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Industrialists and Business Magnates

People whose cited article calls them an industrialist, business magnate, tycoon or oligarch, the owners and builders of large industrial and commercial empires in steel, oil, shipping, conglomerates, mining and manufacturing. A person belongs here when the article uses one of these words for them. It excludes people the article describes mainly as a founder, an executive, an inventor or an investor. Many of these figures also gave away large parts of their fortunes, and the article for each person says which industry their empire was built on.

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Adriano Olivetti

Founder and Executive
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Andrew Carnegie

Founder and Executive
6 links

Armand Peugeot

Founder and Executive
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Arnold Peter Moller

Founder and Executive
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Arnold von Siemens

Founder and Executive
4 links

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Founder and Executive
1 link

Boris Berezovsky (businessman)

Founder and Executive

Carlo De Benedetti

Founder and Executive
6 links

Carlos Slim

Founder and Executive
4 links

Cecil Rhodes

Founder and Executive
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Dieter Schwarz

Founder and Executive
4 links

Edward Andrew Deeds

Founder and Executive
2 links

Franz Saurer

Founder and Executive
2 links

Frederick Handley Page

Founder and Executive
3 links

Frederick Rentschler

Founder and Executive
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Friedrich Weyerhäuser

Founder and Executive
5 links

Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche

Founder and Executive
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Georg Wilhelm von Siemens

Founder and Executive
3 links

Harald Quandt

Founder and Executive
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Henry Clay Frick

Founder and Executive
5 links

Henry Ford

Founder and Executive
6 links

Herbert Quandt

Founder and Executive
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Jamsetji Tata

Founder and Executive
5 links

Joseph Portelli

Founder and Executive
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Konosuke Matsushita

Founder and Executive
4 links

Li Ka-shing

Founder and Executive
3 links

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller

Founder and Executive
3 links

Marcel Dassault

Founder and Executive
4 links

Masuda Takashi

Founder and Executive
4 links

Owen D. Young

Founder and Executive
2 links

Pierre Bergé

Founder and Executive
2 links

Ratan Tata

Founder and Executive
4 links

Richard Branson

Founder and Executive
3 links

Robert Kuok

Founder and Executive
2 links

Rupert Murdoch

Founder and Executive
6 links

Sam Walton

Founder and Executive
2 links

Sir Edward Wheewall Holden

Founder and Executive
3 links

Sir William Wright

Founder and Executive
2 links

Stefan Quandt

Founder and Executive
1 link

Toshio Iue

Founder and Executive
4 links

Vincent Bendix

Founder and Executive
3 links
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Henry Clay Frick (Wikipedia)
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was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron
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Herbert Quandt (Wikipedia)
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was a German industrialist
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Rupert Murdoch (Wikipedia)
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business magnate, investor and media mogul
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Toshio Iue (Wikipedia)
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was a Japanese inventor and industrialist
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Harald Quandt (Wikipedia)
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was a German industrialist
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Stefan Quandt (Wikipedia)
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engineer and industrialist
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Marcel Dassault (Wikipedia)
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was a French engineer and industrialist who spent his career in aircraft manufacturing
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Friedrich Weyerhäuser (Wikipedia)
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was a German-American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which owns sawmills, paper factories, and other business enterprises as well as large areas of forested land in the northern United States
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Dieter Schwarz (Wikipedia)
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is a German billionaire businessman, and owner of the Schwarz-Gruppe
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Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (Wikipedia)
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was a Danish shipping magnate
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Pierre Bergé (Wikipedia)
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was a French industrialist and patron
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Carlo De Benedetti (Wikipedia)
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is an Italian industrialist, engineer, and publisher
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Georg Wilhelm von Siemens (Wikipedia)
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was a German telecommunications industrialist of the Siemens family
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Arnold von Siemens (Wikipedia)
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was a German telecommunications industrialist of the Siemens family, one of the successors on his family's company Siemens
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Masuda Takashi (Wikipedia)
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was a Japanese industrialist, investor, and art collector
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Bidzina Ivanishvili (Wikipedia)
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is a Georgian businessman, politician and oligarch
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Wikipedia, Henry Ford
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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863, April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate.
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Wikipedia, Andrew Carnegie
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Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835, August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.
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Wikipedia, Arnold Peter Moller
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Møller, was a Danish shipping magnate and businessman who was the founder of the A.P.
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Carlos Slim (Wikipedia)
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Carlos Slim Helú (Spanish: [ˈkaɾlos esˈlin eˈlu, - esˈlim -]; born 28 January 1940) is a Mexican business oligarch, investor and philanthropist.
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Li Ka-shing (Wikipedia)
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Sir Ka-shing Li (Chinese: 李嘉誠; born 29 July 1928) is a Hong Kong tycoon and philanthropist.
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Jamsetji Tata (Wikipedia)
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Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (3 March 1839-19 May 1904) was an Indian industrialist, philanthropist and patriarch of the Tata family who founded the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate.
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Ratan Tata (Wikipedia)
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Ratan Naval Tata (28 December 1937-9 October 2024) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist.
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Robert Kuok - Wikipedia
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Robert Kuok Hock Nien, better known as Robert Kuok, (born 6 October 1923) is a Malaysian business magnate, investor and philanthropist based in Hong Kong since 1973.
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Wikipedia, Kōnosuke Matsushita
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Kōnosuke Matsushita (松下 幸之助, Matsushita Kōnosuke; 27 November 1894-27 April 1989) was a Japanese industrialist who founded Panasonic, the largest Japanese consumer electronics company.
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Wikipedia, Sam Walton
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Samuel Moore Walton (March 29, 1918, April 5, 1992) was an American business magnate, philanthropist, and military veteran best known for co-founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1962 and 1983 respectively.
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Wikipedia, Richard Branson
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Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate who co-founded the Virgin Group in 1970, and, as of 2016, controlled five companies.
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Wikipedia, Boris Berezovsky (businessman)
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Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Russian: Борис Абрамович Березовский, Hebrew: בוריס ברזובסקי; 23 January 1946-23 March 2013), also known as Platon Elenin, was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician.
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Wikipedia, Cecil Rhodes
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Cecil John Rhodes ( SES-əl ROHDZ; 5 July 1853-26 March 1902) was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
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Wikipedia, Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche
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Friedrich "Fritz" Hoffmann-La Roche respectively Hoffmann-von der Mühll (24 October 1868-18 April 1920) was a Swiss industrialist and businessman who founded the pharmaceutical concern F.
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Wikipedia: Frederick Handley Page
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Sir Frederick Handley Page (15 November 1885-21 April 1962) was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber.
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Wikipedia: Edward Holden
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Sir Edward Wheewall Holden (14 August 1885-17 June 1947) was an Australian industrialist who took his family carriage and saddlery business, Holden & Frost, into a partnership with General Motors to create Australia's first automobile manufacturer, General Motors-Holden's Ltd.
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Wikipedia: Armand Peugeot
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Armand Peugeot (French: [aʁmɑ̃ pøʒo]; 18 February 1849-4 February 1915) was a French industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the man who transformed Peugeot into a manufacturer of bicycles and, later, of automobiles.
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Wikipedia: Frederick Rentschler
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Frederick Brant Rentschler (November 8, 1887, April 25, 1956) was an American aircraft engine designer, aviation engineer, industrialist, and the founder of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft.
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Wikipedia: Edward Andrew Deeds
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Edward Andrew Deeds (March 12, 1874, July 1, 1960) was an American engineer, inventor and industrialist prominent in the Dayton, Ohio, area.
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Wikipedia: Franz Saurer
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Franz Saurer (October 3, 1806, November 28, 1882) was a German-born Swiss industrialist who founded the company which ultimately became the Adolph Saurer concern.
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Vincent Hugo Bendix (Wikipedia)
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Vincent Hugo Bendix (August 12, 1881, March 27, 1945) was an American inventor and industrialist.
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Wikipedia: Owen D. Young
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Young (October 27, 1874, July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the Reparation Commission.
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Wikipedia: Adriano Olivetti
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Adriano Olivetti (11 April 1901-27 February 1960) was an Italian engineer, entrepreneur, politician, and industrialist.
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Wikipedia, Joseph Portelli
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Joseph Portelli (born 21 May 1977 in Canada) is a Maltese entrepreneur and real estate developer.
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Wikipedia: William Wright (businessman)
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Outside politics, Wright took over the family business, moving it into the construction of buses, a process which saw it become the Wright Group, with Wrightbus as its best-known subsidiary.
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