Duncan Davidson and David Wilson also feature in Management Today list
Construction and property figures have featured prominently in Management Today's roundup of the UK's top 100 entrepreneurs.
The leading entrepreneur from the industry is Tony Langley, the 51-year-old chairman of conglomerate Langley Holdings. Its construction concerns include a housebuilding business and a crane arm.
Langley was 14th on the list, just ahead of Duncan Bannatyne, who has become famous as one of the judges on BBC2 programme Dragons' Den. Although best known for his fitness centres, the Bannatyne Group is branching out into housing in 2006, with planning permission secured for sites in Stockton-on-Tees, Dumfries, Mansfield and Chafford Hundred in Essex.
More mainstream construction figures included Duncan Davidson, the 64-year-old chairman of Persimmon. He recently helped turn Persimmon into a FTSE-100 company with the £643m acquisition of rival Westbury.
Despite the 13%pre-tax profit fall in Wilson Bowden's last interim results, chairman David Wilson was named the UK's 67th leading entrepreneur.
Other industry figures included Stewart Milne, chairman and chief executive of the eponymous Aberdeen-based housebuilder, and Graham Anwyl, boss of Anwyl Construction.
