Here follows an annotated list of corporate leaders. They are typically known for their leadership of businesses, usually large corporations. The list appears in alphabetical order of last name. To facilitate reading, only personal names are hyperlinked.

Corporate leaders

• 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
• Jeff Bezos - Amazon.com
• William Boeing - Boeing Aircraft
• Matthew Boulton - metal products
• Richard Branson - Virgin
• 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 Computers
• John Deere - John Deere
• 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
• 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, oilman
• Lee Iacocca - Chrysler
• Jeff Immelt - General Electric
• Yotaro Isawaki - Mitsubishi
• Steve Jobs - Apple
• Michael Johns - Gentiva Health Services
• Steve Jurvetson - Hotmail
• Herb Kelleher - Southwest Airlines
• Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. - investor
• Denis Kozlowski - Tyco
• Sanjay Kumar - Computer Associates (CA)
• 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
• John Pierpont Morgan - J. P. Morgan Bank
• Akio Morita - Sony
• Rupert Murdoch - News Corporation
• Pierre Omidyar - e-Bay
• 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 (EDS)
• 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
• Alfred Sloan - G.M.
• Martha Stewart - Omni Media
• Calisto Tanzi - Parmalat
• E. P. Taylor - Argus Corrporation, Windfields Farm
• Cornelius Vanderbilt - shipping
• William Henry Vanderbilt - shipping, railroads
• Peter Wallenberg - investor
• Sam Walton - Walmart
• John Wanamaker - Wanamaker Department Stores
• Charles Wang - Computer Associates (CA)
• Jack Welch - G.E.
• Eli Whitney - American System
• Jerry Yang - Yahoo!

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