Museum founders

British zoologist (1869–1940)

Turkish businessperson (born 1930)

Dutch Mennonite cloth merchant and art collector (1702-1778)

Japanese businessman (1889–1976)

French politician (1801-1880)

American businessman (1850–1927)

French-Italian politician, banker and patriot (1821-1896)

French zoologist (1836–1902)

First Lady of Venezuela

Ukrainian church historian (1910–2011)

real estate developer (1934–2012)

Finland Swedish politician and publisher (1878–1961)

English author, artist, antiquary and professor of Fine Arts (1854–1932)

American architect (1867–1946)

Lithuanian poet, ethnographer, lexicographer and philologist

German art collector (1874-1921)

Founder of the Church of World Messianity (1882-1955)

French geologist (1824-1898)

Russian noble (1849-1929)

British rabbi

American Hall of Fame baseball player & manager (1911–2006)

Swedish artist

American architect and designer (1907-1993)

American artist (1737–1784)

Belgian museum founder

Brazilian art patron (1872–1934)

American art collector (1907-1993)

20th century Japanese Businessman, founder of Idemitsu Kosan.

American banker (1798–1888)

Turkish poet and writer (born 1962)

American fashion designer

architect, painter and writer (1827-1916)

French poet and salon-holder

poet from France

American sculptor, painter, illustrator and designer

painter, art dealer, collector (1753-1811)

American art collector and philanthropist (1922–2021)

Israeli art collector (1909–1993)

American antique collector (1888-1960)

American politician (1930-2015)

museum founder of Willet-Holthuysen Museum in Amsterdam

American aviator and autobiographer

Swiss business woman, philanthropist, and museum founder (1926–2018)

American fashion designer, art collector, and founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (1906-2001)

Turkish businessperson (born 1949)

American naturalist (1839-1914)

Indian puppeteer

Turkish-American businessperson (1941–2020)

Japanese businessman (1880–1943)

British politician, art collector, and museum founder (1745-1816)

American art collector (1908–1997)

Canadian publicist from the Ivory Coast

(1929-2015)

violinist, businessperson, and philanthropist (1866-1952)

Jewish banker of Ottoman-Italian origin

Indian writer, folk literature researcher and civil servant

American art collector (1850-1924)

Scottish archaeologist

Taiwanese businessman