List of famous industrialists, with photos, bios, and other information when available. Who are the top industrialists in the world? This includes the most prominent industrialists, living and dead, both in America and abroad.

Modern business magnates are entrepreneurs that amass on their own or wield substantial family fortunes in the process of building or running their own businesses.

List of the most famous and important industrialists in history hand-picked by our team of expert editors and ranked by their popularity on On This Day.

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Industrialists are individuals or business leaders who own, manage, or operate industrial enterprises, particularly during the period of industrialization that began in the late 18th century.

The industrial revolution refers to a period of rapid economic and social change between the end of the Eighteenth Century and the mid-Nineteenth Century. The industrial revolution involved a prolonged evolution in the nature of economic activity. It led to an unprecedented rise in output and total national income.

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Union Iron Works, located in San Francisco, California, on the southeast waterfront, was a central business within the large industrial zone of Potrero Point, for four decades at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. [1]

In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded and many new ones, including petroleum refining, steel manufacturing, and electrical power, emerged. Railroads expanded significantly, bringing even remote parts of the country into a national market economy.

In this lesson, you and your students will attempt to establish a distinction between robber barons and captains of industry. Students will uncover some of the less honorable deeds as well as the shrewd business moves and highly charitable acts of the great industrialists and financiers.