- Endorsed Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential election.
- His net worth is $24.9 billion.
- As of 2018, his foundation is now the second-largest philanthropic organization in the US, behind that of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
- Younger brother of Paul Soros, uncle of Jeffrey Soros.
- Because of his progressive views and philanthropy, he is regularly vilified in the right-wing media and the focus of right-wing conspiracy theories. In 2018 he was one of 13 politicians or celebrities targeted with pipe bombs by Donald Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc ahead of America's mid-term elections.
- In 1956, Soros moved to New York City, where he worked as an arbitrage trader for F. M. Mayer (1956-59). He specialized in European stocks, which were becoming popular with U.S. institutional investors following the formation of the Coal and Steel Community, which later became the Common Market.
- In 1954, Soros began his financial career at the merchant bank Singer & Friedlander of London. He worked as a clerk and later moved to the arbitrage department. A fellow employee, Robert Mayer, suggested he apply at his father's brokerage house, F.M. Mayer of New York.
- Soros was 13 years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary. The Nazis barred Jewish children from attending school, and Soros and the other schoolchildren were made to report to the Judenrat ("Jewish Council"), which had been established during the occupation.
- In April 2019, Soros was awarded the Ridenhour Prize for Courage. In his acceptance address Soros said: "In my native Hungary, the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has turned me into the super villain of an alleged plot to destroy the supposed Christian identity of the Hungarian nation... I donate the prize money associated with this award to the Hungarian Spectrum, an online English-language publication that provides daily updates on Hungarian politics. It renders an important service by exposing to the world [in English] what Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is telling his own people [in Hungarian]. It - The Hungarian Spectrum - deserves to be better known and supported.".
- His mother Erzsébet (also known as Elizabeth) came from a family that owned a thriving silk shop. She was a Hungarian dancer, teacher, and supercentenarian (aged 110). She refused to be supported by George Soros, but she was supported by nurses on his initiative.
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