American hedge fund managers

George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. As of May 2025, he has a net worth of US$7.2 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. In 2020, Forbes called Soros the "most generous giver" in terms of percentage of net worth.

American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)

Peter Andreas Thiel is a German and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside investor in Facebook (2004). According to The New York Times, as of December 2025, Thiel's estimated net worth stood at US$27.5 billion, placing him among the 100 richest individuals in the world.

United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2017 to 2021

American mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938–2024)

Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent is an American businessman and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury. Bessent was a partner at Soros Fund Management (SFM) and founded Key Square Group, a global macro investment firm. He is the first openly gay person to lead the U.S. Treasury Department, the first openly gay U.S. Senate-confirmed Cabinet member in a Republican administration, and the second openly gay U.S. Senate-confirmed Cabinet secretary.

American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock

American billionaire hedge fund manager

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American commodities trader (1934–2013)

American financier and political figure (born 1964)

Thomas Fahr Steyer is an American businessman, philanthropist, and environmentalist. He is the founder of Farallon Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, as well as NextGen America, a progressive political action committee, and Galvanize Climate Solutions, a climate change-centered investment firm. A member of the Democratic Party, he unsuccessfully ran for the party's nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election.

Michael James Burry is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and licensed physician. He founded the hedge fund Scion Capital, which later went by the name Scion Asset Management. In November 2025, Burry announced he was shutting down Scion Asset Management; he then launched the Substack newsletter Cassandra Unchained on November 23.

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William Albert Ackman is an American billionaire hedge fund manager who is the founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, an investment management company. He has been described as an activist investor. As of April 2026, Ackman's net worth was estimated at $8 billion by Bloomberg.

American businessman and convicted felon

American politician and businessman (born 1965)

American mathematician

American family office manager

American billionaire hedge fund manager (born 1968)

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Prime Minister of Pakistan (1930–2016)

American businessman

American hedge fund manager and philanthropist

American stockbroker, television personality, author

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American financier; Chairman, BP Capital Management (1928-2019)

American hedge fund manager and investor

American banker, businessman, investor, and amateur mathematician

American hedge fund manager

American Investor

American investments manager

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son in law of Bill Clinton

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Australian-American sociologist, author, and financial journalist

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American computer scientist & hedge fund founder

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Nelson Peltz is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is a founding partner, together with Peter W. May and Edward P. Garden, of Trian Partners, an alternative investment management fund based in New York. He is a former director of Heinz, Mondelēz International, and Ingersoll Rand and a former CEO of Triangle Industries.

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Family office manager and investor

American hedge fund manager

American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and author

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American businessman (1942–2021)

American economist

American statistician, businessman and squash player

American financier, newspaper publisher, antiquities collector, philanthropist

American football player (born 1964)

German-American AI researcher

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American hedge fund manager and violinist