The Rockefeller family () is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes.
The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by John D.
Rockefeller and his brother William Rockefeller, primarily through Standard Oil.
The family has had a long association with, and control of, Chase Manhattan Bank.
As of 1977 the Rockefellers were considered one of the most powerful families, if not the most powerful family, in the history of the United States.
The Rockefeller family originated in Rhineland in Germany and family members moved to the New World in the early 18th century, while through Eliza Davison, John D.
Rockefeller and William Rockefeller Jr.
and their descendants are also of Scotch-Irish ancestry.