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Joe Hill
Joe Hill, born Joseph Hillstrom, was a Swedish-born American songwriter and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, executed in Utah in 1915 on contested murder charges.
Joe Mansueto
Joe Mansueto is an American entrepreneur and investor who founded Morningstar in Chicago in 1984, and also owns Chicago Fire FC and the magazines Inc. and Fast Company.
Joe O'Mara
Joseph O'Mara (born 1979) is an Irish private equity investor based in London who co-founded Aspirity Partners after 14 years at Vitruvian Partners; its debut fund closed at over €875 million in 2025.
Joe Ricketts
Joe Ricketts is an American businessman who founded the Omaha brokerage that became TD Ameritrade and whose family owns a controlling stake in the Chicago Cubs.
Joe Ritchie
Joe Ritchie (1947–2022) was an American options and commodities trader who founded Chicago Research and Trading in 1977, sold it to NationsBank for $225 million in 1993.
Joe Rogers Sr.
Joe Rogers Sr. (1919–2017) was an American restaurateur who co-founded Waffle House with Tom Forkner, opening the first 24-hour restaurant in Avondale Estates, Georgia, on Labor Day 1955.
Joe Scaravella
Joe Scaravella, also known as Jody Scaravella, is an American restaurant founder who opened Enoteca Maria on Staten Island in 2007, where rotating grandmothers cook their homelands' food.
Joel Bar-El
Joel Bar-El is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Trax, a Singapore-based retail computer vision company, in 2010 and led it as chief executive from 2011 to 2021.
Joel C. Rosenberg
Joel C. Rosenberg is an American-Israeli novelist and journalist who founded the Jerusalem-based news outlets All Israel News and All Arab News on September 1, 2020, and edits both.
Joel E. Cutler
Joel E. Cutler is an American venture capitalist who co-founded General Catalyst in January 2000; his consumer-internet investments include Airbnb, KAYAK, Lemonade, Oscar Health, Warby Parker, and ITA Software.
Joel Greenblatt
Joel Greenblatt is an American value investor who founded Gotham Capital in 1985, compounding at 50% yearly through 1994, and wrote The Little Book that Beats the Market.
Joel Kellman
Joel Kellman is an American venture capitalist who co-founded GGV Capital in 2000 and earlier spent nearly two decades as a partner at Fenwick & West.
Joel Owsley Cheek
Joel Owsley Cheek (1852–1935) was an American grocer and coffee blender who founded the Maxwell House coffee brand in Nashville, Tennessee, and sold its parent company, Cheek-Neal, to Postum in 1928.
Joen Bonnier
Joen Bonnier is a venture capital investor who has been Partner, Corporate Development at Atomico since 2017, after a media career at Bertelsmann and the Bonnier Group.
Johan Brenner
Johan Brenner is a Swedish venture capitalist and General Partner at Creandum in Stockholm, best known for early backing of European fintechs including iZettle, Klarna, and Trade Republic.
Johan Tjarnberg
Johan Tjärnberg is a Swedish payments entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Bambora, sold to Ingenico in 2017 for about €1.5 billion, and later chief executive of Trustly.
Johann Kaemingk
Johann Kaemingk is a Dutch options trader who founded the market-making firm Optiver in Amsterdam in 1986 and led it as chief executive until 2013.
Johann Offner
Johann Offner is an Austrian family-business executive who leads the Johann Offner group in Wolfsberg, Carinthia, an eighth-generation firm founded in 1755 with over 700 employees.
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.
Johann Rupert
Johann Rupert is a South African businessman who chairs Richemont, the Swiss luxury group behind Cartier and Montblanc, which he founded in 1988, and Remgro.
Johannes Aspeby
Johannes Aspeby is a Swedish video-game developer who co-founded Coffee Stain Studios in Skövde in 2010, coded the goat in Goat Simulator, and later served as the studio's CEO.
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 Schildt
Johannes Schildt, born in 1988, is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded the digital healthcare company Kry and served as its chief executive from 2015 until December 2024.
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 A. Bailey
John A. Bailey is an American energy investor and partner at Yorktown Partners, a private equity firm, where he sits on boards including Carbon Energy and Solar Proponent.
John A. Canning Jr.
John A. Canning Jr. is an American private equity investor who co-founded Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago buyout firm, in 1992 and led it as chief executive until 2007.
John Angelo (investor)
John Angelo was an American investor who co-founded the New York distressed-debt manager Angelo, Gordon & Co. in 1988, leading it as it grew to $26 billion in assets.
John Aspinall (zoo owner)
John Victor Aspinall (1926–2000), English gambling-club owner and zoo founder; ran the Clermont Club and Aspinall Curzon, financed Howletts and Port Lympne parks in Kent, and founded the Aspinall Foundation for rewilding.
John Aspinwall Roosevelt
John Aspinwall Roosevelt, also known as John A. Roosevelt, was an American stockbroker and the sixth and last child of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
John B. Stetson
John Batterson Stetson (1830–1906) was a New Jersey-born hatmaker who founded the John B. Stetson Company in Philadelphia in 1865 and marketed the "Boss of the Plains" cowboy hat.