Allan Gray

Allan Gray is a name that may refer to:

Allan Gray (investor)

Allan WB Gray is a South African business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is best known as the one of the richest men in Africa and founder of Allan Gray Investment Management as well as the non-profit Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and the Allan and Gill Gray Charitable Trust. Before he donated his stake in Allan Gray Investment Management his net worth was estimated to have been US$10.5 billion (105 billion South African Rand) in 2013.

Early life

He was born in the South African city of East London in 1938. After high school he studied accounting at Rhodes University and went on to obtain a Masters Degree at the Harvard Business School.

Professional life

After graduating from Harvard Gray started working for the financial firm Fidelity Management and Research in the city of Boston, United States where he stayed for eight years. He returned to South Africa in 1973 to found what would become Allan Gray Investment Management in Cape Town. The company initially focused on investment counselling, later growing to include institutional clients. He then set up the Orbis Group in 1989 in London to focus on investing in the internal markets. Two years later the company was moved to Bermuda. By 2015 his company was managing over $40 billion in assets. The return on investment from Allan Gray and Orbis since its founding is comparable in success to Warren Buffett's firm Berkshire Hathaway.

Allan Gray (composer)

Józef Żmigrod (February 23, 1902 – September 10, 1973), better known by his stage name, Allan Gray, was a Polish composer, best known for his film scores.

Early life and education

Gray was born Józef Żmigrod in Tarnów, Austria-Hungary, in present-day Poland. He studied under the renowned Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg during the 1920s, and later wrote music for Max Reinhardt's theatre productions. As Schoenberg disapproved of such music, Żmigrod took up the stage name Allan Gray, naming himself after Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray.

Career

Gray began writing film scores in the Weimar Republic, but left the country after the rise of Nazi Germany, moving to the United Kingdom and settling down in England. Establishing himself in the British film industry, he composed for London Films and other major studios before joining Powell and Pressburger for many of their films including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) and A Matter of Life and Death (1946).