List of Canadians - Business Personalities

Business Personalities

• Sir Aitken, Max, Baron Beaverbrook (1879–1964) – publishing baron, entrepreneur
• Asper, David (born 1958) – chairman, Canwest Global Communications
• Asper, Izzy (1932–2003) – chairman, Canwest Global Communications
• Black, Conrad, Lord Black of Crossharbour (born 1944) – entrepreneur, publisher
• Boyle, Willard (born 1924) – invented Charge-coupled device
• Bronfman, Samuel (1889–1971) – founder of Seagram's
• Campeau, Robert (born 1923) – real-estate mogul
• Cooke, Jack Kent (1912–1997) – owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings, Washington Redskins and the Chrysler Building
• Sir Cunard, Samuel (1787–1865) – founder of Cunard Line
• Desmarais, Paul (born 1927) – Chairman, Power Corporation of Canada
• Davidson, William (1740–1790) – lumberman, shipbuilder, merchant
• DeGroote, Michael (born 1932) – businessman and philanthropist

• Dobbin, Craig (1935–2006) – founder, chairman and CEO of CHC Helicopter Corporation
• Sir Dunn, James Ham et (1874–1956) – financier, steel magnate
• Eaton, Timothy (1834–1907) – founder of Eaton's department stores
• Ebbers, Bernie (born 1941) – former CEO of WorldCom
• Fuller, Alfred (1885–1973) – Fuller Brush Company
• Sir Girouard, Édouard (1867–1932) – railway builder, governor
• Irving, K. C. (1899–1992) – industrialist
• Johnson, F. Ross (born 1931) – former CEO of RJR Nabisco
• Joyce, Ron (born 1930) – original partner with Horton in Tim Hortons, primary builder of the chain
• Killam, Izaak Walton (1885–1955) – major financier
• Laliberté, Guy (born 1959) – founder and owner of the Cirque du Soleil
• Lee-Chin, Michael (born 1951) – CEO of AIC Diversified Canada Split Corp. and The National Commercial Bank of Jamaica
• Li, Victor (born 1964) – deputy chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited
• Luckett, Pete (unknown) – owner of Pete's Frootique and host of The Food Hunter
• Sir Macdonald, William C. (1831–1917) – tobacco manufacturer, education philanthropist
• Sir Matthews, Terence Hedley (born 1943) – entrepreneur, chairman of Mitel
• Mayer, Louis B. (1885–1957) – co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios
• McCain, Harrison (1927–2004) – New Brunswick potato magnate
• Colonel McLaughlin, Samuel (1871–1972) – Buick automobile manufacturer
• McTavish, Simon (1750–1804) – fur trader
• Molson, John (1763–1836) – founder of Molson Breweries
• Molson, Hartland (1907–2002) – Senator, President of Molson Breweries
• Munk, Peter (born 1927) – founder of Barrick Gold
• Pattison, Jim (born 1928) – chairman, president, CEO, and owner of the Jim Pattison Group
• Porritt, Richard (1901–1985) – mining industry executive
• Pouliot, Jean (1923–2004) – founder of CFCF et Télévision Quatre Saisons
• Redpath, John (1796–1869) – canal builder, sugar refinery founder
• Reichmann, Paul (born 1930) – developer of Canary Wharf
• Rogers, Edward Samuel (1933–2008) – Was president and CEO of Rogers Communications
• Roth, John (born 1942) – former CEO Nortel Networks
• Saputo, Lino (born 1937) – founder of Saputo
• Sharp, Isadore (born 1931) – founder of the Four Seasons Hotel chain
• Smith, E.D. (1858–1943) – founder of E.D. Smith & Sons Ltd
• Stairs, John F. (1848–1904) – entrepreneur, statesman
• Stronach, Frank (born 1932) – entrepreneur, founder of Magna International
• Taylor, E. P. (1901–1989) – entrepreneur, thoroughbred horse breeder
• Taylor, Nat (unknown) – originator of Cineplex Entertainment
• Thomson, Kenneth, Baron Thomson of Fleet (1923–2006)
• Thomson, Roy, Baron Thomson of Fleet (1894–1976) – entrepreneur, publisher
• Sir Van Horne, William Cornelius (1843–1915) – constructed the Canadian Pacific Railway
• Warner, Jack (1892–1978) – founder of Warner Bros. Studios
• Weston, Galen (born 1940) – owner of Loblaws, Holt Renfrew, and Selfridges
• Young, Bob (unknown) – self-publishing web-site, owner of CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats