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Jorge Paulo Lemann
Jorge Paulo Lemann, also known as Jorge Lemann, is a Brazilian billionaire investor who co-founded 3G Capital in 2004 and built AB InBev, the world's largest brewer.
José A. Muguerza
José A. Muguerza (1858–1939) was a Monterrey merchant, banker, and industrialist who co-founded the Cervecería Cuauhtémoc brewery in 1890 and founded the hospital now called Christus Muguerza.
José Batista Sobrinho
José Batista Sobrinho, known as Zé Mineiro, is the Brazilian founder of JBS, the world's largest meat company, which he began as a butcher shop in Anápolis, Goiás, in 1953.
José Coppel Luken
José Coppel Luken is a Mexican billionaire who co-owns Grupo Coppel with four brothers, serving as a patrimonial director on the board of the Culiacán-based retail and banking group.
José E. Feliciano
José E. Feliciano is a private equity investor who co-founded Clearlake Capital Group in 2006. He holds an MBA from Stanford and has overseen the firm's growth to over $185 billion.
Jose E.B. Antonio
Jose E.B. Antonio is a Filipino real estate developer who founded Manila-based Century Properties Group in 1986 and was named Philippine special trade envoy to the United States in 2016.
José Fanjul
José "Pepe" Fanjul is a Cuba-born American sugar executive who fled Cuba with his family in 1959 and co-leads Fanjul Corp. and Florida Crystals, the group behind Domino Sugar.
Jose P. Zevallos
Jose P. Zevallos is an American head and neck oncologic surgeon, chair of otolaryngology at the University of Pittsburgh since 2022 and scientific co-founder of Droplet Biosciences.
Jose Roberto Nogueira
José Roberto Nogueira, born 1965, is a Brazilian entrepreneur who founded Brisanet in 1998 in Pereiro, Ceará, and leads it as chief executive; the company listed on B3 in 2021.
José T. Mata
José T. Mata (1917–1997) was a Mexican businessman who co-founded the import-export firm Servitje y Mata and was a founding partner of Panificación Bimbo in 1945.
Jose-Alain Sahel
José-Alain Sahel is a French ophthalmologist who founded the Institut de la Vision, chairs ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh, and co-founded about a dozen biotech companies.
Josef Prusa
Josef Prusa, born 1990, is a Czech entrepreneur who founded Prusa Research, a Prague-based 3D printer maker, in 2012, selling over 500,000 printers with no outside investment.
Joseph Cashen
Joseph Cashen (1934–2022) was a co-founder of Prime Computer in 1972, serving as VP Hardware Engineering for 20 years at the Natick, Massachusetts minicomputer maker.
Joseph Charles Benziger
Joseph Charles Benziger (Josef Karl Benziger, 1762–1841) was a Swiss Catholic businessman who founded a religious publishing house at Einsiedeln, Switzerland, in 1803; its successor, RCL Benziger, still publishes religious education materials.
Joseph Coulter (businessman)
Joseph Coulter (1924–1995) was an American businessman who co-founded Coulter Electronics in 1958 with his brother Wallace and led the maker of the Coulter Counter.
Joseph Cyril Bamford
Joseph Cyril Bamford, known as Joe Bamford, was the English industrialist who founded JCB in a Uttoxeter garage in 1945 and pioneered the backhoe loader in 1953.
Joseph Damm
Joseph Damm (?–1907) was an Alsatian-born brewer who settled in Barcelona, where after 1881 he founded the breweries whose line of succession leads to S.A. Damm.
Joseph Draps
Joseph Draps was a Belgian chocolatier who worked in his family's Brussels chocolate business from age 14, took control after World War II, and built it into Godiva Chocolatier.
Joseph Edelman
Joseph Edelman is an American hedge fund manager, founder and CEO of Perceptive Advisors, a New York firm managing about $11 billion with a focus on biotechnology stocks.
Joseph Hsu
Joseph Hsu (徐祥, Hsu Hsiang), born 1957, is a Taiwanese executive who co-founded computer hardware maker Micro-Star International (MSI) in 1986 and has served as its chairman since.
Joseph J. DePaolo
Joseph J. DePaolo is an American banker who co-founded Signature Bank in 2001 and served as its president and CEO for 22 years until New York regulators closed it in March 2023.
Joseph L. Rice III
Joseph L. Rice III, born around 1932, is an American private equity investor who co-founded Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in 1978, chairing the firm until 2012.
Joseph Lau
Joseph Lau Luen-hung (刘銮雄) is a Hong Kong property developer and investor who founded Evergo in 1978 and built it into the listed Chinese Estates Holdings.
Joseph Loose
Joseph Loose was an American biscuit manufacturer who resigned from Nabisco's board to co-found the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company in Kansas City in 1902, maker of the Hydrox cookie.
Joseph M. Schnaider
Joseph M. Schnaider (1858–1922) was an American master brewer who co-founded Cervecería Cuauhtémoc in Monterrey in 1890, holding half its shares and creating the Carta Blanca brand.
Joseph Magen
Joseph Magen is an Israeli high-tech and venture-capital professional who co-founded the Christian news outlet All Israel News in 2020, serving as chief operating officer until 2025.
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was an American financier who became the youngest bank president at 25, made a fortune in 1920s stocks and Hollywood, and chaired the new SEC.
Joseph Phua
Joseph Phua is a Singapore-based technology entrepreneur who co-founded the dating app Paktor in 2013, then founded M17 Entertainment, now 17LIVE Group, which listed on the Singapore Exchange in 2023.
Joseph Robinson Lindley
Joseph Robinson Lindley, known in Peru as José, was a British immigrant who founded a soft-drinks company in Lima in 1910 that created Inca Kola, which outsold Coca-Cola in Peru.
Joseph Safra
Joseph Safra (1938–2020) was a Lebanese-born Brazilian banker who built Banco Safra in São Paulo into one of Brazil's largest private banks, worth $23.2 billion at his death.