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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hetty Green has received more than 1,371,860 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Hetty Green is the 278th most popular businessperson (down from 219th in 2019), the 3,089th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,449th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Businessperson.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Hetty Green ranks 278 out of 847. Before her are Robert Nobel, Theo Albrecht, Friedrich Bayer, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, Herbert Hainer, and Melinda Gates. After her are Arkady Rotenberg, Leonardo Del Vecchio, Mino Raiola, Alfred P. Sloan, Erin Brockovich, and Joseph Oller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Hetty Green ranks 34. Before her are Gustav Nachtigal, Viktor Hartmann, Lev Ivanov, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Samuel Pierpont Langley, and José Hernández. After her are Ludovic Halévy, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria, Infanta Amalia of Spain, Ewald Hering, and Hugo Schiff. Among people deceased in 1916, Hetty Green ranks 76. Before her are Huang Xing, Ferdinand Fellner, Patrick Pearse, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Karl von Stürgkh, and Fergus Suter. After her are Higaonna Kanryō, Cai E, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ota Benga, and Artúr Görgei.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hetty Green ranks 3,089 out of 20,380. Before her are Brad Dexter (1917), Juliette Lewis (1973), Patricia Krenwinkel (1947), Craig Venter (1946), Stephen Kovacevich (1940), and Mary L. Cleave (1947). After her are Gordon Mitchell (1923), Ahmad Jamal (1930), Althea Gibson (1927), Dita Von Teese (1972), Sam Giancana (1908), and Mitch Pileggi (1952).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Hetty Green ranks 88. Before her are Charles Koch (1935), King C. Gillette (1855), Ivy Lee (1877), Bob Iger (1951), Jack Welch (1935), and Melinda Gates (1964). After her are Alfred P. Sloan (1875), Erin Brockovich (1960), John DeLorean (1925), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Paul Castellano (1915), and Amadeo Giannini (1870).

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