Mark Getty

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Mark Getty is a businessman. A member of a family which originally made its money from oil, he is the son of American-British billionaire philanthropist Sir Paul Getty. He began his career with spells at Kidder Peabody in New York and then joined Hambros Bank Limited in London. He co-founded the photographic agency Getty Images with Jonathan Klein in 1993. In 2003 he inherited his father's majority holding in the Wisden Group, which is a leading publishes of cricket books and magazines and owner of the leading cricket website cricinfo.

In 2004 Getty was reappointed as a trustee of the National Gallery in London. He is a regular member of the Sunday Times Rich List.

Mark Getty is the uncle of the actor Balthazar Getty.

Mark Getty is married to wife Domitilla Harding, and has three children Alexander, Joseph and Julius. They have homes in the Italian region of Tuscany and the Battersea district of London.