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Founders Library

Who the books are about

Founders & subjects

219 people and families, grouped by the field they worked in. The number is how many books in the library are about them.

Technology

Steve Jobs 17Elon Musk 8Bill Gates 5Paul Allen 5Larry Ellison 4Andy Grove 3Peter Thiel 3Robert Noyce 3Claude Shannon 2Mark Zuckerberg 2Paul Graham 2Vannevar Bush 2Akio Morita 1Ben Horowitz 1Danny Lewin 1Demis Hassabis 1Evan Spiegel 1Jack Ma 1Jensen Huang 1Jim Clark 1Linus Torvalds 1Marc Andreessen 1Michael Dell 1Naval Ravikant 1Sidney Harman 1Thomas Watson 1

Retail

Jeff Bezos 7Sam Walton 3Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank 1Chuck Feeney 1Ingvar Kamprad 1Joe Coulombe 1Ken Langone 1Les Schwab 1Paul Orfalea 1Robert Campeau 1Robert Kierlin 1Rose Blumkin 1Sol Price 1

Autos

Enzo Ferrari 5Henry Ford 5Billy Durant 4Alfred Sloan 2The Michelin Brothers 2Carroll Shelby 1Ettore Bugatti 1Henry Leland 1Henry Royce 1Larry Miller 1Soichiro Honda 1The Dodge Brothers 1Walter Chrysler 1

Media

Walt Disney 5Anna Wintour 2Ed Catmull 2Charles Schulz 1Felix Dennis 1John Malone 1Joseph Pulitzer 1Katharine Graham 1Michael Bloomberg 1Stan Lee 1Ted Turner 1Tom Murphy 1William Randolph Hearst 1

Finance

J.P. Morgan 3Jay Gould 3The Rothschilds 3Dee Hock 2Hetty Green 2A.G. Gaston 1Henry Goldman 1Ivar Kreuger 1Jacob Fugger 1Joseph P. Kennedy 1Ken Griffin 1Marcus Wallenberg 1Siggi Wilzig 1

Investing

Warren Buffett 13Charlie Munger 8Ed Thorp 2John Bogle 2Bill Gurley 1Georges Doriot 1Jim Simons 1Li Lu 1Mark Spitznagel 1Nick Sleep 1Peter Cundill 1Ray Dalio 1

Industry

Andrew Carnegie 4Brad Jacobs 3Henry Clay Frick 2Henry Singleton 2Alfred Nobel 1Chung Ju-yung 1Gaston Glock 1Jim Clayton 1Sam Colt 1Samuel Insull 1

Food

Danny Meyer 1Dietrich Mateschitz 1Harry Snyder 1Julio Lobo 1Michele Ferrero 1Milton Hershey 1Ray Kroc 1Sam Bronfman 1Sam Zemurray 1William Rosenberg 1

History

Winston Churchill 6Napoleon 5Ben Franklin 3Theodore Roosevelt 3Alexander the Great 2Charles de Gaulle 2Jesus 1Socrates 1

Music

Jimmy Buffett 2Rick Rubin 2Bob Dylan 1Bruce Springsteen 1David Geffen 1Jay-Z 1Jimi Hendrix 1Mozart 1

Invention

Edwin Land 5Thomas Edison 4James Dyson 3Alexander Graham Bell 1Charles Goodyear 1Charles Kettering 1Nikola Tesla 1

Fashion

Christian Dior 2Coco Chanel 2Amancio Ortega 1Brunello Cucinelli 1Cristóbal Balenciaga 1Leonardo Del Vecchio 1Ralph Lauren 1

Film

Christopher Nolan 1Francis Ford Coppola 1George Lucas 1James Cameron 1Louis B. Mayer 1Quentin Tarantino 1Steven Spielberg 1

Aviation

The Wright Brothers 2Chuck Yeager 1Howard Hughes 1Jackie Cochran 1Kelly Johnson 1Robert Goddard 1Walter and Olive Ann Beech 1

Writing

Dr. Seuss 1Ernest Hemingway 1Haruki Murakami 1Kevin Kelly 1Mark Twain 1Robert Caro 1Stephen King 1

Oil

John D. Rockefeller 7J. Paul Getty 2Leon Hess 1Marc Rich 1Monty Moncrief 1Raymond Plank 1

Sports

Kobe Bryant 3Michael Jordan 3Andre Agassi 1Bill Walsh 1Roger Federer 1Tiger Woods 1

Entertainment

Arnold Schwarzenegger 3Ari Emanuel 1Johnny Carson 1Lucille Ball 1Michael Ovitz 1P.T. Barnum 1

Apparel

Phil Knight 2Yvon Chouinard 2Adi Dassler 1Bill Bowerman 1Levi Strauss 1Paul Van Doren 1

Transport

Cornelius Vanderbilt 2Frederick Smith 1Henry Flagler 1James J. Hill 1Jim Casey 1

Hotels

César Ritz 1Conrad Hilton 1Isadore Sharp 1Kirk Kerkorian 1

Games

John Carmack and John Romero 1Nolan Bushnell 1Richard Garriott 1Sid Meier 1

Advertising

David Ogilvy 5Claude Hopkins 2Edward Bernays 1

Shipping

Aristotle Onassis 2Daniel Ludwig 1Malcom McLean 1

Art

Joseph Duveen 1Larry Gagosian 1Leonardo da Vinci 1

Real estate

Sam Zell 3Francis Greenburger 1

Airlines

Herb Kelleher 2Juan Trippe 1

Exploration

Ernest Shackleton 2Nims Purja 1

Beauty

Estée Lauder 3

Luxury

Bernard Arnault 2

Design

Jony Ive 1

Travel

Richard Branson 3

Science

Albert Einstein 1

Mining

Robert Friedland 1