Pei, the stories of Isaac Asimov, the entire industries that were forged by Andrew Carnegie.

WHITEHOUSE: Building a 21st Century Immigration System

An international celebrity in his lifetime, the Russian composer was invited by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie to conduct during the opening festival of what was then called the Music Hall (renamed Carnegie Hall in 1894) in May, 1891.

FORBES: Carnegie Hall Brings Tchaikovsky To Fans Near And Far

Although some of the individuals Buffett contacted were at first hesitant about making a formal announcement, he emphasized the importance of setting an example to future generations by pointing to the legacies of Andrew Carnegie and John D.

FORBES

But when the namesake of this university, Andrew Carnegie -- an immigrant, by the way -- discovered new ways to mass-produce steel cheaply, everything changed.

WHITEHOUSE: A Renaissance in American Manufacturing

True, Henry Clay Frick was a fellow giant of industry recently dubbed one of America's leading financiers by the New York Times and he and Andrew Carnegie had been partners once.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Meet You In Hell'

The task of assessing American design's place in the world, and in everyday life, went more or less by default to the Cooper-Hewitt museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, located in what had been Andrew Carnegie's mansion on Fifth Avenue.

ECONOMIST: American blobjectivity