page_title: List of people from Philadelphia
section_title: Business
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Philadelphia / Business
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable residents, natives, and persons generally associated with the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the United States. The list includes both former and present residents of the city.
context_section_description: Amar Bose – founder of Bose
  John C. Bogle – investor; money manager; founder of Vanguard
  Frank Baldino Jr. – founder of Cephalon
  Pat Croce – entrepreneur; part-owner and former president, Philadelphia 76ers
  David L. Cohen – Executive Vice President of Comcast. Chief of Staff of the Philadelphia Mayor under Ed Rendell.
  George Dashnau – started the first mail-order delivery service that supplies human skulls
  George H. Earle Jr. – Lawyer and "financial diplomat" who was highly sought after to save ailing corporations from financial ruin.
  Charles Henry Davis – businessperson, civil engineer and philanthropist
  Warren Lyford DeLano – open source advocate and creator of PyMol
  Maria Anna Fisher – 19th-century biscuit entrepreneur
  Kenneth Frazier – CEO of Merck & Co.
  Albert M. Greenfield – local realty magnate; philanthropist; political activist
  Solomon R. Guggenheim – founder, Yukon Gold Company; philanthropist, art collector
  Richard Hayne – founder and CEO of Urban Outfitters
  Michael Johns – health care executive, former White House speechwriter
  Tom Knox – former CEO, UnitedHealthcare of Pennsylvania; 2007 Philadelphia mayoral candidate
  John Leamy – pioneered trade with Spanish Empire
  J. Howard Marshall – oil businessman, stakeholder in Koch Industries, husband of Anna Nicole Smith
  George Meade – merchant, grandfather of George Gordon Meade
  Richard W. Meade – merchant and art collector, father of George Gordon Meade
  Samuel Meeker (1763–1831) – merchant businessman
  Jim Murray – co-founder, Ronald McDonald House Charities; former general manager, Philadelphia Eagles
  Joel Myers – founder, chairman and CEO of AccuWeather
  Pat Olivieri – founder of Pat's King of Steaks, reputed creator of the cheesesteak
  William S. Paley – former president, CBS
  Randal Pinkett – entrepreneur, PhD, winner of The Apprentice 4
  Lynda Resnick – co-owner of Roll International, which owns POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, and owns Teleflora
  Felix Rappaport – CEO of Foxwoods Resort & Casino
  Brian L. Roberts – chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation
  Michael G. Rubin – founder and CEO of Kynetic; part-owner of Philadelphia 76ers; founder and former CEO of GSI Commerce
  Stephen A. Schwarzman – billionaire, founder and CEO of The Blackstone Group
  Ed Snider – former chairman of Comcast Spectacor
  Justus Strawbridge – department store founder
  Brian Tierney – CEO of Philadelphia Media Holdings, LLC; publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer
  John Wanamaker – department store founder
  James Hood Wright – banker, financier, corporate director and railroad man of the nineteenth century associated with J. P. Morgan and Thomas Edison.
  William Wrigley Jr. – founder of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
caption: Richard W. Meade
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