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A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...

 named after people
, it also includes brand names who was previously a company and organizations who are registered legally as a company. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies. All of these are named after founders, co-founders and partners of companies unless stated.

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  • A&M Records
    A&M Records
    A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...

     – Herb Alpert
    Herb Alpert
    Herbert "Herb" Alpert is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records...

     and Jerry Moss
    Jerry Moss
    Jerome S. "Jerry" Moss is an American recording executive, best known for being the co-founder of A&M Records, along with trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert....

  • A&W Restaurants
    A&W Restaurants
    A&W Restaurants, Inc., is a chain of fast-food restaurants, distinguished by its draft root beer and root beer floats. A&W was arguably the first successful food franchise company, starting franchises in 1921 in California. Today it has franchise locations throughout the world, serving a typical...

     – after Roy Allen and Frank Wright
  • Abbott Laboratories
    Abbott Laboratories
    Abbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....

     – Wallace Calvin Abbott (1888)
  • Abercrombie & Fitch
    Abercrombie & Fitch
    Abercrombie & Fitch is an American retailer that focuses on casual wear for consumers aged 18 to 22. It has over 300 locations in the United States, and is expanding internationally....

     – David T. Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch
    Ezra Fitch
    Ezra Hasbrouck Fitch was the co-founder of the modern lifestyle brand Abercrombie & Fitch and is attributed with the historical introduction of Mahjong to the United States....

  • Abrams Air Craft
    Abrams Air Craft
    The Abrams Air Craft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer established in Lansing, Michigan in 1937 as an offshoot of Talbert Abrams' Aerial Survey Corporation. Abrams had founded an airline in 1929 but found himself increasingly interested in aerial photography.The new company was created for...

     – Talbert Abrams
    Talbert Abrams
    Talbert "Ted" Abrams was an American photographer and aviator known as the "father of aerial photography".-Early years:...

  • Abt Sportsline
    Abt Sportsline
    Abt Sportsline is a motor racing and auto tuning company based in Kempten im Allgäu, Germany. Abt mainly deals with Audi, and the related primary Volkswagen Group brands - Volkswagen, Škoda, and SEAT.-History:...

     – Johann Abt
  • Adam Opel GmbH
    Opel
    Adam Opel AG, generally shortened to Opel, is a German automobile company founded by Adam Opel in 1862. Opel has been building automobiles since 1899, and became an Aktiengesellschaft in 1929...

     – Adam Opel
    Adam Opel
    Adam Opel was the founder of the German automobile company Adam Opel AG.- Biography :Adam Opel was born on May 9, 1837, to Wilhelm, a locksmith, and his wife in Rüsselsheim. Adam studied with his father until the age of 20, when he received his travel pass...

  • Adidas
    Adidas
    Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...

     – Adi Dassler
    Adolf Dassler
    Adolf "Adi" Dassler was the founder of the German sportswear company Adidas....

  • A. G. Edwards – Albert Gallatin Edwards
    Albert Gallatin Edwards
    Albert Gallatin Edwards was an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and founder of brokerage firm A. G. Edwards....

  • Agusta
    Agusta
    Agusta is an Italian helicopter manufacturer. It is based in Samarate, Northern Italy. It is a subsidiary of Finmeccanica. The company was founded by Count Giovanni Agusta in 1923, who flew his first airplane in 1907...

     – Giovanni Agusta
  • AGV
    AGV (helmet manufacturer)
    AGV SpA. is an Italian motorcycle helmet firm, founded by Gino Amisano , which started out in 1946 making leather seats and motorcycle saddles. A year later, in 1947, it started making motorcycle helmets...

     – Gino Amisano (Amisano Gino Valenza
    Valenza
    Valenza is a comune in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 km east of Turin and about 11 km north of Alessandria.-History:...

    )
  • Ajo Motorsport
    Ajo Motorsport
    Ajo Motorsport is a Finnish team competing in the 125cc class of Grand Prix motorcycle racing, in the Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix and in the Spanish and European championships. The team's leader is former racer Aki Ajo. The team debuted in 2001 and took its first win in 2003...

     – Aki Ajo
  • Albert Heijn
    Albert Heijn
    Albert Heijn B.V. is a supermarket chain founded in 1887 in Oostzaan, Netherlands. It is named after Albert Heijn, Sr., the founder of the first store in Oostzaan....

     and Ahold
    Ahold
    Ahold is a major international supermarket operator based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Ahold is listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.-History:...

     (Albert Heijn Holdings) – Albert Heijn
    Albert Heijn (1865)
    Albert Heijn was the original founder of what now is the largest food retailer in the Netherlands. On his wedding day in 1887 he took over the grocery store of his father, Albert Heijn, Sr and the supermarket chain founded by his grandson carries the name Albert Heijn to this day....

  • Aldi
    ALDI
    ALDI Einkauf GmbH & Co. oHG, doing business as ', short for "Albrecht Discount", is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany...

     – Theo
    Theo Albrecht
    Theodor Paul Albrecht , generally known as Theo Albrecht, was a German entrepreneur, who in 2010 was ranked by Forbes as the 31st richest person in the world, with a net worth of $16.7 billion. He owned and was the CEO of the Aldi Nord discount supermarket chain. In the US he owned the Trader Joe's...

     and Karl Albrecht
    Karl Albrecht
    Karl Hans Albrecht is a German entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo. He is among the richest men in the world, with an estimated net worth in 2011 of $25.5 billion according to Forbes, which ranks him 12th in its 2011 list of billionaires - making him...

     (ALbrecht DIscount)
  • Alessi – Giovanni Alessi
  • Alex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau
    Alex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau
    Alex von Falkenhausen Motorenbau was a German racing car constructor. The team was started by Alexander von Falkenhausen, who was in the 1930s an important engineer in the development of BMW's model 328, along with Alfred Boning, Ernst Loof and Fritz Fiedler...

     – Alex von Falkenhausen
  • Alza – ALex ZAffaroni.
  • AMG
    Mercedes-AMG
    Mercedes-AMG GmbH, commonly known as AMG, is a subsidiary of the Mercedes-Benz car company specializing in high-performance luxury cars....

     – Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher
    Erhard Melcher
    Erhard Melcher is a German engineer who was one of the founders of AMG Engine Production and Development, a current subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz....

     (Aufrecht Melcher Großaspach)
  • Amon
    Amon (Formula One team)
    Amon , was a Formula One team that competed in 1974.Fresh from the 1973 disaster at Tecno, but encouraged by the potential of the undeveloped Gordon Fowell chassis,driver Chris Amon tried running his own F1 car in 1974...

     – Chris Amon
    Chris Amon
    Christopher Arthur Amon MBE is a former motor racing driver. He was active in Formula One - racing in the 1960s and 1970s - and is widely regarded to be one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship Grand Prix...

  • Amstrad
    Amstrad
    Amstrad is a British electronics company, now wholly owned by BSkyB. As of 2006, Amstrad's main business is manufacturing Sky Digital interactive boxes....

     – Alan Sugar
    Alan Sugar
    Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar is a British entrepreneur, media personality and political advisor. From humble origins in the East End of London, Sugar now has an estimated fortune of £770m , and was ranked 89th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2011...

     (Alan Michael Sugar Trading)
  • Anatra
    Anatra
    Anatra was an aircraft manufacturer founded by Artur Antonovich Anatra at Odessa, Ukraine, then Russian Empire in 1913 which manufactured several light aircraft designs from then to 1917....

     – Artur Antonovich Anatra
  • Andrea Moda Formula
    Andrea Moda Formula
    Andrea Moda Formula was a Formula One team, created by Andrea Sassetti, a shoe manufacturer from Italy. In September 1991 he bought the Coloni F1 team after it had failed to pre-qualify a car for every single race that year....

     – Andrea Sassetti
    Andrea Sassetti
    Andrea Sassetti is a shoe designer, owner of the Italian fashion company Andrea Moda. He was also briefly the owner of a Formula One motor racing team Andrea Moda in 1992....

  • Anheuser-Busch
    Anheuser-Busch
    Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. , is an American brewing company. The company operates 12 breweries in the United States and 18 in other countries. It was, until December 2009, also one of America's largest theme park operators; operating ten theme parks across the United States through the...

     – Lilly and Eberhard Anheuser, and Adolphus Busch
    Adolphus Busch
    Colonel Adolphus Busch was the German-born co-founder of Anheuser-Busch with his father-in-law, Eberhard Anheuser. His great-great-grandson, August Busch IV is now on the board of Anheuser-Busch InBev.-Biography:...

  • Ann Summers
    Ann Summers
    Ann Summers is a United Kingdom-based retailer specialising in sex toys and lingerie, with over 140 high street stores in the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands and Spain. In 2000, Ann Summers acquired the Knickerbox brand, a label with an emphasis on more comfortable and feminine underwear, while...

     – Annice Summers, secretary of founder Caborn Waterfield
  • Ansaldo
    Gio. Ansaldo & C.
    Ansaldo was one of Italy's oldest and most important engineering companies, existing for 140 years from 1853 to 1993.-From foundation to World War I:...

     – Giovanni Ansaldo
  • The Anschutz Corporation
    The Anschutz Corporation
    The Anschutz Corporation is a privately-held holding company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. It was started in 1958 by Fred Anschutz, an wildcatter, and the father of Philip Anschutz, who took over the company in 1962....

     – Philip Anschutz
    Philip Anschutz
    Philip Frederick Anschutz is an American entrepreneur. Anschutz bought out his father's drilling company in 1961 and earned large returns in Wyoming. He has invested in stocks, real estate and railroads...

  • Arai Helmet – Hirotake Arai
  • Archer Daniels
    Archer Daniels Midland
    The Archer Daniels Midland Company is a conglomerate headquartered in Decatur, Illinois. ADM operates more than 270 plants worldwide, where cereal grains and oilseeds are processed into products used in food, beverage, nutraceutical, industrial and animal feed markets worldwide.ADM was named the...

     – George A. Archer and John W. Daniels
  • Armani – Giorgio Armani
    Giorgio Armani
    Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy, with an annual turnover of $1.6 billion and a...

  • Arrows
    Arrows
    Arrows Grand Prix International was a British Formula One team active from to . For a period of time, it was also known as Footwork.-Origins :...

     – Franco Ambrosio, Alan Rees
    Alan Rees
    Alan Rees is a British former racing driver from Wales. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix in the 1960s, although two of those appearances were driving Formula 2 cars...

    , Jackie Oliver
    Jackie Oliver
    Keith Jack Oliver, better known as Jackie Oliver, is a British former Formula One driver and team-owner from England...

    , Dave Wass, and Tony Southgate
  • ARTA
    Autobacs Racing Team Aguri
    AUTOBACS Racing Team AGURI is a joint racing project formed between former F1 driver Aguri Suzuki and Autobacs Seven Co. in 1997. The team's original name was "ARTA F1 Project," but due to copyright claims based on the usage of the word "F1," the name has since been shortened to "ARTA." ARTA is...

     – Aguri Suzuki
    Aguri Suzuki
    is a former racing driver from Japan. He participated in 88 Formula One Grands Prix, and his most notable achievement in racing was 3rd place at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix. Suzuki then became involved in team ownership, with interests firstly in the Japanese Formula Nippon Championship and the...

     (Autobacs
    Autobacs Seven Co.
    is a retailer of automotive parts and accessories based in Japan with branches all over the world.-Name of origin:*AUTO: Appeal, Unique, Tire, Oil*BACS: Battery, Accessory, Car audio, Service...

     Racing Team Aguri)
  • Arzani-Volpini
    Arzani-Volpini
    Arzani-Volpini was an Italian Formula One constructor, established by Gianpaolo Volpini and engine-builder Egidio Arzani....

     – Egidio Arzani and Gianpaolo Volpini
  • AS Watson – Alexander Skirving Watson
  • Aston Butterworth
    Aston Butterworth
    Aston Butterworth was a Formula Two constructor from the United Kingdom, during the years 1952-3 when the World Drivers' Championship was run to Formula Two regulations...

     – Bill Aston
    Bill Aston
    William "Bill" Aston was a British racing driver who participated in three Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, for his own team Aston Butterworth....

     and Archie Butterworth
  • Aston Martin
    Aston Martin
    Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill speed hillclimb near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire...

     – Lionel Martin
    Aston Martin
    Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire. The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Hill speed hillclimb near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire...

  • Audi
    Audi
    Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer, from supermini to crossover SUVs in various body styles and price ranges that are marketed under the Audi brand , positioned as the premium brand within the Volkswagen Group....

     – August Horch
    August Horch
    August Horch was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.-Beginnings:...

     (audi is Latin for horch which means listen in English)
  • Avery Dennison Corporation
    Avery Dennison
    Avery Dennison Corporation is a global manufacturer and distributor of pressure sensitive adhesive materials , office products, and various paper products....

     – R. Stanton Avery
  • AviaBellanca Aircraft
    AviaBellanca Aircraft
    AviaBellanca Aircraft Corporation is an American aircraft design and manufacturing company. Prior to 1983 it was known as the Bellanca Aircraft Company...

     – Giuseppe Mario Bellanca
    Giuseppe Mario Bellanca
    Giuseppe Mario Bellanca was an Italian-American airplane designer and builder who created the first enclosed cabin monoplane in the United States in 1922. This aircraft is now on display at the National Air & Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.-Biography:He was born on March 19, 1886 in...


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  • B&H Photo Video
    B&H Photo Video
    B&H Photo Video, founded in 1973 and located at 420 Ninth Avenue on the corner of West 34th Street in Manhattan, New York City, is the largest non-chain photo and video equipment store in the United States.-Overview:...

     – Blimie and Herman Schreiber
  • B&Q
    B&Q
    B&Q plc is a multinational DIY and home improvement retailer headquartered in Eastleigh, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1969 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kingfisher plc, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange....

     – Richard Block and David Quayle
  • Babolat
    Babolat
    Babolat is a French tennis, badminton and squash equipment company, best known for its strings and tennis racquets which are used by several top players such as Li Na, Rafael Nadal, Kim Clijsters, Andy Roddick, Fernando González, Igor Andreev, Fabio Fognini, Leander Paes, Nicolás Lapentti,...

     – Pierre Babolat
  • Bacardi
    Bacardi
    Bacardi is a family-controlled spirits company, best known as a producer of rums, including Bacardi Superior and Bacardi 151. The company sells in excess of 200 million bottles per year in nearly 100 countries...

     – Facundo Bacardi
    Facundo Bacardi
    Don Facundo Bacardi Massó was a Catalan businessman. In 1862 he founded the eponymous Bacardi rum distillery.Bacardi was born in Sitges Don Facundo Bacardi Massó (1814 – May 9, 1886) was a Catalan businessman. In 1862 he founded the eponymous Bacardi rum distillery.Bacardi was born in Sitges Don...

  • Baedeker's
    Baedeker
    Verlag Karl Baedeker is a Germany-based publisher and pioneer in the business of worldwide travel guides. The guides, often referred as simply "Baedekers" , contain important introductions, descriptions of buildings, of museum collections, etc., written by the best specialists, and...

     – Karl Baedeker
    Karl Baedeker
    Karl Baedeker was a German publisher whose company Baedeker set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists.- Biography :...

  • Bajaj Auto
    Bajaj Auto
    Bajaj Auto is a major Indian vehicle manufacturer started by Jamnalal Bajaj from Rajasthan in the 1930s. It is based in Pune, Maharashtra, with plants in Chakan , Waluj and Pantnagar in Uttaranchal. The oldest plant at Akurdi now houses the R&D centre Ahead...

     – Jamnalal Bajaj
    Jamnalal Bajaj
    Jamnalal Bajaj was an Indian industrialist, a philanthropist, and Indian independence fighter. He was also a close associate and follower of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi is known to have adopted him as his son. Several institutions in India bears his name, including the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of...

  • Baker Curb Racing – Gary Baker and Mike Curb
    Mike Curb
    Michael Curb is an American musician, record company executive, NASCAR and IRL race car owner. A Republican, he served as the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of California from 1979-1983 under Democratic Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr...

  • Baker International
    Baker International
    Baker International was established 1907 when Reuben C. Baker developed a casing shoe that revolutionized cable tool drilling.In 1987, the company merged with Hughes Tool Company to form Baker Hughes Incorporated....

     (to Baker Hughes
    Baker Hughes
    Baker Hughes Baker Hughes provides the world's oil & gas industry with products and services for drilling, formation evaluation, completion, production and reservoir consulting. Baker Hughes operates in over 90 countries worldwide mainly based in countries with a mature petroleum industry as is...

    ) – Reuben C. Baker
    Reuben C. Baker
    Reuben C. Baker established Baker International in 1907 after developing a casing shoe that revolutionized cable tool drilling. In 1903, he introduced the offset bit for cable tool drilling to enable casing wells in hard rock and in 1912 the cement retainer that allowed casing to be cemented in...

  • Baldwin Locomotive Works
    Baldwin Locomotive Works
    The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad locomotives. It was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, originally, and later in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Although the company was very successful as a producer of steam locomotives, its transition to the production of...

     – Matthias W. Baldwin
    Matthias W. Baldwin
    Matthias William Baldwin was an American manufacturer of steam locomotives. He opened his machine shop in 1825...

  • Ball Corp.
    Ball Corp.
    Ball Corporation , originally Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company, is an American company famous for producing glass canning jars. Founded in 1880, it is currently headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. The company has expanded into other areas such as avionics, space systems, metal beverage...

     – the Ball Brothers
    Ball Brothers
    The Ball brothers were the founders of the Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Business which eventually became Ball Corporation. They greatly improved the quality of life of Muncie, Indiana through their philanthropy and business. They were instrumental in the creation of Ball State University, and...

  • Bandini Automobili
    Bandini Automobili
    Bandini Automobili was an Italian automobile manufacturer operating between 1946 and 1992. It was named after its founder Ilario Bandini.Founded in 1946 in Bandini’s hometown Forlì, the first Bandini used a modified Fiat 1100 engine, the body was made from hand hammered aluminum and the chassis...

     – Ilario Bandini
    Ilario Bandini
    Ilario Bandini was an Italian businessman, racing driver, and racing car builder.-Early years:Bandini was born in Villa Rovere, today part of the administrative region of Forlì in Romagna. Upon leaving elementary school, he apprenticed as a mechanic and turner in nearby Forli...

  • Bang & Olufsen
    Bang & Olufsen
    Bang & Olufsen is a Danish company that designs and manufactures audio products, television sets and telephones. It was founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, whose first significant product was a radio that worked with alternating current, when most radios were run from batteries...

     – Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen
  • Bankable Productions
    Bankable Productions
    Bankable Productions is an independent film and television production company founded by former model Tyra Banks who also serves as CEO of the company...

     – Tyra Banks
    Tyra Banks
    Tyra Lynne Banks is an American model, media personality, actress, occasional singer, author and businesswoman. She first became famous as a model, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough...

  • Bannatyne's
    Bannatyne's
    Bannatyne's is the name of a UK based chain of health clubs, well known for being founded and co-directed by famous Scottish businessman Duncan Bannatyne OBE....

     – Duncan Bannatyne
    Duncan Bannatyne
    Duncan Walker Bannatyne, OBE is a Scottish entrepreneur, philanthropist and author. His business interests include hotels, health clubs, spas, media, TV, stage schools, property and transport. He is most famous for his appearance as a business angel on the BBC programme Dragons' Den...

  • Banta Corporation
    Banta Corporation
    Banta Corporation was a major printing, imaging, and supply chain management company of the United States, based in Menasha, Wisconsin for all of its 105 years. Founded in 1901, it was acquired by Chicago-based RR Donnelley in late 2006.-History:...

     – George Banta
    George Banta
    George Banta was the founder of the George Banta Company and an influential figure in the development of the collegiate Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Delta Gamma women's fraternity.-Biography:...

    , Sr.
  • Barilla Group – Pietro Barilla
  • Barnardo's
    Barnardo's
    Barnardo's is a British charity founded by Thomas John Barnardo in 1866, to care for vulnerable children and young people. As of 2010, it spends over £190 million each year on more than 400 local services aimed at helping these same groups...

     – Thomas John Barnardo
    Thomas John Barnardo
    Thomas John Barnardo was a philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor children, born in Dublin. From the foundation of the first Barnardo's home in 1870 to the date of Barnardo’s death, nearly 100,000 children had been rescued, trained and given a better life.- Early life :Barnardo...

  • Barnes & Noble
    Barnes & Noble
    Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest book retailer in the United States, operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores headquartered at 122 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District in Manhattan in New York City. Barnes & Noble also operated the chain of small B. Dalton...

     – William Barnes and G. Clifford Noble
  • Barneys New York
    Barneys New York
    Barneys New York is a chain of luxury department stores headquartered in New York City. The chain owns large stores in New York City, Beverly Hills, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Las Vegas, and Scottsdale, and smaller stores in other locations across the United States.Brands sold include...

     – Barney Pressman
  • Bashas'
    Bashas'
    Bashas is a family-owned grocery store chain, primarily located in Arizona with two locations outside the state; one each in Needles, California, and Crownpoint, New Mexico. Its headquarters are in unincorporated Maricopa County, Arizona, near Chandler....

     – Eddie Basha, Sr.
  • Baskin-Robbins
    Baskin-Robbins
    Baskin-Robbins is a global chain of ice cream parlors founded by Burt Baskin and Irvine Robbins in 1953, from the merging of their respective ice cream parlors, in Glendale, California. It claims to be the world's largest ice cream franchise, with more than 5,800 locations, 2,800 of which are...

     – Burt Baskin
    Burt Baskin
    Burt "Butch" Baskin co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1946 with his partner and brother-in-law Irv Robbins.-Business career:...

     and Irv Robbins
    Irv Robbins
    Irvine "Irv" Robbins was a Canadian born American businessman. He co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1945 with his partner and brother-in-law Burt Baskin.-Early life:...

  • Bass & Co – William Bass
    William Bass (brewer)
    -Career:William Bass was the son of William Bass and his wife Hannah Fish. He had a carrier business with his brother John at Hinckley, Leicestershire...

  • Bausch & Lomb
    Bausch & Lomb
    Bausch & Lomb, an American company based in Rochester, New York, is one of the world's leading suppliers of eye health products, such as contact lenses and lens care products today. In addition to this main activity, in recent years the area of medical technology has been developed...

     – John Jacob Bausch
    John Jacob Bausch
    John Jacob Bausch was a German-American maker of optical instruments who co-founded Bausch & Lomb ....

     and Henry Lomb
  • Bayer
    Bayer
    Bayer AG is a chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen , Germany in 1863. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and well known for its original brand of aspirin.-History:...

     – Friedrich Bayer
    Friedrich Bayer
    Friedrich Bayer was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the paint factory Friedrich Bayer along with Johann Friedrich Weskott in 1863 in Elberfeld.-External links:*...

  • BBS
    BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG
    BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG is a high performance automobile wheel design company headquartered in Schiltach, Germany. BBS serves North America through BBS of America, located in Braselton, Georgia, adjacent to the Road Atlanta Racetrak...

     – Heinrich Baumgartner and Klaus Brand (Baumgartner Brand Schiltach
    Schiltach
    Schiltach is a town in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the eastern Black Forest, on the river Kinzig, 20 km south of Freudenstadt.-Geography:...

    )
  • BEA Systems
    BEA Systems
    BEA Systems, Inc. specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products known as "middleware", which connect software applications to databases and was acquired by Oracle Corporation on April 29, 2008.- History :...

     – Bill Coleman, Ed Scott, and Alfred Chuang
  • Beck's – Heinrich Beck (1873)
  • Beckman Coulter
    Beckman Coulter
    Beckman Coulter Inc., is a company that makes biomedical laboratory instruments. Founded by Caltech professor Arnold O. Beckman in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented, the company eventually grew to employ over 10,000 people, with $2.4 billion in...

     – Arnold O. Beckman
    Arnold Orville Beckman
    Arnold Orville Beckman was an American chemist who founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity. He also funded the first transistor company, thus giving rise to Silicon Valley.-Early life:Beckman was born in Cullom, Illinois, the son of...

  • Behra
    Behra-Porsche
    Behra-Porsche was a Formula One constructor competing briefly in 1960.The company was founded by Jean Behra, an established French racer. He had been driving a Ferrari D246 in 1959 but was dismissed from the team after the French GP...

     – Jean Behra
    Jean Behra
    Jean Marie Behra was a Formula One driver who raced for the Gordini, Maserati, BRM, Ferrari and Porsche teams.-Appearance and personality:...

  • Bell & Ross
    Bell & Ross
    Bell & Ross is a French watch company headed by the French and Swiss designers Bruno Belamich and Carlos A. Rosillo. The brand was launched in 1992, and the first watches were designed by Belamich and Rosillo and made by a German watchmaker, Sinn....

     – Bruno BELamich and Carlos A. ROSillo
  • Bell Aircraft
    Bell Aircraft
    The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II but most famous for the Bell X-1, the first supersonic aircraft, and for the development and production of many important civilian and military helicopters...

     – Lawrence Bell
  • Bell Telephone Company
    Bell Telephone Company
    The Bell Telephone Company, a common law joint stock company, was organized in Boston, Massachusetts on July 9, 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who also helped organize a sister company — the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company...

    , Bell System
    Bell System
    The Bell System was the American Bell Telephone Company and then, subsequently, AT&T led system which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1877 to 1984, at various times as a monopoly. In 1984, the company was broken up into separate companies, by a U.S...

     – Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....

  • Bellasi
    Bellasi
    Bellasi was a Formula One constructor from Italy that raced under Swiss nationality. They participated in 6 grands prix during the early 1970s, entering a total of 6 cars....

     – Guglielmo Bellasi
  • Ben & Jerry's
    Ben & Jerry's
    Ben & Jerry's is an American ice cream company, a division of the British-Dutch Unilever conglomerate, that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, and ice cream novelty products, manufactured by Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc., headquartered in South Burlington, Vermont, United...

     – Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
    Jerry Greenfield
    Jerry Greenfield is a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.Throughout his childhood, Greenfield lived in New York, on Long Island. In 1969, he enrolled at Oberlin College, where he followed a pre-med curriculum before graduating in 1973...

  • Benbros
    Benbros
    Benbros Ltd was a British toy company in existence from 1953 to 1965.The company was founded by two brothers, Jack and Nathan Beneson, the name a contraction of "Beneson Brothers" and were based at 145 Gosport Road Walthamstow.Benbros produced-...

     – Jack and Nathan Beneson (BENeson BROtherS)
  • Benelli
    Benelli (motorcycles)
    Benelli is an Italian Motorcycle manufacturer owned by Chinese company Qianjiang Group. It once manufactured shotguns, although this part of the business is now a separate company.-Early history:...

     – Teresa Benelli
  • Benetton Group
    Benetton Group
    Benetton Group S.p.A. is a global luxury fashion brand, based in Treviso, Italy. The name comes from the Benetton family who founded the company in 1965. Benetton Group is listed in Milan....

     – Luciano Benetton
    Benetton family
    Four members of the Italian Benetton family founded the Benetton Group S.p.A. fashion company in 1965. The three brothers and one sister were all born in Treviso, Veneto, Italy. Their father owned a bicycle shop...

  • Benz & Cie.
    Karl Benz
    Karl Friedrich Benz, was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered car, and together with Bertha Benz pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz...

     (later Daimler-Benz
    Daimler-Benz
    Daimler-Benz AG was a German manufacturer of automobiles, motor vehicles, and internal combustion engines; founded in 1926. An Agreement of Mutual Interest - which was valid until year 2000 - was signed on 1 May 1924 between Karl Benz's Benz & Cie., and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, which had...

    ) – Karl Benz
    Karl Benz
    Karl Friedrich Benz, was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered car, and together with Bertha Benz pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz...

  • Beretta
    Beretta
    Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is an Italian firearms manufacturer. Their firearms are used worldwide for a variety of civilian, law enforcement, and military purposes. It is also known for manufacturing shooting clothes and accessories. Beretta is the oldest active firearms manufacturer in the...

     – Bartolomeo Beretta
  • Beriev – Georgy Beriev
  • Berluti
    Berluti
    Berluti is a company that manufactures and retails a very exclusive luxury brand of shoes and boots solely for men. It is known for its unique leather finishing. It also makes and sells a line of leather goods such as belts, bags, and wallets with similar finish.It is based in Paris on the rue...

     – Alessandro Berluti
  • Berton
    Serpent Model Racing Cars
    Serpent Model Racing Cars B.V. is a company from Heemstede, North Holland in the Netherlands specializing in competition grade radio controlled cars which has won numerous IFMAR and EFRA titles, plus several national titles.-History:The company was officially founded in...

     – Pieter BERvoets and Ron TON
  • Bertone – Giovanni Bertone
    Giovanni Bertone
    Giovanni Bertone was an Italian automobile designer, known for establishing the Carrozzeria Bertone business.-Life and career:Bertone was the sixth of the seven sons from a farming family...

  • Bianchi Bicycles
    Bianchi Bicycles
    F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A is the world's oldest bicycle-making company still in existence, having pioneered the use of equal-sized wheels with pneumatic rubber tires in 1885. It was founded in Italy in 1885. It produced cars and commercial vehicles from 1900 to 1939; and motorcycles from 1897 to...

     – Edoardo Bianchi
  • Bickerton
    Bickerton (bicycle)
    The Bickerton, also called the Bickerton Portable, was a portable aluminium folding bicycle designed by Harry Bickerton and manufactured in the UK between 1971 and 1991. It was the first genuinely portable bicycle - at that time folding bicycles tended to be 20" step-through frames with a simple...

     – Harry Bickerton
  • Bimota
    Bimota
    Bimota is a small, Italian manufacturer of custom and production motorcycles. It was founded in 1973 in Rimini, Italy by Bianchi, Morri and Tamburini. The company name is a portmanteau derived from the first two letters of each of the three founders' surnames, i.e...

     – Valerio BIanchi, Giuseppe MOrri, and Massimo TAmburini
    Massimo Tamburini
    Massimo Tamburini is an Italian motorcycle designer for motorcycle companies including: Cagiva, Ducati, MV Agusta; and Bimota, which he founded, together with Bianchi and Morri ....

  • Black & Decker
    Black & Decker
    Black & Decker Corporation is a corporation based in Towson, Maryland, United States, that designs and imports power tools and accessories, hardware and home improvement products, and technology based fastening systems...

     (to Stanley Black & Decker) – S. Duncan Black and Alonzo G. Decker
  • Blohm + Voss
    Blohm + Voss
    Blohm + Voss , is a German shipbuilding and engineering works. It is a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems; there were plans to sell 80% of Blohm + Voss to Abu Dhabi Mar Group, but talks collapsed in July 2011.-History:It was founded on April 5, 1877, by Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss as a...

     – Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss
  • Bloomberg L.P.
    Bloomberg L.P.
    Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P...

     – Michael Bloomberg
    Michael Bloomberg
    Michael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States...

  • Bloomingdale's
    Bloomingdale's
    Bloomingdale's is an American department store owned by Macy's, Inc. .Bloomingdale's started in 1861 when brothers Joseph and Lyman G. Bloomingdale started selling hoop-skirts in their Ladies Notions' Shop on Manhattan's Lower East Side...

     – Joseph
    Joseph B. Bloomingdale
    Joseph B. Bloomingdale was an American businessman who in April 1872, with his brother Lyman, founded Bloomingdale's Department Store on 56th Street in New York City....

     and Lyman G. Bloomingdale
    Lyman G. Bloomingdale
    Lyman G. Bloomingdale was an American businessman who in April 1872, with his brother Joseph, founded Bloomingdales Department Store on 56th Street in New York City....

  • Boardman Bikes
    Boardman Bikes
    Boardman Bikes, is a British bicycle manufacturer, founded by the professional cyclist Chris Boardman, Sarah Mooney and Alan Ingarfield, and launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 2007...

     – Chris Boardman
    Chris Boardman
    Christopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France...

  • Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving
    Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving
    The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving is an American driving school, specialising in racing and police driving education. It is located in Phoenix, Arizona....

     – Bob Bondurant
    Bob Bondurant
    Robert Bondurant is an American former racecar driver who raced for Shelby American, Ferrari and Eagle teams.During his teens, Bondurant raced an Indian motorcycle on dirt ovals...

  • Bocar
    Bocar
    Bočar is a village located in the Novi Bečej municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...

     – BOb CARnes
  • Boeing
    Boeing
    The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

     – William Boeing
    William Boeing
    William Edward Boeing was an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company.-Biography:Boeing was born to a wealthy German mining engineer named Wilhelm Böing who had made a fortune and who had a sideline as a timber merchant...

  • Bölkow
    Bölkow
    Bölkow was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Stuttgart, Germany, and later Ottobrunn.-History:The company was founded in 1948 by Ludwig Bölkow, who since 1955 with Emil Weiland had developed helicopters for Bölkow Entwicklungen KG....

     – Ludwig Bölkow
    Ludwig Bölkow
    Ludwig Bölkow was one of the aeronautical pioneers of Germany.-Background:Born in Schwerin, in north-eastern Germany, in 1912, Bölkow was the son of a foreman employed by Fokker, one of the leading aircraft constructors of that time.-Early career:Bölkow’s first job was with Heinkel, the aircraft...

  • Bombardier Inc. – Joseph-Armand Bombardier
    Joseph-Armand Bombardier
    Joseph-Armand Bombardier was a Canadian inventor and businessman, and was the founder of Bombardier...

  • Bomgar
    Bomgar
    Bomgar is a remote control system for computer systems that enable support staff to take control of client computers to offer assistance. The system works by connecting the host and client to a virtual server or racked appliance through firewalls. The desktop sharing and file transfer works behind...

     - Joel Bomgaars
  • Bonhams
    Bonhams
    Bonhams is a privately owned British auction house founded in 1793. It is the third largest auctioneer after Sotheby's and Christie's, and conducts around 700 auctions per year. It has 700 employees....

     – Walter Bonham
  • Bonnier Group – Gerhard Bonnier
  • Borders Group
    Borders Group
    Borders Group, Inc. was an international book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company employed approximately 19,500 throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores....

     – Tom and Louis Borders
  • Boro
    Boro (Formula One)
    Boro was a Formula One team from the Netherlands run by the brothers Bob and Rody Hoogenboom.Their single car was built by the Ensign team, but was renamed Boro after their main sponsor HB Bewaking ended up as proprietor of the car after a legal dispute with Ensign owner Morris Nunn.In the small...

     – BOb and ROdy Hoogenboom
  • Bose Corporation – Amar Bose
    Amar Bose
    Amar Gopal Bose is an Bengali American electrical engineer, sound engineer and billionaire entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation...

  • Brabham – Jack Brabham
    Jack Brabham
    Sir John Arthur "Jack" Brabham, AO, OBE is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in , and . He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name....

  • Brabus
    BRABUS
    Brabus, founded 1977 in Bottrop , Germany , is a high-performance aftermarket tuning company which specializes in Mercedes-Benz, Smart and Maybach vehicles....

     – Klaus BRAckmann and Bodo BUSchmann
  • Brawn GP
    Brawn GP
    Brawn GP Formula One Team, the trading name of Brawn GP Limited, was a Formula One motor racing team and constructor, created by a management buyout of Honda Racing F1 Team. It only competed in the 2009 Formula One World Championship, with drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. The team...

     – Ross Brawn
    Ross Brawn
    Ross James Brawn OBE is an English motorsport engineer and Formula One team principal. He has worked for a number of Formula One teams, serving as the technical director of the championship-winning Benetton and Ferrari teams. He took a sabbatical from the sport in 2007 but returned to F1 for the...

  • Brentano's
    Brentano's
    Brentano's was an American bookstore. In addition to the numerous locations in the United States, there was a Brentano's on Avenue de l'Opéra in Paris, at the same location for 114 years....

     – August Brentano
  • Brewco Motorsports – Clarence and Tammy Brewer
  • Brad Jones Racing
    Brad Jones Racing
    Brad Jones Racing is an Australian motor racing team centred around brothers Kim and Brad Jones and is based in Albury, New South Wales. Presently the team compete in the V8 Supercar Series, which they joined in 2000. Recently they have also returned to the Australian Formula Ford Championship...

     – Brad Jones
  • Brian Hart Ltd.
    Brian Hart Ltd.
    Brian Hart Ltd., also known as Hart and Hart Racing Engines was a motor racing engine manufacturer that participated in 157 Formula One Grands Prix, powering a total of 368 entries....

     – Brian Hart
    Brian Hart
    Brian Hart is a British former racing driver and engineer with a background in the aviation industry. He is best known as the founder of Brian Hart Limited, a company that developed and built engines for motorsport use.- Racing career :Beginning in 1958, Hart enjoyed a successful career as a...

  • Bridgestone
    Bridgestone
    The is a multinational rubber conglomerate founded in 1931 by in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. The name Bridgestone comes from a calque translation and transposition of ishibashi, meaning "stone bridge" in Japanese....

     – Shojiro Ishibashi; The name comes from a calque translation and transposition of ishibashi, meaning "stone bridge".
  • Briggs & Stratton
    Briggs & Stratton
    Briggs & Stratton is the world's largest manufacturer of air-cooled gasoline engines primarily for outdoor power equipment. Current production averages 11 million engines per year.-History:...

     – Stephen Foster Briggs
    Stephen Foster Briggs
    Stephen Foster Briggs was an American engineer, co-founder of the company manufacturing Briggs & Stratton small internal-combustion engines and founder of Outboard Marine Corporation....

     and Harold M. Stratton
    Harold M. Stratton
    Harold Meade Stratton , aka Harry Stratton, was the president of the Stratton Grain Company and chairman of the Briggs & Stratton engine manufacturers....

  • Britek Motorsport
    Britek Motorsport
    Britek Motorsport is an Australian V8 Supercar motor racing team. Established in 2005 under the ownership of Bathurst 1000 winning driver Jason Bright, they have struggled in their first two seasons due to testing and licensing restrictions...

     – Jason BRIght
    Jason Bright
    Jason Bright is an Australian racing driver currently competing in the V8 Supercar series.-Australia:...

  • Brooks Locomotive Works
    Brooks Locomotive Works
    The Brooks Locomotive Works manufactured steam railroad locomotives and freight cars from 1869 through its merger into the American Locomotive Company until 1934.-History:...

     – founded by Horatio G. Brooks
    Horatio G. Brooks
    Horatio G. Brooks worked as chief engineer for the New York and Erie Railroad until the railroad moved its steam locomotive maintenance facilities from Dunkirk, New York, to Buffalo, New York. In 1869 he leased the former NY&E shops in Dunkirk and formed Brooks Locomotive Works...

  • Brooks Sports – An anglicized version of Bruchs, the maiden name of founder Morris Goldberg's wife
  • Brun Motorsport
    Brun Motorsport
    Brun Motorsport GmbH was a Swiss auto racing team founded by driver Walter Brun in 1983. They competed as a Porsche privateer team in sports car racing for their entire existence, running in a multitude of international championships. They notably won the World Sportscar Championship in 1986 and...

     – Walter Brun
  • Bugatti
    Bugatti
    Automobiles E. Bugatti was a French car manufacturer founded in 1909 in Molsheim, Alsace, as a manufacturer of high-performance automobiles by Italian-born Ettore Bugatti....

     – Ettore Bugatti
    Ettore Bugatti
    right|thumb|Ettore Bugatti in 1932Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti was an Italian-born and French naturalized citizen automobile designer and manufacturer....

  • Buick
    Buick
    Buick is a premium brand of General Motors . Buick models are sold in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, Taiwan, and Israel, with China being its largest market. Buick holds the distinction as the oldest active American make...

     – David Dunbar Buick
    David Dunbar Buick
    David Dunbar Buick was a Scottish-born Detroit inventor, best known for founding the Buick Motor Company...

  • Bulgari
    Bulgari
    Bulgari is an Italian jeweler and luxury goods retailer which has been owned by the French firm LVMH since October 2011. The trademark is usually written "BVLGARI" in the classical Latin alphabet , and is derived from the surname of the company's Greek founder, Sotirio Voulgaris...

     – Sotirios Bulgari
  • Bulova
    Bulova
    Bulova is a corporation making luxury watches and clocks. It has its headquarters in Woodside, Queens, New York City.Bulova was founded and incorporated as the J. Bulova Company in 1875 by Joseph Bulova , an immigrant from Bohemia...

     – Joseph Bulova
  • BVD
    BVD
    BVD is a brand of men's underwear, which are commonly referred to as "BVDs." BVD stands for Bradley, Voorhees & Day, the New York City firm that initially manufactured underwear of this name for both men and women. BVD is now only for men. It was founded in 1876 and named for its three founders.-...

     – Messrs. Bradley, Voorhees and Day

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  • C&A
    C&A
    C&A is an international chain of fashion retail clothing stores, with its European head offices in Vilvoorde , Belgium and Düsseldorf, Germany...

     – Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer
    Brenninkmeijer family
    Brenninkmeijer is a German-Dutch family. Two members of the Brenninkmeijer family founded C&A, an international chain of clothing stores.- History :...

  • Cadbury – John Cadbury
    John Cadbury
    John Cadbury was proprietor of a small chocolate business in Birmingham, England, that later became part of Cadbury plc, one of the world's largest chocolate producers.-Biography:...

  • Cadillac
    Cadillac
    Cadillac is an American luxury vehicle marque owned by General Motors . Cadillac vehicles are sold in over 50 countries and territories, but mostly in North America. Cadillac is currently the second oldest American automobile manufacturer behind fellow GM marque Buick and is among the oldest...

     – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
    Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
    Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac was a French explorer and adventurer in New France, now an area of North America stretching from Eastern Canada in the north to Louisiana in the south. Rising from a modest beginning in Acadia in 1683 as an explorer, trapper, and a trader of alcohol...

    , founder of Detroit, Michigan
  • Cagiva
    Cagiva
    Cagiva is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded in 1950 by Giovanni Castiglioni in Varese, originally producing small metal components. It went into the motorcycle industry in 1978. The name is a portmanteau derived from the founder and the founding location, i.e. CAstiglioni GIovanni...

     – Giovanni Castiglioni (CAstiglioni GIovanni VArese
    Varese
    Varese is a town and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 km north of Milan.It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or urban part of the city is called Varesotto.- Geography :...

    )
  • Callaway Cars – Reeves Callaway
  • Callaway Golf Company – Ely R. Callaway, Jr.
  • Calvin Klein
    Calvin Klein
    Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry....

     – Calvin Klein
  • Campagnolo
    Campagnolo
    Campagnolo is an Italian manufacturer of high-end bicycle components with headquarters in Vicenza, Italy. The components are organised as groupsets and are a near-complete collection of a bicycle's mechanical parts. Campagnolo's flagship components are the Super Record, Record, and Chorus...

     – Tullio Campagnolo
    Tullio Campagnolo
    Gentullio Campagnolo was an Italian racing cyclist and inventor. He patented the quick release skewer and founded the Campagnolo bicycle component company....

  • Campari
    Campari Group
    Gruppo Campari is an Italian-based multinational producer of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. The group holds a portfolio of over 40 brands marketed and distributed in more than 190 countries...

     – Davide Campari
  • Campbell Soup Company
    Campbell Soup Company
    Campbell Soup Company , also known as Campbell's, is an American producer of canned soups and related products. Campbell's products are sold in 120 countries around the world. It is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey...

     – Joseph A. Campbell
  • Canon – see Kwanon
  • Carl Zeiss AG – Carl Zeiss
    Carl Zeiss
    Carl Zeiss was a German maker of optical instruments commonly known for the company he founded, Carl Zeiss Jena . Zeiss made contributions to lens manufacturing that have aided the modern production of lenses...

  • Carlyle Group
    Carlyle Group
    The Carlyle Group is an American-based global asset management firm, specializing in private equity, based in Washington, D.C. The Carlyle Group operates in four business areas: corporate private equity, real assets, market strategies and fund-of-funds, through its AlpInvest subsidiary...

     – Thomas Carlyle
    Thomas Carlyle
    Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was...

     (indirectly, via the Carlyle Hotel
    Carlyle Hotel
    The Carlyle Hotel, known formally as The Carlyle, is a combination luxury and residential hotel located at 35 East 76th Street on the northeast corner of Madison Avenue, in the Upper East Side area of New York City...

    )
  • Casio
    Casio
    is a multinational electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Casio is best known for its electronic products, such as calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras, musical instruments, and watches...

     – Tadao Kashio
  • Celine
    Celine (brand)
    Céline is a French luxury house founded in 1945 by Céline Vipiana. Today, it is an international luxury goods brand owned by LVMH, purchased in 1996 for 2.7 billion French francs ....

     – Celine Vipiana
  • Cerruti 1881
    Cerruti 1881
    Cerruti 1881 is a brand of the famous fashion house Cerruti founded in 1967 in Paris by the Italian stylist and fashion producer Nino Cerruti.The Cerruti house designs, manufactures, distributes, and retails luxury ready-to-wear, jeans, fragrances, sportswear, leather goods, watches, and accessories...

     – Nino Cerruti
    Nino Cerruti
    Nino Cerruti is an Italian businessman and stylist, among the most famous in the world.He founded his own haute couture house Cerruti in 1967 in Paris...

  • Chanel
    Chanel
    Chanel S.A. is a French fashion house founded by the couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, well established in haute couture, specializing in luxury goods . She gained the name "Coco" while maintaining a career as a singer at a café in France...

     – Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
    Coco Chanel
    Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist thought, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. She was the founder of one of the most famous fashion brands, Chanel...

  • Charles Schwab Corporation – Charles R. Schwab
    Charles R. Schwab
    Charles R. "Chuck" Schwab is the founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation.-Early life:Schwab was born in Sacramento, California. Despite having the same name, he is not related to Charles M. Schwab, the American steel magnate of the first half of the Twentieth Century...

  • Chase National Bank
    Chase (bank)
    JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase, is a national bank that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of financial services firm JPMorgan Chase. The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000...

     (to Chase Manhattan Bank and JPMorgan Chase & Co.) – in honor of Salmon P. Chase
    Salmon P. Chase
    Salmon Portland Chase was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.Chase was one of the most prominent members...

  • Chevrolet
    Chevrolet
    Chevrolet , also known as Chevy , is a brand of vehicle produced by General Motors Company . Founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, General Motors acquired Chevrolet in 1918...

     – Louis Chevrolet
    Louis Chevrolet
    Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was a Swiss-born American race car driver of French descent, co-founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911 and later, the Frontenac Motor Corporation in 1916 which made racing parts for Ford's Model T.-Early life:Born in 1878 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a center of...

  • Chip Ganassi Racing
    Chip Ganassi Racing
    Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates is an automotive racing organization with teams competing in the IZOD IndyCar Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series. It is owned by businessmen Chip Ganassi and Felix Sabates. They have won 4 Champ Car, 3 Indy Racing League and 1 Grand-Am championships...

     – Chip Ganassi
    Chip Ganassi
    Floyd "Chip" Ganassi, Jr is a former American racecar driver and current racecar owner.He is currently the owner and president of Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates which operates teams on the IndyCar, NASCAR and Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series circuit...

  • Christie's
    Christie's
    Christie's is an art business and a fine arts auction house.- History :The official company literature states that founder James Christie conducted the first sale in London, England, on 5 December 1766, and the earliest auction catalogue the company retains is from December 1766...

     – James Christie
  • Christian Dior – Christian Dior
    Christian Dior
    Christian Dior , was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior.-Life:...

  • Chrysler
    Chrysler
    Chrysler Group LLC is a multinational automaker headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA. Chrysler was first organized as the Chrysler Corporation in 1925....

     – Walter Chrysler
    Walter Chrysler
    Walter Percy Chrysler was an American machinist, railroad mechanic and manager, automotive industry executive, Freemason, and founder of the Chrysler Corporation.- Railroad career :...

  • Citroën
    Citroën
    Citroën is a major French automobile manufacturer, part of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group.Founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën , Citroën was the first mass-production car company outside the USA and pioneered the modern concept of creating a sales and services network that...

     – André Citroën
    André Citroën
    André-Gustave Citroën was a French industrialist. He is remembered chiefly for the make of car named after him, but also for his application of double helical gears.- Life and career :...

  • Cizeta
    Cizeta
    Cizeta Automobili srl of Modena, Italy was a car manufacturer set up in the late 1980s by Claudio Zampolli and the record producer Giorgio Moroder....

     – Claudio Zampolli
  • CKE Restaurants
    CKE Restaurants
    CKE Restaurants, Inc. is the parent company of the Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Green Burrito, and Red Burrito restaurant chains. Its headquarters are in Carpinteria, California. It was incorporated in 1964 by Carl's Jr. founder Carl Karcher as Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc.- History :In 2007, it sold...

     – founded as Carl Karcher
    Carl Karcher
    Carl Nicholas Karcher, SMOM was an American businessman, founder of the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain, now owned by parent company CKE Restaurants, Inc.-Early life:...

     Enterprises
  • Claud Butler
    Claud Butler
    Claud Butler was a flamboyantLondon cycle dealer and frame-builder who from 1928 created a chain of branches in London and the Midlands. His company was one of the most successful of the inter-war era but failed after the second world war. The name was bought by other companies. Butler died on 2...

     – Claud Butler
  • Cokin
    Cokin
    Cokin is a French manufacturer of optical filters for photography. The system allows filters such as rectangular graduated neutral density filters which are versatile in use....

     – Jean Coquin
  • Colgate-Palmolive
    Colgate-Palmolive
    Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American diversified multinational corporation focused on the production, distribution and provision of household, health care and personal products, such as soaps, detergents, and oral hygiene products . Under its "Hill's" brand, it is also a manufacturer of...

     – William Colgate
    William Colgate
    William Colgate was an American manufacturer who founded what became the Colgate toothpaste company in 1806.- History :...

  • Collins Radio Company
    Rockwell Collins
    Rockwell Collins, Inc. is a large United States-based international company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, primarily providing aviation and information technology systems and services to governmental agencies and aircraft manufacturers.- History :...

     – Arthur A. Collins
    Arthur A. Collins
    Arthur A. Collins was an American entrepreneur, who founded Collins Radio Co., which is now Rockwell Collins, Inc..Art Collins' father owned several thousand acres of farmland. After graduating from Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Collins attended several colleges although he never...

  • Colnago
    Colnago
    Colnago is a manufacturer of high-end road-racing bicycles founded by Ernesto Colnago in 1954 near Milano in Cambiago, Italy. Instead of following his family's farming business Ernesto Colnago chose to work in the cycle trade, apprenticing first with Gloria Bicycles at 13, subsequently taking up...

     – Ernesto Colnago
  • Coloni
    Enzo Coloni Racing Car Systems
    Enzo Coloni Racing Car Systems, commonly referred to simply as Coloni, is an Italian motor racing team and former Formula One racing car constructor. While it has been successful in Formula Three and Formula 3000, the team was one of the least successful in Formula One history...

     – Enzo Coloni
  • Colt's Manufacturing Company
    Colt's Manufacturing Company
    Colt's Manufacturing Company is a United States firearms manufacturer, whose first predecessor corporation was founded in 1836 by Sam Colt. Colt is best known for the engineering, production, and marketing of firearms over the later half of the 19th and the 20th century...

    , Colt Defense
    Colt Defense
    Colt Defense LLC, together with its subsidiaries, is a designer, developer and manufacturer of small arms weapons systems for individual soldiers and law enforcement personnel. It is headquartered in West Hartford, Connecticut...

    , Colt Canada
    Colt Canada
    Colt Canada is a firearms manufacturer owned by US based Colt and located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.The company is a defense contractor that manufactures and supplies small arms to the Canadian Forces and Canadian law enforcement agencies, as well as defense research & development, training,...

     – Samuel Colt
    Samuel Colt
    Samuel Colt was an American inventor and industrialist. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company , and is widely credited with popularizing the revolver. Colt's innovative contributions to the weapons industry have been described by arms historian James E...

  • Condé Nast Publications
    Condé Nast Publications
    Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, as well as four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps...

     – Condé Montrose Nast
    Condé Montrose Nast
    Condé Montrose Nast was the founder of Condé Nast Publications, a leading American magazine publisher known for publications such as Vanity Fair, Vogue and The New Yorker.-Background:...

  • Connolly Leather
    Connolly Leather
    Connolly Leather was for over 125 years, a British company supplying highly finished leather primarily to car manufacturers. The term is also used to describe the particular brand of leather itself, when fitted in a car interior....

     – John Connolly
  • Cooper Car Company
    Cooper Car Company
    The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1946 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles' small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England in 1946...

     – Charles and John Cooper
    John Cooper (car maker)
    John Newton Cooper was a co-founder, with his father Charles Cooper, of the Cooper Car Company. Born in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK he became an auto racing legend with his rear-engined chassis design that would eventually change the face of the sport at its highest levels, from Formula One to...

  • Coors Brewing Company
    Coors Brewing Company
    The Coors Brewing Company is a regional division of the world's fifth-largest brewing company, the Canadian Molson Coors Brewing Company and is the third-largest brewer in the United States...

    , Adolph Coors Company
    Adolph Coors Company
    The Golden, Colorado Adolph Coors Company was formerly a holding company controlled by the heirs of founder Adolph Coors. Its principal subsidiary is the Coors Brewing Company. It was founded in 1873....

     – Adolph Coors
    Adolph Coors
    Adolph Herman Joseph Coors, Sr. was a brewman who started the Adolph Coors Company in Golden, Colorado in 1873.-Early years:...

  • Cord Automobile
    Cord Automobile
    Cord was the brand name of a United States automobile, manufactured by the Auburn Automobile Company from 1929 through 1932 and again in 1936 and 1937....

     – Errett Lobban Cord
    Errett Lobban Cord
    Errett Lobban "E. L." Cord was a leader in United States transport during the early and middle 20th century.Cord founded the Cord Corporation in 1929 as a holding company for over 150 companies he controlled, mostly in the field of transportation...

  • Corel – Michael Cowpland
    Michael Cowpland
    Michael Cowpland is a British-born entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company.-Early life:...

     (COwpland REsearch Laboratory)
  • Cosworth
    Cosworth
    Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries...

     – Mike COStin
    Mike Costin
    Mike Costin was together with Keith Duckworth the co-founder of Cosworth Engineering, a producer of Ford-based and Ford-sponsored engines. Drivers like Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi and Nelson Piquet won the Formula One World Championship using Cosworth engines during the 1970s.In recent...

     and Keith DuckWORTH
    Keith Duckworth
    David Keith Duckworth, , was an English mechanical engineer. He is most famous for designing the Cosworth DFV engine, an engine that revolutionised the sport of Formula One....

  • Courage Compétition
    Courage Compétition
    Courage Compétition was a racing team and chassis constructor company now owned by Oreca, based in Le Mans, France near the Circuit de la Sarthe. It was founded by Yves Courage, a French race driver who ran hillclimbs before founding the company...

     – Yves Courage
  • Cox Models
    Cox Models
    Cox Models, a former division of Estes Industries of Penrose, Colorado, was a multimillion-dollar hobby company, is one of the hobby industry's oldest companies and is noted for its production of miniature model internal-combustion engines....

     – Roy Cox
  • Crane & Co. – Stephen Crane or the Crane family
  • Cray Research
    Cray
    Cray Inc. is an American supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington. The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. , was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray. Seymour Cray went on to form the spin-off Cray Computer Corporation , in 1989, which went bankrupt in 1995,...

     – Seymour Cray
    Seymour Cray
    Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which would build many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing," Cray has been credited...

  • Crumpler
    Crumpler
    Crumpler is a bag company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and Berlin, Germany, with global offices in Brooklyn and Cologne. It began as a messenger bag company, but has since expanded its range, notably into laptop bags and camera bags.- History :...

     – Stuart Crumpler (co-founder)
  • Cummins
    Cummins
    Cummins Inc. is a Fortune 500 corporation that designs, manufactures, distributes and services engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission control and electrical power generation systems...

     – Clessie Cummins
    Clessie Cummins
    Clessie Lyle Cummins was the founder of the Cummins Engine Co. He was an entrepreneur who improved on existing diesel engines, created new diesel engine designs, was awarded 33 United States patents for his inventions, and set five world records for endurance and speed for trucks, buses and race...

  • Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
    Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
    Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...

     (to Curtiss-Wright
    Curtiss-Wright
    The Curtiss-Wright Corporation was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States at the end of World War II, but has evolved to largely become a component manufacturer, specializing in actuators, aircraft controls, valves, and metalworking....

    ) – Glenn Curtiss
    Glenn Curtiss
    Glenn Hammond Curtiss was an American aviation pioneer and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle then motorcycle builder and racer, later also manufacturing engines for airships as early as 1906...

  • Cushman & Wakefield – J.Clydesdale Cushman and Bernard Wakefield

D

  • D. G. Yuengling & Son
    D. G. Yuengling & Son
    D. G. Yuengling & Son is the oldest operating brewing company in the United States, established in 1829. It is one of the largest breweries by volume in the country, and is the second largest American-owned brewery after the Boston Beer Company, makers of Sam Adams beer...

     – David, Jr. and David G. Jüngling (anglicized surname)
  • d’Antin MotoGP – see Pramac d'Antin
  • Daimler-Benz
    Daimler-Benz
    Daimler-Benz AG was a German manufacturer of automobiles, motor vehicles, and internal combustion engines; founded in 1926. An Agreement of Mutual Interest - which was valid until year 2000 - was signed on 1 May 1924 between Karl Benz's Benz & Cie., and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, which had...

     (later DaimlerChrysler, now Daimler AG) – Gottlieb Daimler
    Gottlieb Daimler
    Gottlieb Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf , in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development...

     and Karl Benz
    Karl Benz
    Karl Friedrich Benz, was a German engine designer and car engineer, generally regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered car, and together with Bertha Benz pioneering founder of the automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz...

  • Dallara
    Dallara
    Dallara Automobili is an Italian chassis manufacturer for various motor racing series, being most notable for its near-monopoly in Formula 3 since 1993...

     – Gian Paolo Dallara
    Gian Paolo Dallara
    Gianpaolo Dallara is an Italian businessman and motorsports engineer. He is owner of Dallara Motorsports, a company that develops racing cars.-Biography:Dallara was born in Parma....

  • Damiani
    Damiani (jewelry company)
    Damiani is an Italian jewelry company founded in 1924 by Enrico Grassi Damiani in Valenza, Italy. Strongly influenced by the beauty of Art Deco styles, Enrico designed and produced fine jewelry which quickly became renowned...

     – Enrico Grassi Damiani
  • Danelectro
    Danelectro
    Danelectro is an American manufacturer of musical instruments and accessories, specializing in rock instruments such as guitars, bass guitars, amplifiers and effects units.-History:...

     – Nathan Daniel
  • Dangote Group
    Dangote Group
    The Dangote Group is currently the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa and one of the largest in Africa. It generated revenue in excess of US$1.25 billion 2005. The group is one of the leading diversified business conglomerates in Africa...

     - Aliko Dangote
  • Dargaud
    Dargaud
    Les Éditions Dargaud is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics series, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. It was founded in 1943 by Georges Dargaud.Initially, Dargaud published novels for women...

     – Georges Dargaud
  • Dassault Group
    Dassault Group
    Dassault Group, is a French group of companies led by Serge Dassault.Managing directors are Claude Dassault and Olivier Costa De Beauregard.- Subsidiaries :*Dassault Aviation;...

     – Marcel Dassault
    Marcel Dassault
    Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch was a French aircraft industrialist.-Biography:Dassault was born in Paris. After graduating from the lycée Condorcet, Breguet School and Supaero, he invented a type of aircraft propeller used by the French army during World War I and founded the Société des...

  • Datsun
    Datsun
    Datsun was an automobile marque. The name was created in 1931 by the DAT Motorcar Co. for a new car model, spelling it as "Datson" to indicate its smaller size when compared to the existing, larger DAT car. Later, in 1933 after Nissan Motor Co., Ltd...

     – Kenjiro Den, Rokuro Aoyama, and Meitaro Takeuchi
  • Dauer Sportwagen
    Dauer Sportwagen
    Dauer Sportwagen GmbH was a German automotive company founded by former racing driver Jochen Dauer in Nuremberg. Initially founded as Jochen Dauer Racing in 1987, the racing team had several years of participation in the German Supercup and European Interserie championships, as well as occasional...

     – Jochen Dauer
  • David Jones Limited
    David Jones Limited
    David Jones Limited , colloquially known as DJs, is a high-end Australian department store chain.David Jones was founded in 1838 by David Jones, a Welsh immigrant, and is claimed to be the oldest continuously operating department store in the world still trading under its original name. It...

     - David Jones
  • David Lloyd Leisure – David Lloyd
    David Lloyd (tennis)
    David Lloyd is a former professional English tennis player and businessman.He was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. He and his younger brother John Lloyd became two of the most successful British tennis players throughout the 1970s and 1980s. David captained the British Davis Cup team and became a...

  • David Price Racing
    David Price Racing
    David Price Racing is a British motor racing team, founded by David Price. They have competed in various forms of motorsport since their foundation in 1976...

     – David Price
  • DBZ Guitars
    DBZ Guitars
    DBZ Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer owned and operated by Dean B. Zelinsky, Jeff Diamant of Diamond Amplification, along with partner Terry Martin....

     – Dean B. Zelinsky
  • De Agostini
    De Agostini
    De Agostini S.p.A. is a publishing house in Italy. It was founded in 1901 by the geographer Giovanni De Agostini in Rome, Italy, and later moved to Novara, Italy.- Overview :*De Agostini Editore S.p.A.**Istituto Geografico De Agostini S.p.A....

     – Giovanni De Agostini
  • Dean & DeLuca
    Dean & DeLuca
    Dean & DeLuca is a chain of upscale grocery stores. The first one was established in New York City's SoHo district by Joel Dean, Giorgio DeLuca and Jack Ceglic in September 1977. It is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.-Locations:...

     – Joel Dean and Giorgio DeLuca
    Giorgio DeLuca
    Giorgio DeLuca is a founder of the gourmet grocery store Dean & DeLuca with his partner Joel Dean. Before that, DeLuca owned a cheese shop on Prince Street in New York City which he opened in 1973, after a brief career teaching history in the city's public school system.DeLuca is now the owner of...

  • Dean Guitars
    Dean Guitars
    Dean Guitars is an American manufacturer of guitars. It was founded in 1976 by Dean Zelinsky in Chicago, Illinois and is currently under the ownership of Armadillo Enterprises in Tampa, Florida.- History :...

     – Dean Zelinsky
  • Debian
    Debian
    Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...

     – IAN Murdock and his girlfriend, DEBra.
  • Deere & Company
    Deere & Company
    Deere & Company, usually known by its brand name John Deere , is an American corporation based in Moline, Illinois, and the leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery in the world. In 2010, it was listed as 107th in the Fortune 500 ranking...

     – John Deere
  • Dell
    Dell
    Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest...

     – Michael Dell
    Michael Dell
    Michael Saul Dell is an American business magnate and the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Inc. He is the 44th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$14.6 billion in 2011, based primarily on the 243.35 million shares of Dell stock worth $3.5 billion that he owns,...

  • Deloitte – William Welch Deloitte
    William Welch Deloitte
    William Welch Deloitte was a founder of the professional services firms that subsequently became both Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was born in London, England....

  • DeLorean Motor Company – John DeLorean
  • De Tomaso
    De Tomaso
    De Tomaso Automobili SpA is an Italian car-manufacturing company. It was founded by the Argentine-born Alejandro de Tomaso in Modena in 1959. It originally produced various prototypes and racing cars, including a Formula One car for Frank Williams' team in 1970. The company developed a reputation...

     – Alejandro de Tomaso
    Alejandro de Tomaso
    Alejandro de Tomaso was a racing driver and industrialist from Argentina. His name is sometimes seen in an Italianised form as Alessandro de Tomaso. He participated in two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on January 13, 1957...

  • DHL Express
    DHL Express
    DHL Express is a division of the German logistics company Deutsche Post providing international express mail services. DHL is a world market leader in sea and air mail....

     – Adrian Dalsey
    Adrian Dalsey
    Adrian Dalsey was a co-founder of DHL, a shipping company. He was born in Illinois on Oct 14th, 1914, to a Jewish Polish father and an American mother. He attended Wheaton College , but later dropped out...

    , Larry Hillblom
    Larry Hillblom
    Larry Lee Hillblom was an American businessman, and a co-founder of DHL Worldwide Express, a shipping company.-Background:Larry Hillblom was born and raised in Kingsburg, California. Larry Hillblom was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and briefly...

    , and Robert Lynn
  • Dick Johnson Racing
    Dick Johnson Racing
    Dick Johnson Racing is Australia's oldest operating motor racing team. Founded by Dick Johnson, the team has won seven Australian Touring Car Championship titles and has taken three victories in Australia's hallmark race, the Bathurst 1000...

     – Dick Johnson
  • Dick's Sporting Goods
    Dick's Sporting Goods
    Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. , or Dick's, is a Fortune 500 American corporation in the sporting goods and retail industries.The company's headquarters are on the grounds of Pittsburgh International Airport in Findlay Township near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dick's has 451 stores in 42 states as of...

     – Dick Stack
  • Dillard's
    Dillard's
    Dillard's, Inc. is a department store chain in the United States, with 330 stores in 29 states. Headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, Dillard's locations are concentrated in Texas and Florida; with a major presence in other states including Arizona, Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Missouri,...

     – William T. Dillard
    William T. Dillard
    William Thomas Dillard, was the founder of the Dillard's Department Store chain.William T. Dillard was born on 2 September 1914 in Mineral Springs, Howard County, Arkansas. His parents Thomas and Hattie ran a country store. Dillard found employment with Sears & Roebuck Company where he gained...

  • Dolby Laboratories
    Dolby Laboratories
    Dolby Laboratories, Inc. , often shortened to Dolby Labs, is an American company specializing in audio noise reduction and audio encoding/compression.-History:...

     – Ray Dolby
    Ray Dolby
    Ray Dolby is the American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He was also a co-inventor of video tape recording while at Ampex. He is the founder of Dolby Laboratories.-Biography:...

  • Dolce & Gabbana
    Dolce & Gabbana
    Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian luxury industry fashion house. The company was started by the Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana in Milan, Italy. By 2005 their turnover was €597 million....

     – Domenico Dolce
    Dolce & Gabbana
    Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian luxury industry fashion house. The company was started by the Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana in Milan, Italy. By 2005 their turnover was €597 million....

     and Stefano Gabbana
    Dolce & Gabbana
    Dolce & Gabbana is an Italian luxury industry fashion house. The company was started by the Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana in Milan, Italy. By 2005 their turnover was €597 million....

  • Don Bluth Entertainment – see Sullivan Bluth Studios
  • Douglas Aircraft Company
    Douglas Aircraft Company
    The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas...

     (to McDonnell Douglas
    McDonnell Douglas
    McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. It formed from a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft in 1967. McDonnell Douglas was based at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport...

    ) – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.
    Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.
    Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. was a United States aircraft industrialist and founder of the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1921 .-Early life:...

  • The Dow Chemical Company
    Dow Chemical Company
    The Dow Chemical Company is a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. As of 2007, it is the second largest chemical manufacturer in the world by revenue and as of February 2009, the third-largest chemical company in the world by market capitalization .Dow...

     – Herbert Dow
    Herbert Henry Dow
    Herbert Henry Dow was a Canadian born, American chemical industrialist. He is a graduate of Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Ohio. His most significant achievement was the founding of the Dow Chemical Company in 1897...

  • Dow Jones & Company
    Dow Jones & Company
    Dow Jones & Company is an American publishing and financial information firm.The company was founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. Like The New York Times and the Washington Post, the company was in recent years publicly traded but privately...

     – Charles Dow
    Charles Dow
    Charles Henry Dow was an American journalist who co-founded Dow Jones & Company with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser....

     and Edward Jones
    Edward Jones (statistician)
    Edward Davis Jones was a U.S. statistician, mostly known for being the "Jones" in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.A graduate of Worcester Academy in Worcester, MA, he co-founded the Dow Jones & Company in 1882 along with Charles Dow and Charles Bergstresser.He was not associated with Edward Jones...

  • Ducati – Antonio Cavalieri Ducati
  • Duesenberg
    Duesenberg
    Duesenberg was an Auburn, Indiana based American luxury automobile company active in various forms from 1913 to 1937, most famous for its high-quality passenger cars and record-breaking racing cars.-History:...

     – Fred
    Fred Duesenberg
    Frederick Samuel Duesenberg was a German-born American automobile pioneer designer, manufacturer and sportsman.-Life:...

     and August Duesenberg
    August Duesenberg
    August Samuel Duesenberg was a German-American automobile pioneer manufacturer.-Biography:Duesenberg was born in Kirchheide, Lippe-Detmold. His large family emigrated to the United States when he was five, settling in Rockford, Iowa.In the 1890s, August Duesenberg started building and racing...

  • Duke Energy
    Duke Energy
    Duke Energy , headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an energy company with assets in the United States, Canada and Latin America.-Overview:...

     – James Buchanan Duke
    James Buchanan Duke
    James Buchanan Duke was a U.S. tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for his involvement with Duke University.-Personal life:...

  • Duke Video
    Duke Video
    Duke Video is a video and DVD publisher specialising in motorsports.Duke Video was founded in the Isle of Man in 1981 by Peter Duke, son of six-time motorcycle World Champion Geoff Duke...

     – Peter Duke
  • Dunlop
    Dunlop (brands)
    Dunlop was originally a brand of tyre produced by the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company at the end of the 19th century, taking its name from John Dunlop. The brand is now used for many other products either derived from rubber or with a looser connection to rubber.Ownership of the brand has become...

     – John Boyd Dunlop
    John Boyd Dunlop
    John Boyd Dunlop was a Scottish inventor. He was one of the founders of the rubber company that bore his name, Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company....

  • Dunlop Manufacturing
    Dunlop Manufacturing
    Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc., known colloquially as Jim Dunlop, is a manufacturer of musical accessories based in Benicia, California. Originally founded in 1965 by Jim Dunlop, Sr., the company has grown from a small home operation to being a large manufacturer of music gear for over 40 years.- Way...

     – Jim Dunlop
    Dunlop Manufacturing
    Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc., known colloquially as Jim Dunlop, is a manufacturer of musical accessories based in Benicia, California. Originally founded in 1965 by Jim Dunlop, Sr., the company has grown from a small home operation to being a large manufacturer of music gear for over 40 years.- Way...

  • DuPont
    DuPont
    E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company , commonly referred to as DuPont, is an American chemical company that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont. DuPont was the world's third largest chemical company based on market capitalization and ninth based on revenue in 2009...

     – Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
    Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
    Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours , known as Irénée du Pont, or E.I. du Pont, was a French-born Huguenot chemist and industrialist who immigrated to the United States in 1799 and founded the gunpowder manufacturer, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company...

  • Dyson – James Dyson
    James Dyson
    Sir James Dyson is a British industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company.He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. His net worth in 2011 was said to be £1.45 billion.-Early life:Dyson was born in...


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  • Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
    Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
    Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates is a NASCAR team based in Concord, North Carolina, United States, owned by Dale Earnhardt's widow Teresa Earnhardt, Chip Ganassi, and Felix Sabates. This team was formed when Dale Earnhardt, Inc...

     with Felix Sabates – Dale Earnhardt
    Dale Earnhardt
    Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr. was an American race car driver, best known for his involvement in stock car racing for NASCAR...

     (Sr.), Chip Ganassi
    Chip Ganassi
    Floyd "Chip" Ganassi, Jr is a former American racecar driver and current racecar owner.He is currently the owner and president of Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates which operates teams on the IndyCar, NASCAR and Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series circuit...

    , Felix Sabates
    Felix Sabates
    Felix Sabates is an entrepreneur and philanthropist living in the United States. He is currently a minority shareholder in Chip Ganassi Racing, which fields teams in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series , GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series and the IZOD IndyCar Series...

  • Eastman Kodak
    Eastman Kodak
    Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquarted in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded by George Eastman in 1892....

     – George Eastman
    George Eastman
    George Eastman was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream...

  • Easton
    Easton (company)
    Easton-Bell Sports makes sports equipment and clothing under the brands Bell Sports, Blackburn, Easton, Giro, and Riddell. Its parent company is Fenway Partners.-Easton:...

     – Doug Easton
  • Eatons
    Eaton's
    The T. Eaton Co. Limited was once Canada's largest department store retailer. It was founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an Irish immigrant. Eaton's grew to become a retail and social institution in Canada, with stores across the country, buying offices across the globe, and a catalogue...

     – Timothy Eaton
    Timothy Eaton
    Timothy Eaton was a Canadian businessman who founded the Eaton's department store, one of the most important retail businesses in Canada's history.-Early life and family:...

  • Eddie Bauer
    Eddie Bauer
    Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. is a holding company that operates the Eddie Bauer clothing store chain, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, United States. EBH was formed after Eddie Bauer's former parent company, Spiegel, Inc., went bankrupt in 2003...

     – Eddie Bauer
  • Eddie Jordan Racing
    Jordan Grand Prix
    Jordan Grand Prix was a Formula One constructor that competed from 1991 to 2005. The team is named after Irish businessman and founder Eddie Jordan...

     – Eddie Jordan
    Eddie Jordan
    Edmund "Eddie" Jordan also known as "EJ" founded and owned Jordan Grand Prix, a Formula One constructor which operated from 1991 to 2005...

  • Edelbrock
    Edelbrock
    Edelbrock, LLC is a specialty performance automotive and motorcycle aftermarket parts manufacturer based in Torrance, California. The company has five locations, including four in Torrance: its headquarters, a distribution center and museum, the Russell division , and the exhaust plant...

     – Vic Edelbrock
    Vic Edelbrock
    Otis Victor Edelbrock, Sr. Otis Victor Edelbrock, Sr. Otis Victor Edelbrock, Sr....

  • Edison Records
    Edison Records
    Edison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :...

     – Thomas Edison
    Thomas Edison
    Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...

  • Eli Lilly and Company
    Eli Lilly and Company
    Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States...

     – Eli Lilly
    Eli Lilly
    Eli Lilly was the founder of Eli Lilly and Company.Eli Lilly may also refer to:* Eli Lilly and Company, a global pharmaceutical company...

  • Ellis Briggs
    Ellis Briggs
    Ellis Briggs is a British bicycle manufacturer and shop, based in Shipley, West Yorkshire, England.It is the oldest bicycle shop in the Bradford area still in business today....

     – Leonard Ellis and Thomas Briggs
  • Ericsson
    Ericsson
    Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...

     – Lars Magnus Ericsson
    Lars Magnus Ericsson
    Lars Magnus Ericsson was a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson ....

  • Ermenegildo Zegna
    Ermenegildo Zegna
    Ermenegildo Zegna is a leading Italian fashion house, specialing in men's clothing. Founded in 1910, it is now managed by the fourth generation of the Zegna family and remains in family ownership. As well as producing suits for its own labels, it manufactures suits for labels such as Gucci, Yves...

     – Ermenegildo Zegna
  • Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk
    LGB (Lehmann Gross Bahn)
    LGB is the standard acronym for Lehmann Gross Bahn - the "Lehmann Big Railway" in German. Made by Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk in Nuremberg, Germany, since 1968 and by Märklin since 2007, it is the most popular garden railway model in Europe, although there are also many models of U.S. and...

  • Estée Lauder Companies
    Estée Lauder Companies
    Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. is a manufacturer and marketer of prestige skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The company has its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.-History:...

     – Estée Lauder
    Estée Lauder (person)
    Estée Lauder was an American businesswoman who was the co-founder, along with her husband Joseph Lauder, of Estée Lauder Companies, a pioneering cosmetics company. Lauder was the only woman on TIME magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century. She was the...

  • EuroBrun
    EuroBrun
    EuroBrun Racing was a Formula One constructor from Senago, Milan, Italy, with an Italo-Swiss ownership. They participated in 46 grands prix, entering a total of 76 cars....

     – Walter Brun

F

  • Fabbri Group
    Fabbri Group
    The Fabbri Group is an Italian amusement rides manufacturer, based in Bergantino, a northern village of Italy.Fabbri was founded and started manufacturing in 1950, just after World War II, by Romolo Fabbri...

     – Romolo Fabbri
  • Falabella – Salvatore Falabella
  • Fazer
    Fazer
    Fazer is one of the largest corporations in the Finnish food industry.The company was originally founded by Karl Fazer in 1891, as a "French-Russian conditory" in central Helsinki...

     – Karl Fazer
    Karl Fazer
    Karl Otto Fazer was a Finnish commercial counselor, businessman, and sport shooter.He was born in Helsinki and died in Jokioinen. He had four children and was the grandfather of Peter Fazer...

  • FB Mondial
    Mondial (motorcycle manufacturer)
    FB-Mondial was a motorcycle manufacturer from Milan, Italy between 1948 and 1979, known for its Grand Prix motorcycle racing successes during the 1950s. Prior to World War II, it manufactured delivery tricycles...

     – Fratelli Boselli
  • Felt Bicycles – Jim Felt
  • Fender – Leo Fender
    Leo Fender
    Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender was an American inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, or "Fender" for short...

  • Fendi
    Fendi
    Fendi is an Italian high fashion house best known for its "baguette" handbags. It was launched in 1925 as a fur and leather shop in Rome, but today is a multinational luxury goods brand owned by LVMH...

     – Edoardo Fendi
  • Ferguson Research
    Ferguson Research Ltd.
    Harry Ferguson Research Limited was a British company founded by Harry Ferguson who was mostly known as "the father of the modern farm tractor"...

     – Harry Ferguson
    Harry Ferguson
    Henry George "Harry" Ferguson was an Irish engineer and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor, for becoming the first Irishman to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-wheel drive Formula One car, the Ferguson P99...

  • Ferragamo
    Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A.
    Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A. is an Italian luxury goods company, with headquarters in Florence, specializing in shoes, leather goods, and ready-to-wear for men and women. It is the parent company of the Ferragamo Group...

     – Salvatore Ferragamo
    Salvatore Ferragamo
    Salvatore Ferragamo was a Florentine and Italian shoe designer. He worked with many Hollywood stars in the 1920s, before returning to Italy to found the eponymous company making unique hand-made footwear. His scientific and creative approach to shoes spawned many innovations such as the wedge heel...

  • Ferranti
    Ferranti
    Ferranti or Ferranti International plc was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993. Known primarily for defence electronics, the Company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but ceased trading in 1993.The...

     – Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
    Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
    Sebastian Pietro Innocenzo Adhemar Ziani de Ferranti was an electrical engineer and inventor.-Personal life:...

  • Ferrari
    Ferrari
    Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles as Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947...

     – Enzo Ferrari
    Enzo Ferrari
    Enzo Anselmo Ferrari Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian race car driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari car manufacturer...

  • Ferrero
    Ferrero SpA
    Ferrero SpA is an Italian manufacturer of chocolate and other confectionery products, founded by confectioner Pietro Ferrero in 1946 and based in Alba, Piedmont, Italy. The company achieved success headed by Pietro's son Michele Ferrero, then Michele's son Pietro , who oversaw global business...

     – Pietro Ferrero
    Pietro Ferrero
    Pietro Ferrero was the founder of Ferrero SpA, an Italian confectionery and chocolatier company. His company invented Nutella, a hazelnut-cream spread, which is now sold in over 75 countries....

  • Ferretti Group
    Ferretti Group
    Ferretti Group is one of the world leaders in the design, construction and sale of motor yachts with a portfolio of exclusive and prestigious brands of the nautical world: Ferretti Yachts, Ferretti Custom Line, Pershing, Itama, Riva, Bertram, Mochi Craft and CRN. The company initially produced...

     – Alessandro and Norberto Ferretti
  • Filippi Boats
    Filippi Boats
    Filippi Boats are an Italian manufacturer of rowing racing shells. The company was founded in 1980 by Filippi Lido.Today, the running of the boatyard is undertaken by Filippi’s son David, the yard employs 60 technicians and produces just over 1100 boats each year which supply Federations worldwide...

     – Filippi Lido
  • Fioravanti – Leonardo Fioravanti
  • Fisher-Price
    Fisher-Price
    Fisher-Price is a company that produces toys for infants and children, headquartered in East Aurora, New York. Fisher-Price has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel since 1993.-History:...

     – Herman Fisher
    Herman Fisher
    Herman Guy Fisher , was born in Unionville Pennsylvania. He is best known as the co-founder of the famous toy brand Fisher-Price.-Biography:Herman G. Fisher was born in Unionville, Pennsylvania in 1898...

     and Irving Price
    Irving Price
    Irving Lanouette Price was a U.S. toy manufacturer. He was the co-founder and co-eponym of Fisher-Price Toys in 1930. On 23 February 1909, he married the children's book illustrator and artist Margaret Evans Price...

  • Fitch Ratings – John Knowles Fitch
    John Knowles Fitch
    John Knowles Fitch was the founder of the Fitch Publishing Company, and developed a financial securities rating system from AAA to D...

  • Fittipaldi Automotive
    Fittipaldi Automotive
    Fittipaldi Automotive, sometimes called Copersucar after its first major sponsor, was the only Formula One motor racing team and constructor ever to be based in Brazil. It was formed during 1974 by racing driver Wilson Fittipaldi and his younger brother, double world champion Emerson, with money...

     – Emerson
    Emerson Fittipaldi
    Emerson Fittipaldi |São Paulo]], Brazil) is a Brazilian automobile racing driver who throughout a long and successful career won the Indianapolis 500 twice and championships in both Formula One and CART.-Early and personal life:...

     and Wilson Fittipaldi
  • Focke-Wulf
    Focke-Wulf
    Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft before and during World War II. Many of the company's successful fighter aircraft designs were slight modifications of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.-History:...

     – Henrich Focke
    Henrich Focke
    Henrich Focke was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen. He was a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company.-Early life:...

     and Georg Wulf
  • Fokker
    Fokker
    Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919....

     – Anthony Fokker
    Anthony Fokker
    Anton Herman Gerard "Anthony" Fokker was a Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer. He is most famous for the fighter aircraft he produced in Germany during the First World War such as the Eindecker monoplanes, the Fokker Triplane the and the Fokker D.VII, but after the collapse of...

  • Forbes
    Forbes
    Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...

     – B. C. Forbes
    B. C. Forbes
    Bertie Charles Forbes was a Scottish financial journalist and author who founded Forbes Magazine.-Life and career:He was born in New Deer, Aberdeenshire, in Scotland...

  • Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...

     – Henry Ford
    Henry Ford
    Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry...

  • Forti
    Forti
    Forti Corse, commonly known as Forti, was an Italian motor racing team chiefly known for its brief, and unsuccessful, involvement in Formula One in the mid-1990s. It was established in the late 1970s and competed in lower formulae for two decades...

     – Guido Forti
    Guido Forti
    Guido Forti is the former team manager of the now-defunct Formula One team Forti.-Career:Forti co-founded the team with businessman Paolo Guerci in the late 1970s, initially running in Italian and European Formula Three. The team made the step up to Formula 3000 in 1987, but only participated in...

  • Fox Racing
    Fox Racing
    Fox Head, Inc. is privately owned action sports brand founded in 1974. Fox designs, develops and distributes clothing and accessories to over fifty countries primarily focusing on off-road motorized biking.- History :...

     – Geoff Fox
  • Fox Racing Shox
    Fox Racing Shox
    Fox Racing Shox is a brand used by Fox Factory to sell off road racing suspension components.- History :Fox Racing, Inc. was founded in 1980 by Bob Fox in Watsonville, California. It started as a small business distributing suspension components for motocross bikes...

     – Bob Fox
  • Franck Muller
    Franck Muller
    Franck Muller is a noted Swiss watchmaker and the company of the same name. The brand of watches carries the slogan "Master of Complications". Franck Muller's watches are worn by various celebrities, among them Demi Moore, Robin Williams, Elton John, 50 Cent, and José Mourinho...

     – Franck Muller
  • Frank Williams Racing Cars
    Frank Williams Racing Cars
    Frank Williams Racing Cars was a British Formula One team and constructor.-Early years:Frank Williams had been a motor-racing enthusiast since a young age, and after a career in saloon cars and Formula Three, backed by Williams' shrewd instincts as a dealer in racing cars and spares, he realised...

     – Frank Williams
  • FranklinCovey – Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin
    Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...

     and Stephen Covey
    Stephen Covey
    Stephen Richards Covey is the author of the best-selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Other books he has written include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families. In 2004, Covey released The 8th Habit...

  • Franklin Mint
    Franklin Mint
    The Franklin Mint is a private corporation founded by Joseph Segel in 1964. The private mint operated from Wawa, Pennsylvania but that operation has now closed...

     – believed to be named in honor of Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin
    Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...

  • Frazer Nash
    Frazer Nash
    Frazer Nash was a British sports car manufacturer and engineering company founded by Archibald Frazer-Nash in 1922. It produced sports cars incorporating a unique multi-chain transmission before World War II and also imported BMW cars to the UK. After the war it continued producing sports cars with...

     – Archibald Frazer-Nash
  • Freisinger Motorsport
    Freisinger Motorsport
    Freisinger Motorsport is a German company which has tuned, restored, and raced Porsches since 1967. Founded by Manfred Freisinger in Karlsruhe, the company now is run by his son Manfred Freisinger Jr....

     – Manfred Freisinger
  • Frost French
    Frost French
    FrostFrench is a fashion label established in 1999 and run by the British movie actress Sadie Frost and Jemima French.Sadie Frost and Jemima French match contemporary innovative design with striking attention to detail and as a result FrostFrench made a substantial impact in the UK and created...

     – Sadie Frost
    Sadie Frost
    Sadie Frost is an English actress, who currently runs fashion label Frost French and has designed the kitchens for a new development in the East End of London.-Biography:Frost was born Sadie Liza Vaughan in London...

     and Jemima French

G

  • Galen Institute
    Galen Institute
    The Galen Institute is a non-profit public policy research organization based in Alexandria, Virginia. Founded in 1995 by Grace-Marie Turner, the Galen Institute's stated mission is "advancing free-market ideas in health policy, promoting a more informed public debate over ideas that support...

     - health care think tank
    Think tank
    A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...

     named after Galen
    Galen
    Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus , better known as Galen of Pergamon , was a prominent Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher...

    , a prominent Greek physician
    Physician
    A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

  • Galles Racing
    Galles Racing
    Galles Racing is a former auto racing team owned by Rick Galles that competed in the CART series, Can-Am and Indy Racing League, winning the 1990 CART Championship and 1992 Indianapolis 500 with driver Al Unser, Jr..-Early years:...

     – Rick Galles
    Galles Racing
    Galles Racing is a former auto racing team owned by Rick Galles that competed in the CART series, Can-Am and Indy Racing League, winning the 1990 CART Championship and 1992 Indianapolis 500 with driver Al Unser, Jr..-Early years:...

  • Galmer
    Galmer
    Galmer was an American racecar manufacturer that built cars used from 1992 through 1993 in CART competition and the Indianapolis 500. The cars were commissioned by the Galles Racing team...

     – Rick GALles
    Galles Racing
    Galles Racing is a former auto racing team owned by Rick Galles that competed in the CART series, Can-Am and Indy Racing League, winning the 1990 CART Championship and 1992 Indianapolis 500 with driver Al Unser, Jr..-Early years:...

     and Alan MERtens
  • Gannett Company
    Gannett Company
    Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly-traded media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States, near McLean. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the weekly USA Weekend...

     – Frank Gannett
    Frank Gannett
    Frank Ernest Gannett is the founder of Gannett media corporation.-Biography:Gannett was born in South Bristol, New York, United States, graduated from Bolivar High School , Bolivar, NY in 1893, and graduated from Cornell University. At the age of 30, he purchased his first newspaper, the Elmira...

  • Garmin
    Garmin
    Garmin Ltd. , incorporated in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, is the parent company of a group of companies founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao , that develops consumer, aviation, and marine technologies for the Global Positioning System...

     – GARy Burrell and Dr. MIN Kao
  • Gartner
    Gartner
    Gartner, Inc. is an information technology research and advisory firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. It was known as GartnerGroup until 2001....

     – Gideon Gartner
    Gideon Gartner
    Gideon I. Gartner is an entrepreneur and philanthropist, best known as the founder of Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company.- Early life :Gartner was born in Israel and grew up in New York City...

  • Garry Rogers Motorsport
    Garry Rogers Motorsport
    Garry Rogers Motorsport is an Australian motor racing team presently competing in V8 Supercar.-The early years:Garry Rogers Motorsport has its origins in Garry Rogers' own exploits in Sports Sedans during the late 1960s and the 1970s. In the mid-1970s Rogers got more serious, running a BDA Escort...

     – Garry Rogers
  • Gatti's Pizza
    Gatti's Pizza
    Gatti's Pizza is a Southeastern United States pizza-buffet chain. Gatti's Pizza, founded in 1964 is owned by Blue Sage Capital, a private equity investment firm. The corporate offices are in Austin, Texas.-History:...

     – Pat Eure, née Gatti, wife of company founder Jim Eure
  • Gemballa
    Gemballa
    Gemballa is a tuning company based in Leonberg near Stuttgart, Germany, which was founded by, and named after, Uwe Gemballa in 1981. They provided aftermarket parts mainly for Porsche. In May 2010, the Gemballa factory was seized by German authorities and shut down following the disappearance of...

     – Uwe Gemballa
  • Getty Images
    Getty Images
    Getty Images, Inc. is a stock photo agency, based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is a supplier of stock images for business and consumers with an archive of 80 million still images and illustrations and more than 50,000 hours of stock film footage...

     – Mark Getty
    Mark Getty
    Mark Getty , is a British businessman. A member of a family which originally made its money from oil, he is the son of American-British billionaire philanthropist Sir Paul Getty.-Career:...

  • Getty Oil
    Getty Oil
    Getty Oil is an oil company founded by J. Paul Getty. It was at its height during the 1960s. In 1971, the Getty Realty division was formed to manage the real estate needs of Getty stations. The division was later spun off, but now owns the rights to the Getty brand...

     – John Paul Getty
    Paul Getty
    Sir John Paul Getty KBE , born Eugene Paul Getty, was a wealthy American-born British philanthropist and book collector. He was the elder son of Jean Paul Getty, Sr...

  • Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
    Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
    The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a United States division of Swiss candymaker Lindt & Sprüngli. The company was founded by and is named after Italian chocolatier Domingo Ghirardelli, who, after working in South America, moved to California...

     – Domingo Ghirardelli
    Domingo Ghirardelli
    Domenico "Domingo" Ghirardelli, Sr. was born in Rapallo, Italy, the son and apprentice of a chocolatier. In 1837, Ghirardelli moved to Uruguay, then in 1838 to Lima, Peru, and established a confectionery, and began using the Spanish equivalent of his Italian name, Domingo.In 1849 he moved to...

  • Giannini
    Giannini
    Giannini is a traditional fine musical instruments maker in Brazil.Founded in 1900 by Tranquillo Giannini, an Italian immigrant with enormous luthier talents. Their first industrial plant was locatet at Av...

     – Tranquillo Giannini
  • Gibson Guitar Corporation
    Gibson Guitar Corporation
    The Gibson Guitar Corporation, formerly of Kalamazoo, Michigan and currently of Nashville, Tennessee, manufactures guitars and other instruments which sell under a variety of brand names...

     – Orville Gibson
    Orville Gibson
    Orville H. Gibson was a luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1896, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments....

  • Gibson Motor Sport
    Gibson Motor Sport
    Gibson Motor Sport was an Australian motor racing team. Originally established by Howard Marsden as the in-house factory Nissan motorsport operation, the team later passed into the ownership of Fred Gibson., who had won the 1967 Bathurst 500 as a driver, sharing with Harry Firth. In 1993 the team...

     – Fred Gibson
    Fred Gibson (motor racing)
    Fred Gibson is a former Australian racing driver and race team owner.-Competitor:After a career that began in small production sports cars, first an MGA, and later the first Lotus Elan to run in Australian competition , Gibson quickly moved up into the touring car ranks...

  • Gilbarco
    Gilbarco Veeder-Root
    Gilbarco Veeder-Root, a subsidiary of the Danaher Corporation, is a supplier of fuel dispensers, point of sale systems, payment systems, forecourt merchandising and support services worldwide...

     – Charles Gilbert and John Barker (GILbert & BARker Manufacturing CO.)
  • Gilera
    Gilera
    Gilera is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded in Arcore in 1909 by Giuseppe Gilera. In 1969 the company was purchased by Piaggio, which now holds six marques and is the world's fourth largest motorcycle manufacturer.-History:...

     – Giuseppe Gilera
  • Gillet
    Gillet
    Gillet is a Belgian automobile manufacturer, started in 1994 by former racing driver Tony Gillet. The company produces the Vertigo sports coupé, an ultra-lightweight 'bespoke' and hand-built sportscar...

     – Tony Gillet
    Tony Gillet
    Tony Gillet was a Belgian racing driver who founded the Gillet company in 1994.Tony Gillet won the Belgian hill-climb for several years and also competed in Paris-Dakar rallies. In 1990 Tony broke the 0–100 km/h record with a time of 3.8 seconds in a modified Donkervoort, but has been beaten...

  • Gillette – King C. Gillette
  • Girard-Perregaux
    Girard-Perregaux
    Girard-Perregaux is a high-end Swiss watch manufacture with its origins dating back to 1791. It is situated in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland and is a part of the Sowind group, a subsidiary of PPR.- History :...

     – Constant Girard and Marie Perregaux
  • Gitzo
    Gitzo
    Gitzo S.A. is a manufacturer of photographic accessories, including bags, but specialising in tripods and supports.Founded in France by Arsène Gitzhoven in 1917 initially producing cameras, shutters, and cable releases, but between 1942 and 1944 with World War II, the company closed for the...

     – Arsène Gitzhoven
  • Givenchy
    Givenchy
    Givenchy is a French brand of clothing, accessories, perfumes and cosmetics with Parfums Givenchy.The house of Givenchy was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy and is a member of Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture et du Pret-a-Porter...

     – Hubert de Givenchy
    Hubert de Givenchy
    Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy is a French aristocrat and fashion designer who founded The House of Givenchy in 1952. He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Kennedy...

  • Glenn L. Martin Company
    Glenn L. Martin Company
    The Glenn L. Martin Company was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company that was founded by the aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company produced many important aircraft for the defense of the United States and its allies, especially during World War II and the Cold War...

     (to Lockheed Martin
    Lockheed Martin
    Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area....

    ) – Glenn Luther Martin
  • Glenn Seton Racing
    Glenn Seton Racing
    Glenn Seton Racing was a V8 Supercar racing team that competed in the V8 Supercar series in Australia.Glenn Seton formed his own team in 1989, using Ford Sierras. Seton had been a protege of the works Nissan team, and took the Peter Jackson cigarette sponsorship of that team with him. Former F1...

     – Glenn Seton
    Glenn Seton
    Glenn Seton is an Australian racing driver.Seton, father of Courtney and Aaron Seton and husband to Jayne Seton, retired from full time racing after the 2005 V8 Supercar season, and is only one of five drivers to have competed in over 200 rounds in the series. The other drivers are Dick Johnson ,...

  • Glock Ges.m.b.H. – Gaston Glock
    Gaston Glock
    Gaston Glock is an Austrian engineer, and founder of the firearms company Glock. The Glock "safe-action" pistol is well regarded and has often been copied by other companies...

  • GN
    GN (car)
    thumb|right|200px|Richard Scaldwell's JAP-engined GN Grand Prix special at the VSCC SeeRed race meeting, Donington Park, September 2007. The GN has a 5.1 litre V8 aero-engine shoehorned into its lightweight cyclecar frame....

     – H.R. Godfrey and Archibald Frazer Nash
  • Godin
    Godin (Guitar Manufacturer)
    - History :Godin started building Robert Godin's guitars in 1972 in La Patrie, Quebec.Godin Guitars' head office is located in Montreal, and they build their instruments in six factories in four different locations, three in Quebec and one in New Hampshire....

     – Robert Godin
  • Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...

     – Marcus Goldman
    Marcus Goldman
    Marcus Goldman was a German-born American businessman and entrepreneur. He was born in Trappstadt, Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1848...

     and Samuel Sachs
  • Goldwyn Picture Corporation
    Goldwyn Pictures
    Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in 1916 by Samuel Goldfish in partnership with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn using an amalgamation of both last names to create the name...

     – Samuel GOLDfish
    Samuel Goldwyn
    Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios.-Biography:...

    , Edgar and Archibald SelWYN
  • Goodrich Corporation
    Goodrich Corporation
    The Goodrich Corporation , formerly the B.F. Goodrich Company, is an American aerospace manufacturing company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Founded in Akron, Ohio in 1870 as Goodrich, Tew & Co. by Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich. The company name was changed to the "B.F...

     – Benjamin Goodrich
    Benjamin Goodrich
    Benjamin Franklin Goodrich was an American industrialist in the rubber industry.Dr. Goodrich was born to Anson and Susan Goodrich in Ripley, New York. He was educated as a physician; he received his M.D. from Western Reserve College in Cleveland, Ohio. B...

  • Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
    Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
    The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling. Goodyear manufactures tires for automobiles, commercial trucks, light trucks, SUVs, race cars, airplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth-mover machinery....

     – Charles Goodyear
    Charles Goodyear
    Charles Goodyear was an American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber in 1839 -- a method that he perfected while living and working in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1844, and for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844Although...

  • Gottlieb
    Gottlieb
    Gottlieb was an arcade game corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. The company was established by David Gottlieb in 1927, initially producing pinball machines while later expanding into various other games including pitch-and-bats, bowling games, and eventually video arcade games .Like other...

     – David Gottlieb
  • Gresini Racing
    Gresini Racing
    Gresini Racing is a motorcycle racing team currently competing in the MotoGP World Championship under the name Team San Carlo Honda Gresini and in the Moto2 World Championship under the name Gresini Racing Moto2....

     – Fausto Gresini
    Fausto Gresini
    Fausto Gresini is an Italian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion. He is currently team manager for the Gresini Honda MotoGP team.Gresini was born at Imola...

  • Gretsch
    Gretsch
    The Gretsch Company was founded in 1883 by Friedrich Gretsch, a twenty-seven year old German immigrant recently arrived in the US. Friedrich Gretsch manufactured banjos, tambourines, and drums, until his death in 1895. His son, Fred, moved operations to Brooklyn, New York in 1916...

     – Friedrich Gretsch
    Gretsch
    The Gretsch Company was founded in 1883 by Friedrich Gretsch, a twenty-seven year old German immigrant recently arrived in the US. Friedrich Gretsch manufactured banjos, tambourines, and drums, until his death in 1895. His son, Fred, moved operations to Brooklyn, New York in 1916...

  • GT Bicycles
    GT Bicycles
    GT Bicycles is a large American manufacturer of road, mountain, and bmxbicycles. The company was founded in 1979 by Gary Turner, a welding engineer and Richard Long, a bike shop owner. The company merged with Schwinn in 1998, but the conglomerate went bankrupt in 2001, and was acquired by Pacific...

     – Gary Turner
  • Gucci
    Gucci
    The House of Gucci, better known simply as Gucci , is an Italian fashion and leather goods label, part of the Gucci Group, which is owned by French company PPR...

     – Guccio Gucci
    Guccio Gucci
    Guccio Gucci was an Italian businessman and fashion designer, the founder of The House of Gucci and son of an Italian merchant from the country’s northern manufacturing region.-Founding Gucci:...

  • Guinness
    Guinness
    Guinness is a popular Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate, Dublin. Guinness is directly descended from the porter style that originated in London in the early 18th century and is one of the most successful beer brands worldwide, brewed in almost...

     – Arthur Guinness
    Arthur Guinness
    Arthur Guinness was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family.He was also an entrepreneur, visionary and philanthropist....

  • Gumpert
    Gumpert
    Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur GmbH is a German, Altenburg-based company manufacturing supercars. The first model produced was the Gumpert Apollo, followed by the Apollo Sport in 2007. Gumpert also offer the Apollo Race. The founder and owner of Gumpert is Roland Gumpert, former Director of Audi Sport...

     – Roland Gumpert

H

  • H&R Block
    H&R Block
    H&R Block is a tax preparation company in the United States, claiming more than 22 million customers worldwide, with offices in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. The Kansas City-based company also offers banking, personal finance and business consulting services.Founded in 1955 by brothers...

     – Henry W. Bloch
    Henry W. Bloch
    Henry Wollman Bloch is the co-founder and the chairman emeritus of H&R Block.Henry and his brother, Richard Bloch, founded H&R Block in 1955 in Kansas City, Missouri.-Personal life:Bloch was born in Kansas City...

     and Richard Bloch
    Richard Bloch
    Richard Adolf Bloch was an American entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known for starting the H&R Block tax preparation and personal finance company with his older brother Henry in 1955...

  • Haas Automation
    Haas Automation
    Founded in 1983 by Gene Haas, Haas Automation is a CNC machine tool manufacturer based in Oxnard, California. Haas Automation manufactures CNC vertical and horizontal machining centers, CNC lathes, rotary tables and 5C indexers. Sales outlets, referred to as Haas Factory Outlets are located all...

     – Gene Haas
    Gene Haas
    Gene Francis Haas is founder, president, and sole stockholder of Haas Automation, one of the world's leading CNC machine tool manufacturers. He also founded a NASCAR team, Haas CNC Racing now known as Stewart Haas Racing....

  • Haas Lola
    Haas Lola
    Team Haas Ltd. was an American Formula One team founded by Carl Haas and Teddy Mayer in 1984, which competed in the World Championship from to . The project was funded by Beatrice Foods and helped the team enter an agreement to use Ford engines for three seasons...

     – Carl Haas
    Carl Haas
    Carl A. Haas is an American auto racing impresario. He co-owned the Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing team in the IndyCar Series with the late Paul Newman and Mike Lanigan. He also owned Carl A...

  • Hachette Filipacchi Médias
    Hachette Filipacchi Médias
    Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A. is a magazine publisher. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Media of France.- History :Hachette Filipacchi was founded by Louis Hachette in 1826 when he purchased the Librarie Brédif. Hachette was purchased by Matra in 1980, a firm associated with Ténot &...

     – Louis Hachette
    Louis Christophe François Hachette
    Louis Christophe François Hachette was a French publisher.He was born at Rethel in the Ardennes département of France. After studying three years at prestigious École Normale Supérieure with the view of becoming a teacher, he was in 1822 on political grounds expelled from the seminary...

     and Daniel Filipacchi
    Daniel Filipacchi
    Daniel Filipacchi is the Chairman Emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias.His life and career have been noted for his passionate involvement in art collecting, photography, and jazz...

  • Haldanes
    Haldanes
    Haldanes was a chain of mid-sized supermarkets that operated in the United Kingdom. Established in 2009, the company was the first mid-sized supermarket chain to start business in the UK in 27 years, having been buying stores from the Co-operative group, which was forced to sell some shops...

     – Founding chairman Arthur Haldane Harris
  • Halliburton
    Halliburton
    Halliburton is the world's second largest oilfield services corporation with operations in more than 70 countries. It has hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands and divisions worldwide and employs over 50,000 people....

     – Erle P. Halliburton
    Erle P. Halliburton
    Erle Palmer Halliburton was an American businessman specializing in the oil business....

  • Hamann Motorsport
    Hamann Motorsport
    Hamann Motorsport GmbH is a German car tuning company based in Laupheim. It specialises in Audi, Aston Martin, Bentley, BMW, Mini, Ferrari, Fiat, Jaguar, Land Rover, Maserati, Mercedes, Rolls Royce, SLR, Porsche and Lamborghini cars...

     – Richard Hamann
  • Hämmerli
    Hämmerli
    Hämmerli is a Swiss manufacturer of firearms aimed mostly at sport shooting, especially Olympic events governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation....

     – Johann Ulrich Hämmerli
  • Hammond Organ
    Hammond organ
    The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...

     – Laurens Hammond
    Laurens Hammond
    Laurens Hammond , was an American engineer and inventor. His inventions include, most famously, the Hammond organ, the Hammond Clock, and the world's first polyphonic musical synthesizer, the Novachord.- Youth :...

  • Hanna-Barbera Productions
    Hanna-Barbera
    Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...

     – William Hanna
    William Hanna
    William Denby Hanna was an American animator, director, producer, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of people for much of the 20th century. When he was a young child, Hanna's family moved frequently, but they settled in Compton, California, by...

     and Joseph Barbera
    Joseph Barbera
    Joseph Roland Barbera was an influential American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....

  • Harley-Davidson
    Harley-Davidson
    Harley-Davidson , often abbreviated H-D or Harley, is an American motorcycle manufacturer. Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression...

     – William Harley and Arthur Davidson
    Arthur Davidson (Harley-Davidson founder)
    Arthur Davidson was one of the four original founders of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company. One of Arthur's favorite pastimes was fishing in the beautiful Wisconsin wilderness, which inspired him to create a motorcycle that would "take the hard work out of pedaling a bicycle".Arthur was a natural...

  • Harman Kardon
    Harman Kardon
    harman/kardon is a division of Harman International Industries and manufactures home and car audio equipment.Founded in 1953 by Dr. Sidney Harman and Bernard Kardon — two men with a deep interest in music and the arts — the company helped create the high-fidelity audio industry. Their first product...

     – Sidney Harman
    Sidney Harman
    Sidney Harman was an American businessman active in education, government, industry, and publishing. He was the Chairman Emeritus of Harman International Industries, Inc. Harman served as the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce in 1977 and 1978. As of August 2010 Harman was also the publisher of...

     and Bernard Kardon
  • Haro Bikes
    Haro Bikes
    -Haro Designs:The company was founded in 1978 by Bob Haro. Haro started out producing numberplates for BMX bikes in his bedroom. Demand for these stylish plates quickly outgrew his one man capacity. Haro Designs, the first name of the company, was formed in 1980 with headquarters in Torrance,...

     – Bob Haro
    Bob Haro
    Bob Haro is a former freestyle BMX rider turned artist and business executive. He is the founder of Haro Bikes and was one of the most important early innovators of BMX freestyle....

  • HarperCollins
    HarperCollins
    HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...

     – James Harper
    James Harper (publisher)
    James Harper , was an American publisher and politician in the early-to-mid 19th century. James was the eldest of four sons born to Joseph Henry Harper, , a farmer, carpenter, and storekeeper, and Elizabeth Kolyer, daughter of Jacobus Kolyer and Jane Miller.-Childhood and starting in...

     and William Collins
    William Collins (publisher)
    William Collins was a Scottish schoolmaster and publisher.Collins was born near Glasgow in 1789. In 1819 he set up a publishing business, initially selling religious books. He produced the first Collins dictionary in 1824, when he also obtained a licence to publish the Bible...

  • Harrah's Entertainment
    Harrah's Entertainment
    Caesars Entertainment Corporation is a private gaming corporation that owns and operates over 50 casinos, hotels, and seven golf courses under several brands. The company, based in Paradise, Nevada, is the largest gaming company in the world, with yearly revenues $8.9 billion...

     – William F. Harrah
    William F. Harrah
    William Fisk Harrah was an American businessman and the founder of Harrah's Hotel and Casinos.-Early years and education:...

  • Harvey Norman
    Harvey Norman
    Harvey Norman is a large Australian-based retailer of electrical, computer, furniture, entertainment and bedding goods. It is effectively a franchise and the main brand owned by Harvey Norman Holdings Limited...

     – Gerald Harvey
    Gerry Harvey
    Gerry Harvey is an Australian entrepreneur best-known for being the executive chairman of Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd., a large company which runs Australian retail chain Harvey Norman...

     and Ian Norman
  • Hasbro
    Hasbro
    Hasbro is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States...

     – the HASsenfeld BROthers
  • Hasegawa Corporation – Suguro Hasegawa
  • Hasselblad
    Hasselblad
    Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium-format cameras and photographic equipment based in Gothenburg, Sweden.The company is best known for the medium-format cameras it has produced since World War II....

     – Victor Hasselblad
    Victor Hasselblad
    Victor Hasselblad was a Swedish inventor and photographer, known for inventing the Hasselblad 6x6 cm medium format camera....

  • Hearst Corporation
    Hearst Corporation
    The Hearst Corporation is an American media conglomerate based in the Hearst Tower, Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings now include a wide variety of media...

     – William Randolph Hearst
    William Randolph Hearst
    William Randolph Hearst was an American business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887, after taking control of The San Francisco Examiner from his father...

  • Heckler & Koch
    Heckler & Koch
    Heckler & Koch GmbH is a German defense manufacturing company that produces various small arms. Some of their products include the SA80, MP5 submachine gun, G3 automatic rifle, the G36 assault rifle, the HK 416, the MP7 personal defense weapon, the USP series of handguns, and the high-precision...

     – Edmund Heckler
    Edmund Heckler
    Edmund Heckler was a German weapons manufacturer and the co-founder of Heckler & Koch along with Theodor Koch and Alex Seidel. He is buried in Oberndorf.-References:...

     and Theodor Koch
    Theodor Koch
    Theodor Koch was a German engineer and weapons manufacturer, born in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany. As a young man, Koch apprenticed as a precision mechanic. After completing his apprenticeship he attended an engineering school in Esslingen. In 1924 he started work for Mauser in Oberndorf as an...

  • Heineken International – Gerard Adriaan Heineken
    Gerard Adriaan Heineken
    Gerard Adriaan Heineken was the founder of Heineken. In 1864 he decided to purchase the brewery 'Den Hoyberg.' Here he started to brew a new beer....

  • Hendrick Motorsports
    Hendrick Motorsports
    Hendrick Motorsports , originally named All Star Racing, is a current American auto racing team created in 1984 by Rick Hendrick. The team currently competes in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with Chevrolet Impalas...

     – Rick Hendrick
    Rick Hendrick
    Joseph Riddick Hendrick III , better known as Rick Hendrick, is the current owner of the American NASCAR team, Hendrick Motorsports and founder of the Hendrick Automotive Group and Hendrick Marrow Program. He attended Park View High School in South Hill, Virginia, and began his career in auto...

  • Hennessy
    Hennessy
    Jas Hennessy & Co., or more simply Hennessy, is a world-leading cognac house with headquarters in Cognac, France. Today, the company of Jas Hennessy & Co...

     – Richard Hennessy
  • Herpa
    Herpa
    Herpa, or Herpa Miniaturmodelle GmbH, is a German manufacturer of die-cast model aircraft under the Herpa Wings trademark and plastic car models under the Herpa Cars & Trucks trademark. The mainstay of Herpa Wings is in the 1/500 scale, although models are also produced in the 1/400, 1/200, and...

     – Wilhelm Hergenröther (HERgenröther und PAtente)
  • The Hershey Company
    The Hershey Company
    The Hershey Company, known until April 2005 as the Hershey Foods Corporation and commonly called Hershey's, is the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America. Its headquarters are in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which is also home to Hershey's Chocolate World. It was founded by Milton S...

     – Milton Hershey
    Milton S. Hershey
    Milton Snavely Hershey was an American confectioner, philanthropist, and founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company and the "company town" of Hershey, Pennsylvania....

  • Hesburger
    Hesburger
    Hesburger is a fast-food chain based in Turku, Finland. Today, it is the largest Finnish hamburger restaurant chain, with a larger presence in the Finnish market than U.S.-based McDonald's...

     – Heikki Salmela
  • Hesketh Racing, Hesketh Motorcycles
    Hesketh Motorcycles
    Hesketh Motorcycles is a British motorcycle manufacturer, based in Daventry and Easton Neston.The company was formed by Alexander, 3rd Lord Hesketh, in 1980, then after his two ventures went bust from 1984 onwards, the marque has been maintained and improved by Broom Engineering, now based at...

     – Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh
  • Heuer – see TAG Heuer
  • Hewitt Associates
    Hewitt Associates
    Hewitt Associates , based in Lincolnshire, Illinois, United States was a global human resources outsourcing and consulting firm delivering a complete range of integrated services to help companies manage their total HR and employee costs, enhance HR services, and improve their workforces.Hewitt...

     – Ted Hewitt
  • Hewlett-Packard
    Hewlett-Packard
    Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...

     – William Hewlett
    William Reddington Hewlett
    William Redington Hewlett was an engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company . He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan where is father taught at the Univerisy of Michigan Medical School...

     and David Packard
    David Packard
    David Packard was a co-founder of Hewlett-Packard , serving as president , CEO , and Chairman of the Board . He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969–1971 during the Nixon administration...

  • Hilton Hotels
    Hilton Hotels
    Hilton Hotels & Resorts is an international chain of full-service hotels and resorts founded by Conrad Hilton and now owned by Hilton Worldwide. Hilton hotels are either owned by, managed by, or franchised to independent operators by Hilton Worldwide. Hilton Hotels became the first coast-to-coast...

     – Conrad Hilton
    Conrad Hilton
    Conrad Nicholson Hilton was an American businessman and investor. He is well known for being the founder of the Hilton Hotels chain.-Early life:Hilton was born in San Antonio, New Mexico...

  • H. J. Heinz Company
    H. J. Heinz Company
    The H. J. Heinz Company , commonly known as Heinz and famous for its "57 Varieties" slogan and its ketchup, is an American food company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Perhaps best known for its ketchup, the H.J...

     – Henry John Heinz
    Henry J. Heinz
    Henry John Heinz was an American businessman who founded the H. J. Heinz Company.-Early life:Heinz was one of eight children born to John Henry Heinz and Anna Margaretha Heinz...

  • H. K. Porter, Inc
    H. K. Porter, Inc
    H. K. Porter, Inc. manufactured light-duty railroad locomotives in the USA, starting in 1866. The company became the largest producer of industrial locomotives, and built almost eight thousand of them...

     – Henry Kirke Porter
    Henry Kirke Porter
    Henry Kirke Porter was an American businessman and Representative of the United States Congress for Pennsylvania's 31st congressional district.-Biography:...

  • HKS – Hiroyuki Hasegawa and Goichi Kitagawa (plus Sigma Automotive)
  • Hohner
    Hohner
    Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG is a company specialising in the manufacture of musical instruments. Founded in 1857 by Matthias Hohner , Hohner is identified especially with harmonicas and accordions. The Hohner company has invented and produced many different styles, and most of the...

     – Matthias Hohner
  • Holman Moody
    Holman Moody
    Holman Moody was an auto racing team, racecar manufacturer, and marine engine manufacturer. The team built virtually all of the factory Ford racecars of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. It owned racecars that competed in NASCAR, drag racing, ocean boat racing, rallys, and sports car racing. The team...

     – John Holman
    John Holman (NASCAR)
    John Holman was a NASCAR owner. He is most famous for his co-ownership of two time NASCAR championship team Holman Moody with Ralph Moody.-Early career:...

     and Ralph Moody
    Ralph Moody
    Ralph Moody was one of early drivers of NASCAR. However, he eventually became the most famous as team co-owner of Holman Moody.-Background:...

  • Honda
    Honda
    is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than...

     – Soichiro Honda
    Soichiro Honda
    was a Japanese engineer and industrialist, and founder of Honda Motor Co., Ltd..Honda was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan on November 17, 1906. He spent his early childhood helping his father, Gihei, a blacksmith, with his bicycle repair business. At the time his mother, Mika, was a weaver. At...

  • Honeywell
    Honeywell
    Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....

     – Mark Honeywell
    Mark C. Honeywell
    Mark Charles Honeywell was a U.S. electronics industrialist. He founded the eponymous Honeywell, Incorporated and was its first president and CEO .-Early years and marriage:...

  • Horlicks
    Horlicks
    Horlicks is the name of a company and of a malted milk hot drink. It is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline in the United Kingdom, South Africa, New Zealand, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Jamaica, and under licence in the Philippines and Malaysia....

     – James Horlick and William Horlick
    William Horlick
    William Horlick, Sr. was an English-born food manufacturer and the original patent holder of malted milk. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1869, settling in Racine, Wisconsin, where he started a food company with his brother, James. Horlick was a well-known philanthropist in the Racine area. He died...

  • Hormel
    Hormel
    Hormel Foods Corporation is a food company based in southeastern Minnesota , perhaps best known as the producer of Spam luncheon meat. The company was founded as George A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota, U.S., by George A. Hormel in 1891. The company changed its name to Hormel Foods...

     – George A. Hormel
  • Hornby Railways
    Hornby Railways
    Hornby Railways is the leading brand of model railway in the United Kingdom. Its roots date back to 1901, when founder Frank Hornby received a patent for his Meccano construction toy. The first clockwork train was produced in 1920. In 1938, Hornby launched its first 00 gauge train...

     – Frank Hornby
    Frank Hornby
    Frank Hornby was an English inventor, businessman and politician. He was a visionary in toy development and manufacture and produced three of the most popular lines of toys in the twentieth century: Meccano, Hornby Model Railways and Dinky Toys...

  • Hoshino Impul – Kazuyoshi Hoshino
    Kazuyoshi Hoshino
    is a former racing driver and businessman from Japan.Hoshino's nickname was . He won the Japanese motocross national championships in the 90cc and 125cc classes for Kawasaki in 1968 before switching to cars as a Nissan factory driver in 1969....

  • Hovnanian Enterprises
    Hovnanian Enterprises
    Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. is a United States real estate company involved in every aspect of marketing homes, including design, construction and sales. The company works with individual detached housing as well as higher-occupancy dwellings, including townhouses, condominiums and retirement homes...

     – Kevork Hovnanian
    Kevork Hovnanian
    Kevork S. Hovnanian was an Iraqi-born Armenian-American businessman and home builder, who founded Hovnanian Enterprises in 1959. He remained the president and chief executive officer of Hovnanian Enterprises until his retirement in 1997...

  • Hughes Aircraft
    Hughes Aircraft
    Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded in 1932 by Howard Hughes in Culver City, California as a division of Hughes Tool Company...

    , Hughes Tool Company
    Hughes Tool Company
    Hughes Tool Company was established in 1908 as Sharp-Hughes Tool Company when Howard R. Hughes, Sr. patented a roller cutter bit that dramatically improved the rotary drilling process for oil drilling rigs. He partnered with longtime business associate Walter Benona Sharp to manufacture and market...

     (to Baker Hughes
    Baker Hughes
    Baker Hughes Baker Hughes provides the world's oil & gas industry with products and services for drilling, formation evaluation, completion, production and reservoir consulting. Baker Hughes operates in over 90 countries worldwide mainly based in countries with a mature petroleum industry as is...

    ), Hughes Airwest
    Hughes Airwest
    Hughes Airwest was an airline that was backed by Howard Hughes. Hughes Airwest flew routes around the western United States and to certain points in Mexico and Canada. The airline was purchased by Republic Airlines on October 1, 1980...

     – Howard Hughes
    Howard Hughes
    Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world...

  • Hugo Boss
    Hugo Boss
    Hugo Ferdinand Boss was the founder of clothing company Hugo Boss.-Early life:Boss was born in Metzingen, Germany. After completing his apprenticeship and one year of employment, he founded his own company in Metzingen in 1923.-Support of Nazism:Boss joined the Nazi Party in 1931, two years before...

     – Hugo Boss

I

  • IKEA
    IKEA
    IKEA is a privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks, appliances and home accessories. The company is the world's largest furniture retailer...

     – Ingvar Kamprad
    Ingvar Kamprad
    Ingvar Feodor Kamprad is a Swedish and the founder of IKEA, a retail company.According to Forbes magazine, as of 2011 he is the 162nd wealthiest person in the world with an estimated net worth of around US$6 billion in 2011...

    , who was from a family farm called Elmtaryd, which was near the village of Agunnaryd.
  • Ilmor
    Ilmor
    Ilmor, founded by Mario Illien and Paul Morgan in November 1983, is a British independent high-performance autosport engineering company. With manufacturing based in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, and maintenance offices in Plymouth, Michigan, the company supplies engines and consultancy to the...

     – Mario ILlien
    Mario Illien
    Mario Illien is an engineer specialising in motorsport engine design and comes from Chur in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Despite living in a country in which motor racing was banned in 1955 , he developed an interest in the sport during the 1960s while following the career of Jo Bonnier,...

     and Paul MORgan
  • illy
    Illy
    illycaffè is a brand of coffee produced in Trieste, Italy.illy produces only one blend in three roast variations: normal, dark roast, and decaffeinated. The blend is packaged as whole beans, pre-ground coffee, E.S.E. pods, or iperEspresso Capsules....

     – Andrea Illy
    Andrea Illy
    Andrea Illy is an Italian businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of illycaffè S.p.A., a family coffee business founded in Trieste in 1933.-Life and education:...

  • Ilyushin
    Ilyushin
    Open Joint Stock Company «Ilyushin Aviation Complex» , operating as Ilyushin or Ilyushin Design Bureau, is a Russian design bureau and aircraft manufacturer, founded by Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin. Ilyushin was established under the Soviet Union. Its operations began on January 13, 1933, by...

     – Sergey Ilyushin
  • Innocenti
    Innocenti
    Innocenti was an Italian machinery works originally established by Ferdinando Innocenti in 1920.After World War II, the company was famous for many years for Lambretta scooters models such as LI125, LI150, TV175, TV200, SX125, SX150, SX200, GP125, GP150 and GP200.From 1961 to 1976 Innocenti built...

     – Ferdinando Innocenti
    Ferdinando Innocenti
    Ferdinando Innocenti , born in Pescia, Italy, was the founder of the Innocenti company and was the creator of the Lambretta motorscooter.Innocenti started working as an assistant to a blacksmith in 1907...

  • Irmscher
    Irmscher
    Irmscher Automobilbau GmbH & Co. KG is a German automobile tuning and manufacturing company specialising in Opel and recently Peugeot cars....

     – Günther Irmscher
  • Italdesign Giugiaro
    Italdesign Giugiaro
    Italdesign-Giugiaro S.p.A is an automobile design and engineering company based in Moncalieri, Italy founded in 1968 by Giorgetto Giugiaro and Aldo Mantovani as Studi Italiani Realizzazione Prototipi S.p.A...

     – Giorgetto Giugiaro
    Giorgetto Giugiaro
    Giorgetto Giugiaro is an Italian automobile designer responsible equally for a stable of supercars and several of the most popular everyday vehicles driven today...


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  • Jack Daniel Distillery
    Jack Daniel's
    Jack Daniel's is a brand of sour mash Tennessee whiskey that is among the world's best-selling liquors. It is known for its square bottles and black label. As of November, 2007, one blogger was claiming that it was the best-selling whiskey in the world. It is produced in Lynchburg, Tennessee by...

     – Jack Daniel
    Jack Daniel
    Jasper Newton "Jack" Daniel was an American distiller and the founder of Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery.-Biography:...

  • Jackson Guitars
    Jackson Guitars
    __FORCETOC__Jackson is a renowned brand of electric guitar that bears the name of its founder, Grover Jackson.-Early years:Grover Jackson obtained ownership in Charvel's Guitar Repair of Glendora, California in the 1970s with a promise to bolster Charvel's business...

     – Grover Jackson
  • Jacuzzi
    Jacuzzi
    Jacuzzi is a company that produces whirlpool bathtubs and spas. Its first product was a bath with massaging jets. The term "jacuzzi" is now often used generically to refer to any bathtub with massaging jets.-History:...

     – The Jacuzzi brothers
  • James Purdey and Sons
    James Purdey and Sons
    James Purdey & Sons - or simply "Purdey" - is a famous British gunmaker of London, and the name is synonymous with the very finest sporting shotguns and rifles. Purdeys hold or have held numerous warrants of appointment as gun and rifle makers to the British and other European royal...

     – James Purdey
  • J. Barbour & Sons
    J. Barbour & Sons
    J. Barbour & Sons Ltd is a British clothing manufacturer and importer, founded in South Shields, best known for making waterproof and outdoor clothing...

     – John Barbour
  • JBL
    JBL
    JBL is an American audio electronics company currently owned by Harman International. It was founded in 1946 by James Bullough Lansing. Their primary products are loudspeakers and associated electronics. There are two independent divisions within the company — JBL Consumer and JBL Professional...

     – James Bullough Lansing
    James Bullough Lansing
    - Early years :He was born in 14 January 1902, in Greenridge, Nilwood Township, Macoupin County, Illinois to parents Henry Martini of St. Louis, Missouri and Grace Erbs Martini of Central City, Illinois. His father was a coal mining engineer which meant the family moved around quite a bit in James'...

  • J. C. Bamford
    J. C. Bamford
    JCB is a global construction, demolition and agricultural equipment company headquartered in Rocester, United Kingdom. It is the world's third-largest construction equipment manufacturer. It produces over 300 types of machines, including diggers , excavators, tractors and diesel engines...

     – Joseph Cyril Bamford
  • JCPenney
    J. C. Penney
    -External links:*...

     – James Cash Penney
  • Jil Sander
    Jil Sander AG
    Jil Sander AG is a fashion house founded by Ms. Jil Sander in Germany in 1968. Its minimalist trademarks include striking silhouettes, high-end fabrics, and meticulous detail, emphasizing quality over flash...

     – Heidemarie "Jil" Sander
    Jil Sander
    Heidemarie Jiline 'Jil' Sander is a minimalist German fashion designer and the founder of the Jil Sander fashion house....

  • The Jim Henson Company
    The Jim Henson Company
    The Jim Henson Company, an American entertainment organization, traces its origins to the founding of Muppets, Inc. in 1958 by puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets. The Muppets helped the company gain worldwide acclaim in family entertainment for more than four decades...

     – Jim Henson
    Jim Henson
    James Maury "Jim" Henson was an American puppeteer best known as the creator of The Muppets. As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for...

  • Jimmy John's
    Jimmy John's
    Jimmy John's is a franchised sandwich restaurant founded by Jimmy John Liautaud in 1983 and headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. The franchise has over 1000 locations in 39 states and has opened approximately 200 units per year for the last three years...

     – Jimmy John Liautaud
  • J.J. Newberry
    J.J. Newberry
    J.J. Newberry's was an American five and dime store chain in the 20th century. It was founded in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1911 by John Josiah Newberry . J.J. Newberry had learned the variety store business by working at S.H...

     – John Josiah Newberry
    John Josiah Newberry
    John Josiah Newberry founded the J.J. Newberry stores.-Biography:Born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, Newberry first worked in the railroad business before joining a retail store in 1894 called Fowler, Dick and Walker. Staying in the same business, in 1899, he joined S. H. Kress & Co. where he stayed...

  • Jo-Han
    Jo-Han
    Jo-Han is a manufacturer of plastic scale model car promotionals and kits originally based in Detroit. The company was founded there in 1947 by tool and die maker John Hanley - a year before West Gallogly's AMT and about the same time as PMC...

     – JOhn HANley
  • Joe Gibbs Racing
    Joe Gibbs Racing
    Joe Gibbs Racing is a group of NASCAR racing teams owned and operated by former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, who first started racing on the NASCAR circuit in 1991, and J. D. Gibbs, his son...

     – Joe Gibbs
    Joe Gibbs
    Joe Jackson Gibbs is a former American football coach, NASCAR Championship team owner, and two time NHRA Pro Stock team owner. He was the 20th and 26th head coach in the history of the Washington Redskins...

  • Joest Racing
    Joest Racing
    Joest Racing is a racing team that was established in 1978 by former Porsche works racer Reinhold Joest...

     – Reinhold Joest
    Reinhold Joest
    Reinhold Joest is a former German race car driver and current team owner. During the last 25 years, Joest Racing has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans nine times.-Driving career:...

  • John Cooper Works
    John Cooper Works
    John Cooper Works is a company founded in the year 2000 by John Cooper, the racing car maker and tuner responsible for the Mini Cooper. JCW produces tuning parts and accessories for BMW's new MINI....

     – John Cooper
    John Cooper (car maker)
    John Newton Cooper was a co-founder, with his father Charles Cooper, of the Cooper Car Company. Born in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK he became an auto racing legend with his rear-engined chassis design that would eventually change the face of the sport at its highest levels, from Formula One to...

  • John Deere
    John Deere
    John Deere was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world...

     – John Deere
    John Deere
    John Deere was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world...

  • Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....

     – Robert Wood Johnson I
    Robert Wood Johnson I
    Robert Wood Johnson I was an American industrialist. He was also one of the three brothers who founded Johnson & Johnson.-Early life:...

    , James Wood Johnson
    James Wood Johnson
    James Wood Johnson was an American businessman and one of the co-founders of Johnson & Johnson. In 1886, James Wood Johnson and his two brothers Robert Wood Johnson I and Edward Mead Johnson founded Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey.-References:...

    , and Edward Mead Johnson
    Edward Mead Johnson
    Edward Mead Johnson was an American businessman and one of the co-founders of Johnson & Johnson. In 1886, Edward Mead Johnson abandoned a career in law and joined his two brothers Robert Wood Johnson I, and James Wood Johnson to found Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey...

  • Johnson Publishing – John H. Johnson
    John H. Johnson
    John Harold Johnson was an American businessman and publisher. He was the founder of the Johnson Publishing Company. In 1982 he became the first African-American to appear on the Forbes 400.ÀčĐċĎ- Biography :...

  • Jones Lang Wootton
    Jones Lang LaSalle
    Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. is a multinational financial and professional services company specializing in real estate. Global headquarters are located in Chicago, with an operational remit covering the Americas regional market...

     – the last names of its three principal members
  • Jordan Grand Prix
    Jordan Grand Prix
    Jordan Grand Prix was a Formula One constructor that competed from 1991 to 2005. The team is named after Irish businessman and founder Eddie Jordan...

     – Eddie Jordan
    Eddie Jordan
    Edmund "Eddie" Jordan also known as "EJ" founded and owned Jordan Grand Prix, a Formula One constructor which operated from 1991 to 2005...

  • J.P. Morgan & Co.
    J.P. Morgan & Co.
    J.P. Morgan & Co. was a commercial and investment banking institution based in the United States founded by J. Pierpont Morgan and commonly known as the House of Morgan or simply Morgan. Today, J.P...

     – J. P. Morgan
    J. P. Morgan
    John Pierpont Morgan was an American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric...

  • JR Motorsports
    JR Motorsports
    JR Motorsports is a NASCAR team based in Mooresville, North Carolina, co-owned by NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr., his sister Kelley Earnhardt Miller, cousin and former crew chief Tony Eury, Jr., and the owner of his Cup ride Rick Hendrick. It currently fields the No...

     – Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
    Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
    * NOTE: References to "Earnhardt", "he", and "him" refer to the subject of this article, unless otherwise specified. References to his father will include "Sr."...

     (Earnhardt is frequently referred to in NASCAR circles as "Junior")
  • JTG Daugherty Racing
    JTG Daugherty Racing
    JTG Daugherty Racing is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team owned by former advertising executive Tad Geschickter and his wife Jodi, along with current ESPN analyst Brad Daugherty...

     – Jodi and Tad Geschickter, and Brad Daugherty
  • Judd
    Judd (engine)
    Judd is a name brand of engines produced by Engine Developments Ltd., a company founded in 1971 by John Judd and Jack Brabham in Rugby, Warwickshire, England...

     – John Judd
  • Junkers
    Junkers
    Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG , more commonly Junkers, was a major German aircraft manufacturer. It produced some of the world's most innovative and best-known airplanes over the course of its fifty-plus year history in Dessau, Germany. It was founded there in 1895 by Hugo Junkers,...

     – Hugo Junkers
    Hugo Junkers
    Hugo Junkers was an innovative German engineer, as his many patents in varied areas show...


K

  • Kaiser Aluminum
    Kaiser Aluminum
    Kaiser Aluminum is an American aluminum producer. The company was founded in 1946 by American industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. Kaiser entered the aluminum business by leasing, then purchasing three government-owned aluminum facilities in Washington state. These were the primary reduction plants at...

    , Kaiser Motors
    Kaiser Motors
    Kaiser Motors Corporation made automobiles at Willow Run, Michigan, United States, from 1945 to 1953. In 1953, Kaiser merged with Willys-Overland to form Willys Motors Incorporated, moving its production operations to the Willys plant at Toledo, Ohio...

    , Kaiser Permanente
    Kaiser Permanente
    Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield...

    , Kaiser Shipyards
    Kaiser Shipyards
    The Kaiser Shipyards were seven major shipbuilding yards located mostly on the U.S. west coast during World War II. They were owned by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company, a creation of American industrialist Henry J...

    , Kaiser Steel
    Kaiser Steel
    Kaiser Ventures is an American corporation, headquartered in Ontario, California. It was founded by Henry J. Kaiser to provide steel plate for the Pacific Coast shipbuilding industry, which expanded during World War II, then shrank, then expanded again during the Korean War...

     – Henry J. Kaiser
    Henry J. Kaiser
    Henry John Kaiser was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. He established the Kaiser Shipyard which built Liberty ships during World War II, after which he formed Kaiser Aluminum and Kaiser Steel. Kaiser organized Kaiser Permanente health care...

  • Kaiser-Frazer
    Kaiser-Frazer
    The Kaiser-Frazer Corporation was the result of a partnership between automobile executive Joseph W. Frazer and industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. In 1947, the company acquired the automotive assets of Graham-Paige, of which Frazer had been president before the Second World War...

     – Henry J. Kaiser
    Henry J. Kaiser
    Henry John Kaiser was an American industrialist who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding. He established the Kaiser Shipyard which built Liberty ships during World War II, after which he formed Kaiser Aluminum and Kaiser Steel. Kaiser organized Kaiser Permanente health care...

     and Joseph W. Frazer
    Joseph W. Frazer
    Joseph Washington Frazer was a 20th-century American automobile company executive employed in succession by Chrysler, Willys-Overland, Graham-Paige and Kaiser-Frazer Corporation...

  • Kärcher
    Kärcher
    Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of cleaning systems and equipment, known for its high-pressure cleaners.- History :The inventor Alfred Kärcher from Baden-Württemberg founded the company in 1935. Initially Kärcher specialised in the design of industrial submersible heating...

     – Alfred Kärcher
  • Kawasaki Heavy Industries
    Kawasaki Heavy Industries
    is an international corporation based in Japan. It has headquarters in both Chūō-ku, Kobe and Minato, Tokyo.The company is named after its founder Shōzō Kawasaki and has no connection with the city of Kawasaki, Kanagawa....

     – Kawasaki Shōzō
    Kawasaki Shozo
    was a Japanese industrialist, and shipbuilder. He founded Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd..- Overview :Born in Kagoshima to a kimono merchant, Kawasaki Shōzō became a tradesman at the age of 17 in Nagasaki, the only place in Japan then open to the West. He started a shipping business in Osaka at...

  • Kellogg Company
    Kellogg Company
    Kellogg Company , is a producer of cereal and convenience foods, including cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, fruit-flavored snacks, frozen waffles, and vegetarian foods...

     – Will Keith Kellogg
    Will Keith Kellogg
    Will Keith Kellogg, generally referred to as W.K. Kellogg was an American industrialist in food manufacturing, best known as the founder of the Kellogg Company, which to this day produces a wide variety of popular breakfast cereals...

  • Kelly Racing
    Kelly Racing
    Kelly Racing is a team competing in the Australian V8 Supercar series. It is owned by John and Margaret Kelly, and made its debut in 2009. The team's current four drivers are 2006 V8 Supercar series champion Rick Kelly and 2005 Bathurst 1000 winner Todd Kelly , four time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg...

     – John and Margaret Kelly
  • Kevin Harvick Incorporated
    Kevin Harvick Incorporated
    Kevin Harvick Incorporated was a NASCAR team owned by NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kevin Harvick and his wife DeLana, who herself is the daughter of a former Busch Series driver, John Linville...

     – Kevin Harvick
    Kevin Harvick
    Kevin Michael Harvick is an American stock car auto racing race car driver and car owner currently competing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for Richard Childress Racing, driving the No. 29 Budweiser/Jimmy John's/Rheem/Okuma/Realtree Outdoors/Bad Boy Buggies Chevrolet Impala...

  • Kimberly-Clark
    Kimberly-Clark
    Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. Kimberly-Clark brand name products include "Kleenex" facial tissue, "Kotex" feminine hygiene products, "Cottonelle", Scott and Andrex toilet paper, Wypall utility wipes, "KimWipes"...

     – John A. Kimberly and Charles B. Clark
  • King Kullen
    King Kullen
    King Kullen Grocery Co. is an American supermarket chain with 45 stores, on Long Island and Staten Island. The company is headquartered in Bethpage, New York and was founded by Michael J. Cullen in 1930. It is notable for its title of "America's First Supermarket" as recognized by the Smithsonian...

     – Michael J. Cullen
    Michael J. Cullen
    Michael J. Cullen was an Irish American entrepreneur and salesman, perhaps best known as the founder of the King Kullen grocery store chain, widely considered to be the first supermarket founded in America. He is recognized by the Smithsonian Institution as the inventor of the modern...

    , he replaced the "C" with a "K" for marketing purposes.
  • Knight Ridder
    Knight Ridder
    Knight Ridder was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. Until it was bought by The McClatchy Company on June 27, 2006, it was the second-largest newspaper publisher in the United States, with 32 daily newspapers sold.- History :The corporate ancestors of...

     – John S. Knight
    John S. Knight
    John Shively Knight was an American newspaper publisher and editor.He was born in Bluefield, West Virginia to Charles Landon Knight and Clara Scheifly. He attended Cornell University but never graduated, leaving early to enlist in the Army. While at Cornell he was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa...

     (Knight Newspapers, Inc.) and Herman Ridder (Ridder Publications, Inc.)
  • Koei – Shibusawa and Eiji Fukuzawa (non-existent people)
  • Koenigsegg
    Koenigsegg
    Koenigsegg Automotive AB is a Swedish manufacturer of high-performance sports cars based in Ängelholm.-Company:The company was founded in 1994 in Sweden by Christian von Koenigsegg, with the intention of producing a world-class supercar...

     – Christian von Koenigsegg
    Christian von Koenigsegg
    Christian Erland Harald von Koenigsegg is the founder of the Swedish high-performance automobile manufacturer Koenigsegg Automotive AB....

  • Kohl's
    Kohl's
    Kohl's Corporation is an American department store chain headquartered in the Milwaukee suburb of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, operating , 1,089 stores in 49 states. In 1998, it entered the S&P 500 list, and is also listed in the Fortune 500...

     – Max Kohl
    Kohl's
    Kohl's Corporation is an American department store chain headquartered in the Milwaukee suburb of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, operating , 1,089 stores in 49 states. In 1998, it entered the S&P 500 list, and is also listed in the Fortune 500...

  • Kohlberg Kravis Roberts – Jerome Kohlberg, Jr.
    Jerome Kohlberg, Jr.
    Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. is an American businessman and early pioneer in the private equity and leveraged buyout industries founding private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and later Kohlberg & Company....

    , Henry Kravis
    Henry Kravis
    Henry R. Kravis is an American businessman and private equity investor. He is the co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a private equity firm with over $62 billion in assets as of 2011. He has an estimated net worth of $3.7 billion as of September 2011, ranked by Forbes as the 88th richest...

    , and George R. Roberts
    George R. Roberts
    George R. Roberts is an American financier and was one of the three original partners of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. , which he co-founded alongside Jerome Kohlberg and first cousin Henry Kravis in 1976.-Biography:...

  • Kojima Engineering – Matsuhisa Kojima
  • Kojima Productions
    Kojima Productions
    is a Japanese video game development studio under the guidance of game designer Hideo Kojima. The company is a subsidiary of Konami, and is located in Roppongi Hills in Roppongi, Tokyo. The studio had just under 100 employees in 2005 but has since grown to over 200 people for the development of...

     – Hideo Kojima
    Hideo Kojima
    is a Japanese game director originally employed at Konami. He is currently the director of Kojima Productions and was promoted to Vice President of Konami Digital Entertainment in early 2011...

  • Konami
    Konami
    is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...

     – Kagemasa KOuzuki, Yoshinobu NAkama, Tatuso MIyasako (another theory was Hiro Matsuda, and Shokichi Ishihara)
  • Konrad Motorsport
    Konrad Motorsport
    Konrad Motorsport is an auto racing team initially from Austria but now residing in Germany. Founded by Austrian racer Franz Konrad in 1989, the team has mostly run Porsches, although they have also run Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Saleens over their existence.-History:Initially competing in the...

     – Franz Konrad
    Franz Konrad
    Franz Konrad is a former race driver and founder of Konrad Motorsport in 1976.As a driver, he won the 1983 German Formula 3 Championship in an Anson SA4-Toyota. In 1990, he took a career best 2nd in the 1990 24 Hours of Le Mans driving a Jaguar, then followed this with an overall victory in the...

  • Kraft Foods
    Kraft Foods
    Kraft Foods Inc. is an American confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate. It markets many brands in more than 170 countries. 12 of its brands annually earn more than $1 billion worldwide: Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Trident, Tang...

     – James L. Kraft
    James L. Kraft
    James Lewis Kraft was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor. Born near Stevensville, Ontario in Canada to Mennonite parents, George and Minerva Tripp Kraft, he was the first to patent processed cheese...

  • Kremer Racing
    Kremer Racing
    Kremer Racing is a motorsports team based in Cologne, Germany, founded by racing driver Erwin Kremer and his brother Manfred. They have competed internationally with Porsches for nearly all of their existence, and were even one of the factory-backed squads for many years...

     – Erwin and Manfred Kremer
  • Kroger
    Kroger
    The Kroger Co. is an American supermarket chain founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reported US$ 76.7 billion in sales during fiscal year 2009. It is the country's largest grocery store chain and its second-largest grocery retailer by volume and second-place general retailer...

     – Bernard Kroger
  • Kruse International
    Kruse International
    Kruse International is an auction firm founded by Russell Kruse in Auburn, Indiana in 1952. The company began as a local auction company selling real estate, farms and personal property run by Russell Kruse and his sons Dean, Dennis, and Daniel...

     – Russell W. Kruse
    Russell W. Kruse
    Russell Wayne Kruse was an American auctioneer best known for building the business of auctioning classic cars through Kruse International....

  • Kwanon – Kannon (Japanese for the Buddhist bodhisattva
    Bodhisattva
    In Buddhism, a bodhisattva is either an enlightened existence or an enlightenment-being or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, "heroic-minded one for enlightenment ." The Pali term has sometimes been translated as "wisdom-being," although in modern publications, and...

     Guan Yin)
  • Kurtis Kraft
    Kurtis Kraft
    Kurtis Kraft was a designer and builder of race cars. The company was founded by Frank Kurtis.Kurtis Kraft designed and built midget cars, quartermidgets, sports cars, sprint cars and USAC Championship Cars....

     – Frank Kurtis
    Frank Kurtis
    Frank Kurtis was an American racing car designer. He designed and built midget cars, quarter-midgets, sports cars, sprint cars, Indy cars, and Formula One cars. He was the founder of Kurtis-Kraft....

  • Kuzma
    Kuzma (constructor)
    Kuzma was a racing car constructor founded by Eddie Kuzma in the USA. Kuzma cars competed in the FIA World Championship from 1951 to 1960.-World Championship Indy 500 results:Note: all cars were fitted with Offenhauser engines....

     – Eddie Kuzma

L

  • Lafarge
    Lafarge
    Lafarge is a French industrial company specialising in four major products: cement, construction aggregates, concrete and gypsum wallboard. In 2010 the company was the world's second-largest cement manufacturer by mass shipped behind Holcim.-History:...

     – Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge
  • Laidlaw
    Laidlaw
    Laidlaw, organized as Laidlaw International, Inc. , was a predecessor corporation of First Student , a US subsidiary of the Scottish transport firm FirstGroup plc...

     – Robert Laidlaw
    Robert Laidlaw
    Robert Laidlaw was a New Zealand business man who founded the Farmers Trading Company, one of the largest department store chains in New Zealand. He was also a Christian writer and philanthropist.-Biography:...

  • Lamborghini
    Lamborghini
    Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lamborghini , is an Italian car manufacturer. The company was founded by manufacturing magnate Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963, with the objective of producing a refined grand touring car to compete with established offerings from marques like...

     – Ferruccio Lamborghini
    Ferruccio Lamborghini
    Ferruccio Elio Arturo Lamborghini was an Italian industrialist. Born to grape farmers from the comune of Renazzo di Cento in the Emilia-Romagna region, his mechanical know-how led him to enter the business of tractor manufacturing in 1948, when he founded Lamborghini Trattori, which quickly became...

  • Lancia
    Lancia
    Lancia Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat Group in 1969. The company has a long history of producing distinctive cars and also has a strong rally heritage. Some modern Lancias are seen as presenting a more...

     – Vicenzo Lancia
  • Larrousse
    Larrousse
    Larrousse Formula One was a motorsports racing team founded in 1987 by Didier Calmels and former racer Gérard Larrousse, originally under the name Larrousse & Calmels. It was based in Antony, in the southern suburbs of Paris. It was renamed Larrousse after the departure of Calmels for legal reasons...

     – Gérard Larrousse
    Gérard Larrousse
    Gérard Larrousse is a former sports car racing, rallying and Formula One driver from France.He participated in two Grands Prix, debuting on 12 May 1974, scoring no championship points. He drove Brabham BT42s for Scuderia Finotto....

  • Lauda Air
    Lauda Air
    Lauda Air is an airline based in Schwechat, Austria. It operates scheduled leisure flights and charters to holiday destinations in Europe and North Africa. Its main base is Vienna International Airport. Lauda Air is a member of the Austrian Airlines Group and a affiliate Star Alliance...

     – Niki Lauda
    Niki Lauda
    Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda is an Austrian former Formula One racing driver and three-time F1 World Champion. More recently an aviation entrepreneur, he has founded and run two airlines and was manager of the Jaguar Formula One racing team for two years.- Early years in racing :Born in Vienna,...

  • Lavazza
    Lavazza
    Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of coffee products. Founded in Turin in 1895 by Luigi Lavazza, it was initially run from a small grocery store at Via San Tommaso 10. The business of Lavazza S.p.A. is currently administered by the third and fourth generation of the Lavazza family.-...

     – Luigi Lavazza
    Luigi Lavazza
    Luigi Lavazza was an Italian businessman. He was the founder, in 1895, of the Lavazza coffee company in Turin.-Biography:Lavazza was born in Murisengo, a small city in the province of Turin ....

  • Laverda
    Laverda
    Laverda was an Italian manufacturer of high performance motorcycles. The motorcycles in their day gained a reputation for being robust and innovative....

     – Pietro Laverda
  • Lazard
    Lazard
    Lazard Ltd is the parent company of Lazard Group LLC, a global, independent investment bank with approximately 2,300 employees in 42 cities across 27 countries throughout Europe, North America, Asia, Australia, Central and South America...

     – Alexandre Lazard, Simon Lazard, and Elie Lazard
  • LDS
    LDS (automobile)
    LDS is the name given to various single seater racing specials built for the South African Formula One Championship. The "specials" were built by Louis Douglas Serrurier, hence the name. The Mark 1 and Mark 2 models were based on Cooper designs, whilst the Mark 3 was based on the Brabham BT11...

     – Louis Douglas Serrurier
  • Lee Enterprises
    Lee Enterprises
    Lee Enterprises is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 54 daily newspapers in 23 states, and more than 300 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by A.W. Lee and is based in Davenport, Iowa....

     – A. W. Lee
  • Lagardère Group
    Lagardère Group
    Lagardère is a French-based multinational conglomerate headquartered in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The group once covered a broad range of industries but is now largely focused on the media sector, in which it is one of the world’s leading companies...

     – Jean-Luc Lagardère
    Jean-Luc Lagardère
    Jean-Luc Lagardère was a major French businessman, CEO of the Lagardere Group, one of the largest French conglomerates....

  • Lehman Brothers
    Lehman Brothers
    Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm. Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank in the USA , doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (former NYSE ticker...

     – Henry Lehman
    Henry Lehman
    Henry Lehman was a German-American businessman and the founder of Lehman Brothers financial services, which declared bankruptcy in 2008....

    , Emanuel Lehman, and Meyer Lehman
  • Leica Camera, Leica Geosystems
    Leica Geosystems
    Leica Geosystems based in eastern Switzerland produces products and systems for surveying and geographical measurement...

     and Leica Microsystems
    Leica Microsystems
    Leica Microsystems GmbH is a leading global manufacturer of optical microscopes, equipment for the preparation of microscopic specimens and related products. There are ten plants in eight countries with distribution partners in over 100 countries...

     – Ernst Leitz II (Leitz Camera)
  • LeMond Racing Cycles
    LeMond Racing Cycles
    LeMond Racing Cycles is a bicycle manufacturer originally founded by Greg LeMond, the first American to win the Tour de France . LeMond offered a geometry based on the racing frames he used in competition, which had a longer top tube and wheelbase in an otherwise traditional lightweight steel frame...

     – Greg LeMond
    Greg LeMond
    Gregory James LeMond is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States and a three-time winner of the Tour de France. He was born in Lakewood, California and raised in Reno, Nevada....

  • Leslie
    Leslie speaker
    The Leslie speaker is a specially constructed amplifier/loudspeaker used to create special audio effects using the Doppler effect. Named after its inventor, Donald Leslie, it is particularly associated with the Hammond organ but is used with a variety of instruments as well as vocals. The...

     – Donald Leslie
    Donald Leslie
    Donald James Leslie, created and manufactured the Leslie speaker that refined the sound of the Hammond organ and helped popularize electronic music....

  • Lesney Products
    Lesney Products
    Lesney Products & Co. Ltd. was a British manufacturing company responsible for the conception, manufacture, and distribution of die-cast toys under the "Matchbox" name.-History:...

     – Leslie Smith and Rodney Smith
  • Levi Strauss & Co.
    Levi Strauss & Co.
    Levi Strauss & Co. is a privately held American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Franconia, to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business...

     – Levi Strauss
    Levi Strauss
    Levi Strauss was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.-Origins:...

  • Li Ning Company Limited – Li Ning
    Li Ning
    Li Ning is a well-known Chinese gymnast and entrepreneur. He was born in an ethnic Zhuang family.-Gymnastics career:...

  • Lidl
    Lidl
    Lidl is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany that operates over 7,200 stores across Europe. The company's full name is Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG...

     – named for Ludwig Lidl
  • Life – Ernesto Vita (surname is Italian for life)
  • Ligier
    Ligier
    For the related Formula One team, see Equipe LigierLigier is a French automobile maker created by former racing driver and rugby player Guy Ligier.-History:...

     – Guy Ligier
    Guy Ligier
    Guy Ligier is a French former rugby player and racing driver.He first made his name as a rugby player in the late 1940s when he was working as a butcher's assistant in his home town of Vichy. An orphan, he was determined to build up a successful business and saved all his money in order to buy a...

  • Lincoln National Corporation
    Lincoln National Corporation
    Lincoln National Corporation is a Fortune 200 American holding company, which operates multiple insurance and investment management businesses through subsidiary companies...

     – to convey the integrity of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

  • Liz Claiborne
    Liz Claiborne
    Anne Elisabeth Jane "Liz" Claiborne was a Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur. Claiborne is best known for founding Liz Claiborne Inc. which in 1986 became the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500...

     – Liz Claiborne
  • L.L.Bean - Leon Leonwood Bean
    Leon Leonwood Bean
    Leon Leonwood Bean was an inventor, author, outdoor enthusiast, and founder of the company L.L.Bean.-History:...

  • Lockheed Corporation
    Lockheed Corporation
    The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...

     (to Lockheed Martin
    Lockheed Martin
    Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area....

    ) – Allan Haines Loughead and Malcolm Loughead
    Malcolm Loughead
    Malcolm Loughead formed the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company along with his brother, Allan Loughead. This company went on to become the Lockheed Corporation....

  • Loews Theatres
    Loews Cineplex Entertainment
    Loews Theatres, aka Loews Incorporated , founded in 1904 by Marcus Loew and Brantford Schwartz, was the oldest theater chain operating in North America until it merged with AMC Theatres on January 26, 2006. From 1924 until 1959, it was also the parent company of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. The...

     and Loews Corporation
    Loews Corporation
    Loews Corporation is a holding company run by the Tisch Family whose subsidiaries are engaged in the following lines of business:*property and casualty insurance...

     – Marcus Loew
    Marcus Loew
    Marcus Loew was an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loews Theatres and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .-Biography:...

  • Lonsdale – Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale
  • Lorillard Tobacco Company
    Lorillard Tobacco Company
    Lorillard Tobacco Company is an American tobacco company marketing cigarettes under the brand names Newport, Maverick, Old Gold, Kent, True, Satin, and Max. Lorillard is a member of the National Black Chamber of Commerce.- History :...

     – Pierre Abraham Lorillard
    Pierre Abraham Lorillard
    Pierre Abraham Lorillard was a tobacconist of New York City. He founded the business which developed into the Lorillard Tobacco Company, which claims to be the oldest tobacco firm in the United States and in the world...

  • Lotte
    Lotte (conglomerate)
    Lotte Co., Ltd. is a South Korean-Japanese Jaebeol and one of the largest food and shopping groups in South Korea and Japan. Lotte was established in June 1948, in Tokyo, by Japanese-educated, Korean businessman Shin Kyuk-Ho – also known as...

     – The Sorrows of Young Werther
    The Sorrows of Young Werther
    The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774; a revised edition of the novel was published in 1787...

    character Charlotte
  • Louis B. Mayer Pictures
    Louis B. Mayer
    Louis Burt Mayer born Lazar Meir was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B...

     (to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

    ) – Louis B. Mayer
    Louis B. Mayer
    Louis Burt Mayer born Lazar Meir was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B...

  • Louis Vuitton
    Louis Vuitton
    Louis Vuitton Malletier – commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton , or shortened to LV – is a French fashion house founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton. The label is well known for its LV monogram, which is featured on most products, ranging from luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes,...

     – Louis Vuitton
  • Lucasfilm
    Lucasfilm
    Lucasfilm Limited is an American film production company founded by George Lucas in 1971, based in San Francisco, California. Lucas is the company's current chairman and CEO, and Micheline Chau is the president and COO....

     – George Lucas
    George Lucas
    George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...

  • LVMH
    LVMH
    LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton S.A., better known as LVMH, is a French multinational luxury goods conglomerate headquartered in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The company was formed after the 1987 merger of fashion house Louis Vuitton with Moët Hennessy, a company formed after the 1971 merger...

     – see separate entries of Louis Vuitton, Moët et Chandon, and Hennessy

M

  • Macy's
    Macy's
    Macy's is a U.S. chain of mid-to-high range department stores. In addition to its flagship Herald Square location in New York City, the company operates over 800 stores in the United States...

     – Rowland Hussey Macy
    Rowland Hussey Macy
    __notoc__Rowland Hussey Macy, Sr. was an American businessman who founded the department store chain R.H. Macy and Company.-Life and career:...

  • Mahindra Group
    Mahindra Group
    The Mahindra Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered at Mahindra Towers in Mumbai, India, with operations in over 100 countries across the globe...

     – K.C. Mahindra
    Mahindra & Mahindra Limited
    Mahindra & Mahindra Limited is the flagship company of the Mahindra Group, a multinational conglomerate based in Mumbai, India. The company was set up in 1945 in Ludhiana as Mahindra & Mohammed by brothers K.C. Mahindra and J.C. Mahindra and Malik Ghulam Mohammed...

     and J.C. Mahindra
    Mahindra & Mahindra Limited
    Mahindra & Mahindra Limited is the flagship company of the Mahindra Group, a multinational conglomerate based in Mumbai, India. The company was set up in 1945 in Ludhiana as Mahindra & Mohammed by brothers K.C. Mahindra and J.C. Mahindra and Malik Ghulam Mohammed...

  • Maki
    Maki (constructor)
    Maki was a Formula One constructor from Japan, fully named as Maki Engineering. A small team founded by Kenji Mimura, their entry into the 1974 Formula One World Championship was Japan's first since Honda had withdrawn at the end of the 1968 season...

     – MimurA KenjI
  • Malaguti
    Malaguti
    Malaguti is a family-owned Italian scooter and motorcycle company based in San Lazzaro di Savena, founded by Antonino Malaguti in 1930.-History:...

     – Antonio Malaguti
  • Mamiya
    Mamiya
    is a Japanese company that today manufactures high-end cameras and other related photographic and optical equipment. With headquarters in Tokyo, it has two manufacturing plants and a workforce of over 200 people...

     – Seichi Mamiya
  • Manfrotto Group
    Manfrotto Group
    Manfrotto is a brand manufactured by Lino Manfrotto + Co. Spa, a company headquartered in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. Manfrotto is a worldwide leading brand in the manufacturing of camera and lighting supports. Manfrotto is owned by the UK company The Vitec Group, which purchased Lino Manfrotto +...

     – Lino Manfrotto
  • Mansory
    Mansory
    MANSORY is an aftermarket tuning company that specializes in the modification of high-end automobiles. Founder Kourosh Mansory became fond of British vehicles while living in the UK before moving to Germany and opening his tuning shop in the city of Brand in Bavaria/Germany near the border of the...

     – Kourosh Mansory
  • March Engineering
    March Engineering
    March Engineering was a Formula One constructor and manufacturer of customer racing cars from the United Kingdom. Although only moderately successful in Grand Prix competition, March racing cars enjoyed much better achievement in other categories of competition including Formula Two, Formula Three,...

     – Initials of Max Mosley
    Max Mosley
    Max Rufus Mosley is the former president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile , a non-profit association that represents the interests of motoring organisations and car users worldwide...

    , Alan Rees
    Alan Rees
    Alan Rees is a British former racing driver from Wales. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix in the 1960s, although two of those appearances were driving Formula 2 cars...

    , Graham Coaker
    Graham Coaker
    Graham Coaker was a British engineer and businessman, who was one of the four founders of the March Engineering motor racing manufacturer....

    , and Robin Herd
    Robin Herd
    Robin Herd is an English engineer, designer and businessman.Herd graduated from St Peter's College, Oxford with a double first in physics and engineering, before joining the Royal Aircraft Establishment in 1961 as a design engineer on the Concorde supersonic aircraft project...

  • Marchese
    Marchese (constructor)
    Marchese was an American racing car constructor owned by Carl Marchese. Marchese cars competed in two FIA World Championship races - the 1950 and 1951 Indianapolis 500s.-World Championship Indianapolis 500 results:...

     – Carl Marchese
  • Marconi Company
    Marconi Company
    The Marconi Company Ltd. was founded by Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 as The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company...

     – Guglielmo Marconi
    Guglielmo Marconi
    Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand...

  • Marcus Marshall Motorsport
    Team IntaRacing
    Team IntaRacing was a V8 Supercar team that was competing in the Australian V8 Supercar series.An experienced campaigner in international motorsport as well as in domestic V8 Supercar racing, Marcus Marshall established his own race team for the 2009 season...

     – Marcus Marshall
  • Mark Levinson
    Mark Levinson
    The company Mark Levinson, now owned by Madrigal Audio Laboratories specializes in high-end digital audio processors, integrated amplifiers, power amplifiers, pre amplifiers, and CD players...

     – Mark Levinson
  • Marks & Spencer
    Marks & Spencer
    Marks and Spencer plc is a British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, with over 700 stores in the United Kingdom and over 300 stores spread across more than 40 countries. It specialises in the selling of clothing and luxury food products...

     – Michael Marks
    Michael Marks
    Michael Marks, , was one of the two co-founders of the retail chain Marks & Spencer.-Biography:...

     and Thomas Spencer
  • Marriott Corporation (later split into Host Marriott
    Host Hotels & Resorts
    Host Hotels & Resorts is a real estate investment trust and the owner of lodging real estate based in Bethesda, Maryland.-History:Host Hotels & Resorts was formed in 1992 when the Marriott Corporation split into two separate entities, creating Marriott International and Host Marriott...

     and Marriott International
    Marriott International
    Marriott International, Inc. is a worldwide operator and franchisor of a broad portfolio of hotels and related lodging facilities. Founded by J. Willard Marriott, the company is now led by son J.W. Marriott, Jr...

    ) – J. Willard Marriott
    J. Willard Marriott
    John Willard Marriott was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation , the parent company of one of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains, and food services companies. The Marriott company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington D.C...

  • Mars, Incorporated
    Mars, Incorporated
    Mars, Incorporated is a worldwide manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products with US$30 billion in annual sales in 2010, and is ranked as the 5th largest privately held company in the United States by Forbes. Headquartered in McLean, unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia,...

     – Frank C. Mars
  • Marsh & McLennan Companies
    Marsh & McLennan Companies
    Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. is a US-based global professional services and insurance brokerage firm. In 2007, it had over 57,000 employees and annual revenues of $10.49 billion. Marsh & McLennan Companies was ranked the 221st largest corporation in the United States by the 2009 Fortune 500...

     – Henry W. Marsh and Donald R. McLennan
    Donald R. McLennan
    Donald Roderick McLennan was born in Duluth, Minnesota, son of William Lillingston McLennan and Julia MacLeod. He was the co-founder of the insurance brokerage firm Burroughs, Marsh & McLennan in 1905, which was renamed Marsh & McLennan in 1906 after the retirement of Mr. D. W. Burroughs...

  • Marshall Amplification
    Marshall Amplification
    Marshall Amplification is a British company, founded by drummer Jim Marshall, that designs and manufactures music amplifiers, brands personal headphones/earphones , and, after acquiring Natal Drums, drums and bongos. Marshall amplifiers, and specifically their guitar amplifiers, are among the most...

     – Jim Marshall
    Jim Marshall (businessman)
    James Charles "Jim" Marshall, OBE , known as The Father Of Loud, is a pioneer of guitar amplification. His company, Marshall Amplification continues to produce amplifiers with an iconic status.-Early Years:...

  • Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
    Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
    Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. is a diversified media and merchandising company founded by Martha Stewart. It is organized into four business segments: Publishing, Internet, Broadcasting media platforms and Merchandising product lines....

     – Martha Stewart
    Martha Stewart
    Martha Stewart is an American business magnate, author, magazine publisher, and television personality. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, and merchandising...

  • Martini
    Martini (cars)
    Martini Cars is a constructor of Formula racing cars from France, founded by Renato "Tico" Martini in 1965, when Martini and partner Bill Knight founded the Winfield Racing School at the Magny-Cours circuit...

     – Tico Martini
  • Martini & Rossi
    Martini & Rossi
    Martini & Rossi is an Italian multinational alcoholic beverage company primarily associated with the Martini brand of vermouth and also with sparkling wine . It also produces the French vermouth, Noilly Prat.-History:...

     – Alessandro Martini
    Alessandro Martini
    Alessandro Martini was an Italian businessman, founder of one of the most important vermouth companies in the world, Martini & Rossi, which produces the Martini vermouth....

     and Luigi Rossi
  • Marzotto
    Marzotto
    The Marzotto Group is an Italian textile manufacturer, based in Valdagno.Created in 1836 as the Lanificio Luigi Marzotto & Figli. In 2005 Marzotto Group's textile business separated from Valentino Fashion Group....

     – Luigi Marzotto
  • Matsushita Electric Industrial – Konosuke Matsushita
    Konosuke Matsushita
    was a Japanese industrialist, the founder of Panasonic, a company based in the suburb of Kadoma , Osaka in Japan. For many Japanese, he is known as "the god of management"...

  • Matrox
    Matrox
    Matrox is a producer of video card components and equipment for personal computers. Based in Dorval, Quebec, Canada it was founded by Lorne Trottier and Branko Matić....

     – Branko MAtić and Lorne TROttier (and eXcellence)
  • Mattel
    Mattel
    Mattel, Inc. is the world's largest toy company based on revenue. The products it produces include Fisher Price, Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys, Masters of the Universe, American Girl dolls, board games, and, in the early 1980s, video game consoles. The company's name is derived from...

     – Harold MATT Matson and ELliot Handler
  • Mauser
    Mauser
    Mauser was a German arms manufacturer of a line of bolt-action rifles and pistols from the 1870s to 1995. Mauser designs were built for the German armed forces...

     – Wilhelm and Paul Mauser
  • Maybach
    Maybach
    Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH is a German luxury car manufacturer. It was founded in 1909 by Wilhelm Maybach and his son. The company was originally a subsidiary of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH and was itself known as Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH until 1912.Today, the ultra-luxury car brand is owned by...

     – Wilhelm
    Wilhelm Maybach
    Wilhelm Maybach was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of constructors"....

     and Karl Maybach
  • Maytag
    Maytag
    Maytag Corporation is an American home and commercial appliance company, headquartered in Newton, Iowa, that is a division of the Whirlpool Corporation.-Company history:...

     – F. L. Maytag
  • Mazda
    Mazda
    is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.In 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales...

     – Jujiro Matsuda
    Jujiro Matsuda
    was a Japanese industrialist and businessman who founded automaker Mazda Motor Corporation.-Early life:The son of a fisherman, Jujiro Matsuda was born in Hiroshima. He was apprenticed to a blacksmith in Osaka at the age of fourteen and invented the "Matsuda-type pump" in 1906...

    , also possibly inspired by Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda
    Ahura Mazda
    Ahura Mazdā is the Avestan name for a divinity of the Old Iranian religion who was proclaimed the uncreated God by Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastrianism...

    .
  • McAfee
    McAfee
    McAfee, Inc. is a computer security company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. It markets software and services to home users, businesses and the public sector. On August 19, 2010, electronics company Intel agreed to purchase McAfee for $7.68 billion...

     – John McAfee
    John McAfee
    John McAfee is a computer programmer and founder of McAfee. He was one of the first people to design anti-virus software and to develop a virus scanner. He was born in England and raised in Salem, Virginia...

  • McCaw Cellular – Craig McCaw
    Craig McCaw
    Craig McCaw is a Seattle-area businessman and entrepreneur who achieved success as a pioneer in the cellular phone industry. He is the founder of McCaw Cellular and Clearwire Corporation.-Early life and cable TV beginnings:Craig is the second of four sons of Marion and John Elroy McCaw...

  • McDonald's
    McDonald's
    McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...

     – Richard and Maurice McDonald
  • McDonnell Aircraft
    McDonnell Aircraft
    The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company was founded on July 16, 1939 by James Smith McDonnell, and was best known for its military fighters, including the F-4 Phantom II, and manned spacecraft including the Mercury capsule...

     (to McDonnell Douglas
    McDonnell Douglas
    McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft. It formed from a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft in 1967. McDonnell Douglas was based at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport...

    ) – James Smith McDonnell
    James Smith McDonnell
    James Smith "Mac" McDonnell was an American aviation pioneer and founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas.-Early life:...

  • McGraw-Hill
    McGraw-Hill
    The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, broadcasting, and business services...

     – John A. Hill
    John A. Hill
    John Alexander Hill was a co-founder of The McGraw-Hill Companies. He was born in Sandgate, Vermont on Feb. 22, 1858....

     and James H. McGraw
    James H. McGraw
    James Herbert McGraw , born in Harmony, New York, USA, was co-founder of what is now The McGraw-Hill Companies. He was the president of McGraw-Hill from 1917 to 1928...

  • McKesson Corporation – John McKesson
  • McLaren
    McLaren
    McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup...

     – Bruce McLaren
    Bruce McLaren
    Bruce Leslie McLaren , born in Auckland, New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor....

  • Meijer
    Meijer
    Meijer, Inc. is a regional American hypermarket chain based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1934 as a supermarket chain, Meijer is credited with pioneering the modern supercenter concept in 1962. About half of the company's 196 stores are located in Michigan, with additional locations in...

     – Hendrik Meijer
  • Mellon Financial Corporation
    Mellon Financial
    Mellon Financial Corporation, was one of the world's largest money management firms. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it was in the business of institutional and high-net-worth-individual asset management, including the Dreyfus family of mutual funds; business banking; and shareholder and...

     – Thomas Mellon
    Thomas Mellon
    Thomas Alexander Mellon was a Scotch-Irish American, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, best known as the founder of Mellon Bank and patriarch of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Early life:...

  • Menards
    Menards
    Menards is a chain of home improvement stores in the Midwestern United States.The privately held company headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin has 262 stores in 13 states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, North Dakota, and...

     – John Menard, Jr.
    John Menard, Jr.
    John R. Menard, Jr. is an American entrepreneur who is the founder and owner of Menards, a major Midwestern home improvement store chain, and a former long time Indycar racing team owner in CART, IRL with Team Menard...

  • Mercedes
    Mercedes (car)
    Mercedes was a brand of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft . DMG which began to develop in 1900, after the death of its co-founder, Gottlieb Daimler...

     – named by Emil Jellinek
    Emil Jellinek
    Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes was a wealthy European entrepreneur who sat on the board of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft between 1900 and 1909. He specified an engine designed there by Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler for the first 'modern' car...

     for his daughter Mercédès Jellinek
    Mércédès Jellinek
    Mercédès Adriana Manuela Ramona Jellinek called Mercédès was the daughter of Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek and his wife Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert. She was born on September 16, 1889 and named as a term of endearment Mercedes...

  • Merck
    Merck KGaA
    Merck KGaA is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. Merck, also known as “German Merck” and “Merck Darmstadt”, was founded in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1668, making it the world's oldest operating chemical and pharmaceutical company. The company was privately owned until going public in 1995...

     – Friedrich Jacob Merck
  • Merriam-Webster
    Merriam-Webster
    Merriam–Webster, which was originally the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, is an American company that publishes reference books, especially dictionaries that are descendants of Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the English Language .Merriam-Webster Inc. has been a...

     – George and Charles Merriam, and Noah Webster
    Noah Webster
    Noah Webster was an American educator, lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author...

  • Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch
    Merrill Lynch is the wealth management division of Bank of America. With over 15,000 financial advisors and $2.2 trillion in client assets it is the world's largest brokerage. Formerly known as Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., prior to 2009 the firm was publicly owned and traded on the New York...

     – Charles E. Merrill
    Charles E. Merrill
    Charles Edward Merrill was an American philanthropist, stockbroker and co-founder, with Edmund C. Lynch of Merrill Lynch & Company .-Early years:...

     and Edmund C. Lynch
  • Merzario
    Merzario
    Merzario was a Formula One and Formula Two team and constructor from Italy. They participated in 39 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix but scored no championship points.-1977:...

     – Arturo Merzario
    Arturo Merzario
    Arturo Francesco "Little Art" Merzario is a former racing driver from Italy. He participated in 85 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 15, 1972...

  • Messerschmitt
    Messerschmitt
    Messerschmitt AG was a famous German aircraft manufacturing corporation named for its chief designer, Willy Messerschmitt, and known primarily for its World War II fighter aircraft, notably the Bf 109 and Me 262...

     – Willy Messerschmitt
    Willy Messerschmitt
    Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer. He was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of a wine merchant...

  • MGM
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

     or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – Samuel Goldfish
    Samuel Goldwyn
    Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios.-Biography:...

    , Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, and Louis B. Mayer
    Louis B. Mayer
    Louis Burt Mayer born Lazar Meir was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B...

  • Michael Waltrip Racing – Michael Waltrip
    Michael Waltrip
    Michael Curtis Waltrip is a semi-former professional race car driver, co-owner of Michael Waltrip Racing, and a published author. He is the younger brother of three-time NASCAR champion and racing commentator Darrell Waltrip. Waltrip is a two-time winner of the Daytona 500; having won the race in...

  • Miele
    Miele
    Miele is a manufacturer of high-end domestic appliances, commercial equipment and fitted kitchens, based in Gütersloh, Germany. Miele has always been a family-owned and -run company, founded in 1899 by Carl Miele and Reinhard Zinkann.-History:...

     – Carl Miele
  • Mikoyan
    Mikoyan
    Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG , or RSK MiG, is a Russian joint stock company. Formerly Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau , then simply Mikoyan, it is a military aircraft design bureau, primarily designing fighter aircraft...

     – Artem Mikoyan
  • MillenWorks
    MillenWorks
    MillenWorks, known as Rod Millen Motorsports until 2005, is an automotive technology company started by Rod Millen in 1980. The company began by preparing Millen's rally cars, and evolved into designing and building them...

     – Rod Millen
    Rod Millen
    Rodney K. "Rod" Millen is a racing competitor, vehicle designer, and business owner. He has competed in numerous genres of motorsports, including rally racing, off-road racing, hillclimbing, drifting, and super touring.-Personal life:...

  • Minardi
    Minardi
    Minardi was an automobile racing team and constructor founded in 1979 by Giancarlo Minardi. It competed in the Formula One World Championship from 1985 until 2005 with little success, nevertheless acquiring a loyal following of fans...

     – Giancarlo Minardi
    Giancarlo Minardi
    Giancarlo Minardi is the founder and former Managing Director of the now-defunct Minardi Formula One team.Minardi was born in Faenza , Italy and has spent his life with cars. As a young boy, his family managed a Fiat dealership and an Agip fuel station, and currently manages Iveco and Selenia...

  • Miramax Films
    Miramax Films
    Miramax Films is an American entertainment company known for distributing independent and foreign films. For its first 14 years the company was privately owned by its founders, Bob and Harvey Weinstein...

     – Max and Miriam Weinstein (parents of founders)
  • Mitel
    Mitel
    Mitel Networks, is a high-tech company providing unified communications solutions for business. The company previously produced TDM PBX systems and applications but after a change in ownership in 2001 now focuses almost entirely on Voice-over-IP products.Mitel is headquartered in Ottawa,...

     – Michael Cowpland
    Michael Cowpland
    Michael Cowpland is a British-born entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company.-Early life:...

     and Terry Matthews
    Terry Matthews
    Sir Terence Hedley Matthews OBE, FIEE, FREng is a Welsh business magnate, serial high tech entrepreneur, and Wales's first billionaire....

     (MIke and TErry's Lawnmowers)
  • Mitsuoka
    Mitsuoka
    is a small Japanese automobile company. They are noted for building cars with unconventional styling, some of which imitate British vehicles of the 1950s and 1960s. It is primarily a coachbuilder, taking production cars like the Nissan March and replacing the bodywork with its own custom designs...

     – Akio Mitsuoka
  • Moët et Chandon
    Moët et Chandon
    Moët & Chandon , or Moët, is a French winery and co-owner of the luxury goods company Moët-Hennessy • Louis Vuitton. Moët et Chandon is one of the world's largest champagne producers and a prominent champagne house. The company holds a Royal Warrant to supply champagne to Elizabeth II...

     – Claude Moët
    Claude Moët
    Claude Moët was a French vintner and wine merchant who founded the Champagne house that later became Moët et Chandon. Moët was the first winemaker in Champagne to exclusively produce sparkling wine. An expert salesman, Moët advocated the importance of personal contact with customers...

  • Molson
    Molson
    Molson-Coors Canada Inc. is the Canadian division of the world's fifth-largest brewing company, the Molson Coors Brewing Company. It is the second oldest company in Canada after the Hudson's Bay Company. Molson's first brewery was located on the St...

     – John Molson
    John Molson
    John Molson was an English-speaking Quebecer who was a major brewer and entrepreneur in Canada, starting the Molson Brewing Company.-Birth and early life:...

  • Momo
    MOMO (company)
    MOMO Srl is a design company headquartered in Milan, Italy that makes accessories and parts for automobiles.- Company history :MOMO was founded by gentleman racer Giampiero Moretti in the 1960s. MOMO are the initials for Moretti-Monza. Monza is a region in the Province of Milan.In 1969 MOMO opened...

     – Giampiero Moretti
    Giampiero Moretti
    Giampiero Moretti is a retired racing driver and the founder of the MOMO company in the 1960s.He is a former winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona, winning in 1998, driving a Ferrari 333SP with co-drivers Mauro Baldi, Arie Luyendyk and Didier Theys.- Notes :...

     (MOretti MOnza
    Autodromo Nazionale Monza
    The Autodromo Nazionale Monza is a race track located near the town of Monza, north of Milan, in Italy. The circuit's biggest event is the Formula One Italian Grand Prix, which has been hosted there since the sport's inception....

    )
  • Mondadori
    Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
    Arnoldo Mondadori Editore is the biggest publishing company in Italy.-History:Founded by the 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori in 1907 to publish the magazine titled Luce!, it soon became an important publisher. Its headquarters are in Milan....

     – Arnoldo Mondadori
    Arnoldo Mondadori
    Arnoldo Mondadori was a noted Italian publisher.Mondadori was born at Poggio Rusco, Mantua and died in Milan.His publishing house is today the largest in Italy.-External links:*...

  • Montague Bikes
    Montague Bikes
    Montague is a manufacturer that designs and produces full-size folding bicycles for civilian and potential military customers.- History :Montague Corporation was formed in 1987 by David Montague, while in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

     – David Montague
  • Monteverdi
    Monteverdi (car)
    Monteverdi was a Swiss brand of luxury cars created in 1967 by Peter Monteverdi and based in Binningen on the southern edge of Basel, Switzerland.-History:...

     – Peter Monteverdi
    Peter Monteverdi
    Peter Monteverdi was a Swiss automaker and creator of the automobile brand Monteverdi....

  • Moog Music
    Moog Music
    Moog Music is an American company based in Asheville, North Carolina which manufactures electronic musical instruments. The current Moog Music is the second company to trade under that name.-R.A. Moog Co. and the original Moog Music:...

     – Dr. Robert Moog
    Robert Moog
    Robert Arthur Moog , commonly called Bob Moog was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.-Life:...

  • Morbidelli
    Morbidelli
    Morbidelli was an Italian motorcycle manufacturer founded by Giancarlo Morbidelli in Pesaro, whose 125 cc racing motorcycles were particularly successful from 1975 to 1980. The team was 125 cc world champion in years 1976, 1977 and 1978, and 250 cc champion in 1977...

     – Giancarlo Morbidelli
  • Morgan Stanley
    Morgan Stanley
    Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....

     – Henry S. Morgan
    Henry S. Morgan
    -Biography:He was born on October 24, 1900 in London, England to John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. and Jane Norton Grew. His father was the son of J. P. Morgan; and his mother was the daughter of Boston banker and mill owner Henry Sturgis Grew. Morgan had two sons....

     and Harold Stanley
    Harold Stanley
    Harold Stanley was an American businessman and one of the founders of Morgan Stanley in 1935. He ran Morgan Stanley until 1955....

  • Morgan Motor Company
    Morgan Motor Company
    The Morgan Motor Company is a British motor car manufacturer. The company was founded in 1910 by Harry Frederick Stanley Morgan, generally known as "HFS" and was run by him until he died, aged 77, in 1959. Peter Morgan, son of H.F.S., ran the company until a few years before his death in 2003...

     – H.F.S. Morgan
    H.F.S. Morgan
    Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan known as H.F.S. was an English sports car manufacturer and founder of the Morgan Motor Company and its Chairman from 1937 until his death in 1959....

  • Mosler Automotive – Warren Mosler
  • Moto Guzzi
    Moto Guzzi
    Moto Guzzi is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. It is one of seven brands owned by Piaggio.Established in 1921 in Mandello del Lario, Italy, the company is noted for its central historic role in Italy's motorcycling manufacture, its prominence worldwide in motorcycle racing, and a series of...

     – Carlo Guzzi
  • Moto Morini
    Moto Morini
    Moto Morini is an Italian maker of motorcycles. It was founded by Alfonso Morini in Bologna, in 1937.Earlier, Morini had also manufactured motorcycles together with Mario Mazzetti under the name MM...

     – Alfonso Morini
  • MV Agusta
    MV Agusta
    MV Agusta is a motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1945 near Milan in Cascina Costa, Italy. The company began as an offshoot of the Agusta aviation company formed by Count Giovanni Agusta in 1923. The Count died in 1927, leaving the company in the hands of his wife and sons, Domenico, Vincenzo,...

     – Vincenzo and Domenico Agusta
  • Myer
    Myer
    Myer is Australia's largest department store chain, retailing a broad range of merchandise including women's, men's and children's clothing, footwear and accessories; cosmetics and fragrance; homewares; electrical; furniture and bedding; toys; books and stationery; food and confectionery; and...

     - Sidney Myer
    Sidney Myer
    Sidney Baevski Myer was a Russian Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for creating Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores.-Early life:...


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  • Nakajima Racing
    Nakajima Racing
    Nakajima Racing is a Formula Nippon team organized and founded by Satoru Nakajima around 1989. The team has fielded four championship winners in the Formula Nippon racing series: Tom Coronel, Toranosuke Takagi, Ralph Firman and Loïc Duval...

     – Satoru Nakajima
    Satoru Nakajima
    Satoru Nakajima is a former racing driver from Japan.-Career:Nakajima was born into a farming family living just outside Okazaki, Japan. He began driving cars in his early teens in the family's garden with his older brother giving him tips, careful that they were not caught by their father...

  • Nakamichi
    Nakamichi
    is an historic Japanese high end audio company most famous for its innovative and very high quality audio cassette decks.In 1972, Nakamichi launched its first Nakamichi-brand products, home audio gear that included the world's first three-head cassette deck...

     – Etsuro Nakamichi
    Etsuro Nakamichi
    Etsuro Nakamichi was a Japanese engineer and founder of Nakamichi Corporation, a high-end audio electronics company based in Tokyo in Japan. The company is most famous for its very high quality sounding cassette decks....

  • Namco
    Namco
    is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of...

     – Masaya Nakamura
    Masaya Nakamura (Namco)
    is the founder of Namco, the third largest video game developing entity in Japan. The Japanese government awarded Nakamura the “Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette” in their Spring Conferment of Decorations for his contribution to Japanese industry...

     (NAkamura Manufacturing COmpany)
  • Nardi
    Nardi (carmaker)
    Ufficine Nardi was an Italian automobile and racing car maker, named for their creator.Enrico Nardi was a racing mechanic, engineer, and driver who got his start with Lancia. He test drove the first car built by Auto Avio Costruzione in Modena, where many ex-Lancia colleagues joined him.In 1932,...

     – Enrico Nardi
    Enrico Nardi
    Enrico Nardi was an Italian racing car driver, engineer and designer.He worked at Lancia between 1929 and 1937 as a truck engineer, racing car driver, and later, advisor to Vincenzo Lancia...

  • Nash Motors
    Nash Motors
    Also see: Kelvinator and American Motors CorporationNash Motors was an automobile manufacturer based in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the United States from 1916 to 1938. From 1938 to 1954, Nash was the automotive division of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation...

     – Charles Warren Nash
  • Neiman Marcus
    Neiman Marcus
    Neiman Marcus, formerly Neiman-Marcus, is a luxury specialty retail department store operated by the Neiman Marcus Group in the United States. The company is headquartered in the One Marcus Square building in Downtown Dallas, Texas, and competes with other department stores such as Saks Fifth...

     – Herbert Marcus, Sr., Carrie Marcus Neiman, and A. L. Neiman
  • Nero AG
    Nero AG
    Nero is a global computer software company headquartered in Karlsbad, Germany. It is perhaps most well-known for its burning software, Nero Burning ROM.-History:The company was founded as Ahead Software GmbH in 1995 by Richard Lesser....

     – Nero
    Nero
    Nero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death....

  • Nestlé
    Nestlé
    Nestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...

     – Henri Nestlé
    Henri Nestlé
    Henri Nestlé, born Heinrich Nestle , was a German confectioner and founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company, as well as one of the main creators of condensed milk.-Birth:...

  • Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing
    Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing
    Newman/Haas Racing was a motor racing team competing in the IndyCar Series. The team operations were based in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Newman/Haas Racing was formed when actor Paul Newman and long-time racer Carl Haas, competitors in the Can-Am championship, each began looking to Champ Car racing...

     – Paul Newman
    Paul Newman
    Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...

    , Carl Haas
    Carl Haas
    Carl A. Haas is an American auto racing impresario. He co-owned the Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing team in the IndyCar Series with the late Paul Newman and Mike Lanigan. He also owned Carl A...

    , and Mike Lanigan
    Mike Lanigan
    Michael "Mike" Lanigan is an entrepreneur and IndyCar Series team owner.Lanigan founded a division of his father's company, Mi-Jack Construction Equipment in Indianapolis in 1973. In 1989 he returned to his hometown of Chicago to become president of the company. The company produces rubber-tire...

  • Newman's Own
    Newman's Own
    Newman's Own is a food company and for-profit corporation founded by actor Paul Newman and author A. E. Hotchner in 1982. Newman received all of the profits from product sales and donated 100% of the proceeds, after taxes, to various educational and charitable organizations of his own selection...

     – Paul Newman
    Paul Newman
    Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...

  • Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy
    Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy
    The Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy is located in Bradenton, Florida, and was founded in 1978 by Nick Bollettieri as a full-time tennis boarding school that combines intensive tennis training with an academic curriculum....

     – Nick Bollettieri
    Nick Bollettieri
    Nicholas James Bollettieri is an American tennis coach who is credited with developing many world-class champions, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Mary Pierce. Recently, he has worked with 2006 U.S. Open champion Maria Sharapova, Jelena Janković, Nicole Vaidišová and Sabine...

  • Nielsen
    Nielsen
    Nielsen , is a Danish patronymic surname, literally meaning son of Niels, Niels being the Danish version of the Greek male given name Νικόλαος, Nikolaos . It is the second most common surname in Denmark, shared by about 5% of the population. It is also used in Norway, although the form Nelsen and...

      – Arthur Nielsen
    Arthur Nielsen
    Arthur Charles Nielsen, Sr. was an American market analyst who founded the ACNielsen company.-Background:Arthur Charles Nielsen was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was of Danish descent. Nielsen was educated at University of Wisconsin , where he received a B.S., summa cum laude in 1918...

  • Niki – Niki Lauda
    Niki Lauda
    Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda is an Austrian former Formula One racing driver and three-time F1 World Champion. More recently an aviation entrepreneur, he has founded and run two airlines and was manager of the Jaguar Formula One racing team for two years.- Early years in racing :Born in Vienna,...

  • Nobel Enterprises
    Nobel Enterprises
    Nobel Enterprises is a chemicals business based at Ardeer, near to the North Ayrshire town of Stevenston in Scotland. It specialises in nitrogen-based propellants and explosives and nitrocellulose-based products such as varnishes and inks...

     - Alfred Nobel
    Alfred Nobel
    Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He is the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments...

  • Nordstrom
    Nordstrom
    Nordstrom, Inc. is an upscale department store chain in the United States, founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin. Initially a shoe retailer, the company today also sells clothing, accessories, handbags, jewelry, cosmetics, fragrances, and in some locations, home furnishings...

     – John W. Nordstrom
    John W. Nordstrom
    John W. Nordstrom was the co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain.-Background:...

  • Northrop
    Northrop Corporation
    Northrop Corporation was a leading United States aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman in 1994. The company is known for its development of the flying wing design, although only a few of these have entered service.-History:Jack...

      – Jack Northrop
    John Knudsen Northrop
    John Knudsen "Jack" Northrop was an American aircraft industrialist and designer, who founded the Northrop Corporation in 1939.-Entering aviation:...


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  • Offenhauser
    Offenhauser
    Offenhauser was an American racing engine manufacturer that operated from 1933 to 1983.The Offenhauser engine, familiarly known as the "Offy", was developed by Fred Offenhauser and his employer Harry Arminius Miller, after maintaining and repairing a 1913 Peugeot Grand Prix car of the type which...

     – Fred Offenhauser
    Fred Offenhauser
    Fred Offenhauser , was an automotive engineer and mechanic who designed the Offenhauser racing engine, nicknamed the "Offy", which dominated competition in the Indianapolis 500 race for decades....

  • Office Kitano
    Office Kitano
    Office Kitano is a Japanese talent management and film production company founded and managed by Takeshi Kitano. It launched the Tokyo Filmex in 2000....

     – Takeshi Kitano
    Takeshi Kitano
    is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic...

  • Öhlins
    Öhlins
    Öhlins or Öhlins Racing AB, is a manufacturer of high-performance suspension systems for automotive, motorcycle, snowmobile, and ATV use. It is based in Upplands Väsby just north of Stockholm, Sweden...

     – Kenth Öhlins
  • Oldsmobile
    Oldsmobile
    Oldsmobile was a brand of American automobile produced for most of its existence by General Motors. It was founded by Ransom E. Olds in 1897. In its 107-year history, it produced 35.2 million cars, including at least 14 million built at its Lansing, Michigan factory...

     – Ransom E. Olds
    Ransom E. Olds
    Ransom Eli Olds was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named. He claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1894, and his first gasoline powered car in 1896...

  • Olin Corporation – Franklin W. Olin
    Franklin W. Olin
    Franklin Walter Olin was the founder of the Olin Corporation.He was born in Woodford, Vermont and his father built mills and waterwheels. He studied civil engineering at Cornell University, where he also played baseball; he would play as an outfielder in the American Association for two seasons...

  • Olivetti
    Olivetti
    Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.- Founding :The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti...

     – Camillo Olivetti
    Camillo Olivetti
    Camillo Olivetti was an Italian electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti & Co., SpA., the Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.-References and notes:...

  • Orton Ceramic Foundation
    Orton Ceramic Foundation
    The roots of the Orton Ceramic Foundation date back to the establishment of the "Standard Pyrometric Cone Company" in 1896 by Dr. Edward J. Orton, Jr.. Dr. Orton was a pioneer in developing and applying scientific principles to ceramic manufacturing...

     – Edward Orton, Jr.
    Edward Orton, Jr.
    Edward Orton, Jr. was a prominent Columbus philanthropist and businessman.-Early years:...

  • Osella
    Osella
    Osella is an Italian racing car manufacturer and former Formula One team based in Volpiano near Turin, Italy. They participated in 132 Grands Prix between 1980 and 1990...

     – Enzo Osella
  • Otis Elevator Company
    Otis Elevator Company
    The Otis Elevator Company is the world's largest manufacturer of vertical transportation systems today, principally focusing on elevators and escalators...

     – Elisha Otis
    Elisha Otis
    Elisha Graves Otis was an American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. He worked on this device while living in Yonkers, New York in 1852, and had a finished product in...

  • Otto GmbH
    Otto GmbH
    The Otto group, or Otto , is the world's largest mail order company, operating in more than 20 countries. The family of executive board chairman Michael Otto owns the majority of the company. The company is based in Hamburg, Germany...

     – Michael Otto
    Michael Otto
    Michael Otto , is the head of German Otto Group, the world's largest mail order company, with US$24 billion in sales in fiscal year 2003...


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  • Pagani
    Pagani
    Pagani Automobili S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of sports cars and carbon fibre. The company was founded in 1992 by Horacio Pagani, and is based in San Cesario sul Panaro, near Modena, Italy.-History:...

     – Horacio Pagani
  • Pamida
    Pamida
    Pamida is a chain of department stores with more than 175 locations in 16 Midwestern and West Central U.S. states. Pamida stores are generally located in smaller communities that range from 3,000 to 8,000 in population...

     – PAtrick, MIchael, and DAvid Witherspoon, sons of company co-founder Jim Witherspoon
  • Panoz – Don Panoz
    Don Panoz
    Dr. h.c. Donald Panoz is an American entrepreneur who made his name in pharmaceuticals and has since become a successful owner of various motorsport ventures.- Early life :...

  • Papa John's Pizza
    Papa John's Pizza
    Papa John's Pizza is the third largest take-out and delivery pizza restaurant chain in the United States, behind Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza. It is based in Louisville, Kentucky. Papa John's slogan is "Better Ingredients. Better pizza. Papa John's"...

     – "Papa" John Schnatter
    John Schnatter
    John H. Schnatter , better known as "Papa John", is the founder, chairman, and current CEO of Papa John's International, Inc. He founded the company in October 1984. He is also spokesman for Papa John's.-Biography:...

  • Patek Philippe & Co.
    Patek Philippe & Co.
    Patek Philippe & Co. is a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer located in Geneva and the Vallée de Joux.-History:Polish watchmaker Antoni Patek started making pocket watches in 1839 in Geneva, along with his fellow Polish migrant Franciszek Czapek. They separated in 1844, and in 1845 Patek joined with...

     – Antoni Patek
    Antoni Patek
    Antoni Norbert Patek , is a Polish pioneer in watchmaking and a creator of Patek Philippe & Co. one of the most famous watchmaker companies.- Early life :...

     and Adrien Philippe
    Adrien Philippe
    Jean Adrien Philippe was French horologist and cofounder of watchmaker Patek Philippe & Co. of Geneva, Switzerland.In 1842 Adrien Philippe invented a mechanism for watches which allowed them to be wound and set by means of crown rather than a key. His patented invention earned him a Gold Medal at...

  • Pathé
    Pathé
    Pathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.-History:...

     – Charles
    Charles Pathé
    Charles Pathé was a major French pioneer of the film and recording industries.The son of a butcher shop owner, Charles Pathé was born at Chevry-Cossigny, in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. In 1894, together with his brother Émile, he formed Pathé Records...

     and Émile Pathé
  • Paul Cruickshank Racing
    Paul Cruickshank Racing
    Paul Cruickshank Racing was an Australian motor racing team that competed in several Sports Car and Touring Car categories.-V8 Supercar Championship:...

     – Paul Cruickshank
  • Paul K. Guillow, Inc.
    Paul K. Guillow, Inc.
    Paul K. Guillow, Inc. is a manufacturer of Balsa wood model airplane toys. It was established in 1926 in Wakefield, MA, USA. The company was founded by Paul K. Guillow, a World War I U. S. Navy Aviator, the company was originally called Nucraft Toys.Mr...

     – Paul K. Guillow
  • Paul Morris Motorsport – Paul Morris
  • Peavey Electronics
    Peavey Electronics
    Peavey Electronics Corporation is one of the largest audio equipment manufacturers in the world, headquartered in Meridian, Mississippi in the United States.- History :...

     – Hartley Peavey
    Hartley Peavey
    Hartley Peavey is a founder and CEO of Peavey Electronics Corporation and a well-known innovator in the musical equipment industry. A 1965 graduate of Mississippi State University, Peavey has been recognized by his alma mater as an Alumni Fellow and as the 2004 commencement speaker...

  • Penske Corporation – Roger Penske
    Roger Penske
    Roger S. Penske is the owner of the automobile racing team Penske Racing, the Penske Corporation, and other automotive related businesses. A winning racer in the late 1950s, Penske was named 1961's Sports Car Club of America Driver of the Year by Sports Illustrated...

  • PerkinElmer
    PerkinElmer
    PerkinElmer, Inc. is an American multinational technology corporation, focused in the business areas of human and environmental health, including environmental analysis, food and consumer product safety, medical imaging, drug discovery, diagnostics, biotechnology, industrial applications, and life...

     – Richard Scott Perkin
    Richard Scott Perkin
    Richard "Dick" Scott Perkin was an American entrepreneur.At an early age he developed an interest in astronomy, and began making telescopes and grinding lenses and mirrors. He only spent a year in college studying chemical engineering before he began working at a brokerage firm on Wall...

     and Charles Elmer
    Charles Elmer
    Charles Wesley Elmer was an American amateur astronomer and court reporter who co-founded the Perkin-Elmer optical company in 1937....

  • Perot Systems
    Perot Systems
    Perot Systems was an information technology services provider founded in 1988 by a group of investors led by Ross Perot and based in Plano, Texas, United States. A Fortune 1000 corporation with offices in more than 25 countries, Perot Systems employed more than 23,000 people and had an annual...

     – H. Ross Perot, Jr.
    Ross Perot
    Henry Ross Perot is a U.S. businessman best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988...

  • Perry Ellis International
    Perry Ellis International
    Perry Ellis International is an international marketer of clothing, offering a diverse portfolio of brands through multiple distribution channels; focusing mostly on sportswear and casual clothing for niche markets...

     – Perry Ellis
  • Petty Enterprises
    Petty Enterprises
    Petty Enterprises was a NASCAR racing team based in Randleman, North Carolina, USA. The team was owned by Richard Petty, his son Kyle Petty, and Boston Ventures. At the time of its folding the team operated the #43 and #45 Dodge Chargers in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Petty Enterprises ran from...

     – Lee Petty
    Lee Petty
    Lee Arnold Petty was an American stock car driver in the 1950s and 1960s. He was one of the pioneers of NASCAR, and one of its first superstars. He was born near Randleman, North Carolina.-Career:...

  • Peugeot
    Peugeot
    Peugeot is a major French car brand, part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest carmaker based in Europe.The family business that precedes the current Peugeot company was founded in 1810, and manufactured coffee mills and bicycles. On 20 November 1858, Emile Peugeot applied for the lion...

     – Armand Peugeot
    Armand Peugeot
    Armand Peugeot was a French industrialist, pioneer of the automobile industry and the founder of the French firm Peugeot.-Family:...

  • Pfizer
    Pfizer
    Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...

     – Charles Pfizer
    Charles Pfizer
    Charles Pfizer was a German chemist who immigrated to the United States in the early 1840s and founded the Pfizer Inc. pharmaceutical company in 1849 as Charles Pfizer & Co. He remained at its head until 1900, when the company was incorporated and Charles Pfizer, Jr. became its first president....

  • Philip Morris International
    Philip Morris International
    Philip Morris International is an international tobacco company, with products sold in over 160 countries. In 2007, it held a 15.6% share of the international cigarette market outside of the USA and reported revenues net of excise taxes of $22.8 billion and operating income of $8.9 billion.Until...

     and Philip Morris USA
    Philip Morris USA
    Philip Morris USA is the United States tobacco division of Altria Group, Inc. Philip Morris USA brands include Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Benson and Hedges, Merit, Parliament, Alpine, Basic, Cambridge, Bucks, Dave's, Chesterfield, Collector's Choice, Commander, English Ovals, Lark, L&M, Players and...

     – Philip Morris
  • Philips
    Philips
    Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....

     – Gerard Philips
    Gerard Philips
    Gerard Leonard Frederik Philips was a Dutch industrialist, co-founder of the Philips Company as a family business in 1891. Gerard and his younger brother Anton Philips changed the business to a corporation by founding in 1912 the NV Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken...

  • Piaggio
    Piaggio
    Piaggio based in Pontedera, Italy encompasses seven brands of scooters, motorcycles and compact commercial vehicles. As the fourth largest producer of scooters and motorcycles in the world, Piaggio produces more than 600,000 vehicles annually, with five research and development centers, more than...

     – Rinaldo Piaggio
  • Pinarello
    Pinarello
    Cicli Pinarello S.p.A. is an Italian bicycle manufacturer in Treviso, Italy. It supplies mostly hand-made bicycles for road racing, track racing and cyclo-cross.-Models:-Montello SLX:...

     – Giovanni Pinarello
  • Pininfarina
    Pininfarina
    Pininfarina S.p.A. is an Italian car design firm and coachbuilder in Cambiano, Italy.Founded as Società anonima Carrozzeria Pinin Farina in 1930 by automobile designer and builder Battista "Pinin" Farina, Pininfarina has been employed by a wide variety of high-end automobile manufacturers,...

     – Sergio Pininfarina
    Sergio Pininfarina
    Sergio Pininfarina is an Italian automobile designer, like his father Battista Farina. After joining his father at Carrozzeria Pininfarina, he quickly became integral to the company, and during his career oversaw many of the designs for which the company is famous...

  • Pirelli
    Pirelli
    Pirelli & C. SpA is a diverse multinational company based in Milan, Italy. The company, the world’s fifth largest tyre manufacturer, is present in over 160 countries, has 20 manufacturing sites around the world and a network of around 10,000 distributors and retailers.Founded in Milan in 1872,...

     – Giovanni Battista Pirelli
  • Pontiac
    Pontiac
    Pontiac was an automobile brand that was established in 1926 as a companion make for General Motors' Oakland. Quickly overtaking its parent in popularity, it supplanted the Oakland brand entirely by 1933 and, for most of its life, became a companion make for Chevrolet. Pontiac was sold in the...

     – Chief Pontiac
    Chief Pontiac
    Pontiac or Obwandiyag , was an Ottawa leader who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion , an American Indian struggle against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region following the British victory in the French and Indian War. Historians disagree about Pontiac's...

  • Porsche
    Porsche
    Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche SE a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German based holding company with investments in the automotive industry....

     – Ferdinand Porsche
    Ferdinand Porsche
    Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian automotive engineer and honorary Doctor of Engineering. He is best known for creating the first hybrid vehicle , the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, as well as the first of many Porsche automobiles...

  • Porsche Design
    Porsche Design Group
    Porsche Design Group , based in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, was founded in November 2003 by as a majority-owned subsidiary of Porsche AG to combine Porsche AG's and Porsche Design Group’s accessories and licensing business into one single company.Originally, there were five independently...

     – Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
    Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
    Ferdinand Alexander Porsche , nicknamed "Butzi", son of Ferry Porsche, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, is a German designer whose best known product is the first Porsche 911....

  • Powell Peralta
    Powell Peralta
    Powell Peralta is an American skateboard company founded by George Powell and Stacy Peralta in 1978. The company rose to prominence in the 1980s as skateboarding began maturing as a sport. The company featured the Bones Brigade, a team of the era's top competitors...

     – George Powell and Stacy Peralta
    Stacy Peralta
    Stacy Peralta is an American director and entrepreneur. Peralta was previously a professional skateboarder and surfer with the professional skateboarding group, the Z-Boys.-Early life:...

  • Prada
    Prada
    Prada S.p.A. is an Italian fashion label specializing in luxury goods for men and women , founded by Mario Prada.-Foundations:...

     – Mario Prada
  • Pramac d'Antin – Luis d'Antin
    Luis d'Antin
    Luis d'Antin is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He had his best year in 1996 when he finished sixth in the 250cc world championship....

  • Pressman Toy Corporation
    Pressman Toy Corporation
    Pressman Toy Corporation is a toy manufacturer based in New York City which was founded in 1922 by Jack Pressman. It currently focuses on family games and licensed products. Its slogan is "Games people play...

     – Jack Pressman
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
    PwC
    PricewaterhouseCoopers is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest professional services firm measured by revenues and one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms....

     – Samuel Lowell Price
    Samuel Lowell Price
    Samuel Lowell Price was an English accountant. He is best known for having co-founded, with William Hopkins Holyland and Edwin Waterhouse, the accountancy practice of Price Waterhouse that now forms part of PricewaterhouseCoopers.-Career:...

    , Edwin Waterhouse
    Edwin Waterhouse
    Edwin Waterhouse was an English accountant. He is best known for having co-founded, with Samuel Lowell Price and William Hopkins Holyland, the accountancy practice of Price Waterhouse that now forms part of PricewaterhouseCoopers...

    , William Cooper
    William Cooper (accountant)
    William Cooper was an English accountant. He is best known for having founded the accountancy practice of Cooper Brothers that now forms part of PricewaterhouseCoopers....

  • Procter & Gamble
    Procter & Gamble
    Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

     – William Procter
    William Procter (candlemaker)
    William Procter was a U.S.-based English candlemaker and industrialist. He was the co-founder and co-eponym of Procter & Gamble Company in 1837, along with James Gamble....

     and James Gamble
  • Prost Grand Prix
    Prost Grand Prix
    Prost Grand Prix was a Formula One racing team managed by former world champion Alain Prost. The team participated in five seasons from 1997 to 2001.-Purchase of Ligier:...

     – Alain Prost
    Alain Prost
    Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur is a French racing driver. A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion, Prost has won more titles than any driver except for Juan Manuel Fangio , and Michael Schumacher . From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix...

  • PRS Guitars
    PRS Guitars
    PRS Guitars is an American guitar manufacturer headquartered in Stevensville, Maryland. PRS Guitars was founded by guitarist and luthier Paul Reed Smith in 1985. The company is one of the leading manufacturers of high-end electric guitars.-Materials:...

     – Paul Reed Smith
    Paul Reed Smith
    Paul Reed Smith , is a luthier and the founder and owner of PRS Guitars.Smith is originally from Bowie, Maryland. He made his first guitar while at St. Mary's College of Maryland, and continued to build guitars after he finished college, making them one at a time, one a month...

  • Pye – William George Pye
    William George Pye
    William George Pye was born on 27 October 1869 at Battersea, London.In 1896 he started a company called W G Pye which manufactured scientific and optical equipment....


R

  • Double R Racing, formerly Räikkönen Robertson Racing – Kimi Räikkönen
    Kimi Räikkönen
    Kimi Matias Räikkönen , nicknamed Iceman, is a Finnish racing driver, who will drive in Formula One for Lotus in . After nine seasons racing in Formula One, in which he took the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, he competed in the World Rally Championship from 2009-2011.Räikkönen entered...

     and Steve Robertson
    Steve Robertson
    Steve Robertson is a race car driver from Hackney, England.After spending three years in British Formula Three and competing in a full season of International Formula 3000 in 1992 in which he failed to score points, he won the 1993 Indy Lights Rookie of the Year award...

  • Railton
    Railton (car)
    Railton was a British car maker based in Cobham, Surrey between 1933 and 1940. There was an attempt to revive the marque by a new company between 1989 and 1994 in Alcester, Warwickshire....

     – Reid Railton
  • Rainer-Wurz.com
    Rainer-Wurz.com
    Rainer-Wurz.com is an international mountain bike team owned and run by former MTB rider Markus Rainer and former Formula One driver Alexander Wurz....

     – Markus Rainer and Alexander Wurz
    Alexander Wurz
    Alexander Wurz is an Austrian racing driver. He competed in Formula One from until , and is also a two-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours....

  • Ralt
    Ralt
    RALT was a manufacturer of single-seater racing cars, founded by ex-Jack Brabham associate Ron Tauranac after he sold out his interest in Brabham to Bernie Ecclestone. Ron and his brother had built some specials in Australia in the 1950s under the RALT name...

     – Ron
    Ron Tauranac
    Ron Tauranac is the former Australian designer for Formula One driver Jack Brabham from 1962 until Brabham's retirement as a driver at the end of the 1970 season. Tauranac briefly owned and managed the Brabham team in 1971, but he sold the team to Bernie Ecclestone in late 1971...

     and Austin Lewis Tauranac
  • RAM Racing
    RAM Racing
    RAM Racing was a Formula One racing team which competed during the racing seasons of 1976 to 1985. The team entered other manufacturers' chassis from 1976 to 1980, then ran March's team from 1981 to 1983, only entering a car entirely their own in 1984 and 1985.The team was formed in 1975 by Mike...

     – Mike RAlph and John Macdonald
  • Rawlings
    Rawlings (company)
    Rawlings is a sports equipment manufacturing company in the United States. It was founded in 1887. The parent company is Jarden, Inc. Rawlings specializes in baseball equipment, but also manufactures softball, basketball, training equipment and American footballs...

     – George and Alfred Rawlings
  • RE Amemiya
    RE Amemiya
    is an automotive tuning company from Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan founded by Isami Amemiya. Amemiya has made a name for himself tuning rotary engines since 1974 and has become a pioneer in tuning rotary-powered Mazdas...

     – Asami Amemiya
  • Rebaque
    Rebaque
    Team Rebaque was a Mexican Formula One entrant and constructor, based in Leamington Spa, UK. They participated in 30 Grands Prix, initially entering cars bought from Team Lotus, before finally building a car of their own...

     – Hector Rebaque
    Héctor Rebaque
    Héctor Alonso Rebaque is a former racing driver from Mexico. He participated in 58 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 5 June 1977. He scored a total of 13 championship points...

  • Reiter Engineering
    Reiter Engineering
    Reiter Engineering GmbH & Co Kg is a German racing team founded in 1994. The company is named after engineer and founder Hans Reiter. In 2000, Reiter entered a Lamborghini in the FIA GT Championship with its own Diablo GT built by the team...

     – Hans Reiter
  • Renault
    Renault
    Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, and in the past, autorail vehicles, trucks, tractors, vans and also buses/coaches. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's third largest automaker...

     – Louis Renault
    Louis Renault (industrialist)
    Louis Renault was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault and a pioneer of the automobile industry....

  • Rensi-Hamilton Racing
    Team Rensi Motorsports
    Team Rensi Motorsports is a NASCAR Nationwide Series team owned by Ed Rensi, Gary Weisbaum, and formerly Sam Rensi. The team has also competed in the Winston Cup Series, Craftsman Truck Series, and ARCA racing series...

     – Ed and Sam Rensi, and Bobby Hamilton, Jr.
    Bobby Hamilton, Jr.
    Charles Robert Hamilton, Jr. is a NASCAR driver and owner, and current track promoter. He is currently a free agent...

  • REO Motor Car Company
    REO Motor Car Company
    The REO Motor Car Company was a Lansing, Michigan based company that produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms.REO was initiated by Ransom E. Olds during August 1904...

     – Ransom E. Olds
    Ransom E. Olds
    Ransom Eli Olds was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named. He claimed to have built his first steam car as early as 1894, and his first gasoline powered car in 1896...

  • Reuters
    Reuters
    Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...

     – Paul Reuter
    Paul Reuter
    Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter was a German entrepreneur and later naturalized British citizen...

  • Reynard Motorsport
    Reynard Motorsport
    Reynard Motorsport was at one time the world's largest racing car manufacturer. Initially based at Bicester and latterly at Reynard Park, Brackley, England the company built successful cars in Formula Ford 1600, Formula Ford 2000, Formula Vauxhall Lotus, Formula Three, Formula 3000 and Indy...

     – Adrian Reynard
    Adrian Reynard
    Adrian Reynard was the founder of Reynard Motorsport, which was a successful racing car manufacturer before it went bankrupt in 2002....

  • Richard Childress Racing
    Richard Childress Racing
    RCR Enterprises, LLC, doing business as Richard Childress Racing, is a NASCAR team based in Welcome, North Carolina, and is owned and operated by former driver Richard Childress...

     – Richard Childress
    Richard Childress
    Richard Childress is a former NASCAR driver and the current team owner of Richard Childress Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series. As a business entrepreneur, Childress became one of the wealthiest men in North Carolina...

  • Richard Petty Motorsports – Richard Petty
    Richard Petty
    Richard Lee Petty is a former NASCAR driver who raced in the Strictly Stock/Grand National Era and the NASCAR Winston Cup Series...

  • Rickenbacker
    Rickenbacker
    Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker, is an electric and bass guitar manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California...

     – Adolph Rickenbacher
  • Riddell
    Riddell
    Riddell is an American company specializing in sports equipment for American football, baseball, basketball, lacrosse, soccer, softball, track and field, tennis, volleyball, National Football League, NCAA Football and wrestling. It is headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois.The company was started...

     – John Tate Riddell
  • Rieger Tuning – Toni Rieger
  • Riese und Müller
    Riese und Müller
    Riese and Müller is a bicycle firm in Darmstadt, Germany founded by Markus Riese and Heiko Müller. It designs and makes suspended bicycles. Frames are produced by companies such as Pacific Cycles, Taiwan...

     – Markus Riese and Heiko Müller
  • Ripspeed
    Ripspeed
    Ripspeed is a sub brand of Halfords, one of the leading automotive parts retailer in the United Kingdom. It began asan independent retailer in the 1970s, two decades later the business changed hands and was purchased in 1999 by Halfords, and operates as one of the five subsections of a store if it...

     – Keith Ripp
  • Riley & Scott
    Riley & Scott
    Riley & Scott Cars Inc. was a racing constructor and racing team that primarily provided chassis for various forms of motorsport, but worked primarily in sports car racing. It was founded in 1990 by Bob Riley and Mark Scott.-Sports car racing:...

     – Bob Riley and Mark Scott
  • Riley Technologies
    Riley Technologies
    Riley Technologies LLC is an auto racing constructor and team which specializes in the design and manufacture of complete race cars, as well as prototype development for racing and manufacturing applications.-Grand Am:...

     – Bob and Bill Riley
  • Rinspeed
    Rinspeed
    Rinspeed is a Swiss automobile manufacturer and tuning designer. Rinspeed specialise in restoring classic cars, and tuning and modifying modern cars...

     – Frank RINderknecht
  • Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera
    RCS MediaGroup
    RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. , based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, new media and digital and satellite TV...

     – Angelo Rizzoli
  • R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) – R. J. Reynolds
  • RML Group – Ray Mallock
  • Robeez
    Robeez
    Robeez Footwear is a soft-soled baby shoe company that manufactures over 70 different children shoe designs. Robeez is headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada and is a division of Stride Rite Corp.-Origins and history:...

     – Sandra Wilson's son Robert
  • Robert Bosch GmbH
    Robert Bosch GmbH
    Robert Bosch GmbH is a multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany. It is the world's largest supplier of automotive components...

     – Robert Bosch
    Robert Bosch
    Robert Bosch was a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH.-Biography:...

  • Robert Yates Racing – see Yates Racing
  • Roberts Radio
    Roberts Radio
    Roberts is a consumer electronics limited company based in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England. It has been producing radios for over 80 years. Initially the company only traded in the United Kingdom, but now exports worldwide...

     – Harry Roberts
  • Rockefeller Group – John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
    John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
    John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. was a major philanthropist and a pivotal member of the prominent Rockefeller family. He was the sole son among the five children of businessman and Standard Oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller and the father of the five famous Rockefeller brothers...

  • Rockwell International
    Rockwell International
    Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate in the latter half of the 20th century, involved in aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, valves and meters, and industrial automation....

    , North American Rockwell
    Rockwell International
    Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate in the latter half of the 20th century, involved in aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, valves and meters, and industrial automation....

    , Rockwell Semiconductor
    Conexant
    Conexant Systems, Inc. is an American semiconductor company, formerly the semiconductor division of Rockwell International. Currently it's privately owned by Golden Gate Capital, an equity firm headquartered in San Francisco.-History:...

     – Willard Rockwell
    Willard Rockwell
    Willard Frederick Rockwell, Sr. was a businessman who helped shape and name what eventually became the Rockwell International company....

  • Rod Millen Motorsports – see MillenWorks
  • Rod Nash Racing
    Rod Nash Racing
    Rod Nash Racing is a V8 Supercar racing entity, owned by Rod Nash. Nash continues to own a V8 Supercar Racing Entitlement Contract and his #55 runs on the flanks of the Ford Performance Racing Ford FG Falcon....

     – Rod Nash
  • Rogers Communications
    Rogers Communications
    Rogers Communications Inc. is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications, cable television, home phone and internet with additional telecommunications and mass media assets...

     – Edward S. "Ted" Rogers
    Edward Samuel Rogers
    Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers, Jr., OC was the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., and the fifth richest person in Canada in terms of net worth. His father Edward S. Rogers, Sr...

  • Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works
    Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works
    Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was a 19th-century manufacturer of railroad steam locomotives based in Paterson, in Passaic County, New Jersey, in the United States. It built more than six thousand steam locomotives for railroads around the world. Most railroads in 19th-century United States...

     – Thomas Rogers
    Thomas Rogers (locomotive builder)
    Thomas Rogers was an American mechanical engineer and founder of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey...

  • Rogers Vacuum Tube Company
    Rogers Vacuum Tube Company
    Rogers Vacuum Tube Company was founded as "Standard Radio Manufacturing" in 1925 by Edward S. Rogers, Sr. to sell Rogers "Batteryless" radio using vacuum tube technology. It was later renamed Rogers Majestic Corporation Limited when Rogers merged his company with Majestic Corporation of Chicago...

     – Edward S. Rogers, Sr.
    Edward S. Rogers, Sr.
    Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers is regarded as the founder of Rogers Communications although it was established in 1967, almost three decades after his death.-Life and career:...

  • Rolls-Royce plc
    Rolls-Royce plc
    Rolls-Royce Group plc is a global power systems company headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s second-largest maker of aircraft engines , and also has major businesses in the marine propulsion and energy sectors. Through its defence-related activities...

    , Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
    Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
    Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is a British manufacturer of luxury automobiles based at the Goodwood plant in West Sussex, England. It is the current producer of Rolls-Royce branded automobiles, whose historical production dates back to 1904. The factory is located across from the historic Goodwood Circuit...

     – Charles Rolls
    Charles Rolls
    Charles Stewart Rolls was a motoring and aviation pioneer. Together with Frederick Henry Royce he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in a flying accident, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display near Bournemouth,...

     and Henry Royce
    Henry Royce
    Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE was a pioneering car manufacturer, who with Charles Stewart Rolls founded the Rolls-Royce company.-Early life:...

  • Rondel Racing
    Rondel Racing
    Rondel Racing was a British racing team that competed in the Formula Two series between 1971 and 1973. The team was founded by two ex-Brabham mechanics Ron Dennis and Neil Trundle...

     – RON Dennis
    Ron Dennis
    Ronald "Ron" Dennis CBE is the executive chairman of McLaren Automotive and McLaren Group, and is also a significant shareholder in both companies...

     and Neil TrunDLE
  • Rossetti Architects
    Rossetti Architects
    Rossetti Architects is an architectural firm headquartered in Southfield, Michigan The firm is involved in the design of professional sports stadiums, institutions and commercial buildings.- Current projects :...

     – Gino Rossetti and Matthew L. Rossetti
  • Roush Performance
    Roush Performance
    Roush Performance is an automotive company owned and operated by automotive mogul Jack Roush. It was formed in 1995 by Roush to provide engineering from racing to street cars.-Aftermarket parts:...

    , Roush Fenway Racing – Jack Roush
    Jack Roush
    Jack Roush is the founder, CEO, and co-owner along with John Henry of Roush Fenway Racing, a NASCAR team headquartered in Concord, North Carolina, and is Chairman of the Board of Roush Enterprises....

  • RPG Group
    RPG Group
    The RPG Group one of India's largest industrial conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, India. It was founded by RP Goenka in 1979, and initially encompassed Phillips Carbon Black, Asian Cables, Agarpara Jute and Murphy India...

     – Rama Prasad Goenka
  • RSA Security
    RSA Security
    RSA, the security division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, and maintains offices in Australia, Ireland, Israel, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, China, Hong Kong and Japan....

     – Ronald Rivest
    Ron Rivest
    Ronald Linn Rivest is a cryptographer. He is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...

    , Adi Shamir
    Adi Shamir
    Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm , a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme , one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer...

    , and Len Adleman
    Leonard Adleman
    Leonard Max Adleman is an American theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing...

  • Rudge-Whitworth – Daniel Rudge
    Daniel Rudge
    Daniel Rudge was a British engineer who built high-end bicycles and velocipedes. Rudge invented the adjustable ball bearing bicycle hub in 1878....

  • Ruf Automobile – Alois Ruf
  • Ryanair
    Ryanair
    Ryanair is an Irish low-cost airline. Its head office is at Dublin Airport and its primary operational bases at Dublin Airport and London Stansted Airport....

     – Tony Ryan
    Tony Ryan
    Thomas Anthony "Tony" Ryan was an Irish multi-millionaire, philanthropist and businessman.He was a founder of Guinness Peat Aviation as well as co-founder of Ryanair with Christy Ryan and Liam Lonergan...


S

  • Sainsbury's – John James Sainsbury
    John James Sainsbury
    John James Sainsbury was the founder of the Sainsbury's supermarket chain.-Early and private life:John James Sainsbury was born on 12 June 1844 at 5 Oakley Street, Lambeth, to John Sainsbury , ornament and picture frame maker, and his wife Elizabeth Sarah, née Coombes...

  • Saks Fifth Avenue
    Saks Fifth Avenue
    Saks Fifth Avenue is a luxury American specialty store owned and operated by Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises , a subsidiary of Saks Incorporated. It competes in the high-end specialty store market in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, i.e. 'the 3 B's' Bergdorf, Barneys, Bloomingdale's and Lord & Taylor...

     – Andrew Saks
  • Saleen – Steve Saleen
    Steve Saleen
    Stephen Mark Saleen is an American businessman and former racing driver. He is best known for being the founder and former vice chairman of Saleen, Inc., originally named Saleen Autosport, which until 2009 was an OEM manufacturer of specialty vehicles including the Saleen S7 and highly modified...

  • Sam's Club
    Sam's Club
    Sam's Club is a chain of membership-only retail warehouse clubs owned and operated by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., founded in 1983 and named after Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. , the Sam's Club chain serves more than 47 million U.S. members...

     – Sam Walton
    Sam Walton
    Samuel Moore "Sam" Wallballs was a businessman, entrepreneur, and Eagle Scout born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.-Early life:...

  • Samsonite
    Samsonite
    The Samsonite Corporation makes luggage with its products ranging from large suitcases to small toiletries bags and briefcases. It was started in Denver, Colorado, USA in 1910 byJesse Shwayder, as the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company. Shwayder named one of his initial cases "Samson", after the...

     – Samson
    Samson
    Samson, Shimshon ; Shamshoun or Sampson is the third to last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh ....

  • Santoni
    Santoni
    Santoni s.p.a., is an Italian luxury shoe trade mark and leather goods producer . The company was founded by Andrea and Rosa Santoni in 1975. Santoni is a family business. It is managed by the second generation of Italian family Santoni...

     – Andrea and Rosa Santoni
  • Sauber
    Sauber
    Sauber F1 Team is a Swiss Formula One team. It was founded in the 1970s by Peter Sauber, who progressed through hillclimbing and the World Sportscar Championship to reach Formula One in 1993....

     – Peter Sauber
    Peter Sauber
    Peter Sauber is the team principal and owner of various motorsports teams, most visibly the eponymous Sauber Formula One team.- Motorsport career :...

  • Savoia-Marchetti – Umberto Savoia and Alessandro Marchetti
    Alessandro Marchetti (aircraft engineer)
    Alessandro Marchettí was an Italian engineer and airplane designer. Marchetti was born in Sesto Calende, Italy, and died in Rome. He was best known for having created the Savoia-Marchetti SM.93, a World War II bomber aircraft....

  • Sbarro
    Sbarro
    Sbarro is a bankrupt chain of pizza restaurants that specializes in traditional Italian cuisine, including its most popular menu item "pizza by the slice." Its headquarters is located in Melville, Huntington, New York.- History :...

     (U.S. pizza restaurant chain) – Gennaro and Carmela Sbarro
  • Sbarro
    Sbarro (automobile)
    Sbarro is a small Swiss high-performance replica and sports car company founded by Franco Sbarro in 1971.-Models:thumb|Sbarro Espera ESP 9The first Sbarro offered was a replica of the Lola T70, powered by a 5.4-liter Chevrolet V8...

     (Swiss automaker) – Franco Sbarro
  • S. C. Johnson & Son
    S. C. Johnson & Son
    S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. , previously known as S. C. Johnson Wax , is a privately held, global manufacturer of household cleaning supplies and other consumer chemicals based in Racine, Wisconsin. It has operations in 72 countries and its brands are sold in over 110...

     – Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sr.
    Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sr.
    Samuel Curtis Johnson created S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc of Racine, Wisconsin.In 1882 he moved to Racine where he became a parquet flooring salesman for the Racine Hardware Manufacturing Co. In 1886 he purchased the flooring business from the company and renamed it Johnson's Prepared Paste Wax Company...

  • Schnitzer Motorsport
    Schnitzer Motorsport
    Schnitzer Motorsport is a motorsport team based in Freilassing near Munich, Germany. From the early days of its establishment, the team has operated an automobile racing squad for BMW, and has remarkable results in touring car and sports car racing scenes....

     – Josef and Herbert Schnitzer
  • Schumacher Racing Products
    Schumacher Racing Products
    Schumacher Racing Products is a well established manufacturer and distributor of radio-controlled cars and accessories.- History :...

     – Cecil Schumacher
  • Schwinn Bicycle Company
    Schwinn Bicycle Company
    The Schwinn Bicycle Company was founded by German-born mechanical engineer Ignaz Schwinn in Chicago in 1895. It became the dominant manufacturer of American bicycles through most of the 20th century and today it is a sub-brand of Pacific Cycle, owned by the multi-national conglomerate, Dorel...

     – Ignaz Schwinn
  • Scott – Ed Scott
  • Sears
    Sears Holdings Corporation
    Sears Holdings Corporation is a retail conglomerate formed in 2005 by the merger of Sears, Roebuck and Co., of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, with Kmart Holdings Corporation, of Troy, Michigan...

     – Richard Warren Sears
    • Formerly Sears, Roebuck – Sears and Alvah Roebuck
  • Seeburg Corporation
    Seeburg Corporation
    Seeburg was an American design and manufacturing company of automated musical equipment, such as orchestrions, jukeboxes, and vending equipment.- History :...

     – Justus Sjöberg (Anglicized name)
  • Seecamp
    Seecamp
    L. W. Seecamp Co., Inc. is a manufacturer of hand made pocket pistols located in Milford, Connecticut from 1981 to present.L. W. Seecamp Co., Inc. was started as a pistolsmithing company in 1973 specializing in double action conversions for the 1911 Colt .45...

     – Ludwig Wilhelm "Louis" Seecamp
  • Seedorf Racing
    Seedorf Racing
    Seedorf Racing was a motorcycle racing team owned by Dutch footballer Clarence Seedorf. It took part in the 125cc World Championship from 2003 until 2007....

     – Clarence Seedorf
    Clarence Seedorf
    Clarence Clyde Seedorf OON is a Dutch footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Milan. Seedorf is the first player to have won the Champions League with three different clubs - Ajax in 1995, Real Madrid in 1998 and Milan in 2003 and 2007...

  • Sennheiser electronic
    Sennheiser
    Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG is a private German audio company specializing in the design and production of a wide range of both consumer and high fidelity products, including microphones, headphones, telephony accessories, and avionics headsets for consumer, professional, and business...

     – Fritz Sennheiser
    Fritz Sennheiser
    Fritz Sennheiser was a German inventor and entrepreneur who founded and served as chairman of Sennheiser Electronic, a manufacturer of audio equipment.-Early life and education:...

  • Shakespeare Fishing Tackle
    Shakespeare Fishing Tackle
    The Shakespeare Company is a subsidiary of Jarden which manufactures fishing equipment. It was founded by William Shakespeare, Jr. in 1897. In June of 2005, approximately 438,000 of their children's fishing kits were recalled after being found to contain lead paint....

     – William Shakespeare, Jr.
  • Shanghai Tang
    Shanghai Tang
    Shanghai Tang is an international clothing chain company, founded in 1994 by Hong Kong businessman David Tang Wing Cheung and now controlled by Richemont.David Tang claimed that Shanghai Tang is a Chinese label that set out to rejuvenate Chinese fashion...

     – David Tang
    David Tang
    Sir David Tang, KBE is a Hong Kong businessman and socialite best known as the founder of the Shanghai Tang fashion chain, which he sold in 2006 to Richemont.Tang's grandfather "founded the Kowloon bus company and became one of Hong Kong’s greatest philanthropists"...

  • Shaw Brothers Studio
    Shaw Brothers Studio
    The Shaw Brothers Studio , owned by Shaw Brothers Ltd., was the foremost and the largest movie production company of Hong Kong movies.From their distribution base in Singapore where they founded parent company Shaw Organization in 1924, and as a strategic development of their movie distribution...

    , Shaw Organisation – Run Run Shaw
    Run Run Shaw
    Sir Run Run Shaw CBE, GBM is a Hong Kong media mogul.-Overview:Sir Run Run Shaw was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China in 1907. There has been no official or formal announcement on the exact day and month of his birth. According to A&C Black published Who's Who 2007, Shaw Run Run was born on 14...

     and Runme Shaw
    Runme Shaw
    Tan Sri Dr Runme Shaw, K.St.J was the chairman and founder of the Shaw Organisation of Singapore. Runme Shaw and his brother, Run Run Shaw , together known as the Shaw Brothers, were pioneers in the film and entertainment industry in Singapore and Malaya, and brought to life the movie industry in...

  • Sheetz
    Sheetz
    Sheetz, Inc. is a chain of gas stations/convenience stores owned by the Sheetz family. Stores are located in Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia....

     – Bob Sheetz
  • Sherwin-Williams Company – Henry Sherwin
    Henry Sherwin
    Henry Alden Sherwin was one of the two founders of the Sherwin-Williams Company in 1866. The company was created in part by both Sherwin and Edward Porter Williams.-Biography:...

     and Edward Williams
  • Shimano
    Shimano
    Shimano, Inc. is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of cycling components, fishing tackle, and rowing equipment.In 2005, the company had net sales of US $1.4 billion. Bicycle components provided 75% of its sales income...

     – Shozaburo Shimano
  • Shugart Associates
    Shugart Associates
    Shugart Associates was a computer peripheral manufacturer that dominated the floppy disk drive market in the late 1970s and is famous for introducing the 5¼-inch minifloppy disk drive....

     – Alan Shugart
    Alan Shugart
    Alan Field Shugart was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry.-Life:...

  • Shure Incorporated – Sidney Shure
  • Siemens AG
    Siemens
    Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...

     – Werner von Siemens
  • Sikorsky Aircraft
    Sikorsky Aircraft
    The Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Stratford, Connecticut. Its parent company is United Technologies Corporation.-History:...

     – Igor Sikorsky
    Igor Sikorsky
    Igor Sikorsky , born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft...

  • Simpson Performance Products
    Simpson Performance Products
    Simpson Performance Products is an American motorsports parts supplier. It supplies gloves, helmets, restraints, driver's suites, HANS devices, and shoes to racers at local tracks to international teams. It was started by Bill Simpson as Simpson Drag Chutes....

     – Bill Simpson
    Bill Simpson
    Bill Simpson , is a retired American racecar driver, but is best known as a pioneer in the racing safety business with his company Simpson Performance Products. He left Simpson Performance in a controversy surrounding Dale Earnhardt's death and started Impact! Racing...

  • Sinclair Radionics, Sinclair Research, Sinclair Vehicles
    Sinclair Vehicles
    Sinclair Vehicles Ltd was a company formed in March 1983 by Sir Clive Sinclair as a focus for his work in the field of electric vehicles. The initial investment was £8.6m, which came from the proceeds of the sale of some of Sir Clive's shares in Sinclair Research...

     – Clive Sinclair
    Clive Sinclair
    Sir Clive Marles Sinclair is a British entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s....

  • Singer Corporation
    Singer Corporation
    Singer Corporation is a manufacturer of sewing machines, first established as I.M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark. Best known for its sewing machines, it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865, then The Singer Company in 1963. It is...

     – Isaac Merritt Singer
    Isaac Singer
    Isaac Merritt Singer was an inventor, actor, and entrepreneur. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company...

  • Skip Barber Racing School
    Skip Barber Racing School
    The Skip Barber Racing School is one of the largest racing schools in the world. It conducts racing schools, defensive and high performance driving schools, amateur and professional racing championships and corporate entertainment schools. Skip Barber started the school in 1975 with two borrowed...

     – Skip Barber
    Skip Barber
    John "Skip" Barber III is a retired racecar driver who is most famous for his Skip Barber Racing Schools.- Driving career :...

  • Smith & Wesson
    Smith & Wesson
    Smith & Wesson is the largest manufacturer of handguns in the United States. The corporate headquarters is in Springfield, Massachusetts. Founded in 1852, Smith & Wesson's pistols and revolvers have become standard issue to police and armed forces throughout the world...

     – Horace Smith
    Horace Smith (inventor)
    Horace Smith was a gunsmith, inventor, and businessman. He and his business partner Daniel B. Wesson formed two companies named Smith & Wesson, the first of which was financed in part by Oliver Winchester and was eventually reorganized into the Winchester Repeating Arms Company-Early career:Born...

     and Daniel B. Wesson
    Daniel B. Wesson
    Daniel Baird Wesson was a firearms designer from the United States. He was responsible for helping develop several firearms that had a very large influence in the field.-Early years:...

  • Sopwith Aviation Company
    Sopwith Aviation Company
    The Sopwith Aviation Company was a British aircraft company that designed and manufactured aeroplanes mainly for the British Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Flying Corps and later Royal Air Force in the First World War, most famously the Sopwith Camel...

     – Thomas Sopwith
    Thomas Sopwith
    Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, CBE, Hon FRAeS was an English aviation pioneer and yachtsman.-Early life:...

  • Sotheby's
    Sotheby's
    Sotheby's is the world's fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation.-History:The oldest auction house in operation is the Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674, the second oldest is Göteborgs Auktionsverk founded in 1681 and third oldest being founded in 1731, all Swedish...

     – John Sotheby
    John Sotheby
    John Sotheby was an English auctioneer, who is the eponym of the famous auction house Sotheby's.He was the nephew of Samuel Baker, who was the founder of the book auctioneering firm which later became Sotheby's....

  • Spice Engineering
    Spice Engineering
    Spice Engineering was a British racing team founded by driver Gordon Spice with his brother Derek Spice in the early 1980s, later becoming a successful sports car constructor in 1986...

     – Gordon Spice
  • SRAM Corporation – Scott King, Stanley Ray Day, and SAM Patterson
  • Standard & Poor's
    Standard & Poor's
    Standard & Poor's is a United States-based financial services company. It is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds. It is well known for its stock-market indices, the US-based S&P 500, the Australian S&P/ASX 200, the Canadian...

     – Henry Varnum Poor
    Henry Varnum Poor
    Henry Varnum Poor was a financial analyst and founder of H.V. and H.W. Poor Co, which later evolved into the financial research and analysis bellwether, Standard & Poor's....

  • Stanley Black & Decker – Frederick Trent Stanley
    Frederick Trent Stanley
    Frederick Trent Stanley was an American industrialist.He founded Stanley's Bolt Manufactory of New Britain, Connecticut in 1843 to manufacture door bolts and other hardware from wrought iron...

    , S. Duncan Black, and Alonzo G. Decker
    • Formerly Stanley Works, named after the aforementioned Stanley.
  • Steinway & Sons
    Steinway & Sons
    Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway , is an American and German manufacturer of handmade pianos, founded 1853 in Manhattan in New York City by German immigrant Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg...

     – Henry E. Steinway
    Henry E. Steinway
    Henry E. Steinway made pianos in Germany and the United States. He was the founder of the piano company Steinway & Sons....

  • Stern – Sam Stern
  • Stewart Grand Prix
    Stewart Grand Prix
    Stewart Grand Prix is a former Formula One constructor and racing team. The team was formed by three times Formula One champion Jackie Stewart and his son Paul Stewart in 1996. The team competed in F1, as the Ford works-supported team, for only three seasons, from 1997 to 1999...

     – Jackie
    Jackie Stewart
    Sir John Young Stewart, OBE , better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scotsman, is a Scottish former racing driver and team owner. He competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three World Drivers' Championships. He also competed in Can-Am...

     and Paul Stewart
  • Stewart Haas Racing – Tony Stewart
    Tony Stewart
    Anthony Wayne "Tony" Stewart is an American auto racing driver and owner. Throughout his racing career, Stewart has won titles in Indy cars and stock cars as well as midget, sprint and USAC Silver Crown cars, giving him the recognition of "one of the finest racers of his generation."Stewart...

     and Gene Haas
    Gene Haas
    Gene Francis Haas is founder, president, and sole stockholder of Haas Automation, one of the world's leading CNC machine tool manufacturers. He also founded a NASCAR team, Haas CNC Racing now known as Stewart Haas Racing....

     (via Haas Automation
    Haas Automation
    Founded in 1983 by Gene Haas, Haas Automation is a CNC machine tool manufacturer based in Oxnard, California. Haas Automation manufactures CNC vertical and horizontal machining centers, CNC lathes, rotary tables and 5C indexers. Sales outlets, referred to as Haas Factory Outlets are located all...

    )
  • Stewart-Warner
    Stewart-Warner
    Stewart-Warner is a US manufacturer of vehicle instruments, a.k.a. gauges. The company was founded as Stewart & Clark Company in 1905 by John K. Stewart. Their speedometers were used in the Ford Model T. In 1912 John Stewart joined with Edgar Bassick to make vehicle instruments and horns...

     – John K. Stewart
    John K. Stewart
    John K. Stewart was an entrepreneur and inventor. He was most notably known for starting the Stewart-Warner Corporation. In his lifetime he founded or purchased several companies and held 82 patents...

     and Arthur P. Warner
    Arthur Pratt Warner
    Arthur Pratt Warner was primarily known for his successes as an inventor, businessman, and pioneer aviator. He claimed such inventions as the electric brake and the speedometer. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida. His family lived in Wisconsin from 1871 to 1877, returned to the state in 1881,...

  • Stihl
    Stihl
    Andreas Stihl AG & Company is a manufacturer of chainsaws and other handheld power equipment including trimmers and blowers. Their headquarters are in Waiblingen, Baden-Württemberg near Stuttgart, in Germany. The company was founded in 1926 by Andreas Stihl, an important innovator in early chain...

     – Andreas Stihl
    Andreas Stihl
    Andreas Stihl was an engineer and important inventor in the area of chainsaws, the founder of the company Stihl....

  • Stillen
    Stillen
    Stillen is the automotive aftermarket parts company created by Steve Millen, a former racecar driver for Nissan who was known for racing the 300ZX, in 1986. Stillen specializes in parts for Nissan cars, especially the "Z" line of cars...

     – STeve MILLEN
    Steve Millen
    Steve Millen was a New Zealand IMSA racecar driver. In the 1970s and 1980s, Millen raced in hillclimbing and Formula Ford before doing stadium off-road racing in the United States in the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group . He then began sports car racing, winning numerous championships in IMSA...

  • Stockmann
    Stockmann
    Stockmann is a Finnish listed company which was established in 1862 and is engaged in the retail trade. Stockmann's three divisions are the department store division, Hobby Hall, which specialises in mail order and online sales, and Seppälä, a chain of fashion stores...

     – Georg Franz Stockmann
  • Stone Brothers Racing
    Stone Brothers Racing
    Stone Brothers Racing is an Australian motor racing team competing in the International V8 Supercars Championship, formed in 1998 by experienced New Zealand-born motorsport veterans, Ross Stone and Jim Stone after buying out their partner in their previous racing team...

     – Ross and Jim Stone
  • Strömberg
    Stromberg (company)
    Stromberg or Oy Strömberg Ab, was a company founded by Gottfrid Strömberg in 1889 in Helsinki, Finland, and manufactured electromechanical products such as: generators, electric motors and small power plants. The company was founded initially as Gottfrid Strömbergin sähköyhtiö in Finnish, Gottfrid...

     – Gottfrid Strömberg
  • Sturm, Ruger
    Sturm, Ruger
    Sturm, Ruger & Company, Incorporated is a Southport, Connecticut-based firearm manufacturing company, better known by the shortened name Ruger. Sturm, Ruger produces bolt-action, semi-automatic, full-automatic, and single-shot rifles, shotguns, semi-automatic pistols, and single- and double-action...

     – Alexander McCormick Sturm
    Alexander McCormick Sturm
    Alexander McCormick "Sandy" Sturm was an American artist and writer who was a co-founder of Sturm, Ruger, a firearms manufacturer...

     and William B. Ruger
    William B. Ruger
    William Batterman Ruger partnered with Alexander McCormick Sturm in 1949 to establish Sturm, Ruger & Company. Their first product was the Ruger Standard, the most popular .22 caliber target pistol ever made in the US...

  • Stutz Motor Company
    Stutz Motor Company
    The Stutz Motor Company was a producer of luxury cars based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Production began in 1911 and continued through 1935. The marque reappeared in 1968 under the aegis of Stutz Motor Car of America, Inc., and with a newly defined modern retro-look. Although the company is...

     – Harry C. Stutz
    Harry C. Stutz
    Harry C. Stutz was a United States automobile entrepreneur, engineer, and innovator in the automobile industry.Stutz grew up caring for and repairing agricultural machinery on the family farm. Automobiles and engines fascinated him. Stutz built his first car in 1897, and then a second auto using...

  • Sukhoi
    Sukhoi
    Sukhoi Company is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Begovoy District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, famous for its fighters...

     – Pavel Sukhoi
    Pavel Sukhoi
    Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi was a Soviet aerospace engineer. He designed the Sukhoi military aircraft and founded the Sukhoi Design Bureau. -Biography:...

  • Don Bluth Entertainment
    Sullivan Bluth Studios
    Sullivan Bluth Studios was an American animated film production company established in 1985 by animator Don Bluth. Bluth and several colleagues, all of whom were former Disney animators, left Disney in 1979 to form Don Bluth Productions, later known as the Bluth Group...

     – Don Bluth
    Don Bluth
    Donald Virgil "Don" Bluth is an American animator and independent studio owner. He is best known for his departure from The Walt Disney Company in 1979 and his subsequent directing of animated films such as The Secret of NIMH , An American Tail ,The Land Before Time , and All Dogs Go to Heaven ,...

     and Morris Sullivan
    Morris Sullivan
    Morris Francis Sullivan was an American businessman who co-founded the Sullivan Bluth Studios with three former Disney animators. Sullivan Bluth Studios employeed approximately 400 people at the peak of its success...

  • Sumitomo Group
    Sumitomo Group
    is one of the largest keiretsu, founded by Masatomo Sumitomo.-History:The Sumitomo group traces its roots to a bookshop in Kyoto founded circa 1615 by a former buddhist priest,...

     – Sumitomo Masatomo
  • Super Aguri F1
    Super Aguri F1
    Super Aguri F1 was a Formula One team that competed from to . The team, founded by former F1 driver Aguri Suzuki, was based in Tokyo, Japan but operated from the former Arrows factory at the Leafield Technical Centre, Oxfordshire. The cars were referred to as Super Aguri Hondas, with the team...

     – Aguri Suzuki
    Aguri Suzuki
    is a former racing driver from Japan. He participated in 88 Formula One Grands Prix, and his most notable achievement in racing was 3rd place at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix. Suzuki then became involved in team ownership, with interests firstly in the Japanese Formula Nippon Championship and the...

  • Surtees
    Surtees
    The Surtees Racing Organisation was a race team that spent nine seasons as a constructor in Formula One, Formula 2, and Formula 5000.-History:...

     – John Surtees
    John Surtees
    John Surtees, OBE is a British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver from England. He was 500cc motorcycle World Champion in 1956 and 1958–60, Formula One World Champion in 1964, and remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels...

  • Suzuki
    Suzuki
    is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...

     – Michio Suzuki
  • Swarovski
    Swarovski
    Swarovski is the brand name for a range of precisely-cut crystal and related luxury products produced by Swarovski AG of Wattens, Austria...

     – Daniel Swarovski
    Daniel Swarovski
    Daniel Swarovski was an Austrian glass cutter and jeweller born in Bohemia. His father was a glass cutter who owned a small glass factory, and Swarovski first learned the art of glass-cutting in his father's factory...


T

  • Taft Broadcasting
    Taft Broadcasting
    The Taft Broadcasting Company, also known as Taft Television and Radio Company, Incorporated, was an American media conglomerate based in Cincinnati, Ohio....

     – Charles Phelps Taft
    Charles Phelps Taft
    Charles Phelps Taft I was an American lawyer and politician.-Biography:He was born on December 21, 1843 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Alphonso Taft, and his brother was President William Howard Taft....

  • TAG Heuer
    TAG Heuer
    TAG Heuer is a Swiss luxury watchmaker known for its sports watches and chronographs. It is a division of luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton. The company motto is "Swiss Avant-Garde Since 1860"...

     – Eduardo Heuer
  • Tamiya
    Tamiya Corporation
    is a Japanese manufacturer of plastic model kits, radio controlled cars, battery- and solar-powered educational models, sailboat models, acrylic and enamel model paints, and various modeling tools and supplies...

     – Yoshio Tamiya
  • Tandy Corporation
    Tandy Corporation
    Tandy Corporation was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas. Tandy was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store, and acquired RadioShack in 1963. The Tandy name was dropped in May 2000, when RadioShack Corporation was made the official name.-History:Tandy began in 1919...

     - Dave L. Tandy
  • Tanfoglio
    Tanfoglio
    Fratelli Tanfoglio S.N.C. is an Italian gun manufacturing company. Their current weapons are used extensively in sport competitions and for personal defence. Tanfoglio is located in Gardone Val Trompia - Italy, and is known for its broad sport pistol catalogue...

     – Tanfoglio Giuseppe
  • Taser International
    TASER International
    Taser International, Inc. is a developer, manufacturer, and distributor of the Taser less-lethal electroshock guns in the United States. It is based at Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. Taser is the most common brand of electroshock gun.-History:...

     – Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle
    Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle
    Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land is a young adult novel written by Victor Appleton. It is Volume 10 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap.- Plot :...

  • Tata
    Tata Group
    Tata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Tata Group is one of the largest companies in India by market capitalization and revenue. It has interests in communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy,...

     – Jamsetji Tata
    Jamsetji Tata
    Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was an Indian entrepreneur and industrialist, prominent for his pioneering work in Indian industry. He was born to a Parsi family in Navsari, Gujarat, India....

  • Tate & Lyle
    Tate & Lyle
    Tate & Lyle plc is a British-based multinational agribusiness. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index as of 20 June 2011...

     - Henry Tate
    Henry Tate
    Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet was an English sugar merchant and philanthropist, noted for establishing the Tate Gallery, London.-Life and career:...

     and Abram Lyle
    Abram Lyle
    Abram Lyle is noted for founding the sugar refiners Abram Lyle & Sons which merged with a rival to become Tate & Lyle in 1921....

  • Taylor Woodrow
    Taylor Woodrow
    Taylor Woodrow was one of the largest British housebuilding and general construction companies. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but merged with rival George Wimpey to create Taylor Wimpey on 3 July 2007.-Early years:Frank Taylor was...

     - Frank Taylor
    Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield
    Francis Taylor, Baron Taylor of Hadfield is best known as being the founder of Taylor Woodrow, a leading international contractor and developer.-Career:...

     and Jack Woodrow
  • Team Goh
    Team Goh
    Team Goh International is a Japanese auto racing team founded by Kazimuchi Goh in 1990s. Initially competing in the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship , Team Goh won the 1996 championship with a McLaren F1 GTR and drivers John Nielsen and David Brabham...

     – Kazimuchi Goh
  • Team LCR
    Team LCR
    Team LCR is a motorcycle racing team currently competing in the MotoGP World Championship under the name LCR Honda MotoGP. The team is founded in 1996 by Italian rider Lucio Cecchinello. They are represented by Spanish rider Toni Elías in the MotoGP class, riding a Honda RC212V bike.-1996–2003:...

     – Lucio Cecchinello
    Lucio Cecchinello
    Lucio Cecchinello , is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and currently a Moto GP team manager for Team LCR, with the Spanish Toni Elias as his rider.-Racing career:...

  • Ten Kate Racing
    Ten Kate Racing
    Ten Kate Racing is a motorbike racing team, currently competing in the Superbike World Championship and the Supersport World Championship under the name Hannspree Ten Kate Honda.- Foundation :...

     – Gerrit ten Kate, named after his nephew Ronald's motorcycle dealership Ten Kate Motorcycles
  • Terrytoons
    Terrytoons
    Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry. The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1929 to 1968. Its most popular characters included Mighty Mouse, Gandy Goose, Sourpuss, Dinky Duck, Deputy Dawg, Luno and Heckle and Jeckle; these cartoons and all of its...

     - Paul Terry
    Paul Terry (cartoonist)
    Paul Houlton Terry was an American cartoonist, screenwriter, film director and one of the most prolific film producers in history...

  • Tesco
    Tesco
    Tesco plc is a global grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues and the second-largest measured by profits...

     – amalgamation of TES (from T. E. Stockwell) and CO (from Jack Cohen
    Jack Cohen (Tesco)
    Sir John Edward Cohen , born Jacob Edward Kohen and commonly known as Jack Cohen, was a British businessman who founded the Tesco supermarket chain.-Career:...

    )
  • Tesla Motors
    Tesla Motors
    Tesla Motors, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based company that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components. It was the only automaker building and selling a zero-emission sports car, the Tesla Roadster, in serial production...

     – named in honor of Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...

  • Testor Corporation
    Testor Corporation
    Testor Corporation is a manufacturer of model kits, tools, and accessories based in Rockford, Illinois and is part of RPM International.- Beginnings :...

     – Nils Testor
  • Thomas B. Jeffery Company
    Thomas B. Jeffery Company
    The Thomas B. Jeffery Company was an American automobile manufacturer in Kenosha, Wisconsin from 1902 until 1916. The company manufactured the Rambler and Jeffery brand motorcars. It was preceded by the Gormully & Jeffery Manufacturing Company and it was the parent company to Nash Motors, thus one...

     – Thomas B. Jeffery
    Thomas B. Jeffery
    For the government official in colonial Nova Scotia see Thomas Nickleson JefferyThomas B. Jeffery was an inventor and manufacturer of bicycles and early automobiles.-Early life:...

  • Thomas Cook Group
    Thomas Cook Group
    Thomas Cook Group plc is a travel company created on 19 June, 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG and MyTravel Group plc. At flotation on the London Stock Exchange 52% of the shares in the new company were held by the German mail order and department store corporation Arcandor and 48% owned by...

    , Thomas Cook Airlines
    Thomas Cook Airlines
    Thomas Cook Airlines is a British charter airline based in Manchester, England. It serves main holiday resorts worldwide, from its main bases at Manchester and Gatwick.The airline also operates services from nine other bases in the United Kingdom....

     – Thomas Cook
    Thomas Cook
    Thomas Cook of Melbourne, Derbyshire, England founded the travel agency that is now Thomas Cook Group.- Early days :...

  • Various named after Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson was an American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.-Early life:...

    :
    • Alstom
      Alstom
      Alstom is a large multinational conglomerate which holds interests in the power generation and transport markets. According to the company website, in the years 2010-2011 Alstom had annual sales of over €20.9 billion, and employed more than 85,000 people in 70 countries. Alstom's headquarters are...

    • Thomson SA (now Technicolor SA)
    • Thomson-CSF
      Thomson-CSF
      Thomson-CSF was a major electronics and defence contractor. In December 2000 it was renamed Thales Group.-History:In 1879 Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston formed the Thomson-Houston Electric Company in the United States....

       (now Thales Group
      Thales Group
      The Thales Group is a French electronics company delivering information systems and services for the aerospace, defense, transportation and security markets...

      )
    • Thomson-Houston Electric Company
      Thomson-Houston Electric Company
      The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a manufacturing company which was one of the precursors of the General Electric Company.The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was formed in 1883 in the United States when a group of Lynn, Massachusetts investors led by Charles A...

       (now General Electric
      General Electric
      General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...

      )
  • The Thomson Corporation – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
    Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
    Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet GBE was a Canadian newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur.-Career:...

  • Thorn Electrical Industries
    THORN Electrical Industries
    Thorn Electrical Industries, Limited was an electrical engineering business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange but it merged with EMI Group to form Thorn EMI in 1979...

     - Jules Thorn
    Jules Thorn
    Sir Jules Thorn was the founder of Thorn Electrical Industries, one of the United Kingdom's largest electrical businesses.-Career:...

  • Thorntons
    Thorntons
    Thorntons is a UK chocolate company established by Joseph William Thornton in 1911. Thorntons today is a £180 million turnover company with nearly 400 shops and cafes and around 200 franchises together with internet, mail order and commercial services...

     (British chocolatier) - Joseph William Thornton
    Joseph William Thornton
    Joseph William Thornton was born in Sheffield, England, in 1870. He died in 1919.Thornton founded the Thorntons chocolate company, famous for its toffee, when he opened his first shop at 159 Norfolk Street, Sheffield in 1911....

  • Thorntons
    Thorntons Inc.
    Thorntons Inc., also known as Thorntons Oil Company, is a gasoline business located in Louisville, Kentucky. It was founded in 1971 by James H. Thornton.needs reference...

     (U.S. convenience store chain) - James H. Thornton
  • THX
    THX
    THX is a trade name of a high-fidelity audio/visual reproduction standard for movie theaters, screening rooms, home theaters, computer speakers, gaming consoles, and car audio systems. The current THX was created in 2001 when it spun off from Lucasfilm Ltd...

     – Tomlinson Holman
    Tomlinson Holman
    Tomlinson M. Holman is an American film theorist, audio engineer, and inventor of film technologies, notably the Lucasfilm THX sound system. He developed the world's first 10.2 sound system. Earlier, Holman developed what was known as the Holman Preamplifier, for the Apt Corporation. He holds a...

  • ThyssenKrupp
    ThyssenKrupp
    ThyssenKrupp AG is a German multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Duisburg Essen, Germany. The corporation consists of 670 companies worldwide. While ThyssenKrupp is one of the world's largest steel producers, the company also provides components and systems for the automotive...

     - Thyssen family
    Thyssen family
    The Thyssen family has notable members, all of whom descend from Friedrich Thyssen, which established steel works, elevators and escalators, industrial conglomerates, banks, and art collections - Thyssen AG, ThyssenKrupp and ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. Originating from Germany, family members have...

     and the Krupp family
    Krupp
    The Krupp family , a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th...

  • Tiffany & Co.
    Tiffany & Co.
    Tiffany & Co. is an American jewelry and silverware company. As part of its branding, the company is strongly associated with its Tiffany Blue , which is a registered trademark.- History :...

     – Charles Lewis Tiffany
    Charles Lewis Tiffany
    Charles Lewis Tiffany founded Tiffany & Co. in New York City in 1837. A leader in the American jewelry trade in the nineteenth century, he was known for his jewelry expertise, created the country's first retail catalog, and, in 1851, he introduced the English standard of sterling silver.His son,...

  • Tiffen
    Tiffen
    Tiffen Manufacturing Corporation is a company in Hauppauge, New York, U.S.A. which manufactures filters for photography, and other professional film and photography-related products. Founded in 1945, by Sol Tiffen, the company has won several Academy Awards for technical achievements infiltration...

     – Sol Tiffen
  • Tim Hortons
    Tim Hortons
    Tim Hortons Inc. is a Canadian fast casual restaurant known for its coffee and doughnuts. It is also Canada's largest fast food service with over 3000 stores nationwide. It was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, by Canadian hockey player Tim Horton and Jim Charade, after an initial venture in...

     – Tim Horton
    Tim Horton
    Myles Gilbert "Tim" Horton was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played in 24 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Buffalo Sabres. He was also a businessman and a co-founder of Tim Hortons. He died in an...

  • Timken Company
    Timken Company
    The Timken Company is a global manufacturer of bearings, alloy steels, and related components and assemblies.- History :The company was founded by Henry Timken in St. Louis, Missouri in 1899 and incorporated as The Timken Roller Bearing Axle Company. A year earlier, in 1898, Timken got a patent...

     – Henry Timken
    Henry Timken
    Henry Timken was an inventor who was born in Bremen, Germany. He founded the Timken Company in 1899, which is located in Canton, Ohio. Timken was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame on September 19, 1998...

  • Tokuma Shoten
    Tokuma Shoten
    is a publisher in Japan, that was established in 1954.The company was also the parent company for the film studio Daiei Motion Pictures, bought in 1974, and the record label Tokuma Japan Communications, bought in 1972, until both were sold off when Yasuyoshi Tokuma, who established this company,...

     – Yasuyoshi Tokuma
  • Toleman
    Toleman
    Toleman Motosport was a Formula One constructor based in the UK. It was active between 1981 and 1985 and attended 70 Grands Prix.-Origins:In the 1970s, businessmen and motorsport fans Ted Toleman and Alex Hawkridge began their involvement in various car racing formulae in the UK. Ted was also noted...

     – Ted Toleman
  • Tom Walkinshaw Racing
    Tom Walkinshaw Racing
    Tom Walkinshaw Racing , was an auto racing team and engineering firm founded in 1976 by touring car racer Tom Walkinshaw.-History:TWR started by modifying BMW 3.0 CSLs, but soon was contracted to head Mazda's works program in the British Touring Car Championship. The TWR developed RX-7, with Win...

     – Tom Walkinshaw
    Tom Walkinshaw
    Tom Walkinshaw was a Scottish racing car driver and the founder of the racing team Tom Walkinshaw Racing...

  • Tommy Kaira
    Tommy Kaira
    , formally , is a Japanese car tuning and manufacturing company founded on May 1, 2002 and headquartered in Minami-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The company was named after its two founders, Yoshikazu Tomita and Kikuo Kaira. Its parent company was originally founded in 1968 as...

     – Yoshikazu Tomita and Kikuo Kaira
  • TOM'S
    TOM'S
    is a factory supported racing team and tuner of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The name stands for Tachi Oiwa Motor Sport. Their head office is located in Tokyo, Japan. They are currently heavily involved with Super GT racing and Formula 3 racing...

     – Nobuhide Tachi
    Nobuhide Tachi
    is a former Japanese racing driver, and the co-founder of TOM'S, a Japanese racing team and tuner for Toyota.His son, Shingo was also a racing driver.-Racing career:...

     and Kiyoshi Oiwa (Tachi Oiwa Motor Sport)
  • Toni & Guy
    Toni & Guy
    - History :Toni & Guy is a global hairdressing and education business founded in London, United Kingdom in 1963 by brothers Giuseppe and Gaetano Mascolo. They were later joined by younger brothers Bruno and Anthony...

     – Giuseppe "Toni" and Gaetano "Guy" Mascolo
  • Tony Roma's
    Tony Roma's
    Tony Roma's is a casual dining chain restaurant specializing in baby back ribs . The first location was established in 1972 in North Miami, Florida, by the founder, and today there are roughly 260 locations in 27 countries comprising 32 territories...

     – Tony Roma
  • Towers Perrin
    Towers Perrin
    Towers Perrin was a professional services firm specialising in human resources and financial services consulting, which merged in January 2010 with Watson Wyatt to form Towers Watson...

     – John Towers and Charles Perrin
  • Toyota Motor – Kiichiro Toyoda
    Kiichiro Toyoda
    was a Japanese entrepreneur and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to take Toyoda Loom Works into automobile manufacturing would create what would eventually become Toyota Motor Corporation, the world's largest automobile manufacturer....

  • Toyota Industries
    Toyota Industries
    Toyota Industries Corporation is a Japanese machine maker. Originally a manufacturer of automatic looms, it is the company from which Toyota Motor Corporation developed.-History:...

     – Sakichi Toyoda
    Sakichi Toyoda
    was a Japanese inventor and industrialist. He was born in Kosai, Shizuoka. The son of a poor carpenter, Toyoda is referred to as the "King of Japanese Inventors".- Career :...

  • Triple F Racing
    Triple F Racing
    Triple F Racing is an Australian motor racing team that is competing in the International V8 Supercars Championship. The team is today based on the Gold Coast in Queenland but continues to have strong links with the team's original home in Perth, Western Australia.The team was formed by the West...

     – Paul, Todd, and Dean Fiore
    Dean Fiore
    Dean Fiore Dean Fiore Dean Fiore (born December 1, 1983 in Kalgoorlie Western Australia is an Australian racing driver. Fiore presently races for his own team, Triple F Racing, a satellite operation of Paul Morris Motorsport in the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series....

  • Trump Organization
    Trump Organization
    The Trump Organization is a limited liability corporation conglomerate based in Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York. The organization owns, operates, and develops hotels, resorts, residential towers, and golf courses in different countries, as well as owning several pieces of high-end real estate in...

     – Fred Trump
  • Trump Shuttle
    Trump Shuttle
    Trump Shuttle, Inc., doing business as Trump Airlines, was an airline owned by Donald Trump from 1989 to 1992. The landing rights and some of the physical assets necessary to operate the shuttle flights were originally part of Eastern Air Lines and known as the Eastern Air Shuttle...

    , Trump Entertainment Resorts
    Trump Entertainment Resorts
    Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. is a holding company that owns and manages two casinos/hotels in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States. Formerly known as Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, it was founded by Donald J. Trump, who was Chairman of the Board of Directors until his resignation in 2009....

    , Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort – Donald Trump
    Donald Trump
    Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...

  • Tupolev
    Tupolev
    Tupolev is a Russian aerospace and defence company, headquartered in Basmanny District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. Known officially as Public Stock Company Tupolev, it is the successor of the Tupolev OKB or Tupolev Design Bureau headed by the Soviet aerospace engineer A.N. Tupolev...

     – Andrei Tupolev
    Andrei Tupolev
    Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev was a pioneering Soviet aircraft designer.During his career, he designed and oversaw the design of more than 100 types of aircraft, some of which set 78 world records...

  • Tupperware Brands
    Tupperware Brands
    Tupperware Brands Corporation, formerly Tupperware Corporation, is a multinational direct sales company.The company was ranked equal # 2 in Fortune's Most Admired Home equipment and furnishings section.-Brands:...

     – Earl Tupper
    Earl Tupper
    Earl Silas Tupper was the inventor of Tupperware, an airtight plastic container for storing food.-Biography:...

  • Turner Broadcasting System
    Turner Broadcasting System
    Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is the Time Warner subsidiary managing the collection of cable networks and properties started and acquired by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner starting in the mid-1970s. The company has its headquarters in the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia. TBS, Inc...

     – Ted Turner
    Ted Turner
    Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television...

  • TVR
    TVR
    thumb|right|240px|TVR No.2, the oldest surviving TVR, located at [[Lakeland Motor Museum, Newby Bridge, Cumbria]]TVR was an independent British manufacturer of sports cars. Until 2006 it was based in the English seaside town of Blackpool, Lancashire, but has since split up into several smaller...

     – TreVoR Wilkinson
  • TVS Motors
    TVS Motors
    TVS Motor Company is the third largest two-wheeler manufacturer in India.It is the flagship company of the parent TVS Group employing over 40,000 people with an estimated 15 million customers. It manufactures motorcycles, scooters, mopeds and auto rickshaws...

    , TVS Electronics
    TVS Electronics
    TVS Electronics is part of the USD3.5Bn TVS Group of India. TVS Electronics designs, manufactures and distributes IT products, dot matrix printers, point of sale terminals, printer supplies, keyboards, mouses, uninterruptible power supplies, and set top boxes. TVS Electronics was established in 1986...

     – T. V. Sundaram Iyengar
    T. V. Sundaram Iyengar
    T. V. Sundaram Iyengar Thirukurungudi Venkagaruswamy, was an industrialist, the founder of TV Sundaram Iyengar and Sons group of companies, one of India's largest industrial conglomerates. With his humble beginning as a lawyer, he grew into one of the most successful industrialists of his time....

  • Tyrrell Racing
    Tyrrell Racing
    The Tyrrell Racing Organisation was an auto racing team and Formula One constructor founded by Ken Tyrrell which started racing in 1958 and started building its own cars in 1970. The team experienced its greatest success in the early 1970s, when it won three drivers' championships and one...

     – Ken Tyrrell
    Ken Tyrrell
    Robert Kenneth "Ken" Tyrrell was a British Formula Two racing driver and the founder of the Tyrrell Formula One constructor.-Biography:...


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  • Ukrop's
    Ukrop's Super Market
    Ukrop's is a company that operates a central bakery and kitchen producing baked goods and prepared meals. Its baked goods are marketed under Good Meadow and Ukrop's brand. In 1976 Ukrop's bought Dot's Pastry Shop, a well-known bakery in Richmond...

     – Joseph Ukrop
  • Umbro
    Umbro
    Umbro is an English sportswear and football equipment supplier based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England. The company is now part of Nike. Umbro designs, sources, and markets sport-related apparel, footwear, and equipment...

     – Harold and Wallace Humphreys (HUMphrey BROthers)

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  • Valentino
    Valentino SpA
    Valentino SpA is a clothing company founded in 1959 by Valentino Garavani. Nowadays it is a part of Valentino Fashion Group. New creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli will take Alessandra Facchinetti's seat as creative designer...

     – Valentino Garavani
  • Vanwall
    Vanwall
    Vanwall was a Formula One motor racing team that competed in the 1950s. Founded by Tony Vandervell, the Vanwall name was derived by combining the name of the team owner with that of his Thinwall bearings produced at the Vandervell Products factory at Acton, London...

     – Tony VANdervell
    Tony Vandervell
    Guy Anthony "Tony" Vandervell was an English industrialist, motor racing financier, and founder of the Vanwall Formula One racing team.-Biography:Vandervell was the son of Charles Vandervell, founder of CAV, later Lucas CAV...

     (and ThinWALL bearings)
  • VDL Bova – J.D. Bova
  • Veilside
    Veilside
    Veilside Company Limited is an aftermarket automotive company which initially sold suspension and engine tuning parts, and now sells interior as well as body parts for aerodynamic and aesthetic enhancement of the vehicle.The name is derived from the owner's name, Yokomaku Hiranao...

     – Hiranao Yokomaku. "Yoko" translates as "side" and "maku" as "veil"
  • Vel’s Parnelli Jones Racing – Velco "Vel" Miletich and Parnelli Jones
    Parnelli Jones
    Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones , is a retired American racing driver and racecar owner. He is most remembered for his 1963 Indianapolis 500 win, and almost winning the 1967 Indy 500 in a turbine car...

  • Versace
    Versace
    Gianni Versace S.p.A. , usually referred to as Versace, is an Italian fashion label founded by Gianni Versace in 1978.The first Versace boutique was opened in Milan's Via della Spiga in 1978, and its popularity was immediate. Today, Versace is one of the world's leading international fashion houses...

     – Gianni Versace
    Gianni Versace
    Gianni Versace was an Italian fashion designer and founder of Gianni Versace S.p.A., an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, makeup and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also designed costumes for the theatre and films, and was a friend of Madonna, Elton John,...

  • Verville Aircraft Company – Alfred V. Verville
    Alfred V. Verville
    Alfred Victor Verville was an aviation pioneer and designer who contributed to civilian and military aviation. During his 47 years in the aviation industry, he led the design and development of nearly a dozen commercial and military airplanes...

  • Vibram
    Vibram
    Vibram S.p.A. is an Italian company based in Albizzate that both manufactures and licenses the production of Vibram-branded rubber outsoles for footwear. The company is named after its founder, Vitale Bramani. Bramani is credited with inventing the first rubber lug soles for shoes...

     – VItale BRAMani
    Vibram
    Vibram S.p.A. is an Italian company based in Albizzate that both manufactures and licenses the production of Vibram-branded rubber outsoles for footwear. The company is named after its founder, Vitale Bramani. Bramani is credited with inventing the first rubber lug soles for shoes...

  • Vroom & Dreesmann
    Vroom & Dreesmann
    Vroom & Dreesmann is a Dutch chain of department stores founded in 1887 by Willem Vroom and Anton Dreesmann. The first V&D store opened in Weesperstraat in Amsterdam...

     – Willem Vroom and Anton Dreesmann

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  • Waitrose
    Waitrose
    Waitrose Limited is an upmarket chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom and is the food division of the British retailer and worker co-operative the John Lewis Partnership. Its head office is in Bracknell, Berkshire, England...

     – Wallace WAITe and Arthur ROSE
    Arthur Rose
    Arthur Rose was a seventeenth century Scottish priest, Archbishop of St Andrews, and Episcopal Primate of Scotland.-Life:The younger son of Elizabeth Wood and her husband, John Rose, minister of Birse, he was born in 1634...

  • Walgreens
    Walgreens
    Walgreen Co. , doing business as Walgreens , is the largest drugstore chain in the United States of America. As of August 31st, the company operates 8,210 locations across all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1901, and has since expanded...

     – Charles Rudolph Walgreen
    Charles Rudolph Walgreen
    Charles Rudolph Walgreen was an American businessman who founded Walgreens.-Background:He was born in Galesburg Knox County, Illinois, the son of Swedish emigrants. When his father, Carl Magnus Olofsson, came to America from Sweden, the family name was changed to Walgreen...

  • Wal-Mart – Sam Walton
    Sam Walton
    Samuel Moore "Sam" Wallballs was a businessman, entrepreneur, and Eagle Scout born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.-Early life:...

  • Walkinshaw Racing
    Walkinshaw Racing
    Walkinshaw Racing, known commercially as Bundaberg Racing Team, is one of two Australian motor racing teams operated by British owned Walkinshaw Performance...

     – Tom Walkinshaw
    Tom Walkinshaw
    Tom Walkinshaw was a Scottish racing car driver and the founder of the racing team Tom Walkinshaw Racing...

  • The Walt Disney Company
    The Walt Disney Company
    The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

     – Walt Disney
    Walt Disney
    Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...

  • Walter Wolf Racing
    Walter Wolf Racing
    Walter Wolf Racing was a Formula One constructor from 1977 to 1980, notable for winning the very first race the team entered.-1975-77:In 1975, the Slovenian-Austrian-Canadian businessman Walter Wolf had started to appear at many of the F1 races during the season. A year later, he bought 60% of...

     – Walter Wolf
  • Wang Laboratories
    Wang Laboratories
    Wang Laboratories was a computer company founded in 1951 by Dr. An Wang and Dr. G. Y. Chu. The company was successively headquartered in Cambridge , Tewksbury , and finally in Lowell, Massachusetts . At its peak in the 1980s, Wang Laboratories had annual revenues of $3 billion and employed over...

     – An Wang
    An Wang
    Dr. An Wang was a Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories.-Early life and career:...

  • Warburtons
    Warburtons
    Warburtons is a British baking firm based founded by Thomas Warburton in 1876 in Bolton, then in Lancashire, now in Greater Manchester, England. For much of its history Warburtons only had bakeries in Lancashire and it remains a family-owned company....

     – Ellen and Thomas Warburton
  • Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

     – Jack Warner
    Jack Warner
    Jack Leonard "J. L." Warner , born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California...

    , Sam Warner, Harold Warner, and Albert Warner
  • W.B. Mason – William Betts Mason
  • Wegmans – John and Walter Wegman
  • Wells Fargo
    Wells Fargo
    Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational diversified financial services company with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by assets and the largest bank by market capitalization. Wells Fargo is the second largest bank in deposits, home...

     – Henry Wells and William Fargo
  • Wendy's
    Wendy's
    Wendy's is an international fast food chain restaurant founded by Dave Thomas on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The company decided to move its headquarters to Dublin, Ohio, on January 29, 2006. It has been owned by Triarc since 2008...

     – Dave Thomas
    Dave Thomas (American businessman)
    David "Dave" Thomas was an American fast-food entrepreneur and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers...

    ' daughter Melinda "Wendy" Thomas
  • Weslake
    Weslake
    Weslake Research and Development was founded by Harry Weslake, with premises in Rye, East Sussex, England. Weslake was a cylinder head specialist who had been instrumental in modifying the side valve standard engine used in the first SS sports car. He also worked on the larger SS engine: "The...

     – Harry Weslake
  • Westinghouse Electric
    Westinghouse Electric (1886)
    Westinghouse Electric was an American manufacturing company. It was founded in 1886 as Westinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by George Westinghouse. The company purchased CBS in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997...

     – George Westinghouse
    George Westinghouse
    George Westinghouse, Jr was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry. Westinghouse was one of Thomas Edison's main rivals in the early implementation of the American electricity system...

  • W H Smith
    W H Smith
    WHSmith plc is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It is best known for its chain of high street, railway station, airport, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, and entertainment products...

     – William Henry Smith
  • Wiesmann
    Wiesmann
    Wiesmann is an automobile manufacturer in Germany. The company was founded in 1985 by the brothers Martin Wiesmann and Friedhelm Wiesmann . The cars are manufactured by hand in Dülmen...

     – Martin and Friedhelm Wiesmann
  • Wilkinson – James Kemsey Wilkinson
  • Williams Manufacturing Company, (to) Williams Electronics – see WMS Industries
  • Williams Grand Prix Engineering
    WilliamsF1
    Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, trading as AT&T Williams, is a British Formula One motor racing team and constructor. It was founded and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head...

     – Frank Williams
  • Winchester, Winchester Repeating Arms - Oliver Winchester
  • Winning Appliances
    Winning Appliances
    Winning Appliances is a family owned and run kitchen and laundry specialist, based in Sydney, Australia. The company has been trading since 1906 and has eight showrooms across NSW and Queensland....

     - John Winning and the Winning Family
  • WMS Industries, WMS Gaming – Harry E. WilliaMS
  • Wood Brothers Racing
    Wood Brothers Racing
    Wood Brothers Racing is an American auto racing team that competes in the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Camping World Truck Series. The team was formed in 1950 by the sons of Walter and Ada Wood, thus the Wood Brothers...

     – Glen, Leonard, Delano, Clay, and Ray Lee Wood
  • W. R. Grace and Company
    W. R. Grace and Company
    W. R. Grace and Company is a Columbia, Maryland, United States based chemical conglomerate.The company has two main divisions, Davison Chemicals and Performance Chemicals. The Davison unit makes chemical catalysts, refining catalysts, and silica-based products that let other companies make...

     – William Russell Grace
    William Russell Grace
    William Russell Grace was the first Roman Catholic mayor of New York City and the founder of W. R. Grace and Company.-Biography:He was born on May 10, 1832 in Ballylinan, County Laois, Ireland....

  • Wright Company
    Wright Company
    The Wright Company was the commercial aviation business venture of the Wright Brothers, established by them in 1909 in conjunction with several prominent industrialists from New York and Detroit with the intention of capitalizing on their invention of the practical airplane. It maintained a...

    , Wright Aeronautical
    Wright Aeronautical
    Wright Aeronautical was an aircraft and aircraft engine manufacturer located in New Jersey.-History:This American company evolved from the 1909-1916 Wright Company, which merged with the Glenn L. Martin Company in 1916 to form the Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation. Glenn Martin resigned from...

     (to Wright-Martin
    Wright-Martin
    Wright-Martin was a short-lived aircraft manufacturing business venture between the Wright Company and Glenn L. Martin....

    ) – Orville and Wilbur Wright
    Wright brothers
    The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two Americans credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903...

  • Wrigley Company
    Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
    The William Wrigley Jr. Company is a company headquartered in the Wrigley Building in Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded on April 1, 1891, originally selling products such as soap and baking powder. In 1892, William Wrigley, Jr., the company's founder, began packaging...

     – William Wrigley Jr.
    William Wrigley Jr.
    William Wrigley Jr. was a U.S. chewing gum industrialist. He was founder and eponym of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....

  • W. W. Norton – William Warder Norton
    William Warder Norton
    William Warder Norton was a publisher and founder of W. W. Norton & Company.-Biography:He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, moved to New York City and started an import-export business, met and married Margaret Dows Herter, known as Polly or Mary...


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  • Yakovlev
    Yakovlev
    The Yak Aircraft Corporation is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer...

     – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev
    Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev
    Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev was a Soviet aeronautical engineer. He designed the Yakovlev military aircraft and founded the Yakovlev Design Bureau. -Biography:...

  • Yamaha Corporation – Torakusu Yamaha
    Torakusu Yamaha
    Torakusu Yamaha was a Japanese entrepreneur who was the founder of the Yamaha Corporation....

  • Yates Racing
    Yates Racing
    Yates Racing was an American stock car racing racing team that competed in NASCAR until the 2009 season when it merged with Richard Petty Motorsports. Previously known as Robert Yates Racing, the team was owned by Doug Yates, who has officially owned the team since his father Robert's retirement on...

     – Robert Yates
  • Yokomo
    Yokomo
    is a Japanese company from Adachi, Tokyo that specialize in radio-controlled cars, it was one of the first manufacturers in Japan to build RC cars and it also invented the RTR cars, but most notable of all is their long-running "Dog Fighter" series of radio controlled buggies, mainly through its...

     – Tomoaki Yokobori (spun off from a model shop named YOKObori MOdel Shop)
  • Yves Saint Laurent
    Yves Saint Laurent (brand)
    Yves Saint Laurent or YSL is a luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé. Today, its chief designer is Stefano Pilati. Yves Saint Laurent, founder of the brand, died in 2008.-History:...

     – Yves Saint Laurent
  • Yuke's – Yukinori Taniguchi
    Yukinori Taniguchi
    is a Japanese businessperson and auto racing driver. He founded Yuke's, a video game developer company, in Sakai, Osaka in 1993.-Early career:Taniguchi enthused about the game production at high school days and contracted with game company in Hiroshima thus he began professional career...


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  • Zagato
    Zagato
    Zagato is a design consultancy and engineering services company situated just outside Milan, Italy.The company's premises occupy an area of , of which are covered....

     – Ugo Zagato
    Ugo Zagato
    Ugo Zagato was an Italian automobile designer, known for establishing and running the Zagato coachbuilder, famous for its lightweight designs....

  • Zakspeed
    Zakspeed
    Zakspeed is a motor racing team from Germany, founded in 1968 by Erich Zakowski and nowadays run by his son Peter Zakowski. Their home town of Niederzissen is located not far away from the Nürburgring race track.-1973 to 1981: Saloon and sports car racing:...

     – Erich ZAKowski
  • Zend Technologies
    Zend Technologies
    Zend Technologies Ltd. is an Israeli world wide web infrastructure software company with headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S., technology center in Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel and offices in France, Italy and Germany...

     – ZEev Suraski & ANDi Gutmans
  • Zust
    Zust
    Zust was an Italian car manufacturing company operating from 1905 to 1917.The company was founded by engineer Roberto Züst, an Italian industrialist of Swiss origin, who owned a precision tool manufacturing plant at Intra, near Lago Maggiore...

    – Roberto Züst
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