Category
page 3Businesspeople from Chicago
Will Harridge
American baseball executive (1883–1971)
Max Adler
violinist, businessperson, and philanthropist (1866-1952)
Lester Melrose
American record producer (1891-1968)
John D. MacArthur
American businessman and philanthropist
Philip K. Wrigley
American businessman (1894-1977)
Merle Chambers
American lawyer, business executive, and philanthropist
Robert Orville Anderson
American business leader, wildcatter and philanthropist (1917–2007)
Richard Driehaus
American businessman (1942–2021)
John Francis Queeny
Founder of Monsanto Company (1859-1933)
Frederick Lundin
American politician (1868-1947)
Andrea Cunningham
American businessperson
Mike Rizzo
American baseball executive
Cathie Black
American businesswoman
Oscar Mayer
German-American entrepreneur
Harriet Hubbard Ayer
American journalist (1849–1903)
Willie Wilson
American businessman
Alfred Cowles
American economist (1891–1984)
Bruce Norris
US sports leader
Robert Friedland
Canadian-American businessman
John Warne Gates
American industrialist (1855–1911)
Rocky Wirtz
American business person, owner of the Chicago Blackhawks
Henry Crown
Jewish American businessman and philanthropist
Gigi Pritzker
American billionaire and film producer
William Joseph McDonough
American economist (1934–2018)
Max Palevsky
American businessman (1924–2010)
Charles O. Finley
American businessman (1918–1996)
Leo Melamed
American businessman
Ty Warner
American businessman
Scott Masters
American pornographic film director
David A. Siegel
American entrepreneur
John G. Shedd
American businessman (1850–1926)
Greg Brown
American businessman
Thomas S. Ricketts
Chairman of the Chicago Cubs
William Rand
American map publisher (1828-1915)
Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr.
American disability rights activist (1930-2002)
Thomas Pritzker
American billionaire
Derrius Quarles
Social entrepreneur and human rights activist
Edgar W. Hiestand
American businessman and politician (1888-1970)
John W. Rogers, Jr.
American investor, business leader, and philanthropist
Andrew McNally
American map publisher (1836–1904)
Morris Markin
American businessman
Eric Lefkofsky
American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist
Tom Neff
Film producer and director
Herb Peterson
American businessman (1919–2008)
Henry Engelhardt
American businessman
Jean Doumanian
American stage, television and film producer
Leander J. McCormick
businessman and philanthropist (1819–1900)
Barney Rosset
American magazine publisher and War photographer
Mike Lanigan
American racing driver
Todd Ricketts
American businessman, politician, and sports team owner (born 1969)
Barney Balaban
American film studio executive (1887–1971)
Jack Lindquist
American businessman (1927–2016)
Peter C. Granata
American politician (1898-1973)
Warren Winiarski
California winemaker
Lina Trivedi
American entrepreneur, author, educator and public servant
Paul Cornell
American lawyer and Chicago real estate investor (1822–1904)
Marshall Field III
American businessman (1893–1956)
John P. Daley
American politician
Daniel J. Terra
American businessman
Bill Bidwill
American businessman (1931–2019)