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Howie Hubler
Howie Hubler is a former Morgan Stanley bond trader behind the largest single-trader loss in Wall Street history, about $9 billion on subprime bets in 2007.
Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster
Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster, is a British billionaire investor who chairs the trustees of the Grosvenor Estate and its Westminster Foundation, succeeding his father in 2016.
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.
Ira Rennert
Ira Rennert is an American private equity and buyout investor who owns 97.9% of the Renco Group, holding AM General, Doe Run, and U.S. Magnesium.
Ivan Boesky
Ivan Boesky, born Ivan Frederick Boesky, was an American risk arbitrageur who built a $200 million fortune and became the central figure of the 1980s Wall Street insider-trading scandal.
Ivan Glasenberg
Ivan Glasenberg is a South African-born, Australian-citizen billionaire commodities trader who was chief executive of Glencore, the world's biggest commodity trader, from 2002 until his retirement on 30 June 2021.
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.
Jack Altman (investor)
Jack Altman is an American venture capital investor and entrepreneur who co-founded and led the HR software company Lattice, then founded Alt Capital before joining Benchmark in 2026.
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.
Jakob Fugger
Jakob Fugger, called Fugger the Rich, was an Augsburg merchant and banker (1459–1525) who financed Habsburg emperors and Renaissance popes and became the richest private individual of his age.
James Altucher
James Altucher is an American entrepreneur, author, and former hedge fund manager at Formula Capital known for bestselling books and a podcast with over 70 million downloads.
James Goldsmith
James Goldsmith, also known as Jimmy Goldsmith, was a Franco-British financier who made billions buying undervalued companies and selling their parts, then fought British EU membership.
James P. Gorman
James P. Gorman is an Australian-born banker who led Morgan Stanley as chief executive from 2010 to 2023, remaking it around wealth management, and became chairman of Disney in 2025.
James Rothschild
James Rothschild is a financier, son of Amschel Mayor James Rothschild and husband of Nicky Hilton, who co-leads the New York investment firm Tru Arrow Partners.
James Warburg
James Warburg, also known as Paul James, was a German-born American banker who advised Roosevelt, served in the Office of War Information, and advocated world federation.
James Wolfensohn
James Wolfensohn, also known as Jim Wolfensohn, was an Australian-born investment banker who served as the ninth President of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005.
Jamie Dimon
Jamie Dimon, also known as James L. Dimon, is an American banker who has led JPMorgan Chase as chief executive since 2006 and as chairman since 2007.
Jan Marsalek
Jan Marsalek is an Austrian former payments executive who was chief operating officer of Wirecard from 2010 to 2020 and is wanted by Munich prosecutors on fraud charges.
Jane Fraser (businesswoman)
Jane Fraser is a British-born banking executive who has been chief executive officer of Citigroup since 2021, the first woman to lead a major Wall Street bank.
Jay Gould
Jay Gould (Jason Gould, 1836–1892) was an American financier and railroad magnate known for the Erie War and the 1869 gold corner that caused Wall Street's first Black Friday.
Jeffrey Sprecher
Jeffrey C. Sprecher is an American businessman, founder, chairman, and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, which he built in Atlanta from 2000 and took to the New York Stock Exchange.
Jeffry Picower
Jeffry Picower (1942–2009) was an American accountant, attorney, and investor, the largest beneficiary of Madoff's Ponzi scheme; his estate forfeited $7.2 billion after his 2009 death.
Jennifer Pritzker
Jennifer Natalya Pritzker, formerly James Pritzker, is an American investor and retired Army officer who founded TAWANI Enterprises and became the first openly transgender billionaire in 2013.
Jenny Campbell
Jenny Campbell, born Jennifer Bernice Campbell in 1961, is a British businesswoman who spent 30 years at NatWest and RBS before buying and selling the ATM operator YourCash.
Jérôme Kerviel
Jérôme Kerviel is a French former Société Générale trader whose concealed index-futures positions, discovered in January 2008, cost the bank €4.9 billion, the largest loss then attributed to a single trader.
Jes Staley
Jes Staley, born James Edward Staley, is an American banker who led the British bank Barclays as chief executive from 2015 until his 2021 resignation.
Jesse Livermore
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877–1940) was an American stock speculator who made and lost several fortunes, most famously by shorting the 1929 Wall Street crash, and died by suicide in 1940.
Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim is a Korean American physician who served as president of the World Bank Group from 2012 to 2019, after leading Dartmouth College and the WHO's HIV/AIDS department.
John Aspinwall Roosevelt
John Aspinwall Roosevelt, also known as John A. Roosevelt, was an American stockbroker and the sixth and last child of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.