An owner of a corporation is known as?

The owner of a corporation is the stockholders.

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Certain types of corporations Specifically "Closed Corporations"

• while still technically being called shareholders - are owned and

ran by a selected few individuals. There are few rules as to who can hold stock in a company.

So OWNERS can be anyone from 1,000's of everyday people or 1 or 2 individuals (even businesses) that own all the stock and therefor the company.