55 Major US Companies Founded by Immigrants
Founder: Elon Musk
Country of origin: South Africa
Co-Founder: Sergey Brin (along with American Larry Page)
Country of origin: Russia
Founder: Andrew Grove
Country of origin: Hungary
Founder: Alexander Graham Bell
Country of origin: Scotland
Founder: Pierre Omidyar
Country of origin: France
Founder: Maxwell Kohl
Country of origin: Poland
Founder: Theodore Weicker
Country of origin: Germany
Founder: Hamdi Ulukaya
Country of origin: Turkey
Founder: Igor I. Sikorsky
Country of origin: Russia
Founder: James L. Kraft
Country of origin: Canada
Founder: Daniel Aaron
Country of origin: Germany
Founder: C.V. Gillespie
Country of origin: England
Founders: Max and Morris Feldberg
Country of origin: Russia
Founder: Marcus Goldman
Country of origin: Germany
Co-founders (with several Americans): Yu Pan, Luke Nosek, Elon Musk and Max Levchyn
Country of origin: China, Poland, South Africa and the former Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine)
Founder: Rupert Murdoch
Country of origin: Australia
Founders: William Procter, James Gamble
Countries of origin: England and Ireland (respectively)
Co-Founder (with several Americans): Eduardo Saverin
Country of origin: Brazil
Founders: Charles Pfizer, Charles Erhart
Country of origin: Germany
Founders: Henry Glade, Isadore Pinckowitz and Ilhan New
Countries of origin: Germany, Romania and Korea (respectively)
Founder: Albert Butz
Country of origin: Switzerland
Founder: John W. Nordstrom
Country of origin: Sweden
Co-Founders: Steve Chen and Jawed Karim (along with Chad Hurley)
Country of origin: Taiwan and Germany
Founder: E.I. du Pont
Country of origin: France
Founder: Andrew Viterbi
Country of origin: Italy
Founder: Sol Shenk
Country of origin: Russia
Co-founders (with several Americans): Konstantin Guericke and Jean-Luc Vaillant
Country of origin: Germany and France
Founder: Andrew Carnegie
Country of origin: Scotland
Co-Founder: Jerry Yang (along with David Filo)
Country of origin: Taiwan
Founder: John M. Nesbitt
Country of origin: Ireland
Founder: Gustave Eckmeyer
Country of origin: Germany
Founder: John Simon Fluor Sr.
Country of origin: Switzerland
Founder: Donald McLeay
Country of origin: Scotland
Founders: Charles and Alexander Meston
Country of origin: Scotland
Founder: Cyrus S. Eaton
Country of origin: Canada
Founder: Nigel Morris
Country of origin: England
Founder: William Colgate
Country of origin: England
Founder: Alexander Graham Bell
Country of origin: Scotland
Founder: George Roe
Country of origin: Canada
Founder: Samuel Insull
Country of origin: England
Founder: George Hatsopoulos
Country of origin: Greece
Founders: Kiran C. Patel and Pradip C. Patel
Country of origin: Zambia
Founder: Andrew Carnegie
Country of origin: Scotland
Founder: James Caldwell
Country of origin: England
Founder: Hugo Wesendonck
Country of origin: Germany
Founder: Richard R. Donnelley
Country of origin: Canada
Founder: Archibald Graham "A.G." McIlwaine
Country of origin: Ireland
Founder: Judge Thomas Mellon
Country of origin: Northern Ireland
Founder: Alexander Asseily
Country of origin: England, also raised in Lebanon
Founder: Renaud LaPlanche
Country of origin: France
Founder: Iqram Magdon-Ismail
Country of origin: Zimbabwe
Founder: Jakie Freedman
Country of origin: Russia
Founder: Charles Weissmann and Ivor Royston
Countries of origin: Switzerland and England (respectively)
Founder: Adam Neumann
Country of origin: Israel
Co-Founder (among other Americans): Nouber Afeyan
Country of origin: Lebanon