Leonard L. Abess, owner and CEO of City National Bank of Florida[67]
    Bill Ackman, hedge fund manager, founder of Pershing Square Capital Management[68]
    Les Alexander, investor, founder of The Alexander Group, former owner of NBA's Houston Rockets[69]
    Bill, Ted and Peter Alfond, investors[70]
    James Altucher, hedge fund manager and tech investor, founder of StockPickr[71]
    Shari Arison, American-Israeli investor, owner of Bank Hapoalim; member of the Arison family[72]
    Jeff Aronson, co-founder of Centerbridge Partners, former partner at Angelo, Gordon & Co.[73][74]
    Cliff Asness, hedge fund manager, co-founder of AQR Capital[75][76]
    Jules Bache, founder of J. S. Bache & Co.[77][78]
    Ronald S. Baron, investor, founder of Baron Capital Management[79][80]
    Joseph Ainslie Bear, co-founder of investment bank Bear Stearns[81][82]
    Jordan Belfort, former stock broker, founder of Stratton Oakmont, Inc.[83]
    Rebecka Belldegrun, Finnish-born investor, CEO of BellCo Capital; wife of Arie Belldegrun[84]
    Bob Benmosche, investment banker, former president and CEO of American International Group, Inc. (AIG)[85][86]
    David Bergstein, founder and CEO of L.A.-based private equity firm Cyrano Group[87]
    Bruce R. Berkowitz, founder of Fairholme Capital Management[88]
    Paul P. and Zalman Bernstein, co-founders of investment-management firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Company (now AllianceBernstein L.P.)[89]
    Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC[90]
    Lloyd C. Blankfein, former CEO of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.[91]
    Leonard Blavatnik, Ukraine-born founder and chairman of Access Industries, owner of Warner Music Group[92][93][94]
    Michael Bloomberg, president and CEO of Bloomberg L.P.[95]
    Richard C. Blum, founder of Blum Capital[96]
    Ivan Boesky, Wall Street financier and arbitrageur; fined $100m for insider trading in the mid-1980s[97][98]
    David Bonderman, co-founder of TPG Capital[99]
    Bill Browder, co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management[100]
    B. Gerald Cantor, founder of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.[101]
    Arthur L. Carter, investment banker, co-founder of Carter, Berlind, & Weill[102][103]
    Marshall Cogan, former partner at Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt and founder of United Automotive Group[104][105]
    Peter A. Cohen, chairman and CEO of Cowen Inc.[106]
    Steven A. Cohen, hedge fund manager, founder of Point72 Asset Management and S.A.C. Capital Advisors[107]
    Gary Cohn, former COO of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Chief Economic Advisor to President Trump (until March 2018)[108]
    Leon G. Cooperman, investor, hedge fund manager, CEO of Omega Advisors[109][110]
    Mark Cuban, start-up investor, owner of the Dallas Mavericks[111]
    Jon P. Diamond, co-founder of the Safe Auto Insurance Company[112][113]
    Glenn Dubin, hedge fund manager, co-founder of Highbridge Capital Management[114]
    Asher Edelman, Corporate raider[97]
    Joseph Edelman, founder of hedge fund Perceptive Advisors[115][116]
    David Einhorn, investor, hedge fund manager, founder of Greenlight Capital[117]
    Lewis Eisenberg, co-founder of private equity firm Granite Capital International Group L.P.[118]
    Michael R. Eisenson, co-founder of Charlesbank Capital Partners[119]
    Israel "Izzy" Englander, investor, founder of Millennium Management, LLC[120]
    Boris Epshteyn, Russian-born investment banker[118]
    Jeffrey Epstein, financier, founder of J. Epstein Co.[121][122]
    Andrew Fastow, former CFO of Enron[123]
    Irwin Federman, General Partner of U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)[124][125]
    Steve Feinberg, co-founder and CEO of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.[126]
    Karen Finerman, co-founder of NYC-based hedge fund Metropolitan Capital Advisors[127]
    Laurence D. Fink, financial executive, co-founder and CEO of BlackRock, Inc., the world's largest shadow bank[128][129]
    William S. Fisher, investor, hedge fund manager, founder of Manzanita Capital Limited; Gap Inc. heir[130]
    Lee Fixel, investor, partner at Tiger Management[131]
    Dovi Frances, Israeli-American fincancier, founder of SG, LLC, a global advisory firm focused on UHNWI clients, and of venture capital firm SGVC[132][133]
    John Frankel, British-American founder of ff Venture Capital[134]
    Martin Frankel, investor, founder of Winthrop Capital; known for using astrology to make financial trading decisions[135][136]
    Jacob A. Frenkel, Israeli-American chairman of JPMorgan Chase International[137][138]
    Tully Friedman, co-founder of Hellman & Friedman (H&F), Friedman Fleischer & Lowe (FFL)[139][140]
    Jeremy Frommer, hedge fund manager, former co-CEO of RBC Capital Markets[141]
    Richard S. Fuld Jr., former (and last) CEO of Lehman Brothers[142]
    Stanley Gold, former president and CEO of Shamrock Holdings, Inc. (Roy E. Disney's family investment firm)[143]
    Stanley Golder, co-founder of Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR LLC[144]
    Marcus Goldman, German-born co-founder of Goldman Sachs; member of the Goldman-Sachs family[145]
    David Gottesman, founder of First Manhattan Co.[146]
    Noam Gottesman, Israeli-American hedge fund manager, co-founder of GLG Partners[147]
    Leonard I. Green, founder of Leonard Green & Partners, West Coast's largest LBO firm[148]
    Alan Greenspan, former chairman and president of Townsend-Greenspan, former Chair of the Federal Reserve[149]
    John Gutfreund, former CEO of Salomon Brothers[150][151]
    Richard B. Handler, banker, chairman and CEO of Jefferies LLC[152]
    Joshua Harris, investor, co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC, owner of the New Jersey Devils and the Philadelphia 76ers[153][154]
    Adrian and Nick Hanauer, venture capitalists[155]
    Alfred S. Hart, Hungarian-born founder of City National Bank[156][157]
    Andrew Hauptman, founder of L.A.-based investment firm Andell Inc. and owner of the Chicago Fire Soccer Club; son-in-law of Charles Bronfman[158]
    Isaias W. Hellman, German-born banker, co-founder of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles (F&M), former president of Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank[159]
    Ben Horowitz, start-up investor, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz[160]
    Carl Icahn, Corporate raider, founder and majority shareholder of Icahn Enterprises[161]
    Samuel Israel III, former hedge fund manager, founder of Bayou Hedge Fund Group[162]
    Kenneth M. Jacobs, CEO of Lazard[163]
    Mitchell R. Julis, co-founding partner of L.A.-based hedge fund Canyon Capital Advisors[164][165]
    David Kabiller, co-founder of investment management firm AQR Capital[166]
    Neil Kadisha, Iranian-born co-founder and CEO of L.A.-based investment firm Omninet Capital[167]
    Irving Kahn, investor, co-founder of Kahn Brothers Group, Inc.[168][169]
    George Kaiser, chairman of BOK Financial Corporation[170][171]
    Robert S. Kapito, investor, co-founder of BlackRock, Inc., chair of the board of UJA-Federation of New York[172]
    Steven Kaplan, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management and minority owner of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies[173][174]
    Bruce Karsh, investor, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, chairman of the Tribune Media Company[175]
    Richard A. Kayne, co-founder of Kayne Anderson Capital Advisers[176][177]
    Barry Klarberg, founder of Monarch Business and Wealth Management; co-owner of the New York Yankees[178]
    Seth Klarman, investor and hedge fund manager, founder of Baupost Group; minority owner of the Boston Red Sox[179]
    Eugene Kleiner, Austrian-born venture capitalist who co-founded KPCB and is considered a pioneer of Silicon Valley[180][181]
    Jerome Kohlberg Jr., co-founder of KKR & Co. L.P.[182]
    Bruce Kovner, investor, hedge fund manager, chairman of CAM Capital[183]
    Orin Kramer, hedge fund manager, founder of Boston Provident LP[184][185]
    Peter S. Kraus, CEO of AllianceBernstein (AB)[186]
    Henry Kravis, co-founder of KKR & Co. L.P.[187]
    Rodger Krouse, co-founder of Sun Capital Partners, Inc.[188]
    Joe Lacob, Silicon Valley investor, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), co-owner of NBA's Golden State Warriors[189]
    Andrew A. Lanyi, Hungarian-born investor, founder of the Lanyi Group[190][191]
    Marc Lasry, Moroccan-born hedge fund manager, co-founder (along with his sister Sonia) of Avenue Capital Group, co-owner of NBA's Milwaukee Bucks[192]
    Henry Laufer, investor, former VP of Research at Renaissance Technologies LLC, co-founder of the Medallion Fund[193][194]
    Jonathan Lavine, co-managing partner of Boston-based investment firm Bain Capital and CIO of Bain Capital Credit; co-owner of NBA's Boston Celtics[195]
    Sayra Fischer Lebenthal, banker, co-founder of Lebenthal & Company; mother of Jim Lebenthal, grandmother of Alexandra Lebenthal[196][197]
    Bennett S. LeBow, Chairman of the Board of Vector Group, former owner of the Liggett Group[198]
    Marc J. Leder, co-founder and co-CEO of Sun Capital Partners, Inc., co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers[199]
    Thomas H. Lee, founder of the private equity firms THL and Lee Equity Partners[200][201]
    Henry, Mayer and Emanuel Lehman, German-born founders of Lehman Brothers; members of the Lehman family[202]
    Al Lerner, former Chairman of the Board of credit card company MBNA and owner of NFL's Cleveland Browns[203]
    Randy Lerner, investor, former owner of the MBNA Corporation; former owner of EPL's Aston Villa F.C.[203]
    Dennis Levine, former managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert[204]
    Leon Levy, investor, former partner at Oppenheimer & Co.[205]
    Peter B. Lewis, former chairman and owner of the Progressive Insurance Company[206]
    Cy Lewis, former long-time Managing Partner of Bear, Stearns & Company[207][208]
    Josh Linkner, CEO and Managing Partner of Detroit Venture Partners[209]
    Daniel S. Loeb, hedge fund manager, founder of Third Point Management[210]
    Solomon Loeb, German-born co-founder of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.[211]
    Howard Lorber, CEO of New Valley LLC (formerly Western Union)[212]
    Howard Lutnick, chairman & CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald & BGC Partners[213]
    Bernard Madoff, former financier and chairman of NASDAQ, Ponzi schemer[214][215]
    Stephen Mandel, Jr., hedge fund manager, investor, founder of Lone Pine Capital, former managing director at "The Tiger Fund"[216]
    Leo Melamed, Polish-born financial futures pioneer, chairman emeritus of Chicago-based CME Group Inc.[217]
    James Melcher, hedge fund manager, founder of Balestra Capital Management; former Olympic fencer[218]
    J. Ezra Merkin, investor, hedge fund manager, former president of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue; Madoff Ponzi scheme victim[219][220]
    André Meyer, French-born investment banker, former senior partner at Lazard Frères & Co.[221]
    Marc Eugene Meyer, French-born former president of Lazard Frères & Co.[222]
    Marc Mezvinsky, investment banker, co-founder of Eaglevale Partners; husband of Chelsea Clinton[223][224]
    Michael Milken, financier, junk-bond specialist, founder of the Milken Institute[97]
    Eric Mindich, hedge fund manager, founder and CEO of Eton Park Capital Management[225][226]
    Steven Mnuchin, former hedge fund manager; 77th United States Secretary of the Treasury[118]
    David Morgenthaler, founder of Morgenthaler, one of the oldest private equity investment firms in the U.S.[227]
    Sir Michael Moritz, British-American Silicon Valley venture capitalist, partner at Sequoia Capital[228]
    Alfred Huger Moses, banker and investor who founded the city of Sheffield, Alabama[229]
    Andrew M. Murstein, founder of investment company Medallion Financial Corp., former taxi medallion lending executive, owner of MLL's New York Lizards[230]
    Arthur Nadel, former hedge fund manager, founder of Florida-based Scoop Management Co.[231]
    Ezri Namvar, Iranian-born L.A.-based founder of the Namco Capital Group and former owner of the Security Pacific Bank[232][233][234]
    Jack Nash, German-born hedge fund pioneer, former chairman of Oppenheimer & Company, co-founder of the New York Sun[235]
    Elkan Naumburg, German-born banker, founder of E. Naumburg & Co.[236]
    Izak Parviz Nazarian, Iranian-American investor, managing partner at Omninet Capital[237][238][239]
    Roy Neuberger, financier, co-founder of Neuberger Berman[240]
    Aviv Nevo, Romanian-born Israeli-American venture capitalist, founder of NV Investments; major shareholder in Time Warner[241]
    Roy and Victor Niederhoffer, hedge fund managers[242][243]
    Mark Nordlicht, American-Israeli hedge fund manager, founder of Platinum Partners[244][245]
    Nelson Obus, hedge fund manager, co-founder of Wynnefield Capital, Inc.[246][247]
    Daniel Och, investor, hedge fund manager; CEO and chairman of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group[248]
    Bernard Osher, a founding director of World Savings Bank[249]
    Jacob Ostreicher, investor[250]
    Alan Patricof, one of the early pioneers of venture capital and private equity; co-founder of Apax Partners LLP and Greycroft[251]
    David L. Paul, banker, founder of Miami-based CenTrust Bank[252]
    John Paulson, investor; founder of Paulson & Co. Inc.[253]
    Nelson Peltz, investor, co-founder of Trian Fund Management. L.P.[254]
    Jeffrey, Raymond and Ronald Perelman, investors[255][256]
    Richard C. Perry, hedge fund manager, founder of Perry Capital LLC[257][258]
    Carl Pforzheimer, former banker, co-founder of the American Stock Exchange[259][260]
    Lionel Pincus, co-founder of private equity firm Warburg Pincus, LLC[261]
    Danny Porush, former stock broker and chairman of Stratton Oakmont[262][263]
    Victor Posner, LBO pioneer[264]
    Michael F. Price, hedge fund manager, founder of MFP Investors LLC[265][266]
    Nicholas, Karen, Jennifer and John Pritzker, investors; members of the Pritzker family[267]
    Dan Rapoport, Latvian-born investor, founder of Rapoport Capital LLP[268]
    Ira Rennert, industrial investor, founder of the Renco Group[269]
    Tony Ressler, co-founder of Ares Management, L.P. and Apollo Global Management, LLC; owner of the Atlanta Hawks[31]
    Marc Rich, Belgian-American former oil trader, hedge fund manager and founder of Glencore plc"[270][271]
    Larry Robbins, hedge fund manager, founder of Glenview Capital Management[272]
    Stephen Robert, former chairman and CEO of Oppenheimer & Co. and Renaissance Institutional Management LLC (subsidiary of Renaissance Technologies)[273][274]
    George R. Roberts, co-founder of KKR & Co. L.P.[275]
    Arthur Rock, early Silicon Valley venture capitalist, co-founder of Davis & Rock and Fairchild Semiconductor[276]
    George Rohr, Colombian-born co-founder of private equity firm NCH Capital Inc.[277][278]
    David S. Rose, start-up investor, founder of New York Angels[279]
    Barry Rosenstein, hedge fund manager, founder of JANA Partners LLC[280]
    David René de Rothschild, banker; current chairman of Rothschild & Co; member of the Rothschild family[281]
    Marc Rowan, co-founder of Apollo Global Management, LLC[282]
    David M. Rubenstein, financier, co-founder of global private equity investment company The Carlyle Group[283]
    Robert Rubin, former Treasury Secretary, director of National Economic Council, and chairman of Citigroup[284]
    Samuel Sachs, co-founder of Goldman Sachs[285]
    Arthur J. Samberg, founder of Pequot Capital Management[286]
    Morris Schapiro, Lithuanian-born investment banker, founder of M. A. Schapiro & Company; known for negotiating the merger of Chase Bank and Bank of Manhattan[287]
    Jacob H. Schiff, German-born banker; former leader of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.[288]
    Peter Schiff, CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.[289][290]
    Rick Schnall, partner at private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice and minority owner of the Atlanta Hawks[291][31]
    Alan Schwartz, Executive Chairman of Guggenheim Partners, former (and last) CEO of Bear, Stearns & Company[292]
    Stephen A. Schwarzman, co-founder, chairman and CEO of the Blackstone Group[293]
    Joseph Seligman, German-born co-founder of investment bank J. & W. Seligman & Co.[294]
    Bruce Sherman, co-founder of wealth-management firm Private Capital Management (PCM) and owner of MLB's Miami Marlins[295][296]
    Eugene Shvidler, Russian-American oil tycoon, chairman of Millhouse Capital[297][298]
    James Simons, hedge fund manager, co-founder of Renaissance Technologies[299][300]
    Paul Singer, investor, founder of Elliott Management Corporation[301]
    David M. Solomon, disc jockey and investment banker, CEO of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.[302]
    George Soros, Hungarian-American investor and business magnate, founder of Soros Fund Management, LLC[97]
    James Speyer, former head of the banking firm Speyer & Co.; member of the Speyer family[303]
    Robert B. Stearns, financier, co-founder of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc[304]
    Saul Steinberg, Corporate raider[305]
    Michael Steinhardt, investor and hedge fund manager, co-founder of Steinhardt Partners, chairman of WisdomTree Investments[306]
    Lee Stern, futures and options trader and minority owner of MLB's Chicago White Sox[307][308]
    Leonard N. Stern, investor, chairman and CEO of the Hartz Group and Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc.[309]
    Marc Stern, chairman of TCW Group[310][311]
    Barry Sternlicht, founder of Starwood Capital Group[312]
    Donald Sussman, financier, hedge fund manager, founder of Paloma Funds and New China Capital Management LLC[313][314]
    Leonard M. Tannenbaum, founder and CEO of Fifth Street Asset Management[315]
    David Tepper, investor, hedge fund manager, founder of Appaloosa Management[316][317]
    Igor Tulchinsky, Belarus-born hedge fund manager, founder of WorldQuant, LLC[318]
    Cliff Viner, hedge fund manager, co-founder of III Capital Management and AVM L.P., former co-owner of the Florida Panthers[319][320]
    Jeffrey Vinik, former hedge fund manager, owner of NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning[321][322]
    Eric M. Warburg, co-founder of Warburg Pincus; member of the Warburg family[323]
    James Warburg, former banker and financial adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt[324][325]
    Paul Warburg, former chairman of the Bank of the Manhattan Company (predecessor of Chase Manhattan Bank) and director of the Federal Reserve Bank[326]
    Bruce Wasserstein, investment banker, former CEO of Lazard and co-founder of Wasserstein Perella & Co.[327]
    Sanford I. Weill, banker & financier, former chairman and CEO of Citigroup Inc., co-founder of Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill[328][329]
    Peter Weinberg, co-founder of Perella Weinberg Partners[330]
    Boaz Weinstein, hedge fund manager, founder of Saba Capital Management[331]
    Sholam Weiss, bankruptcy specialist[332][333]
    Allen Weisselberg, CFO of the Trump Organization[334]
    Maurice Wertheim, founder of Wertheim & Co.[335]
    Nancy Zimmerman, hedge fund manager, co-founder of Bracebridge Capital[43]
    Eric Zinterhofer, private equity financier, founding partner of Searchlight Capital; member of the Lauder family[336]
    Barry Zubrow, founder and CEO of ITB LLC, former senior investment banker at Goldman Sachs and CRO at JPMorgan Chase[337][338]