Self-Made Men and Women, Page 4
People who became wealthy starting from nothing
(excluding people in literature, the arts, and sports.)
- Abramovich, Roman
- Bokassa I
- Brady, John Green
- Brown, Leslie Calvin
- Bustamante, William Alexander
- Catherine I
- Cerullo, Morris
- Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur
- Clinton, William Jefferson
- Cochran, Jacqueline
- Ellison, Lawrence J. (Larry)
- Glazier, Sidney
- Jackson, Andrew
- Jobs, Steven Paul
- Massow, Ivan
- McDaid, Desmond
- Monaghan, Thomas
- Morley, Eric Douglas
- Myners, Paul
- Nanbaree
- Nguyen, Martine (see under Bokassa I)
- Perkins, Charles
- Pidgley, Tony
- Radisson, Pierre-Esprit
- Reynolds, George
- Richardson, Anna Ryder
- Robbins, Harold
- Spencer, Percy LaBaron
- Stanhope, Albert
- Templer, James
- Thomas, R. David
- Walker, C.J.
- Weinstock, Arnold
- White, Donald Edwin
- White, Eartha Mary Magdalene
- Wilkins, George
- Zhang Xianzhong (under Sun Kewang)
Thomas, R. David
Thomas was adopted as a baby but his adoptive mother died when he was five. His father remarried three times and Thomas had an unsettled childhood. He did not learn he was adopted until ... [more]
Walker, C.J.
Walker was born Sarah Breedlove and orphaned in 1874 when both her parents died of yellow fever. She was then raised for several years by her older brother and sister, but married for the f... [more]
Weinstock, Arnold
Weinstock was born to a family of Polish-Jewish immigrants to England, the last child, the eldest of whom was 24 when he was born. His father, a tailor's cutter, died in 1929 and his mother... [more]
White, Donald Edwin
White's father disappeared before he was born and he was abandoned by his mother. The canteen manager of the hospital where he was born adopted him. Major advertising accounts he handled... [more]
White, Eartha Mary Magdalene
Eartha White was adopted as a baby in Florida. Her adoptive father died when she was five and she was then raised by her widowed mother. After high school White attended beauty school and t... [more]
Wilkins, George
Wilkins was 10 years old when he, his brother and sister, were shipped to Australia as Child Migrants . He spent the rest of his childhood in Australian institutions and the next 24 years ... [more]
Zhang Xianzhong (under Sun Kewang)
In the period during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty and the coming of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, China was riven by a series of rebellions and temporary kingdoms established by provincial w... [more]
