George Soros

I find George Soros endlessly interesting precisely because he refuses to fit a single box. A man who survived wartime Budapest and then built one of history's great fortunes in finance could have simply retired into luxury; instead he gave away the majority of his wealth and spent decades writing about how markets reflect human bias rather than pure reason. A French court upheld his insider-trading conviction over Société Générale shares in 2006, cutting the penalty to €940,000; he denied wrongdoing. Whether or not you agree with his politics, the consistency between his stated philosophy and his actual spending is something I rarely see among the ultra-rich. To me he is less a financier than a philosopher who happened to be brilliant at trading.

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Name (English)

George Soros

Name (Japanese)

ジョージ・ソロス

Reading

じょーじ・そろす

Born

August 12, 1930 (age 96)

Origin

Budapest, Hungary

Occupation

investor / philosopher / writer / economist / financier

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Adam Smith Award
• 2013 Freedom Award
• Order of the Three Stars
• 2015 Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia
• 1997 James Madison Award
• 2004 Hungarian Order of Merit
• 2015 Order of Liberty
• Order of African Redemption

• Official sitehttps://www.georgesoros.com
• Xhttps://x.com/georgesoros
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Soros
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12908

Tags

• investor
• philosopher
• writer

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.