amalgamator - a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commerical companies

arb, arbitrager, arbitrageur - someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential)

big businessman, business leader, magnate, top executive, tycoon, baron, mogul, king, power - a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron"

bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

industrialist - someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise

oilman - a person who owns or operates oil wells

operator - someone who owns or operates a business; "who is the operator of this franchise?"

owner, proprietor - (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants"

small businessman - a businessman who runs a business employing less than 100 people

suit - a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the suits care about is the bottom line"

syndicator - a businessman who forms a syndicate

transactor - someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations

Ezra Cornell, Cornell - United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)

E. H. Harriman, Edward Henry Harriman, Harriman - United States railway tycoon (1848-1909)

J. J. Hill, James Jerome Hill, Hill - United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)

Collis Potter Huntington, Huntington - United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)

First Baron Marks of Broughton, Marks, Simon Marks - English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)

David Sarnoff, Sarnoff - United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971)

Leland Stanford, Stanford - United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)

George Stephenson, Stephenson - English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)

Henry Villard, Villard - United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900)

John Wanamaker, Wanamaker - United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922)

Asron Montgomery Ward, Montgomery Ward, Ward - United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)

Frank Winfield Woolworth, Woolworth - United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919)

Rudolf Wurlitzer, Wurlitzer - United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914)