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George Soros

1930 - Today

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George Soros (born György Schwartz; August 12, 1930) is an American investor and philanthropist. As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. In 2020, Forbes called Soros the "most generous giver" in terms of percentage of net worth. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Soros has received more than 33,262,894 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). George Soros is the 14th most popular businessperson (down from 11th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Businessperson.

George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor, business magnate, and philanthropist. He is one of the world's most successful investors. As of February 2018, he had a net worth of $8 billion. He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of pounds, making him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis.

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  • 33M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 78.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 81

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, George Soros ranks 14 out of 847. Before him are Larry Ellison, John D. Rockefeller, Jeff Bezos, Vince McMahon, Warren Buffett, and Ingvar Kamprad. After him are Aristotle Onassis, Bernard Arnault, Levi Strauss, Florentino Pérez, Tim Cook, and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, George Soros ranks 9. Before him are Sean Connery, Michael Collins, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Helmut Kohl, Warren Buffett, and Pierre Bourdieu. After him are Jacques Derrida, Ray Charles, Jean-Luc Godard, Mobutu Sese Seko, Hafez al-Assad, and Baudouin of Belgium.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, George Soros ranks 11 out of 1,077. Before him are Matthias Corvinus (1443), Edward Teller (1908), Rudolf Steiner (1861), Harry Houdini (1874), Stephen I of Hungary (975), and John von Neumann (1903). After him are Miklós Horthy (1868), Ignaz Semmelweis (1818), Imre Nagy (1896), Louis II of Hungary (1506), Louis I of Hungary (1326), and Imre Kertész (1929).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Hungary

Among businesspeople born in Hungary, George Soros ranks 1. After him are Charles Simonyi (1948), and Andrew Grove (1936).

Hungarian born Businesspeople

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