Carl Icahn

Carl Icahn is the name that made "corporate raider" sound almost glamorous, and I can't help respecting the sheer audacity. A Princeton kid out of Far Rockaway who turned a stockbroker's eye into a feared activist-investor empire, he built Icahn Enterprises into a conglomerate that companies genuinely brace for. What fascinates me is the persona as much as the portfolio: he plays the agitator who claims he's defending shareholders against complacent boards. Whether you read him as a value-unlocker or a disruptor, he's undeniably shaped how Wall Street thinks about who really owns a company. Few financiers have that kind of cultural footprint.

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Name (English)

Carl Icahn

Name (Japanese)

カール・アイカーン

Reading

かーる・あいかーん

Born

February 16, 1936 (age 90)

Origin

Far Rockaway, New York, United States

Occupation

stockbroker / financier / businessperson / merchant

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

High school

Far Rockaway High School

University

Princeton University

• Official sitehttps://carlicahn.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/Carl_C_Icahn
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Icahn
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q981479

Tags

• New York
• stockbroker
• financier
• businessperson

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.