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List of Jewish American business figures - Definition and Overview |
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This is a list of Jewish American business figures.
This page is part of the List of Jewish Americans series.
Finance
- Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg, mayor of New York, philanthropist
- Eli & Edythe Broad, business leader & philanthropists
- Marcus Goldman & Samuel Sachs, founders of Goldman Sachs
- Guggenheim family, business leaders, philanthropists & art patrons
- Henry, Emanuel & Henry Lehman, founders of Lehman Brothers
- Michael Milken, junk bond king, fraudster & philanthropist
- Roy Neuberger, financier & art dealer
- Jacob Schiff, financier & philanthropist
- Muriel Siebert, first woman to purchase a seat on NYSE
- George Soros, financier & philanthropist
- Sandy Weill, ex-CEO of Citigroup, philanthropist
Retail & Rental
- Arthur Blank & Bernie Marcus, founders of Home Depot, philanthropists
- Nehemiah Cohen & Samuel Lehrman, founders of Giant Food
- Donald Fisher, co-founder of The Gap
- Isaac & Bernard Gimbel, founders of Gimbel's, Saks Fifth Avenue
- John Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab, owner of The Hertz Corporation (unconfirmed)
- Sidney Kimmel, retailer & philanthropist
- Paul, Georges, Maurice & Armand Marciano, founders of GUESS
- Morris Markin, founder of Checker Cabs
- David May, founder of May Department Stores
- Joe, Ralph & Avi Nakash, founders of Jordache
- Al Neiman, Carrie Neiman & Herbert Marcus, founders of Neiman-Marcus
- Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears & Roebuck, philanthropist
- Isador Straus, head of Macy's, Titanic victim
- Leslie Wexner, founder of Limited Brands, Victoria's Secret
- Mel Ziegler, Pat Ziegler & Bill Rosenzweig, founders of Banana Republic
Toys
- Beatrice Alexander, founder of the Alexander Doll Company
- Ralph Baer, inventor of the games console
- Joshua Lionel Cowen, toy train manufacturer, founder of Lionel Corporation
- Maurice Greenberg, founder of Coleco
- Ruth Handler, inventor of Barbie, founder of Mattel
- Henry & Helal Hassenfeld, founders of Hasbro
- Isaac Larian, inventor of Bratz, founder of MGA Entertainment
- Charles Lazarus, founder of Toys R Us
- Edwin Lowe, inventor of Bingo, producer of Yahtzee (unconfirmed)
- Rose & Morris Michtom, inventors of the teddy bear
- David Rosen, founder of SEGA (unconfirmed)
Confectionery
- Louis Auster, inventor of egg cream
- Burton Baskin & Irving Robbins, founders of Baskin Robbins
- Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry's
- Joseph Friedman, inventor of the flexistraw
- Milton Hershey, founder of Hershey Chocolate Company
- Herb Hyman, founder of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
- Charles Lubin, founder of Sara Lee
- Reuben Mattus, founder of Häagen-Dazs
- Bill Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin' Donuts
- Howard Schultz, head of Starbucks
Electronics
- Beny Alagem, founder of Packard Bell
- Michael Dell, founder of Dell, philanthropist
- Donna Dubinsky, co-founder of Palm Computing
- Lee Felsenstein, moderator of the Homebrew Computer Club
- Andrew Grove, co-founder of Intel
- Eugene Kleiner, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, venture capitalist
- Jaron Lanier, virtual reality products
- Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems
- Arthur Rock, hi-tech venture capitalist (Intel, Apple)
- Ben Rosen, hi-tech venture capitalist (Compaq, Lotus)
- Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International
- Andrew Viterbi & Irwin Jacobs, founders of Qualcomm
Software & Internet
- Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft (Jewish mother)
- Dan Bernstein, creator of qmail (unconfirmed)
- Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston, creators of Visicalc
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
- Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent (unconfirmed)
- Mark Cuban, founder of Broadcast.com, owner of the Dallas Mavericks
- Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle
- Justin Frankel, creator of Winamp (unconfirmed)
- Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks
- Andy Hertzfeld, programmer on Mac OS
- Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software, co-founder of EFF
- Raymond Kurzweil, artificial intelligence software
- Phil Katz, creator of PKZip
- Leslie Lamport, initial developer of LaTeX
- Max Levchin, founder of PayPal
- Elias Levy (aka Aleph One), long-time moderator of Bugtraq
- Jef Raskin, interface designer for Apple Macintosh
- Seymour I. Rubinstein, creator of WordStar (unconfirmed)
- Jonathan Sachs, chief programmer on Lotus
- Richard Stallman, programmer of Emacs, founder of GNU
- Larry Tesler, creator of Gypsy
- Dave Winer, content management, XML-RPC
Media
- Jack & Harry Cohn, co-founders of Columbia Pictures
- Michael Eisner, head of Disney
- William Fox, Joseph Schenk, co-founders of 20th Century Fox
- Leonard Goldenson, head of ABC
- Irving Kahn, co-founder of TelePrompTer
- Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios
- Marcus Loew, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, co-founders of MGM
- William S. Paley, head of CBS
- Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom
- Ralph Roberts, Daniel Aaron, Julian Brodsky, founders of Comcast
- David Sarnoff, head of RCA
- Robert Shaye, founder of New Line Cinema
- Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen, founders of Dreamworks SKG
- Harry, Albert, Sam & Jack Warner, founders of Warner Brothers
- Bob & Harvey Weinstein, founders of Miramax
- Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures
Publishing
- Walter Annenberg, publisher & philanthropist
- Bennett Cerf, founder of Random House
- Hugo Gernsback, founder of Amazing Stories (unconfirmed)
- Katharine Graham, former head of the Washington Post (Jewish father)
- Alfred & Blanche Knopf, founders of Knopf Publishing
- Adolph Ochs, former head of the New York Times
- Joseph Pulitzer, publisher (Jewish father)
- Barney Rossett, founder of Grove Press (Jewish father)
- Richard L. Simon & Max Schuster, founders of Simon and Schuster
- Roger W. Straus, Jr., co-founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Advertising
- Edward Bernays, father of public relations
- Bill Bernbach, advertising pioneer
- Jay Chiat, advertiser
- Stan Freberg, advertiser & radio personality
- Oscar Goldstein, creator of Ronald McDonald
- Albert Lasker, advertising pioneer, founder of the Lasker Award
- Shirley Polykoff, advertiser
- Ron Popeil, inventor & father of infomercials
- Jay Schulberg, creator of Got Milk?
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