Full Name: George Soros; Profession: Hungarian-American investor, hedge fund manager, author, philanthropist, and political activist whose success in global financial markets made him one of the wealthiest and most influential financiers in modern history; Nationality: Hungarian-born American with dual Hungarian and United States citizenship, originally born György Schwartz in a Jewish family in Hungary and later naturalized as a U.S. citizen; Born: 12 August 1930; Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary. Generation: Silent Generation (the cohort typically defined as born between 1928 and 1945, shaped by the Great Depression and World War II); Chinese Zodiac: Metal Horse, since 1930 falls in the Horse year and astrologers classify 1930 specifically as a Metal (Gold) Horse, associated with strong will, decisiveness, and leadership; Zodiac Sign: Leo, with the Sun placed in Leo around 19 degrees according to Western tropical astrology charts for his 12 August 1930 birth; Age in 2026: 96 years old (he turned 95 in 2025, so he reaches age 96 on his birthday in August 2026); Marital Status: Married three times—first to Annaliese Witschak (1960–1983), with whom he had three children; second to historian Susan Weber (1983–2005), with whom he had two more children; and third to entrepreneur and health-care and education consultant Tamiko Bolton, whom he married in 2013 and to whom he remains married as of 2024. Children: five children—Robert Daniel Soros, Andrea Soros Colombel, and Jonathan Tivadar Soros from his first marriage; and Alexander (Alex) Soros and Gregory James Soros from his second marriage. Several of them have become prominent in finance, philanthropy, and the arts, with Alex Soros in particular stepping into leadership roles at Open Society Foundations and in overseeing part of the family’s investment and philanthropic empire. Description: George Soros is a Holocaust survivor who lived through the Nazi occupation of Hungary in 1944–1945, when hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were murdered, and whose family survived by using false identity papers and carefully concealing their Jewish background, an experience that profoundly shaped his later commitment to open societies and human rights; after the war he left Budapest for London in 1947, studying at the London School of Economics while working modest jobs such as railway porter and nightclub waiter, before emigrating to the United States in 1956 and entering high finance, where he eventually founded Soros Fund Management and the Quantum Fund and became renowned as one of the most successful hedge fund managers in history; he achieved legendary status in financial circles in 1992 as “the man who broke the Bank of England” by leading a massive speculative bet against the British pound during Black Wednesday, a trade that reportedly netted profits of around 1 billion dollars and cemented his reputation as a bold macro investor; beginning in the late 1970s and 1980s he increasingly turned his attention and fortune toward philanthropy, initially funding scholarships for Black South Africans under apartheid and supporting intellectual exchange and independent cultural institutions in Communist Eastern Europe, and later building an extensive global network of foundations and partners under the banner of the Open Society Foundations inspired by philosopher Karl Popper’s ideas about open, democratic societies; through Open Society Foundations and related initiatives, Soros has donated tens of billions of dollars—over 32 billion by the late 2010s—to causes including democracy promotion, rule of law, civil society, higher education (such as founding Central European University in Budapest), minority rights, and media freedom across more than 100 countries, making him one of the most significant private philanthropists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries; at the same time, his outspoken support for liberal and progressive political causes and his large-scale funding of advocacy and electoral efforts have made him a polarizing figure, celebrated by supporters as a defender of open societies yet vilified by opponents and targeted by numerous conspiracy theories, many of which are suffused with anti-Semitic tropes; even after stepping back from day-to-day management, he has remained central to global debates about the role of private wealth in shaping politics, markets, and civil society, with his son Alex Soros now assuming primary leadership of the family’s philanthropic and financial operations and pledging to continue and expand his father’s agenda; Cause of Death: Not applicable—George Soros is still living and active through at least the mid-2020s, with recent public coverage documenting his ongoing philanthropic influence and the formal handover of his foundation and investment leadership to his son Alex.