Lloyd Cotsen

Lloyd Edward Cotsen (February 25, 1929 – May 8, 2017) was an American businessman.

Early life and family Cotsen was born in Boston on February 25, 1929, to Lloyd Edward Cotsen Sr. and Sophie Cotsen. He obtained a bachelor's degree in history from Princeton University before serving in the U.S. Navy. He sold Neutrogena in 1994, with the shares he controlled amounting to almost $350 million before taxes.

He was a major donor of the University of California, Los Angeles's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, which was renamed in his honor in 1999.