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. 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

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.