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Haley Abivardi
Haley Abivardi is a Swiss dentist and healthcare entrepreneur who co-founded vVARDIS with her sister Goly; the company's drill-free cavity treatment reached a billion-dollar valuation in 2026.
Hans Wilsdorf
Hans Wilsdorf (1881–1960) was a Bavarian-born, London-naturalised watch merchant who founded Rolex in London in 1905, built it into the leading Swiss wristwatch brand, and left it to a foundation.
Hans-Peter Fischer
Hans-Peter Fischer is a German entrepreneur who co-manages the fischer group, a family-owned maker of welded stainless steel tubes in the Black Forest with over 2,700 employees.
Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth is a Swiss family-owned contemporary art gallery founded in Zurich in 1992 by Iwan and Manuela Wirth, representing over 90 artists and estates.
Heinz Georg Baus
Heinz Georg Baus (1934–2016) was a German retail entrepreneur who founded Bauhaus, the DIY home-improvement chain, opening Germany's first self-service store in Mannheim in 1960.
Helena Rubinstein Incorporated
Helena Rubinstein Incorporated was the cosmetics and beauty-salon company founded by Helena Rubinstein with a Melbourne salon in 1902 and sold to Colgate-Palmolive in 1973; the name survives as an L'Oréal luxury skincare brand.
Henry Isaac Rowntree
Henry Isaac Rowntree (1838–1883) was a York Quaker grocer's son who founded in 1862 the cocoa, chocolate, and chicory business that became Rowntree's, known for KitKat, Aero, and Smarties.
Henry Wilson
Henry Threlfall Wilson (1825–1869) was a Liverpool shipbroker and shipowner who co-founded the White Star Line in 1845 and sold its flag to Thomas Henry Ismay in 1868.
Heraeus
Heraeus is a family-owned German precious metals and technology group headquartered in Hanau, founded from a pharmacy in 1660, with 15,181 employees in roughly 40 countries.
Heraeus family
The Heraeus family is the owner family of Heraeus, a Hanau technology group founded from a 1660 pharmacy and turned industrial by Wilhelm Carl Heraeus in 1851.
Herbert Blum
Herbert Blum, born in 1950, is an Austrian family-business manager who led furniture fittings maker Julius Blum GmbH from 1983, growing it to over €2.4 billion.
Hermann Simon (German business academic)
Hermann Simon is a German business academic and management consultant who co-founded the pricing consultancy Simon-Kucher & Partners in Bonn in 1985 and originated the "Hidden Champions" concept.
Hipolit Cegielski
Hipolit Cegielski (1813–1868) was a Polish philologist, teacher, journalist, and industrialist in Poznań, best known for founding the machine works that continue today as H. Cegielski – Poznań S.A.
Hoegaarden monks
The Hoegaarden monks are the monastic brewers whom the Hoegaarden beer brand credits with creating the town's wheat beer recipe around 1445, now an AB InBev brand.
Holland Cooper
Holland Cooper is a British country and equestrian luxury fashion brand founded by Jade Holland Cooper in 2008 and based in Cheltenham in the Cotswolds.
Hollweg family
The Hollweg family is a German entrepreneur family that has owned Cordes & Graefe KG since 1933, a building-technics wholesaler in Stuhr behind the GC-Gruppe.
Hörmann
Hörmann is the name of two unrelated German family-owned industrial groups: the Hörmann door manufacturer near Bielefeld, founded in 1935, and the HÖRMANN technology group near Munich, founded in 1955.
Hortensia Herrero
Hortensia Herrero, born in Valencia in 1950, is a Spanish businesswoman who is vice-president of Mercadona and owns 27.7% of the company through her holding firm.
Hugo Boss (businessman)
Hugo Ferdinand Boss (1885–1948) was a German clothing manufacturer who founded the Metzingen factory that grew into HUGO BOSS, building its wartime success on Nazi uniform contracts produced with forced labor.
Hugo Knümann
Hugo Knümann was a German merchant who founded the company that became Phoenix Contact in Essen in 1923 and patented the terminal block on a DIN rail.
Hugo Stinnes
Hugo Stinnes (1870–1924) was a German industrialist who built the largest conglomerate in Germany from a Ruhr coal-trading firm, becoming the emblem of the 1919–1923 inflation.
Hyrum Cook
Hyrum Cook, born in 1993, is a British entrepreneur who founded the Manchester activewear brand Adanola in 2015 and led it as chief executive until 2024.
Imran Hakim
Imran Hakim is a Bolton-born optometrist and entrepreneur who founded Hakim Group, which grew from a 2002 Bolton practice to more than 500 opticians across the UK and Ireland.
Indotek Group
Indotek Group is a privately held real estate investment and development group headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, led by founder and majority owner Dániel Jellinek, with 350+ properties across 12 European countries.
Ing. Sumetzberger GmbH
Ing. Sumetzberger GmbH is a family-run Austrian manufacturer of pneumatic tube systems, founded in Vienna in 1921, whose systems carry blood samples, cash, and gemstones in 66 countries.
Isabel Grieshaber
Isabel Grieshaber is a German business executive who has led VEGA Grieshaber KG, a family-owned maker of level and pressure measurement instruments in Schiltach, since 2016.
Ivan Baťka
Ivan Baťka (Ivan Baťka mladší), born 1966, is a Czech businessman, owner and CEO of Fosfa a.s., a Břeclav chemicals producer that is Europe's largest processor of yellow phosphorus.
Ivo Valenta
Ivo Valenta, born 1956, is a Czech gaming entrepreneur who founded the SYNOT Group in 1991 with his father and brother, and served as a senator from 2014.
Iwan Wirth
Iwan Wirth, born in Switzerland in 1970, is a Swiss art dealer who co-founded the gallery Hauser & Wirth in Zurich in 1992 and serves as its president.
J.C. Bamford Excavators
J.C. Bamford Excavators, known as JCB, is a British family-owned maker of construction equipment, founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford in 1945 and best known for backhoe loaders.