Luis A. Ferré

Puerto Rico, cement and industry. Ferré, an engineer from a Ponce industrial family, ran the family's iron works and built Puerto Rico Cement, supplying the concrete for the island's rapid building programme in the mid-twentieth century. He later served as governor from 1969 to 1973 and founded the Museo de Arte de Ponce, showing how one family business could shape an island's economy and civic life.