Carl Icahn

Founder, Icahn Capital Management
$5.78B
$126M (-2.1%)
as of 11/07/24

About Carl Icahn

Carl Icahn, one of Wall Street's most successful investors, has been shaking up corporate America for decades.

Icahn's primary investing vehicle is publicly traded Icahn Enterprises. He also runs a fund that invests his personal cash and money belonging to Icahn Enterprises.

Icahn grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens. He graduated from Princeton with a degree in philosophy in 1957.

Icahn began his career on Wall Street as a stockbroker for Dreyfus Corporation before buying a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1968.

He has donated about $200 million to what is now the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Investments

Residence

Indian Creek, Florida

Marital status

Married

Birth date

02/16/36 (age 88)

Number of children

2

Education

Drop Out, New York University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Princeton University

Self-made

self-made

Carl Icahn’s fortune is worth

96K

troy ounces of gold

89K

median U.S. household

58K

median U.S. income

0.116%

U.S. credit card volume

0.023%

GDP of the United States

0.017%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Icahn was pushed by his mother to go to med school, but dropped out because he hated it.

Net worth over time

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Financial assets

NASDAQ | IEP-US

Icahn Enterprises L.P.$5.2B

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