Super-rich and philanthropist Carl Celian Icahn (Carl Sereon Icahn)

Carl Celian Icahn (February 16, 1936 —) is an American Jewish business billionaire, investor, shareholder activist, and philanthropist.

He is the founder and major shareholder of Aikon Corporation. Ranked 61st in the “Forbes” 2019 Global Billionaires List, with assets of $17.4 billion, he proposed regulatory reforms in the Donald Trump administration, but later left office due to controversy. He has donated approximately $200 million to Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine. In the 2019 US 400 Richest People List, he ranked 30th with assets of 17.6 billion US dollars. It ranked 39th in the Forbes list of the 400 richest people in the US published in September 2020, with assets of 14 billion US dollars.

Carl Serein Aykon was born in New York in 1936. His mother was an educator and his father was a lawyer. I attended Far Rockaway Heights, a public school in New York, before attending Princeton University (Princeton University). He obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1957, and then began studying medicine. After his military career, he joined Wall Street. In 1961, he went to work at Dreyfus & Company and successfully developed an arbitrage strategy to convert securities. In 1978, the brokerage firm Icahn & Co. was founded. Inc., began to grow into different businesses.

He and his wife also work for the Icahn Charitable Foundation (Icahn Charitable) and the Children's Rescue Fund (Children's Rescue Fund), which supports many poor families, pregnant women, and single parent women. Carl Icahn founded three teaching institutions in New York and also offered the Choate Rosemary Hall Middle School Scholarship Program. He also manages Icahn House East to help homeless people in New York.