On a serious note, Mike Burry M.D.
Christian Bale played him in The Big Short movie.
His fund, Scion Capital, returned over 400% since early 2000s (inception) until 2008. It was closed after that before opening again.
(source: MSN article he wrote when he was probably still a doctor: http://csinvesting.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Michael-Burry-Case-Studies.pdf)
Here is a collection of letters he wrote at Scion Capital—after leaving the doctor job—until the subprime market crashed (he shorted it with CDS… by creating a CDS market for subprime bonds):
(Found them by googling:
https://www.valuewalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Scion-Capital-Letters.pdf
Scion Capital Letters.pdf - Google Drive )
And he is back in the game: