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A business magnate, sometimes referred to as a mogul or a tycoon, is a person who controls a large portion of a particular industry and whose wealth derives primarily from said control.

Examples of well-known business magnates include newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst of the Hearst Corporation, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie of US Steel.

In Russia and some other post-Soviet countries, the term "business oligarch" became popular.

Etymology

The word tycoon is derived from the Japanese word , which means "great lord" or "shogun". The word entered the English Language in the 19th Century with the return of Commodore Perry to the United States. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was humorously referred to as "the Tycoon" by his aides John Nicolay and John Hay. The term spread to the business community, where it has been used ever since.

The word mogul originally meant Mongol, or person of Mongolian descent. In this context, it refers to the Mughal Empire (mughal is the Indo-Aryan spelling of mogul) of India that existed between 1526-1857. The early emperors of Mughal claimed themselves descendants of Mongol ruler Genghis Khan and adopted a Mongolian identity. The modern meaning of the word is supposedly derived from the excessive riches of the Mughal emperors, which for example produced the Taj Mahal.

The word magnate itself derives from the Latin word magnates (plural of magnas), meaning "great person" or "great nobleman."

Notable magnates

* From the real world:

** Roman Abramovich
** Silvio Berlusconi
** The Big Four: Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins of the First Transcontinental Railroad
** Conrad Black
** Warren Buffett
** Andrew Carnegie
** Joop van den Ende
** Ray Kroc
** Henry Morrison Flagler
** Bill Gates
** William Randolph Hearst
** James J. Hill
** Samuel Insull
** Andrew Mellon
** Lakshmi Mittal
** J.P. Morgan
** Rupert Murdoch
** Aristotle Onassis
** T. Boone Pickens
** Cecil Rhodes
** John D. Rockefeller
** Carlos Slim
** George Soros
** Ivan Stedeford
** Donald Trump
* Fictional (stories):
** A Corner in Wheat
** Montgomery Burns of The Simpsons
** Caledon Hockley
** Charles Foster Kane
** Bruce Wayne (Batman's true identity)
** Henry Starling of Star Trek: Voyager
** Roberto Rastapopoulos
** Artemis Fowl
** Gail Wynand

Etymology

Notable magnates

See also