Michael Bloomberg
Michael "Mike" Rubens Bloomberg (b. 14 February 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an Jewish American billionaire, businessman, politician, and author. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P, a privately held financial, software, data, and media company. Bloomberg was the mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. The Knight Commander des Order of the British Empire was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, but lost despite spending almost a billion, in part because of less politically correct statements.
Life
Bloomberg was born to a Jewish family of Russian and Polish ancestry, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, in the Boston neighborhood of Brighton on 14 February 1942. His parents were Charlotte Rubens, living in 2006, and William Henry Bloomberg, who was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the son of Elick Bloomberg, a Russian Jewish immigrant and a real-estate agent. He lived at 100 Brainerd Road, in the Boston neighborhood of Allston, until he was two years old, when the family moved to Atherton Road, in Brookline, Massachusetts. When he was four, his family moved to Medford, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb. He lived there until after he graduated from college. He attended Johns Hopkins University, where he joined Phi Kappa Psi, and graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in electrical engineering. Later he received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Harvard Business School.
Bloomberg married Yorkshire-born Susan Brown in 1975. After 18 years of marriage, they divorced in 1993. They had two daughters, Georgina Bloomberg (who has been featured on Born Rich, a documentary film about the children of the extremely wealthy) and Emma Bloomberg. Georgina was romantically linked in 2007 with Cian O'Connor, the Irish showjumper whose 2004 Olympic gold medal was withdrawn. His current girlfriend is former New York state banking superintendent Diana Taylor. His younger sister, Marjorie Tiven, is Commissioner of the New York City Commission for the United Nations, Consular Corps and Protocol.
Bloomberg was a general partner at Salomon Brothers, where he headed equity trading, sales and, later, systems development. He made his fortune with his own company, Bloomberg L.P., selling financial information terminals to Wall Street firms; the company also began a radio network (the flagship station is 1130 WBBR-AM in New York City).
Bloomberg is among the world's richest people. He was ranked 34th by Forbes magazine in its list of 400 Richest Americans in September 2006. He was ranked 142nd in its list of the The World's Billionaires in March 2007. Bloomberg has written an autobiography, Bloomberg by Bloomberg (1997, ISBN 0-471-15545-4).
Bloomberg owns homes in the USA, Britain and in the British territory of Bermuda.
