page_title: List of people from Wisconsin
section_title: Business
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Wisconsin / Business
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of William S. Harley, mechanical engineer and co-founder of Harley-Davidson Motor Company.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The person's hometown is in parentheses.
context_section_description: George Addes (1911–1990), founder of United Auto Workers (La Crosse)
  Edward P. Allis (1824–1899), co-founder of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company (Two Rivers, Milwaukee)
  J. Ogden Armour (1863–1927), meatpacking magnate, owner of Armour and Company (Milwaukee)
  Carol Bartz (born 1948), president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! (Alma)
  Ernest J. Briskey (1930–2006), Vice President, Technical and Administration of Campbell Soup Company (Waunakee)
  William Wallace Cargill (1844–1909), business executive, founder of Cargill (Janesville)
  Jerome Case (1819–1891), founder of an agricultural and construction equipment company (Racine)
  Leo Crowley (1889–1972), banker and FDIC director (Milton)
  John Cudahy (1887–1943), industrialist (Milwaukee)
  Michael Cudahy (born 1924), entrepreneur (Milwaukee)
  Alexander M. Cutler, chief executive officer of the Eaton Corporation (Milwaukee)
  Arthur Davidson (1881–1950), co-founder of Harley-Davidson (Milwaukee)
  Edward L. Doheny (1856–1935), oil tycoon (Fond du Lac)
  Ole Evinrude (1877–1924), inventor and entrepreneur (Cambridge, Madison, Milwaukee)
  Judith Faulkner, formerly of New Jersey; billionaire; CEO and founder of Epic Systems, a healthcare software company located in Wisconsin
  Bob Galvin (1922–2011), chief executive officer of Motorola (Marshfield)
  Chris Gardner (born 1954), entrepreneur, subject of movie The Pursuit of Happyness (Milwaukee)
  King C. Gillette (1855–1932), industrialist (Fond du Lac)
  Donald Goerke (1926–2010), Campbell Soup Company executive, inventor of SpaghettiOs (Waukesha)
  William S. Harley (1880–1943), co-founder of Harley-Davidson (Milwaukee)
  Randolph E. Haugan (1902–1985), editor and publisher (Martell)
  Ken Hendricks (1941–2007), billionaire (Janesville, Beloit, Afton)
  Jay L. Johnson, chief executive officer of General Dynamics (West Salem)
  Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sr. (1833–1919), founder of consumer products company (Racine)
  Phil Katz (1962–2000), computer programmer (Glendale)
  Carl Kiekhaefer (1906–1983), owner of Mercury Marine (Mequon)
  Alan Klapmeier (born 1958), aircraft designer and aviation entrepreneur (Baraboo)
  Dale Klapmeier (born 1961), aircraft designer and aviation entrepreneur (Baraboo)
  Herbert Kohler (born 1939), business executive (Kohler)
  John H. MacMillan, Sr. (1869–1944), businessman (La Crosse)
  Marissa Mayer (born 1975), chief executive officer of Yahoo (Wausau)
  Oscar Mayer (1859–1955), founder of meat packing company (Milwaukee, Fitchburg)
  John Menard (born 1940), business executive (Eau Claire)
  George Safford Parker (1863–1937), pen inventor and entrepreneur (Shullsburg, Janesville)
  Paul Poberezny (1921–2013), aircraft designer, aviator and founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association (Oshkosh)
  Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), economist and computer scientist (Milwaukee)
  James Trane (1857–1936), founder of heating and air conditioning company (La Crosse)
  Reuben Trane (1886–1954), co-founder of Trane (La Crosse)
  Elmer Winter (1912–2009), co-founder of Manpower Inc. (Milwaukee)
  Dean Witter (1887–1969), founder of Dean Witter & Co. investment house (Wausau)
  Walter Wriston (1919–2005), chairman and chief executive officer of Citicorp (Appleton)
caption: William S. Harley
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