39 Businesspeople in insurance

Marius Stephanus Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon and inventor of critical illness insurance.

James Goodwin Batterson was an American designer and builder, the owner of New England Granite Works from 1845 and a founder in 1863 of Travelers Insurance Company, both in Hartford, Connecticut. He introduced casualty insurance in the United States, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Insurance Hall of Fame (1965).

Michael Benjamin was born Michael Benjamin Bonheur in New York City, New York, United States. Benjamin works as a private investor focusing on Internet companies. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 2004.

Mohamed Hassan Bensalah is the chairman and CEO of the Moroccan group Holarcom. He is the brother of Moroccan businesswoman Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun.

Kevin Michael Cosgrove was an American insurance senior business executive and victim of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. He served as a vice president at Aon Corporation.

Paul Douglas Coverdell was a United States Senator from Georgia, elected for the first time in 1992 and re-elected in 1998, and director of the Peace Corps from 1989 until 1991. Coverdell died from a cerebral hemorrhage in Atlanta, Georgia in 2000 while serving in the United States Senate. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Theodor von Cramer-Klett was a German entrepreneur and banker.

Arthur Charles Ducat, Sr. was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the Civil War, Ducat was an insurance industry executive and fire prevention specialist.

Moulay Hafid Elalamy is a Moroccan businessman and politician. He is the founder and owner of the Saham Group. He served as the Minister of Industry, Trade, & New Technologies until 2021.

George Henry Faber was a British insurance underwriter and a Liberal Party politician.

Nathan Allen Farwell was a politician, businessman and United States Senator from Maine.

Wilhelm von Finck was a German entrepreneur and banker. Finck was a co-founder of the German companies Allianz and Munich Re.

Edward Moore Gaines is an American politician and businessman serving as a member of the California Board of Equalization for the 1st district. He previously served as a California State Senator, representing the 1st Senate district from 2011 to 2019.

Henry Andrade Harben FSA was a barrister, insurance company director, politician, and historian of London. His highly regarded book, A Dictionary of London, was published posthumously in 1917.

Lincoln Henry Jelliff served as a Member of Parliament in the Lethbridge riding from 1921 to 1930. He was born in Oneida, Illinois, United States. He was elected as a Progressive in 1921 Canadian federal election and 1925 and was then re-elected in 1926 representing the United Farmers of Alberta. He did not run for re-election in 1930 and retired from parliament.

David Kaminsky is an Israeli former basketball player and coach. He played the guard position. Kaminsky played in the Israel Basketball Premier League, and for the Israel national basketball team.

JoAnna Margaret Lund was the author of many books, including Healthy Exchanges Cookbook, HELP: Healthy Exchanges Lifetime Plan, and Make a Joyful Table.

Edwin Hyland May Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

Douglas Imrie McKay was an American artillery and law enforcement officer and New York City Police Department police official who served as New York City Police Commissioner in 1914. His five months in office and eventual departure from the police force were fraught with controversy, however, his two-year campaign against the New York underworld eventually rid the city of the many street gangs active since the early-to mid 19th century. In the years following his retirement, McKay also had a successful career in business, holding high-level positions in a number of corporations.

Donald Roderick McLennan was born in Duluth, Minnesota, son of William Lillingston McLennan and Julia MacLeod. He was the co-founder of the insurance brokerage firm Burroughs, Marsh & McLennan in 1905, which was renamed Marsh & McLennan in 1906 after the retirement of Mr. D. W. Burroughs. McLennan served as the Chairman of the Board from 1935 until his death in 1944 in Lake Forest, Illinois. At the time of his death, the firm had offices in Chicago, San Francisco, New York City, and twenty other cities. In 2020, Marsh & McLennan Companies had over 76,000 employees and annual revenues of $17 billion.

Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo was a Zimbabwean nationalist, part of the first group of Gonakudzingwa restriction camp political prisoners, Pioneer Insurance Executive, Business magnate, Academic, philanthropist, conservationist, pioneer Indigenous businessman and entrepreneur.

Earl Benjamin Nelson is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 37th governor of Nebraska from 1991 to 1999 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 2001 to 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Phiwa Nkambule is a technology entrepreneur, technology businessperson and internet activist best known for co-founding Riovic and leading it as its CEO. He previously founded Cybatar and sat on the board of the Royal Science and Technology Park.

Ralph H. "Pat" Patterson is an American politician and insurance agent. He was a member of the Florida House of Representatives and a member of the Republican Party.

Roberto Pontremoli is an Italian insurance executive. From 1993 to 1999, he was CEO of the Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni (INA), and in 1994, founded the Rotary International club of Milan.

Julian Price was an insurance executive who made his fortune in the first part of the twentieth century by developing the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, at the time the largest corporation in North Carolina.

James Otis Rodgers was an American football player and coach. Rodgers played college football for Yale University from 1894 to 1897 and was captain of Yale's 1897 football team. He also served as the head coach of the 1899 Yale football team. He later had a lengthy career as an insurance broker.

William Winston Roper was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Virginia Military Institute (1903–1904), Princeton University, the University of Missouri (1909), and Swarthmore College (1915–1916), compiling a career college football record of 112–38–18. Roper's Princeton Tigers football teams of 1906, 1911, 1920, and 1922 have been recognized as national champions. His 89 wins are the most of any coach in the history of the program. Roper was also the head basketball coach at Princeton for one season in 1902–03, tallying a mark of 8–7. Roper played football as an end, basketball, and baseball as an outfielder at Princeton, from which he graduated in 1902. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.

Piero Sacerdoti was an Italian insurer and university professor, general manager of Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà in Milan from 1949 to his death.

George Foster "Sandy" Sanford was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Columbia University (1899–1901), the University of Virginia (1904), Yale University (c.1910) where his title was adviser and he took no pay, and Rutgers University (1913–1923), compiling a career college football record of 84–46–6. Sanford was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1971.

H. G. Simms was the Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1922 to 1923. He was also Chairman of the Shanghai Club from 1914 to 1920.

Charles Clinton Spaulding was an American business leader. For close to thirty years, he presided over North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, which became America's largest black-owned business, with assets of over US$40 million at his death.

Haim Starkman is an Israeli former basketball player. He played the guard position. He played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, and for the Israeli national basketball team.

George Barbu Știrbei or Știrbeiŭ, also known as Gheorghe, Georgie, or Iorgu Știrbei, was a Wallachian-born Romanian aristocrat and politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 15, 1866 until February 21, 1867. He was the eldest son of Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei, Prince of Wallachia, and the nephew of his rival, Gheorghe Bibescu; his younger siblings included the landowner and industrialist Alexandru B. Știrbei. Educated in France, he returned to Wallachia during his father's princely mandate, as a Beizadea and aspiring politician. Fleeing his country during the Crimean War, he served the French Empire before returning home to become Wallachian Minister of War and Spatharios. He is remembered for reforming the Wallachian militia during the remainder of Prince Barbu's term.

Kenneth Marlar Taylor was a United States Air Force officer and a flying ace of World War II. He was a new United States Army Air Corps second lieutenant pilot stationed at Wheeler Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Along with his fellow pilot and friend George Welch, Taylor managed to get a fighter plane airborne under fire. Taylor claimed to have shot down four Japanese dive bombers but only two were confirmed. Taylor was injured during the incident and received several awards for his efforts, including the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple Heart.

William Wilson Underhill was an American businessman who was president of the United States Fire Insurance Company of New York. He was educated at Burlington College and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his professional roles, he was a descendant of Captain John Underhill and served as the first president of the Underhill Society of America, a lineage society that was formed to perpetuate John Underhill's memory.

Ebenezer Vickery was an Australian businessman, pastoralist and philanthropist.

Mark Warawa was a Canadian politician. Formerly a businessman and loss prevention officer as well as a city councillor in Abbotsford, British Columbia from 1990 to 2004, Warawa was the Member of Parliament for Langley—Aldergrove from 2004 until his death in 2019.

Verna Cheryl Womack is an entrepreneur who founded Kansas City, Missouri-based VCW and National Association of Independent Truckers, Inc. which became a $100 million a year business selling insurance to independent truckers before selling the companies to private equity investors Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. She become a major philanthropist in the Kansas City area. Among her donations was $2 million to the University of Kansas to build Arrocha Ballpark which is named for her father Demostenes Arrocha.