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2 unusual facts about Business magnate


Anzhong Science and Technology Promotion Fund

The fund is based on the donation from the famous Hong Kong-based industralist Zhao Anzhong (趙安中 / 赵安中), who was a Zhejiang native (birthplace Ningbo).

Francis S. Peabody

Francis Stuyvesant Peabody (1858 – August 27, 1922) was an American businessman who founded Peabody Coal, and became a wealthy coal baron.


An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood

Author Neal Gabler focuses on the psychological motivations of these film moguls, arguing that their background as Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe shaped their careers and influenced the movies they made.

Bangor Public Library

In 1883, former U.S. Congressman and lumber baron Samuel F. Hersey left the City of Bangor a $100,000 bequest, which the city used to form a municipally owned public library.

Bernard Magrez

Bernard Magrez, born 1936, is a French wine magnate who predominantly owns Bordeaux wine estates, including Château La Tour Carnet, Château Pape Clément and Château Romer, but also a large number of wine producing properties in other French wine regions and other countries, including Spain, Chile, Argentina and California.

Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina

The Ferrari P4/5 (officially known as the Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina) is a one-off sports car made by Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari but redesigned by Pininfarina for film director and stock exchange magnate James Glickenhaus.

Kanuri Ranjith Kumar

He founded “Ranjith Movies” banner with the help of his uncle K.L.N.Prasad who is a well known Industrialist & Politician.

Raymond Lakah

Raymond Lakah, (born c. 1960 as Rami Lakah) (رامي لكح), is a French-Egyptian, Greek Catholic Christian magnate, and former owner of the French newspaper France Soir.

Shield's Crossing

An early suburbanite, Edwin Shield built the Fulton Foundry near the present house in 1851; he was one of the area's leading industrialists.

Stinson Aircraft Company

Automobile mogul Errett Lobban (E.L.) Cord acquired 60 percent of Stinson's stock in September 1929, and his Cord Corporation provided additional investment capital to permit Stinson to sell its aircraft at a competitive price while still pursuing new designs.


see also

Black billionaires

According to Forbes 2013 ranking of the world's billionaires, Nigerian business magnate Aliko Dangote with a net worth of $16.1 billion is the world's richest black person.

Christina Ong

Christina Fu Ong (born 1948), also known as the "Queen of Bond Street" is a Singaporean businesswoman and the wife of Singaporean business magnate and investor Ong Beng Seng.

Donald Trump's Real Estate Tycoon

Should the player pass through the five missions, he/she will then have a business competition with the American business magnate, Donald Trump.

Haicang District

In May 1989, the Chinese government established the Haicang investment zone as a petrochemical industrial area within Xinglin District for Taiwanese business magnate Wang Yongqing.

Herbert Johnson

Herbert Fisk Johnson, Sr. (1868–1928), 2nd generation business magnate (S.C. Johnson & Son)

Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. (1899–1978), 3rd generation business magnate (S.C. Johnson & Son)

Herbert Fisk Johnson III (born 1958), 5th generation business magnate (S.C. Johnson & Son)

Kuok Khoon Hong

Kuok is the nephew of Robert Kuok, a Malaysian business magnate with a net worth of billions of dollars.

Lauren Santo Domingo

She is married to Andres Santo Domingo, the youngest son of Colombian business magnate Julio Mario Santo Domingo and the co-owner of independent label Mexican Summer Records.

Michelle Dewberry

In 2006, Dewberry beat off competition from over 15,000 people to become the winner of the second British series of reality TV show The Apprentice, in which candidates compete for a £100,000-a-year job working for business magnate Sir Alan Sugar.