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Bernard Arnault & family
Bernard Arnault oversees the LVMH empire of 75 fashion and cosmetics brands, including Louis Vuitton and Sephora.
Networth
Country
Source
$211 B
France
LVMH
Elon Musk
Elon Musk cofounded six companies, including electric car maker Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX and tunneling startup Boring Company.
Networth
Country
Source
$180 B
us
space x/Tesla
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his Seattle garage
Networth
Country
Source
$114 B
Us
Amazon
Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison is chairman, chief technology officer and cofounder of software giant Oracle, of which he owns about 35%.
Networth
Country
Source
$107 B
US
Oracle
Warren Buffett
Known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time.
Networth
Country
Source
$106 B
US
Berkshire Hathaway
Bill Gates
Bill Gates turned his fortune from software firm Microsoft into diversified holdings including investments in zero-carbon energy.
Networth
Country
Source
$104 B
US
Microsoft
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg cofounded financial information and media company Bloomberg LP in 1981.
Networth
Country
Source
$94 B
Us
Bloomberg LP
Carlos Slim Helu & family
Mexico’s richest person, Carlos Slim Helú and his family control América Móvil, Latin America’s biggest mobile telecom firm.
Networth
Country
Source
$93 B
Mexico
Telecom
Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani chairs and runs $104 billion (revenue) Reliance Industries, which has interests in petrochemicals, oil and gas, telecom and retail.
Networth
Country
Source
$83.4 B
India
Diversified
Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer is the high-wattage former CEO of Microsoft, who led the company from 2000 to 2014.
Networth
Country
Source
$80.7 B
US
Microsoft
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the granddaughter of the founder of L’Oreal, is the richest woman in the world.
Networth
Country
Source
$80.5 B
France
L'Oréal
Larry Page
Larry Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, in 2019 but remains a board member and a controlling shareholder.
Networth
Country
Source
$79.2 B
US
GOOGLE
Amancio Ortega
Amancio Ortega of Spain is one of the wealthiest clothing retailers in the world.
Networth
Country
Source
$77.3 B
Spain
ZARA
Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin stepped down as president of Alphabet, parent company of Google, in December 2019 but remains a board member and a controlling shareholder.
Networth
Country
Source
$76 B
US
GOOGLE
Zhong Shanshan
Zhong Shanshan is founder and chairman of Nongfu Spring, a bottled water company that listed its shares in Hong Kong in September 2020.
Networth
Country
Source
$68 B
China
Beverages, pharmaceuticals
Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg started Facebook at Harvard in 2004 at the age of 19 for students to match names with photos of classmates
Networth
Country
Source
$64.4 B
US
Facebook
Charles Koch
Charles Koch has been chairman and CEO of Koch industries, America’s second largest private company by revenue, since 1967
Networth
Country
Source
$59 B
US
Koch Industries
Julia Koch & family
Julia Koch and her three children inherited a 42% stake in Koch Industries from her husband, David, who died in August 2019 at age 79.
Networth
Country
Source
$59 B
US
Koch Industries
Jim Walton
Jim Walton is the youngest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
Networth
Country
Source
$58.8 B
US
Walmart
Rob Walton
Rob Walton is the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
Networth
Country
Source
$57.7 B
US
Walmart
Alice Walton
Alice Walton is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
Networth
Country
Source
$57.7 B
Us
Walmart
David Thomson & family
David Thomson and his family control a media and publishing empire founded by his grandfather Roy Thomson.
Networth
Country
Source
$54.4 B
Canada
Media
Michael Dell
Michael Dell is the chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, which was formed in 2016 when Dell merged with computer storage giant EMC.
Networth
Country
Source
$50.1 B
US
Dell Technology
Gautam Adani
Gautam Adani is chairman of the $32 billion (revenue) Adani Group, with interests in ports, airports, power generation and transmission, and green energy, among others.
Networth
Country
Source
$47.2 B
India
Infrastructure, commodities
Phil Knight & family
Phil Knight, founder of shoe gaint Nike, retired as chairman in June 2016 after 52 years at the company.
Networth
Country
Source
$45.1 B
US
Nike
Zhang Yiming
Zhang Yiming is the main founder of Chinese tech giant ByteDance, best known for its insanely popular app TikTok, which has more than 1 billion users worldwide
Networth
Country
Source
$45 B
China
TIKTOK
Dieter Schwarz
Dieter Schwarz’s Schwarz Group, with revenue of over $140 billion, is comprised of the Kaufland and Lidl (rhymes with needle) discount supermarkets.
Networth
Country
Source
$42.9 B
Germany
Retail
François Pinault & family
François Pinault is honorary chairman of luxury group Kering, which owns fashion brands Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen and Gucci.
Networth
Country
Source
$40.1 B
FRANCE
Luxury goods
Klaus-Michael Kuehne
Logistics magnate Klaus-Michael Kuehne is honorary chairman of Kuehne + Nagel International AG, based in Schindellegi, Switzerland
Networth
Country
Source
$39.1 B
GERMANY
Shipping
Giovanni Ferrero
Giovanni Ferrero is executive chairman of his family’s namesake confections business, which posted $15 billion sales in 2022.
Networth
Country
Source
$39.9 B
ITALY
Nutella, chocolates
Jacqueline Mars
Jacqueline Mars owns an estimated one-third of Mars, the world’s largest candymaker, founded by her grandfather.
Networth
Country
Source
$38.3 B
us
Candy, pet food
John Mars
John and his siblings Jacqueline and Forrest Jr. (died July 2016) inherited stakes in the candy firm Mars when their father died in 1999.
Networth
Country
Source
$38.3 B
US
candy,Pet Food
Li Ka-shing
Nicknamed Superman, Li Ka-shing is revered as one of the most influential businessmen in Asia.
Networth
Country
Source
$38 B
Hong KONG
Diversified
Ma Huateng
Ma Huateng (also known as Pony Ma) chairs Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings.
Networth
Country
Source
$35.3 B
China
internet Media
Miriam Adelson & family
Miriam Adelson is the widow of Sheldon Adelson, the former CEO and chairman of casino company Las Vegas Sands, who died at 87 in 2021.
Networth
Country
Source
$35 B
us
Casinos
Ken Griffin
Ken Griffin founded and runs Citadel, a Miami-based hedge fund firm that manages roughly $57 billion in assets.
Networth
Country
Source
$35 B
US
Hedge funds
Mark Mateschitz
Mark Mateschitz is the only child of the late Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, who cofounded energy drink firm Red Bull in 1987.
Networth
Country
Source
$34.7 B
Austria
RED BULL
Robin Zeng
Robin Zeng is the founder and chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), one of the world’s largest suppliers of batteries for electric vehicles.
Networth
Country
Source
$34.4 B
Hong Kong
Batteries
Tadashi Yanai & family
Tadashi Yanai built and runs Tokyo-listed retail clothing empire Fast Retailing, parent of the Uniqlo chain.
Networth
Country
Source
$32.6 B
Japan
Fashion retail
Len Blavatnik
Born in Ukraine, raised north of Moscow, Len Blavatnik immigrated to the U.S. in 1978 with his family; he studied computer science at Columbia University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School
Networth
Country
Source
$32.1 B
US
Music, chemicals
Alain Wertheimer
Alain Wertheimer is the chairman of Chanel, the French luxury brand.
Networth
Country
Source
$31.6 B
FRANCE
CHANNAL
Gerard Wertheimer
Gerard Wertheimer and his brother Alain own French luxury brand Chanel.
Networth
Country
Source
$31.6 B
FRANCE
CHANNAL
Gianluigi Aponte
Gianluigi Aponte and his wife Rafaela each own a 50% stake in MSC, the world’s largest shipping line.
Networth
Country
Source
$31.2 B
Switezland
Shipping
Rafaela Aponte-Diamant
Rafaela Aponte-Diamant and her husband Gianluigi each own a 50% stake in MSC, the world’s largest shipping line.
Networth
Country
Source
$31.2 B
Switzerland
Shipping
Colin Zheng Huang
Colin Huang is the founder of PDD Holdings, the Chinese e-commerce company that changed its name from Pinduoduo in February 2023.
Networth
Country
Source
$30.2 B
CHINA
E-Commerce
Reinhold Wuerth & family
Reinhold Wuerth entered his father’s wholesale screw business in 1949, at age 14, as the company’s second employee and first apprentice
Networth
Country
Source
$29.7 B
germany
Fasteners
Lee Shau Kee
Lee Shau Kee cofounded property developer Sun Hung Kai with Kwok Tak-Seng, the late father of Hong Kong’s billionaire Kwok brothers.
Networth
Country
Source
$29.5 B
HONG KONG
Real Estate
Jeff Yass
Yass is a cofounder of Susquehanna International Group, one of Wall Street’s largest and most successful trading firms.
Networth
Country
Source
$28.5 B
Us
trading,investment
Jim Simons
Jim Simons is the founder of Renaissance Technologies, an esteemed quantitative trading hedge fund firm that manages about $50 billion.
Networth
Country
Source
$28.1 B
Us
Hedge funds
Stephen Schwarzman
The son of a dry goods store owner, Stephen Schwarzman founded private equity firm Blackstone with fellow billionaire Peter Peterson in 1985.
Networth
Country
Source
$27.8 B
Us
Investment
Susanne Klatten
Susanne Klatten owns about 19% of automaker BMW; her brother, Stefan Quandt, owns nearly 24%.
Networth
Country
Source
27.4 B
Germany
BMW, pharmaceuticals
Gina Rinehart
Australia’s richest citizen, Gina Rinehart built her wealth on iron ore
Networth
Country
Source
$27 B
Australia
Mining
William Lei Ding
William Ding is the CEO of NetEase, one of the world’s largest online and mobile games businesses.
Networth
Country
Source
$26.7 B
China
Online Game
Germán Larrea Mota Velasco & family
Germán Larrea Mota Velasco owns the majority of Mexico’s largest copper mining company, Grupo México, which also has operations in Perú and the U.S.
Networth
Country
Source
$26.6 B
Mexico
Mining
Shiv Nadar
Indian IT pioneer Shiv Nadar cofounded HCL in a garage in 1976 to make calculators and microprocessors with five friends.
Networth
Country
Source
$25.6 B
India
Software Service
Low Tuck Kwong
Known as the coal king, Singapore-born Low Tuck Kwong is the founder of Bayan Resources, a coal mining company in Indonesia.
Networth
Country
Source
$25.5 B
Indonesia
Coal
Thomas Peterffy
A digital trading pioneer, Thomas Peterffy chairs Interactive Brokers, which markets its specialized trading platform to sophisticated investors.
Networth
Country
Source
$25.3 B
US
Discount brokerage
Andrey Melnichenko & family
Industrialist Andrey Melnichenko is the founder of fertilizer producer Eurochem and coal energy company SUEK.
Networth
Country
Source
$25.2 B
Russia
Fertilizers, coal
Stefan Quandt
Stefan Quandt owns 23.6% of automaker BMW; his sister, Susanne Klatten, the richest woman in Germany, owns 19.1%
Networth
Country
Source
$24.6 B
Germany
BMW
MacKenzie Scott
MacKenzie Scott is a philanthropist, author and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to whom she was married for 25 years. As part of their 2019 divorce, she received a 4% stake in the online retailer.
Networth
Country
Source
$24.2 B
us
Amazon
R. Budi Hartono
R. Budi Hartono and his brother, Michael (whose fortune is listed separately), are the second and third-richest in Indonesia
Networth
Country
Source
$24.2 B
Indonesua
Banking, tobacco
Vladimir Potanin
Vladimir Potanin acquired a stake in Norilsk Nickel during Russia’s privatization in 1995; today he owns just over a third of the company.
Networth
Country
Source
$23.7 B
Russia
Metals
Jack Ma
A former English teacher, Jack Ma cofounded Alibaba Group, now one of the world’s largest e-commerce businesses, in 1999.
Networth
Country
Source
$23.5 B
china
E-Commerce
He Xiangjian & family
Entrepreneur He Xiangjian built Midea Group into one of the world’s largest appliance makers.
Networth
Country
Source
$23.4 B
China
Home appliances
Iris Fontbona & family
Iris Fontbona is the widow of Andrónico Luksic, who built a fortune in mining and beverages before dying of cancer in 2005.
Networth
Country
Source
$23.1 B
Chile
Mining
Michael Hartono
Michael “Bambang” Hartono is the second richest person in Indonesia, just after his brother R. Budi Hartono.
Networth
Country
Source
$23.1 B
Indonesia
Banking, tobacco
James Ratcliffe
Former chemical engineer James Ratcliffe is the founder, chairman and majority owner of chemical powerhouse Ineos Group.a
Networth
Country
Source
$22.9 B
UK
Chemicals
Cyrus Poonawalla
Son of a horse breeder, Cyrus Poonawalla founded Serum Institute of India in 1966 and built it into the world’s largest vaccine maker (by doses).
Networth
Country
Source
$22.6 B
India
Vaccines
Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son founded and runs mobile telecom and investment giant SoftBank Group.
Networth
Country
Source
$22.4 B
Japan
Internet, telecom
Vladimir Lisin
Vladimir Lisin is chairman of NLMK Group, a leading manufacturer of steel products.
Networth
Country
Source
$22.1 B
Russia
Steel, transport
Emmanuel Besnier
Emmanuel Besnier is the CEO and controlling shareholder of family-held Lactalis, one of the world’s largest dairy firms with $20 billion in sales.
Networth
Country
Source
$22 B
France
Cheese
Abigail Johnson
Abigail Johnson has served as CEO of Fidelity Investments since 2014, when she took over for her father, and has been chairman since 2016.
Networth
Country
Source
$21.6 B
us
Fidelity
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