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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Edward Henry Harriman

United States railway tycoon (1848-1909)

Benjamin Harris

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

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)

Charles Digby Harrod

English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905)

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)

James Jerome Hill

United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)

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)

Collis Potter Huntington

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

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 Baron Marks of Broughton

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

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)

David Sarnoff

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

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)

Sir Clive Marles Sinclair

English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)

Ernest Solvay

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

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)

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

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

agent, broker, factor

a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

businessman, man of affairs

a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)

businesswoman

a female businessperson

enterpriser, entrepreneur

someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it

exporter

a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale)

importer

someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)

merchandiser, merchant

a businessperson engaged in retail trade

shipper

someone who ships goods

provider, supplier

someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity

auctioneer

an agent who conducts an auction

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)

auditor

a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization

baker

someone who bakes commercially

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

a very wealthy or powerful businessman

bean counter

an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures

black marketeer

someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities

book seller, bookdealer

a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books

bookkeeper

someone who records the transactions of a business

butcher, meatman

a retailer of meat

caterer

someone who provides food and service (as for a party)

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

chartered accountant

a British or Canadian accountant who is a member of a professional body that has a royal charter

clothier, haberdasher

a merchant who sells men's clothing

connection

a supplier (especially of narcotics)

consigner, consignor

the person who delivers over or commits merchandise

cost accountant

a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production

dispenser

a person who dispenses

distributer, distributor

someone who markets merchandise

grain merchant

a merchant who deals in food grains

grocer

a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)

hatmaker, hatter, milliner, modiste

someone who makes and sells hats

industrialist

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

general agent, insurance agent, insurance broker, underwriter

an agent who sells insurance

investment banker, underwriter

a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities

jeweler, jeweller

someone in the business of selling jewelry

brothel keeper, madam

a woman who runs a house of prostitution

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

poulterer, poultryman

a dealer in poultry and poultry products

purveyor

someone who supplies provisions (especially food)

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

recruiter

someone who supplies members or employees

retail merchant, retailer

a merchant who sells goods at retail

rug merchant

a merchant who sells rugs

salt merchant, salter

someone who makes or deals in salt

schlockmeister, shlockmeister

(slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise

marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor

someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

ship broker

an agent for the ship owner; obtains cargo and may arrange for its loading or discharge

market keeper, shopkeeper, storekeeper, tradesman

a merchant who owns or manages a shop

small businessman

a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people

stationer, stationery seller

a merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies

stockbroker

an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds

stockist

one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods

suit

(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit

provisioner, sutler, victualer, victualler

a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army

syndic

one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions

syndicator

a businessman who forms a syndicate

bargainer, dealer, monger, trader

someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold

transactor

someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations

travel agent

someone who sells or arranges trips or tours for customers

merchant-venturer, venturer

a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas)

vintner, wine merchant

someone who sells wine

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capitalist

a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)