Du Jiangtao
Billionaire, chemicals
$2.54B
Adi Godrej living
Billionaire, industrialist, businessman, consumer goods, chairman of the Godrej Group
1942- (83)
Adolf Merckle
Billionaire heir from his Bohemian grandfather, founder of Phoenix Pharmahandel, industrialist for Volkswagen, investor in HeidelbergCement, Ratiopharm, entrepreneur, committed suicide after the 2008 Financial Crisis
1934-2009 (75)
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Ahmet Calik living
Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal living
billionaire businessman, industrialist aka Prince Alwaleed, investor, financier, philanthropist, member of Saudi royal family
1955- (70)
Alan Zekelman
Steel tycoon, industrialist with Zekelman Industries (JMC Steel Group), his father founded Atlas Tube in 1984 (sold to Carlyle Group in 2006)
Albert Berner living
Alfred Beit
Conservative Party politician, industrialist, mining magnate aka The Randlords, co-financier of Rhodesia with Cecil Rhodes, Witwatersrand gold mining magnate, co-founder of De Beers diamonds in Kimberley, Rhodesia (South Africa), art collector, philanthropist
1853-1906 (53)
Alfredo DeGasperis
Industrialist laying pipes for Cadillac Development Corp., co-founder of ConDrain in 1954
Aloke Lohia living
Aloys Wobben living
Americo Amorim living
Andrei Bokarev living
Andrew Currie living
Andrey Melnichenko living
Russian oligarch, industrialist entrepreneur, founder of SUEK (Siberian Coal Energy), MDM Bank, EuroChem Group fertilizers, billionaire investor, financier, philanthropist
1972- (53)
Angela Bennett living
Billionaire heiress, mining industrialist, businesswoman
1945- (80)
Angelo DeGasperis
Industrialist laying pipes for Cadillac Development Corp., co-founder of ConDrain in 1954
Anil Rai Gupta living
Anita Zucker living
Antonio DeGasperis
Industrialist laying pipes for Cadillac Development Corp., co-founder of ConDrain in 1954
Antonio Del Valle Ruiz living
Ao Xiaoqiang living
Arnold Weinstock
industrialist, General Electric Company (GEC)
1924-2002 (78)
Ashwin Dani living
August Thyssen
Industrialist, financier for the House of Dutch Orange-Nassau, founder of Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart
F. Augustus Heinze
Industrialist during the Gilded Age, copper mining in Butte (Montana), one of the three Copper Kings
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W. Averell Harriman
Democratic politician, US governor of New York, US presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, businessman, son of E.H. Harriman, robber baron, industrialist in Russia during the Bolchevik revolution
Aziz Akhannouch living
Barry Zekelman
Billionaire Industrialist, chairman, president and CEO of Zekelman Industries (JMC Steel Group) manufacturer of steel pipes, philanthropist
Bejamin Goodrich
Founder of the B.F. Goodrich Company (Raytheon/Michelin), tires/tyres, industrialist
Ben Guggenheim
Industrialist, miner, mining magnate, businessman, died on the Titanic
Benu Gopal Bangur living
Beny Steinmetz living
Bernardo Matte living
Bulat Utemuratov living
Cai Xiaoru living
Camillo Crociani
Industrialist, founder of Vitrociset aerospace that sold to Leonardo
Catherine Lozick living
Cecil Rhodes
Prime Minister of Cape Colony (Transvaal Republic) from 1890-1896, statesman aka Colossus of Africa, co-founder of Rhodesia (modern day Zimbabwe and Zambia) with Sir Alfred Beit, industrialist, mining mogul, owner of De Beers diamond mines in South Africa, pioneer of the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford University, co-founder of the British South Africa Company, author of Confession of Faith
1853-1902 (49)
Chang-Woo Han living
Charles Koch living
the Koch brothers are billionaire industrialists, co-founder of Koch Industries, author of Good Profit, Believe in People, co-founder of the modern Tea Party movement with his brother David Koch
1935- (90)
Charles M. Schwab
Industrialist aka Charles Schwab, steel magnate, started as a laborer at Edgar Thomson Steel Works (for Andrew Carnegie), president of Carnegie Steel, US Steel, and then CEO of Bethlehem Steel
1862-1939 (77)
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Chen Jianhua living
Cheung Yan living
Christopher Cline living
Chu Jinfu living
Collis Huntington
Industrialist, merchant of mining supplies during the Gold Rush, one of the Big Four railroad tycoon, Central Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific and C&O
Cord Prinzhorn living
Billionaire, papermills, packaging, CEO of Prinzhorn Group (W. Hamburger)
1943- (82)
prinzhorn-holding.com
Cui Genliang living
Cyrus McCormick
Farmer, industrialist, inventor of the mechanical reaper for harvesting crops, invented the grain harvester that is now Navistar, founder of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company in 1902
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Daniel Kretinsky living
David Koch
the Koch brothers are billionaire industrialists, co-founder of Koch Industries, entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist, political activist investor, chemical engineer, co-founder of the modern Tea Party movement with his brother Charles Koch
1940-2019 (79)
Dennis Washington
billionaire, industrialist, owner of Washington Companies, Seaspan Marine, yacht owner of Attessa IV
Devendra Jain living
Dhirubhai Ambani
Billionaire, polyesters, co-founder of Reliance Industries (Reliance Group)
Dieter Schnabel living
Dmitry Mazepin living
Russian oligarch, billionaire, businessman, chairman of Uralchem, 20% owner of Uralkali and former sports team owner of F1 racing team, his son Nikita Mazepin was a driver with Mick Schumacher on the Haas F1 racing which Uralkali was an investor
1968- (57)
Dou Zhenggang living
Edward A. Deeds
Industrialist, co-founder of Delco (Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co.)
Éleuthère Irénée (E.I.) du Pont
Industrialist, chemist, founder of E. I. du Pont de Nemours, his gunpowder supplied the Union Army in American Civil War and the US military in the world wars
1771-1834 (63)
britannica.com
Emanuella Barilla living
Enrico Piaggio
Industrialist, inventor of the Vespa scooter
piaggio.com
Ernest Oppenheimer
mining entrepreneur, diamonds industrialist aka The Randlords, founder of Anglo American in South Africa, gold and diamonds magnate who had a controlling interest in De Beers, financier, philanthropist, art collector
1880-1957 (77)
Feng Hailiang living
Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone living
billionaire industrialist, cement, real estate developer, businessman, owner of Caltagirone S.p.A.
1943- (82)
Fred Fisher
Fisher Body was a carriage manufacturer for GM, industrialist
Fritz Thyssen
Founder of Union Banking Corporation (UBC), coal mining, steel producer in Germany (Thyssen AG), banker at Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), author of I Paid Hitler
Gavril Yushvaev living
Gina Rinehart living
Mining oligarch, billionaire heiress, chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting
1954- (71)
Guido Barilla living
Guma Aguiar
Oil and gas tycoon, energy industrialist, philanthropist, yacht owner
1977-2015 (38)
Gustav Krupp
Steel magnate, businessman, later formed ThyssenKrupp family dynasty of elevator lifts
Hannah Widener
Philanthropist, Widener University in Chester, PA and Widener Library at Harvard University, the wife of industrialist Peter Widener
Hans Melchers living
Hans "Heini" von Thyssen
Billionaire industrialist, massive fine art collector, industrialist, son of Heinrich Thyssen, his grandfather was August Thyssen, owner of Villa Favorita on Lake Lugano
1921-2002 (81)
Harry Oppenheimer
gold and diamonds magnate, chairman of De Beers & Anglo American, industrialist, businessman, author of The Fading Commonwealth
jonathanball.co.za
Heinrich Thyssen
Entrepreneur, art collector, industrialist, his father August Thyssen founded the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart (Bank of Trade and Shipping) who financed the royals of Dutch Orange-Nassau
1875-1947 (72)
Henry Crown
industrialist, philanthropist, founder of Material Service Corporation in 1919 which merged with General Dynamics in 1959
1896-1990 (94)
Henry Ford
Industrialist who popularized the 40-hour workweek in 1926, car maker, inventor, pioneer of the assembly line for automotive plants, founder of Ford Motor Company, ant
Henry J. Kaiser
Industrialist, serial entrepreneur, co-founder of Kaiser Permanente, founder of Kasier Aluminum, Kaiser Steel and hundreds of companies including Kaiser Cement and Gypsum to supply for the Shasta Dam, father of American shipbuilding
1882-1967 (85)
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Henry Whitney
Industrialist, founder of West End Street Railway and Dominion Coal, Iron & Steel companies
Hideyuki Busujima living
Huo Qinghua living
Ian Wood living
Irénée du Pont
Businessman, president of the DuPont Chemical Company, industrialist, head of the DuPont family trust
1876-1963 (87)
J. Arthur Rank
Methodist flour miller, industrialist, founder of the Rank Organisation (1937), founder of the Rank Foundation (J Arthur Rank Group Charity) in 1953
1888-1972 (84)
rankfoundation.com
J. Paul Getty
Industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company in 1942, grandson of George Getty
1892-1976 (84)
Jacques Merceron-Vicat living
James Darcy Lever
industrialist aka James Lever, co-founder of Lever Brothers (1885) that later became Unilever in 1925, younger brother of William Hesketh Lever (or simply William Lever)
1854-1910 (56)
James Dyson living
Billionaire inventor, industrialist, founder and chairman of Dyson vacuums, founder of Dyson Farming in 2013, founder of James Dyson Foundation in 2002
1947- (78)
dyson.com
James Hill
Industrialist, railroad magnate, expanded railways to U.S. Northwest, takeover of the SP&P turned in to the Great Northern Railway
1838-1916 (78)
biography.com
James Rand Jr.
Manufacturer of business machines at Remington Rand, UNIVAC mainframes
Jiang Weiping living
Jim Fleck living
Industrialist, businessman, founder of Fleck Manufacturing (NOMA Industries) lighting and electrical supplies
1931- (94)
Jim Justice II living
Johan H. Andresen Jr. living
Billionaire, industrialist, chairman of Ferd since 2012, former CEO of Ferd from 2008-2012
1961- (64)
Johannes Kaercher living
John Barran
Liberal Party politician, industrialist, pawnbroker, clothing manufacturer, mens clothier, retailer, philanthropist, Roundhay Park
1821-1905 (84)
thoresby.org.uk
John Deere
blacksmith, industrialist, manufacturer of John Deere (1804) farm tractors, inventor of the self-cleaning steel plough (steel plow)
John Farber living
John Jacob Astor
Businessman, merchant, opium smuggler, fur trader, founder of The American Fur Company in 1808, Pacific Fur Company, real estate mogul, art collector, fur trader until 1830 with a fur trading post on the Missouri River, opium smuggler to China, musical instruments maker/manufacturer, industrialist, one of the first multi-millionaires in the United States
1763-1848 (85)
John Reece living
John Roebuck
bankrupt inventor, industrialist of sulphuric acid, founder of Carron Phoenix
1718-1794 (76)
Jon Huntsman, Sr. living
Kirill Shamalov living
Koo Bon-Moo living
Billionaire, electronics, chemicals, household products
1945- (80)
Lachhman Das Mittal living
Laurence Graff living
LC Payseur
Industrialist, wealthy investor aka Lewis Cass Payseur, son of Daniel Payseur who believe could be a descendant of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
1850-1939 (89)
Lee Ho-Jin living
Billionaire, petrochemicals, finance, media, electronics
1962- (63)
Len Blavatnik living
Billionaire oligarch, director at Rusal, investor at Sual Partners, businessman, founder and chairman of Access Industries, richest man in the UK, owner of Texas-based LyondellBasell manufacturer of plastics & chemicals, Calpine gas-fired power plants
1957- (68)
Léon Breitling
luxury watchmaker, industrialist, watches, timepieces, founder of Breitling (1884)
Lev Kvetnoi living
Li Hongxin living
Li Shuirong living
Liao Long-shing living
Lin Su-hon living
Liu Ming Chung living
Liu Xuejing living
Louis Marx
Toymaker, businessman, manufacturer of toys, Louis Marx and Company was the largest toy manufacturer in the world in the 1950s
1896-1982 (86)
Low Tuck Kwong living
Luca Barilla living
Ma Yunsheng living
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher living
Mansā Mūsā I of Mali
9th ruler of the Malian empire of West Africa from 1312-1337, founder of Sankoré Madrasa mosques (schools) in Timbuktu, industrialist, salt trader, gold miner, house of Keita dynasty, possibly the richest person of their time
1280-1337 (57)
worldhistory.org
Marcus Daly
Entrepreneur, industrialist during the Gilded Age, mining, one of the three Copper Kings