Executives
61 people, across 6 fields.
Field:
All
Technology & Building 24
Business & Labor 21
Ideas & Media 5
Arts & Letters 4
Frontier & Sport 4
Government & Politics 3
Donald Trump b. 1946PresidentsBusinessman, media personality, and 45th and 47th president whose populist movement transformed American politics.
Steve Jobs 1955–2011Technology & InventionCo-founder of Apple who revolutionized personal computing, music, and mobile communications.
Walt Disney 1901–1966Film, Television & ComedyAnimator and business magnate who created Mickey Mouse and built the world's largest entertainment empire.
Elon Musk b. 1971Technology & InventionEngineer and entrepreneur whose companies have advanced electric vehicles, reusable rockets, and neural interfaces.
Bill Gates b. 1955Technology & InventionCo-founder of Microsoft who, through the Gates Foundation, has donated billions to global health and education.
Oprah Winfrey b. 1954Journalism & Mass MediaMedia executive and talk show host who built a multimedia empire and became one of the most influential women in the world.
Jeff Bezos b. 1964Business, Finance & IndustryFounder of Amazon who transformed e-commerce and cloud computing, becoming one of the wealthiest people in history.
Mark Zuckerberg b. 1984Technology & InventionCo-founder of Facebook who built the world's largest social media platform and reshaped global communication.
Lucille Ball 1911–1989Film, Television & ComedyComedic actress and producer whose I Love Lucy pioneered the sitcom format and changed television.
Sam Walton 1918–1992Business, Finance & IndustryFounder of Walmart and Sam's Club who built the world's largest retail empire.
Jay-Z b. 1969MusicRapper and entrepreneur whose career helped move hip-hop from a subculture to the center of American business and culture.
Rupert Murdoch b. 1931Journalism & Mass MediaMedia mogul whose News Corp and Fox Corporation shaped global news and entertainment.
Larry Page b. 1973Technology & InventionCo-founder of Google whose search algorithm became the foundation of the modern internet economy.
Katharine Graham 1917–2001Journalism & Mass MediaPublisher who strengthened The Washington Post and backed its reporting on the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
Gordon Moore 1929–2023Technology & InventionCo-founder of Intel whose observation became Moore's Law, driving decades of semiconductor progress.
Ray Kroc 1902–1984Business, Finance & IndustryBusinessman who transformed McDonald's from a single restaurant into the world's largest fast-food chain.
Larry Ellison b. 1944Business, Finance & IndustryCo-founder of Oracle Corporation, a pioneer in database software and enterprise computing.
Robert McNamara 1916–2009Military & National SecuritySecretary of Defense who applied systems analysis to the Pentagon and escalated the Vietnam War.
Donald Rumsfeld 1932–2021Military & National SecurityTwice Secretary of Defense who directed the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and pushed military restructuring.
Ted Turner 1938–2026Journalism & Mass MediaMedia mogul who donated a billion dollars to the United Nations Foundation and championed environmental causes.
Sam Altman b. 1985Technology & InventionTechnology executive and investor whose leadership in generative artificial intelligence has had major but still-unsettled historical consequences.
Jack Welch 1935–2020Business, Finance & IndustryFormer CEO of General Electric who reshaped corporate management and became a business icon.
Michael Dell b. 1965Business, Finance & IndustryFounder of Dell Technologies who built one of the world's largest PC and IT infrastructure companies.
Branch Rickey 1881–1965SportsInvented the farm system, then signed Jackie Robinson and ended segregated baseball.David Packard 1912–1996Technology & InventionBuilt Hewlett-Packard into a corporation and wrote the management code Silicon Valley copied.
Ahmet Ertegun 1923–2006MusicCo-founder of Atlantic Records
Jensen Huang b. 1963Technology & InventionCo-founder and CEO of NVIDIA whose GPUs became the engine of the AI revolution.
Satya Nadella b. 1967Technology & InventionCEO of Microsoft who pivoted the company toward cloud computing and AI, driving massive growth.
Jamie Dimon b. 1956Business, Finance & IndustryBank executive whose leadership of JPMorgan Chase made him one of the most influential voices in American finance.
Roger Ailes 1940–2017Journalism & Mass MediaTelevision executive who created Fox News and transformed partisan cable news and conservative politics.
Thomas J. Watson Sr. 1874–1956Business, Finance & IndustryExecutive who built IBM into the dominant punched-card and business-machine company before the computer age.
Eddie Rickenbacker 1890–1973Exploration, Aviation & SpaceWorld War I ace of aces and longtime head of Eastern Air Lines
Howard Schultz b. 1953Business, Finance & IndustryFormer CEO of Starbucks who turned a Seattle coffee shop into a global coffeehouse phenomenon.
Sundar Pichai b. 1972Technology & InventionCEO of Alphabet and Google who oversees the world's dominant search engine and AI research.
Alfred P. Sloan 1875–1966Business, Finance & IndustryGeneral Motors leader who established the multidivisional corporation and professional management systems copied across industry.
Pete Rozelle 1926–1996SportsPersuaded the owners to share television money and built the modern NFL on it.
Eric Schmidt b. 1955Business, Finance & IndustryFormer Google CEO whose tenure saw the company's explosive growth into a tech giant.
Tim Cook b. 1960Technology & InventionCEO of Apple who steered the company to become the world's most valuable after Steve Jobs's death.
Fred Smith 1944–2025Business, Finance & IndustryFounder of FedEx who pioneered overnight delivery and transformed global logistics.
Andrew Grove 1936–2016Business, Finance & IndustryLed Intel through its shift to microprocessors and shaped American technology management practice.
Sheryl Sandberg b. 1969Technology & InventionFormer COO of Meta who wrote Lean In and became a prominent voice on women in leadership.
Steve Ballmer b. 1956Business, Finance & IndustryFormer CEO of Microsoft and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, with vast technology-derived wealth.
Frank Borman 1928–2023Exploration, Aviation & SpaceCommander of Apollo 8, the first mission to orbit the Moon, and later CEO of Eastern Air Lines.
Sheldon Adelson 1933–2021Business, Finance & IndustryCasino magnate and political donor who built Las Vegas Sands into a global resort empire.
Reed Hastings b. 1960Technology & InventionCo-founder of Netflix who disrupted the entertainment industry by pioneering streaming video.
Julius Rosenwald 1862–1932Business, Finance & IndustrySears executive who funded thousands of schools for African American children in the segregated South.
Susan Wojcicki 1968–2024Technology & InventionFormer CEO of YouTube who helped build Google and oversaw the video platform's explosive growth.
Jack Dorsey b. 1976Technology & InventionCo-founder of Twitter and Square who shaped social media and mobile payments.
Meg Whitman b. 1956Technology & InventionFormer CEO of eBay and HP who helped build e-commerce and enterprise technology giants.
Travis Kalanick b. 1976Technology & InventionCo-founder of Uber who popularized the gig economy and transformed urban transportation worldwide.
Lisa Su b. 1969Technology & InventionCEO of AMD who transformed the semiconductor company into a major competitor to Intel and NVIDIA.
Brian Chesky b. 1981Technology & InventionCo-founder of Airbnb who created the global home-sharing marketplace that disrupted the hotel industry.
Marissa Mayer b. 1975Technology & InventionFormer Yahoo CEO and early Google engineer who was one of Silicon Valley's most prominent female executives.
Evan Spiegel b. 1990Technology & InventionCo-founder of Snapchat who pioneered ephemeral messaging and augmented reality social media.
Jeff Skoll b. 1965Business, Finance & IndustryeBay's first president whose Skoll Foundation supports social entrepreneurs solving global problems.
Safra Catz b. 1961Technology & InventionCEO of Oracle who has steered one of the world's largest enterprise software companies.
Abigail Johnson b. 1961Business, Finance & IndustryCEO of Fidelity Investments who oversees one of the world's largest asset management firms.
Rob Walton b. 1944Business, Finance & IndustryEldest son of Sam Walton who served as chairman of Walmart for over two decades.
Drew Houston b. 1983Technology & InventionCo-founder of Dropbox who made cloud file storage simple and ubiquitous for millions.Jacqueline Mars b. 1939Business, Finance & IndustryHeiress and board member of Mars Inc., one of the world's largest privately held confectionery companies.
Jim Walton b. 1948Business, Finance & IndustryYoungest son of Sam Walton and major shareholder in Walmart, one of the world's largest retailers.