Flashcards: American investors

Vincent Kosuga (January 17, 1915 – January 19, 2001) was an American onion farmer and commodity trader best known for manipulating the onion futures market.

William Hunt "Bill" Gross (born April 13, 1944) is an American financial manager and author.

Rick Schwartz is an American domain name entrepreneur.

Jared Friedman is an American entrepreneur and angel investor.

James "Jim" Herbert, II (born 1944) is an American banker, business executive, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of First Republic Bank, a San Francisco-based company that offers consumer lending, business banking, personal banking and residential lending.

Mesut Darendeli (born April 13, 1980 in Turkey) is a Turkish entrepreneur and the Chairman of Darendeli Holding, a technology group based in Istanbul, Turkey.

Michael Benjamin (born November 1, 1969) was born Michael Benjamin Bonheur in New York City, New York, United States.

Michael C. Finnegan (born 1955 in Peekskill, New York) is the managing director of investment banking for JPMorgan Chase.

Michael F. Price (born July 3, 1951) is an American value investor and fund manager.

Ishar Bindra is a Sikh American investor, entrepreneur & philanthropist.

Mark E. Watson III (born May 2, 1964) is an American entrepreneur and businessman.

Heidi Messer (born August 28, 1969) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor who has founded several global businesses, most notably LinkShare (sold in 2005 for $425 million) and Collective[i].

Sergio Alonso Fernández de Córdova is a Peruvian-American entrepreneur.

Larry Robbins (born 1969) is the American founder, portfolio manager, and CEO of Glenview Capital Management, a hedge fund with approximately $9.

Bradley “Brad” Jacobs (born August 3, 1956) is an American businessman.

Brett Helm (born May 8, 1962 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a serial entrepreneur and off-road motorcycle racer.

John A. Mulheren, Jr.

John Douglas Arnold (born 1974) is an American billionaire and former hedge fund manager who specializes in natural gas trading.

John Joseph D'Agostino is an American business executive and entrepreneur.

Jonathan Hoenig (/ˈhoʊnɪɡ/; born September 10, 1975) is an American, founding member of the Capitalist Pig hedge fund, and a regular contributor to and regular panelist on Fox News Channel's Cashin' In, Your World with Neil Cavuto, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld and WLS (AM) 890's morning show, Don Wade & Roma (now defunct).

Joseph "Newton" Pew (July 20, 1848 – October 12, 1912) was the founder of Sun Oil Company (now Sunoco) and a prominent philanthropist.

Joshua Kushner (born June 12, 1985) is an American businessman and investor.

William J. Ruane (October 24, 1925 – October 4, 2005) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

Herbert A. Allen Jr.

Howard Mark Lorber (born September 8, 1948) is an American businessman and investor.

Gregory Franks (born August 7, 1958) is an American wealth management executive and private investor.

G. Mason Morfit is CFA and president of ValueAct Capital.

John William Meriwether (born August 10, 1947) is an American hedge fund executive, seen as a pioneer of fixed income arbitrage.

William Zeckendorf, Jr.

Blair Hull (born September 3, 1942) is an American businessman, investor, Democratic politician, and philanthropist.

Eric Stephen O'Keefe (born December 14, 1954) is an American political activist.

James Beeland "Jim" Rogers, Jr.

Greg B. Abbott "Greg Abbott" (born May 2, 1950) is a prominent American businessperson, investor, entrepreneur and novelist.

Guillermo Adrian Miguel Söhnlein (born May 18, 1966 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an American social entrepreneur with special interests in the commercialization of outer space, the exploration of the world's oceans, and the global connections between space and ocean industries.

Julie Marie Meyer MBE (born August 28, 1966) is an American businesswoman, entrepreneur and author.

Ken Mahoney, (born 1965) is an American financial adviser and investor.

Michael S. Ovitz (born December 14, 1946) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

Peter Andreas Thiel (/ˈtiːl/; born October 11, 1967) is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and hedge fund manager.

Marc Rich (born Marcell David Reich; December 18, 1934 – June 26, 2013) was an international commodities trader, hedge fund manager, financier and businessman.

Scott Painter (born 1968) is an American investor and entrepreneur in the technology and automotive industries.

James S. Chanos (born December 24, 1957) is an American investment manager and currently serves as president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City registered investment advisor that is focused on short selling.

Hezekiah Griggs, III (born October 27, 1988) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and investor.

Melissaratos was born to Greek parents in Galatz, Romania, on December 3, 1943.

Amin Khoury is an American businessman who has founded and developed companies in the scientific instrument, medical services, medical devices and semi-conductor process equipment businesses.

Stephen Coffin (1807 – 1882) was an investor, promoter, builder, and militia officer in mid-19th century Portland in the U.

William S. O'Brien (1825 – May 2, 1878) was an American businessman who formed a business partnership with fellow Irishmen James Graham Fair, James C.

Stephen Duneier is a professional investment manager, strategy consultant, speaker, lecturer, author and artist.

Leslie Bocskor is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, business executive, investment banker, and business advisor.

Phil Rock is an American entrepreneur and investor.

Daniel S. Peña Sr.

Stephen Adams (born 1937) is an American businessman, private equity investor, and philanthropist.

Henry L. Hillman (born December 25, 1918) is an American billionaire businessman, investor, civic leader, and philanthropist.

William Albert Ackman (born May 11, 1966), is an American hedge-fund manager.

Andrew "Cap" Tilles (Nov. 25, 1865 - Nov. 22, 1951) was an American business magnate and philanthropist.

Terence Richard "Terry" McAuliffe (/məˈkɔːlᵻf/; born February 9, 1957) is an American businessman and the 72nd Governor of Virginia.

Peter Borish is investor and trader.

Whitney Tilson (born 1966) is an American investor, author, and philanthropist.

William Barron Hilton (born October 23, 1927) is an American business magnate, socialite, and hotel heir.

Thomas F. Frist, III (born c. 1968) is an American heir, businessman, investor and philanthropist from Tennessee.

William R. Frist (a.k.a. Billy Frist) is an American heir, businessman, investor and philanthropist from Tennessee.

Andrew Marshall Saul (born November 6, 1946) is an American businessman from Katonah, New York who served as the Chairman of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) and Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York City, United States.

Dr. Henry George Jarecki (born April 15, 1933) is a German American academic, psychiatrist, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.

Manuel P. Asensio (born December 30, 1954 in La Habana, Cuba) is a money manager in New York best known for his pioneering work as an activist short-seller.

Mohnish Pabrai is an Indian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

Nicolas Berggruen (born 10 August 1961) is a philanthropist and investor.

Ziad Makkawi is an investor, born in New York City on December 25, 1961, as the son of a Lebanese diplomat.

David LeFevre Dodd (August 23, 1895 – September 18, 1988) was an American educator, financial analyst, author, economist, professional investor, and in his student years, a protégé of, and as a postgraduate, close colleague of Benjamin Graham at Columbia Business School.

Bruce Stanley Kovner (born 1945 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American businessman.

Clifford Scott "Cliff" Asness (born October 17, 1966) is the co-founder of AQR Capital Management and a financial analyst.

Douglas W. Clayton is founder and CEO of Leopard Capital.

Mark Andrew Ritchie is a Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange commodities trader.

Mark C. Thompson is an American author, executive coach, keynote speaker, businessman and venture capitalist.

Marshall S. Cogan (born 1937) is an American investor and entrepreneur and former financier and trader.

Martine Aliana Rothblatt (born 1954) is an American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur.

Tristram Coffin (or Coffyn) (ca. 1609 – 2 October 1681) was an immigrant to Massachusetts from England.

Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is an American businessman and investor.

Charles Humphrey Keating, Jr.

Darla Dee Moore (born August 1, 1954) is a partner of the private investment firm Rainwater, Inc, and was married to Richard Rainwater, who founded the firm.

David Dreman (born 1936) is an investor, who founded and is Chairman of Dreman Value Management, an investment company.

Eddie Carl Brown (born November 26, 1940) is an American investment manager, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Ira Leon Rennert (born May 31, 1934) is an American investor and businessman.

Jim Lanzone (born January 20, 1971) is an American businessman and the current president and CEO of CBS Interactive, which operates key websites including CNET, CBS.

Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (November 25, 1846 – January 28, 1904) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessperson in the U.

Sardar Biglari (Persian: سردار بیگلری‎‎; born August 30, 1977) is an American entrepreneur and is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Biglari Holdings, a holding company that trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BH.

Shawn D. Baldwin (born February 26, 1966) is an international financier, trader and investor.