Businessmen
- Sir Richard Branson (born 1950)
- Sir John Brunner (1842–1919), chemicals
- Frank Bustard (1886–1974), shipping
- Joseph Crosfield (1792–1844), soap and chemicals
- Abraham Darby (c. 1678 – 1717), ironmaster
- William Gossage (1799–1877), soap
- Philip Green (born 1952), retail
- James Hanson, Baron Hanson (1922–2004), industrialist
- Thomas Hazlehurst (1779–1842), soap and alkali
- Robert Spear Hudson (1812–1884), soap powder
- John Hutchinson (1825–65), alkali
- Peter Jones (born 1966)
- Sir Freddie Laker (1922–2006), pioneer of cheap air travel
- William Losh (1770–1861), alkali
- Alfred Mond (1868–1930), chemicals
- Henry Mond (1898–1949), chemicals
- Julian Mond (1925–73), industrialist
- Stephan Morais (born 1973)
- William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (1877–1963)
- Edmund Knowles Muspratt (1833–1923), industrialist
- Richard Muspratt (1822–85), industrialist
- Charles Roe (1715–1781), silk
- Titus Salt (1803–1876), industrialist
- Sir Ivan Stedeford (1897–1975), industrialist
- Sir Alan Sugar (born 1947), electronics
- Richard Tompkins (1918–1992), Green Shield trading stamps
- Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795), industrialist
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“Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.”
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