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Andrey Lugovoy

For several years he was head of security at the private television company ORT, then owned by now fugitive tycoons Boris Berezovsky and Badri Patarkatsishvili.

Anthony N. Brady

Brady partnered with leading East Coast business tycoons such as Thomas Edison, William C. Whitney, P. A. B. Widener and Thomas F. Ryan in various business ventures including the Electric Vehicle Co., initially a motorized taxicab business that evolved into Maxwell Automobile Co..

Catalina Casino

Film tycoons such as Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Goldwin frequently came by yacht to the Casino to preview their newest productions.

Ely Calil

Calil was also a very close friend to late tycoons as Sir James Goldsmith, John Aspinall and Mark Birley.

Manaf Suleymanov

He studied and published biographical articles on many Azerbaijani industrial magnates, oil tycoons and philanthropists such as Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.

Nob Hill, San Francisco

This included prominent tycoons such as Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University and other members of The Big Four.

Parker Green

Parker Green's Gerard O'Hare was in third position in an Irish Independent list of the "Top Twenty Irish property tycoons".

Phil Hurley

After a year and a half with Tracy, Phil stepped away to participate in the fertile Seattle music scene, where he recorded with groups like the Tycoons, Hulabees, Shuggie and Alex Woodard, and toured with Miles Hunt (of The Wonder Stuff), Lisa Loeb and Fountains of Wayne among others.

Pressed Steel Company

Tycoons William R. Morris and Edward G. Budd were unable to settle their differences.

S P Hinduja

With the acquisition of Ashok Leyland (from British Leyland) and Gulf Oil (from Chevron) in the 1980s and the establishment of banks in Switzerland and India in the 1990s, Hinduja became one of India's well-known successful business tycoons alongside leading names in business such as Tata, Birla, and Ambani.

Sid Meier's Railroads!

In these scenarios (fifteen in all), the game allows the user to take on the role of various famous railway tycoons and robber barons from the past, such as Cornelius Vanderbilt and J.P. Morgan.


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