- Howard Hughes
- Mir Osman Ali Khan
- Alan Bond
- Marcus Licinius Crassus
- Oprah Winfrey
- William Randolph Hearst
- John Jacob Astor
- William Vestey (later ‘Lord Vestey’)
- John Warne Gates
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Jay Gould
- Henry Clay Frick
- J.P. Morgan
- Christopher Skase
- Cornelius Vanderbilt