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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ivan Glasenberg | Ivan Glasenberg | 1957 | n/a | South African | business executive and former chief executive officer of Glencore, one of the world's largest commodity trading and mining companies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Glasenberg |
| Beny Steinmetz | Beny Steinmetz | 1956 | n/a | Israeli | businessman, with a portfolio in diamond-mining and real estate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beny_Steinmetz |
| Ernest Oppenheimer | Sir Ernest Oppenheimer | 1880 | 1957 | null | diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Oppenheimer |
| Samuel Newhouse | Samuel Newhouse | 1853 | 1930 | null | Utah entrepreneur and mining magnate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Newhouse |
| Guggenheim family | The Guggenheim family | null | null | American | family known for making their fortune in the mining industry, in the early 20th century, especially in the United States and South America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_family |
| Harold Glasser | Harold Glasser | 1905 | 1992 | null | economist in the United States Department of the Treasury and spokesman on the affairs of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) 'throughout its whole life' and he had a 'predominant voice' in determining which countries should receive aid | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Glasser |
| Jacob Engel | Jacob Engel | null | null | Israeli | businessman, active in the mining sector, and CEO of Engelinvest Group | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Engel |
| Barney Barnato | Barney Barnato | 1851 | 1897 | British | Randlord, one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later gold mining, in South Africa from the 1870s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Barnato |
| Lionel Phillips | Sir Lionel Phillips, 1st Baronet | 1855 | 1936 | British | financier, mining magnate and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Phillips |
| Mick Davis | Sir Michael Lawrence Davis | 1958 | n/a | British | politician and South African former businessman, former Chief Executive and Treasurer of the Conservative Party and the chief executive (CEO) of Xstrata plc, an Anglo-Swiss multinational mining company, until its merger with Glencore in 2013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Davis |
| Joachim Gans | Joachim Gans | null | null | Bohemian | mining expert, renowned for being the first Jew in North America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Gans |
| Idan Ofer | Idan Ofer | 1955 | n/a | Israeli | billionaire businessman and philanthropist, with interests in shipping, Energy mining and Sport | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idan_Ofer |
| Robert Friedland | Robert Martin Friedland | 1950 | n/a | null | American/Canadian billionaire financier in the mining industry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Friedland |
| Jay Hambro | Jay Hambro | 1975 | n/a | British | businessman in the mining, energy, steel and commodity sectors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Hambro |
| Joseph Gutnick | Joseph Isaac "Diamond Joe" Gutnick | 1952 | n/a | Australian | businessman, mining industry entrepreneur and the former president of the Melbourne Football Club(1996-2001) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gutnick |
| Daniel Guggenheim | Daniel Guggenheim | 1856 | 1930 | American | mining magnate and philanthropist, and a son of Meyer and Barbara Guggenheim | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Guggenheim |
| Jack Barnato Joel | Isaac "Jack" Barnato Joel | 1862 | 1940 | South African | mining magnate and a champion horse breeder | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Barnato_Joel |
| Jules Porgès | Jules Porgès | 1839 | 1921 | null | Paris-based financier who played a central role in the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Porgès |
| Carl Fürstenberg | Carl Fürstenberg | 1850 | 1933 | null | one of the most German prominent bankers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and was responsible for the revival of the German mining industry during his era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Fürstenberg |
| Adolph Lewisohn | Adolph Lewisohn | 1849 | 1938 | German | Jewish immigrant born in Hamburg who became a New York City investment banker, mining magnate, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Lewisohn |
| Diane Hamilton | Diane Hamilton | 1924 | 1991 | American | pseudonym of Diane Guggenheim (1924 – 1991), an American mining heiress, folksong patron and founder of Tradition Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Hamilton |
| Max Michaelis | Sir Maximillian Michaelis | 1852 | 1932 | South African | financier, mining magnate, benefactor and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Michaelis |
| Joel family | The Joel family of England | null | null | null | headed by three brothers, Jack, Woolf and Solomon, who made a fortune in diamond and gold mining in South Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_family |
| George Albu | Sir George Albu, 1st Baronet | 1857 | 1935 | null | mining magnate in the diamond and gold industries of South Africa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Albu |
| Berthold Hochschild | Berthold Hochschild | 1860 | 1928 | null | mining magnate, a founder of the American Metal Company, and a philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Hochschild |
| Moritz Hochschild | Moritz (Mauricio) Hochschild | 1881 | 1965 | null | leading mining industry businessman in the first half of the twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Hochschild |
| Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet | Sir Carl Ferdinand Meyer, 1st Baronet | 1851 | 1922 | British | banker and mining magnate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Carl_Meyer,_1st_Baronet |
| Monroe Abbey | Monroe Abbey | 1904 | 1993 | Canadian | lawyer specializing in mining law, and a Jewish civic leader in Montreal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Abbey |
| Ernst Borinski | Ernst Borinski | 1901 | 1983 | German | Jewish sociologist and intellectual, who contributed to undermining Jim Crow laws in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Borinski |
| Peter Hambro | Peter Charles Percival Hambro | 1945 | n/a | null | one of the founders of Petropavlovsk plc, (formerly Peter Hambro Mining), a gold mining business in Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hambro |
| Samuel Schwarz (historian) | Samuel Schwarz | 1880 | 1953 | Polish | Jewish mining engineer, archaeologist, and historian of the Jewish diaspora, specifically of the Sephardic and crypto-Jewish communities of Portugal and Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Schwarz_(historian) |
| Sali Hochschild | Sali Hochschild | 1883 | 1965 | German | businessman, the founder of Compania Minera y Comercial Sali Hochschild S.A., once one of the largest mining and mineral processing companies in Chile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sali_Hochschild |
| Kira Radinsky | Kira Radinsky | 1986 | n/a | null | Ukraine-born Israeli computer scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, specializing in predictive data mining | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira_Radinsky |
| Gustav Imroth | Gustav Imroth | 1862 | 1946 | null | minor Randlord who played a role in the development of the South African diamond-mining industry and sports | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Imroth |
| Sigismund Neumann | Sir Sigismund Neumann | 1857 | 1916 | null | mining magnate (Randlord) and financier on the Witwatersrand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Neumann |
| Oleksandr Zelensky | Oleksandr Semenovych Zelensky | 1947 | n/a | Ukrainian | mining scientist who specializes in the automation of geological and surveying support | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Zelensky |