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Joseph Safra
Brazilian banker
1938 – 2020aged 82
A Lebanese-born banker who built the Safra Group into one of the largest privately held banking empires in the world, chairing Banco Safra in São Paulo and Safra National Bank of New York. Under his leadership the family business, rooted in a banking tradition going back generations in the Ottoman Levant, grew into Brazil's dominant private bank, making him the country's richest man by the time of his death in 2020.