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Mansa Musa — Mali Empire gold king, often considered the richest person ever
Augustus Caesar — Controlled enormous portions of the Roman economy
Emperor Shenzong — Oversaw one of history’s richest economies
Akbar the Great — Ruled an empire generating huge global GDP share
John D. Rockefeller — Standard Oil founder and richest modern American (Wikipedia)
Andrew Carnegie — Steel empire titan
Jakob Fugger — Europe’s richest merchant banker
William the Conqueror — Controlled vast medieval lands
Mir Osman Ali Khan — One of the wealthiest monarchs ever
Cornelius Vanderbilt — Railroad and shipping empire builder
Henry Ford
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Bill Gates
Jeff Bezos
Elon Musk (Celebrity Net Worth)
Mark Zuckerberg
Larry Ellison
Sergey Brin
Larry Page
J.P. Morgan
Nicholas II
Genghis Khan
King Solomon
Warren Buffett
Rothschild Family
Muammar Gaddafi
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Suleiman the Magnificent
Louis XIV
Qianlong Emperor
Alexander the Great
Pablo Escobar
John Jacob Astor
Richard Mellon Scaife
Carlos Slim
Mukesh Ambani
Bernard Arnault
Steve Ballmer
Jensen Huang
Michael Dell
Roman Abramovich
George Soros
Sam Walton
Lakshmi Mittal
Howard Hughes
Rupert Murdoch
Romanov Family
Andrew Mellon
Leopold II
Catherine the Great
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jay Gould
Richard Branson
Oprah Winfrey
Kublai Khan
Alisher Usmanov
Ingvar Kamprad
Franรงoise Bettencourt Meyers
Amancio Ortega
Li Ka-shing
Henry VIII
Queen Victoria
Ivan the Terrible
Tamerlane
Wang Jianlin
Jack Ma
Harald Fairhair
Basil II
Cyrus the Great
Darius I
Nicolas Fouquet
Tim Cook
Steve Jobs
Johann Jakob Astor
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici
Cosimo de' Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici
Queen Elizabeth I
Philip II of Spain
Cecil Rhodes
Amanitore
Shah Jahan
Aurangzeb
Nero
Caligula
Hammurabi
Croesus
Sargon of Akkad
Charlemagne
Frederick the Great
Peter the Great
Andrew Jackson
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Saddam Hussein
Fidel Castro
Donald Trump
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Richard I
Many historians still debate the exact order because ancient rulers controlled entire economies rather than personal bank accounts. The two names most commonly placed at #1 are Mansa Musa and Augustus Caesar. (Wikipedia)

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