Set out below is an annotated listing of corporate leaders, who are or have been the head of large or successful business enterprises, or who are otherwise well known for their commercial acumen, listed alphabetically by last name. To facilitate reading, only personal names are hyperlinked. Although the persons listed are typically white males, there are of course many notable female corporate leaders who have not yet been included in the list.

Corporate leaders

• Joe Ackermann - Deutsche Bank AG
• William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook- newspaper magnate
• Michael Lee-Chin- Jamaican Investor, chairman of AIC/National Commercial Bank
• Arthur Andersen - Arthur Andersen
• Kunitake Ando - Sony
• John Jacob Astor - Fur trading and real estate
• Percy Barnevik - Investor
• Bernard Baruch - Financier, Investor, Presidential advisor
• Andy Bechtolsheim - Sun Microsystems
• Silvio Berlusconi - Italian media, Prime Minister of Italy
• Jeff Bezos - Amazon.com
• William Boeing - Boeing, Aircrafts
• Matthew Boulton - Metal products
• Richard Branson - Virgin Group
• Samuel Bronfman - Distilling
• Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway
• Asa Candler - Coca-Cola
• Michael Capellas - Compaq, Worldcom
• Andrew Carnegie - American Steel
• Samuel Cunard - Passenger ships
• Michael Dell - Dell, Inc.
• John Deere - John Deere
• Jamie Dimon - JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Financial Services
• Walt Disney - Disney
• Larry Ellison - Oracle Corporation
• Friedrich Engels - Textiles
• Lars Magnus Ericsson - Ericsson
• Pablo Escobar - Cocaine distribution
• Carly Fiorina - Hewlett-Packard
• Henry Ford - Ford Motor Company
• Bill Gates - Microsoft
• Lou Gerstner - IBM
• J. P. Getty - Getty Oil
• King C. Gillette - Gillette Razors
• Andrew Gould - Schlumberger
• Andy Grove - Intel
• William Randolph Hearst - Media magnate
• Conrad Hilton - Hilton Hotel
• Soichiro Honda - Honda
• Wayne Huizenga - Blockbuster
• Howard Hughes - Hughes Aircraft
• H. L. Hunt - Oil
• Lee Iacocca - Chrysler
• Jeff Immelt - General Electric
• Yotaro Isawaki - Mitsubishi
• Steve Jobs - Apple Computer
• Michael Johns - Gentiva Health Services
• Steve Jurvetson - Hotmail
• Herb Kelleher - Southwest Airlines
• Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. - Investor
• Richard Kovacevich - CEO of Wells Fargo
• Denis Kozlowski - Tyco International
• Sanjay Kumar - Computer Associates
• Henry Kravis - Financier
• Ray Kroc - McDonalds
• Alfred Krupp - Krupp
• John Law - Banking
• Jacques-Donatien Le Ray - Ship building
• Daniel Ludwig - Cargo ship building
• Scott McNealy - Sun Microsystems
• Andrew Mellon - Banking, steel, oil, ship building
• Michael Milken - High-Yield Bonds, Financier, Philanthropist
• John Pierpont Morgan - J. P. Morgan Bank
• Akio Morita - Sony
• Rupert Murdoch - News Corporation
• Jorma Ollila - Nokia
• Pierre Omidyar - eBay
• Aristotle Onassis - Shipping
• Tony O'Reilly - INM
• Lindsay Owen-Jones - L'Oreal, cosmetics
• Kerry Packer - Australian media
• John S. Pemberton - Coca-Cola
• Ross Perot - Electronic Data Systems
• Paul Julius Baron von Reuter - Reuters
• Cecil Rhodes - mining, etc
• John D. Rockefeller - Standard Oil
• Anita Roddick - Body Shop
• Mayer Amschel Rothschild - Banking
• David Sarnoff - RCA
• John Sculley - Apple Computer
• Alfred Sloan - G.M.
• Masayoshi Son - Softbank
• Martha Stewart - Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
• Calisto Tanzi - Parmalat
• E. P. Taylor - Argus Corrporation, Windfields Farm
• Cornelius Vanderbilt - Shipping
• William Henry Vanderbilt - Shipping, railroads
• Peter Wallenberg - Investor AB, Investor
• Sam Walton - Walmart
• John Wanamaker - Wanamaker Department Stores
• Charles Wang - Computer Associates
• Sandy Weill - Citigroup, Financial Services
• Jack Welch - G.E.
• Eli Whitney - American system of manufacturing
• Jerry Yang - Yahoo!

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