Trending Content - Investment Banking Forum
Career Resources
WSO Free Modeling Series - Now Open Through
June 30, 2026
9 Free Financial Modeling Lessons
Get instant access to lessons taught by experienced private equity pros and bulge bracket investment bankers including financial statement modeling, DCF, M&A, LBO, Comps and Excel Modeling.
+Bonus: Get 27 financial modeling templates in swipe file
+Bonus: Get 27 financial modeling templates in swipe file
High Finance Applications
Guaranteed
Get at least one offer GUARANTEED
- 1:1 support
- 92% success rate
- 2,000+ mentor network
- Unlimited Live bootcamps
- AI for resume + LinkedIn
- Networking automation tools
- HireVue simulation tool
- Full course library
- Private Slack community
- 20hrs of mocks
- + much more...
Joseph Perella, Bruce Wasserstein
Quattrone
JP Morgan
JP Morgan and Felix Rohatyn were the only guys I'd heard of before coming into this industry. JP Morgan is in the same bracket of famous as Einstien and Jordan. When your fame is so big that children and people not in your field know who you are, you've made it to the big time.
ken moelis
felix rohatyn. john meriwether (although technically not a banker, but a trader if i remember correctly from liar's poker). check hereisthecity.com 's wall street legends list.
Meriwether? He said famous, not infamous.
Also, no one wants to click the link to your more than likely shitty webpage.
think salomon brothers and stay cool
michael milken
J.P. Morgan, the Rothschilds, the Warburgs
That's about it
jp, rothschilds thats it.
It's a sad day indeed when it takes 10 comments in a most famous bankers thread before someone thinks to mention Sidney Weinberg.
I thought of him, but couldn't remember his name. Then I realized he might not be that famous if I couldn't remember it...
50 cent
Henry Paulson, Robert Greenhill, Joe Perella, etc... Unless they're C-level bankers or founded their own firms they won't be very "well known"
Andre Meyer, Thom Weisel, Steve Schwarzzman,
Damon Mezzacappa, The ZAOUI Brothers
Get a Lifestein
Hahaha LOL
Surprise surprise...ANOTHER successful Jewish banker...
who are your fav accountants?
I cant decide between Ernst and Young!!
LOL @ this comment!
Lets be real bys the most famous investment banker of all time is GORDON GEKKO haha
JP Morgan.
Bankers (non-markets guys) -
Wasserstein Perella Greenhill Schwarzman Rohatyn Weinberg Quattrone Boutros Moelis Dingemans
Gekko was a trader not a banker
Then what was his takeover of charlie sheen's dad's airline? haha
Please please please tell me you're joking.
C'mon.....ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Sidney Weinberg's the man. Probably sat on more corporate boards than anyone else in corporate America's history.
Gary Parr
Frankie Q
Yes Sidney Weinberg,
I can still vividly remember the first time I heard about Sidney in one of Malcolm Gladwell's articles. His journey from being a janitor's assistant to being the CEO of one of the greatest investment banks in the world is nothing short of a miracle. Kinda makes you want to believe people can rise above adversity and succeed if they work hard :)
Here is the article if you haven't read already: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/10/081110fa_fact_gladwell?cu…
I can't believe you guys missed Bill Hambrecht. The grandfather of all tech bankers who formed H&Q... Apple, Genentech, Adobe.
Also, maybe former GS Byron Trott like you noted OP, depending on what Buffett does in a few years...
the de Medicis the Rothschilds the Warburgs
these are the only bankers heard of outside of the street
they will be remembered long after the Blankfeins and the Milkens of the world are forgotten even by the street
JS Morgan, George Peabody, Haym Solomon (Funded the American revolution), T. Boone Pickens, Jacob Schiff and the Lazard brothers
Quattrone...has made a huge name for himself in during this Tech boom over the past 15 years
Weinberg
Carl Icahn
I don't know that I'd call him so much of an investment banker, more of a general financier. ;
^^ he's a corporate raider.
A real life gekko...badass lol
How has no one said the Oppenheim family? Salomon Oppenheim was huge
Have you met any famous bankers? (Originally Posted: 02/20/2008)
Seeing as most of us on here are lowly analysts and many of us are in satellite cities (or countries even), I was just wondering if any of you guys have had run-ins with any really famous bankers; I mean like Wasserstein, Dimon, Quattrone, Sykes, Pandit, Mack etc.
Not in meetings, but I have run into two of the guys mentioned above and a couple of other guys running top boutiques at golf clubs, like National, Seminole, CC of Purchase, etc. They are surprisingly pretty regular guys from my experience.
Dimon isn't a banker. He's the CEO of a financial institution, where investment banking is just a division. If memory serves right he come up through the commercial side.
And yes, Ling, I meant talked to at least for a minute or so. Or been around for a while.
I don't know what you mean of meeting them? As talking to them? Dimon gave all the SA a talk last summer. I don't know if that counts as of meeting.. Most Summer programs does that..
-) Ling
Ling~
ideating, you are a retarded douchebag. You are a douchebag for calling an investment bank a "financial institution" (who uses that term?), and you are retarded for not knowing who people refer to when they refer to "bankers."
"Jamie Dimon, the new CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase is taking a shot at the title of world's most important banker..." http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/04/03/83730…
There's a book, published in '69, called Winthrop Aldrich: Lawyer, Banker, Diplomat. Why the "banker" label? Was he a loan officer in Tulsa? No, he was the chairman of Chase Manhattan.
The title of this article about McColl (when he was chairman of BofA): "PRIVATE SECTOR; A Powerful Banker's Other Hat" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EED8123AF932A15756C0…
When Lloyd Blankfein donates to campaigns, he writes down his occupation as "investment banker."
Let me explain something to you: the lower you are on the ladder at a bank, the less likely you are to get away with calling yourself a "banker." When people talk about bankers running Wall Street they aren't talking about associates and analysts. Sometimes, when an MD is pitching a monster deal, the President will come along to the pitch. Why? Shouldn't he be doing CEO stuff and "managing" by your definition?
Also, who gives a sh*t if he came up through the commercial side? Is that not still banking? The OP was obviously asking about more than M&A advisors when he mentioned Pandit.
Commercial bankers are still "bankers". So are bank tellers. Banking is a spectrum if ya didn't know.
Mark Klein needs a girlfriend.
all the time?
I'd consider Dimon a "banker" as well. MKMD makes all good points.
Hmm... yeah not sure why he is irritated all the time.
My point in using the term "financial institution" is to point out that JPMorgan is much more than an investment bank. The levels of hierarchy are different between the CEO of Goldman and a lowly GS analyst than Dimon and a JPM analyst. And I don't think that "banker" on this board has ever referred to a commercial banker. True, Pandit wasn't an M&A advisor in the way some of those other guys were but he did come up through S&T.
Dimon went from b-school to Amex to consumer finance and climbed the ladder that way- his background clearly is not in investment banking.
Thanks for the post though, good to see they are well researched and noted.
Last week we were meeting with a certain European bank and their CEO of Americas stopped by for a chat.
Not sure if that counts as "famous."
hahahahaha...tim sykes...famous. Famous for being an ass and a bad hf manager
So what do you do? -I work for an investment banking firm. Oh okay; you are like my brother, he works for Edward Jones. -No, a college degree is required in my profession
I got meet Frank Quattrone briefly during an interview a few weeks ago with his new team. I'm not much for being star-struck, but it was nice to meet him. Funny guy.
I didn't expect to see him, I figured he was having lunch with Erich Schmidt or some other Silicon Valley celeb somewhere, but there he was, in his own group's office. Whoduh thunk it.
That's tight, Frank is the man. What kind of impression did you get from their office?
Ipsam voluptatem quae ducimus neque. Voluptas dignissimos accusamus saepe numquam eum. Cum laudantium voluptate soluta pariatur.
Dolores tempore sunt dolore quia distinctio eaque quis. Sequi nihil nam alias qui dolores saepe distinctio. Mollitia et perferendis aperiam temporibus mollitia perferendis repellendus.
See All Comments - 100% Free
WSO depends on everyone being able to pitch in when they know something. Unlock with your email and get bonus: 6 financial modeling lessons free ($199 value)
or Unlock with your social account...
Velit nisi et et perspiciatis illum. Omnis alias ab non minus omnis. Harum sit eligendi quisquam odio voluptatum quaerat illum. Et maxime et distinctio pariatur autem unde quia.
Et nihil qui sint tempora enim. Et corrupti illum neque sint rerum. Quia maxime saepe in porro dolores ut eum.
Consequatur minus tempore et consequuntur in. Harum voluptatum consectetur eaque et recusandae consequuntur. Cupiditate cumque magni officiis. Voluptates quia repellendus consequatur. A adipisci fugiat mollitia impedit. Reiciendis laudantium et aut esse ea molestiae. In ut rerum nostrum qui in aliquam in.
Dolorem rerum ea quas. Omnis quo iste quas voluptates. Nihil iste reiciendis nihil temporibus.
Blanditiis corporis quod eveniet consequatur officia occaecati. Repellat doloremque inventore unde ducimus quod animi. Aut et aut id aut necessitatibus perferendis.