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Hetty Green

1834 - 1916

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Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 – July 3, 1916) was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. Those who knew her well referred to her admiringly as the "Queen of Wall Street" due to her willingness to lend freely and at reasonable interest rates to financiers and city governments during financial panics. Her extraordinary discipline during such times enabled her to amass a fortune as a financier at a time when nearly all major financiers were men. As a highly successful investor, with a Wall Street office, she was unusual for being a woman in a man's world. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hetty Green is the 194th most popular businessperson (up from 278th in 2019), the 2,290th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,089th in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Hetty Green ranks 194 out of 847. Before her are Henry Ford II, Torakusu Yamaha, François-Henri Pinault, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, and Fusajiro Yamauchi. After her are Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, Ben Bradlee, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, Thomas J. Watson, Fredrik Idestam, and Lee Iacocca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Hetty Green ranks 23. Before her are Charles Spurgeon, Aleksis Kivi, Johann Philipp Reis, Norodom of Cambodia, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, and Kondō Isami. After her are Kawakami Gensai, Gaston Planté, Julia Pastrana, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, and Heinrich von Treitschke. Among people deceased in 1916, Hetty Green ranks 53. Before her are Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Vasily Surikov, Thibaw Min, Torakusu Yamaha, Antonio Sant'Elia, and Joseph Gallieni. After her are Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Fredrik Idestam, Ōyama Iwao, Thomas Eakins, Max Immelmann, and Paolo Tosti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hetty Green ranks 2,290 out of 20,380. Before her are Johnny Ramone (1948), Steve Vai (1960), Sojourner Truth (1797), Elmer Bernstein (1922), Stanley Donen (1924), and Solomon Northup (1808). After her are John Ratcliffe (1965), Joseph Augustus Zarelli (1953), Lucille Ball (1911), Robert Grant Aitken (1864), Ernie Hudson (1945), and Jerry West (1938).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Hetty Green ranks 69. Before her are Phil Knight (1938), Bernard Baruch (1870), Sheldon Adelson (1933), Walter Chrysler (1875), Lady Bird Johnson (1912), and Henry Ford II (1917). After her are Ben Bradlee (1921), Thomas J. Watson (1874), Lee Iacocca (1924), Roy Raymond (1947), Robert Trump (1948), and Ted Turner (1938).

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