On August 18, 1995, The Wall Street Journal ran an article about Warren Buffett. The article listed the following eight individuals under "A Pantheon of Great Investors" (with their estimated long-term returns).

Laureates in Economic Sciences from the Nobel Foundation. There are interviews with Sharpe and Miller in Peter J. Tanous' Investment Gurus.

• Robert D. Arnott
• Peter Bernstein - Author of Against the Gods and Capital Ideas
• Michael Bloomberg - Founder of Bloomberg Financial Markets
• John C. Bogle - Founder of The Vanguard Group and author of Enough, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, Common Sense on Mutual Funds and Bogle on Mutual Funds. See The Bogle Financial Markets Research Center.
• Gary P. Brinson - International money manager and author.
• Abby Joseph Cohen - The nation's current number one market "Guru."
• James Cramer - Hedge fund manager and columnist.
• David Dreman - See also Anomalies and Analysts
• John Doerr - See also Venture Capital
• Ken Fisher - See also Fisher's columns in Forbes
• Martin Fridson - Author of It Was a Very Good Year and Investment Illusions
• William Gross - PIMCO money manager (arguably the world's leading authority on bonds).
• Roger G. Ibbotson - See also Professors and Historical Data
• Henry R. Kravis - See also Alternative Investments
• Dean LeBaron is a very respected industry veteran and has an extensive web site.
• William O'Neil - founder of Investor Business Daily and Daily Graphs and author of How to Make Money in Stocks and Investing Smart
• James O'Shaughnessy - author of What Works on Wall Street and How to Retire Rich
• Don Phillips - CEO of Morningstar
• George F. Russell, Jr.
• Charles R. Schwab - See also Brokers
• David E. Shaw - Founder of investment firm D.E. Shaw.

• Eugene Fama - An interview with Fama is also included in Peter J. Tanous' Investment Gurus. See also Capital Ideas.
• William N. Goetzmann
• Campbell Harvey maintains a web site that includes a great deal of information and is well worth exploring. (See his Performance Evaluation page for example.)
• Robert Haugen - author of The New Finance.
• Roger G. Ibbotson - See also Professionals and Historical Data. Co-author of Global Investing.
• Michael Jensen - Harvard Professor and founder of the Journal of Financial Economics. See also Social Science Research Network.
• Josef Lakonishok - See Anomalies.
• Robert C. Merton - also in Nobel Laureates. See also Capital Ideas.
• Michael E. Porter - Harvard Professor and author. See books by Porter.
• Richard Roll
• Stephen A. Ross
• Myron S. Scholes - See also Capital Ideas.
• William F. Sharpe - also in Nobel Laureates.
• Jeremy J. Siegel, author of Stocks for the Long Run.
• Hal R. Varian author of Information Rules

• William Bernstein (Efficient Frontier)
• James Cramer (The Street)
• David Dreman (Forbes)
• Ken Fisher (Forbes)
• David & Tom Gardner
• Mark Hulbert
• Paul Krugman
• Michael Lewis
• Greg Mankiw
• Walt Mossberg (Wall Street Journal Technology Editor)
• Tom Petruno (LA Times)
• Jane Bryant Quinn
• Andrew Tobias
• Eric Tyson
• Jason Zweig

• The New Stars of Finance, Dealmakers, Managers, Marketers, Academics, and Regulators in Business Week (10/27/97)
• Top 25 Power Brokers in Silicon Valley from Business Week (8/25/97)
• ZD Net's People in the news
• Academy of Achievement
• Who's Who-Online
• A&E Television's biography.com