John D. Rockefeller
Founder of Standard Oil Company in 1870 with brother William Rockefeller, billionaire philanthropist, real estate mogul, financier, setup one of the first investment management companies (foundations) in 1882
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Socialite aka Abby Rockefeller, philanthropist, wife of John D Rockefeller Jr., curator, founder of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
1874-1948 (74)
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Abby Rockefeller Mauzé
Philanthropist, socialite, daughter of John D Rockefeller Jr.
1903-1976 (73)
Alexander Dzhaparidze living
Alfred P. Sloan
Automotive executive, chairman and CEO of General Motors
1875-1966 (91)
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Andrew Carnegie
Billionaire steel magnate, sold Carnegie Steel to JP Morgan forming US Steel the first $1.4 billion dollar capitalized company in the world
1835-1919 (84)
F. Augustus Heinze
Industrialist during the Gilded Age, copper mining in Butte (Montana), one of the three Copper Kings
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Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch aka Platon Elenin, oil & gas tycoon, engineer, pianist, billionaire, bought Sibneft which is now Gazprom Neft with Roman Abramovich, businessman, petroleum engineer, mathematician, Russian Academy of Sciences
1946-2013 (67)
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Railroads magnate aka the Commodore, industrialist, steamship lines
E. Pierce Marshall
billionaire heir of 16% of Koch Industries from his father J. Howard Marshall II, investment banker for Loeb Rhoades & Co., automotive engineer, engine testing for General Motors (GM), US Navy military veteran
1939-2006 (67)
E.H. Harriman living
Industrialist, robber baron, railroad tycoon of the Union Pacific Railroad
1848- (176)
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Eike Batista living
Chairman and former CEO of EBX Group, oil and gas mining entrepreneur, bankrupted former billionaire
1956- (68)
Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti living
Oil and gas, chairman and CEO of CEO of the Anonima Petroli Italiana (API Group)
1960- (64)
Frank Rockefeller
investor in Buckeye Steel Castings, railroads, industrialist, real estate owner of the Whitehall Building
Frederick Osborn
Major General, military veteran, co-founder of the Population Council
1889-1981 (92)
Frederick Taylor Gates
educator, philanthropist, philanthropic advisor to John D Rockefeller, religious Baptist
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George Bishop living
George Getty
Patriarch of the Getty Oil familly dynasty, founder of Minnehoma Oil Compan, his son J. Paul Getty took the helm and founded Getty Oil Company
George Kaiser
Billionaire, oil and gas, chairman of BOK Financial Corporation, his father founded the Kaiser-Francis Oil Company
Harold Hamm living
H.L. Hunt
Landowner, secured the land rights to the East Texas Oil Field (world's largest oil deposits), entrepreneur, founder of the Hunt Oil Company in 1936, poker player, one of the world's wealthiest people at the time
1889-1974 (85)
Ida Tarbell
Investigative journalist, political activist that brought down Standard Oil, pioneer in Liberalism
Igor Kolomoisky living
Ukrainian oligarch, oil and gas, billionaire, banker, investments, founder of PrivatBank, political activist, former governor of Dnipro, funded Zelensky campaign from Geneva Switzerland
1963- (61)
Ivy Lee
Publicist, inventor of the press release, pioneer in modern public relations working for the Rockefeller family dynasty
J. Howard Marshall
billionaire oil tycoon, business executive, lawyer, academic, entrepreneur, co-founder and 16% stakeholder of Koch Industries
1905-1995 (90)
Jay Rockefeller living
chairman of the Intelligence Committee, politician, diplomat at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), former US senator from West Virginia
1937- (87)
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John Catsimatidis living
John D. Rockefeller, III
Co-founder of the Population Council, grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller
1906-1978 (72)
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Real estate mogul, development of the Rockefeller Center, financier, philanthropist, only son of Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, known for the Rockefeller Plan for striking coal miners
1874-1960 (86)
John Dewey
Educator, teacher, writer, philosopher, pioneer in pragmatism, socialist, psychologist, pedagogical theories, father of progressive education in the United States, modern schools, known for the Dewey decimal system, president of the Fabian Socialist League for Industrial Democracy (LID)
1859-1952 (93)
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John Dulles
OSS intelligence officer, brother of Allen Dulles, co-founder of the Population Council
Laura Spelman Rockefeller
school teacher, educator, abolitionist, activist, philanthropist
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Laurance Rockefeller
financier, co-founder of Eastern Airlines, pilot, procurement of McDonnell Aircraft for the US Navy, investor, pioneer in paranormal research, UFOs, aliens, crop circles
1910-2004 (94)
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Lynn Schusterman living
Massimo Moratti living
Billionaire, petroleum, chairman of Saras Group, son of Angelo Moratti, former sports team owner of Inter Milan
1945- (79)
Mikail Shishkhanov living
Mikhail Fridman
Russian oligarch, telecom, oil, commercial banker, billionaire, founder and co-chairman of LetterOne, founder and largest shareholder of Alfa Bank
letterone.com
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Russian oligarch, chairman and CEO of Yokos Oil, Bank Menatep
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Mykola Zlochevsky living
Ukrainian oligarch, businessman, oil and gas, founder of Burisma Holdings, politician, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine from 2010-2012
1966- (58)
N. Murray Edwards living
Billionaire, oil & gas, sports team owner of the Calgary Flames via Calgary Sports and Entertainment since 1980
1959- (65)
Neva Goodwin living
Patokh Chodiev living
Belgian-Uzbek oligarch, businessman, Kazakhstan oil & gas, co-founder of Eurasian Natural Resources (ENR), minerals, partner in Eurasian Resources Group (ERG)
1953- (71)
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Phil Ruffin
Billionaire, oil and gas, real estate, greyhound racing tracks
Rawleigh Warner Jr.
chairman and CEO of Mobil from 1969-1986, prior president of Mobil from 1965-1969
1921-2013 (92)
Ray Lee Hunt living
Richard Byrd
Admiral of the US Navy aka Admiral Byrd, world traveler, explorer to Antarctica
Roman Abramovich
Russian oligarch, oil & gas, financier, investor, looking to sell his share of Chelsea FC soccer club, Millhouse, island owner of Abrahamovich Island in St. Barts
Sharon Percy Rockefeller living
Married to Jay Rockefeller, their son is Justin Rockefeller
1944- (80)
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Nova Scotian politician prior to the Confederation of Canada, judge, never discuss politics or religion, bestselling author
Uncle George Bromley
Businessman, author of The Long Ago and the Later
1817-1909 (92)
Vladimir Bogdanov living
Russian oligarch, billionaire oil tycoon, founder and CEO of Surgutneftegas
1951- (73)
Weetman Pearson, Lord Cowdray
construction engineer, oil industrialist, Liberal politician aka Lord Cowdray from 1910-1917, grandson of Samuel Pearson, heir to the Pearson publishing family dynasty
1856-1927 (71)
William Hunt living
William Koch living
William Rockefeller Sr.
Con artist aka Devil Bill Rockefeller, medical "snake oil" salesman as Dr. William Levingston, father of John D Rockefeller who founded Standard Oil
Winthrop Rockefeller living
Republican Governor of Arkansas, politician aka W. R. / Win, lobbyist for Bill Clinton's political campaign, said to have had a giant pornography collection
1912- (112)
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W.L. Mellon
co-founder of Gulf Oil & Gas, oil and gas businessman aka William Larimer Mellon Sr., Republican politician, doctor, physician, heir of the Mellon banking family dynasty
1868-1949 (81)
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Zhang Hongwei living
Billionaire, oil, banking, chairman of United Energy Group
1954- (70)