Mikhail Fridman
Mikhail Fridman · Economics & Business
Founder of Alfa Group
1964, Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Russia · Ukraine · United Kingdom · Israel
Alfa Group1989Mikhail Fridman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Founder of Alfa Group
Fridman co-founded Alfa Group, one of Russia's largest private financial and industrial conglomerates, and later the investment firm LetterOne, becoming one of the wealthiest businesspeople of the former Soviet Union. He is Jewish, born to a Jewish family in Lviv, and has been a major donor to Jewish causes, co-founding the Genesis Philanthropy Group and the Genesis Prize.
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Source: Forbes Billionaire 2025
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Founder of Alfa Group
Source: Forbes Billionaire 2025
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