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''This is a list of ] Businesspeople. For other Jewish Americans, see ].'' | ''This is a list of ] Businesspeople. For other Jewish Americans, see ].'' | ||
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===Finance=== | |||
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* ], Goldman Sachs | |||
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* ], CEO and chairman of ] and highest paid Wall Street firm ] in 2006 | |||
* ], owner of oil and chemical companies | |||
* ], co-founder of ] | |||
* ], co-founder of H&R Block | |||
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* ], founder of ], mayor of ], philanthropist | |||
* ], Chairman and President of Blum Capital Partners, L.P.; owns 75% of the voting stock in ] | |||
* ], former ], business leader in many private firms | |||
* ], corporate ] ] and ] ] | |||
* ], Executive Director for Legal and Government Affairs at Goldman Sachs in London from 1994 to 1999 | |||
* ], real estate, insurance, philanthropist, art collector | |||
* ], partner and chief U.S. investment strategist at Goldman Sachs | |||
* ], Ex-CEO of Shearson Lehman Hutton | |||
* ], billionaire hedge fund investor and founder of ] | |||
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* ], senior strategist at APCO Worldwide, Board of Advisors of the ] | |||
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* ], former chairman and CEO of ] (AIG), the world's largest insurance and financial services corporation | |||
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* ], billionaire Investments Takeovers | |||
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* ], President Of Mamalahoa Publishing/Rare Groove Urban Music Collective UMX (Jewish Father) | |||
* ], on the board of directors of ] | |||
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* ], former ] and owner of numerous malls and department stores | |||
* ], co-founder of ] leveraged buyout | |||
* ], founder of ] (] firm) | |||
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* ], leveraged buyout pioneer and philanthropist co-founder of ] | |||
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* ], billionaire founder of ] & Goldman Sachs | |||
* ], U.S. Senator and founder of ] (ADP), the largest payroll and tax filing processor in the world | |||
* ], leveraged buyout specialist | |||
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* ], billionaire ex-chairman of MBNA and ex-owner of the Cleveland Browns | |||
** ], billionaire chairman of ] | |||
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* ], brokered the merger between AOL and Time Warner in 2000 | |||
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* ], billionaire chairman of ] | |||
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* ], founding chairman of the ] | |||
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* ], chairman of the Federal Reserve (1930-1933), president of the World Bank (1946) | |||
* ], junk bond king & philanthropist | |||
* ], former ] under FDR, financial advisor to Israel | |||
* ], financier & art dealer | |||
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* ], billionaire investor (one Jewish parent) | |||
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* ], billionaire co-founder of ] leveraged buyout | |||
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* ], has many holdings in both the USA and the UK, along with other European countries | |||
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* ], former United States Secretary of the Treasury, executive at ], has served on the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange, the Ford Motor Company, the Harvard Corporation, the New York Futures Exchange, and has held many other positions | |||
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* ], Bussiness Entrepreneur, credited with the innovation of Drive-Through Banking | |||
* ], financier & philanthropist | |||
* ], financier & ] leader | |||
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* ], first woman to purchase a seat on ] | |||
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* ], billionaire former president of ] and CEO of ] | |||
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* ], financier & philanthropist | |||
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* ], Chairman and CEO of ] | |||
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* ], former chief economist for the ], former ], former president of ] | |||
* ], Goldman Sachs | |||
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* ], financier & current CEO of ] | |||
* ], ex-CEO of ], philanthropist | |||
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* ], American economist and senior U.S. Treasury department official | |||
* ], president of the ] (1995-2005) | |||
* ], current (2005-) president of the World Bank | |||
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* ], managing director and chairman of Goldman Sachs' International Advisors department | |||
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===Retail and rental=== | |||
==Finance== | |||
{{See also|List of Jewish American fashion designers}} | |||
*], Corporate raider and investor, , | |||
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* ] and ], founders of the now defunct ] consumer electronics chain | |||
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* Senator ] or Wisconsin, owner of Kohl's department stores | |||
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* ], billionaire diamond merchant and industrialist | |||
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===Real estate=== | |||
==Software and Internet== | |||
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* ], the largest commercial real estate developer in the U.S. state of Washington | |||
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* ] and ] of the ], one of the United States' largest and oldest privately owned real estate firms | |||
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* ] of the ], the largest developer of shopping malls in the United States | |||
* ] of ] | |||
* ], President and CEO of ], one of the leading owners, developers, fund managers, and operators of real estate in the world | |||
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* ], casino resort developer | |||
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* ], governor, owner, and CEO of ] | |||
===Cosmetics=== | |||
* ], cosmetics industrialist | |||
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* ] and family, cosmetic industrialist, founder of ] | |||
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===Toys=== | |||
* ], toy train manufacturer, founder of ] | |||
* ], CEO of ] | |||
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* ], founder of ], the biggest privately owned toy company in the world | |||
* ], founder of ] | |||
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* ], former CEO of ] | |||
===Food, food services, confectionery, etc.=== | |||
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===Electronics=== | |||
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* ], founder of ], philanthropist | |||
* ], co-founder of ] | |||
* ], moderator of the ] | |||
* ], CEO of ] | |||
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* ], co-founder of ], venture capitalist | |||
* ], former CEO of ] | |||
* ], virtual reality products | |||
* ], former head of ] (converted) | |||
* ], hi-tech venture capitalist (Intel, Apple) | |||
* ], CEO of ] | |||
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* ], CEO of ], former COO and president of ], a director at ], former managing director at ] | |||
===Software and Internet=== | |||
* ], CEO of ] | |||
* ], CEO of ] (Jewish mother) | |||
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* ], creator of ] | |||
* ], co-founder of ] | |||
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* ], founder of ], owner of the ] | |||
* ], founder of ] (Jewish mother, Jewish adoptive parents) | |||
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* ], programmer on ] | |||
* ], co-founder of ] | |||
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* ], artificial intelligence software | |||
* ], creator of ] | |||
* ], initial developer of ] | |||
* ], founder of ] | |||
* ] (aka Aleph One), long-time moderator of ] | |||
* ], venture capitalist with ] | |||
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* ], co-founder of ] (Jewish mother) | |||
* ], interface designer for ] | |||
* ], creator of ] | |||
* ], chief programmer on ] | |||
* ], creator of ] | |||
* ], CEO of ] | |||
* ], billionaire co-founder and first president of ] | |||
* ], programmer of ], founder of ] | |||
* ], creator of ] | |||
* ], content management, ] | |||
* ], co-founder of ] | |||
===Media and Entertainment=== | |||
* ], corporate director at ] | |||
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* ], labor leader in the movie production business from the 1920s through the 1940s | |||
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* ], TV producer | |||
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* ], internet pornographer | |||
* ], president and CEO of ] | |||
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* ], creator ] | |||
* ], former head of ] | |||
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* ], former president of CBS | |||
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* ], chief lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America | |||
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* ], corporate director at ] | |||
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* ], CEO of ] | |||
* ] (1950 - ) film producer, director and co-founder of ]<ref>'''Katzenberg''' - "Hardie also called on several Jewish members of the entertainment industry, including... Jeffrey Katzenberg"</ref> | |||
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* ], owner of the '']'' (son of ]) | |||
* ], founder of ] | |||
* ], former head of ] | |||
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* ], head of ] and on the board of directors at CBS | |||
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* ], former owner of the Family Channel (purchased by Disney) and the Kirch German Media empire | |||
* ], founder of ] | |||
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* ] and other members of the ] family | |||
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* ], former president of NBC News | |||
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* ], billionaire CEO and chairman of ] | |||
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* ], Chairman of MGM | |||
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* ], director, founder of ] | |||
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* ], founder of MCA | |||
* ], media mogul | |||
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* ], ], ] & ], founders of ] | |||
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* ] & ], founders of ] | |||
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* ], Chief Executive Officer of the NBC Universal Television Group | |||
* ], founder of ] | |||
===Publishing=== | |||
* ] | |||
* ], publisher & philanthropist | |||
* ], CEO of ] | |||
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* ], founder and CEO of ], ] | |||
* ], publisher and co-founder of ] | |||
* ], publisher of '']'' | |||
* ], owner of '']'' magazine, the standard trade magazine of the pornography industry in the U.S. | |||
* ] | |||
* ], editor and autobiographer | |||
* ] founder of ] | |||
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* ] & ], founders of ] | |||
* ], President of ] | |||
* ], founder of ] | |||
* ], CEO of Advance Publications and chairman of ] | |||
* ], former head of the ] | |||
* ], publisher (Jewish father) | |||
* ], founder of ] (Jewish father) | |||
* ], owner of '']'' | |||
* ] & ], founders of ] | |||
* ], co-founder of ] | |||
* ], publisher of '']'' | |||
* ], billionaire owner of '']'' and '']'' | |||
===Advertising=== | |||
* ], father of public relations | |||
* ], advertising pioneer | |||
* ], owner of several advertising agencies, first chairman and co-founder of ] | |||
* ], advertiser | |||
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* ], advertiser & radio personality | |||
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* ], advertising pioneer, founder of the ] | |||
* ], chair and CEO of ], one of the world's largest advertising agencies | |||
* ], inventor & father of ]s | |||
* ], founder and owner of ] | |||
===Sports: Owners, Commissioners, Managers=== | |||
* ], owner of ] and ] | |||
* ], owner of the ] | |||
* ], ] commissioner | |||
* ], owner of the ] | |||
* ], president of the ] (NCAA) | |||
* ], former co-owner of the Boston Celtics and the New Jersey Nets, and chairman and CEO of the Madison Square Garden Corporation, former owner of the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers | |||
* ], owner of ] | |||
* ] (NBA, NHL) | |||
* ], owner of the ] | |||
* ] (MLB) | |||
* ], owner of the ] | |||
* ], General Manager of the ] | |||
* ], ] commissioner | |||
* ], owner of the ] | |||
* ], Chairman of ] | |||
* ], owner of the ], majority owner of Manchester United | |||
* ] | |||
* ], Inventor/founder of Perfecta Grip Industries | |||
* ], U.S. basketball coach, owner ], ] founder | |||
* ], Israel/U.S., partial owner of the ] | |||
* Senator ] of Wisconsin, owner of Milwaulkee Bucks and Kohl's Department Store | |||
* ], owner of the ] and ]; also chairman and CEO of ] (USA) and the largest shareholder of Carmel Container Systems LTD (Israel) | |||
* ], former general manager of the ] | |||
* ], owner of the ], owner of ] | |||
* ], owners of the ] | |||
* ], owner of the ], only current female owner in major league baseball | |||
* ], former owner of the ] | |||
* ], owner of the ] | |||
* ], owner of the ] and the ] | |||
* ], former owner of both the ] and the ] | |||
* ] (NFL) | |||
* ], owner of the ], founder of ] | |||
* ], founder and owner of ] | |||
* ], founding owner and former president of the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association and an owner of the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League | |||
* ], owner of ] and founder of ] | |||
* ], ] commissioner | |||
* ], General Manager of the ] | |||
* ], owner of the ] | |||
* ], owner of ] | |||
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* ], ] commissioner | |||
* ], owner of the ] | |||
* ], co-owner (with John Henry) and executive chairman of the ]; former owner of the the ] | |||
*], principal owner of the ]<ref>'''Wilf''' - "The team’s owner, Zygi Wilf, an Orthodox Jew..."</ref> | |||
* ], owner of the ] | |||
* ], owner of the ] | |||
===Other and Miscellany=== | |||
* ], State Treasurer of the U.S. State of New Jersey, ex-executive with Goldman Sachs | |||
* ] | |||
* ], founder of ] (U.S. and Israel) | |||
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* ], founder of the for-profit ] | |||
* ], one of the pioneers of gambling in Las Vegas, Nevada | |||
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* ], casino magnate | |||
* ], alcohol smuggler during Prohibition | |||
* ], founder and chairman of a plywood and home improvement retailer, Plywood Minnesota (which later became Home Valu Interiors) | |||
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* ], garment industry figure | |||
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* ], inventor of "immortality ring" (by religion only), Jewish follower | |||
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* ], prostitution entrepreneur | |||
* ], Founder/CEO of hip-hop label ] | |||
* ], founder of ] and ] | |||
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* ], CEO of Delta Airlines | |||
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* ], major international oil and gas magnate | |||
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* ], President/CEO ], Author ''The Centerless Corporation'' and ''Results'' | |||
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* ], 11 billionaires in the family including: | |||
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== See also == | |||
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Revision as of 01:52, 24 April 2008
This is a list of Jewish American Businesspeople. For other Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.
Finance
- Jack Abramoff
- Leonard Abramson
- Solomon Adler
- George Akerlof
- Madeleine Albright, on the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange
- Kenneth Arrow
- Jules Bache
- Charlene Barshefsky
- Bernard Baruch
- Gary Becker
- Joshua Bekenstein
- August Belmont
- Marc Benioff, Goldman Sachs
- Sandy Berger, chairman of Stonebridge International
- Ben Bernanke
- Lloyd Blankfein, CEO and chairman of Goldman Sachs and highest paid Wall Street firm CEO in 2006
- Leonard Blavatnik, owner of oil and chemical companies
- Henry W. Bloch, co-founder of H&R Block
- Richard Bloch, co-founder of H&R Block
- Walter Block
- Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg, mayor of New York, philanthropist
- Richard C. Blum, Chairman and President of Blum Capital Partners, L.P.; owns 75% of the voting stock in Perini
- W. Michael Blumenthal, former Secretary of the Treasury, business leader in many private firms
- Ivan Boesky, corporate takeovers arbitrageur and insider trading convict
- Joshua Bolten, Executive Director for Legal and Government Affairs at Goldman Sachs in London from 1994 to 1999
- Eli Broad, real estate, insurance, philanthropist, art collector
- Abby Joseph Cohen, partner and chief U.S. investment strategist at Goldman Sachs
- Peter Cohen, Ex-CEO of Shearson Lehman Hutton
- Steven A. Cohen, billionaire hedge fund investor and founder of SAC Capital Management
- William Cohen
- Lester Crown
- Stanley Druckenmiller
- Stuart E. Eizenstat, senior strategist at APCO Worldwide, Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation
- Jeffrey Epstein, private investor at Bear Stearns
- Dalck Feith
- Douglas J. Feith
- Martin Feldstein
- Arthur J. Finkelstein
- Stanley Fischer
- Kenneth L. Fisher
- Robert Fogel
- Jacob A Frenkel, Vice-Chairman of American International Group
- Milton Friedman
- Steven Friedman, Goldman Sachs
- Richard S. (Dick) Fuld, Jr., chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers
- Steven Fulop, former partner at Goldman Sachs
- Harold Glasser
- Lewis Glucksman
- Bela Gold
- Marcus Goldman & Samuel Sachs, founders of Goldman Sachs
- Tom Gores
- Evan G. Greenberg, CEO of ACE Ltd.
- Maurice R. Greenberg, former chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG), the world's largest insurance and financial services corporation
- Joel Greenblatt
- Alan Greenspan
- Zvi Griliches
- Sanford J. Grossman
- Guggenheim family, business leaders, philanthropists & art patrons
- Sidney Harman
- John Harsanyi
- Jerry A. Hausman
- Ricardo Hausmann
- Robert Heilbroner
- Richard Holbrooke
- Carl Icahn, billionaire Investments Takeovers
- Otto Hermann Kahn
- Loren N. Kaplan, President Of Mamalahoa Publishing/Rare Groove Urban Music Collective UMX (Jewish Father)
- Henry Kaufman, on the board of directors of Lehman Brothers
- Adam Kidan
- Israel Kirzner
- Henry Kissinger
- David Klein
- Lawrence Klein
- Philip Morris Klutznick, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and owner of numerous malls and department stores
- Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., co-founder of KKR leveraged buyout
- Bruce Kovner, founder of Caxton Associates (hedge fund firm)
- Robert Krausz
- Henry Kravis, leveraged buyout pioneer and philanthropist co-founder of KKR
- Paul Krugman
- Simon Kuznets
- Edward Lampert, billionaire founder of ESL Investments & Goldman Sachs
- Frank Lautenberg, U.S. Senator and founder of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), the largest payroll and tax filing processor in the world
- Thomas Lee, leveraged buyout specialist
- Philip Lehman
- Al Lerner, billionaire ex-chairman of MBNA and ex-owner of the Cleveland Browns
- Randolph Lerner, billionaire chairman of MBNA
- Dennis Levine
- Gerald M. Levin, brokered the merger between AOL and Time Warner in 2000
- Steven Levitt
- Jacob Lew
- Peter Lewis, billionaire chairman of Progressive Insurance
- Lewis Libby
- Solomon Loeb
- Harry Markowitz
- Leo Melamed, founding chairman of the International Monetary Market
- Robert C. Merton
- André Meyer
- Eugene Meyer, chairman of the Federal Reserve (1930-1933), president of the World Bank (1946)
- Michael Milken, junk bond king & philanthropist
- Henry Morgenthau, Jr., former Secretary of the Treasury under FDR, financial advisor to Israel
- Roy Neuberger, financier & art dealer
- Ronald Perelman
- Harvey Pitt
- Michael Price, billionaire investor (one Jewish parent)
- Robert Reich
- Marc Rich
- George R. Roberts, billionaire co-founder of KKR leveraged buyout
- Felix Rohatyn
- Murray Rothbard
- Rothschild family, has many holdings in both the USA and the UK, along with other European countries
- Robert Rubin, former United States Secretary of the Treasury, executive at Citigroup, has served on the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange, the Ford Motor Company, the Harvard Corporation, the New York Futures Exchange, and has held many other positions
- Alexander Sachs
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Paul Samuelson
- George D. Sax, Bussiness Entrepreneur, credited with the innovation of Drive-Through Banking
- Jacob Schiff, financier & philanthropist
- Mortimer L. Schiff, financier & Boy Scouts of America leader
- Myron Scholes
- Charles Schusterman
- Charles R. Schwab, founder and CEO of Charles Schwab Corp.
- Stephen A. Schwarzman
- William Schwartz, corporate director at Viacom
- Jay Alan Sekulow
- Nicole Seligman
- Andrei Shleifer
- Muriel Siebert, first woman to purchase a seat on NYSE
- Martin Siegel
- Greg Silvermaster
- Jeffrey Skoll, billionaire former president of E-Bay and CEO of Participant Productions
- Haym Solomon
- Robert Solow
- Rudolph Sonneborn
- George Soros, financier & philanthropist
- Ben Stein
- Michael Steinhardt
- Sy Sternberg, Chairman and CEO of New York Life Insurance Company
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Lawrence Summers, former chief economist for the World Bank, former United States Secretary of the Treasury, former president of Harvard University
- David Tepper, Goldman Sachs
- Laurence Tisch of Loews Corporation
- Preston Robert Tisch of Loews Corporation
- Jacob Viner
- Paul Volcker
- Warburg family
- Bruce Wasserstein, financier & current CEO of Lazard
- Sandy Weill, ex-CEO of Citigroup, philanthropist
- John Weinberg
- Peter Weinberg
- Harry Dexter White, American economist and senior U.S. Treasury department official
- James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank (1995-2005)
- Paul Wolfowitz, current (2005-) president of the World Bank
- Dov Zakheim
- Marc Zell
- Robert Zoellick, managing director and chairman of Goldman Sachs' International Advisors department
- Martin Zweig
Retail and rental
- Abraham Abraham
- Eddie Antar and Sam Antar, founders of the now defunct Crazy Eddie consumer electronics chain
- Brad Ascalon
- Max Azria, founder of BCBG
- Louis Bamberger
- Eddie Bauer, founder of The Eddie Bauer
- Arthur Blank & Bernie Marcus, founders of Home Depot, philanthropists
- Kenneth Cole, founder of Kenneth Cole
- Marc Ecko, founder of Ecko
- Donald Fisher
- Cynthia Harriss
- John D. Hertz
- Marc Jacobs, founder of Marc Jacobs, artistic director for Louis Vuitton
- Donna Karan, founder of DKNY
- Calvin Klein, founder of Calvin Klein
- Senator Herbert Kohl or Wisconsin, owner of Kohl's department stores
- Ralph Lauren, founder of Polo Ralph Lauren, acquired Club Monaco
- Julius Lederer
- Beth Levine
- Herbert Levine
- Leon Levine, billionaire founder of Family Dollar
- Stanley Marcus of Neiman Marcus
- Morris Markin, founder of Checker Cabs
- David May, founder of May Department Stores (Robinsons-May, Famous-Barr, Filene's, Foley's, Hecht's, Kaufmann's, L.S. Ayres, Marshall Field's, Meier & Frank, Strawbridge's & The Jones Store)
- Isaac Mizrahi
- Mervin G. Morris, founder of Mervyns
- Zac Posen
- Ida Rosenthal
- Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears & Roebuck & Kmart, philanthropist
- Lessing J. Rosenwald
- Jay Schottenstein
- Jerome Schottenstein
- Isador Straus, head of Macy's, Titanic victim
- Nathan Straus
- Levi Strauss, founder of Levi's
- Maurice Tempelsman, billionaire diamond merchant and industrialist
- Leslie Wexner, founder of Victoria's Secret, Limited Brands (Limited, Bath & Body Works, Express, White Barn Candle Co., Aura Science, Henri Bendel)
Real estate
- Sheldon Adelson, billionaire property developer in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Roland Arnall, billionaire owner of Ameriquest
- Gary Barnett
- Jack Benaroya, the largest commercial real estate developer in the U.S. state of Washington
- Lee Bienstock
- Donald Bren
- Alan Casden, billionaire, partners with Blackacre Capital Management, real estate arm of hedge fund Cerberus Capital Management, and apartment operator AIMCO
- Max Fisher
- Issamar Ginzberg
- Bernard Glieberman
- Leona Helmsley
- Robert P. Kogod
- Charles Kushner
- Samuel J. LeFrak
- Ted Lerner of Lerner Enterprises (also involved heavily in sports)
- William Levitt
- Harvey Meyerhoff
- Joseph Meyerhoff
- Robert Moses
- Bruce Ratner
- Aby Rosen
- Stephen M. Ross
- Walter Shorenstein and Douglas Shorenstein of the Shorenstein Company, one of the United States' largest and oldest privately owned real estate firms
- Larry Silverstein, operator and the head of NYC's Silverstein Properties. Silverstein is also the leaseholder of the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks
- Melvin Simon of the Simon Property Group, the largest developer of shopping malls in the United States
- Robert H. Smith of Archstone-Smith Trust
- Jerry Speyer, President and CEO of Tishman Speyer Properties, one of the leading owners, developers, fund managers, and operators of real estate in the world
- Leonard N. Stern
- Adolph Sutro
- Alfred Taubman
- Milton A. Wolf
- Steve Wynn, casino resort developer
- William Zeckendorf
- Samuel Zell
- Ira Zlotowitz
- Jerry Zucker, governor, owner, and CEO of Hudson's Bay Company
Cosmetics
- Max Factor, Sr., cosmetics industrialist
- Aaron Feuerstein
- Diane von Fürstenberg
- Estée Lauder and family, cosmetic industrialist, founder of Estée Lauder Inc.
- Charles Revson, cosmetics industrialist (Revlon)
- Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics industrialist
Toys
- Joshua Lionel Cowen, toy train manufacturer, founder of Lionel Corporation
- Arnold Greenberg, CEO of Coleco
- Ruth Handler, inventor of Barbie, founder of Mattel
- Isaac Larian, founder of MGA Entertainment, the biggest privately owned toy company in the world
- Charles Lazarus, founder of Toys R Us
- Rose & Morris Michtom, inventors of the teddy bear
- David Rosen, former CEO of SEGA
Food, food services, confectionery, etc.
- S. Daniel Abraham
- Louis Auster, inventor of egg cream
- Burton Baskin & Irving Robbins, founders of Baskin Robbins
- Eli M. Black
- Gypsy Boots
- Bronfman family (USA & Cananda) of the Seagram Company
- Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry's
- Gérard Louis-Dreyfus
- Joseph Friedman, inventor of the flexistraw
- Jack Greenberg, CEO of McDonald's
- Roger Harvin, Former Pres, CEO, & Chairman of the Board of Church's Chicken
- Reuben Mattus, founder of Häagen-Dazs
- Danny Meyer
- William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin' Donuts
- Howard Schultz, head of Starbucks, co-owner of Jamba Juice
Electronics
- Beny Alagem, founder of Packard Bell
- Ralph Baer, inventor of the video game console
- Michael Dell, founder of Dell, philanthropist
- Donna Dubinsky, co-founder of Palm Computing
- Lee Felsenstein, moderator of the Homebrew Computer Club
- Jerald G. Fishman, CEO of Analog Devices
- Andrew Grove, former CEO of Intel
- Howard Jonas, founder of IDT Corp.
- Eugene Kleiner, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, venture capitalist
- Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco International
- Jaron Lanier, virtual reality products
- Tommy Mottola, former head of Sony Music (converted)
- Arthur Rock, hi-tech venture capitalist (Intel, Apple)
- Ivan Seidenberg, CEO of Verizon Communications
- Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore International
- Andrew Viterbi & Irwin Jacobs, founders of Qualcomm
- Edward Zander, CEO of Motorola, former COO and president of Sun Microsystems, a director at Seagate Technologies, former managing director at Silver Lake Partners
Software and Internet
- F. Duane Ackerman, CEO of Bellsouth
- Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft (Jewish mother)
- Paul Baran
- Nick Berg
- Dan Bernstein, creator of qmail
- Leonard Bosack, co-founder of Cisco Systems
- Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston, creators of Visicalc
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
- Sandra Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems
- Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent
- Stephen M. Cohen
- Mark Cuban, founder of Broadcast.com, owner of the Dallas Mavericks
- Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle Corporation (Jewish mother, Jewish adoptive parents)
- Milt Gabler
- Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks
- Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser, Amnon Amir & Ariel Yarnitsky, founders of Mirabilis and ICQ
- Nat Goldhaber
- Andy Hertzfeld, programmer on Mac OS
- Larry Kaplan, co-founder of Activision
- Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software, co-founder of EFF
- Raymond Kurzweil, artificial intelligence software
- Phil Katz, creator of PKZip
- Leslie Lamport, initial developer of LaTeX
- Max Levchin, founder of PayPal
- Elias Levy (aka Aleph One), long-time moderator of Bugtraq
- Michael Moritz, venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital
- Ken Novack
- Larry Page, co-founder of Google (Jewish mother)
- Jef Raskin, interface designer for Apple Macintosh
- Seymour I. Rubinstein, creator of WordStar
- Jonathan Sachs, chief programmer on Lotus Software
- Joshua Schachter, creator of del.icio.us
- Jonathan I. Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems
- Jeff Skoll, billionaire co-founder and first president of eBay
- Richard Stallman, programmer of Emacs, founder of GNU
- Larry Tesler, creator of Gypsy
- Dave Winer, content management, XML-RPC
- Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook
Media and Entertainment
- George Abrams, corporate director at Viacom
- J. J. Abrams
- Herb Abramson, record company executive and producer
- Julius Ochs Adler
- Lou Adler
- Maurice Adler
- Irwin Allen
- Herb Alpert
- Samuel Z. Arkoff
- Letty Aronson
- David Begelman
- David Belasco
- Lawrence Bender
- Rick Berman
- William Morris Bioff, labor leader in the movie production business from the 1920s through the 1940s
- Steven Bochco
- Steve Bornstein
- Jordan Bratman
- James L. Brooks, TV producer
- Jerry Bruckheimer
- Bruce Cohen
- Lyor Cohen
- Harry Cohn & Jack Cohn, co-founders of Columbia Pictures
- Heinrich Conried
- Jimmy Darville, internet pornographer
- Philippe Dauman, president and CEO of Viacom
- Clive Davis
- Nicolas de Gunzburg
- Barry Diller, creator Fox Broadcasting Company
- Michael Eisner, former head of The Walt Disney Company
- Ari Emanuel
- Cy Feuer
- William Fox, Joseph Schenk, co-founders of 20th Century Fox
- Fred W. Friendly, former president of CBS
- Frohman brothers
- Don Garber
- David Geffen, co-founder of Dreamworks SKG and founder of Geffen Records
- Michael Gelman
- Joel Gertner
- Leonard Goldberg
- Leonard Goldenson, founder of ABC
- Akiva Goldsman
- Glazer family
- Dan Glickman, chief lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America
- William Goetz
- Mark Goodson
- Bill Graham
- Brian Grazer
- Alan Greenberg, corporate director at Viacom
- Oscar Hammerstein I
- Don Hewitt
- Paul Heyman
- Sam Jaffe
- Mel Karmazin, CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio
- Jeffrey Katzenberg (1950 - ) film producer, director and co-founder of DreamWorks SKG
- Sam Katzman
- Jared Kushner, owner of the New York Observer (son of Charles Kushner)
- Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios
- Sherry Lansing, former head of Paramount Pictures
- Norman Lear
- Ross Levinsohn
- Marv Levy
- Val Lewton
- Marcus Loew, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, co-founders of MGM
- Siegmund Lubin
- David Merrick
- Leslie Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corporation
- Michael Ovitz
- William S. Paley, founder of CBS
- Joseph Papp
- Lou Pearlman
- Hal Prince
- Shari Redstone
- Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom and on the board of directors at CBS
- Ralph Roberts, Daniel Aaron, Julian Brodsky, founders of Comcast
- Billy Rose
- Joe Roth
- Rick Rubin
- Haim Saban, former owner of the Family Channel (purchased by Disney) and the Kirch German Media empire
- David Sarnoff, founder of RCA
- Dorothy Schiff
- Mortimer L. Schiff
- B.P. Schulberg
- Morris Schwartz
- Sherwood Schwartz
- William Selig
- David O. Selznick and other members of the Selznick family
- Irene Mayer Selznick
- Lewis J. Selznick
- Neal Shapiro, former president of NBC News
- Allan Sherman
- Shubert family
- Robert F.X. Sillerman, billionaire CEO and chairman of CKX, Inc.
- Joel Silver
- Harry Sloan, Chairman of MGM
- Phil Spector
- Aaron Spelling
- Sam Spiegel
- Steven Spielberg, director, founder of Dreamworks SKG
- Dawn Steel
- Jules C. Stein, founder of MCA
- Howard Stern, media mogul
- Brandon Tartikoff
- Irving Thalberg
- Harry, Albert, Sam & Jack Warner, founders of Warner Brothers
- Casey Wasserman
- Lew Wasserman
- Bob & Harvey Weinstein, founders of Miramax
- David Westin
- Jeff Zucker, Chief Executive Officer of the NBC Universal Television Group
- Adolph Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures
Publishing
- Moses Annenberg
- Walter Annenberg, publisher & philanthropist
- Avi Arad, CEO of Marvel Comics
- Peter Bart
- Robert L. Bernstein
- Adam Bly, founder and CEO of Seed Media Group, Seed Magazine
- Bennett Cerf, publisher and co-founder of Random House
- L. Gordon Crovitz, publisher of The Wall Street Journal
- Paul Fishbein, owner of AVN magazine, the standard trade magazine of the pornography industry in the U.S.
- Jane Friedman
- Bonnie Fuller, editor and autobiographer
- Al Goldstein founder of Screw magazine
- Martin Goodman
- Alfred & Blanche Knopf, founders of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Paul Levitz, President of DC Comics
- Samuel Irving Newhouse, founder of Advance Publications
- Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr., CEO of Advance Publications and chairman of Condé Nast Publications
- Adolph Ochs, former head of the New York Times
- Joseph Pulitzer, publisher (Jewish father)
- Barney Rossett, founder of Grove Press (Jewish father)
- David Schneiderman, owner of The Village Voice
- Richard L. Simon & Max Schuster, founders of Simon and Schuster
- Roger W. Straus, Jr., co-founder of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times
- Mortimer Zuckerman, billionaire owner of New York Daily News and US News and World Report
Advertising
- Edward Bernays, father of public relations
- Bill Bernbach, advertising pioneer
- Evan Montvel Cohen, owner of several advertising agencies, first chairman and co-founder of Air America Radio
- Jay Chiat, advertiser
- Ari Emanuel
- Sidney Frank
- Stan Freberg, advertiser & radio personality
- Joe Gould
- Albert Lasker, advertising pioneer, founder of the Lasker Award
- Rochelle Lazarus, chair and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, one of the world's largest advertising agencies
- Ron Popeil, inventor & father of infomercials
- Daniel Snyder, founder and owner of Snyder Communications
Sports: Owners, Commissioners, Managers
- Leslie Alexander, owner of Houston Rockets and Houston Comets
- Micky Arison, owner of the Miami Heat
- Gary Bettman, National Hockey League commissioner
- Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons
- Myles Brand, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
- Alan N. Cohen, former co-owner of the Boston Celtics and the New Jersey Nets, and chairman and CEO of the Madison Square Garden Corporation, former owner of the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers
- Mark Cuban, owner of Dallas Mavericks
- William Davidson (NBA, NHL)
- Al Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders
- Barney Dreyfuss (MLB)
- Steve Ellman, owner of the Phoenix Coyotes
- Theo Epstein, General Manager of the Boston Red Sox
- Don Garber, Major League Soccer commissioner
- Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers
- Joel Glazer, Chairman of Manchester United
- Malcolm Glazer, owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, majority owner of Manchester United
- Jamie Gold
- Arnie Goldman, Inventor/founder of Perfecta Grip Industries
- Eddie Gottlieb, U.S. basketball coach, owner Philadelphia Warriors, NBA founder
- Raanan Katz, Israel/U.S., partial owner of the Miami Heat
- Senator Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin, owner of Milwaulkee Bucks and Kohl's Department Store
- Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots and New England Revolution; also chairman and CEO of The Kraft Group (USA) and the largest shareholder of Carmel Container Systems LTD (Israel)
- Jerry Krause, former general manager of the Chicago Bulls
- Randy Lerner, owner of the Cleveland Browns, owner of Aston Villa
- Lerner family, owners of the Washington Nationals
- Jamie McCourt, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, only current female owner in major league baseball
- Art Modell, former owner of the Baltimore Ravens
- Abe Pollin, owner of the Washington Wizards
- Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago White Sox
- Carroll Rosenbloom, former owner of both the Baltimore Colts and the Los Angeles Rams
- Drew Rosenhaus (NFL)
- Henry Samueli, owner of the Anaheim Ducks, founder of Broadcom Corporation
- Abe Saperstein, founder and owner of Harlem Globetrotters
- Sam Schulman, founding owner and former president of the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association and an owner of the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League
- Howard Schultz, owner of Seattle Supersonics and founder of Starbucks
- Bud Selig, Major League Baseball commissioner
- Mark Shapiro, General Manager of the Cleveland Indians
- Ed Snider, owner of the Philadelphia Flyers
- Daniel Snyder, owner of Washington Redskins
- Leigh Steinberg
- David Stern, National Basketball Association commissioner
- Stuart L. Sternberg, owner of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
- Tom Werner, co-owner (with John Henry) and executive chairman of the Boston Red Sox; former owner of the the San Diego Padres
- Zygi Wilf, principal owner of the Minnesota Vikings
- Fred Wilpon, owner of the New York Mets
- Lewis Wolff, owner of the Oakland Athletics
Other and Miscellany
- Bradley Abelow, State Treasurer of the U.S. State of New Jersey, ex-executive with Goldman Sachs
- Polly Adler
- Ted Arison, founder of Carnival Cruise Lines (U.S. and Israel)
- Bob Arum
- Irving Azoff
- Carl Berg
- Philip Berg, founder of the for-profit Kabbalah Centre
- David Berman, one of the pioneers of gambling in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Otto Berman
- Abe Bernstein, casino magnate
- Charles Birger, alcohol smuggler during Prohibition
- Rudy Boschwitz, founder and chairman of a plywood and home improvement retailer, Plywood Minnesota (which later became Home Valu Interiors)
- E. H. Bronner
- Louis Buchalter, garment industry figure
- Kid Cann
- Dov Charney
- Alex Chiu, inventor of "immortality ring" (by religion only), Jewish follower
- Mickey Cohen
- Moe Dalitz
- Monk Eastman
- Maxie Eisen
- Andrew Fastow, former CFO of Enron
- Benjamin Fein
- Heidi Fleiss, prostitution entrepreneur
- Drew Friedman, Founder/CEO of hip-hop label Duck Down Records
- Joe Gold, founder of Gold's Gym and World Gym
- Leslie Gonda
- Waxey Gordon
- Pincus Green
- Gus Greenbaum
- Rebecca Gratz
- Gerald Grinstein, CEO of Delta Airlines
- Lizzie Grubman
- Jack J. Grynberg, major international oil and gas magnate
- Jake Guzik
- Armand Hammer, former CEO of Occidental Petroleum
- Martin Indyk
- Nathan Kaplan
- Abe Landau
- Meyer Lansky
- Charles Albert Levine
- Michael E. Levine
- Stanley Levison
- Leonard Lewisohn
- David Lipner
- William Lipshitz
- Alfred E. Mann
- Jacob Orgen
- Bruce Pasternack, President/CEO Special Olympics, Author The Centerless Corporation and Results
- Nelson Peltz
- Pritzker family, 11 billionaires in the family including:
- Steve J. Rosen
- Frank Rosenthal
- Joseph Rosenzweig
- William M. Roth
- Arnold Rothstein
- Harry Sagansky
- Dutch Schultz
- Jacob Shapiro
- Robert J. Shapiro
- Eugene Shvidler
- Bugsy Siegel
- Charles Solomon
- Johnny Spanish
- Joseph Stacher
- Reuben Sturman, highly successful pornographer and businessman
- Caspar Weinberger, ex-vice president and general counsel of the Bechtel Corporation and former Secretary of Defense
- Jack Zuta
- Abner Zwillman
See also
- Forbes 400
- Lists of billionaires
- List of business leaders in 2006
- List of chief executive officers
- List of Jewish American economists
- List of personalities associated with Wall Street
- Louis Dreyfus Group
- Mega Group
Footnotes
- Katzenberg - "Hardie also called on several Jewish members of the entertainment industry, including... Jeffrey Katzenberg"
- Wilf - "The team’s owner, Zygi Wilf, an Orthodox Jew..."