Can I Please Be This Rich?

John D. Rockefeller

Adjusted wealth*: $253 billion
Lived: 1839-1937

 

 

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Adjusted wealth*: $205 billion
Lived: 1794-1877

 

 

John Jacob Astor

Adjusted wealth*: $138 billion
Lived: 1763-1848

 

 

Stephen Girard

Adjusted wealth*: $120 billion
Lived: 1750-1831

 

 

Richard Mellon

Adjusted wealth*: $103 billion
Lived: 1858-1933

 

 

Andrew Carnegie

Adjusted wealth*: $101 billion (tie)
Lived: 1835-1919

 

 

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Adjusted wealth*: $101 billion (tie)
Lived: 1764-1839

 

 

Alexander Turney Stewart

Adjusted wealth*: $100 billion
Lived: 1803-1876

 

 

Frederick Weyerhäuser

Adjusted wealth*: $91.2 billion
Lived: 1834-1914

 

 

Jay Gould

Adjusted wealth*: $78.3 billion
Lived: 1836-1892

 

 And guess what, they're all men who weren't considered very nice. I see a theme?