Businesspeople & Entrepreneurs, RAD-SIM
This general category includes a selection of more specific topics.
Businesspeople & Entrepreneurs Encyclopedia Articles By Title
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was a scholar and statesman who was president of India from 1962 to 1967. He served as......
Hosain Rahman is an American entrepreneur who was perhaps best known as the CEO (1999–2017) and cofounder of the......
Raj Rajaratnam is an American investor who was convicted in 2011 of securities fraud and conspiracy in one of the......
Vivek Ramaswamy is an American biotech entrepreneur who drew national attention with his bid for the Republican......
Maria Ramos is a Portuguese South African economist and businesswoman who served as CEO of the transportation company......
Gordon Ramsay is a Scottish chef and restaurateur known for his highly acclaimed restaurants and cookbooks but......
J. Arthur Rank, Baron Rank was a British industrialist who became Great Britain’s chief distributor and one of......
John Jakob Raskob was an American financier who played a major role in the early 20th-century expansion of E.I.......
Emil Rathenau was a German industrialist and a leading figure in the early European electrical industry. In 1883......
Walther Rathenau was a German-Jewish statesman, industrialist, and philosopher who organized Germany’s economy......
Marc Ravalomanana is a Malagasy entrepreneur and politician who served as president of Madagascar (2002–09). He......
Sumner Redstone was an American media executive whose company, National Amusements, Inc. (NAI), acquired leading......
René Redzepi is a Danish chef recognized internationally for his unique reinterpretation of Scandinavian cuisine;......
Max Reinhardt was one of the first theatrical directors to achieve widespread recognition as a major creative artist,......
Jerry Reinsdorf is an American lawyer and businessman who was the majority owner of the Chicago Bulls and Chicago......
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith was a principal architect of the modern pattern of publicly owned but......
Louis Renault was a manufacturer who built the largest automobile company in France. Renault built his first automobile......
Hiram Rhodes Revels was an American clergyman, educator, and politician who became the first African American to......
Charles H. Revson was an American businessman who turned a $300 investment into the largest retail cosmetics and......
Nikolay Petrovich Rezanov was a Russian trader, diplomat, and administrator who was a founder of the Russian-American......
Cecil Rhodes was a financier, statesman, and empire builder of British South Africa. He was prime minister of Cape......
David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda , was a Welsh coal-mining entrepreneur, leading figure in industrial......
David Ricardo was an English economist who gave systematized, classical form to the rising science of economics......
Robert Ricci was a French business executive who was a cofounder and chief executive of the renowned Parisian couturier......
Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice ; beatified October 6, 1996) was the founder and first superior general of the Brothers......
John Rich was an English theatre manager and actor, the popularizer of English pantomime and founder of Covent......
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was a pilot, industrialist, and the most celebrated U.S. air ace of World War I. Rickenbacker......
Branch Rickey was an American professional baseball executive who devised the farm system of training ballplayers......
Georgina Hope Rinehart is an Australian business executive and political activist who built a fortune as the head......
César Ritz was the founder of the Paris hotel that made his name a synonym for elegance and luxury. In order to......
Thomas Milton Rivers was an American virologist who, as chairman of the virus research committee of the National......
Robert F. Smith is one of the most successful investors in modern private equity and a defining figure in the software......
Sir Dennis Holme Robertson was a British economist who was an early supporter of John Maynard Keynes but later......
Lennox Robinson was an Irish playwright and theatrical producer associated with the Abbey Theatre; a leading figure......
Bobby Robson was a British football (soccer) player and manager who was one of England’s most respected players......
Rockefeller family, prominent American family whose philanthropy and influence over several generations helped......
David Rockefeller was an American banker and philanthropist, a member of the famed Rockefeller family. He was the......
John D. Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Standard Oil Company, which......
Laurance S. Rockefeller was an American venture capitalist and philanthropist and a member of the famed Rockefeller......
William Rockefeller was an American industrialist and financier, a member of the famed Rockefeller family, and......
John Roebuck was a British physician, chemist, and inventor, perhaps best-known for having subsidized the experiments......
Harriet Burbank Rogers was an educator and pioneer in the oral method of instruction of the deaf in the United......
John Rolfe was a Virginia planter and colonial official who was the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian......
Charles Stewart Rolls was a British motorist, aviator, and automobile manufacturer who was one of the founders......
Rong Yiren was a Chinese businessman and politician. He was the founder (in 1979) and president of China International......
Billy Rose was an American theatrical impresario and composer of more than 50 song hits. Rose became an expert......
Irene Rosenfeld is an American business executive, who was CEO (2006–17) of processed-foods giant Kraft Foods Inc.......
Julius Rosenwald was an American merchant and unorthodox philanthropist who opposed the idea of perpetual endowments......
Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere was a British newspaper proprietor who, with his brother Alfred......
Sir Henry Royce, Baronet was an English industrialist who was one of the founders of Rolls-Royce Ltd., manufacturer......
Vermont Royster was an American journalist and editor of The Wall Street Journal and president (1960–71) of its......
Helena Rubinstein was a cosmetician, business executive, and philanthropist. She founded Helena Rubinstein, Inc.,......
William Hepburn Russell was an American businessman and co-proprietor of Russell, Majors and Waddell, the most......
Patricia Russo is an American businesswoman who served as CEO of Lucent Technologies (later called Alcatel-Lucent)......
William Ruto is a Kenyan businessman and politician who has served as president of Kenya since 2022. Before that,......
Charles Saatchi is an Iraqi-born British advertising executive who is perhaps best known as a collector of contemporary......
Güler Sabancı is a Turkish business executive who was chairperson of the family-owned Sabancı Holding, one of Turkey’s......
Sir Michael Ernest Sadler was a world-renowned authority on secondary education and a champion of the English public......
Russell Sage was an American financier who played a part in organizing his country’s railroad and telegraph systems.......
Haym Salomon was a Polish-born American businessman who was a principal financier of the fledgling American republic......
Marcus Samuelsson is an Ethiopian-born chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality. In 1995, as executive......
Sheryl Sandberg is an American technology executive who was the chief operating officer (COO) of the social networking......
Harland Sanders was an American business executive, a self-styled Southern gentleman whose white hair, white goatee,......
Frederick William Sanderson was an English schoolmaster whose reorganization of Oundle School had considerable......
George Sanger was an English circus impresario who was the proprietor, with his brother John Sanger, of one of......
John Sanger was an English circus impresario who was, with his brother George Sanger, the proprietor of one of......
David Sarnoff was an American pioneer in the development of both radio and television broadcasting. As a boy in......
David Satcher is an American medical doctor and public health administrator who was the 16th surgeon general of......
Marjorie Scardino is an American-born British businesswoman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the British......
Hjalmar Schacht was a German banker and financial expert who achieved international renown by halting the ruinous......
Jacob H. Schiff was an American financier and philanthropist. As head of the investment banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb,......
Eric Schmidt is an American information technology executive who served (2001–11) as chairman and CEO of Google......
Eugène Schneider was one of the great industrialists of the 19th century and a prominent figure in French politics.......
Jürgen Schrempp was a German businessman who was chairman of the Daimler-Benz corporation (1995–2005) and the architect......
Friedrich Ludwig Schröder was a German actor, theatrical manager, and playwright who introduced the plays of William......
Howard Schultz is an American businessman who served as CEO (1987–2000, 2008–17, 2022– ) of Starbucks, a coffeehouse......
William Schuman was an American composer, educator, and administrator whose symphonies, ballets, and chamber music......
Charles M. Schwab was an entrepreneur of the early steel industry in the United States, who served as president......
Tony Schwartz was an American media theorist and advertising pioneer credited with reinventing the genre of political......
Louis Schweitzer is a French government official and automotive executive who rose to the post of chairman and......
Rick Scott is an American Republican politician who was elected to represent the state of Florida in the U.S. Senate......
Richard W. Sears was an American merchant who developed his mail-order jewelry business into the huge retail company......
Harry Gordon Selfridge was the founder of Selfridges department store in London. The son of a small storekeeper......
Donna Shalala is an American educator, administrator, and public official who was secretary of health and human......
Dilip Shanghvi is an Indian business executive who was the founder (1983) of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.......
Nawaz Sharif is a Pakistani businessman and politician who served as prime minister in 1990–93, 1997–99, and 2013–17.......
Shehbaz Sharif is a Pakistani businessman and politician, and the second brother of his family to serve as prime......
Thomas George Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy was a Canadian railway magnate. Born the son of Irish immigrants,......
Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright, impresario, orator, and Whig politician. His plays, notably......
Thomas Sheridan was an Irish-born actor and theatrical manager and father of the dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan.......
Shishaku Shibusawa Eiichi was a Japanese government official who helped establish the reforms that put Japan on......
Robert J. Shiller is an American economist who, with Eugene F. Fama and Lars Peter Hansen, was awarded the 2013......
Shirakawa Masaaki is a Japanese banker and economist who served (2008–13) as governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ),......
Shubert Brothers, dominant managers and producers in American legitimate theatre during the first half of the 20th......
Mark Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur, philanthropist, and space tourist who became the first South......
Hiram Sibley was a founder and president of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Sibley first ran a machine shop......
Muriel Siebert was an American business executive whose successful ventures in the realm of high finance helped......
Beverly Sills was an American operatic soprano who won international fame many years before her Metropolitan Opera......
David Simon, Lord Simon of Highbury is a British industrialist and politician who served as the chief executive......
Naomi Sims was an American model and business executive who shattered the barrier that had prevented Black models......