Virginia Marie Rometty is an American business executive who was executive chairman of IBM after stepping down as CEO on April 1, 2020. She was previously chairman, president and CEO of IBM, becoming the first woman to head the company.
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Entrepreneur
1947 · United States
$21.3Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes
Enos Stanley Kroenke is an American billionaire real estate magnate and sports team owner.
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Entrepreneur · Charles Schwab Corporation · finance
1937 · United States
$8.3Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes
Charles Robert Schwab Sr. is an American investor and financial executive. The founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation, he pioneered discount sales of equity securities starting in 1975.
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Entrepreneur
1942 · United States
$7.6Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes
George Bruce Kaiser is an American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of BOK Financial Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As of 2026, he was the 177th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $16 billion.
Entrepreneur · healthcare
1952 · United States
$5.6Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes
Patrick Soon-Shiong is a South African and American businessman, researcher and surgeon who invented Abraxane, a drug used for lung, breast, and pancreatic cancer. He has been owner and executive chairman of the Los Angeles Times since 2018.
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Founder · Cinecittà
1883–1945 · Italian Social Republic
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and dictator who led the Kingdom of Italy as a fascist dictatorship from 1922 until his overthrow in 1943.
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Politician
1959 · India
Sanjay Balraj Dutt is an Indian actor and film producer who works primarily in Hindi cinema, and has also appeared in some Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Marathi and Punjabi films. He has acted in over 135 films.
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