(FORTUNE Magazine) – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Printer, publisher, writer

George Washington (1732-1799) Surveyor, land manager, farmer

Eli Whitney (1765-1825) Mass-produced on a new principle

Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817) Started textiles in Waltham, Massachusetts

Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) Boats, ships, trains, and high finance

Alexander T. Stewart (1803-1876) A retailer: ''One price for all''

John Deere (1804-1886) Beat plows from steel

J. Edgar Thomson (1808-1874) Reduced costs at Pennsylvania Railroad

Cyrus H. McCormick (1809-1884) Patented and guaranteed the reaper

Cyrus W. Field (1819-1892) Force behind transatlantic cable

Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913) Oilman, developer

Frederick Weyerhaeuser (1834-1914) Bought 900,000 acres of timberland

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) Cost accountant, steel producer

J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) Railroader, financier, steelman

James J. Hill (1838-1916) Built railroad empire

John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) Created Standard Oil Co.

John H. Patterson (1844-1922) Master salesman of National cash registers

H. J. Heinz (1844-1919) Found profits in ketchup bottles

Theodore N. Vail (1845-1920) Developed ''universal'' telephone system

George Westinghouse (1846-1914) Founded 60 companies, held 400 patents

Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) Perfected electric light

Jacob H. Schiff (1847-1920) ) Financier and banker

Edward H. Harriman (1848-1909) Financed and ran Union Pacific

Robert J. Kleberg Sr. (1853-1932) Took King Ranch to prominence

George Eastman (1854-1932) Built Eastman Kodak

King C. Gillette (1855-1932) Invented the safety razor

Andrew W. Mellon (1855-1937) Led family bank in industrial age

Milton S. Hershey (1857-1945) The king of chocolate

Adolph S. Ochs (1858-1935) Mastermind of the New York Times

W. K. Kellogg (1860-1951) Found gold in corn flakes

William Cooper Procter (1862-1934) Skilled manager of people at P&G

Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939) Bought and revived Bethlehem Steel

Leo H. Baekeland (1863-1944) Father of plastics industry

Henry Ford (1863-1947) Founded Ford Motor Co.

Arthur Vining Davis (1867-1962) Builder of Alcoa

Harvey S. Firestone (1868-1938) Started Firestone Tire

Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954) Made Du Pont a modern corporation

A. P. Giannini (1870-1949) Pioneer at Bank of America

Charles C. Spaulding (1874-1952) Led North Carolina Mutual Life

Owen D Young (1874-1962) Gave GE professional management

Walter P. Chrysler (1875-1940) Left GM to start his own company

J. C. Penney (1875-1971) Founder of the chain store

Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (1875-1966) Brought scientific management to GM

Willis H. Carrier (1876-1950) Perfected air conditioning

Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958) GM's ''monkey-wrench scientist''

George J. Mecherle (1877-1951) Founded State Farm Insurance

Florence N. Graham (1878-1976) Her other name: Elizabeth Arden

Robert E. Wood (1879-1969) Remade Sears Roebuck

Albert D. Lasker (1880-1952) Creative advertising man

William E. Boeing (1881-1956) Founded Boeing Co.

Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967) Made cars, ships, and steel

Charles E. Merrill (1885-1956) Brought Wall Street to Main Street

% Conrad N. Hilton (1887-1979) Founder of hotel chain

Walter A. Haas (1889-1979) Led Levi Strauss for 42 years

Igor I. Sikorsky (1889-1972) Developed single-rotor helicopter

DeWitt Wallace (1889-1981) Started Reader's Digest

Lila Acheson Wallace (1889-1984) Unwrapped DeWitt's genius

Robert W. Woodruff (1889-1985) Ran Coca-Cola for 50 years

Frederick C. Crawford (1891- ) Made Thompson Products into TRW

Joyce C. Hall (1891-1982) Hallmark was his inspiration

Abe Plough (1891-1984) Started what became Schering-Plough

David Sarnoff (1891-1971) Master of radio and TV

Donald W. Douglas (1892-1981) Founded Douglas Aircraft

Benjamin Graham (1894-1976) Father of security analysis

George H. Halas (1895-1983) Granddaddy of pro football

John J. McCloy (1895-1989) Lawyer, banker, public servant

S. I. Newhouse (1895-1979) Founded the publishing company

Royal Little (1896-1989) A progenitor of conglomerates

Roswell Garst (1898-1977) Leader in hybrid corn

Edward C. Johnson II (1898-1984) Creator of mutual fund industry

Henry R. Luce (1898-1967) Founder of Time, Life, and Fortune

Georges F. Doriot (1899-1987) Shrewd investor in 150 companies

William A. Patterson (1899-1980) Made United Airlines passenger-conscious

C. R. Smith (1899- ) Pioneer at American Airlines

William M. Allen (1900-1985) Took Boeing into commercial jets

Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. (1900- ) Founder of construction company

Arnold O. Beckman (1900- ) Started Beckman Industries

M. J. Rathbone (1900-1976) Led Exxon's hunt for crude

Walter E. Disney (1901-1966) Entrepreneur of images

J. Erik Jonsson (1901- ) Built company that became Texas Instruments

William S. Paley (1901- ) Magic programmer at CBS

Olive Ann Beech (1903- ) Builder of Beech Aircraft

Marvin Bower (1903- ) Led McKinsey & Co. for 50 years $

Raymond A. Kroc (1903-1984) Invented fast food

Forrest Mars (1904- ) Maker of Milky Way and Snickers

Jack C. Massey (1904- ) Built Kentucky Fried Chicken

Leonard H. Goldenson (1905- ) Rescuer of American Broadcasting Co.

George S. Moore (1905- ) Led Citibank at home and abroad

William Blackie (1906- ) Leader of Caterpillar Tractor

Harry B. Cunningham (1907- ) Revived S.S. Kresge

Leslie Bernard Kilgore (1908-1967) Led Wall Street Journal to fame

Estee Lauder (1908- ) Founded cosmetics concern

William M. Batten (1909 - ) Planted J.C. Penney in suburbia

Edwin H. Land (1909- ) The genius at Polaroid

Joseph Irwin Miller (1909- ) Took Cummins Engine to new markets

Wallace R. Persons (1909- ) Led growth at Emerson Electric

Joseph C. Wilson (1909-1971) Made Xerox a household word

Howard J. Morgens (1910- ) Led P&G to TV

Edward E. Carlson (1911- ) Saved United Airlines

David M. Ogilvy (1911- ) Founded agency, took it public

Ian J. MacGregor (1912- ) Took Amax into diversified minerals

David Packard (1912 - ) Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard

William R. Hewlett (1913- ) Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard

William F. Laporte (1913- ) Built American Home Products

Malcolm P. McLean (1913- ) Revolutionized the shipping industry

Simon Ramo (1913- ) Brilliant scientist at Bunker Ramo

C. Kemmons Wilson (1913- ) Built the Holiday Inn chain

Trammell Crow (1914- ) Innovative developer

James W. Rouse (1914- ) Builder and developer

Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1914- ) Led IBM's computer revolution

Alden J. Laborde (1915- ) Founded Tidewater Inc.

Robert O. Anderson (1917- ) Put together Atlantic Richfield

Reginald H. Jones (1917- ) Shepherded GE through hard times

Donald T. Regan (1918- ) Led Merrill Lynch to new fields

John E. Swearingen Jr. (1918- ) Remade Standard Oil (Indiana)

Donald M. Kendall (1921- ) Made Pepsi into Coca-Cola's peer

T. A. Wilson (1921- ) Led Boeing to preeminence

Rene C. McPherson (1924- ) Made Dana a model company

Robert N. Noyce (1927- ) Invented the silicon chip

H. Ross Perot (1930- ) Founded EDS