WHenri Louis Bischoffsheim was a Dutch banker.
WSampson Gideon was a Sephardic Jewish banker who was active in 18th-century London. Gideon is most prominently known for his financing of the Hanoverian-Whig government's suppression of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, subsequently becoming a trusted "adviser of the Government" who supported the passage of the Jew Bill of 1753. Historian James Picciotto, in his book Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History (1875) described Gideon as the "Rothschild of his day" and the "pillar of state credit".
WJonas Marcus von Königswarter was an Austrian Jewish banker and railway entrepreneur. He was a member of the Königswarter family.
WPaul Robert Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was a German Jewish banker and art collector. The persecution of his family under the Nazis has resulted in numerous lawsuits for restitution.
WSir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian-Jewish family, he donated large sums of money to promote industry, business, economic development, education and health among the Jewish community in the Levant, including the founding of Mishkenot Sha'ananim in 1860, the first settlement outside Jerusalem's walled city. As President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, his correspondence with the British consul in Damascus, Charles Henry Churchill, in 1841–42 is seen as pivotal to the development of Proto-Zionism.
WSalomon Oppenheim, Jr. was a German Jewish banker, and the founder of the Sal. Oppenheim private bank.
WSamuel Oppenheimer was an Ashkenazi Jewish banker, imperial court diplomat, factor, and military supplier for the Holy Roman Emperor. He enjoyed the special favor of Emperor Leopold I, to whom he advanced considerable sums of money for the Great Turkish War. Prince Eugene of Savoy brought him a large number of valuable Hebrew manuscripts from Turkey, which became the nucleus of the famous David Oppenheim Library, now part of the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
WGustave Samuel James de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild was a French banker and scion of the French branch of the Rothschild family. He was the second son of James Mayer de Rothschild and Betty Salomon von Rothschild.
WBaron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild was a British Jewish banker, politician and philanthropist who was a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. He became the first practising Jew to sit as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
WMayer Amschel Rothschild was an Ashkenazi Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. Referred to as a "founding father of international finance", Rothschild was ranked seventh on the Forbes magazine list of "The Twenty Most Influential Businessmen of All Time" in 2005.
WNathan Mayer Rothschild was an English-German banker, businessman and financier. Born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, he was the third of the five sons of Gutle (Schnapper) and Mayer Amschel Rothschild, and was of the second generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty.
WEdmond J. Safra was a Lebanese Brazilian banker who continued the family tradition of banking in Brazil and Switzerland. He was married to Lily Watkins from 1976 until his death. He died in a fire that attracted wide media interest, and was judicially determined to be due to arson.
WLudwig von Stieglitz was a German Jewish businessman in Russia and founder of the banking house Stieglitz & Company.