businessman, man of affairs - a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)

Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie - United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)

Cooper, Peter Cooper - United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York city to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883)

Curtiss, Glenn Curtiss, Glenn Hammond Curtiss - United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930)

Daimler, Gottlieb Daimler - German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900)

Deere, John Deere - United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)

Eastman, George Eastman - United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)

Henry Ford, Ford - United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)

Edsel Bryant Ford, Ford - son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)

Henry Ford II, Ford - grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)

Frick, Henry Clay Frick - United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)

Gillette, King Camp Gilette - United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932)

Meyer Guggenheim, Guggenheim - United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905)

Heinz, Henry John Heinz - United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)

Hoover, William Henry Hoover, William Hoover - United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)

Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughes, Hughes - United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)

Friedrich Krupp, Krupp - German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826)

Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land, Land - United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)

First Viscount Nuffield, Nuffield, William Richard Morris - British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)

Opel, Wilhelm von Opel - German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948)

Elisha Graves Otis, Otis - United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)

Owen, Robert Owen - Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)

Sri Frederick Handley Page, Page - English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)

John D. Rockefeller, John Davison Rockefeller, Rockefeller - United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, Igor Sikorsky, Sikorsky - United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972)

Ernest Solvay, Solvay - Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922)