List of entrepreneurs This is a list of entrepreneurs by century. An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and/or initiative. This list includes notable entrepreneurs.17th-century entrepreneurs Regina Basilier , Swedish-German banker, trader and investor Birgitta Durell , Dutch-Swedish manufactor-industrialist Louis De Geer , Walloon-born Dutch-Swedish businessman and industrialist; active mainly in the Dutch Republic and Sweden Isaac Le Maire , Walloon-born Dutch businessman and investor; active mainly in the Dutch Republic Johan Palmstruch , Latvian-born Dutch-Swedish businessman, investor, and financial innovator; active mainly in the Dutch Republic and Sweden Pierre-Paul Riquet , French entrepreneur, creator of the Canal du Midi 18th-century entrepreneurs Anna Elisabeth Baer 1878-1955, Finland Samuel Crompton 1753-1827, Great Britain Caroline Gother 1761-1836, Sweden Johns Hopkins 1795-1873, USA Anna Lohe 1654-1731, Sweden Thomas Newcomen 1664-1729, Great Britain Charlotta Richardy 1751-1831, Sweden Brigitta Sahlgren 1694-1771, Sweden James Watt 1736-1819, Great Britain19th-century entrepreneurs John Jacob Astor , USA Augusta Björkenstam , Sweden Andrew Carnegie , Pittsburgh, USA and Scotland James Buchanan Duke , USA Thomas Alva Edison , USA Charles T. Hinde, USA Biddy Mason , California, USA J. P. Morgan, USA Antoinette Nording , Sweden John D. Rockefeller, USA Joseph Seligman , USA Eugene Sharrer , Nyasaland Claus Spreckels , Germany Leland Stanford , California, USA Levi Strauss , USA/Germany Jamsetji Tata , India Nikola Tesla , USA, Yugoslavia Alessandro Torlonia , Italy Richard Trevithick , Great Britain Cornelius Vanderbilt , USA20th-century entrepreneurs Agha Hasan Abedi , Pakistan Paul Allen , USA Dhirubhai Ambani , India Mary Kay Ash , USA Bang Si-hyuk , South Korea Otto Beisheim , Germany William Boeing , USA Richard Branson , UK Coco Chanel , France Michael Dell , USA Richard M. DeVos, Sr., USA Walt Disney , USA Larry Ellison , USA Enzo Ferrari , Italy Henry Ford , USA Bill Gates USA Henry Hu , Hong Kong Howard Hughes , USA Steve Jobs , USA Dean Kamen , USA Ingvar Kamprad , Sweden Vinod Khosla , USA Ferruccio Lamborghini , Italy Estée Lauder , USA Jorge Loring Martinez , Spain Vijay Mallya , India Terry Matthews , Canada Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw , India Vince McMahon , USA Sunil Mittal , India N. R. Narayana Murthy , India Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu , Nigeria Anita Roddick , UK Michael J. Saylor, USA Magnús Scheving , Iceland Carlos Slim , Mexico Alan Sugar , UK J. R. D. Tata, France/India Donald Trump , USA Ted Turner , USA Madam C.J. Walker, USA Sam M. Walton, US Oprah Winfrey , USA Steve Wozniak , USA21st-century entrepreneurs Annisul Huq Brian Acton, USA Bhavish Aggarwal , India Charles T. Akre, USA Qais Al Khonji , Oman Folorunso Alakija , Nigeria Rod Aldridge , UK Pierre Andurand , France Sachin Bansal , India Eike Batista , Brazil Steve Baxter , Australia David Benaron , USA Jeff Bezos , USA Joe Blackman , UK/USA Ryan Blair , USA Sara Blakely , USA Hernán Botbol , Argentina Sergey Brin , USA Tory Burch , USA Malcolm CasSelle , USA/China Sean Combs , USA Nancy Cruickshank , UK Mark Cuban , USA Nick D'Aloisio , UK Aliko Dangote , Nigeria Jack Dorsey , USA Helmy Eltoukhy , USA Shawn Fanning , USA Jon Fisher , USA Vishal Gondal, India Reid Hoffman , USA Drew Houston, USA Arianna Huffington , USA Steve Huffman , USA Jessica Huie , UK Mohammed Ibrahim , Sudan Daymond John , USA Elle Kaplan , USA David Karp , USA Sal Khan , USA Jan Koum , USA Jeremy Levitt , Australia Ana Maiques , Spain Fadi Makki , Middle East Strive Masiyiwa , Zimbabwe Rudy A. Mazzocchi, USA Javier Moll , Spain/Australia Dave Morin , USA Ilya Movshovich , Russia/USA Rupert Murdoch , UK/USA Elon Musk , USA/South Africa Andrew Nisbet , UK Phiwa Nkambule , South Africa Alexis Ohanian , USA Larry Page , USA Sean Parker , USA Melanie Perkins , Australia Stefano Pessina , Italy Michelle Phan , USA Manny Phesto , USA Bhargav Sri Prakash , USA/India Azim Premji , India Kelsey Ramsden , Canada Burton Rocks , USA Kevin Rose , USA Vijay Shekhar Sharma , India Param Singh , UK Lane Sutton , USA Kevin Systrom , USA Rodrigo Teijeiro , Argentina/Brazil Wang Jianlin , China Emily Weiss , USA Anne Wojcicki , USA Wu Yajun , China Malala Yousafzai , Pakistan Mark Zuckerberg , USA Jack Ma , China Tânia Tomé , Mozambique
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