Investors
Value Investing
Mario Gabelli
Born in 1942 in New York to an Italian immigrant family, Mario Gabelli earned his MBA from Columbia
Joel Greenblatt
Born in 1957, Joel Greenblatt is the founder of Gotham Capital and an adjunct professor at Columbia
Jeremy Grantham
Born in 1938 in Britain, Jeremy Grantham co-founded GMO, a Boston-based asset management firm, and s
Leon G. Cooperman
Born in 1943 in the South Bronx, New York, Leon Cooperman rose to head Goldman Sachs's investment-re
Bruce Berkowitz
An American equity fund manager and founder of Fairholme Capital Management. After building experien
David Einhorn
Born in 1968 in New Jersey, David Einhorn founded Greenlight Capital and compiled annualized returns
Charlie Munger
Born in 1924 in Omaha, Munger was Berkshire Hathaway's vice chairman and Buffett's partner for over
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham (1894-1976), the father of value investing, wrote Security Analysis and The Intellig
John Templeton
Born in 1912 in a small Tennessee town, John Templeton pioneered the concept of global diversified i
Seth Klarman
Born in 1957 in New York, Seth Klarman founded the Baupost Group in 1982 with 27 million dollars in
Li Ka-shing
Born in 1928 in Guangdong, Li Ka-shing fled to Hong Kong at 12 and built CK Hutchison into a global
Guy Spier
Born in 1966, Guy Spier is a Swiss-German-Israeli investor based in Zurich who manages the Aquamarin
Mohnish Pabrai
Born in 1964 in Mumbai, Mohnish Pabrai used the proceeds from selling his IT company to establish Pa
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John Neff
Born in 1931 in Ohio, died in 2019. John Neff managed the Vanguard Windsor Fund for 31 years from 19
Walter Schloss
Born in 1916 in New York, died in 2012. Walter Schloss never attended college but learned investing
Warren Buffett
Born in 1930 in Omaha, Warren Buffett evolved Graham's value investing and built Berkshire Hathaway
Honda Seiroku
A Japanese forestry professor who built a fortune by saving one quarter of every paycheck and invest
Howard Marks
Co-founder of Oaktree Capital and a leading distressed-debt investor. His memos, which Buffett reads
Macro
David Tepper
Born in 1957 in Pittsburgh, David Tepper honed his skills on Goldman Sachs's junk-bond desk before f
John Paulson
Born in 1955 in New York, John Paulson rose from obscurity managing a modest merger-arbitrage hedge
Ray Dalio
Born in New York in 1949, Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates, one of the largest hedge funds.
George Soros
George Soros survived Nazi-occupied Hungary, studied under Karl Popper, and built Quantum Fund into
Jim Rogers
Born in 1942 in Alabama, Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros, recording returns
Michael Burry
Born in 1971 in California, Michael Burry is a former physician turned hedge-fund manager who foresa
Stanley Druckenmiller
Born in 1953 in Pittsburgh, Stanley Druckenmiller founded Duquesne Capital in 1981 and served as lea
Julian Robertson
Born in 1932 in North Carolina, died in 2022. Julian Robertson founded Tiger Management in 1980, rec
Paul Tudor Jones
Born in 1954 in Memphis, Tennessee, Paul Tudor Jones founded Tudor Investment Corporation in 1980 an
Growth
Mark Mobius
Born in 1936 as a German American, died April 2026. Mark Mobius led emerging-market equity investing
Ken Fisher
Born in 1950 in California, Kenneth Fisher is the founder and executive chairman of Fisher Investmen
Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch ran Fidelity's Magellan Fund (1977-1990), averaging 29.2% annual returns and growing ass
Peter Thiel
Born in 1967 in Frankfurt, Germany, Peter Thiel is a PayPal co-founder and Facebook's first outside
Cathie Wood
Born in Los Angeles in 1955, Cathie Wood founded ARK Invest in 2014 and attracted global attention w
Masayoshi Son
Born in 1957 in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, Japan, Masayoshi Son founded the SoftBank Group and turned a
Trader
André Kostolany
Born in Budapest in 1906, Kostolany spent 80-plus years in markets from Paris and Frankfurt. His Egg
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The "Boy Plunger" born in 1877 Massachusetts, who entered a Boston bucket shop at 14 and cycled thro
Honma Munehisa
Born in 1724 in Sakata, Dewa Province, Japan, Munehisa Homma was an Edo-period rice merchant credite
Quant
Ken Griffin
Born in 1968 in Florida, Ken Griffin founded Citadel and built it into one of the world's preeminent
Jim Simons
Born in 1938, died in 2024. As a mathematician James Simons created Chern-Simons theory in different
Edward O. Thorp
Born in 1932 in Chicago, Edward O. Thorp is a mathematician who first established the card-counting
Activist
Carl Icahn
Born in 1936 in Queens, New York, Carl Icahn earned the epithet 'corporate raider' in the 1980s and
Bill Ackman
Born in 1966 in New York, Bill Ackman founded Pershing Square Capital Management and became one of t
Daniel S. Loeb
Born in 1961 in Santa Monica, California, Daniel Loeb is the founder and CEO of Third Point, a New Y
Institutional
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Born in 1947 in Philadelphia, Stephen Schwarzman built experience at Lehman Brothers before co-found
Abigail Johnson
Born in Boston in 1961, Abigail Johnson is the chair, CEO, and president of Fidelity Investments. Sh
David F. Swensen
Yale's CIO for 36 years, Swensen grew the endowment from $1.3B to $31.2B at 12.4% annual returns. He
Financier
J. P. Morgan
Born in 1837, J.P. Morgan dominated Gilded Age Wall Street. He reorganized railroads, created U.S. S
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Born in 1777 in the Frankfurt ghetto, Nathan Mayer Rothschild emigrated alone to England at twenty-o
Howard Hughes
Born on Christmas Eve 1905 in Houston, Texas, Howard Hughes was one of 20th-century America's most e
