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Farhad Moshiri

Farhad Moshiri is an Iranian-born, British-based financier and long-time business partner of Alisher Usmanov who was Everton's majority owner from 2018 until selling to the Friedkin Group in 2024.

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.

Financial Review Rich List 2025

The Financial Review Rich List 2025 is the 43rd annual ranking of Australia's 200 wealthiest people and families, topped for a sixth straight year by Gina Rinehart.

Forbes 400

The Forbes 400 is Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans, published since 1982; the 2025 edition put combined wealth at a record $6.6 trillion.

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.

G. William Miller

G. William Miller (1925–2006) was an American businessman and former Textron CEO who chaired the Federal Reserve in 1978–1979, then served as Treasury Secretary until 1981.

Gary Gensler

Gary Gensler, also known as Gary Scott Gensler, is an American financial regulator who served as the 33rd SEC chair from 2021 to 2025, after leading the CFTC.

Gennady Timchenko (Геннадий Николаевич Тимченко)

Gennady Timchenko, also known as Guennadi Timtchenko, is a Finnish businessman who co-founded Gunvor and controls the Russia-based Volga Group, a holding with major stakes in Novatek.

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.

Gerry Cardinale

Gerry Cardinale is an American private equity investor and former Goldman Sachs partner who founded RedBird Capital Partners in 2014, buying AC Milan in 2022 and taking stakes in Fenway Sports Group and other sports franchises.

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.

Gina Miller

Gina Miller is a British investment manager and campaigner who co-founded SCM Direct in 2009 and brought the two Brexit cases decided by the UK Supreme Court.

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.

Harry Crosby (businessman)

Harry Crosby, born Harry Lillis Crosby III in 1958, is an American investment banker and private equity executive, and the fifth son of Bing Crosby.

Harry Markopolos

Harry Markopolos is an American investor and forensic accountant who uncovered Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, repeatedly reporting it to the SEC between 2000 and 2008 before Madoff's 2008 arrest.

Harshad Mehta (હર્ષદ શાંતિલાલ મહેતા)

Harshad Mehta (હર્ષદ શાંતિલાલ મહેતા), born Harshad Shantilal Mehta, was an Indian stockbroker and the central figure of the 1992 Indian securities scam, dying in custody in 2001.

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.

Hemant Taneja

Hemant Taneja is a venture capital investor who joined General Catalyst in 2001 and has been its CEO since 2021, backing companies including Stripe, Snap, and Anthropic.

Henry Clay Frick

Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) was an American coke and steel industrialist who built Pennsylvania's dominant coke enterprise, became Andrew Carnegie's partner, and left his art collection as The Frick Collection.

Henry Kravis

Henry Kravis, also known as Henry R. Kravis, is an American financier who co-founded the private equity firm KKR in 1976 and led the record $25 billion RJR Nabisco buyout in 1988.

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.

Hetty Green

Hetty Green, born Henrietta Howland Robinson and called the Witch of Wall Street, was an American investor who turned a $5 million inheritance into $100 million or more by 1916.

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.

Howard Buffett

Howard Buffett is an American farmer, photographer, and philanthropist, son of Warren Buffett, who became nonexecutive Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway in 2026 and runs the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.