12 Names of Famous People Depicted On US Paper Money

Paper Money Notes are beautiful works of art usually depicting famous people, animals or objects. Some collectors are known to concentrate their paper money collections on boats, birds or a famous personality eg Queen Victoria or Queen Elizabeth 1.

Here are a list of 12 famous people depicted on US currency

100000 dollar note depicts Woodrow Wilson.
10000 dollar note depicts Salmon P. Chase;
5000 dollar note depicts James Madison;
1000 dollar note depicts Grover Cleveland;
500 dollar note depicts William McKinley;
100 dollar note depicts Benjamin Franklin;
50 dollar note depicts Ulysses S. Grant;
20 dollar note depicts Andrew Jackson;
10 dollar note depicts Alexander Hamilton;
5 dollar note depicts Abraham Lincoln;
2 dollar note depicts Thomas Jefferson;
1 dollar note depicts George Washington;

Eleven of these 12 men were known as the "Dead Presidents" and became the standard portraiture on the US Currency notes by the early 20th Century.