Our laureates and fellows exemplify the American tradition of business leadership. The ANBHF has published the biographies of more than 40 of our laureates and fellows. Some are currently available online and more are added each month.
The laureate profiles below come in two formats. For some laureates there is a short slide show plus a link to a lengthier profile.
Following are the American National Business Hall of Fame Laureates listed in alphabetical order by last name:
- Wallace Abbott
- Mary Kay Ash
- H. H. Barber
- William M. Batten
- Stephen Bechtel Sr.
- Charles Becker
- Olive Ann Beech
- William Blackie
- Jacob Bunn
- Alfred Burdick
- Leo Burnett
- Andrew Carnegie
- William Casey
- S. Truett Cathy
- J. Harwood Cochcrane
- Gary Comer
- Fairfax Cone
- John Cotter
- G.D. Crain
- Frederick C. Crawford
- Henry Crowell
- Harry B. Cunningham
- Arthur V. Davis
- Charles Deere
- John Deere
- D. J. DePree
- Hugh DePree
- Walt Disney
- Donald W. Douglas
- George Eastman
- Thomas A. Edison
- Harvey Firestone
- Benjamin Franklin
- R.J. Frisby
- Bob Galvin
- Paul Galvin
- Roswell Garst
- Parker Gates
- William Gore
- Andy Granatelli
- W. B. Greene
- Walter A. Haas
- Joyce C. Hall
- Ken Hansen
- Sidney Harmon
- Martha Matilda Harper
- Henry J. Heinz
- William Hewitt
- James G. Hill
- Conrad N. Hilton
- Wayne Hummer
- R. B. Hulsen
- Roy Ingersoll
- Richard D. Irwin
- Kenneth Iverson
- Eric Jonsson
- James Johnson
- John Johnson
- Robert Wood Johnson
- Robert Wood Johnson II
- Henry J. Kaiser
- William Karnes
- Herb Kelleher
- Bernard Kilgore
- Dale Kirlin
- Robert J. Kleberg
- Ray Kroc
- Edwin Land
- Albert Lasker
- Leonard Lavin
- James Lincoln
- Wesley H. Loomis III
- Frances Cabot Lowell
- Gust E. Lundberg
- Franklin Lunding
- Ian MacGregor
- Irl Martin
- Konosuke Matsushita
- Cyrus McCormick
- Col. Robert McCormick
- General Robert McDermott
- Eugene McDonald
- William Marsteller
- George Mecherle
- Charles E. Merrill
- Joseph L. Miller
- George S. Moore
- J. Pierpont Morgan
- Louis Neumiller
- William Norris
- David N. Ogilvy
- Ken Olsen
- John H. Patterson
- W. A. Patterson
- James Cash Penney
- William Cooper Proctor
- Harry V. Quadracci
- Tom Roberts Sr.
- John D. Rockefeller
- Julius Rosenwald
- David Sarnoff
- John G. (Jack) Searle
- Richard Sears
- Alfred P. Sloan
- Cyrus R. Smith
- Charles C. Spaulding
- E. Staley
- W. Clement Stone
- John Swearingen
- Gustavus F. Swift
- Herbert Taylor
- David Thomas
- Fred Turner
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Marion Wade
- Charles Walgreen
- Charles R. Walgreen III
- DeWitt Wallace
- Lila A. Wallace
- Sam Moore Walton
- Aaron Montgomery Ward
- Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
- Ken Wessner
- George Westinghouse
- Frederick Weyerhaeuser
- Joseph C. Wilson
- Robert Wood
- Robert W. Woodruff