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Benjamin Guggenheim (October 26, 1865 – April 15, 1912) was an American businessman. He died aboard RMS Titanic when the ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. His body was never recovered.
Harold Clark Simmons (May 13, 1931 – December 29, 2013) was an American businessman and billionaire whose banking expertise helped him develop the acquisition concept known as the leveraged buyout (LBO) to acquire various corporations. He was the o
Geoffrey William Stirling (March 21, 1921 – December 21, 2013) was a Newfoundland businessman. Born in St. John’s, Stirling, along with other members of his family, owned several media outlets in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador u
Frank H. McCourt (born August 14, 1953) is an American businessman, president of the McCourt Group and owner of the Los Angeles Marathon. He was owner and chairman of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine from 2004 to 2012.
José Alencar Gomes da Silva (17 October 1931 – 29 March 2011) was a Brazilian businessman and politician, and the Vice President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011. In business from a young age, Alencar became a self-made multimillionaire as the chief ex
Bernard Tapie (born 26 January 1943) is a French businessman, politician and occasional actor, singer, and TV host. He was Minister of City Affairs in the government of Pierre Bérégovoy.
Arturo “Arte” Moreno (born August 14, 1946) is an American businessman. On May 15, 2003, he became the first Mexican-American to own a major sports team in the United States when he purchased the Anaheim Angels baseball team from the Walt Disney Comp
Nicholas “Nicky” F. Oppenheimer (born 8 June 1945) is a South African businessman and philanthropist. He was formerly the Chairman of De Beers diamond mining company and of its subsidiary, the Diamond Trading Company, and former Deputy Chairman of th
Vicente Fox Quesada (born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman who was President of Mexico from 1 December 2000, to 30 November 2006 under the National Action Party (PAN). He is also the Co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an intern
Peter Kendal Hargreaves CBE (born 5 October 1946) is co-founder with Stephen Lansdown of Hargreaves Lansdown, one of the United Kingdom’s largest financial services businesses.