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Bernard Arnault & family

Bernard Arnault oversees the LVMH empire of 75 fashion and cosmetics brands, including Louis Vuitton and Sephora.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk cofounded six companies, including electric car maker Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX and tunneling startup Boring Company.

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his Seattle garage

Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison is chairman, chief technology officer and cofounder of software giant Oracle, of which he owns about 35%.

Warren Buffett

Known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates turned his fortune from software firm Microsoft into diversified holdings including investments in zero-carbon energy.

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg cofounded financial information and media company Bloomberg LP in 1981.

Carlos Slim Helu & family

Mexico’s richest person, Carlos Slim Helú and his family control América Móvil, Latin America’s biggest mobile telecom firm.

Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani chairs and runs $104 billion (revenue) Reliance Industries, which has interests in petrochemicals, oil and gas, telecom and retail.

Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer is the high-wattage former CEO of Microsoft, who led the company from 2000 to 2014.

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the granddaughter of the founder of L’Oreal, is the richest woman in the world.

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.

Amancio Ortega

Amancio Ortega of Spain is one of the wealthiest clothing retailers in the world.

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.

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.

Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg started Facebook at Harvard in 2004 at the age of 19 for students to match names with photos of classmates

Charles Koch

Charles Koch has been chairman and CEO of Koch industries, America’s second largest private company by revenue, since 1967

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.

Jim Walton

Jim Walton is the youngest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton.

Rob Walton

Rob Walton is the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton.

Alice Walton

Alice Walton is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton.

David Thomson & family

David Thomson and his family control a media and publishing empire founded by his grandfather Roy Thomson.

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.

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.

Phil Knight & family

Phil Knight, founder of shoe gaint Nike, retired as chairman in June 2016 after 52 years at the company.

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

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.

François Pinault & family

François Pinault is honorary chairman of luxury group Kering, which owns fashion brands Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen and Gucci.

Klaus-Michael Kuehne

Logistics magnate Klaus-Michael Kuehne is honorary chairman of Kuehne + Nagel International AG, based in ‎Schindellegi‎, Switzerland

Giovanni Ferrero

Giovanni Ferrero is executive chairman of his family’s namesake confections business, which posted $15 billion sales in 2022.

Jacqueline Mars

Jacqueline Mars owns an estimated one-third of Mars, the world’s largest candymaker, founded by her grandfather.

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.

Li Ka-shing

Nicknamed Superman, Li Ka-shing is revered as one of the most influential businessmen in Asia.

Ma Huateng

Ma Huateng (also known as Pony Ma) chairs Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings.

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.

Ken Griffin

Ken Griffin founded and runs Citadel, a Miami-based hedge fund firm that manages roughly $57 billion in assets.

Mark Mateschitz

Mark Mateschitz is the only child of the late Austrian billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz, who cofounded energy drink firm Red Bull in 1987.

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.

Tadashi Yanai & family

Tadashi Yanai built and runs Tokyo-listed retail clothing empire Fast Retailing, parent of the Uniqlo chain.

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

Alain Wertheimer

Alain Wertheimer is the chairman of Chanel, the French luxury brand.

Gerard Wertheimer

Gerard Wertheimer and his brother Alain own French luxury brand Chanel.

Gianluigi Aponte

Gianluigi Aponte and his wife Rafaela each own a 50% stake in MSC, the world’s largest shipping line.

Rafaela Aponte-Diamant

Rafaela Aponte-Diamant and her husband Gianluigi each own a 50% stake in MSC, the world’s largest shipping line.

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.

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

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.

Jeff Yass

Yass is a cofounder of Susquehanna International Group, one of Wall Street’s largest and most successful trading firms.

Jim Simons

Jim Simons is the founder of Renaissance Technologies, an esteemed quantitative trading hedge fund firm that manages about $50 billion.

Stephen Schwarzman

The son of a dry goods store owner, Stephen Schwarzman founded private equity firm Blackstone with fellow billionaire Peter Peterson in 1985.

Susanne Klatten

Susanne Klatten owns about 19% of automaker BMW; her brother, Stefan Quandt, owns nearly 24%.

Gina Rinehart

Australia’s richest citizen, Gina Rinehart built her wealth on iron ore

William Lei Ding

William Ding is the CEO of NetEase, one of the world’s largest online and mobile games businesses.

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.

Shiv Nadar

Indian IT pioneer Shiv Nadar cofounded HCL in a garage in 1976 to make calculators and microprocessors with five friends.

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.

Thomas Peterffy

A digital trading pioneer, Thomas Peterffy chairs Interactive Brokers, which markets its specialized trading platform to sophisticated investors.

Andrey Melnichenko & family

Industrialist Andrey Melnichenko is the founder of fertilizer producer Eurochem and coal energy company SUEK.

Stefan Quandt

Stefan Quandt owns 23.6% of automaker BMW; his sister, Susanne Klatten, the richest woman in Germany, owns 19.1%

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.

R. Budi Hartono

R. Budi Hartono and his brother, Michael (whose fortune is listed separately), are the second and third-richest in Indonesia

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.

Jack Ma

A former English teacher, Jack Ma cofounded Alibaba Group, now one of the world’s largest e-commerce businesses, in 1999.

He Xiangjian & family

Entrepreneur He Xiangjian built Midea Group into one of the world’s largest appliance makers.

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.

Michael Hartono

Michael “Bambang” Hartono is the second richest person in Indonesia, just after his brother R. Budi Hartono.

James Ratcliffe

Former chemical engineer James Ratcliffe is the founder, chairman and majority owner of chemical powerhouse Ineos Group.a

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).

Masayoshi Son

Masayoshi Son founded and runs mobile telecom and investment giant SoftBank Group.

Vladimir Lisin

Vladimir Lisin is chairman of NLMK Group, a leading manufacturer of steel products.

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.

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.

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