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Advertising |
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* Edward Bernays, father of public relations |
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* Bill Bernbach, advertising pioneer |
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* Jay Chiat, advertiser |
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* Stan Freberg, advertiser & radio personality |
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* Oscar Goldstein, creator of Ronald McDonald |
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* Albert Lasker, advertising pioneer, founder of the Lasker
Award |
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* Shirley Polykoff, advertiser |
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* Ron Popeil, inventor & father of infomercials |
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* Jay Schulberg, creator of Got Milk? |
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Confectionery |
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* Louis Auster, inventor of egg cream |
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* Burton Baskin & Irving Robbins, founders of Baskin Robbins |
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* Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry's |
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* Joseph Friedman, inventor of the flexistraw |
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* Hyman Golden, Arnold Greenberg & Leonard Marsh, founders
of Snapple |
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* Herb Hyman, founder of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf |
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* Charles Lubin, founder of Sara Lee |
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* Reuben Mattus, founder of Häagen-Dazs |
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* Bill Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin' Donuts |
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* Howard Schultz, head of Starbucks |
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Electronics |
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* Beny Alagem, founder of Packard Bell |
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* Michael Dell, founder of Dell, philanthropist |
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* Donna Dubinsky, co-founder of Palm Computing |
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* Lee Felsenstein, moderator of the Homebrew Computer Club |
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* Andrew Grove, co-founder of Intel |
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* Eugene Kleiner, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor,
venture capitalist |
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* Jaron Lanier, virtual reality products |
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* Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems |
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* Arthur Rock, hi-tech venture capitalist (Intel, Apple) |
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* Ben Rosen, hi-tech venture capitalist (Compaq, Lotus) |
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* Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International |
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* Andrew Viterbi & Irwin Jacobs, founders of Qualcomm |
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Finance |
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* Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg, mayor of New
York, philanthropist |
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* Eli & Edythe Broad, business leader & philanthropists |
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* Marcus Goldman & Samuel Sachs, founders of Goldman Sachs |
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* Guggenheim family, business leaders, philanthropists & art
patrons |
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* Alexandre, Simon & Elie Lazard, founders of Lazard |
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* Henry, Emanuel & Henry Lehman, founders of Lehman Brothers |
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* Michael Milken, junk bond king, fraudster & philanthropist |
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* Roy Neuberger, financier & art dealer |
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* Jacob Schiff, financier & philanthropist |
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* Muriel Siebert, first woman to purchase a seat on NYSE |
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* George Soros, financier & philanthropist |
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* Sandy Weill, ex-CEO of Citigroup, philanthropist |
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Media |
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* Jack & Harry Cohn, co-founders of Columbia Pictures |
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* Michael Eisner, head of Disney |
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* William Fox, Joseph Schenk, co-founders of 20th Century
Fox |
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* Leonard Goldenson, head of ABC |
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* Irving Kahn, co-founder of TelePrompTer |
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* Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios |
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* Marcus Loew, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, co-founders
of MGM |
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* William S. Paley, head of CBS |
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* Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom |
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* Ralph Roberts, Daniel Aaron, Julian Brodsky, founders of
Comcast |
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* David Sarnoff, head of RCA |
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* Robert Shaye, founder of New Line Cinema |
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* Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen,
founders of Dreamworks SKG |
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* Harry, Albert, Sam & Jack Warner, founders of Warner
Brothers |
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* Bob & Harvey Weinstein, founders of Miramax |
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* Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures |
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Publishing |
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* Walter Annenberg, publisher & philanthropist |
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* Bennett Cerf, founder of Random House |
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* Hugo Gernsback, founder of Amazing Stories (unconfirmed) |
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* Katharine Graham, former head of the Washington Post
(Jewish father) |
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* Alfred & Blanche Knopf, founders of Knopf Publishing |
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* Samuel Irving Newhouse, founder of Advance Publications |
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* Adolph Ochs, former head of the New York Times |
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* Joseph Pulitzer, publisher (Jewish father) |
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* Barney Rossett, founder of Grove Press (Jewish father) |
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* Richard L. Simon & Max Schuster, founders of Simon and
Schuster |
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* Roger W. Straus, Jr., co-founder of Farrar, Straus and
Giroux |
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Retail and Rental |
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* Arthur Blank & Bernie Marcus, founders of Home Depot,
philanthropists |
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* Nehemiah Cohen & Samuel Lehrman, founders of Giant Food |
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* Donald Fisher, co-founder of The Gap |
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* Isaac & Bernard Gimbel, founders of Gimbel's, Saks Fifth
Avenue |
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* John Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab, owner of The Hertz
Corporation (unconfirmed) |
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* Sidney Kimmel, retailer & philanthropist |
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* Ralph Lauren, founder of Polo Ralph Lauren |
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* Paul, Georges, Maurice & Armand Marciano, founders of
GUESS |
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* Morris Markin, founder of Checker Cabs |
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* David May, founder of May Department Stores |
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* Joe, Ralph & Avi Nakash, founders of Jordache |
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* Al Neiman, Carrie Neiman & Herbert Marcus, founders of
Neiman-Marcus |
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* Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears & Roebuck, philanthropist |
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* Isador Straus, head of Macy's, Titanic victim |
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* Nathan Swartz, founder of Timberland |
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* Leslie Wexner, founder of Limited Brands, Victoria's
Secret |
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* Mel Ziegler, Pat Ziegler & Bill Rosenzweig, founders of
Banana Republic |
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Software and Internet |
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* Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft (Jewish mother) |
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* Dan Bernstein, creator of qmail (unconfirmed) |
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* Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston, creators of Visicalc |
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* Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google |
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* Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent (unconfirmed) |
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* Mark Cuban, founder of Broadcast.com, owner of the Dallas
Mavericks |
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* Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle |
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* Justin Frankel, creator of Winamp (unconfirmed) |
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* Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks |
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* Andy Hertzfeld, programmer on Mac OS |
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* Larry Kaplan, co-founder of Activision |
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* Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software, co-founder of EFF |
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* Raymond Kurzweil, artificial intelligence software |
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* Phil Katz, creator of PKZip |
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* Leslie Lamport, initial developer of LaTeX |
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* Max Levchin, founder of PayPal |
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* Elias Levy (aka Aleph One), long-time moderator of Bugtraq |
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* Jef Raskin, interface designer for Apple Macintosh |
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* Seymour I. Rubinstein, creator of WordStar |
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* Jonathan Sachs, chief programmer on Lotus |
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* Joshua Schachter, creator of del.icio.us |
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* Richard Stallman, programmer of Emacs, founder of GNU |
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* Larry Tesler, creator of Gypsy |
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* Dave Winer, content management, XML-RPC |
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Toys |
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* Beatrice Alexander, founder of the Alexander Doll Company |
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* Ralph Baer, inventor of the games console |
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* Joshua Lionel Cowen, toy train manufacturer, founder of
Lionel Corporation |
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* Maurice Greenberg, founder of Coleco |
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* Ruth Handler, inventor of Barbie, founder of Mattel |
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* Henry & Helal Hassenfeld, founders of Hasbro |
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* Isaac Larian, inventor of Bratz, founder of MGA
Entertainment |
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* Charles Lazarus, founder of Toys R Us |
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* Edwin Lowe, inventor of Bingo, producer of Yahtzee
(unconfirmed) |
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* Rose & Morris Michtom, inventors of the teddy bear |
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* David Rosen, founder of SEGA |
