List of Jewish American business figures - Definition and Overview

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?