps

United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926)

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky

United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972)

Ernest Solvay

Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922)

types:

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amalgamator

a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies

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)

baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon

a very wealthy or powerful businessman

industrialist

someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise

oilman

a person who owns or operates oil wells

operator

someone who owns or operates a business

owner, proprietor

(law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business

small businessman

a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people

suit

(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit

syndicator

a businessman who forms a syndicate

transactor

someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations

bookseller

the proprietor of a bookstore

concessionaire, concessioner

someone who holds or operates a concession

lease giver, lessor

someone who grants a lease

letter

owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire

oil tycoon

a powerful person in the oil business

patron

the proprietor of an inn

proprietress

a woman proprietor

newspaper publisher, publisher

the proprietor of a newspaper

renter

an owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person

restauranter, restaurateur

the proprietor of a restaurant

saloon keeper

the proprietor of a saloon

supermarketeer, supermarketer

an operator of a supermarket

timberman

an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering

wildcatter

an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field

type of:

bourgeois, businessperson

a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise