5. Warren Buffett: The American business tycoon, investor and philanthropist, Warren Edward Buffet is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. He is often named as “legendry investor, Warren Buffet”. He is primarily a shareholder but also a Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He made his name in the list of World’s wealthiest people consistently. In 2011, he was named as the third wealthiest person in the world.

Despite his immense wealth, he is a much devoted person in the value investing philosophy, and hence is called as the ‘Wizard of Omaha’, ‘Oracle of Omaha’ or the ‘Saga of Omaha’. In 1999, he was named as the top money manager of the Twentieth Century in a survey by the Carson Group. He was listed among the Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the world in 2007. In the 2010 report of the Foreign Policy, he was named as the Most Influential Global Thinker.