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1001 Club

It was established in 1970 by the then head of the WWF, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, with help from Anton Rupert, a South African entrepreneur.

Argentine Anticommunist Alliance

Amongst many well-known and respected people who left are mathematician Manuel Sadosky, artists Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni and Nacha Guevara, politician and entrepreneur José Ber Gelbard, lawyer and politician Héctor Sandler, and actor Norman Briski.

Bassano Virtus 55 S.T.

The team is owned by Renzo Rosso, the entrepreneur "king of the casual" and founder of Diesel, a company best known for the jeans.

Bernd Polster

His latest book is "bauhaus design", the first comprehensive overview on this topic, and a biography on Peter Ghyczy, an architect, inventor and entrepreneur.

Brad Inman

Bradley Inman, Internet entrepreneur and founder of several companies

Braunschweig University of Technology

Current and former members of the TU Braunschweig include mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nobel Laureate Klaus von Klitzing, SAP-CEO Professor Henning Kagermann, truck engineer and entrepreneur Heinrich Büssing of Büssing AG, as well as renowned architect Meinhard von Gerkan.

Carl Heinrich von Siemens

Carl Heinrich von Siemens (often just Carl von Siemens) (March 3, 1829 in Menzendorf, Mecklenburg - March 21, 1906 in Menton, France) was a German entrepreneur, a child (of fourteen) of a tenant farmer.

Center Front

Aguirre is an entrepreneur and a former member of Unidad Nacional.

Cha Chi Ming

Cha Chi-ming GBM JP (1914 – 28 March 2007) was a Hong Kong industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Charles Nash

Charles Williams Nash (1864–1948), United States automobile entrepreneur

Clark Art Institute

"The Clark" was created by entrepreneur, soldier, explorer, and prominent art collector Robert Sterling Clark, and his wife, Francine.

Crandell Addington

Crandell Addington (born June 2, 1938 in Graham, Texas) is an entrepreneur and poker player who is best known as one of the founders of the World Series of Poker, and is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.

CreativeLIVE

Tim Ferriss, Pulitzer-prize winning photographers Deanne Fitzmaurice and Vincent Laforet, and entrepreneur Chris Guillebeau have all taught classes on the creativeLIVE platform.

Cumberland Gap, Tennessee

In 1888, a work camp was established at Cumberland Gap by Scottish-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur (1846–1912) to house workers needed to build a tunnel for the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville Railroad.

David T. Beito

Black Maverick is a biography of civil rights leader, surgeon, entrepreneur and self-help advocate, T.R.M. Howard, who was a mentor to Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer, and was reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Harper's Magazine, and other publications.

Die Weltwoche

In 1987, Jean Frey Verlag was bought up by notorious entrepreneur and fraudster Werner Rey.

Durov

Pavel Durov (b. 1984), a Russian entrepreneur & VK.com creator

Edward Stamp

Edward Stamp (1814–1872) was an English mariner and entrepreneur who contributed to the early economic development of British Columbia and Vancouver Island.

First Target

Secret Service Agent Alex McGregor (Daryl Hannah) is charged with protecting President Jonathan Hayes (Gregory Harrison) who is facing problems with a powerful group represented by his Vice-President of the United States, and entrepreneur Senator Jack "J.P."

Francisco Martín Borque

Francisco Martin Borque was a Mexican entrepreneur, he was born in Soria, Spain in August 9, 1917 and died in December 24, 1998 in Torreon, Coahuila, their family arrived Veracruz port in October 30, 1926, then moved to Torreon with their uncle Pascual Borque, in 1930's decade toured Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora sierras, was married with Ana María Bringas at February 15, 1949, in 1968 opened their first hypermarket under the name of Soriana.

Gene Shalit

Shalit's children include the artist and entrepreneur Willa Shalit.

Georg Knorr

Theodor Georg Knorr (born November 13, 1859 in Ruda, West Prussia; died April 15, 1911 in Davos, Switzerland), was an engineer and entrepreneur on the field of railroad technology and founder of the company Knorr-Bremse.

Ghaisas

Deepak Ghaisas, entrepreneur in fields of information technology and biotechnology.

Giambattista Giannoccaro

Giambattista Giannoccaro (born October 22, 1960 in Fasano, Italy) is an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur.

Ģirts

Ģirts Līcis (born 1970), a Latvian entrepreneur and television presenter

Goji Electronics

The audio division of the company was founded by grime artist and entrepreneur Tinchy Stryder and DSG International plc president Lord Kalms, and primarily produces products under the brand Goji Tinchy Stryder.

Holden Special Vehicles

HSV was created in 1987 as a joint venture between Holden and Tom Walkinshaw Racing – an operation owned by Scottish racing car driver and entrepreneur Tom Walkinshaw.

Jens Risom

In 1941, Risom teamed with entrepreneur Hans Knoll and in 1942, they launched the Hans Knoll Furniture Company with 15 of the 20 pieces in the inaugural "600" line designed by Risom.

Joshua James

Josh James, entrepreneur, founder of Domo and co-founder of Omniture

Kenneth Weiss

Kenneth P. Weiss, American entrepreneur, human factors engineer and inventor

Kitabgi

General Kitabgi successfully persuaded Wolff's friend William Knox D'Arcy, a British entrepreneur, to develop the country’s oil possibilities.

Laplanche

Renaud Laplanche (born 1970), French American entrepreneur and business executive

Lessac Technologies

LTI was founded in 2000 by H. Donald Wilson (chairman), a lawyer, Lexus Nexus entrepreneur and business associate of Arthur Lessac; and Gary A. Marple (chief inventor), after Marple suggested that Arthur Lessac's kinesensic voice training might be applicable to computational linguistics.

Lugcentrokuz

Lugcentrokuz is one of the various companies founded from the existing steam locomotive factory in Luhansk that was built by the German entrepreneur Gustav Hartmann.

Main Street Armory

In July 2005, the building was purchased at auction by local entrepreneur Scott Donaldson.

Monaseed

William Curry - Entrepreneur & owner of Horizon Taxis in North Wales.

Park-McCullough Historic House

The house was built in 1864-65 by attorney and entrepreneur Trenor W. Park (1823-1882), who was born in nearby Woodford, Vermont but amassed his fortune overseeing the mining interests of John C. Fremont in California.

Porges

Nenad Porges (born 1946, Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, (now Croatia)), Croatian politician, businessman, entrepreneur and former Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship

RAD Group

The group typically has a similar approach for starting new ventures; a business idea of an entrepreneur (an existing company employee or an outsider) or from the company's management team, forms the basis of a start-up.

Robin Lane Fox

He is the father of entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, who co-founded Lastminute.com, and Henry Lane Fox, CEO of The Browser website.

Roy Thomson

Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet (1894 – 1976), Canadian newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur.

Rubinstein

Robert J. Rubinstein, Social entrepreneur and founder of the TBLI group

Saperstein

Alan Saperstein, Internet Video Pioneer and digital media entrepreneur.

Skewen

The grandparents of the legendary American entrepreneur Howard Hughes are believed to have lived in Skewen in the 1830s.

Stephen Riady

# Strategic Investment Entrepreneur of the Year in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Singapore 2007

Tenball

The game and the ITV/LWT TV series Tenball focused on a tournament of it were created in 1995 by a team consisting of managers Russ Lindsay and Peter Powell, entrepreneur Barry Hearn, and snooker and pool player Steve Davis.

Tennessee Central Railway

In 1893, enter the likes of entrepreneur "Colonel" Jere Baxter.

The Free Life

Pamela Brown was the actress daughter of Kentucky politician and attorney John Y. Brown, Sr. and the sister of Kentucky Fried Chicken entrepreneur and future Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown Jr.

Thomas J. Ramsdell

Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell (1833-1917), entrepreneur and Michigan State Representative in 1861

Web media makers

Web Media Makers was founded in the year 2006 as a web design & internet marketing company by Ved Tiwari, a 24 year old entrepreneur.


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