The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from Pakistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Pakistani Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 601 Businesspeople, 2 of which were born in Pakistan. This makes Pakistan the birth place of the 40th most number of Businesspeople behind Rwanda and Azerbaijan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Pakistani Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Pakistani Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Shahid Khan (1950 - )
With an HPI of 43.51, Shahid Khan is the most famous Pakistani Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Shahid Rafiq "Shad" Khan (Urdu: شاہد خان; born July 18, 1950) is a Pakistani-American billionaire businessman and sports tycoon. He is the owner of Flex-N-Gate, an American supplier of motor vehicle components. Khan is also the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL) and Fulham F.C. of the Premier League, and co-owner of the American wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW), along with his son, Tony Khan. Khan was featured on the front cover of Forbes magazine in 2012, associating him as the face of the American Dream. As of March 2023, Khan's personal net worth is $12.1 billion. In 2021, he ranked 94th in the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, and is the 291st richest person in the world. Khan is the richest auto parts magnate ahead of Georg F. W. Schaeffler who has a net worth of $9.1 billion. He is also the wealthiest person of Pakistani origin.
2. Chris Anderson (1957 - )
With an HPI of 34.25, Chris Anderson is the 2nd most famous Pakistani Businessperson. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Chris Anderson (born 1957) is a British-American businessman who is the head of TED, a non-profit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Previously he founded Future Publishing.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as businesspeople born between 1950 and 1957. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living businesspeople include Shahid Khan and Chris Anderson.
