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Robert Mercer

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Robert Leroy Mercer (born July 11, 1946) is an American hedge fund manager, computer scientist, and political donor. Mercer was an early artificial intelligence researcher and developer and is the former co-CEO of the hedge fund company Renaissance Technologies. Mercer played a controversial role in the campaign for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, led by Dominic Cummings, with £3.9 million being spent on his data analytics and machine learning company AggregateIQ. He has also been a major funder of organizations supporting right-wing political causes in the United States, such as Breitbart News, the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica, and Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for president. He is the principal benefactor of the Make America Number 1 super PAC. In November 2017, Mercer announced he would step down from Renaissance Technologies and sell his stake in Breitbart News to his daughters. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Mercer is the 395th most popular businessperson (up from 673rd in 2019), the 4,965th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,019th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Robert Mercer ranks 395 out of 847Before him are Tatsumi Kimishima, Sylvia Beach, Mikhail Fridman, Thomas Blake Glover, Silvio Santos, and Rina Zaripova. After him are Steve Jackson, Ida Straus, Howard Schultz, Peter Lynch, Edwin Drake, and Roy E. Disney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Robert Mercer ranks 366Before him are Raël, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Daniel Bensaïd, Lana Wood, Carol Dweck, and Salif Keïta. After him are Robert Gadocha, Gérard Grisey, Bernard Maris, Daouda Malam Wanké, Gordon Murray, and Davorin Popović.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Mercer ranks 4,965 out of 20,380Before him are Johnny Nash (1940), Kyle Chandler (1965), Timothée Chalamet (1995), Quinn (null), Jim Davis (1945), and Eugene Stoner (1922). After him are Lawrence Block (1938), John Henry Holland (1929), Ginger Lynn (1962), Genie (1957), Peter Jason (1944), and Michael Berryman (1948).

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Robert Mercer ranks 123Before him are Roger Ailes (1940), Timothy Dexter (1747), Erin Brockovich (1960), Arnold Rothstein (1882), Douglas Tompkins (1943), and Sylvia Beach (1887). After him are Howard Schultz (1953), Peter Lynch (1944), Edwin Drake (1819), Roy E. Disney (1930), Allen Klein (1931), and Alan Lomax (1915).