Businesspeople from Brooklyn

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials MJ, is an American businessman and retired professional basketball player who is a minority owner of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 15 seasons in the NBA between 1984 and 2003, winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. Widely considered to be one of the greatest basketball players of all time, he was integral in popularizing basketball and the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. He is the wealthiest athlete of all time, and one of the world's richest celebrities, with a $4.3 billion net worth as of 2026.

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires, and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals. In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and was indicted in 2019 for sex trafficking minors in the 2000s. He died in custody awaiting his trial; his death was ruled a suicide.

American electrical engineer

American pornographic actress and director

American film producer (born 1969)

American businessman

American businessman

American aeroplanes designer and businessman (1892–1981)

American film producer

American hotel owner (1920–2007)

American business executive

entrepreneur, founder of the Lotus Development Corporation, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation (born 1950)

American film producer (born 1969)

American sports team owner

American television executive (born 1949)

American chemical executive (1921–2014)

American music executive (1942–2023)

American author and television presenter

American businessman

American lobbyist and businessman (1944–2022)

American record company executive (1916–1999)

American businessman

American physician, pharmaceutical businessman and art collector (1913-1987)

American recording engineer and record producer (1930–2021)

American mining magnate (1869–1914)

American entrepreneur

American real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia

American film producer

American businessman (1928-2017)

American businessman

founder of the Weight Watchers organization (1923–2015)

American businessman, National Football League franchise owner (1925–2012)

American businessman (1848–1929)

American businessman

American businessman, journalist and 25th SEC chairman

American astrologer and astrological writer

American businessman, 75th United States Postmaster General

Nelson Peltz is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is a founding partner, together with Peter W. May and Edward P. Garden, of Trian Partners, an alternative investment management fund based in New York. He is a former director of Heinz, Mondelēz International, and Ingersoll Rand and a former CEO of Triangle Industries.

American audio specialist (1906-1994)

American businessman

CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers (1948–2024)

American businessman and niger (1927–1992)

American politician (1899-1981)

Department of Defense official

American businessman (1942-2020)

Republican Party (GOP) consultant (1945-2017)

American businessperson and politician (1901–1995)

composer of contemporary Jewish religious music

American politician (1933–2023)

American film studio executive (1880–1966)

American businessman

American businessman (1923-2003)

American baseball executive

American chemist and businessman (1852–1930)

American fraudster

businessperson

American spy

New York criminal lawyer

American business executive

American businessman (1935–2020)