Vijay Mallya, a beer-and-airlines magnate, constantly amuses the newspaper-reading public with his speedboats and sports teams.
Henry Frick's last message to his fellow steel magnate, Andrew Carnegie, was "Tell him I'll see him in hell, where we both are going."
Us video game magnate Richard Garriott headed into space aboard a Russian rocket yesterday watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War.
Reinhard Mohn, German media magnate, died on October 3rd, aged 88.
Panama's new President, Ricardo Martinelli, a supermarket magnate who was elected in May, has hired McKinsey, a firm of consultants, to design a national development plan.
Around 1613, Pocahontas was abducted by English colonists and taken to another part of Virginia; she was baptized as a Christian, married tobacco magnate John Rolfe and changed her name to Rebecca.
Other members of the Forbes top-ten included Liu Yonghao, an agribusiness magnate, and several real estate investors.
Intriguingly, Dr Balch's experimental area is part of an 80,000-hectare holding owned by the family of Blairo Maggi, a soyabean magnate who is the governor of Mato Grosso.
The son of food magnate Huff Darklighter, Biggs had things better than most farm children.
Yesterday's purchase of a 77-year-old magazine, Newsweek, by a 91-year-old audio magnate, Sidney Harman, had all the makings of a feel-good story, even as editor Jon Meacham announced his departure.
The 62-year-old self-made fishing magnate John Risley built up a billion pound fortune after starting off with one small lobster shop in Canada in 1976.
In 1923, after narrowly avoiding bankruptcy, Alfred Sloan, a ball-bearing magnate, took over the running of GM.
Born in Soweto, the South African mining magnate trained as a lawyer, became first black partner at law firm, Bowman Gilfillan.
What does your local lender turned property magnate do next?
Hearst was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher.
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