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Jack Cohen (businessman)
Jack Cohen, born John Edward Cohen, was a British grocer who built Tesco from a single East End market stall into one of Britain's largest retailers.
Jade Holland Cooper
Jade Holland Cooper, born 1986, is a British fashion designer who founded the Cotswolds countrywear brand Holland Cooper in 2008; it filed £50 million turnover in 2025.
James Lambert (businessman)
James Scott Lambert is a British businessman who co-founded Richmond Ice Cream in Yorkshire in 1985, building it into R&R Ice Cream, Europe's largest own-label maker, sold in 2013.
James Lofthouse
James Lofthouse (1841–1906) was an English pharmacist in Fleetwood, Lancashire, who in 1865 devised the liquorice and menthol remedy that became Fisherman's Friend, still made by his family firm five generations later.
James Watt (entrepreneur)
James Watt is a Scottish entrepreneur who co-founded the brewer BrewDog with Martin Dickie, built it on Equity for Punks crowdfunding, and led it until 2024.
Jan Boone Sr.
Jan Boone Sr. was a Belgian baker who in 1932 co-founded the Lotus Bakeries speculoos bakery in Lembeke, East Flanders, with his brothers Henri and Emiel Boone.
Jan Jenisch
Jan Jenisch is a Swiss construction-materials executive who was CEO of Sika from 2012 to 2017 and of Holcim from 2017 to 2024, and now leads Amrize, Holcim's North American spin-off, as Chairman and CEO.
Jan Kemper
Jan Kemper is a German finance executive, business angel, and honorary professor at RWTH Aachen who has been chairman and investor at the Cologne endurance-sports apparel maker Ryzon since 2016.
Javier Luengo Egido
Javier Luengo Egido is a Spanish businessman, grandson of Grupo SAMCA's founder Ángel Luengo, who has presided the family industrial group from Ariño, Aragón since a 2010 succession pact.
Jean-Christophe Granier
Jean-Christophe Granier is a British businessman and former Aberdeen solicitor who led the Angus textile manufacturer J&D Wilkie from 2012 to 2023 and now leads iGii.
Jean-Michel Signoles
Jean-Michel Signoles, born in 1949 in Carcassonne, is a French entrepreneur who founded the brand Chipie at seventeen and bought and revived the trunk-maker Goyard in 1998.
Jeffrey Hyman
Jeffrey Hyman was a London food-industry businessman who founded the original Pret A Manger shop in Hampstead in October 1984, during a long career at Rank Hovis McDougall.
Jenna Meek
Jenna Meek is a British beauty entrepreneur from Bishop Auckland who founded the glitter brand Shrine in 2016 and co-founded REFY with influencer Jess Hunt in 2020.
Jens Grede
Jens Grede is a Swedish-born fashion entrepreneur who co-founded Frame in 2012 and is CEO of SKIMS, the shapewear company he co-founded with Kim Kardashian in 2019.
Jerzy Starak
Jerzy Starak, born in 1947, is a Polish billionaire businessman who took over Polpharma in 2000 and built it into Poland's largest generic drug maker.
Jesús Núñez Velázquez
Jesús Núñez Velázquez is a Spanish education entrepreneur, born in Pecharromán, who founded Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio in 1993, Spain's first private university not affiliated with the Catholic Church.
Jim Ratcliffe
Jim Ratcliffe, also known as Sir James Arthur Ratcliffe, is a British billionaire industrialist who founded and majority-owns Ineos and controls Manchester United's football operations.
JobRad Holding AG
JobRad Holding AG, founded by Ulrich Prediger in Freiburg in 2008, leases company bikes to employees through salary arrangements and leads German bike leasing with about 45 percent market share.
Johann Offner Unternehmensgruppe
Johann Offner Unternehmensgruppe is an eighth-generation family-owned industrial group in Wolfsberg, Austria, founded in 1755, combining Europe's largest long-handle tool factories with a sawmill and KLH cross-laminated timber.
Johannes Hendrikus van Marwijk Kooy
Johannes Hendrikus van Marwijk Kooy (1847–1916) was a Dutch brewer and businessman who co-founded the Amstel Brewery in Amsterdam in 1870 with his brother-in-law Charles de Pesters.
Johannes Thurzó
Johannes Thurzó (Hungarian: Thurzó János; Slovak: Ján Thurzo, 1437–1508) was a Kraków merchant and mining engineer who co-founded the Thurzó–Fugger copper company with Jakob Fugger in 1494.
John Davenport Siddeley
John Davenport Siddeley (1866–1953) was an English motor-industry manager and aircraft manufacturer who built Siddeley-Deasy in Coventry into a major war contractor and led Armstrong Siddeley.
John Johnston (Scottish distiller)
John Johnston, also spelled Johnstone, was a Scottish distiller who began legal whisky-making at Lagavulin on Islay in 1816 and ran it until his death in 1836.
John Mappin
John Mappin, born 1965, is a British hotel owner from the Mappin and Webb jewelry family who runs Camelot Castle Hotel in Tintagel, Cornwall.
John Moores (British businessman)
Sir John Moores (1896–1993) was an English businessman who founded Littlewoods in Liverpool in 1923 as a football-pools company and built it into a retail group.
Joseph Charles Benziger
Joseph Charles Benziger (Josef Karl Benziger, 1762–1841) was a Swiss Catholic businessman who founded a religious publishing house at Einsiedeln, Switzerland, in 1803; its successor, RCL Benziger, still publishes religious education materials.
Joseph Cyril Bamford
Joseph Cyril Bamford, known as Joe Bamford, was the English industrialist who founded JCB in a Uttoxeter garage in 1945 and pioneered the backhoe loader in 1953.
Joseph Damm
Joseph Damm (?–1907) was an Alsatian-born brewer who settled in Barcelona, where after 1881 he founded the breweries whose line of succession leads to S.A. Damm.
Joseph Draps
Joseph Draps was a Belgian chocolatier who worked in his family's Brussels chocolate business from age 14, took control after World War II, and built it into Godiva Chocolatier.
Joseph Terry
Joseph Terry (1793–1850) was an English confectioner who took over a York sweet business founded in 1767 and, using the railways, made Terry's products known across England.