On June 28, 1971, Elon Reeve Musk was born in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa.His ancestry is mixed Pennsylvania Dutch and British.Maye Musk, née Haldeman, is his mother. She is a dietician and model who was reared in South Afr…

India-born Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an entrepreneur. She is the Chairman and Managing Director of Bengaluru-based Biocon Ltd., the largest biotechnology firm in India. She rose to become the richest woman in India in 2004. She received the Othmer …

William Henry "Bill" Gates, III, as he was officially known, was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 28, 1955, into a middle-class family. On April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft, the largest personal comput…

The full name of Steve Jobs is Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs, and he was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955. He was an American innovator, marketer, and entrepreneur who continues to serve as an inspiration to many corpo…

Currently holding the positions of CEO and chair of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi is an American corporate executive of Indian descent. On October 28, 1955, in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India, she was born as Indra Krishnamurthy into a traditional…