George Soros

George Soros is a Hungarian-born American investor who founded the Quantum Fund in 1970 and became one of the most successful hedge-fund managers in history, famously making about a billion dollars shorting the British pound in 1992. Through his Open Society Foundations he has given away tens of billions of dollars to democracy, education and human-rights causes worldwide. Born to a non-observant Jewish family in Budapest, he survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary as a teenager and has spoken openly about his Jewish origins.