Category
page 2Businesspeople from Chicago
William Clement Stone
American New Thought author (1902-2002)
Jennifer N. Pritzker
American billionaire
Martine Rothblatt
American lawyer, researcher, writer, and businessperson
Charles Richard Crane
American diplomat (1858–1939)
Bertha Palmer
American art collector (1849-1918)
Albert Grossman
American music manager (1926–1986)
Marshall Field
American businessman (1834–1906)
Phil Chess
American record executive (1921–2016)
Michael Masser
American songwriter, composer and producer of popular music (1941–2015)
Christie Hefner
American businesswoman
Diane Nash
American businesswoman known for civil rights activism
John Erman
American television and film director, actor and producer (1935-2021)
Elliot Handler
American businessman (1916-2011)
Gustavus Franklin Swift
American entrepreneur in the meat industry
Philip Danforth Armour
American meatpacking industrialist/founder: Chicago based Armour & Company (1832–1901)
Don Thompson
American engineer and business executive (born 1963)
John D. Hertz
American businessman (1879-1961)
Lori Greiner
American TV personality and entrepreneur
Bill Rancic
American businessman
Amanda Simpson
United States government official
Rebecca Jarvis
American TV journalist and ABC News correspondent
Arthur Nielsen
American market research entrepreneur (1897-1980)
Dorr Felt
American inventor (1862–1930)
Craig Rodwell
American gay-rights activist (1940-1993)
Mark Pincus
American Internet entrepreneur
George Cohon
businessman
Michael Shamberg
American film producer
Arnold Laven
American film and television director (1922–2009)
Dave Goldberg
American businessman (1967–2015)
Tom Rosenberg
American film producer
Sam Zell
American billionaire investor (1941–2023)
Alicia Patterson
(1906-1963) American editor, aviator
Young Chop
American record producer and rapper from Illinois (1993-)
Marc Nathanson
American entrepreneur
Lessing J. Rosenwald
American businessman, collector and bibliophile (1891–1979)
Francis Cornwall Sherman
American politician (1805-1870)
Andy Granatelli
American racing driver (1923-2013)
Annie Malone
American businesswoman (1869-1957)
Michael Steven Ovitz
American talent agent
Henry Villard
German-American journalist and financier (1835–1900)
William Emmett Dever
American mayor (1862–1929)
B. B. Kahane
American film producer (1891–1960)
John Carbutt
photographer (1832–1905)
Jane Heap
American artist, editor, publisher (1883-1964)
Ralph Austin Bard
American government official (1884–1975)
Christian Picciolini
Peace advocate, American television producer, music executive, entrepreneur, visual artist, writer, and musician
Andrew J. Kuehn
American film producer and director (1937-2004)
Joseph Medill Patterson
American politician (1879–1946)
Potter Palmer
American businessman (1826-1902)
Maurice Joshua
musician
Jerry Huckaby
American politician
Bernard Glasser
American film director and producer
John Meriwether
American financier
Peter Morton
American businessman
Harold Fowler McCormick
American businessman
Lee Miglin
American real estate developer
Bill Veeck
United States baseball executive (1914–1986)
John H. Johnson
American businessman and publisher (1918–2005)
Charles Deering
American businessman (1852–1927)
Alexandra Patsavas
American record producer