List of People From New York - Business

Business

  • John Jacob Astor, fur trader, company founder
  • Nicholas F. Brady, former CEO of Dillon Read, 68th United States Secretary of the Treasury
  • C. Douglas Dillon, former CEO of Dillon Read, US Ambassador to France (1953–1957), 57th United States Secretary of the Treasury
  • George Eastman (1854–1932), founder of Eastman Kodak
  • Joseph Ellicott (1760–1826), surveyor and city planner
  • William G. Fargo (1818–1881), co-founder of American Express Company and Wells Fargo, mayor of Buffalo
  • Debra Fox Founder of Fox Learning Systems
  • E.H. Harriman errand boy, broker, railroader
  • George A. Hormel (1860–1946), founder of Hormel
  • Jeremy Jacobs (1940-), owner of Delaware North and the Boston Bruins
  • Seymour H. Knox I (1861–1915), businessman, co-founder of F. W. Woolworth Company
  • Seymour H. Knox II (1898–1990), former director of (Marine Midland Bank), philanthropist
  • John J. Kennedy (1857–1914), financier, 45th New York State Treasurer
  • Jon L. Luther, food service executive
  • Sherman J. Maisel (1918–2010), economist
  • J.P. Morgan, banker, co-founder of J.P. Morgan & Co.
  • Jeremiah Milbank, banker, co-founder Borden Milk Co. 1857
  • Jacquelyn Ottman, marketing consultant
  • Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, United States Secretary of the Treasury
  • Joseph R. Perella, financier
  • Robert E. Rich, Sr. (1913–2006), inventor, foodservice executive
  • Donald Regan, former CEO of Merrill Lynch, 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury
  • John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), founder of Standard Oil, philanthropist
  • Robert Rubin, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury
  • Jacob Schiff Wall Street executive, banker
  • Ellsworth Milton Statler (1863–1928), hotelier
  • Earl Reginald Stevenson (1958-), Colonel Aide De Camp to Governors of Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and New Mexico
  • Donald Trump (1946–), entrepreneur
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt, ferry & tug boat captain, company founder, railroader
  • Sanford Weill, former CEO of Citigroup
  • Henry Wells (1805–1878), businessman
  • John G. Wickser (1858–1928), businessman, New York State Treasurer (1903–1904)
  • Robert G. Wilmers (1935-), CEO of M&T Bank

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