George Soros

George Soros

George Soros (born György Schwartz, August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist. As of March 2021, he had a net worth of US$8.6 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. Forbes called him the "most generous giver" (in terms of percentage of net worth).Born in Budapest to a non-observant Jewish family, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and moved to the United Kingdom in 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Soros has received more than 26,631,924 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). George Soros is the 11th most popular businessperson (down from 9th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Hungary 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.