Famous Entrepreneurs
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[edit] Famous entrepreneurs
Famous American entrepreneurs include:
- Christopher Gardner (stock brokerage)
- Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield (Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream)
- Michael Dell (computer retail)
- Andrew Carnegie (steel)
- Jeff Bezos (retail)
- Bill Gates (software)
- Sergey Brin and Larry Page (search engines)
- Tom Carvel (founded Carvel Brand Ice Cream and was the first person to use franchising as a business model)
- Barron Collier (advertising)
- Larry Ellison (database systems)
- George Eastman (photography)
- Thomas Edison (electro-mechanics)
- Henry Ford (automobiles)
- Sylvan Goldman (shopping carts)
- Milton S. Hershey (confections)
- Ray Kroc (fast food restaurants)
- Steve Jobs (computer hardware, software)
- Scott A. Jones (voicemail, ChaCha search engine)
- Estee Lauder (cosmetics)
- J. Pierpont Morgan (banking)
- Elisha Otis (elevators)
- Larry Page (search engines)
- Elmer Sperry (avionics)
- John D. Rockefeller (oil)
- J.R. Simplot (agriculture)
- Donald Trump (Real estate)
- Ted Turner (media)
- Sam Walton (department stores)
- Thomas J. Watson Sr. (computers)
- Richard DeVos & Jay Van Andel (marketing)
- Li Ka Shing (manufacturing and telecommunications turned conglomerate)
- Howard Schultz (Starbucks Coffee)
- Reed Hastings (online DVD rentals)
- Russell Simmons (media)
- Mark Cuban (e-commerce, HDTV, sports)
- Martha Stewart (media)
- Oprah Winfrey (media)
Famous Canadian entrepreneurs include:
Famous Australian entrepreneurs include
- Dick Smith (electronics).
- Gerry Harvey (auction house turned to homewares and electronics retailer)
- Frank Lowy (shopping centre real estate)
Famous British entrepreneurs include:
- Richard Branson (travel and media)
- James Dyson (home appliances)
- Alan Sugar (computers).
Famous French entrepreneurs include Francis Bouygues and Bernard Arnault.
Famous German entrepreneurs include Werner von Siemens and Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
Famous Greek entrepreneurs include Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
Famous Swedish entrepreneurs include Ingvar Kamprad (home furnishing).
Famous South African entrepreneurs include Mark Shuttleworth.
Famous Indian entrepreneurs include Rajat Gupta, Vinod Khosla, Kanwal Rekhi, Dr.Yunus Langha and many more who contributed to silicon valley's entrepreneur revolution. Dhirubhai Ambani, Narayana Murthy, Azim Premji are among those who contributed to Indian entrepreneur revolution.
Famous Asian entrepreneurs include Akio Morita, Soichiro Honda, Eiji Toyoda and many more contributed to consumer electronics and transportation industry.
