Businesspeople from Seattle

Jo Lynn "Jody" Allen is an American businesswoman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is the younger sister of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and served as the chief executive officer of his investment and project management company, Vulcan Inc., from its founding in 1986 until 2015. She is also the co-founder and president of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of February 2026, his net worth stood at US$107.7 billion, making him the 18th-wealthiest individual in the world.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to Forbes, as of December 2025, Bezos's estimated net worth is US$239.4 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world. He was the wealthiest person from 2017 to 2021, according to Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Paul Gardner Allen was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was followed by the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Allen discovered the wrecks of various famous warships, like the IJN Musashi and USS Indianapolis, and was ranked as one of the richest people in American history by Forbes, with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death in October 2018.

Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she attended Duke University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics and an MBA. She joined Microsoft in 1987 as a multimedia product developer. In the same year, she began dating the company's co-founder and then-chief executive Bill Gates, whom she married in 1994 and divorced in 2021. They have three children together.

American businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft

American record producer and composer (1933–2024)

American aviation pioneer

American basketball player

American businessman

heaviest ever recorded human (1941-1983)

South Korean-American rapper and singer (born 1987)

American drummer

American film producer, screenwriter, actor (1943–1996)

US politician, business executive and corporate director; former Secretary of the Interior and CEO of REI

American programmer, software publisher

American businessman

American molecular biologist, biochemist and chairman of Apple Inc. (born 1950)

American attorney and philanthropist (1925–2020)

American football player (born 1986)

American television host

American businesswoman (1929–1994)

American film producer

American music manager

American chef

American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer

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American businessman

American YouTuber (born 1985)

American inventor (1916–2001)

American inventor

American businessman (1888–1983)

American businessman

American record producer and musician

American film and television producer

Business Executive; Entrepreneur

American businessman and perennial candidate

American television presenter, entrepreneur and model

American businessman

musher (1883-1938)

American cybersecurity executive

Major League Baseball general manager

American chef

American business woman

American businessman (1911–2000)

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American YouTuber and make-up artist

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