Famous Entrepreneurs

• Barnum, P. T.

  19th century American huckster

• Bradley, Milton

  Board game pioneer who invented The Game of Life

• Cuffe, Paul

   The richest African American of the early 19th century

• Kaiser, Henry J.

  The shipbuilder who founded Kaiser-Permanente

• Kroc, Ray

  The entrepreneur behind the fast food chain McDonald's

• Marconi, Guglielmo

  Italian pioneer of wireless telegraphy

• Morgan, Garrett

  The inventor of the three-way traffic light

• Musk, Elon

  The rich guy behind Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter

• Strauss, Levi

  The creator of Levi's denim jeans

• T.I.

  Rapper of the 2006 album King

• Vanderbilt, Cornelius

  19th century transport magnate known as "Commodore"

• Wales, Jimmy

  The driving force behind Wikipedia

• Westinghouse, George

  Air brake inventor and Edison's AC rival

See: Index by Occupation