Stephen A. Schwarzman
American businessman and investor
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| 2024 | Schwarzman announced he would support Donald Trump's presidential campaign as a 'vote for change'. |
| 2024 | Created an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by King Charles III for services to philanthropy. |
| March 2024 | Visited Gujarat, Western India, to attend celebrations hosted by Mukesh Ambani in honor of his son Anant's upcoming wedding. |
| 2022 | Schwarzman indicated he would not support Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, suggesting it was 'time for the Republican Party to turn to a new generation of leaders'. |
| 2022 | Schwarzman was paid $253 million, making him the highest-paid CEO in the US that year. |
| 2021 | Purchased the Miramar mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, for $27 million, with plans to restore it and eventually open the estate to the public after his and his wife's deaths. |
| December 2021 | Donated $25 million with his wife Christine to the Animal Medical Center of New York, which was renamed The Stephen and Christine Schwarzman Animal Medical Center. |
| 2020 | Schwarzman donated $15 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, $3 million to Trump's America First Action PAC, and a total of $33.5 million to Republican candidates. |
| October 2020 | Pledged $8 million to the USA Track and Field Foundation for the 2021 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Olympics. |
| February 2020 | Signed The Giving Pledge, committing to give the majority of his wealth to philanthropic causes. |
| 2019 | Published his first book 'What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence', which became a New York Times Best Seller and drew from his experiences in business, philanthropy, and public service. |
| June 2019 | Donated £150 million to the University of Oxford to establish the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, set to be completed in the 2024–25 academic year. |
| 2018 | Awarded the Plaque degree of the Order of the Aztec Eagle by President Enrique Peña Nieto, in recognition of his work supporting the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement. |
| 2018 | Donated $25 million to Abington High School, his alma mater, with conditions later modified after public discussion. |
| 2018 | Donated $10 million to the National Library of Israel. |
| December 2018 | Schwarzman donated $344,000 in support of Trump's re-election campaign. |
| October 2018 | Donated $350 million to Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create the Schwarzman College of Computing. |
| 2017 | Schwarzman's salary was $786 million. |
| August 16 2017 | President Trump disbanded the Strategic and Policy Forum following multiple member resignations, with Schwarzman stepping down as chair. |
| 2016 | Schwarzman expressed a preference for Donald Trump over Ted Cruz in the Republican primary, stating the nation needed a 'cohesive, healing presidency'. |
| 2016 | Schwarzman helped assemble a team of corporate executives to advise Donald Trump on jobs and the economy, later becoming chair of the President's Strategic and Policy Forum. |
| 2016 | Schwarzman was again named one of Bloomberg's 50 Most Influential people of the year, further cementing his status as a notable business leader. |
| 2016 | Schwarzman earned $425 million. |
| 2016 | Began sitting on the board of trustees of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. |
| 2015 | Schwarzman's salary reached $734.2 million. |
| 2015 | Contributed $150 million to fund a campus center at Yale University in the historic 'Commons' dining facility. |
| 2014 | Stephen A. Schwarzman was named one of Bloomberg's 50 Most Influential people of the year, recognizing his significant impact and prominence in the business world. |
| 2014 | Schwarzman made a donation to Marco Rubio's political campaign. |
| April 21 2013 | Announced a $100 million personal gift to establish the Schwarzman Scholars scholarship program in China at Tsinghua University, modeled after the Rhodes Scholarship program. |
| 2012 | Obama called Schwarzman to help broker a budget agreement with Republicans in Congress, resulting in a tax plan that added $1 trillion in additional revenue. |
| September 2011 | Schwarzman was listed as a member of the international advisory board of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. |
| May 2011 | Reported by The Wall Street Journal as a top-five water user in Palm Beach, consuming 7,409,688 gallons between June 2010 and May 2011. |
| August 2010 | Schwarzman controversially compared the Obama administration's plan to raise tax rates on carried interest to Hitler's invasion of Poland, later apologizing for the analogy. |
| June 2010 | Beginning of a period of exceptional water consumption in Palm Beach, during which Schwarzman used 7,409,688 gallons of water between June 2010 and May 2011, making him one of the top-five water users in the area. |
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