Ferdinand Porsche
founder of the Porsche AG sports car racing brand (Auto Union racing car), automotive engineer, inventor of the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle, helped create the Volkswagen Beetle with the German Labour Front
Alfred P. Sloan
Automotive executive, chairman and CEO of General Motors
1875-1966 (91)
economist.com
Christian von Koenigsegg
founder & CEO of Koenigsegg Automotive since 1994, automotive engineer, entrepreneur, House of Koenigsegg
Dan Friedkin living
Billionaire heir of Gulf States Toyota Distributors car dealerships, businessman, autos, landowner, film director at Imperative, owner and CEO of the Friedkin Group (Gulf States Toyota), Imperative Entertainment, 30West, sports team owner of A.S. Roma football club, founder and chairman of the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation
1965- (59)
Enzo Ferrari
blacksmith, inventor of the iconic Ferrari sports car racing brand
Ferruccio Lamborghini
founder of Automobili Lamborghini (1963), automobile engineer, luxury car designer, industrialist, inventor of the Lamborghini Trattori (1948), Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Cavaliere di Gran Croce)
1916-1993 (77)
Gianni Agnelli
industrialist aka Giovanni Agnelli, Gio Agnelli, automobiles, principal founder and chairman of Fiat Motor Company, developer of the Soviet Union
1921-2003 (82)
Giovanni Alberto Agnelli
billionaire heir of the Agnelli family dynasty, businessman, chairman of Fiat, tragically died at 33 of stomach cancer
Adolf Hitler
Führer aka Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany in 1933, military veteran injuired twice in battle, supreme commander of the Wehrmacht German armed forces, politician of the Third Reich, National Socialists German Workers Party (Nazi Party), sentenced for 5 years (served 12 months) in 1924, writer, author of Mein Kampf (My Struggle/My Fight), previous homeless fanatic artist of erotic hand drawings, his German Labour Front organization founded Volkswagen in 1933
1889-1945 (56)
britannica.com
Horacio Pagani
founder & CEO of Pagani automobiles, F1 supercars, exotic cars, hypercars, exotics, started off as a custodian sweeping the floors at Lamborghini
Oliver François living
President & CEO of Fiat, Abarth and DS automobiles, automotive executive, CMO (chief marketing officer) for Stellantis since 2011
1961- (63)
Phornthep Phornprapha living
Billionaire, automotive, chairman of founder of Siam Motors Group, director at Bangkok Bank
1948- (76)
bangkokbank.com
Umberto Agnelli
industrialist, politician, automotive executive, grandson of Gianni Agnelli
William S. Knudsen
Automotive executive for General Motors, industrialist, military general
automotivehalloffame.org
William Maybach
automotive engineer, perfected the four-stroke internal combustion engine aka Otto silent engine with Gottlieb Daimler, at the NA Otto & Cie (company) of Nicolaus Otto and Eugen Langen