Business & Economics
- Walter Owen Bentley – founder of Bentley Motors
- Christian Candy – businessman
- William Foyle – founder of Foyles bookshop
- Harriet Green – CEO of Premier Farnell
- Calouste Gulbenkian – oil magnate and philanthropist
- Johnny Hon – entrepreneur
- Lewis Luk – businessman
- Sir Deryck Maughan – CEO of Salomon Brothers
- Eric Nicoli – CEO of EMI
- Tim Pryce – CEO of Terra Firma Capital Partners
- Sir Alliott Verdon Roe – founder of Avro
- Alfred de Rothschild – banker, philanthropist and director of the Bank of England
- Paul Sagoo – Founder of The Asian Awards and CEO of The Lemon Group
- Isabel dos Santos – Africa's richest woman and first female billionaire, also daughter of the President of Angola
- Stephen Bernard Streater – founder of Eidos
- Sir David Tang, businessman
- Rory Tapner – CEO of Wealth Management at Royal Bank of Scotland
- Sir William Tritton – inventor of the tank and Chairman & Managing Director of Fosters of Lincoln
- David Warburton – composer, teacher, entrepreneur
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