Anglo American plc (LSE: AAL, JSE: ANGLO) is a British multinational mining company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It the world's largest producer of platinum, with around 40% of world output, and a major producer of diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore and metallurgical and thermal coal. It has operations in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America.

Anglo American has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of approximately £31.2 billion as of 23 December 2011, the 15th-largest company of any company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange. It has a secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, along with American bank J.P. Morgan, founded the Anglo American Corporation, a gold mining company, in 1917 with £1 million, raised from UK and U.S. sources, and ultimately derived the name of the company. The AAC became the majority stakeholder in the De Beers company in 1926. Two years later, the AAC began mining in the Zambian copper belt.

Anglo-American is often used in legal, economic and political writing to refer to those countries that have similar legal regimes that are generally based on the English common law (also see English law). This includes many of the countries of the former British Empire.

Anglo-American may also refer to:

Cecil John Rhodes PC, DCL (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was an English-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40% of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90%. An ardent believer in British colonialism, he was the founder of the state of Rhodesia, which was named after him. In 1964, Northern Rhodesia became the independent state of Zambia and Southern Rhodesia was thereafter known simply as Rhodesia. In 1980, Rhodesia, which had been de-facto independent since 1965, became independent from Britain and was renamed Zimbabwe. South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after Rhodes. He set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate.

Historian Richard A. McFarlane views Rhodes "as integral a participant in southern African and British imperial history as George Washington or Abraham Lincoln are in their respective eras in United States history... most histories of South Africa covering the last decades of the nineteenth century are contributions to the historiography of Cecil Rhodes."

Mark Cutifani (born 2 May 1958) is an Australian businessman and the current CEO and a director of South African gold mining company AngloGold Ashanti, a position he has held since October 2007.

As CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, Cutifani hopes to reduce the number of fatalities within the company to zero by 2015, stating that having to live with fatalities in the industry is his greatest disappointment. In his first two and a half years with Cutifani in charge, AngloGold Ashanti reduced the number of fatalities within the company by 70%. In 2006, before he took up office, the company had 37 fatalities, this number was reduced to 16 in 2009.

Mark Cutifani, after leaving high school in 1976, joined Coal Cliff colliery and enrolled in the University of Wollongong in 1977 to complete a degree in Mining Engineering. He graduated in 1982.

After working for Coal Cliff, he joined Kalgoorlie Gold Mines, the Western Mining Corporation, Normandy Mining and Sons of Gwalia. He became the managing director of Sons of Gwalia in March 2000 but resigned from his position on 14 February 2003, in a surprise move, to join Inco Limited. The Sons of Gwalia company entered administration 16 month later, in August 2004, following a financial collapse, with debts exceeding $800 million after suffering from falling gold reserves and hedging losses.