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Jewish Biographies: Business & Entrepreneurial Icons

(Listed Alphabetically, by Last Name)

Finance, Investment &
Real Estate

Roman Abramovich (Millhouse LLC)

Rinat Akhmetov (System Capital)

Shari Arison (Bank HaPoalim)

Len Blavatnik (Access Industries)

Henry Bloch (H&R Block)

Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg LP)

David Einhorn (Greenlight Capital)

Mikhail Fridman (Alfa Group)

Daniel Gilbert (Quicken Loans)

Marcus Goldman (Goldman Sachs)

David Gottesman (First Manhattan)

Carl Icahn (Icahn Enterprises)

Ted Lerner (Lerner Enterprises)

John Paulson (Paulson & Co.)

Mikhail Prokhorov (ONEXIM Group)

Samuel Sachs (Goldman Sachs)

Joseph Safra (Safra Group)

Charles Schusterman (Samson Investment)

George Soros (Soros Fund)

Sam Zell (Equity International)

Fashion, Services &
Retail

S. Daniel Abraham (Slim-Fast)

Sheldon Adelson (Las Vegas Sands)

Micky Arison (Carnival Cruise Lines)

Ted Arison (Carnival Cruise Lines)

Burt Baskin (Baskin Robbins)

Marcus Bearsted (Shell Oil Company)

Jacob Blaustein (American Oil Co.)

Sarah Blakely (Spanx)

Charles Bronfman (Seagram Co. Ltd.)

Dov Charney (American Apparel)

Ben Cohen (Ben & Jerry's)

Kenneth Cole (Kenneth Cole Fashion)

Doris Fisher (The Gap)

Jerry Greenfield (Ben & Jerry's)

Henry Hassenfield (Hasbro)

Calvin Klein (Calvin Klein Company)

Estee Lauder (Clinique Cosmetics)

Ralph Lauren (Polo Ralph Lauren)

Charles Lazarus (Toys "R" Us)

Lena Bryant Malsin (Lane Bryant)

Bernie Marcus (Home Depot)

Reuben Mattus (Haagen Dazs)

Arthur Ortenberg (Liz Claiborne Inc.)

Sol Price (Price Club/Costco)

Robert Pritzker (Hyatt Hotels)

Erv Robbins (Baskin Robbins)

William Rosenberg (Dunkin' Donuts)

Harold Schultz (Starbucks)

Levi Strauss (Levi's Jeans)

Media &
Technology

Shai Agassi (Better Place)

Steve Ballmer (Microsoft)

Sergey Brin (Google)

Harry Cohn (Columbia Pictures)

Mark Cuban (Landmark Theatres)

Michael Dell (Dell Inc.)

Larry Ellison (Oracle)

William Fox (Fox Film Corporation)

David Geffen (Dreamworks)

Samuel Goldwyn (MGM Studios)

Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks)

Carl Laemmle (Universal Pictures)

Jesse L. Lasky (Paramount Pictures)

Uri Levine (Waze)

Daniel Lewin (Akamai Technologies)

Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook)

Lorne Michaels (Saturday Night Live)

Adolph Ochs (New York Times Co)

Larry Page (Google)

Isaac Perlmutter (Marvel)

Haim Saban (Saban Entertainment)

Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook; Google)

Eduardo Saverin (Facebook)

Ehud Shabtai (Waze)

Amir Shinar (Waze)

Jeffrey Skoll (Ebay)

Daniel Snyder (Dick Clark Productions)

Steven Spielberg (Dreamworks)

Brothers Warner (Warner Brothers)

Harvey Weinstein (Miramax)

Nicholas Woodman (GoPro)

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

Louis B. Mayer (MGM Studios)