Dave Ramsey Biography
Updated on June 11, 2024
Full Name: Dave Ramsey
Date of Birth: September 3, 1960
Place of Birth: Antioch, Tennessee
Citizenship: American
Education: University of Tennessee (BS)
Occupation: Personal finance consultant, radio show host, author, businessman
Family
Spouse: Sharon Ramsey
Children: 2
- Daniel Ramsey
- Denise Ramsey Whittemore
Dave Ramsey Biography:
- David Lawrence Ramsey is an American personal finance personality, radio show host, author, and businessman.
- Ramsey was born in Antioch, Tennessee to real estate developers. Ramsey attended Antioch High School where he played ice hockey. At age 18, Ramsey took the real estate examand began selling property, working through college at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
- Where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Real Estate
- He is an evangelical Christian, and hosts the nationally syndicated radio program The Ramsey Show.
- Ramsey experienced several years of financial recovery and began offering financial advice to couples at his local church.
- In 1988 he founded the Lampo Group, a financial counseling service, and in 1992 he wrote and self-published his first book, Financial Peace.
- Ramsey began as one of three alternating hosts of The Money Game on radio station WWTN/Nashville in 1992.
- Financial Peace University, Ramsey’s nine-lesson, $129.99 video-based personal finance course, debuted in 1994.
- Ramsey has written several books, including The New York Times bestseller The Total Money Makeover, and hosted a television show on Fox Business from 2007 to 2010.
( Last Updated : 15 July 2023)
