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John Gokongwei
John Gokongwei Jr. (1926–2019) was a Filipino-Chinese industrialist who built JG Summit Holdings from a wartime peanut stall in Cebu into one of the Philippines' largest conglomerates.
John Gómez Restrepo
John Gómez Restrepo (1917–2014) was a Colombian businessman and politician who co-founded Productos Familia in 1958, the company behind the Familia tissue brand and Grupo Familia.
John Gribben
John Gribben is a British haemato-oncologist who holds the Gordon Hamilton Fairley Chair at Barts Cancer Institute, led the European Hematology Association from 2019 to 2021, and co-founded the diagnostics company Kinomica.
John Griffin (hedge fund manager)
John Griffin is an American hedge fund manager who founded Blue Ridge Capital, a New York long/short equity fund, in 1996 and closed it in 2017.
John Hancock Infrastructure
John Hancock Infrastructure is the infrastructure private equity platform of insurer John Hancock and its parent Manulife, organized in 2018 around a Boston-based fund that closed with about $2 billion in commitments.
John Harada
John Harada is a Chicago futures trader who co-founded Allston Trading in 2002 with Bob Jordan and Elrick Williams; the algorithmic market maker was sold to DV Group in 2021.
John Hay Whitney
John Hay Whitney, known as Jock Whitney, was an American venture capitalist who founded J.H. Whitney & Company in 1946 and published the New York Herald Tribune.
John Hennegan
John Michael Hennegan is a founding partner of Shore Capital Partners, a Chicago private equity firm, and co-heads its Healthcare Advantage Fund for companies with $10-50 million of EBITDA.
John J. Cafaro
John J. Cafaro, known as Jay or J.J., is an American shopping-center developer who was executive vice president of the Cafaro Company in Youngstown, Ohio.
John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor, born Johann Jacob Astor, was a German-born American fur trader and real estate investor who left a fortune of $20 to $30 million at his death in 1848.
John Jacob Astor IV
John Jacob Astor IV was an American real-estate developer and hotelier who built the St. Regis and helped create the Waldorf-Astoria, dying on the Titanic in 1912.
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 Kim
John Kim is a fundraising executive and investor, known as Chief Client Officer and Managing Director at General Catalyst from 2019 to 2025, then Chair and President of Corporate Development at Lila Sciences.
John Lee (business executive)
John Lee is a business executive who co-founded Everex Systems, a Fremont, California personal computer maker, in 1983, and was appointed its chairman in 1993 as the company filed for bankruptcy.
John Liew (investor)
John Liew is an investor who co-founded AQR Capital Management, a quantitative investment firm, in 1998, and serves as a Founding Principal overseeing research and portfolio management.
John Lindfors
John Lindfors is a Finnish venture capitalist who cofounded DST Global, Yuri Milner's technology investment firm, and is known for leading its investments in Spotify, JD.com, and Didi.
John Luttig
John Luttig is a Partner at Founders Fund, where he rose from Associate to Principal to Partner around December 2022, known for AI investments including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Scale AI.
John M. Shapiro
John M. Shapiro is an American investor who co-founded the New York value investing firm Chieftain Capital Management in 1984 and led it after its 2009 split.
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 Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes was a British economist whose 1936 General Theory argued that market economies can settle with persistent unemployment, reshaping economic policy; he also shaped the 1944 Bretton Woods conference.
John Menard Jr.
John Menard Jr. is an American billionaire retailer who founded and still owns Menards, the largest privately held US home-improvement chain, based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
John Michael Montias
John Michael Montias (1928–2005) was an American Yale economist who first studied Soviet-bloc economies, then pioneered the statistical study of the seventeenth-century Dutch art market.
John Molson
John Molson (1763–1836) was an English-born Montreal businessman who founded the Molson Brewery in 1786, financed Canada's first commercial steamship, and led the Bank of Montreal.
John Moores (BMC Software co-founder)
John Moores is an American software entrepreneur who founded BMC Software in Houston, Texas, in 1980, served as its first CEO, and later founded Peregrine Systems and JMI Equity.
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.
John Neff (investor)
John Neff (1931–2019) was an American value investor who managed Vanguard's Windsor Fund from 1964 to 1995, beating the S&P 500 in 23 of 31 years.
John Overdeck
John Overdeck is an American investor who co-founded Two Sigma, a New York quantitative hedge fund managing roughly $84 billion, and chairs the Institute for Advanced Study.
John P. Daane
John P. Daane is an American semiconductor executive who led Altera as president, CEO, and chairman from 2000 until Intel bought the company for about $16.7 billion in 2015.
John Paul Getty III
John Paul Getty III, also known as J. Paul Getty III, was an American heir and grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, kidnapped in Rome in 1973.
John Paul Getty Jr.
John Paul Getty Jr., later Sir Paul Getty, was an American-born oil-fortune heir and philanthropist who gave more than £120 million to British causes and became a British citizen in 1997.