List of People From West Virginia - Business

Business

  • Don Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy
  • John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems
  • William Luke, businessman and entrepreneur
  • George Preston Marshall, owner and president of the Washington Redskins
  • William N. Page, civil engineer, entrepreneur, capitalist, businessman, and industrialist
  • Milan Puskar, entrepreneur, philanthropist, co-founder of Mylan Inc.
  • Alex Schoenbaum, founder of Shoney's restaurant chain
  • Harry F. Sinclair, industrialist
  • Ellsworth Milton Statler, hotel businessman
  • Rod Thorn, president of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers
  • Clarence Wayland Watson, businessman

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    Plato (427–347 B.C.)

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