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Born on October 19, 1942, Jim Rogers is from Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Jim Rogers is an entrepreneur, financier and non-fiction writer. The age as of 2026 is 83. Schooling on record includes Balliol College.
My Take
Jim Rogers is one of those rare investors who makes you feel like the whole financial world is just one big adventure waiting to be explored. He co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in the early 1970s, and by the time he retired from that partnership he had already racked up returns that most fund managers can only dream about. What I genuinely admire is that he didn't just sit in a Manhattan office running numbers — he literally motorcycled around the world twice and wrote books about what he saw, turning boots-on-the-ground curiosity into investment thesis. His long-running bullishness on commodities and China when almost nobody was paying attention turned out to be prescient. Now living in Singapore, still beating the drum for Asia's rise, still writing, still talking — at over 80 he's proof that the best investors never really retire, they just find bigger maps to study.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jim Rogers
- Name (Japanese)
- ジム・ロジャーズ
- Reading
- じむ・ろじゃーず
- Born
- October 19, 1942 (age 83)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Horse
- Origin
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Occupation
- entrepreneur / financier / non-fiction writer / economist / businessperson
2. Background
- University
- Balliol College
3. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.jimrogers.com/
- Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Rogers
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552215
4. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
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.
Frequently asked questions
When was Jim Rogers born?
Born October 19, 1942 (age 83).
Where is Jim Rogers from?
Jim Rogers is from Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
What does Jim Rogers do?
Jim Rogers works as entrepreneur, financier, non-fiction writer, economist, businessperson.
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