1. Alina Morse (2005)

Entrepreneur

American Entrepreneur who is best known for being the CEO of Zollipops, a candy company she created. She is also an inventor.

2. John Harington (1561)

Entrepreneur

A poet by trade, he invented the first flushable toilet.

3. Umar Kamani (1987)

Entrepreneur

Known for co-founding the fashion firm and online retail company PrettyLittleThing.com. He founded it alongside his brother Adam in 2012.

4. Jacob Busch (1991)

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur who is best known for his family co-founding Anheuser-Busch in 1852. He is the West Coast Ambassador of the Peter W. Busch Foundation and in 2016 he launched his own...

5. Henry J. Kaiser (1882)

Entrepreneur

Industrialist turned shipbuilder who made his business an indispensable part of the American war effort in World War II.

6. Oleg Lee (1984)

Entrepreneur

Also known as ThatPillowGuy, he is an entrepreneur who founded the company Life Like Pillows. His company created custom life-sized pillows that can feature faces of celebrities, animals and more.

7. Craig Cooper (1963)

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur who CooperativeHealth and Performance Research Labs and co-founded Boost Mobile. He has also acted as Managing Director and Head of Venture Capital at Saban Ventures.

8. Andrew Barber (1980)

Entrepreneur

Owner/creator of the Chicago-based hip-hop media company and blog Fake Shore Drive who is best known for discovering such artists as Chance The Rapper, Chief Keef, Lil Durk, Vic Mensa,...

9. Krista Whitley (1970)

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur who has served as the CEO and Founder of Altitude Products, a cannibal based company. She has over 110,000 followers on her socialkrista Instagram account.

10. Betsy Ross (1752)

Entrepreneur

Seamstress who is credited with sewing the first American flag. A bridge that connects Pennsylvania and New Jersey is named the Betsy Ross Bridge in her honor.

11. Samuel Morey (1970)

Entrepreneur

Engineer who worked on some of the earliest internal combustion steam engines for boats.

12. Joe Pulizzi (1970)

Entrepreneur

American entrepreneur who is best known for founding CMI Content. He has also founded another startup called Orange Effect.

13. John Jacob Astor (1763)

Entrepreneur

Businessman and investor who became the first American multimillionaire after creating a monopoly in the fur trading industry. 

14. Jamie Tworkowski (1980)

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur who has risen to fame for having founded the suicide awareness non-profit To Write Love on Her Arms. He published his first book If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on...

15. Maurizio Mancini (1970)

Entrepreneur

Restaurateur who has founded numerous bars and restaurants in Colombia, including Sir Frank, NN, Kong and Napoleon Taberna. 

16. Tina Wells (1980)

Entrepreneur

CEO and founder of Buzz Marketing Group, a company that creates marketing strategies for clients within the beauty, entertainment, fashion, financial, and lifestyle sectors. She wrote the youth marketing handbook...

17. Jason Stone (1980)

Entrepreneur

Widely known as the founder of the social media strategy firm Millionaire Mentor, where he has helped launch prominent brand and celebrity social media accounts. He has also earned massive...

18. Annika Urm (1970)

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur who is best recognized for having acted as the CEO of the lifestyle and entertainment website i-Marbella.com. She has built an online fan base of more than 110,000 Instagram followers.

19. PT Barnum (1810)

Entrepreneur

Legendary showman and prankster who founded the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Earlier in his career, he ran a museum which he used to display hoaxes and human...

20. Mark Hopkins Jr. (1813)

Entrepreneur

New York-born entrepreneur and investor who helped establish the Central Pacific Railroad in 1861. He was also a major figure in the California Gold Rush, founding New England Mining and...

21. Linus Yale Jr. (1821)

Entrepreneur

Mechanical engineer who created the cylinder lock, the most commonly used type of lock for generations.

22. Andrew Allan (1822)

Entrepreneur

Scottish-Canadian businessman who owned the Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers and co-founded the Merchant's Bank of Canada.

23. Thomas Bramwell Welch (1825)

Entrepreneur

Methodist minister and physician who started a worldwide grape-juice business.

24. John B Curtis (1827)

Entrepreneur

Famous as the first person to market and commercially produce chewing gum, Curtis made the product from spruce tree resin. He and his father eventually formed the Curtis & Son...

25. Ludvig Nobel (1831)

Entrepreneur

Historically one of the world's richest men. He became a philanthropist and humanitarian.

26. Margaret E. Knight (1838)

Entrepreneur

Called the most famous woman inventor of the 19th century. She invented paper bags with square bottoms.

27. Otto Mears (1840)

Entrepreneur

Built the Million Dollar Highway over Red Mountain Pass and hundreds more miles of toll roads that opened up southern Colorado to settlement.

28. Benjamin Holt (1849)

Entrepreneur

American business owner who invented the first crawler-type tread tractor. He founded the Holt Manufacturing Company with his brothers.

29. Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846)

Entrepreneur

Creator of Ericsson, the telephone equipment company.

30. Thomas Lipton (1850)

Entrepreneur

Scotsman best remembered as the founder of the Lipton Tea Company. During his life, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine and was knighted by King Edward VII.

31. Karl Ferdinand (1850)

Entrepreneur

German physicist who invented the cathode ray tube and contributed to wireless communication technology.

32. Andre Michelin (1853)

Entrepreneur

Made a fortune from inflatable automobile tires and co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company in 1888.

33. William D. Boyce (1858)

Entrepreneur

Newspaper and magazine publisher and founder of the Boy Scouts of America.

34. Martha Matilda Harper (1970)

Entrepreneur

Notable for founding the Harper Hair Parlour and expanding the business to include a chain of five hundred salons, this successful entrepreneur paved the way for the modern beauty industry...

35. Johann Puch (1970)

Entrepreneur

Inventor and mechanic who was very involved with early vehicle production in Europe.

36. Richard Warren Sears (1863)

Entrepreneur

Founder of the Sears, Roebuck and Company department store franchise with partner Alvah Curtis Roebuck.

37. Michael Joseph Owens (1859)

Entrepreneur

West Virginia-born inventor who created a machine that could mass-produce glass bottles.

38. Thomas Clay McDowell (1866)

Entrepreneur

Famed Thoroughbred racehorse owner, breeder, and trainer best known for his colt Alan-a-Dale, which won the 1902 Kentucky Derby. He was the great-grandson of famed American politician Henry Clay.

39. JP Morgan Jr. (1867)

Entrepreneur

Like his famous father JP Morgan, he had a long career in finance, heading the New York-based Guaranty Trust bank. He also helped finance World War I, loaning millions of dollars...

40. Austin E. Lathrop (1970)

Entrepreneur

One of Alaska's first millionaires who fiercely opposed its joining the United States.

41. August Horch (1868)

Entrepreneur

Automobile entrepreneur and pioneer who created the Audi model. He published his autobiography, I Built Cars, in 1937. There is a Horch Museum in his honor, located in Germany. 

42. Ella Gaunt Smith (1868)

Entrepreneur

Her line of Ella Smith dolls became one of the hottest-selling toys in the early decades of the 1900s.

43. William H Danforth (1870)

Entrepreneur

Missouri-born founder of the Ralston-Purina animal and pet food company. Also an author and philanthropist, he published an inspirational book entitled I Dare You! and helped establish the American Youth...

44. Rosie Pope (1980)

Entrepreneur

British businesswoman and reality star who rose to fame starring on the Bravo series Pregnant in Heels. She also founded her eponymous maternity clothing store and the MomPrep education service.

45. Gleb Kotelnikov (1872)

Entrepreneur

Inventor of the first knapsack parachute, which saved countless pilots' lives.

46. Charles Francis Adams (1876)

Entrepreneur

Grocery store magnate who also bought stakes in Boston sports teams.

47. Thomas J. Watson (1874)

Entrepreneur

Turned International Business Machines (IBM) into a force with which to be reckoned while chairman and CEO from 1914 until 1956.

48. Elizabeth Arden (1878)

Entrepreneur

One of the wealthiest women of her time. She built a billion-dollar cosmetics empire.

49. John Flynn (1880)

Entrepreneur

Presbyterian minister who founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the world's first air ambulance.

50. Charles T. Fisher (1880)

Entrepreneur

He and his brother Fred co-founded the Fisher Body Company automobile corporation, which grew from a small shop to one of the world's largest factories.