20 Most Popular Entrepreneurs On The Planet

Searching for who the most popular entrepreneurs are? If so, then your prayers have been answered because we’ll today be looking at the 20 most popular entrepreneurs on the planet.

Given there are many ways that one can come up with a list of the most popular entrepreneurs, let me take a few minutes to explain to you how I came up with my list of the 20 most popular entrepreneurs on the planet.

How I Came Up With The 20 Most Popular Entrepreneurs On The Planet

If someone is popular, then it goes without saying that there will be several queries for him/her online. Using this logic, I decided to use Google Trends to come up with my list of the 20 most popular entrepreneurs.

All I had to do was visit Google Trends, look up the most searched Business People (under Business & Politics) and here we are.

NB: Google is the most used search engine + the most trafficked site in the world, so its data for the most popular entrepreneurs must be close to the real thing 🙂

Having made that clear, let’s now look at who the 20 most popular entrepreneurs on the planet are.

20 Most Popular Entrepreneurs

#	Name	Brief Description-Wikipedia	Popularity Level (/100)
1	Oprah Winfrey	Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist	100
2	Steve Jobs	Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc	55
3	Bill Gates	William Henry “Bill” Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor, philanthropist and Co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft	23
4	Donald Trump	Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, investor, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts	21
5	Jeff Bezos	Jeffrey Preston “Jeff” Bezos is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. He is a technology entrepreneur who has played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com	17
6	Warren Buffett	Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the most successful investor of the 20th century	12
7	Mark Zuckerberg	Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook	11
8	Henry Ford	Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production	10
9	Mitt Romney	Willard Mitt Romney is an American businessman and politician who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. He was the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election	10
10	Russell Simmons	Russell Wendell Simmons is an American business magnate. He co-founded the Hip hop music label Def Jam and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and American Classics	9
11	John D. Rockefeller	John Davison Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust	8
12	Steve Ballmer	Steven Anthony “Steve” Ballmer is an American businessman who currently serves as the CEO of Microsoft, having held that post since January 2000.	8
13	Mark Cuban	Mark Cuban is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association’s Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV	8
14	Elon Musk	Elon Musk is an American business magnate, investor and inventor. He is the founder and CEO of SpaceX.	6
15	Irv Robbins	Irvine “Irv” Robbins was a Canadian-born American businessman. He co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1945 with his partner and brother-in-law Burt Baskin.	6
16	J. P. Morgan	John Pierpont “J. P.” Morgan was an American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time	6
17	Leon Leonwood Bean	Leon Leonwood Bean was an American inventor, author, outdoor enthusiast, and founder of the company L.L.Bean.	5
18	Dana White	Dana White is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and the President of mixed martial arts organization the Ultimate Fighting Championship.	5
19	Howard Hughes	Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, film maker and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world.	5
20	Sheryl Sandberg	Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American businesswoman. As of August 2013, she is the chief operating officer of Facebook.	5

 So there you have it, the 20 most popular entrepreneurs courtesy of Google. 

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