Gordon Peter Getty is an American businessman and classical music composer as well as a scion of the wealthy Getty family. Gordon was the fourth child of the oil tycoon, J. Paul Getty. His mother, Ann Rork, was J. Paul's fourth wife.
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| As of | Estimate | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $5.5B | Forbes · current |
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Actor
1983 · United States
Jonah Hill is an American actor and filmmaker. Hill ranked 28th on Forbes's list of highest-paid actors from June 2014 to June 2015, at $16 million. Among his accolades are nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Author
1948 · United Kingdom
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian novelist and academic of Yemeni origin. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution.
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Inventor
1890–1967 · Czechoslovakia
Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his invention of polarography.
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Politician
1841–1932 · France
Ferdinand Édouard Buisson was a French educational public servant, pacifist, and Radical-Socialist politician. He presided over the League of Education from 1902 to 1906 and over the Human Rights League (LDH) from 1914 to 1926.
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Athlete
1980 · United Kingdom
Ashley Cole is an English professional football coach and former player who was most recently the head coach of Serie B club Cesena. As a player, he played as a left-back, most notably for Arsenal and Chelsea.
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Founder · Proton · automotive
1925 · Malaysia
Mahathir bin Mohamad is a Malaysian politician, physician and author who served as the fourth and seventh prime minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and again from 2018 to 2020. He was the country's longest-serving prime minister, serving for a cumulative total of 24 years.
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