- Source of Wealth: Hedge Funds
- Age: 64
- Birth Place: Queens, New York City, New York
- Marital Status: Married (Jenny Paulson)
- Full Name: John Alfred Paulson
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: December 14, 1955
- Occupation: Hedge Fund Manager
- Education: Harvard Business School, New York University College of Business and Public Administration (1978), Harvard University, New York University
- Children: 2 (Giselle, Danielle)
American hedge fund manager, John Alfred Paulson, has a net worth of $6.63 billion in July 2017, according to Bloomberg. He is the founder and President of Paulson & Co., a New York-based hedge fund. The gold-denominated versions of his firm’s funds, where he is said to have most of his personal stash, have gained steadily. In 2010, his take-home pay was $4.9 billion, a record for the hedge fund industry. He is donating $15 million to a new maternity hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his father was born. Paulson became a billionaire in 2007 shorting subprime securities and earning a $3.5 billion payout. He got his start at Odyssey Partners, a private equity and hedge fund and later became managing director of M&A at Bear Stearns. He founded Paulson & Co in 1994.