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John Paulson
John Paulson is an American investor who founded hedge fund Paulson & Co. in 1994 and made his fortune betting against subprime mortgages in 2007.
John Peterman
John Peterman is an American retail entrepreneur who founded the J. Peterman Company in 1987, lost it in a 1999 bankruptcy, and bought it back.
John Pilkington (shipbroker)
John Pilkington (1820–1890) was a Liverpool shipbroker who, with Henry Threlfall Wilson, founded in 1845 the firm from which the original White Star Line grew, leaving in 1856.
John Player & Sons
John Player & Sons, known as Player's, was a Nottingham tobacco manufacturer founded by John Player, best known for Navy Cut cigarettes and its sailor's head trademark.
John Puckett
John Puckett is an American businessman who co-founded Caribou Coffee in Minnesota in 1992 with his wife Kim, building it into the country's second-largest company-owned coffeehouse chain.
John Quigley (venture investor)
John Quigley is an American venture investor who cofounded YL Ventures in 2007, a Silicon Valley firm investing exclusively in Israeli cybersecurity companies from seed stage.
John Reilly (businessman)
John Reilly is an American private equity investor who co-founded Chicago Growth Partners in 2004, a spin-out of William Blair Capital Partners that raised about $780 million.
John Rigas
John J. Rigas (1924–2021) was an American cable television pioneer, the son of Greek immigrants, who built Adelphia Communications into a leading cable provider before his 2004 fraud conviction.
John S. Chen
John S. Chen is a Hong Kong-born American technology executive who led Sybase's turnaround and served as BlackBerry's Executive Chair and CEO from 2013 to 2023.
John S. Chipman
John Somerset Chipman (1926–2022) was a Canadian-born economist at the University of Minnesota, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993, known for his survey of international trade theory.
John Sall
John Sall is an American software developer and businessman who co-founded SAS Institute in 1976, owns one-third of the analytics company, and founded and leads its JMP statistics subsidiary.
John Sculley
John Sculley is an American technology executive, recruited from PepsiCo, who served as Apple's CEO from 1983 to 1993 and pushed Steve Jobs out in 1985.
John Singleton (Australian entrepreneur)
John Singleton, known as Singo, is an Australian advertising entrepreneur who founded the agency SPASM in 1968, pioneered the ocker style, and became a major racehorse breeder.
John Stuelpnagel
John Stuelpnagel is an American genomics entrepreneur who co-founded Illumina in San Diego in 1998, led it as first CEO, and later chaired 10x Genomics.
John Stumpf
John G. Stumpf is an American banking executive who led Wells Fargo as CEO from 2007 to 2016, resigning after the fake-accounts scandal cost him roughly $70 million.
John T. Walton
John T. Walton, also known as John Thomas Walton, was the second son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, a Silver Star–decorated Special Forces medic, and a leading school-choice philanthropist.
John Tamberlane
John Tamberlane is an American banker who co-founded Signature Bank of New York in 2001 after two decades at Republic National Bank, serving as vice chairman until 2022.
John Taylor (manufacturer)
John Taylor (c.1711–1775) was a Birmingham manufacturer of buttons and japanned ware who co-founded Taylors & Lloyds in 1765, the bank from which Lloyds Banking Group descends.
John Taylor junior
John Taylor junior (died 1814) was an English banker who co-founded Taylors & Lloyds in Birmingham in 1765, the partnership from which Lloyds Bank descends.
John Textor
John Textor is an American businessman who built Eagle Football Holdings, holding Lyon, Botafogo, and Crystal Palace stakes, before its creditor placed the group into administration in March 2026.
John Tite
John Tite is an immunologist who served as founding chief executive of Bicycle Therapeutics, a Cambridge UK biotech spun out of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2009.
John Tu
John Tu is a Chinese-born engineer who co-founded Kingston Technology with David Sun in 1987, sold 80% to Softbank for $1.5 billion in 1996, and bought it back in 1999.
John Tunstall
John Tunstall, also known as John Henry Tunstall, was an English-born merchant and rancher in Lincoln County, New Mexico, whose 1878 killing sparked the Lincoln County War.
John V. Oyler
John V. Oyler is an American entrepreneur who co-founded BeiGene in 2010 and serves as Chairman and CEO of BeOne Medicines, the global oncology company formerly named BeiGene.
John Vechey
John Vechey is an American games entrepreneur who co-founded PopCap Games in Seattle in 2000, sold to Electronic Arts in 2011 for up to $1.3 billion.
John Vernou Bouvier III
John Vernou Bouvier III, known on Wall Street as Black Jack, was an American stockbroker and socialite, father of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and his daughter Lee.
John Vrionis
John Vrionis is a venture capitalist and co-founder of Unusual Ventures, founded in 2018, best known for an early investment in AppDynamics, which Cisco bought for $3.7 billion in 2017.
John W. Childs
John W. Childs, known as Jack Childs, is an American private equity investor who founded J.W. Childs Associates in 1995 and led the 1992 Snapple buyout.
John W. Daniels
John W. Daniels was an American businessman who founded the Daniels Linseed Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1902, the flaxseed crushing firm that became ADM.
John W. Henry
John W. Henry is an American investor and sports owner who founded John W. Henry & Company in 1981 and owns the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC.