Business and Industry
- Abramovich, Roman
- Agnelli, Umberto
- Agnelli, Umberto
- Aspinall, John Victor
- Astor, Joshua
- Bartholomew, Freddie
- Berlin, Andy
- Brady, John Green
- Brown, Leslie Calvin
- Carlson, Richard Warner
- Casals, Rosemary
- Cochran, Jacqueline
- Dermit, Édouard
- Eaton, Peter
- Ellison, Lawrence J. (Larry)
- Grant, Julia
- Griffith, Calvin
- Hamilton, Alexander
- Hancock, John
- Hill, David
- Hirst, Damien
- Houston, Samuel
- Jobs, Steven Paul
- Knight, Edward Austen
- Lee, John Doyle
- Massow, Ivan
- McDaid, Desmond
- Meyer, Julius
- Mills, Billy
- Monaghan, Thomas
- Muhammad
- Murray, Andrew Buist
- Myners, Paul
- Perry, Mae Walker (under Walker, C.J.)
- Pidgley, Tony
- Presley, Priscilla Ann
- Radisson, Pierre-Esprit
- Reynolds, George
- Robbins, Harold
- Sancho, Ignatius
- Scott, Todd M.
- Slocum, Frances
- Smith, Venture
- Stanhope, Albert
- Templer, James
- Thomas, William James
- Thorne, Grahame
- Thyssen-Bornemisza, Heinrich
- Train, George Francis
- Trapp Family
- Waters, William R.
- Weinstock, Arnold
- White, Donald Edwin
- White, Eartha Mary Magdalene
- Wilkins, George
Casals, Rosemary
Casals was born to poor El Salvadoran immigrant parents in San Francisco. Before she was a year old her parents sent her and her older sister to be raised by their great aunt and uncle. Thi... [more]
Cochran, Jacqueline
Cochran was born sometime between 1906 and 1910, and was orphaned as a baby. She was a foster child in a feckless, poverty-stricken family (she got her first pair of shoes when she was eigh... [more]
Dermit, Édouard
Dermit was the adopted son and heir of French author and film director Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). He acted in three of his father's films: Orphée, Les Enfants Terribles and Testament of Orphe... [more]
Eaton, Peter
Eaton was born to unknown parents in London and adopted as a baby by a poor family in Rochdale. He left school at 14 and eventually entered the book trade. With his wife he built up one ... [more]
Ellison, Lawrence J. (Larry)
Ellison was adopted by a Jewish family and raised in Chicago. Although he nevergraduated from college, with two others, he founded the Oracle Corporation in 1977,developing computer database... [more]
Grant, Julia
Grant was born George Roberts, the eldest of eight children. His mother was an alcoholic and his father a fisherman who was seldom home. From about the age of 12 he looked after his brothe... [more]
Griffith, Calvin
Griffith took control of the American League's Washington Senators baseball team in 1955, after the death of his uncle and adoptive (or foster, sources differ) father, the player-owner-mana... [more]
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamilton and his older brother were the illegitimate sons of James Hamilton, a Scottish trader, and Rachel Faucett Lavien, who was married to another man. He was born on the Caribbean islan... [more]
Hancock, John
Hancock's father, a Congregationalist minister, died when he was a boy of seven, leaving his mother a destitute widow with three children, and he was adopted by his uncle, Thomas Hancock, a... [more]
Hill, David
Hill was one of the Child Migrants from the UK to Australia on the Fairbairn Scheme, shipped without his parents' consent or knowledge, when he was 12. He started his career as a gover... [more]
