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Aby Rosen
Aby Rosen is a German-born New York real estate investor who co-founded RFR Holding with Michael Fuchs in 1991, owning landmarks like the Seagram Building.
Adaora Umeoji
Adaora Umeoji is a Nigerian banker who has served as Group Managing Director and CEO of Zenith Bank since June 2024, the first woman to lead the bank.
Adena Friedman
Adena T. Friedman is an American executive who led Nasdaq as CEO since 2017 and Chair since 2023, transforming the stock exchange into a financial-technology company.
Aditya Puri
Aditya Puri is an Indian banker who founded HDFC Bank and led it as managing director and chief executive from 1994 to 2020, building it into India's largest private-sector bank.
Ajay Banga
Ajay Banga, also known as Ajaypal S. Banga, is an India-born business executive who became President of the World Bank Group in June 2023, after serving as Mastercard's CEO.
Ajay Seth
Ajay Seth is an Indian Administrative Service officer who served as Economic Affairs Secretary from 2021, Finance Secretary from 2025, and IRDAI chairman from July 2025.
Ajit Jain
Ajit Jain, born 1951, is an Indian-born insurance executive who built Berkshire Hathaway's reinsurance business from 1986 and became vice chairman of insurance operations in 2018.
Alexander Knaster
Alexander Mark Knaster is a Moscow-born British-American billionaire financier who led Alfa Bank from 1998 to 2004, then founded London-based private equity firm Pamplona Capital Management.
Alexander Lebedev (Александр Евгеньевич Лебедев)
Alexander Lebedev (Александр Лебедев) is a Russian businessman, former KGB officer, and politician who built the National Reserve Bank and bought the Evening Standard and The Independent.
Alexander Soros
Alexander Soros, known as Alex Soros, is an American investor and philanthropist who chairs the Open Society Foundations, to which his father George Soros handed control in 2023.
Alexandre de Lesseps
Alexandre de Lesseps is an investor and co-owner of Geneva's BlueOrchard Finance, an early private backer of commercial microfinance, and a great-great-grandson of Ferdinand de Lesseps.
Alfred S. Bloomingdale
Alfred S. Bloomingdale (1916–1982) was an American businessman, grandson of the founder of Bloomingdale's, who as an early investor and chairman built Diners Club and later advised President Reagan.
Ali Ansari (علی انصاری) (banker)
Ali Ansari (علی انصاری) is a Dubai-based Iranian banker who co-founded Bank Tat, became Ayandeh Bank's principal shareholder, and was sanctioned by the United States in 2025.
Allen Stanford
R. Allen Stanford is an American financier who built a Caribbean banking empire on certificates of deposit and was convicted in 2012 of a $7 billion, 20-year Ponzi scheme.
Alphonse James de Rothschild
Alphonse James de Rothschild, also known as Alphonse de Rothschild, was a French banker who headed de Rothschild Frères in Paris from 1868 to 1905.
Amadeo Giannini
Amadeo Giannini, also known as A. P. Giannini, was an American banker who founded the Bank of Italy in 1904 and built it into Bank of America.
Amanda Staveley
Amanda Staveley is a British financier and dealmaker who brokered Sheikh Mansour's £3.5bn investment in Barclays in 2008 and the 2021 Saudi Public Investment Fund takeover of Newcastle United.
Amit Bhatia
Amit Bhatia, born in London in 1979, is a British-Indian investor, founder of Aybe Capital, son-in-law of Lakshmi Mittal, and former chairman of Queen's Park Rangers.
Amruta Fadnavis (अमृता फडणवीस)
Amruta Fadnavis (अमृता फडणवीस), born Amruta Ranade, is an Indian banker who rose to Senior Vice President at Axis Bank and is married to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Amschel Rothschild
Amschel Rothschild (Amschel Mayor James Rothschild, 1955–1996) was a British financier who ran the Rothschild family's asset-management arm in London and died by suicide in Paris.
Andrea Pignataro
Andrea Pignataro is an Italian financier and former Salomon Brothers bond trader who founded and leads ION Group, and was ranked by Forbes in 2026 as the richest person in Italy.
Andrew Beal
Andrew "Andy" Beal is a Dallas banker and investor who founded Beal Bank in 1988 and is known for the Beal Conjecture and high-stakes poker.
Andrew Farkas (businessman)
Andrew L. Farkas is an American real estate financier who founded Insignia Financial Group in 1990, sold it to CB Richard Ellis in 2003, and built Island Capital Group.
Andrew Madoff
Andrew Madoff (1966–2014) was an American trader, the younger son of Bernard Madoff, who ran the legitimate market-making side of his father's firm and reported the Ponzi scheme in 2008.
Andrew Mellon
Andrew W. Mellon (1855–1937) was an American banker and industrial financier from Pittsburgh who built one of America's largest fortunes and served as Treasury Secretary from 1921 to 1932.
Andrey Melnichenko (Андрей Игоревич Мельниченко) (industrialist)
Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko (Андрей Игоревич Мельниченко) is a Belarus-born billionaire industrialist who founded fertilizer producer EuroChem and coal producer SUEK, and was sanctioned by the EU, US, and Canada in 2022.
Anshu Jain
Anshu Jain (1963–2022) was an Indian-born investment banker who built Deutsche Bank's markets business into a global trading powerhouse and served as its co-CEO from 2012 to 2015.
Antonio Gracias
Antonio Gracias is an American private equity investor, founder, CEO, and chief investment officer of Valor Equity Partners in Chicago, Tesla's first institutional investor, and a 2025 DOGE volunteer.
Arkadiy Abramovich (Аркадий Романович Абрамович)
Arkadiy Abramovich, also Arkadiy Romanovich Abramovich (Аркадий Романович Абрамович), is a Russian-born London-based investor, eldest son of Roman Abramovich, who ran oil and agricultural investments through ARA Capital and Sigma.
Arron Banks
Arron Banks is a British insurance entrepreneur and political donor who co-founded the Leave.EU campaign. His significant funding led to investigations by the NCA and Electoral Commission.