Sir Richard Branson
(1950-), Business executive and entrepreneurSir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
Sitter in 7 portraits
Branson was educated at Stowe School, Buckingham, where at sixteen he established his first successful business venture, Student magazine. He established Virgin as a mail order record retailer in 1970, also opening a record shop in Oxford Street, London. Virgin's first major success came with the release of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells in 1972. Branson later sold the label to EMI in 1992 and today the Virgin Group incorporates air and rail travel, media, financial services and communications networks. Knighted in 2000 for services to entrepreneurship.
by David Mach
mixed-media (postcard and photo-collage), 1999
NPG 6494
by Peter Rand
bromide print, 1 February 1968
NPG x136001
Sir Richard Branson; Will Whitehorn
by Tom Miller
chromogenic print, 3 December 2001
NPG x125414
by Harry Borden
digital chromogenic print, 19 June 2002
NPG x127009
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