Top 50 Entrepreneurs In the World (Biography)

1) Bill Gates  95.00%

William Henry "Bill" Gates III born on October 28^th, 1955 (age 58) at Seattle, Washington, United States. He is an American entrepreneurship, philanthropist, investor, computer programming and inventor. Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft. According to Bloomberg, he is on the top of his league again as the richest man in the world with a personal net worth of $72.2 billion. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

2) Steve Jobs 91.10%

Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was an American entrepreneur marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, transforming “one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios. He became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC’s mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, a year later, the Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the LaserWriter, one of the first widely available laser printers, to the market.

http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805#awesm=~oDFLIVLt7vvxDW

3) Gordon Moore 88.00%

Gordon Earle Moore born January 3, 1929 at San Francisco, California. He is an American entrepreneur and co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation. On 1987, he officially become the CEO of Intel. He became well-known after writing a theory call “Moore Law” and he devotes most of his time concentrating on philanthropic work after resigning from Intel in 1998. His personal wealth is estimated around $5.3 billion in 2014. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore

4) Richard branson 87.10%

Richard Branson was born in Blackheath, London 18 July 1950. His father was a barrister. Branson attended Scaitcliffe School and later Stowe school. Suffering from dyslexia, Branson did not excel at studies; he was more interested in extra curricular activities, such as football and cricket. At the age of 15, he had started to try his first business ventures, which included trying to grow trees and another raising budgerigars. Richard Branson is an entrepreneur and businessman, who founded the Virgin group of more than 400 companies. The Virgin group grew from a small record shop he founded in 1972, to become a major multinational company including interests in transport, media, and entertainment. Richard Branson is also a flamboyant character and has taken part in a number of gruelling adventure challenges, such as sailing across the Atlantic and taking part in round the world hot air balloon journeys.

http://www.biography.com/people/richard-branson-9224520#awesm=~oDFKcymu58xuFu

5) MarkZuckerberg" 86.00%

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg born May 14, 1984 at White Plains, New York, U.S. He is an Internet entrepreneur and become popular with his social networking website call “Facebook”. On April 2013, Zuckerberg he officially become CEO of Facebook, Inc. Zuckerberg was well- known as “One Dollar Salary” because his annual base falls only $1 per year and his personal wealth is estimated around $25.3 billion in 2014. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

6) Charles E. Culpepper 86.00%

Charles Emory Culpeper is the founder of Coca-cola Bottling Company. The main office is located at New York. Charles E. Culpaper was born in 11 May 1874 at Gordon Co. Georgia. He was not finished his high school. He work as a salesman in Philadelphia and had been transfer to the New York. He had establish the Charles E. Culpaper foundation in December 1940. He married with Daphne Seybolt  in 1925. His company which is Coca-cola bottling Company is still work until now and known well over the world. He was died in 1940 when he was 65 years old. For more info: http://gen.culpepper.com/ss/p34406.htm

7) Lee Byung-Chul 85.58%

Lee Byung-chul (February 12, 1910 Uiryeong, Gyeongsangnam-do – November 19, 1987 Seoul) was the founder of the Samsung Group and one of South Korea's most successful businessmen. Upon the early death of his father, he used his inheritance to open a rice mill in his home town of Gyeongnam. That endeavor was not especially successful so he established a trucking business in Daegu on March 1, 1938, which he named Samsung Trading Co, the forerunner to Samsung.Samsung means "Three Stars" which explains the initial corporate logos. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Byung-chul

8) Henry Ford 85.00%

Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 near Dearborn, Michigan. In 1908, Henry Ford was created the Ford Model T car and he went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which been revolutionized the industry. Therefore, Henry Ford sold millions of cars and he became a world-famous company head. Even though the company had lost its market dominance but it had a lasting impact on other technological development and U.S. infrastructure. For more info: http://www.biography.com/people/henry-ford-9298747#awesm=~oDEGrstc3SmAd7

9) Conrad Hilton 84.87%

Conrad Nicholson Hilton was an American hotelier and the founder of the Hilton Hotels chain. Hilton developed his entrepreneurial skills when he worked at his father's general store in Socorro County, New Mexico. This was followed by varied experiences, including a stint as a representative in New Mexico's first State Legislature and a career decision to become a banker. More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Hilton

10) Tadashi Yanai 84.87%

Tadashi Yanai (柳井正 Yanai Tadashi^?, born February 7, 1949) is founder and president of Fast Retailing, of which Uniqlo (ユニクロ, "unique clothing") is a subsidiary. In 1971, Yanai started in business by selling kitchenware and men’s clothing at a Jusco supermarket.^] After a year at Jusco, he quit and joined his father’s roadside tailor shop.Yanai opened his first Uniqlo store in Hiroshima in 1984 and changed the name of his father’s company Ogori Shoji to Fast Retailing in 1991.For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadashi_Yanai

11) J.W.Marriott 84.45%

J.W. Marriott, Jr. is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Marriott International, Inc., one of the world's largest lodging companies. His leadership spans more than 50 years, and he has taken Marriott from a family restaurant business to a global lodging company with nearly 4,000 properties in over 70 countries and territories. Further details refer at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Willard_Marriott

12) Anita Roddick 84.00%

Anita Roddick is a British international business woman. She was born on October 23, 1942. She is the founder of cosmetic products called The Body Shop. The Body Shop is a company that manufactures and markets cosmetic products from natural sources. Anita Roddick is also known as a human rights activist and environmental campaigner. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Roddick

13) Lim Goh Tong 83.84%

Born in 1918 in Anxi, a mountainous county in southeastern Fujian province, China, Lim Goh Tong was the fifth child in his family. Lim was born into a rustic environment in a village, during that time, China was in a period of turmoil and unrest after the 1911 revolution, but life was relatively sheltered for Lim in the village.As China's situation was becoming worse, Lim Goh Tong decided to take the plunge in venturing out to Malaysia (known as Malaya at that time) following his cousin, Lim Kheng Chong's footstep. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim_Goh_Tong

14) Ophrah Winfrey 82.70%

Through the power of media, Oprah Winfrey has created an unparalleled connection with people around the world. As host and supervising producer of the top-rated, award-winning The Oprah Winfrey Show, she entertained, enlightened and uplifted millions of viewers for 25 years. Her accomplishments as a global media leader and philanthropist have established her as one of the most respected and admired public figures today.

http://www.oprah.com/pressroom/Oprah-Winfreys-Official-Biography

15) Thomas Edision 81.86%

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

16) Andrew Carniagie 81.70%

Scottish-born Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist. Carnegie worked in a Pittsburgh cotton factory as a boy before rising to the position of division superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859. While working for the railroad, he invested in various ventures, including iron and oil companies, and made his first fortune by the time he was in his early 30s. In the early 1870s, he entered the steel business, and over the next two decades became a dominant force in the industry. In 1901, he sold the Carnegie Steel Company to banker John Pierpont Morgan for $480 million. Carnegie then devoted himself to philanthropy, eventually giving away more than $350 million.

http://www.history.com/topics/andrew-carnegie

17) Lary Page 81.30%

CEO Larry Page is rearranging the furniture at Google. Over two weeks in January, he announced his company's $3.2 billion, all-cash acquisition of smart-thermostat-maker Nest as well as the $2.9 billion sale of its Motorola phone business to Lenovo. Shareholders seem happy. The search giant's stock continues to trade at record highs, up about 50% year-over-year as of mid-Feb. 2014. That's caused the net worth of co-founders Page and Sergey Brin to surge past $30 billion for the first time. In April, Google will undergo a stock split to introduce new Class C shares that will carry no voting power. That move will consolidate the voting power of executives including Page, who owns nearly 24 million Class B shares, which carry 10-to-one voting power. He's still suffering from a vocal-cord nerve issue that makes his voice raspy, though Googlers created a personal synthetic voice service that makes communication a bit easier. A clean energy advocate, Page's network of houses in Palo Alto use fuel cells, geothermal energy and rainwater capture.

(Source: Forbes.com)

18) Muhammad Yunus 81.10%

Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. On June 18, 1940, Muhammad Yunus was teaching economics at Chittagong University when he developed the idea of "micro" loans, a credit system that enabled poor Bangladeshis to borrow small amounts as part of a peer group, ensuring that they would repay. His Grameen Bank established a microfinance model followed all over the world. Yunus won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006.  Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that even the poorest of the poor can work to bring about their own development

http://www.biography.com/people/muhammad-yunus-218222#awesm=~oDFLr73lrLzuCF

19) Ray Kroc 81.00%

Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc was born on October 5th, 1902 at Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. He was an American businessman of Czech origin. Ray Kroc was an American entrepreneur best known for expanding McDonald’s from a local chain. He started his first McDonald's in Chicago in 1955 and the chain now has 7,500 outlets in the United States and 31 other countries and territories. His personal net worth in his personal life is $500 million. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc

20) Karl Benz 81.00%

Karl Friedrich Benz was born November 25, 1844 in Germany. A mechanical engineer, he designed and built the first practical car powered by an internal-combustion engine. The original car, his three-wheeled Motorwagen, first ran in 1885. His company produced its four-wheeled car in 1893 and the first of its series of racing cars in 1899.

http://www.biography.com/people/karl-benz-9208256#synopsis&awesm=~oDzLWV7JsWWFZV

21) James Dyson 80.10%

Sir James Dyson, CBE (born 2 May 1947) is a British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company. He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. Dyson was sent to Gresham's School, a boarding school, Holt, Norfolk, from 1956 to 1965, when his father died of cancer. James excelled in long distance running: "I was quite good at it, not because I was physically good, but because I had more determination. I learnt determination from it. He spent one year (1965–1966) at the Byam Shaw School of Art, and then studied furniture and interior design at the Royal College of Art (1966–1970) before moving into engineering. After five years of creating several prototypes, he finally launched the ‘G-Force’ cleaner in 1983. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2013, his net worth in 2013 is £3 billion.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dyson


22) Liliane Bettencourt 80.00%

Liliane Bettencourt Charlotte Schueller was born in 1922 and she is the daughter of the founders of L’Oreal, Eugene Schueller. At age of 15, she managed to working in her father company by doing mixing products and labelling bottles of shampoo as an appreantice. She is one of the principal shareholders of L’Oreal and held to seat on the board of directors for her father company. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliane_Bettencourt

23) Milton S.Hershey 80.00%

Milton Snavely Hershey was an American confectioner, philanthropist and he is the founder of  The Hershey Chocolate Company. Like many rural young people of the time, Milton was expected to help out on the family farm, and he learned early on of the value of hard work and perseverance. Hershey initially acquired farm land about 30 miles northwest of Lancaster, near his birthplace of Derry Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_S._Hershey

24) Li-Ka Shing 79.72% 

One of the world's great empire builders Li Ka-shing oversees a far-reaching conglomerate with 270,000 employees in 52 countries. The richest person in Asia, he could be a lot wealthier if he so chose. The reason: Li is probably the only person on earth who invested in Facebook as a high-stakes hobby and made no money from it. Li bet on Facebook, a decision he says took him five minutes to make in December 2007, through his charitable Li Ka Shing Foundation. In fact, all of his tech bets, whether in Spotify, Siri, or more recently Bitcoin payment service provider, BitPay, benefit the foundation, not him. Still his stakes in Hutchinson Whampoa, Cheung Kong and Husky Energy, plus rich dividends of $1.7 billion in just the past two years, allow him to hold onto the top spot in his region. Born in Chaozhou in China's Guangdong Province, Li and his family had to flee to Hong Kong during the Sino-Japanese war. Not long after their arrival Li's father, who had been a primary school principal in China, died from tuberculosis. At age 12 he quit school and started as an apprentice in a watch-strap factory. By 14 he was working full-time in a plastics trading company to help support his family. In 1950 Li quit to start his own business making plastic toys and everyday items. He retooled his factory to focus on plastic flowers after learning about their popularity in Italy from trade journals, figuring they offered him better business prospects. He named his first company Cheung Kong, after the Yangtze River, whose power comes from a confluence of countless smaller streams.

(Source: Forbes.com)

25) Ingvar Kampard 79.00%

Ingvar Feodor Kamprad is a Swedish businessman. He is the creator of the famous and one of the largest furniture retail companies of the world ‘IKEA’. He is one of world’s wealthiest people and most successful entrepreneurs. Kamprad was born on 30th March 1926 in Pjätteryd, Sweden. Initially, he sold matches in the neighborhood. He had a very good business sense and taught himself many business tricks. Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943 at his Uncle Ernst’s kitchen table.

http://www.famous-entrepreneurs.com/ingvar-kamprad

26) Kichiro Toyoda 79.00%

Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese successful entrepreneur. He is a founder of Toyota Motor Corporation. Toyoda was born in Japan on June 11, 1894. His father Sakichi Toyoda was an inventor of textile machiner. Kiichiro Toyoda dies at the age of 57 in Japan on this day 1952. Kiichiro Toyoda had begun plans to develop an automobile, he established an auto division within Toyoda Loom Works, which released a prototype vehicle two years later. In 1937, Toyota Motor Corporation was formed as a spinoff of Toyoda Loom Works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiichiro_Toyoda

27) Robert Kuok 78.15%

Sudden resignation of Robert Kuok's eldest son, Kuok Khoon Chen, from his Kuok Group's Kerry Properties to take the helm of Shangri-La (Asia) touched off speculation of a power struggle in his family for control of an empire that spans the region. Amid falling earnings and the listing of Kerry's logistics unit, Kerry's shares plunged in 2013. The Chinese Malaysian tycoon made his money in sugar, palm oil, shipping and property. The Kuok Group boasts a huge network of companies under 3 main groups in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Biggest source of wealth is his stake in Wilmar, the world's largest listed palm oil company. Wilmar is run by his nephew, Kuok Khoon Hong, a Singapore citizen who's also a billionaire thanks to his 10% stake in the company. Robert Kuok also controls Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, once the world's most profitable daily newspaper.

(Source: Forbes.com)

28) Levi Strauss 77.71%

Levi Strauss born on February 26, 1829 in Buttenheim, Germany and died on September 26, 1902 (aged 73) San Francisco, California, U.S. He was an Americanbusinessman of German Jewish descent who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss

29) Mary Kay 77.70%

Born May 12, 1918, in Hot Wells, Texas, Mary Kay Ash left the traditional workplace after watching yet another man whom she had trained get promoted over her. She started her own cosmetics company, using incentive programs and other strategies to give her employees the chance to benefit from their achievements. Mary Kay's marketing skills and people savvy soon led her company to enormous success.

http://www.biography.com/people/mary-kay-ash-197044#awesm=~oDFX4qOi2qhYXI

30) Tony Fernandes 77.30%

Anthony Fernandes listed budget long-haul carrier AirAsia X and insurer Tune Insurance Holdings last year. Builds businesses around his passions, co-owning a British soccer team and a Formula 1 racing team in the U.K. Started his career in the music industry working for Richard Branson's Virgin Group. In 2001 took over floundering AirAsia and with No. 27 Kamarudin Meranun turned it into the region's largest low-cost airline. Hosted the Asian version of the TV series The Apprentice last year; the winner--Filipino Jonathan Yabut--is now CMO at AirAsia Zest.

(Source: Forbes.com)

31) J.P.Morgan 76.87%

John Piermont Morgan, an influential American financier, banker and philanthropist, was born on 17 th April 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut. J.P. Morgan is the figurative father of New York City. He dominated the nation and played essential role in its image building such as with the Hudson-Fulton Celebration that showcased his powerful domain. His imprints are still visible on the American economy. J.P. Morgan not only changed the future of American finance but also contributed to the American lifestyle. Further detail refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Morgan

32) Lary Ellision 76.56%

San Francisco lost $11.5 million hosting the America's Cup during the summer of 2013, but that's nothing compared to what Larry Ellison spent bringing the event to town. In September, his Team Oracle pulled off a stunning comeback from a seven-race deficit to win its second consecutive Cup, allowing the Oracle and founder and CEO to choose the setting for the next race. With a loss already on its books San Francisco may not want another event, though little gets in the way of Larry Ellison's ambition--or mouth. In an Aug. 2013 television interview, the Oracle founder said that Apple's best days are behind it after the passing of close friend Steve Jobs and that Google's alleged infringement on Oracle's patents in its Android software was "absolutely evil." Ellison collects houses on Malibu's Carbon Beach and also owns of 98% of Hawaii's Lanai Island. A recently-launched website for the island reveals its owner's larger plans, including a 2015 film festival on the island. His daughter Megan is a growing Hollywood powerhouse and has financed a string of critical successes including American Hustle and Zero Dark Thirty.

(Source: Forbes.com)

33) Jeff Bezos 76.44%

Jeff Bezos fortune rose $13 billion in 2013 as shares in his online retailer Amazon soared 55%. In October he bought the Washington Post for $250 million. The next month he sold 1 million shares of Amazon, less than 1% of the company, for about $260 million. In December he announced that Amazon could be delivering its packages by drones within five years. After graduating with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton, Bezos headed off to Wall Street, where he saw that the internet was the fastest-growing industry on the planet. He quit his job, headed to Seattle and founded online bookstore Amazon in 1995. The company expanded beyond books and now sells anything to anyone.

(Source: Forbes.com)

34) Estee Lauder 76.40%

Estée Lauder was an American businesswoman. She was the co-founder, along with her husband, Joseph Lauder, of Estee Lauder Companies, her eponymous cosmetics company. Lauder was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century. She was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was inducted to the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1988. Lauder was born Josephine Esther Mentzer in Corona, Queens in 1906, the second child born to Rose Schotz Rosenthal and Max Mentzer.

http://www.biography.com/people/est%C3%A9e-lauder-9374625#awesm=~oDFLVnyv2NTQoT

35) William Becker 76.15%

William Walter Becker (May 18, 1921 – April 2, 2007) was an American hotelier. He is best known for creating the Motel 6 concept of inexpensive motel rooms. Further details refer at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Becker

36) Sam Walton 75.87%

Sam Walton didn’t invent the idea of the discount store, he just perfected it. His embrace of information technology and supply-chain management allowed him to dramatically undercut his competitors and remains a model for how to blend old and new economies. At a Wal-Mart store, cash registers are electronically linked to headquarters and suppliers. The chain, which is by far the biggest retailer in the world, has been universally blamed for killing mom-and-pop stores but, perhaps more significantly, it has left more dollars in shoppers’ wallets and spurred an economy that is 66% dependent on consumer spending. The chain is America’s largest employer, giving work to more than 1.3 million people. If Walton were still alive, his personal fortune would far outstrip Bill Gates: His heirs now split a fortune worth more than $100 billion.

(Source: Forbes.com)

37) Michael Saul Dell 75.70%

Michael Dell took his namesake company private in a $24.9 billion deal in October 2013. He once again has unquestioned control of the company he founded 30 years ago in a University of Texas dorm room. Since completing the massive deal, Dell Inc. has signed partnerships with Dropbox, Microsoft and Google to work on cloud computing. In December it announced it was creating a $300 million venture capital fund. Only $4.5 billion of his fortune is wrapped up in Dell Inc. The rest is in real estate and his investment firm MSD Capital, which has interests in real estate, banks, automotive businesses, and energy companies. Dell added a stake in oil transporter StealthGas Inc in February 2014. He has a mansion and ranch in Austin, Texas, worth more than $100 million combined, plus a $58 million estate in Hawaii. He has given away nearly $1 billion through the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, which focuses on urban education causes in the U.S. and India.

(Source: Forbes.com)

38) Donald Trump 75.14%

Donald Trump can't seem to stay out of the news--or off Twitter. His recent antics have included tweeting angrily over a BuzzFeed profile portraying his political ambitions as pure bunk. He's also in a fight with the government of Scotland, threatening to pull out of a planned golf course project after authorities gave the green light to a nearby wind farm project that Donald says will ruin views (he recently bought a golf course in Ireland and vows to focus there instead). If Trump can't get his way in Scotland or be taken seriously as a candidate for governor of New York, at least he's getting richer. The value of Trump's real estate portfolio is rising thanks to the recovering market, as well as improvements he's made at Miami's Doral golf resort and Washington D.C.'s Old Post Office building, which he's turning into a luxury hotel. On top of that, he's a one-man brand: Apprentice appearances, books, speaking engagements, Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants, menswear at Macy's, and his name on everything from alcohol to high-end mattresses, all bringing in cash.

(Source: Forbes.com)

39) Soichiro Honda 74.00%

Soichiro Honda was born on November 17, 1906 in Yamahigashi, Japan. Soichiro Honda is the founder of Honda Motor Co., Inc. He was a Japanese engineer and industrialist, and start established Honda in1948. He started from wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. His dream was personal mobility for everyone.  Honda was created the popular models of motorcycles and cars such as Super Cub, Civic, Accord, Prelude and etc.

Source: http://info-biography.blogspot.com/2010/03/biography-soichiro-honda-foundhonda.html


40) Walt Disney 73.28%

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American business magnate, animator, cartoonist, producer, director, screenwriter, philanthropist and voice actor. A major figure within the American animation industry and throughout the world, he is regarded as an international icon, well known for his influence and contributions to the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As a Hollywood business mogul, he, along with his brother Roy O. Disney, co-founded Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture production companies in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$45 billion in the 2013 financial year.

(Source: Wikipedia.org)

41) John.D.Rockefeller 73.20%

John D. Rockefeller is a founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. Born in upstate New York, he entered the then-fledgling oil business in 1863 by investing in a Cleveland, Ohio, refinery. In 1870, he established Standard Oil, which by the early 1880s controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines. Critics accused Rockefeller of engaging in unethical practices, such as predatory pricing and colluding with railroads to eliminate his competitors, in order to gain a monopoly in the industry. In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court found Standard Oil in violation of anti-trust laws and ordered it to dissolve. During his life Rockefeller donated more than $500 million to various philanthropic causes.

http://www.biography.com/people/john-d-rockefeller-20710159#awesm=~oDFM8GyDooIVx7

42) Shozo Kawasaki 73.20%

Born in Kagoshima to a kimono merchant, Kawasaki Shōzō became a tradesman at the age of 17 in Nagasaki, the only place in Japan then open to the West. He started a shippingbusiness in Osaka at 27, which failed when his cargo ship sank during a storm. He joined a company handling sugar from the Ryukyu Islands, established by a Kagoshimasamurai, and in 1893, researched Ryukyu sugar and sea routes to the Ryukyus at the request of the Ministry of Finance. In 1894, he was appointed executive vice president of Japan Mail Steam-Powered Shipping Company, and succeeded in opening a sea route to the Ryukyu and transporting sugar to mainland Japan. Having experienced many sea accidents in his life, Kawasaki deepened his trust in Western ships because they were more spacious, stable and faster than typical Japanese ships.. In April 1876, he established Kawasaki Tsukiji Shipyard on borrowed land from the government alongside the Sumida-gawa River.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Sh%C5%8Dz%C5%8D

43) Paul Greene 73.00%

Current : President & CEO at Mach 1 Development, Inc. Past : Security Architect at Unisys

Director of Security at NeuStar, Inc. Nuclear EM at US Navy Education : Virginia Tech (1990-1994)

Connection : 352 connections

Paul Greene's Experience

1)President & CEO Company : Mach 1 Development, Inc.

2)Security Architect Company : Unisys

3)Director of Security Company : NeuStar, Inc.

4)Nuclear EM (Electrician's mate) Company : US Navy

For more info: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/print-edition/2013/01/25/who-is-paul-greene.html?page=all

44 Guccio Gucci 73.00%

Guccio Gucci was born in 1881 in Florence, Italy. He was a founder of Gucci Brand in Italy in 1920. He opened the first Gucci shop in 1921 and became known for quality leather goods and fine craftsmanship. After Guccio Gucci died, his four sons opened a Gucci firm in 1953 to continue his father’s legacy until now. Now, Gucci is one of the most famous luxury brand and gained high turnover profit almost every year and only rich people afford to buy Gucci’s brand.

http://www.vogue.com/voguepedia/Gucci

45) Ferdinand Porsche 73.00%

Ferdinand Porsche is a founder of Porsche Car Company in 1931 and was born on September 3, 1875 in Maffersdorf, Austria. At the young age, he had an affinity for technology. In the early 1920s, he oversaw the development of the Mercedes compressor car, and later developed the first design of the Volkswagen car with his son. Porsche died on January 30, 1951 at the age of 75. In 1996, Porsche was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame and in 1999 posthumously won the award of Car Engineer of the Century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Porsche



46) Fred Smith 71.00%

Frederick Wallace Smith which is known as Fred Smith is the founder, Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President of FedEx Corporation. He was born on 11th of August 1944 (age 70) in Marks, Mississippi and he is an American. FedEx Corporation was founded in 1973. For more info: http://about.van.fedex.com/executive_bios/frederick_w_smith

47) Arthur Guinness 71.00%

Arthur Guinness (1724 or 1725 – 23 January 1803) was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family. He was also an entrepreneur, visionary and philanthropist. At 27, in 1752, Guinness invested the money and in 1755 had a brewery at Leixlip, just 17 km from Dublin. In 1759, Guinness went to the city and set up his own business. He took a 9,000 year lease on the 4-acre (16,000 m²) brewery at St. James's Gate from the descendants of Sir Mark Rainsford for an annual rent of £45. Guinness's florid signature is still copied on every label of bottled Guinness.

http://astrumpeople.com/arthur-guinness-biography-the-history-of-guinness-beer/

48) Torakuso Yamaha 70.00%

Torakusu Yamaha was born a retainer of the Tokugawa family in the Kishu region (currently Wakayama prefecture), the third son of astronomer Kounosuke Yamaha. Torakusu Yamaha, born in 1851, founded the Yamaha Musical Instrument Company in 1888. In 1887 Torakusu was successful in repairing a reed organ at Hamamatsu's Jinjo elementary school and in 1889 established Yamaha Organ Works as a limited partnership in Hamamatsu.

http://europe.yamaha.com/en/about_yamaha/corporate_profile/

49) John Carbury 69.00%

John Cadbury ( 12 August 1801 – 11 May 1889 ), was a proprietor of a small chocolate business in Birmingham, England, that later became part of Cadbury plc, one the world’s largest chocolate producers. John Cadbury was born in Birmingham to Richard Tapper Cadbury, who was from a wealthy Quaker family that moved to the area from the west of England.

http://www.in.com/john-cadbury/profile-144589.html


50) JerryYang" 67.00%

Jerry Yang is the founder of Yahoo! Inc. He was born in November 1968 at Taipei Taiwan. His mother moved to Calirfornia when he was ten years old. Jerry Yang was studied at Stanford University in electrical engineering programmed. He is married with Japanese women named Akiko Yamazaki. Yang is very visionary person where he did not sell Yahoo to Google because he believe that Yahoo have a great potential to growth. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang_(entrepreneur)