The richest person in the world in every decade from 1820 to 2020
Daniel Coughlin
04 November 2024
Most-moneyed people in the world in the past two centuries
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1820s: Stephen Girard
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1830s: Nathan Mayer Rothschild
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1840s: John Jacob Astor
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1850s: Cornelius Vanderbilt
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1860s: Cornelius Vanderbilt
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1870s: Cornelius Vanderbilt
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1880s: William Henry Vanderbilt
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1890s: John D. Rockefeller
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1900s: Andrew Carnegie
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1910s: John D. Rockefeller
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1920s: John D. Rockefeller
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1930s: John D. Rockefeller
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1940s: Henry Ford
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1950s: J. Paul Getty
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1960s: J. Paul Getty
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1970s: J. Paul Getty
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1980s: Yoshiaki Tsutsumi
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1990s: Bill Gates
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2000s: Warren Buffett
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2010s: Jeff Bezos
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2020s: Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk?
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