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Famous Investors
Biographies of the investors and business leaders who shaped modern markets, a tradition on Investing Value since 2001, when this site published its first investor profiles.
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Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham (1894-1976) was an economist, professor and investor known as the father of value investing and security analysis, and the author of The Intelligent Investor.
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George Soros
George Soros (born 1930) is a Hungarian-American investor famous for "breaking the Bank of England" in 1992 and for his theory of reflexivity in markets.
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John C. Bogle
John C. Bogle (1929-2019) founded The Vanguard Group and launched the first index mutual fund for ordinary investors, making low-cost passive investing a mass phenomenon.
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Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch (born 1944) ran Fidelity's Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990, averaging 29.2% a year, and popularised "invest in what you know".
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Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett (born 1930) is an American investor who built Berkshire Hathaway into one of the world's largest companies and became the best-known practitioner of value investing.
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