Famous Business People - List of Famous Business People - page 29

The textbook definition of business is the providing of products, services or both to people in exchange for something from them like money. This activity has been around for centuries and has always had its big guns and the ‘smaller guy’. The earliest form of trading was done using the barter system where one person exchanged a part his product for a service or another product produced by another person. The introduction of money for the trading of goods was introduced in as far back as circa 3000 B.C. Today business refers to an individual or an organization involved in providing services or products to consumers. So who exactly are business people? The simplest answer would be that they are people who have been put in charge of the management and administration of an entity like an organisation as a whole or a major arm of said organisation. The world of business is full of impressive names which have equally impressive stories attached to them and that is why, what follows these words is a list of some of the most famous people from the field of business and a their biographies which includes their life history, achievements, trivia and even timelines.

The Most Famous Business People

NameBirthdayNationalityBio
Kristina Sunshine JungAugust 1, 1978AmericanKristina Sunshine Jung is an American entrepreneur and actor, better known as the daughter of drug-smuggler George Jung and his ex-wife, Mirtha Jung.
Guccio GucciMarch 26, 1881Italian, BritishGuccio Gucci was a famous fashion designer from Florence, Italy, and the founder of the world-renowned fashion brand ‘Gucci.’
Jawed KarimOctober 28, 1979German, AmericanJawed Karim is a German-American internet entrepreneur, technologist and co-founder of the video-sharing website, YouTube
Ajaypal Banga1960AmericanAjaypal Banga is an Indian-American business executive who is the CEO of MasterCard
Santo VersaceDecember 16, 1944ItalianSanto Domenico Versace is an Italian businessman and politician
Andrew McCollumSeptember 4, 1983AmericanAndrew McCollum is one of the five founders of Facebook
Terry GouOctober 8, 1950TaiwaneseTerry Gou is a Taiwanese business giant who founded the company Foxconn
Robert Charles ChienChinese, JapaneseRobert Charles Chien is an entrepreneur who is married to actress Lea Salonga
Randi ZuckerbergFebruary 28, 1982AmericanRandi Zuckerberg is an American businesswoman
Dodi FayedApril 15, 1955EgyptianDodi Fayed was an Egyptian heir and a film producer
François-Henri Pinault

François-Henri Pinault

François-Henri Pinault is a French entrepreneur and the Chairman and CEO of Kering

FrenchMay 28, 1962668 views

Amancio Ortega Gaona

Amancio Ortega is a Spanish business tycoon who founded the Inditex fashion group

SpanishMarch 28, 1936316 views

Arpad Busson

Arpad Busson is a London-based financier and philanthropist from France

FrenchJanuary 27, 1963397 views

Laurene Powell Jobs

Laurene Powell Jobs is an American businesswoman, founder and executive of Emerson Collective

James J. Hill

James Jerome Hill was a famous Canadian-American railroad executive

CanadianSeptember 16, 1838204 views

Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz was an American computer programmer and entrepreneur

Stedman Graham

Stedman Graham is an American author, speaker, educator and businessman

AmericanMarch 6, 1951327 views

Susanne Klatten

Susanne Klatten is a businesswoman who is the richest woman in Germany

GermanApril 28, 1962306 views

Fred Trump

Frederick Christ Trump Sr., better known as Fred Trump, was an American real-estate developer and the father of the 45th president of the US, Donald Trump

AmericanOctober 11, 1905304 views