Ancient businesspeople

Chinese merchant and politician of the Qin state (291–235 BC)

1st century AD Alexandrian Jewish aristocrat and Roman citizen

Great-grandmother of Islamic prophet Muhammad

Ahaha () was an ancient Assyrian investor and one of the earliest documented businesswomen in history. She is known for falling victim to financial fraud and pleading to her brother to retrieve stolen silver for her. It is unknown if her pleas were answered.

Babatha bat Shimʿon, also known as Babata ( – after 132) was a Jewish woman who lived in the town of Maḥoza at the southeastern tip of the Dead Sea in what is now Jordan at the beginning of the 2nd century CE.

Ama-e () was an Ancient Sumerian businesswoman. She is one of the earliest individual businesswomen of which any significant amount of information is known.