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Famous Business Leaders

The best-known entrepreneurs, executives and investors in our archive, ranked by historical popularity.

82 business leaders in our database, ranked by historical popularity. Page 2 of 2.

Most famous business leader

Ivana Trump

Highest historical popularity score (HPI 85.7)

Most common birth month

April

11 of 82 were born in April

Living vs deceased

44 / 38

54% are still living

Most common nationality

American

41 people, 50% of the list

Editor-written profiles

15

18% have a full original profile so far

The ranked list (from #51)

  1. 51Jack MaJack MaCo-founded the Alibaba Group, building it into one of China's largest e-commerce businesses.🇨🇳Chinese · Born September 10, 1964View profile
  2. 52Roman AbramovichRoman AbramovichRussian oligarch who bought Chelsea in 2003 and oversaw the club's Champions League wins and Premier League titles.🇷🇺Russian · Born October 24, 1966View profile
  3. 53Brian EpsteinBrian EpsteinManager who guided the Beatles from Liverpool clubs to worldwide fame during the 1960s.🇬🇧British · Born September 19, 1934 · Died August 27, 1967View profile
  4. 54Akio MoritaAkio MoritaCo-founder of Sony who helped turn the company into a global electronics brand, including through the Walkman.🇯🇵Japanese · Born January 26, 1921 · Died October 3, 1999View profile
  5. 55Mikhail KhodorkovskyMikhail KhodorkovskyOnce ran the oil giant Yukos, then was jailed in Russia and later became an exiled opposition figure.🇷🇺Russian · Born June 26, 1963View profile
  6. 56Cornelius VanderbiltCornelius VanderbiltKnown as the Commodore, he built a huge fortune in steamships and railroads, including the New York Central.🇺🇸American · Born May 27, 1794 · Died January 4, 1877View profile
  7. 57Uli HoeneßUli HoeneßForward who won the 1974 World Cup with West Germany, then built Bayern Munich into a dominant club as manager and president.🇩🇪German · Born January 5, 1952View profile
  8. 58Gordon MooreGordon MooreCo-founded Intel and formulated Moore's law, predicting that transistor counts on chips would double roughly every two years.🇺🇸American · Born January 3, 1929 · Died March 24, 2023View profile
  9. 59Lakshmi MittalLakshmi MittalBuilt ArcelorMittal into one of the world's largest steel producers and serves as its executive chairman.🇮🇳Indian · Born June 15, 1950View profile
  10. 60Sam WaltonSam WaltonFounded Walmart in Arkansas in 1962 and built it into the largest retailer in the United States.🇺🇸American · Born March 29, 1918 · Died April 5, 1992View profile
  11. 61William Randolph HearstWilliam Randolph HearstNewspaper publisher whose Hearst Corporation empire inspired the central character of Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane.🇺🇸American · Born April 29, 1863 · Died April 29, 1951View profile
  12. 62Martha StewartMartha StewartBuilt a lifestyle empire of books, magazines and television shows around cooking, entertaining and homemaking.🇺🇸American · Born August 3, 1941View profile
  13. 63Yingluck ShinawatraYingluck ShinawatraBecame Thailand's first woman prime minister in 2011 and was removed from office by a court ruling in 2014.🇹🇭Thai · Born June 21, 1967View profile
  14. 64Madam C. J. WalkerMadam C. J. WalkerBuilt a hair care and cosmetics business for Black women and became one of America's first self-made female millionaires.🇺🇸American · Born December 23, 1867 · Died May 25, 1919View profile
  15. 65Sung Jae-giSung Jae-giSouth Korean men's rights campaigner who died after jumping from a bridge in a publicity stunt.🇰🇷South Korean · Born September 11, 1967 · Died July 26, 2013View profile
  16. 66Lady Bird JohnsonLady Bird JohnsonServed as First Lady during Lyndon Johnson's presidency and championed highway beautification and the planting of native wildflowers across America.🇺🇸American · Born December 22, 1912 · Died July 11, 2007View profile
  17. 67Peter ThielPeter ThielCo-founded PayPal and Palantir, started the venture firm Founders Fund, and was the first outside investor in Facebook.🇩🇪German · Born October 11, 1967View profile
  18. 68Ted TurnerTed TurnerLaunched CNN in 1980, creating the world's first round-the-clock cable news channel and transforming how television covered breaking events.🇺🇸American · Born November 19, 1938 · Died May 6, 2026View profile
  19. 69Dhirubhai AmbaniDhirubhai AmbaniFounder of Reliance Industries, who took the company public in 1977 and widened share ownership among Indian households.🇮🇳Indian · Born December 28, 1932 · Died July 6, 2002View profile
  20. 70Rex TillersonRex TillersonOil executive who led ExxonMobil as chairman and chief executive for a decade before a short spell as US secretary of state.🇺🇸American · Born March 23, 1952View profile
  21. 71Sundar PichaiSundar PichaiChief executive of Google since 2015 and of its parent company Alphabet since 2019, after overseeing the Chrome browser.🇮🇳Indian · Born June 10, 1972View profile
  22. 72Jared KushnerJared KushnerProperty developer who became a senior White House adviser and helped negotiate the Abraham Accords between Israel and Arab states.🇺🇸American · Born January 10, 1981View profile
  23. 73Eric SchmidtEric SchmidtSoftware executive who served as chief executive of Google during its rise.🇺🇸American · Born April 27, 1955View profile
  24. 74Pavel DurovPavel DurovFounded the Russian social network VKontakte and later created the encrypted messaging app Telegram, which he still leads as chief executive.🇷🇺Russian · Born October 10, 1984View profile
  25. 75Satya NadellaSatya NadellaChief executive of Microsoft since 2014, who steered the company towards cloud computing with its Azure platform.🇮🇳Indian · Born August 19, 1967View profile
  26. 76Michael DellMichael DellFounded Dell, the computer maker he started as a student and still leads as chairman and chief executive.🇺🇸American · Born February 23, 1965View profile
  27. 77Lila TretikovLila TretikovServed as executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, after a career in software engineering.🇷🇺Russian · Born January 25, 1978View profile
  28. 78Mark ShuttleworthMark ShuttleworthEntrepreneur who founded Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and became the first African in space as a paying passenger in 2002.🇿🇦South African · Born September 18, 1973View profile
  29. 79Meg WhitmanMeg WhitmanLed eBay as chief executive through its rapid growth, then later ran Hewlett-Packard and served as ambassador to Kenya.🇺🇸American · Born August 4, 1956View profile
  30. 80Sheryl SandbergSheryl SandbergFacebook chief operating officer and author of Lean In.🇺🇸American · Born August 28, 1969View profile
  31. 81Sam AltmanSam AltmanChief executive of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and former president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator.🇺🇸American · Born April 22, 1985View profile
  32. 82Marissa MayerMarissa MayerLed Yahoo! as chief executive until its sale to Verizon, after early years as a prominent Google engineer and executive.🇺🇸American · Born May 30, 1975View profile

How we rank and select

  • Ranking: people are ordered by their Historical Popularity Index (HPI) from Pantheon. HPI combines how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about a person, how many page views those articles get, how evenly the views are spread across languages and how long ago the person lived. People Pantheon does not yet cover are listed after them, ordered by our own popularity score (the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article about them).
  • Membership: each person appears in one occupation list only, based on their primary occupation as classified by Pantheon (for example, a queen who wrote poetry is listed as royalty, not as a writer). Kings, queens, emperors, sultans and royal consorts are not listed as politicians or writers: anyone who held a monarch's office on Wikidata, and never served as a president or head of government, counts as royalty. For the few people Pantheon does not cover, we use the primary field recorded in our database.
  • One-line summaries: each summary is an original line written for this site with AI assistance under our editorial rules, then checked against the Wikipedia introduction so no wording is copied.
  • Statistics: every figure on this page is calculated live from our database each time the page loads, so it changes as we add people.

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Reviewed by the Who Shares My Birthday editorial team.

Last reviewed: October 2026

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