{"id":7,"date":"2026-05-29T16:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:39:43","slug":"top-investors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"Top Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are the top 25 Stock Investor Greats<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a list of my top 25\u00a0investors\u00a0in the stock market spanning retail\u00a0investors, hedge fund managers, and mutual fund managers. I\u2019ve intentionally excluded individuals I view as manipulative, ruthless, or lacking in integrity. While such figures may be fascinating from a historical or strategic standpoint, I gravitate toward\u00a0investors\u00a0who serve as true role models and who don\u2019t sacrifice principles in the pursuit of profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Bernard Baruch<\/a>\u00a0(Legendary stockbroker, shrewd\u00a0investor, and influential statesman) (b. 1870)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Jesse Livermore<\/a>\u00a0(Stock trader known for trading his own funds and lost and made fortunes) (b. 1877)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Benjamin Graham<\/a>\u00a0(Pioneer of value\u00a0investing\u00a0and hero of Warren Buffett) (b. 1894)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Philip Arthur Fisher<\/a>\u00a0(Growth stock\u00a0investor\u00a0and author of an\u00a0investing\u00a0book) (b. 1907)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. John Templeton<\/a>\u00a0(Billionaire from managing mutual funds successfully) (b. 1912)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Ronald Read<\/a>\u00a0(Janitor who became successful as a retail stock\u00a0investor) (b. 1921)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Charlie Munger<\/a>\u00a0(Stock\u00a0investor, businessman, polymath and partner of Warren Buffett) (b. 1924)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. John \u201cJack\u201d Bogle<\/a>\u00a0(Founder of the S&P 500 Index Fund with trillions in investments) (b. 1929)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. George Soros<\/a>\u00a0(Hedge fund manager who made big bets and succeeded several times) (b. 1930)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Warren Buffett<\/a>\u00a0(The wealthiest man on Wall Street, CEO, and majority owner of Berkshire Hathaway) (b. 1930)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Edward O. Thorp<\/a>\u00a0(Extremely intelligent man with success in both gambling and on Wall Street) (b. 1932)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Jim Simons<\/a>\u00a0(Quantum trading hedge fund made Simons insanely wealthy) (b. 1938)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Herbert Wertheim<\/a>\u00a0(Possibly the most successful retail stock\u00a0investor\u00a0of the last century) (b. 1939)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Peter Lynch<\/a>\u00a0(Managed mutual funds very successfully and became very wealthy) (b. 1944)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Richard Dennis<\/a>\u00a0(Commodities trader who made hundreds of millions in profits) (b. 1947)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Ray Dalio<\/a>\u00a0(Hedge fund deca-billionaire and author of the great \u201cPrinciples<\/a>\u201c) (b. 1949)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Paul Tudor Jones<\/a>\u00a0(Billionaire hedge fund manager, renowned stock trader, and market strategist) (b. 1954)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Louis Bacon<\/a>\u00a0(Billionaire hedge fund manager. Rumored to be exceptionally bright.) (b. 1956)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. David Tepper<\/a>\u00a0(Has made all the right moves, it seems, with his hedge fund. Deca-billionaire.) (b. 1957)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Joel Greenblatt<\/a>\u00a0(Author of stock\u00a0investing\u00a0books, hedge fund manager, and professor at Columbia) (b. 1957)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. Jeffrey Yass<\/a>\u00a0(The king of options trading, who has profited tens of billions) (b. 1958)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Ted Weschler<\/a>\u00a0(Currently working with Buffett to manage funds. An extremely high-level\u00a0investor) (b. 1962)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. Li Lu<\/a>\u00a0(Chinese-American value investor and Buffett-inspired investment approach.) (b. 1966)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. Michael Platt<\/a>\u00a0(UK hedge fund wiz who won more often than he lost, mostly through trading) (b. 1968)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. Michael Burry<\/a>\u00a0(A high-stakes\u00a0investor\u00a0who made big bets, like The Big Short, and came out on top) (b. 1971)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    Here are the top 25 Stock Investor Greats Below is a list of my top 25\u00a0investors\u00a0in the stock market spanning retail\u00a0investors, hedge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}