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Keith Gill

Keith Patrick Gill, known online as Roaring Kitty, is an American investor and former MassMutual educator who sparked the January 2021 GameStop short squeeze.

Khaldoon Al Mubarak

Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak is an Emirati investor and government official who has led Mubadala, Abu Dhabi's sovereign investment fund, since 2002 and chairs Manchester City.

Laurance Rockefeller

Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004) was an American financier, venture capital pioneer, and conservationist, son of John D. Rockefeller, who backed aviation firms and helped create several national parks.

Leon Black

Leon Black is an American billionaire private equity investor who co-founded Apollo Global Management in 1990 and stepped down as its CEO in 2021.

Lev Avnerovich Leviev

Lev Avnerovich Leviev (Hebrew: לב לבייב), born 1956, is an Israeli diamond magnate who broke De Beers' monopoly and built the world's largest diamond cutting business.

Li Ka-shing (李嘉诚)

Li Ka-shing (李嘉诚), born in 1928 in Shantou, China, is a Hong Kong business magnate who built Cheung Kong into a global ports, property, and telecoms empire.

Liesel Pritzker Simmons

Liesel Pritzker Simmons is an American investor and former child actress, a Pritzker family heir who runs Blue Haven Initiative.

Malcolm Glazer

Malcolm Glazer (1928-2014), American businessman and First Allied Corporation founder, bought the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1995 and executed the 2005 £790m leveraged buyout of Manchester United, loading £604m of debt on the club.

Maria Drokova (Мария Александровна Дрокова)

Maria Drokova, also known as Masha Drokova and later Masha Bucher, is a Russian-born Silicon Valley venture capitalist who founded Day One Ventures in 2018, pairing investment with public relations.

Martin A. Armstrong

Martin A. Armstrong is an American former currency trader who ran a $3 billion Ponzi scheme and set a record for civil contempt, jailed almost seven years.

Martin Moshal

Martin Moshal is a South African-born internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded Microgaming, invests through Entrée Capital, and funds the Moshal Scholarship Program for disadvantaged students in South Africa and Israel.

Michael Moritz

Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born journalist turned venture capitalist who joined Sequoia Capital in 1986, becoming managing partner in 1996, and led early investments in Google, Yahoo, and PayPal.

Mikhail Prokhorov (Михаил Дмитриевич Прохоров)

Mikhail Prokhorov (Михаил Прохоров) is a Russian metals and finance billionaire who built Norilsk Nickel, founded the ONEXIM investment group, owned the Brooklyn Nets, and ran for president in 2012.

Neal Aronson

Neal Aronson is an American private equity investor who founded Roark Capital in 2001, building the Atlanta firm into a $41 billion specialist in franchise businesses.

Neil Mehta

Neil Mehta is a venture investor who founded Greenoaks Capital Partners in San Francisco in 2012, best known for an early Coupang bet that returned about $8 billion.

Nicholas van Hoogstraten

Nicholas van Hoogstraten, also known as Nicholas von Hessen, is a British property tycoon and investor, convicted of manslaughter in 2002 with the conviction quashed in 2003.

Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen is an investor and philanthropist known as the "homeless billionaire" who built a fortune through leveraged buyouts of distressed companies and founded the Berggruen Institute in 2010.

Nikhil Kamath

Nikhil Kamath is an Indian trader and entrepreneur who co-founded Zerodha, one of India's largest discount stock brokers, with his brother Nithin, and later founded True Beacon.

Peter Lim

Peter Lim (Lim Eng Hock), born 1953, is a Singaporean billionaire investor known as the "remisier king" who controls Thomson Medical Group and owns Valencia CF.

Peter Palandjian

Peter Palandjian (born 1964) is an American businessman and former professional tennis player who is chairman and CEO of Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation, which he took over in 1993.

Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur who cofounded PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, and made the first outside investment in Facebook in 2004.

Philip May

Philip May, also known as Sir Philip May, is a City of London finance professional at Capital Group and the husband of former Prime Minister Theresa May.

PJT Partners

PJT Partners is a global advisory-focused investment bank in New York City, created in 2015 from the Blackstone spin-off and led by Paul J. Taubman.

Radhakishan Damani (राधाकिशन शिवकिशन दामानी)

Radhakishan Damani (राधाकिशन दामानी) is an Indian investor and retailer who controls Avenue Supermarts, the listed operator of the DMart supermarket chain, after first making his fortune as a Dalal Street trader.

Robert F. Smith (investor)

Robert F. Smith, also known as Robert Frederick Smith, is an American investor who founded Vista Equity Partners in 2000, focused exclusively on enterprise software.

Roger Ver

Roger Keith Ver, nicknamed "Bitcoin Jesus," is an American-born entrepreneur and early Bitcoin investor who broke with Bitcoin Core in 2017 to champion Bitcoin Cash.

Shaun Maguire

Shaun Maguire is an American venture capitalist and partner at Sequoia Capital who led investments in SpaceX, xAI, and Bridge, after co-founding the cybersecurity company Expanse.

Shivon Zilis

Shivon Zilis, also known as Shivon Alice Zilis, is a Canadian technology executive and former venture capital investor who serves as Director of Operations and Special Projects at Neuralink.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Stephen A. Schwarzman, known as Steve Schwarzman, is an American financier who co-founded Blackstone in 1985 and built it into the world's largest alternative asset manager.

Steve Eisman

Steve Eisman (Steven Eisman) is an American investor who shorted subprime mortgages through FrontPoint Partners funds in 2006–2008, portrayed as Mark Baum in The Big Short.