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Lee Yeow Seng
Lee Yeow Seng is a Malaysian corporate executive, Group CEO of IOI Properties Group, the property arm of the IOI group founded by his father Lee Shin Cheng.
Leopoldo Espinosa Abdalá
Leopoldo Espinosa Abdalá is a Mexican pharmaceutical executive who led Rimsa, his father's drug company, until its $2.3 billion sale to Teva in 2016 made him a billionaire.
Li Cai Meiling family
The Li Cai Meiling family (李蔡美灵家族) is the Hong Kong family behind the Lee Kum Kee sauce group, founded in 1888 and today the world's largest oyster sauce maker.
Lillian Fanjul de Azqueta
Lillian Fanjul de Azqueta is an American businesswoman and director of Fanjul Corp., the sugar and real estate group behind Florida Crystals and Domino Sugar.
Lim Goh Tong
Lim Goh Tong (林梧桐) was a Malaysian entrepreneur who founded the Genting Group in 1965 and built Genting Highlands, the hilltop resort holding Malaysia's only casino license.
Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono
Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono is an Indonesian billionaire businessman who founded and controls the Harita Group, a family-owned conglomerate spanning palm oil, bauxite, and nickel.
Lim Hock Chee
Lim Hock Chee is a Singaporean retail entrepreneur who co-founded Sheng Siong, Singapore's second-largest supermarket chain, with his brothers in 1985 and serves as its chief executive.
Lippo Group
Lippo Group is an Indonesian banking-and-property conglomerate founded by Mochtar Riady, now led by the Riady family through flagship PT Lippo Karawaci, with townships, hospitals, and listed arms in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Lirio Parisotto
Lirio Parisotto (Lírio Parisotto), born in 1953 in Rio Grande do Sul, is a Brazilian petrochemical entrepreneur who founded Videolar-Innova in Manaus, with Forbes estimating his net worth at US$2.7 billion.
Loai Naseem
Loai Naseem, also printed Loay Naseem, is a Saudi fashion designer and entrepreneur who co-founded Lomar, the Jeddah menswear brand known for redefining the traditional Saudi thobe.
Lodha Group
Lodha Group, formally Lodha Developers Limited and traded as Macrotech Developers until 2025, is a Mumbai-headquartered real estate developer controlled by the Lodha family, listed since 2021 and among India's largest by sales.
Lomar
Lomar is a Saudi fashion house based in Jeddah, founded by Loai Naseem and Mona Al-Haddad, known as the first Saudi fashion business to redesign the traditional male thobe.
Lorenzo Servitje
Lorenzo Servitje (1918–2017) was a Mexican businessman who co-founded Panificación Bimbo in Mexico City in 1945, serving as its first manager and building it into Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest baking company.
Lőrinc Mészáros
Lőrinc Mészáros is a Hungarian businessman, a major shareholder of OPUS GLOBAL Nyrt. and the richest person in Hungary, once a gas fitter in Felcsút.
Loutfy Mansour
Loutfy Mansour (1909–1976) was an Egyptian businessman who founded the cotton-exporting firm Loutfy Mansour and Sons in 1952, the origin of Mansour Group, one of Egypt's largest family-owned conglomerates.
Low Tuck Kwong
Low Tuck Kwong, born 1948 in Singapore, is an Indonesian coal tycoon who founded PT Bayan Resources, one of Indonesia's largest coal producers, and became an Indonesian citizen in 1992.
Luciano Hang
Luciano Hang, known as Veio da Havan, is a Brazilian retailer born in 1962 who co-founded the Havan department-store chain in 1986, now Brazil's largest retail billionaire.
Lufussa
Lufussa (Luz y Fuerza de San Lorenzo) is a Honduran private electricity generation company founded in 1994 in San Lorenzo, Valle, with 390 MW of installed capacity.
Luis Kafie
Luis Kafie is a Honduran businessman who founded the electricity generator Lufussa with his brothers Schucry and Eduardo Kafie in 1994, and also leads Lacthosa and Panama's Generadora del Istmo.
Luis Yu Jr.
Luis Yu Jr. is a Filipino real estate developer who founded and chairs 8990 Holdings, a low-cost housing developer whose DECA Homes brand has delivered more than 100,000 units since 2007.
Luiz Augusto Milano
Luiz Augusto Milano is a Brazilian engineer who founded the São Paulo construction company Matec in 1990 and is known as an early adopter of BIM.
Luiz Cezar Fernandes
Luiz Cezar Fernandes is a Brazilian investment banker who co-founded Banco Pactual in 1983 and helped design the Selic settlement system, Cetip, and the CDI interbank rate.
Luksic Group
The Luksic Group is a Chilean family conglomerate founded by Andrónico Luksic Abaroa in 1957, controlling Banco de Chile, CCU, and the London-listed miner Antofagasta plc.
Luz y Fuerza de San Lorenzo
Luz y Fuerza de San Lorenzo, known as Lufussa, is a Honduran electricity generation company founded in 1994 by the Kafie brothers, with 390 MW of thermal capacity at Pavana.
M. M. Murugappan
M. M. Murugappan is an Indian businessman and chemical engineer who served as Executive Chairman of the Murugappa Group, a Chennai conglomerate, from 2018 to 2020.
M. V. Subbiah
M. V. Subbiah is an Indian industrialist who chaired the Murugappa Group from the mid-1990s to April 2001, converting it into a professionally managed conglomerate.
M.A. Kharafi & Sons
M.A. Kharafi & Sons, known as MAK Group, is a private Kuwaiti family group based in Kuwait City, active in contracting, food, tourism real estate, and finance.
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, also known as Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, was a Danish shipowner who led the A.P. Moller–Maersk shipping group for 38 years, building it into the world's largest shipowner.
Mahomedali Habib
Mahomedali Habib, also spelled Muhammad Ali Habib, was a Bombay-born banker (1904–1959) who co-founded Habib Bank Limited with his brother Dawood in 1941, later moving it to Karachi at Jinnah's request.
Maja Hoffmann
Maja Hoffmann, born 1956 in Basel, is a Swiss heir to the Hoffmann-La Roche fortune and founder of the LUMA Foundation, president of the Locarno Film Festival since 2023.