Profiles — Business

Business

American founders, executives and investors, and the companies they built and led.

American political activist

Afeni Shakur

Afeni Shakur Davis was an American political activist and member of the Black Panther Party.

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Turkish-American businessperson

Ahmet Ertegün

Ahmet Ertegun was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter, record executive and philanthropist.

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Indian American business executive

Ajaypal Singh Banga

Ajaypal Singh "Ajay" Banga is an Indian-born American business executive, who is the president of the World Bank Group since 2023.

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Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001

Al Gore

Albert Arnold Gore Jr.

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American businessman and politician

Alan Armstrong

Alan Stuart Armstrong is an American businessman and politician serving since 2026 as the junior United States senator from Oklahoma.

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American businessman

Alan Mulally

Alan Roger Mulally is an American aerospace engineer and manufacturing executive.

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American physicist

Albert Abraham Michelson

Albert Abraham Michelson was an American experimental physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment.

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Amateur golfer, aviator

Albert Bond Lambert

Albert Bond Lambert was an American businessman.

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American pitcher, manager, and business executive

Albert Spalding

Albert Goodwill Spalding was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of the Spalding sporting goods company.

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