Category
page 1Private equity and venture capital investors
Al Gore
Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)
Q151269
Polish association football player (born 1988)
Mitt Romney
American politician and businessman (born 1947)
Jack Ma
Chinese businessman

Bono

Michael Dell
Michael Saul Dell is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world's largest technology infrastructure companies.

Peter Thiel
Peter Andreas Thiel is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside investor in Facebook (2004). According to The New York Times, as of December 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$27.5 billion, placing him among the 100 richest individuals in the world.

Wilbur L. Ross Jr.
United States 39th Secretary of Commerce

Bill Weld
American politician, Governor of Massachusetts (1991-1997)
Wang Jianlin
Chinese businessman
Bill Hagerty
American politician and diplomat (born 1959)
Michael Eisner
American business executive
Stephen A. Schwarzman
American businessman and investor
Erik Prince
American businessman, former US Navy SEAL officer and the founder of the private military company Blackwater
James Goldsmith
French-British tycoon and politician (1933–1997)
Ben Horowitz
American businessman
Tony Hsieh
American businessman (1973 - 2020)

Tom Hicks
American private equity investor (1946–2025)
Kevin O'Leary
Terrence Thomas Kevin O'Leary, self stylized as Mr. Wonderful, is a Canadian businessman, television personality and actor. From 2004 to 2014, he appeared on various Canadian television shows, including the business news program The Lang and O'Leary Exchange as well as reality show Dragons' Den. O'Leary hosted Discovery Channel's Project Earth in 2008 and has appeared on Shark Tank, the American version of Dragons' Den, since 2009. He made his feature film debut as Milton Rockwell in Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme (2025).
Laurance Rockefeller
American businessman, conservationist, financier, philanthropist (1910-2004)
Peter George Peterson
American businessman, investment banker, philanthropist, and author (1926-2018)
Thomas J. Barrack, Jr.
United States Ambassador to Turkey
Kirill Dmitriev
CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)
William E. Simon
Secretary of the Treasury, businessman (1927–2000)
David Rubenstein
American businessman (born 1949)
Steve Feinberg
American businessman
Howard Marks
American businessman (b. 1946)
Henry Kravis
American businessman
Arthur Rock
American businessman (born 1926)

T. Boone Pickens
American financier; Chairman, BP Capital Management (1928-2019)
Nemir Kirdar
Iraqi businessman (1936–2020)

Victor Vescovo
American investor, explorer and retired naval officer

Leon Black
Leon David Black is an American private equity investor. He is the former CEO of Apollo Global Management, which he co-founded in 1990 with Marc Rowan and Josh Harris. Black was the chairman of the Museum of Modern Art from 2018 to 2021. Black resigned from both Apollo Global Management and the Museum of Modern Art in the wake of revelations about his business ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Robert Bass
American businessman
Marc Rowan
CEO of Apollo Global Management
Jan Leschly
Danish tennis player

John Hay Whitney
American diplomat, publisher, aviator (1904–1982)
Ronald Cohen
British businessman (born 1945)
David Stockman
American politician
Strauss Zelnick
American businessman
David Bonderman
American billionaire businessman (1942–2024)
Eric M. Warburg
German American businessman (1900-1990)
Rajat Gupta
Indian-American businessman
Sam Zell
American billionaire investor (1941–2023)
Josh Harris
American investor and sports team owner
John Phelan
American businessman (born 1964)

Nelson Peltz
Nelson Peltz is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is a founding partner, together with Peter W. May and Edward P. Garden, of Trian Partners, an alternative investment management fund based in New York. He is a former director of Heinz, Mondelēz International, and Ingersoll Rand and a former CEO of Triangle Industries.
Tom Gores
American businessman and investor
Arif Naqvi
Pakistani banker
Warren Hellman
American businessman and philanthropist (1934–2011)
Abdul Hafeez Shaikh
Pakistani politician
Bruce Wasserstein
American investment banker (1947–2009)
Randal Quarles
American businessman

Roger McNamee
American investor, author and musician
Jerome Kohlberg, Jr.
American businessman (1925–2015)
Lewis Michael Eisenberg
businessperson and diplomatic
George R. Roberts
American businessman
Antony Ressler
American chief executive
Louis O. Kelso
American lawyer and economist
Thomas H. Lee
American investor (1944–2023)