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Immigrant Entrepreneur Hall of Fame

Here is a tribute to 74 immigrant entrepreneurs who founded some of today’s most influential brands, midsize businesses that are the engines of regional economies and not-for-profits that enhance the lives of many Americans.

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Daniel Aaron

Comcast Ranked 28 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Consumer Goods/Services Germany

Bahram Akradi

Life Time Fitness, Inc.
Consumer Goods/Services Iran

Rafael Alvarez

Genesys Works
Social Entrepreneurs Mexico

Bernard Amadei

Engineers Without Borders
Social Entrepreneurs France

Tope Awotona

Calendly
Information Technology Nigeria

Andreas (Andy) von Bechtolsheim

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Information Technology Germany

Alexander Graham Bell

AT&T and Verizon Ranked 13 and 23 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Information Technology United Kingdom

Sabeer Bhatia

Hotmail
Information Technology India

Walter H. Bowes

Pitney Bowes
Manufacturing United Kingdom

Sergey Brin

Alphabet (Google) Ranked 8 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Information Technology Russia

Ellen Browning Scripps

Scripps Health
Social Entrepreneurs United Kingdom

Adolphus Busch

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Consumer Goods/Services Germany

Albert Butz

Honeywell International Ranked 105 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Manufacturing Switzerland

Andrew Carnegie

TIAA and United States Steel Ranked 90 and 172 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Manufacturing Financial Services and Real Estate Social Entrepreneurs United Kingdom

Steve Chen

YouTube
Information Technology Taiwan

Hugh Chisholm

International Paper and Veritiv Ranked 164 and 477 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Manufacturing Canada

Marcelo Claure

Brightstar Corp.
Information Technology Bolivia

William and Rafael Cruz

TradeStation Group
Financial Services and Real Estate Cuba

Nathan Cummings

The Hillshire Brands Company
Consumer Goods/Services Canada

Alex D’Arbeloff

Teradyne
Information Technology France

Francisco D’Souza

Cognizant Ranked 194 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Information Technology India

Ami Dar

Idealist
Social Entrepreneurs Israel

Gururaj Deshpande

Sycamore Networks
Information Technology India

E. I. du Pont

DuPont de Nemours Ranked 211 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Consumer Goods/Services Manufacturing France

Tariq Farid

Edible Arrangements
Consumer Goods/Services Pakistan

Max & Morris Feldberg

TJX Companies, Inc. Ranked 75 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Retail Russia

Robyn Rihanna Fenty

Fenty
Consumer Goods/Services Barbados

Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
Social Entrepreneurs Canada

James Gamble

Procter & Gamble Ranked 47 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Consumer Goods/Services United Kingdom

Helen Greiner

iRobot
Consumer Goods/Services Manufacturing United Kingdom

George N. Hatsopoulos

Thermo Fischer Scientific Ranked 92 in 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Biotech/Health Care Greece

Jensen Huang

NVIDIA Corporation Ranked 134 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Information Technology Taiwan

Arianna Huffington

Huffington Post
Social Entrepreneurs Greece

Subrah S. Iyar

WebEx Communications, Inc.
Information Technology India

Menelaos Kaloyanides

New England Coffee Company
Consumer Goods/Services Turkey

Min H. Kao

Garmin
Information Technology Taiwan

Vinod Khosla

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Information Technology India

Maxwell Kohl

Kohl’s Ranked 183 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Consumer Goods/Services Retail Poland

James L. (J.L.) Kraft

Kraft Heinz, Mondelēz International Ranked 121 and 139 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Consumer Goods/Services Canada

Max Rafael Levchin

PayPal
Fortune 500 Information Technology Consumer Goods/Services Ukraine

Thomas Alexander Mellon

BNY Mellon Ranked 229 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Financial Services and Real Estate Ireland

Alexander and Charles Meston

Emerson Ranked 199 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Consumer Goods/Services Manufacturing United Kingdom

Nigel Morris

Capital One Financial Ranked 108 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Financial Services and Real Estate United Kingdom

John Muir

The Sierra Club
Social Entrepreneurs United Kingdom

José Navarro, Sr.

Navarro Discount Pharmacies
Biotech/Health Care Retail Cuba

John W. Nordstrom

Nordstrom Ranked 245 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Retail Sweden

Pierre Omidyar

Ranked 301 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Information Technology France

Kiran Patel

WellCare Health Plans
Biotech/Health Care Zambia

Jorge M. Pérez

Related Group of Florida
Financial Services and Real Estate Argentina

Charles Pfizer

Pfizer Inc. Ranked 43 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Biotech/Health Care Germany

John Pitcairn Jr.

PPG Industries Ranked 218 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Manufacturing United Kingdom

Diane Portnoy

The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc.
Social Entrepreneurs Poland

William Procter

Procter & Gamble

Ranked 47 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Consumer Goods/Services United Kingdom

Don Prudencio Unanue

Goya Foods
Consumer Goods/Services Spain

Dennis Puleston

England Environmental Defense Fund
Social Entrepreneurs United Kingdom

Ivor Royston

Biogen Ranked 338 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Biotech/Health Care United Kingdom

Zainab Salbi

Women for Women International
Social Entrepreneurs Iraq

Sol Shenk

Big Lots
Retail Russia

Elizabeth Silverstein

Counterpart International
Social Entrepreneurs Australia

Roy and Bertrand Sosa

NetSpend Corporation
Financial Services and Real Estate Mexico

Levi Strauss

Levi Strauss
Consumer Goods/Services Manufacturing Retail Germany

Elihu Thomson

General Electric Ranked 48 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Manufacturing United Kingdom

Hamdi Ulukaya

Chobani
Consumer Goods/Services Turkey

Jean-Luc Vaillant

LinkedIn
Information Technology Social Entrepreneurs France

Josef von Rickenbach

PAREXEL
Biotech/Health Care Switzerland

Charles Wang

CA Technologies
Information Technology China

Charles Weissmann

Biogen Ranked 338 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Biotech/Health Care Switzerland

Frederick Weyerhäuser

Weyerhaeuser Ranked 354 in the 2022 Fortune 500
Fortune 500 Manufacturing Germany

Mei Xu

Pacific Trading International
Consumer Goods/Services China

Jerry Yang

Yahoo! Inc.
Information Technology Taiwan

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