Edgar Prince (1931–1995) was an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded Prince Manufacturing in Holland, Michigan. His company became a major supplier of automotive components, particularly die-cast parts and lighted sun visors, before being sold to Johnson Controls.
Erik Prince (b. 1969) is an American businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL best known as the founder of the private military contractor Blackwater Worldwide (later Xe Services and Academi). His company became a major security contractor for the U.S. government during the Iraq War.
Isaac Roosevelt (1726–1794) was an American merchant, industrialist, and politician in colonial New York. A sugar refiner and cofounder of the Bank of New York, he also served in the New York Provincial Congress and State Senate and was an ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was a nineteenth-century American shipping magnate and railroad tycoon who built the New York Central Railroad empire and became the richest man in the United States upon his death.
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt was an American businessman and yachtsman who twice won the America’s Cup and created the Vanderbilt Trophy in contract bridge, while also serving as a director of the New York Central Railroad.
William Henry Vanderbilt was an American railroad magnate who expanded the New York Central system and doubled the Vanderbilt fortune after inheriting his father Cornelius Vanderbilt’s transportation empire in the late nineteenth century.
Gary Vermeer was an American entrepreneur who founded Vermeer Manufacturing in Pella, Iowa, in 1948. His innovations in agricultural machinery helped transform modern farming equipment and built a global manufacturing company.
Simeon De Witt (1756–1834) was New York State’s long-serving Surveyor General, a Revolutionary War army geographer, planner of New York City’s grid street system, Erie Canal commissioner, and an early founder and land developer of Ithaca, New York.
Bernard “Bernie” Zondervan (1910–1966) was an American religious book publisher who co-founded Zondervan Corporation with his brother Peter in 1931, building one of the largest Christian publishing houses in the United States.
Peter “Pat” Zondervan (1909–1993) was an American publisher who co-founded Zondervan Corporation with his brother Bernard in 1931, helping build one of the largest Christian publishing houses and producing the influential New International Version Bible.
