A list of the men who made Wall street from our friends Matt and Bess at Here is the city
It’s tough to come up with a list of true Wall Street legends, as so many have got their detractors – and not all of them have / had unblemished track records.
1. J P Morgan
2. Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild
3. Warren Buffett
4. Jay Gould, American financier
5. Michael Milken, the junk bond King
6. Jesse Livermore, legendary stock trader
7. Charles R. Schwab, founder of Charles Schwab Corporation
8. Sigmund Warburg
9. Pete Peterson, former Lehman CEO, co-founder Blackstone Group
10. Bernard Baruch, stock market speculator / statesman
11. Henry R Kravis, co-founder of Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR)
12. Steve Schwartzman, co-founder Blackstone Group
13. Joseph Kennedy, stock market speculator and the first Chairman of the SEC
14. Sandy Weill, founder of Citigroup
15. Michael Bloomberg
16. Carl Icahn, American financier
17. Charles Merrill
18. Jamie Dimon, CEO & Chairman, JPMorgan Chase
19. Sidney Weinberg, former lead partner, Goldman Sachs
20. Robert Lehman
21. Edward Francis Hutton
22. Henry Goldman, former co-head of Goldman Sachs
23. Bruce Wasserstein – former CEO, Lazard
24. Andre Meyer, former Head of Lazard
25. George Soros
26. ‘Ace’ Greenberg, former Chairman & CEO, Bear Stearns
27. Ben Edwards, former CEO A.G Edwards
28. John Paulson, Paulson & Co
29. Paul Tudor Jones II, founder of hedge fund Tudor Investment Corporation
30. Felix Rohatyn, legandary M&A dealmaker
31. James Simons, founder of Renaissance technologies
32. Boyd Jefferies, founder of Jefferies & Co
33. Peter Lynch, equities investor, Fidelity Investments
34. John Bogle, founder and former CEO, Vanguard Group
35. Fishcer Black, US economist and co-author of the Black-Scholes financial equation
36. Warren Spector, former President, Bear Stearns
37. Andre Kostolany, stock market expert
38. Lew Glucksman, former CEO, Lehman Brothers
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