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Daniel Vorcaro
Daniel Bueno Vorcaro is a Brazilian banker who built Banco Master from a small lender into an R$ 82 billion conglomerate that was liquidated in 2025.
Dave Fishwick
Dave Fishwick, also known as David Fishwick, is a Burnley entrepreneur who founded Burnley Savings and Loans, the "Bank of Dave", in 2011, lending to local small businesses.
David M. Solomon
David M. Solomon, also known as DJ D-Sol, is an American investment banker who has led Goldman Sachs as CEO since 2018 and chairman since 2019.
David Mayer de Rothschild
David Mayer de Rothschild, born 1978, is a British adventurer and environmentalist, youngest son of banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, known for sailing the plastic-bottle Plastiki across the Pacific.
David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie
David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie (1926–2023), was a Scottish peer, Scots Guards officer, and merchant banker who chaired Schroders from 1977 to 1984, then served as Lord Chamberlain.
David René de Rothschild
David René de Rothschild (born 1942) is a French banker who rebuilt the family's French bank and led the reunification of the French and English Rothschild houses.
David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller (1915–2017) was an American banker who rose from assistant manager to chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, led its global expansion, and died at 101.
David Vélez
David Vélez is a Colombian banker and entrepreneur who founded the digital bank Nubank in São Paulo in 2013 and leads it as chief executive.
Donna Kelce
Donna Kelce, born Donna Blalock in 1952, is a retired American bank executive known as "Mama Kelce," mother of NFL players Jason and Travis Kelce.
Edmond Safra
Edmond J. Safra (1932–1999) was a Lebanese-born Sephardic Jewish banker who built private banks in Brazil, Geneva, and New York, selling them to HSBC in 1999.
Edward Lloyd (coffee house owner)
Edward Lloyd (c. 1648 to 1713) was a London coffee house keeper whose Lombard Street shop gave its name to Lloyd's of London, the marine insurance market.
Evelyn de Rothschild
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (1931–2022) was a British banker who chaired N M Rothschild & Sons from 1976 to 2003, raising £35 billion in British privatizations.
Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer
Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer (1864–1945) was a Bohemian-born Jewish sugar industrialist who controlled a fifth of Habsburg sugar output and assembled a major collection of Gustav Klimt paintings.
Forbes family
The Forbes family was a Boston merchant dynasty whose members made their fortune in the 19th-century China trade, leading Russell & Co. and investing wealth in American railroads.
Frank DiPascali
Frank DiPascali, Jr. was an American finance executive who served as Bernard Madoff's de facto chief financial officer, running the back office that manufactured the firm's fictitious trading.
George Peabody
George Peabody (1795–1869) was a Massachusetts-born merchant and banker whose London firm sold American state bonds to British investors and became the root of the J.P. Morgan banking firm.
Georges Elhedery
Georges Elhedery is a Lebanese-born banker who became Group Chief Executive of HSBC in September 2024, succeeding Noel Quinn, and announced the bank's biggest restructuring in a decade weeks later.
Giancarlo Devasini
Giancarlo Devasini is an Italian former physician, born in Turin in 1964, who served as chief financial officer of Tether and Bitfinex and is now Tether's chairman and controlling shareholder.
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (c. 1360–1429) was a Florentine banker who founded the Medici Bank in 1397, built it into an international banking house, and left his family the richest in Florence.
Gregg Lemkau
Gregg Lemkau is an American investment banker who spent 28 years at Goldman Sachs, rising to Co-Head of Investment Banking, and now co-leads BDT & MSD Partners.
Gunjan Kedia
Gunjan Kedia is an Indian-born American banking executive, chief executive officer of U.S. Bancorp since April 2025 and the first woman to lead the company.
Heidi Cruz
Heidi Suzanne Cruz is an American investment banker, a Goldman Sachs managing director in Houston and former Bush administration economic official, married to Senator Ted Cruz.
Henry Pellatt
Sir Henry Mill Pellatt (1859–1939) was a Toronto financier and militia major-general who built his fortune on electric-power monopolies, constructed the 98-room Casa Loma castle, and died nearly penniless.
Henry Sturgis Morgan
Henry Sturgis Morgan, also known as Henry S. Morgan, was an American banker, son of J.P. Morgan Jr. and a founding partner of the investment bank Morgan Stanley in 1935.
Herbert Wigwe
Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe was a Nigerian banker who co-founded Access Bank in 2002, built it into Africa's largest retail bank, and died in a 2024 helicopter crash.
Horatio Bottomley
Horatio Bottomley (1860–1933) was an English financier, newspaper proprietor, and MP who founded the Financial Times and John Bull, promoted fraudulent schemes, and was jailed for fraud in 1922.
Ihor Kolomoyskyi (Ігор Валерійович Коломойський)
Ihor Kolomoyskyi is a Ukrainian billionaire businessman who co-founded PrivatBank in 1992, served as Dnipropetrovsk governor, and was found liable in London in 2025 for $1.9 billion taken from the bank.
J. P. Morgan
J. P. Morgan, born John Pierpont Morgan, was an American investment banker who organized financial rescues and formed U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar American company, in 1901.
J. P. Morgan Jr.
J. P. Morgan Jr., also known as John Pierpont Morgan Jr., was an American banker who headed J.P. Morgan & Co. from 1913 to 1943.
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (1936–2024), was a British financier who built RIT Capital Partners from £5 million to over £3 billion in net assets.