Carnegie

Carnegie ( full name Andrew Carnegie ) was born on 25 November, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. He was a great industrialist and philanthropist. Biography and Career : His father was a weaver and with the advent of the mechanical loom was put out of work and so the Carnegies emigrated to Pittsburg in 1848. Carnegie had various jobs including as a textile factory hand, a telegraphist and a ...

Date added: 22 November '07

Roman Abramovich

Roman Abramovich was born on October 24, 1966 in Saratov on the Volga River in Southern Russia. He is a Russian oil billionaire and the main owner of private investment company Millhouse Capital, referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs. Biography and Career : His mother died when he was 18 months old and his father was killed in a construction accident when Roman was age 4. Roman Abr ...

Date added: 29 June '08

Henry Ford

Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in Michigan, Wayne District, USA. He was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. Biography and Career : Although he spent his childhood helping his father with the work at their ranch, Henry loved neither the ranch, nor the school. At the age of 16, he went to Detroit to find a job. At first, he ...

Date added: 13 February '07

Barry Diller

Barry Diller was born on February 2, 1942 in Beverly Hills, California, USA. He is one of the people who created Fox Broadcasting Company and a media executive. Biography and Career : He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, but after only one semester he renounced and decided to start working at first at the mailroom of the William Morris Agency. In 1966 ABC hired him and afte ...

Date added: 26 August '07

Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison (birth name Lawrence Joseph Ellison) was born on August 17, 1944 in Bronx, New York, USA. He is the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company. Biography and Career : He was born to Florence Spellman, a 19-year-old unwed Jewish mother and because of her mother situation he had to be raised by his aunt and uncle, Lillian Spellman El ...

Date added: 10 March '08