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In 2013, he donated his largest gift of $67 million to Carnegie Mellon, whose Tepper School of Business is named after him.","For the 2012 tax year, Institutional Investor's Alpha ranked Tepper's $2.2 billion paycheck as the world's highest for a hedge fund manager. He earned the third position on Forbes ''The Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers 2018'' with an annual earnings of $1.5 billion. A 2010 profile in New York described him as the object of \"a certain amount of hero worship inside the industry,\" with one investor calling him \"a golden god.\" In 2019, Tepper revealed plans to eventually convert this hedge fund into a family office."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"11 September 1957","date":"1957-09-11"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459538#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Pittsburgh","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1342"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459538#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459538#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"hedge fund manager","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43423468"},{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459538#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Pittsburgh","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235034","end":"1978"},{"text":"Tepper School of Business","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7701381","end":"1982"},{"text":"Peabody High School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15265769"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459538#P69"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"honorary doctor of Carnegie-Mellon University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54107107"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459538#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tepper","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459538"],"faq":[{"q":"When was David Tepper born?","a":"David Tepper was born on 11 September 1957 in Pittsburgh."},{"q":"Where did David Tepper study?","a":"David Tepper was educated at University of Pittsburgh, Tepper School of Business, Peabody High School."}],"related":[{"name":"Abigail Johnson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abigail-johnson"},{"name":"Alex Karp","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alex-karp"},{"name":"Alice Walton","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alice-walton"},{"name":"Arte Moreno","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arte-moreno"},{"name":"Arthur Blank","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arthur-blank"},{"name":"Baiju Bhatt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/baiju-bhatt"},{"name":"Barry Diller","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barry-diller"},{"name":"Ben Chestnut","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ben-chestnut"},{"name":"Bill Ackman","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-ackman"},{"name":"Bill Gates","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-gates"},{"name":"Bob Parsons","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bob-parsons"},{"name":"Bobby Murphy","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bobby-murphy"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/david-tepper-0c29d517f0.jpg","width":336,"height":292,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Appaloosa Management","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Tepper_01.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): David Tepper","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tepper","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q459538","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q459538","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: David Tepper 01.jpg by Appaloosa Management (CC BY-SA 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Tepper_01.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article David Tepper, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: David Tepper 01.jpg — Appaloosa Management, CC BY-SA 3.0.","cite":"\"David Tepper\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/david-tepper. Retrieved 14 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:28:20Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-13","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/david-tepper","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/david-tepper","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/david-tepper?lang=ne"}}