- Manmohan Singh
Dr. Manmohan Singh is the 17<sup>th</sup> and current Prime Minister of India. Dr. Singh is a member of the Indian National Congress party and became the first Sikh to become Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004. He is arguably the most educated Indian Prime Minister in history. He is considered one of the most qualified and influential figures in India's recent history, …
- Jamie Dimon
James "Jamie" Dimon (born March 13, 1956) became CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. on January 1, 2006. He succeeded William B. Harrison, Jr., who became the company's chairman. Dimon succeeded Harrison as Chairman of JPMorgan on January 1, 2007, following Harrison's retirement.
- William B. Harrison Jr.
William B. Harrison, Jr., born August 12 1943 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, is the former CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. Having risen through the ranks of Chemical Bank before succeeding Walter V. Shipley as the leader of the Chase Manhattan Corporation, he and Douglas A. Warner III, then CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co., …
- 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.
- Mario Draghi
Mario Draghi (born September 3, 1947) is an Italian banker and economist, nominated to be the new governor of the Bank of Italy on December 29, 2005. He has taken office on January 16, 2006.
- 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.
- Jonathan Bush
Jonathan James Bush (born May 6,1931), an American banker, a brother of President George H. W. Bush, and an uncle of President George W. Bush.
- Amadeo Giannini
Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949), born in San Jose, California, was one of the founders of the Bank of America. Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria near Genoa, immigrants to the United States. He attended Heald College in San Francisco, California. Giannini opened the Bank of Italy in a former San Francisco saloon on 17 October, 1904. Deposits on that first day totaled $8,780. An early difficulty to overcome was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
- John Bond
Sir John Reginald Hartnell Bond retired as chairman of HSBC Holdings plc on 26 May 2006, after spending 45 years with the bank. He took up the position of Chairman of Vodafone in July 2006. He has been appointed as a member of the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers.
- Robert Morris
Robert Morris, Jr. was an American merchant and a signer to the United States Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. Morris was known as the "Financier of the Revolution", because of his role in securing financial assistance for the American side in the Revolutionary War. Ironically, he was sent to debtor's prison in later life.
- Klaus-Peter Müller
Klaus-Peter Müller is a German banker. He is the Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank AG, Germany's second-largest bank. Further, he is the President of the Association of German Banks (Bundesverband deutscher Banken).
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kathyrn Ann Bailey Hutchison, usually known as Kay Bailey Hutchison (born July 22 1943), is the senior United States Senator from Texas. She is a member of the Republican Party. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by "Ladies Home Journal".
- John Sherman
John Sherman nicknamed "The Ohio Icicle" (May 10, 1823 - October 22, 1900) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. He served as both Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State and was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act. His older brother Charles Taylor Sherman was a US Judge in Ohio, …
- Amy Woods Brinkley
Amy Woods Brinkley is the Global Risk Executive of Bank of America. She was awarded the top position on US Banker magazine's 2005 list of "Most Powerful Women in Banking," and was named number 23 on Fortune's 2006 "Most Powerful Women in Business." As head of the Bank's risk department, Brinkley is tasked with protecting the Bank from all kinds of risk, ranging from human resources-related factors, to interest rate fluctuations and credit risk.
- George David Woods
George David Woods (1901 - 1982) was a U.S. banker. He served as President of World Bank from January 1963 to March 1968.
- Iqbal Khan
Iqbal Khan is currently Managing Director of HSBC's Amanah Finance division, London, United Kingdom. Iqbal was formerly the Managing Director of Citi-Islamic Investment Bank E.C (January 1998 to June 1998) and Global Head for Islamic Finance for Citicorp. Before that he was the General Manager and Chief Operating Officer of the Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf (Bahrain) from 1993-1997.
- Nathaniel de Rothschild
Nathaniel de Rothschild, (London, July 2, 1812 - February 19, 1870 in Paris), known as "Nat," was the founder of the French wine-making branch of the Rothschild family. Born in London, Nathaniel Rothschild was the fourth child of Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836) and Hannah Cohen (1783-1850). He moved to Paris, France in 1850 to work in the banking business owned by his uncle, James Mayer Rothschild (1792-1868).
- Alan Bollard
Dr. Alan Bollard (born 1951 in Auckland) is the current governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, having been appointed on 23 September 2002. He succeeded Donald Brash in this role. Prior to his time in charge on the Reserve Bank his public service included four years as Secretary to the Treasury (1998 - 2002), and time as head of the Commerce Commission (1994 - 1998).
- Abraham Newland
Abraham Newland (born c. 1730, died 21 November 1807 aged 77) was the chief cashier at the Bank of England from 1782 to 1807. The expression "an Abraham Newland" came to mean a bank note, because only his signature guaranteed a genuine Bank of England note. Abraham was the son of William Newland and Anne Arnold. His father was a Southwark baker. He slept in the Bank of England itself for 25 years, so he was largely a stranger to his own house adjoining Highbury Fields.
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (February 23, 1744 - September 19, 1812) was the founder of the Rothschild family banking empire that would become one of the most successful business families in history. In 2005, he was ranked 7th on the Forbes magazine list of the "The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen Of All Time". The business magazine referred to him as a "founding father of international finance". He was born Mayer Amschel Bauer on February 23, …
- Josef Ackermann
Dr. Josef Ackermann (born February 7, 1948) is a Swiss banker. He has been Board Member of Deutsche Bank since 1996 and its CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee since 2002. Ackermann is a graduate of the University of St. Gallen (HSG). He was born in Mels, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Josef Ackermann modernized Deutsche Bank by focusing on shareholders.
- Salomon Mayer von Rothschild
Salomon Mayer von Rothschild was a German-born banker in the Austrian Empire and the founder of the Viennese branch of the prominent Mayer Amschel Rothschild family. He was born at Frankfurt-am-Main the third child and second son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812) and Gutlé Schnapper (1753-1849). In 1800, he married Caroline Stern (1782-1854).
- Carl Mayer von Rothschild
Carl Mayer von Rothschild was a German-born banker in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples. Born Calmann Mayer Rothschild in Frankfurt am Main, he was the fourth of the five sons of Meyer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812) and Gutlé Schnapper (1753-1849). He would become known as "Carl" by the family except for his English relatives who translated it as "Charles".
- James Mayer de Rothschild
James de Rothschild, born May 15, 1792 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany - died November 15, 1868 in Paris, France, was a banker and a member of the prominent Rothschild family. James de Rothschild was the fifth son and youngest child of Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812). James de Rothschild moved to Paris in 1811 and in 1817 expanded the family banking empire to the city, opening de Rothschild Frères.
- Junius Spencer Morgan
Junius Spencer Morgan was an American banker and financier, born at West Springfield (now Holyoke), Massachusetts.
- Nigel Morris
Nigel Morris is a businessman who co-founded Capital One with Richard Fairbank, and retired as COO in 2004. He lent the Labour Party (UK) £1,000,000 as part of the Cash for peerages affair. He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School in the North West of England. He is a governor of the London Business School, and a director of the The Economist Group and Quanta Capital Holdings.
- Stephen Green
Stephen Green (born 7 November 1948) is Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc. Green was educated at Oxford University and received a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On 28th November 2005 HSBC announced that he would become Group Chairman when Sir John Bond retired on 26th May 2006. Green began his career with the British Government's Ministry of Overseas Development. In 1977 he joined McKinsey & Co Inc., management consultants, …
- Richard Fairbank
Richard Fairbank founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988, and is currently the Chairman and CEO. He also serves on the board of directors of MasterCard International, and is the Chairman of MasterCard International's U.S. Region Board of Directors. He is a member of the Stanford Business School Advisory Council, the Financial Services Roundtable, and the board of directors of the BITS Technology Forum.
- Roberto Calvi
Roberto Calvi was an Italian banker dubbed by the press as "God's Banker", due to his close association with the Vatican. A native of Milan, Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano which collapsed in one of modern Italy's biggest political scandals, and his death in London in June 1982 has been the source of enduring controversy. Calvi's death was ruled as murder after two coroner's inquests and an independent investigation, …
- Bill Downe
William A. Downe (born 1952 or 1951) is a Canadian bank executive. He became president and chief executive officer Bank of Montreal (also known as BMO Financial Group) on March 1, 2007, having previous held the position of chief operating officer since February 2006, which made him the clear frontrunner to succeed former BMO President & CEO Tony Comper.
- William Chapman Ralston
William "Billy" Chapman Ralston (January 12, 1826 - August 27, 1875) was a San Francisco, California businessman and financier, and was the founder of the Bank of California. A biography of him is entitled "The Man Who Built San Francisco:
- Alfred Herrhausen
Alfred Herrhausen (30 January 1930 - 30 November 1989) was a German banker and Chairman of Deutsche Bank. From 1971 onwards he was a member of the bank's board of directors. Herrhausen fell victim to a sophisticated roadside bomb shortly after leaving his home in Bad Homburg on 30 November 1989. He was being chauffeured to work in his armoured Mercedes-Benz, with bodyguards in both a lead vehicle and another following behind.
- Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers (July 30, 1763 - December 18, 1855) was an English poet. Rogers was born at Newington Green, London. His father, Thomas Rogers, a banker, was the son of a Stourbridge glass manufacturer, who was also a merchant in Cheapside. Thomas married Mary, the only daughter of his father's partner, Daniel Radford, becoming himself a partner shortly afterwards. On his mother's side Samuel Rogers was connected with the two well-known Nonconformist clergymen, …
- Peter Godsoe
Peter Cowperthwaite Godsoe, OC, MBA, LL.D, FCA (born 1938) is a Canadian businessman and former Chairman and Chief executive officer of the Bank of Nova Scotia from 1992 to 2003. He is a member of the board of directors of multiple corporations, and serves as the Chairman of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and Sobeys. Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of J. Gerald "Gerry" and Margaret (Cowperthwaite) Godsoe, …
- Zahid Hussain
Zahid Hussain (late), a man with a string of firsts to his name was one of the brilliant career holders of Pakistan. Father of the most respected Supreme Court of Pakistan justice (R) Nasir Aslam Zahid, Mr. Zahid Hussain remained Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, he became Pakistan's first High Commissioner in India, the first Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, the first Chairman of the Planning Commission and the author of Pakistan's first five-year plan.
- Hermann Josef Abs
Hermann Josef Abs (1901 - 1994) was a German banker. After World War II (1957-1967) he was chairman of Deutsche Bank, and contributed to the reconstruction of the German economy.
- Eugene R. Black
Eugene Robert Black, Sr. (Jan 7 1873-Dec 19 1934) was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve from May 9, 1933 to August 15, 1934. Eugene R. Black Sr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1873. He attended the University of Georgia where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society. In 1897, he married the daughter of Henry W. Grady, the famous Atlanta journalist and orator. Black practiced law for 28 years until he became president of the Atlanta Trust Company in 1921, …
- Carl Melchior
Carl Melchior (1871 - December 30, 1933) was a German banker. Born in Hamburg, Melchior studied law and eventually was appointed a judge. In 1900 Melchior was made legal counsel to Hamburg banking concern, M. M. Warburg & Co. During World War I, he served with a Bavarian regiment of the German army and was seriously injured at Metz when he fell from a horse.
- Russell Cornell Leffingwell
Russell Cornell Leffingwell (1878 - 1960) was a U.S. banker who led the Council on Foreign Relations from 1944 until 1953. From 1944 to 1946, he served as president of the Council, and from 1946 to 1953, he served as the organization's first chairman. He was also at various times a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation and chairman of JP Morgan.
- 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.