Top Five Wealthiest Historical Figures

Top Five Wealthiest Historical Figures

Name: John D. Rockefeller
Age at highest earnings: 74
Age at death: 97 (died May 23, 1937)
Net worth: US$329.9 billion
Original net worth: US$1 billion (September 29 1916) US$900.0 Million (1913–eve of WWI])Origin: United States Main source of wealth: Oil

Name: Andrew Carnegie
Age at highest earnings: 68
Age at death: 83 (died August 11, 1919)
Net worth: US$309.2 billion
Original net worth: US$479.9 Million (1901)
Origin: Scotland
Main source of wealth: U.S. Steel

Name: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov)
Age at highest earnings: 50 Age at death: 50 (died July 17, 1918)
Net worth: US$290.7 billion
Original net worth: >US$1.3 billion (1916)
Origin: Russian Empire
Company: Monarchy—the Emperor and Autocrat of the Russian Empire (from the House of Romanov)

Name: William Henry Vanderbilt
Age at highest earnings: 64
Age at death: 64 (died December 8, 1885)
Net worth: US$240.0 billion
Original net worth: US$194 Million (1885)
Origin: United States

Name: Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII
Age at highest earnings: 50 Age at death: 80 (died February 24, 1967)
Net worth: US$225.1 billion
Original net worth: US$1.4 billion (1937)
Origin: Hyderabad, India Company: Monarchy—Nizam of Hyderabad