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Financier who ran America’s industrial mobilization in the First World War.

Financier whose Ponzi scheme became the largest in recorded history.

Macro trader who founded Caxton and became a major patron of Juilliard.

Investor who made the proxy fight a permanent feature of American business.

Operator who ran PayPal and later became CEO of Verizon.

Activist investor who made Third Point’s letters required reading.

Goldman alumnus who founded Och-Ziff, a global alternative-asset firm.

Co-founder of Carlyle and a civic philanthropist who now owns the Baltimore Orioles.

Baghdadi merchant who built a trading house from Bombay to China.

Computational scientist who founded D. E. Shaw and later returned to research.

Computer scientist who co-founded Two Sigma, a quant firm with a scientist’s habits.

Distressed-debt investor who built Appaloosa and bought the Carolina Panthers.

Hedge-fund founder who built Paloma and sat on the boards of many civic institutions.

Hedge-fund manager who later became a majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets.

Tulsa banker and philanthropist who built BOK Financial into a major regional house.

Investor and philanthropist who built Open Society from a trader’s fortune.

Israeli-American media builder who brought Power Rangers to American kids.

Broker who helped keep the American Revolution solvent.

Mathematician-turned-investor who helped power Renaissance Technologies’ research engine.

Treasury secretary who financed the New Deal and the Second World War.

Austrian-born banker who became a British financier of states and mines.

Ukrainian-Israeli businessman who co-founded PrivatBank.

Founder of Millennium, a multi-manager giant of modern hedge funds.

Banker who financed American railroads and major Jewish institutions.

Trader who cofounded Susquehanna and became one of America’s most successful market-makers.

Financier whose crimes ended a career built on billionaire clients.

Development economist who carried the classroom into the United Nations.

Mathematician who proved that a hedge fund could be a research lab.

Manager who made a historic fortune betting against the housing bubble.

Hedge-fund manager who built Perceptive Advisors around biotech.

Private-equity executive who helped lead Bain Capital through decades of dealmaking.

Co-founder of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager.

Investor who left Goldman to run Omega Advisors.

Entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com, bought the Mavericks, and joined Shark Tank.

Co-founder of GLG Partners who later invested in world-class restaurants.

Swedish banker who built a workers’ bank and later served Soviet finance.

Founder of Elliott Management, a long-running activist and distressed-debt fund.

American businessman and sports team owner (born 1941)

Goldman partner who became Clinton’s Treasury secretary in a booming decade.

Dealmaker who used MacAndrews & Forbes to buy everything from makeup to comic books.

Casino magnate who built Las Vegas Sands into a trans-Pacific empire.

Investor who ran Quantum with Soros and then his own Duquesne Capital.

Financier who built Blackstone into one of the world’s defining private-equity firms.

Developer behind Related Companies, Hudson Yards, and a football stadium name.

Investor who built Lone Pine Capital into a leading long-short equity fund.

Trader who built SAC Capital and then Point72 into a modern money machine.

BlackRock cofounder who helped design the operations of the world’s largest asset manager.

Activist who built Pershing Square into a high-conviction public fund.