Business Week Great Innovators
As part of its anniversary celebration, BusinessWeek is presenting a series of weekly profiles
of the greatest innovators of the past 75 years. Some made their mark in science or technology;
others in management, finance, marketing, or government.
Akio Morita
Alan Turing
Alfred Sloan
An Wang
Bill Gates
Bill Paley
Bill Veeck
Billy Durant
Charles Merrill
Charles Townes
Chet Carlson
David Lilienthal
David Sarnoff
Deming and Juran
Douglas C. Engelbart
Edwin Land
Elvis Presley
Enrico Fermi
Frances Perkins
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Whittle
Frederick W. Smith
Giannini
Henry Chauncey
Hewlett Packard
Intel
Jack Welch
James Watson
Jane Jacobs
John Maynard Keynes
John von Neumann
Jonas Salk
Juan Trippe
Kemmons Wilson
Larry Roberts
Lewis S. Ranieri
Margaret Sanger
Mark McCormack
Martin Luther King
Mr. Chips
Pete Rozelle
Peter Drucker
Peter Goldmark
Pierre M. Omidyar
Ray Kroc
Richard Feynman
Robert Swanson
Sam Walton
Soichiro Honda
Steve Jobs
Thomas Watson
Three Wise Men of Finance
(Markowitz, Sharpe, Miller)
Timothy J. Berners
Toyoda
Walt Disney
William Levitt