# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-little
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:37:43.556Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-little"
name: "Jacob Little"
slug: "jacob-little"
description: "Jacob Little was an early 19th-century Wall Street investor and the first and one of the greatest speculators in the history of the stock market, known at the time as the \"Great Bear of Wall Street\". Little was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and moved to New York City in 1817, first clerking for Jacob Barker; he then opened his own establishment in 1822, and finally his own brokerage in 1834. A market pessimist, Little made his wealth \"bearing stocks\", at turns short selling various companies and at others cornering markets to extract profits from other short sellers. Through his great financial foresight Little amassed an enormous fortune, becoming one of the richest men in America and one of the leading financiers on Wall Street in the 1830s and 1840s, but his speculative activities irritated his peers and earned him few admirers. Little lost and remade his legendary fortune multiple times before losing it for good in 1857; although a great many owed him enormous debts, he was a generous creditor and never collected them, and at his deathbed in 1865 Little was penniless. Although well-known on the stock market in his time, he was quickly forgotten after his death, and today has been relegated to relative obscurity."
tagline: "American investor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacob_Little.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1794-03-17"
deathDate: "1865-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.82
  momentum:             26.28378378378378
  historical:           5.012024
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%84"
    title: "جاكوب ليتل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Little"
    title: "Jacob Little"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Little"
    title: "Jacob Little"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%9C%EC%9D%B4%EC%BB%B5_%EB%A6%AC%ED%8B%80"
    title: "제이컵 리틀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Little"
    title: "Jacob Little"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6118945"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump