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Angelini Group
The Angelini Group is a Chilean family business group based in Santiago, active in forestry, fuel distribution, energy, fishing, and mining through AntarChile and Empresas Copec.
Angelo Gaja
Angelo Gaja, born in 1940 in Alba, Piedmont, is a fourth-generation Italian winemaker who joined his family's Barbaresco estate in 1961 and expanded it to Tuscany and Sicily.
Anthoni Salim
Anthoni Salim is an Indonesian businessman who leads the Salim Group conglomerate and has been President Director and CEO of Indofood, maker of Indomie noodles, since 2004.
Antônio Ermírio de Moraes
Antônio Ermírio de Moraes (1928–2014) was a Brazilian industrialist who chaired the family-owned Grupo Votorantim for roughly four decades and was an original Forbes billionaire in 1987.
Aponte family
The Aponte family founded and owns MSC, the Geneva-based shipping group started by Gianluigi and Rafaela Aponte in 1970, now the world's largest container line.
Arab Bank
Arab Bank is a Jordanian public shareholding bank headquartered in Amman, founded in Jerusalem in 1930 by Abdul Hameed Shoman and operating in 28 countries.
Arminio Fraga
Arminio Fraga Neto is a Brazilian economist and investor, president of the Central Bank of Brazil from 1999 to 2002 and founding partner of Gávea Investimentos.
Arnold Peter Møller
Arnold Peter Møller, known as A.P. Møller (1876–1965), was a Danish shipowner who founded in 1904 the shipping company that grew into A.P. Moller – Maersk.
Arri Coser
Arri Coser is a Brazilian restaurateur from Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul, who co-founded Fogo de Chão in Porto Alegre and now leads the MDR Group of restaurants.
Arthur Anderson (shipowner)
Arthur Anderson (1792–1868) was a Shetland-born shipowner and radical Liberal MP who, with Brodie McGhie Willcox, founded the shipping line that became P&O, the world's largest steamship fleet by his death.
Arthur Eze
Arthur Eze, born 1948 in Ukpo, Nigeria, is an oil businessman and founder of Atlas Oranto Petroleum, an Abuja-based group holding licenses across roughly a dozen African countries.
Astor family
The Astor family, also known as the Astors, is an American business dynasty founded by John Jacob Astor, whose fur-trade and Manhattan real-estate fortune made it the world's wealthiest.
Astra International
Astra International is an Indonesian diversified conglomerate founded in 1957 by William Soeryadjaya and built around vehicle assembly, distribution, and financing, controlled since 2000 by Jardine Cycle & Carriage.
Atlas Oranto Petroleum
Atlas Oranto Petroleum is an Abuja-headquartered oil and gas exploration and production group founded by Nigerian businessman Prince Arthur Eze, holding 22 licenses across 12 African countries.
August Thyssen
August Thyssen (1842–1926) was a German steel industrialist who founded the Thyssen & Co. rolling mill near Mülheim in 1871 and built it into a conglomerate employing 77,000 by 1913.
AW Rostamani Group
AW Rostamani Group (AWR Group) is a Dubai-based, family-owned conglomerate founded in 1954 as a bookshop, now spanning automotive, real estate, logistics, and travel, chaired by Khalid Al Rostamani.
AZB & Partners
AZB & Partners is a full-service Indian corporate law firm founded in 2004 by Zia Mody, Ajay Bahl, and Bahram Vakil, with six offices and more than 700 lawyers.
Aziz Akhannouch
Aziz Akhannouch, born in 1961, is a Moroccan politician and businessman who has served as prime minister of Morocco since 2021 and owns the Akwa Group conglomerate.
Baba Ahmadou Danpullo
Baba Ahmadou Danpullo, born in 1950, is a Cameroonian businessman who founded and solely owns the Baba Ahmadou Group, a family holding active in tea, flour, livestock, and telecoms.
Baba Ahmadou Group
The Baba Ahmadou Group is a Douala-based, family-owned Cameroonian conglomerate founded by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo in 1976, with operations in Cameroon, South Africa, Nigeria, and Switzerland.
Baba Kalyani
Baba Kalyani, also known as Babasaheb Kalyani, is an Indian industrialist who has led Bharat Forge in Pune since 1993, building it into the world's second-largest auto forging company.
Bachtiar Karim
Bachtiar Karim, born Lim Ek Tjioe, is an Indonesian businessman who chairs Musim Mas, a Singapore-headquartered palm oil group, and is worth an estimated US$4.2 billion.
Banco Garantia
Banco Garantia was a Brazilian investment bank in Rio de Janeiro, founded by Jorge Paulo Lemann in 1971, that dominated Brazilian markets until its 1998 sale to Credit Suisse.
Banco Macro
Banco Macro is an Argentine commercial bank built by the Brito and Carballo families from the mid-1980s into one of the country's largest private banks.
Banco Safra
Banco Safra is a Brazilian commercial and private bank headquartered in São Paulo, created in 1972 by brothers Joseph, Moise, and Edmond Safra and controlled by the Safra family.
Barito Pacific
Barito Pacific is a Jakarta-based Indonesian conglomerate founded by Prajogo Pangestu in 1979 as a timber business, listed since 1993, now centered on petrochemicals, geothermal power, and infrastructure.
Bayan Resources
Bayan Resources is an Indonesian coal mining group headquartered in Jakarta and controlled by its founder, Low Tuck Kwong, with a record 68 million tonnes produced in 2025.
Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan
Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan (1924–2015) was a Pakistani businesswoman who chaired the Saif Group from 1964 to 1990 and is recognized as Pakistan's first woman federal minister.
Beleza Natural
Beleza Natural is a Brazilian chain of beauty institutes specializing in curly and coily hair, founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1993 by Zica Assis and three partners.
Benedict Peters
Benedict Peters is a Nigerian businessman, born in 1966, who founded and leads Aiteo, an oil and gas producer built on the 2015 OML 29 purchase.