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Lem Billings
Kirk LeMoyne Billings, known as Lem Billings, was an American advertising executive at Lennen & Newell and the closest friend of President John F. Kennedy.
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.
Leonard Jerome
Leonard Jerome (1817–1891) was an American stock speculator nicknamed the "King of Wall Street" who made and lost several fortunes and was Winston Churchill's maternal grandfather.
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.
Lewis Ranieri
Lewis Ranieri, also known as Lou Ranieri, is an American bond trader who built the mortgage-backed securities market at Salomon Brothers between 1978 and 1987.
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.
List of Canadians by net worth
The list of Canadians by net worth, also known as Richest Canadians, ranks Canada's wealthiest individuals and families using estimates from Forbes, Bloomberg, Maclean's, and Hurun.
List of Filipinos by net worth
The list of Filipinos by net worth is Forbes Asia's annual ranking of the Philippines' 50 richest, topped in 2026 by Enrique Razon Jr. at $21.8 billion.
Lloyd Blankfein
Lloyd Blankfein is an American banker who was chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2018, leading the firm through the 2008 financial crisis and a record SEC settlement.
Lorenzo the Elder
Lorenzo the Elder, born Lorenzo di Giovanni de' Medici, was a Florentine banker and ambassador who oversaw the Medici Bank's affairs at the papal court in Rome from 1435.
Luana Lopes Lara
Luana Lopes Lara is a Brazilian cofounder and chief operating officer of the prediction-market exchange Kalshi, and according to Forbes the world's youngest self-made woman billionaire.
Madelyn Dunham
Madelyn Dunham, born Madelyn Lee Payne, was an American bank executive who became one of the first female vice presidents of the Bank of Hawaii.
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.
Mao Zemin
Mao Zemin (毛泽民) was a Chinese revolutionary financier, younger brother of Mao Zedong, and first president of the National Bank of the Chinese Soviet Republic at Ruijin.
Marcus Goldman
Marcus Goldman, born Goldmann, was a Bavarian-born Jewish immigrant who founded a commercial paper business in New York in 1869 that became Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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.
Mark Karpelès
Mark Karpelès, known online as MagicalTux, is the French-born developer who ran the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which lost 850,000 BTC before collapsing in 2014.
Mark Madoff
Mark Madoff (1964–2010) was an American securities trader, the elder son of Bernard Madoff, who reported his father's Ponzi scheme and died by suicide in 2010.
Mark Rockefeller
Mark Fitler Rockefeller (born 1967) is a fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller family, younger son of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, serving as Vice Chairman of the family's financial-services firm.
Marriner S. Eccles
Marriner S. Eccles (Marriner Stoddard Eccles) was a Utah banker who chaired the Federal Reserve from 1936 to 1948, reshaping it into its modern centralized form.
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.
Mary Maxwell Gates
Mary Maxwell Gates, known as Mary Gates, was an American civic leader and bank director, a University of Washington regent, and the mother of Bill Gates.
Mat Ishbia
Mat Ishbia is an American mortgage finance executive, CEO of United Wholesale Mortgage since 2013, who bought the NBA's Phoenix Suns and WNBA's Phoenix Mercury in 2023.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812) was a Frankfurt coin dealer and court agent who founded the Rothschild banking dynasty, whose five houses became the world's largest bank.
Mellon family
The Mellon family is an American banking and industrial dynasty founded by Judge Thomas Mellon, who opened a Pittsburgh bank in 1870 and built one of America's great fortunes.
Michael Ashcroft
Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, is a Belize-based financier and life peer who built his fortune on the security group ADT and became a major Conservative Party donor.
Michael Marin
Michael Marin was an American former Wall Street trader and Yale Law graduate who died by cyanide in a Phoenix courtroom in 2012, minutes after an arson conviction.
Michael Milken
Michael Milken, known as Mike Milken or the Junk Bond King, is an American financier who led Drexel Burnham's junk bond operation, pled guilty to securities felonies in 1990, and became a philanthropist.