Businessmen & Entrepreneurs

Quote: “I’m Casey Johnson. I’m not ‘The Johnson & Johnson Girl.’” Johnson & Johnson heiress Casey Johnson was the daughter of New York Jets owner Robert Wood “Woody” Johnson. She was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 8 years old, [...]

Cynthia Ice was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1959, to Inez L Busch, MD, and John F. Ice, MD. Ice’s parents were both employed by the US Public Health Service, and the family moved often. At the age of [...]

Raised in East Harlem by a single mother who worked as a secretary, Damon Dash is a multi-preneur who has had his hands in a bit of everything from the very beginning in the early 1990’s. He began by hosting [...]

In 1989, Douglas Cairns was a British Royal Air Force jet pilot at the age of 25 when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and consequently lost his flying career. In 2000 he regained the freedom to fly in [...]

George Smith was the son of famous Bermudian entertainer, Hubert Smith Sr.. In his adult life, Smith shared his father’s love for music and played with him in his calypso band, Hubert Smith and The Coral Islanders. Singing and playing [...]

Quote: “Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.” One of the most famed billionaires in American history, Howard Hughes applied his skills early on as a businessman to [...]

Jim Hamblin, a beloved reporter from Southern California, covered politics and the State Capital for radio stations such as KCBS and KFBK. He is fondly remembered for his witty tone, which was present even during times of tragedy. Some highlights [...]

Larry Miller was born April 26, 1944 as Lawrence Horne West. Two years after his birth, his mother and father divorced, and in 1949 he was legally adopted by his stepfather, who changed the Larry's last name to Miller. As [...]

Milton Rubincam, often called ``the dean of American genealogists'' by the Smithsonian Institution, was a leading genealogist and a well-known author who began the trend of pursuing the histories of families. Rubincam, who primarily taught himself, attended Temple University in [...]

Raymond Albert Kroc was an American entrepreneur, most famous for significantly expanding the McDonald's Corporation. Ray Kroc was a believer in lifelong self-improvement long before it was a popular topic. It was this belief that inspired him on the day [...]