- J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. - Carl Icahn
Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor. - Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf (born August 11 , 1943 , Delhi , India ) became ruler (head of state/chief executive) of Pakistan on October 12 , 1999 following a bloodless coup d'AAtat . He assumed the office of President of Pakistan on June 20 , 2001 . In order to legitimize and legalize his rule, he held a referendum on April 30 , 2002 thereby elected as President of Pakistan for duration of five years. - Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 - December 24, 1873) was a wealthy entrepreneur and philanthropist of nineteenth century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, such as the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins, whose nickname was "Johnsie", was the second of eleven children in his Quaker family, … - Warren Buffet
Warren Edward Buffett (b. August 30 1930, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American investor, businessperson and philanthropist. Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments managed through the holding company Berkshire Hathaway, of which he is the largest shareholder and CEO. With an estimated current net worth of around US$52 billion, he was ranked by "Forbes" as the third-richest person in the world as of April 2007, … - David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller, Sr. is a prominent American banker, philanthropist, world statesman, and the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child and grandchild, respectively, of the prominent philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and the billionaire oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. His five deceased siblings are: Abby, John D. III, Nelson, Laurance and Winthrop. - Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was an Army officer, lawyer, Founding Father, American politician, leading statesman, financier and political theorist. One of America's foremost constitutional lawyers, he was a leader in calling the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787; he was one of the two chief authors of the "Federalist Papers", the most important interpretation of the United States Constitution. Hamilton served chiefly as aide-de-camp to General George Washington, … - Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier and newspaper magnate who was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007. He has written several biographies, including one about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Black is Canadian-born but publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords. - Michael Milken
Michael Robert Milken, born July 4, 1946, in Encino, California, is an American financier best known as the "Junk Bond King" of 1980s era Wall Street. He was highly influential in developing the market for junk bonds (a.k.a. "high-yield debt") during the 1970s and 1980s, which in turn fueled the 1980s boom in corporate raids and hostile corporate takeovers. He has been called both a financial innovator and the epitome of 1980s Wall Street greed. - Guy Hands
Guy Hands is Terra Firma Capital Partner's Chief Executive Officer and Founder. Guy sits on the Investment Advisory Committee and General Partners' boards. Guy started his career with Goldman Sachs International where he went on to become Head of Eurobond Trading and then Head of Goldman Sachs' Global Asset Structuring Group. - Kirk Kerkorian
Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian (born June 6, 1917) is an American billionaire, and president/CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Beverly Hills, California. Kerkorian is known as one of the important figures in shaping the city of Las Vegas, Nevada and, with architect Martin Stern, Jr. the "father of the megaresort." Kerkorian splits his time between his residences in Beverly Hills and Nevada. One of the richest residents of Beverly Hills, … - Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company. - Robert Vesco
Robert Lee Vesco (born December 4, 1935) is a US financier who fled a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation and ended up in Cuba. Robert Vesco took over a small New Jersey industrial company called International Controls Corporation and grew it rapidly through hostile, debt-financed takeovers of other businesses. By 1968 the company owned an airline and several manufacturing plants and Vesco held shares totalling $50 million. - Jay Gould
Jason Gould (May 27, 1836 - December 2, 1892) was an American financier, who became a leading American railroad developer and speculator. - Henry Kravis
Henry R. Kravis (born January 6 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) is an American business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading the leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). With an estimated current net worth of around $3 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 107th richest person in the world. - Bernard Baruch
Bernard Mannes Baruch (August 19, 1870-June 20, 1965) was an American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential adviser. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising Democratic presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters. - Edward Lampert
Edward S. "Eddie" Lampert (born July 19 1962) is an American investor, financier and businessman. He is the chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation (SHLD) and founder, chairman, and CEO of ESL Investments. Until May, 2007 he was a director of AutoNation, Inc. He previously served as a director of AutoZone, Inc. from 1999 to 2006. Lampert graduated from Yale University in 1984 (B.A., economics, summa cum laude), where he was a member of Skull and Bones and Phi Beta Kappa. - Jean Strouse
Jean Strouse (b. 1945) is an American biographer, editor and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Strouse was book editor for "Newsweek" magazine from 1979 to 1983, and won a MacArthur Fellowship in September, 2001. She has also held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. - George Brown
George Brown (1787-1859) was an Irish-American banker and railroad entrepreneur. He was a partner in the firm of Brown Bros. & Co., founded in 1818 by his father Alexander. In 1827, together with Philip E. Thomas, he helped to found the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Maryland was built in 1870 in his memory. His wife was Isabella McLanahan Brown. - Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Is a counter-terrorism expert and attorney living in Washington D.C. He was born in Ashland, Oregon to Jewish parents. He converted to Islam in his mid 20's because he was impressed by how religious his muslim friend was. He worked for the U.S. head of the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Wahhabi charity that supported Al-Qaida. His job was to educate prisoners about what Al Haramain considered to be true Islam. - Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis (born 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American contemporary non-fiction author. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker", "The New New Thing," "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" and "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game". After graduating from the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, he received an art history degree from Princeton University and a masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics. - Russell Sage
Russell Sage (4 August 1816 - 22 July 1906) was a financier and politician from New York. Sage was born at Verona in Oneida County, New York. He received a public school education and worked as a farm hand until he was 15, when he became an errand boy in a grocery conducted by his brother, Henry R. Sage, in Troy, New York. He had a part interest in 1837-1839 in a retail grocery in Troy, and in a wholesale store there in 1839-1857. - George Peabody
George Peabody (February 18 1795 - November 4 1869) was an entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Institute. He was born in what was then Danvers, Massachusetts (now Peabody, Massachusetts), to a middle class family. His birthplace at 205 Washington Street in Peabody is now the George Peabody House Museum, a museum dedicated to preserving his life and legacy. - Alassane Ouattara
Alassane Dramane Ouattara is a Muslim political leader in Côte d'Ivoire who was Prime Minister from November 1990 to December 1993. He represents northerners, who, having surnames similar to those found in the northern neighboring countries, are accused to be immigrants, and thereby denied their full citizenship rights. According to a constitutional clause regarding dual parentage, added specifically to block his candidature, … - John Stewart
John Stewart was a Canadian financier and railway builder. He was born in Nedd, Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland on 4 Dec 1860; died 24 Sep 1938 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He started building and contracting with the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline, and went on to build branch lines for them in the Kootenays and Alberta. His Company Foley, Welch and Stewart constructed the PGE, Grand Trunk Pacific, and Canadian Pacific railways in BC. Unfortunately, … - Nicholas Biddle
Nicholas Biddle, American financier, was born and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - Thomas Gresham
Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1519 - 21 November, 1579) was an English merchant and financier who worked for King Edward VI of England and for Edward's half-sister Queen Elizabeth I of England. - Daniel Drew
Daniel Drew (July 29 1797 - September 18 1879) was an American financier. He was born in Carmel, New York. Drew was poorly educated. His father died when Daniel was fifteen years old, and Drew enlisted and drilled but, because he enlisted too late, never fought in the War of 1812. After the war, he started a successful cattle-driving business. - Ted Ammon
Robert Theodore Ammon (August 30, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - October 20, 2001 in East Hampton, New York) was an American financier and Investment Banker. He became one of the youngest partners at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and was involved in the RJR Nabisco buyout. Ammon graduated from Bucknell University. He then followed his first wife to London, where he worked as a Barrister. They later divorced. - Licio Gelli
Licio Gelli (born in Pistoia, Tuscany, April 21, 1919) is an Italian financier, chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. He was outed in 1981 as being the Worshipful Master of the masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2). - Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Nathan Mayer Rothschild was a London financier and one of the founders of the international Rothschild banking dynasty. He was born in the Frankfurt-am-Main ghetto, the fourth child of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812) and Gutle Schnapper (1753–1849). - George Smith
George Smith (1806-1899) was an important banking figure in the mid-1800s in Chicago. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Smith visited Illinois and Wisconsin in 1835 and felt there was money to be made. He returned home and gathered subscribers and back in Chicago used those funds to found the Scottish Illinois Land Investment Company. He stepped into the vacuum left in the wake of the Panic of 1837 during which most banks in Chicago failed used his company as an unchartered bank. - James Fisk
James Fisk, Jr. (April 1, 1834 - January 6, 1872), known variously as "Big Jim," "Diamond Jim," and "Jubilee Jim," was an American financier. Fisk was born in Bennington, Vermont. After a brief period in school, he ran away in 1850 and joined Van Amberg's Mammoth Circus & Menagerie, a circus. Later, he became a hotel waiter, and finally adopted the business of his father, a peddler. He adopted what he learned in the circus to his peddling and grew his father's business. - J. P. Morgan Jr.
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. was an American financier. He was born in New York City and graduated from Harvard in 1886, where he was a member of Delta Phi and Delta Kappa Epsilon. In 1890 he married Jane Norton Grew, daughter of a Boston banker and mill owner, and aunt of Henry Grew Crosby. The couple had two sons and two daughters. Upon his father's death in 1913, he inherited the major portion of his great fortune. - William Paterson
Sir William Paterson (born April, 1658 in Tinwald, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - died in Westminster, London, on January 22, 1719) was a Scottish trader and banker. - Paul-Loup Sulitzer
Paul Loup Karl Sulitzer (born July 22 1946) is a French financier and author. He was descended from a Polish background. His parents moved from Poland to France during the invasion of Poland by Germany. Before he turned seventeen, he was already a self-made millionaire. Sulitzer used his financial experience and knowledge in his books which often related to the business world. His novel, "The Green King" (French: "Le Roi Vert"), was made into a comic series. - Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is a founder and Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures. Fred began his career in venture capital in 1987 and he has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 16 years. From 1987 to 1996, Fred was first an Associate and then a General Partner at Euclid Partners, an early stage venture capital firm located in New York City. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners. - Moses Montefiore
Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet (October 24, 1784-July 28, 1885) was one of the most famous British Jews in the 19th century. Montefiore was a financier, stockbroker, philanthropist and also the Sheriff of London. - Charlie Munger
Charles Thomas Munger (b. January 1 1924, Omaha, Nebraska) is Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation, the diversified investment corporation chaired by investor Warren Buffett. Like Buffett, Munger is a native of Omaha. After studies at the University of Michigan and service in the U.S. Navy, he entered Harvard Law School without an undergraduate degree. Graduating in 1948 with a Juris Doctor, he founded and worked as a real estate attorney at Munger, … - Laurance Rockefeller
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was a venture capitalist, financier, philanthropist, a major conservationist and a prominent third-generation member of the Rockefeller family. He was the fourth child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and brother to John D. III, Nelson, Winthrop and David.
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