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1 | Elon Musk | 50 | 219,000 | Automotive | Tesla, SpaceX | United States | Texas | Austin | Tesla | true | M | 1971-06-28T00:00:00 | CEO | 1 | Elon Musk is working to revolutionize transportation both on Earth, through electric car maker Tesla -- and in space, via rocket producer SpaceX.
He owns 21% of Tesla but has pledged more than half his stake as collateral for loans; Forbes has discounted his stake to take the loans into account.
A regulatory filing in ... | Musk was accepted to a graduate program at Stanford, but deferred attendance to launch his first business, software company Zip2.
As a kid Musk taught himself to code; he sold his first game, Blastar, for about $500. |
2 | Jeff Bezos | 58 | 171,000 | Technology | Amazon | United States | Washington | Seattle | Amazon | true | M | 1964-01-12T00:00:00 | Entrepreneur | 1 | Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. He stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman in July 2021.
Bezos sold $8.8 billion worth of his Amazon stock in 2021 and also gave some shares away; he now owns a bit less than 10% of the company.
Amazon faced criticism from U.S. s... | Growing up, Jeff Bezos worked summers on his grandfather's ranch repairing Caterpillar tractors.
Bezos met Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 and managed to become one of the company's first angel investors, putting in an estimated $250,000. |
3 | Bernard Arnault & family | 73 | 158,000 | Fashion & Retail | LVMH | France | null | Paris | LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton | false | M | 1949-03-05T00:00:00 | Chairman and CEO | null | Bernard Arnault oversees the LVMH empire of some 70 fashion and cosmetics brands, including Louis Vuitton and Sephora.
In January 2021, LVMH acquired American jeweler Tiffany & Co for $15.8 billion, believed to be the biggest luxury brand acquisition ever.
LVMH spent $3.2 billion in 2019 for luxury hospitality group Be... | Arnault apparently wooed his wife, Helene Mercier, a concert pianist, by playing Chopin and other classical composers on the piano.
Every Saturday, Arnault visits as many as 25 stores -- including both his and those of his competitors. |
4 | Bill Gates | 66 | 129,000 | Technology | Microsoft | United States | Washington | Medina | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | true | M | 1955-10-28T00:00:00 | Cofounder | 4 | Bill Gates turned his fortune from software firm Microsoft into a diversified fortune including investments zero-carbon energy.
In May 2021, Bill and Melinda each announced on Twitter they were ending their marriage after 27 years. They still co-chair the charitable Gates Foundation.
Gates, who cofounded Microsoft with... | When Gates was a kid, he spent so much time reading that his parents finally forbade him from bringing books to the dinner table.
Gates took a break from classes his senior year in high school to do programming with his friend Paul Allen at a power plant in North Bonneville, Washington. |
5 | Warren Buffett | 91 | 118,000 | Finance & Investments | Berkshire Hathaway | United States | Nebraska | Omaha | Berkshire Hathaway | true | M | 1930-08-30T00:00:00 | CEO | 5 | Known as the "Oracle of Omaha," Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time.
Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway, which owns more than 60 companies, including insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and restaurant chain Dairy Queen.
The son of a U.S. congressman, he first bought stock at age 11 and fir... | Buffett still lives in the same Omaha, Nebraska, home he purchased in 1958 for $31,500.
Buffett was rejected from Harvard Business School; he got a master's in economics from Columbia University instead. |
6 | Larry Page | 49 | 111,000 | Technology | Google | United States | California | Palo Alto | Alphabet | true | M | 1973-03-26T00:00:00 | Entrepreneur | 1 | Larry Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet, the parent of Google, in December 2019 but remains a board member and a controlling shareholder.
He cofounded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford Ph.D. student Sergey Brin.
With Brin, Page invented Google's PageRank algorithm, which powers the search engine.
Page was CEO unti... | Page has avoided public appearances since Sundar Pichai became Google's CEO, including Alphabet's 2019 shareholders meeting -- much to investors' chagrin.
Page is a clean energy advocate; his Palo Alto home uses fuel cells and geothermal energy. |
7 | Sergey Brin | 48 | 107,000 | Technology | Google | United States | California | Los Altos | Alphabet | true | M | 1973-08-21T00:00:00 | Cofounder and board member | 1 | Sergey Brin stepped down as president of Alphabet, parent company of Google, in December 2019 but remains a controller shareholder and a board member.
He cofounded Google with Larry Page in 1998 after the two met at Stanford University while studying for advanced degrees in computer science.
Google went public in 2004 ... | The richest immigrant in America, Brin has been an outspoken critic of Trump's immigration ban.
Brin moved to the U.S. from Russia when he was 6 years old in the wake of anti-Semitism against his family. |
8 | Larry Ellison | 77 | 106,000 | Technology | software | United States | Hawaii | Lanai | Oracle | true | M | 1944-08-17T00:00:00 | CTO and Founder | 1 | Larry Ellison is chairman, chief technology officer and cofounder of software giant Oracle, of which he owns about 35%.
He gave up the Oracle CEO role in 2014 after 37 years at the helm.
Oracle has grown in part through steady acquisitions of software companies, the biggest of which was $9.3 billion for NetSuite in 201... | Ellison never finished college. He started out building databases for the CIA.
Daughter Megan has financed films such as Zero Dark Thirty and American Hustle; son David produced mainstream movies like The Terminator and Mission: Impossible. |
9 | Steve Ballmer | 66 | 91,400 | Technology | Microsoft | United States | Washington | Hunts Point | Los Angeles Clippers | true | M | 1956-03-24T00:00:00 | Owner | 2 | Steve Ballmer is the high-wattage former CEO of Microsoft, who led the company from 2000 to 2014.
He joined Microsoft in 1980 as employee No. 30 after dropping out of Stanford's MBA program.
Ballmer oversaw Microsoft after the first dot-com crash and through efforts to catch up to Google in search capabilities and Appl... | Ballmer and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates were classmates at Harvard.
Ballmer created a website called USAFacts.org for people to look up and understand where the government is spending money. |
10 | Mukesh Ambani | 64 | 90,700 | Diversified | diversified | India | null | Mumbai | Reliance Industries | false | M | 1957-04-19T00:00:00 | Founder and Chairman | null | Mukesh Ambani chairs and runs $74 billion (revenue) Reliance Industries, which has interests in petrochemicals, oil and gas, telecom and retail.
Reliance was founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani, a yarn trader, in 1966 as a small textile manufacturer.
After his father's death in 2002, Ambani and his younger sibl... | During the Covid-19 lockdown, Ambani raised more than $20 billion selling a third of Jio to a string of investors, such as Facebook and Google.
Reliance owns Network18, a licensee of Forbes Media.
Ambani's U.S.-educated daughter Isha's marriage to fellow billionaire Ajay Piramal's son in December 2018 drew 10,000 guest... |
11 | Gautam Adani & family | 59 | 90,000 | Diversified | infrastructure, commodities | India | null | Ahmedabad | null | true | M | 1962-06-24T00:00:00 | null | null | Infrastructure tycoon Gautam Adani controls Mundra Port, India's largest, in his home state of Gujarat.
His $13 billion (revenue) Adani Group's interests span infrastructure, commodities, power generation and transmission and real estate.
Adani owns Abbot Point, a controversial coal mining project in Australia, whose C... | Adani is a college dropout, who spurned his father's textile shop to set up a commodities export firm in 1988.
Adani survived the terrorist attack in Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in 2008.
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12 | Michael Bloomberg | 80 | 82,000 | Media & Entertainment | Bloomberg LP | United States | New York | New York | Bloomberg L.P. | true | M | 1942-02-14T00:00:00 | CEO | 4 | Michael Bloomberg cofounded financial information and media company Bloomberg LP in 1981.
He put in the seed funding for the company and now owns 88% of the business, which has revenues north of $10 billion.
Bloomberg got his start on Wall Street in 1966 with an entry level job at investment bank Salomon Brothers. He w... | In November 2018, Bloomberg pledged $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University, his undergraduate alma mater, adding to $1.5 billion he had already given the school.
As a teenager, Bloomberg worked at an electronics company in Cambridge, MA. |
13 | Carlos Slim Helu & family | 82 | 81,200 | Telecom | telecom | Mexico | null | Mexico City | América Móvil | true | M | 1940-01-28T00:00:00 | Honorary Chairman | null | Mexico's richest man, Carlos Slim Helu and his family control América Móvil, Latin America's biggest mobile telecom firm.
With foreign telecom partners, Slim bought a stake in Telmex, Mexico's only phone company, in 1990. Telmex is now part of América Móvil.
He also owns stakes in Mexican construction, consumer goods, ... | Every Sunday his father would give Carlos a 5-peso allowance, requiring him to record his purchases in a ledger.
Before going into business, Slim taught algebra at UNAM, a university in Mexico City. |
14 | Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family | 68 | 74,800 | Fashion & Retail | L'Oréal | France | null | Paris | null | false | F | 1953-07-10T00:00:00 | null | null | Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the granddaughter of the founder of L'Oreal, is the richest woman in the world.
Bettencourt Meyers and her family own around 33% of L'Oreal stock.
She has served on L'Oreal's board since 1997 and is chairwoman of the family holding company.
She became France's reigning L'Oreal heiress in ... | Bettencourt Meyers' inheritance was the subject of a sensational trial in France, in which a man was convicted of manipulating her ailing mother for her fortune.
Bettencourt Meyers is also a writer and has authored a book on the Greek gods and another with commentary on the Bible. |
15 | Mark Zuckerberg | 37 | 67,300 | Technology | Facebook | United States | California | Palo Alto | Meta Platforms | true | M | 1984-05-14T00:00:00 | Cofounder | 2 | Facebook, the social network Zuckerberg runs, has been an information hub during the pandemic, but has come under scrutiny for spreading vaccine misinformation.
In June 2021, a judge dismissed antitrust cases brought by states and the federal government, which could have forced Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsA... | Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are spending $3 billion in an attempt to end, cure or manage all disease by the year 2100.
In January 2019, Mark Zuckerberg purchased $59 million worth of waterfront property on Lake Tahoe in California. |
16 | Jim Walton | 73 | 66,200 | Fashion & Retail | Walmart | United States | Arkansas | Bentonville | Arvest Bank Group, Inc. | false | M | 1948-06-07T00:00:00 | Chairman and CEO | 1 | Jim Walton is the youngest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
He is chairman of the family's Arvest Bank, which today boasts assets of more than $20 billion.
Jim sat on Walmart's board for more than a decade before yielding the seat to his son, Steuart, in June 2016.
Collectively, he and other heirs of Sam Walton own a... | Jim Walton donated $1.2 billion in stock to the family foundation in June 2019.
Jim majored in business administration at the University of Arkansas. |
17 | Zhong Shanshan | 67 | 65,700 | Food & Beverage | beverages, pharmaceuticals | China | null | Hangzhou | null | true | M | 1954-12-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Zhong Shanshan chairs Nongfu Spring, a bottled water company, which listed its shares in Hong Kong in September 2020.
Hangzhou-born Zhong dropped out of elementary school during China's chaotic Cultural Revolution.
He later had jobs as a construction worker, a newspaper reporter and a beverage sales agent before starti... | null |
18 | Alice Walton | 72 | 65,300 | Fashion & Retail | Walmart | United States | Texas | Fort Worth | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | false | F | 1949-10-07T00:00:00 | Philanthropist | 2 | Alice Walton is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
She has focused on curating art, rather than working for Walmart like her siblings, Rob and Jim.
In 2011, she opened the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in her hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas.
Crystal Bridges features works from the likes of An... | After graduating from Trinity College in 1971, Walton briefly worked for Walmart as a buyer of children's clothes.
Her art collecting career began when she was 11 and bought a 25-cent print of Picasso's "Blue Nude." |
19 | Rob Walton | 77 | 65,000 | Fashion & Retail | Walmart | United States | Arkansas | Bentonville | Walmart | false | M | 1944-10-27T00:00:00 | Director | 1 | Rob Walton is the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
Walton took over as chairman upon his father's death in 1992.
He retired as chairman in June 2015 and was replaced by his son-in-law, Greg Penner. Penner still sits on Walmart's board.
He and other heirs of Sam Walton collectively own about half of Walmart's s... | Rob Walton, who has a law degree from Columbia University, helped Walmart prepare for its IPO in 1970.
He sits on the board of the Walton Family Foundation, which was set up by his parents, Sam and Helen Walton, on Walmart's 25th anniversary in 1987. |
19 | Changpeng Zhao | 44 | 65,000 | Finance & Investments | cryptocurrency exchange | Singapore | null | Singapore | null | true | M | 1977-09-10T00:00:00 | null | null | Changpeng Zhao, who goes by CZ, is the founder and CEO of Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world.
The Chinese-Canadian coder cut his teeth building high-frequency trading systems for Wall Street's flash boys.
In 2021, Binance facilitated trades worth over $9.5 trillion, over two-thirds of all tradi... | Zhao was born in Jiangsu, China. His father, a professor, was labeled a pro-bourgeois intellect and temporarily exiled shortly after CZ was born.
As a teenager in Vancouver, CZ pitched in to cover the household expenses, flipping burgers at McDonald's and working overnight shifts at a gas station. |
21 | Charles Koch | 86 | 60,000 | Diversified | Koch Industries | United States | Kansas | Wichita | Koch Industries | false | M | 1935-11-01T00:00:00 | CEO | 2 | Charles Koch has been chairman and CEO of Koch Industries, America's largest private company by revenue, since 1967.
The diversified company has some $115 billion in revenues from businesses including pipelines, chemicals, Dixie cups, and Stainmaster carpet.
His father, Fred Koch, improved a method of refining heavy oi... | Three Koch brothers (Charles, David and Bill) went to MIT; the trio were in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and David and Charles played on the same club rugby team.
Koch founded Stand Together, a network of nonprofits and donors focused on philanthropic and political advocacy causes, in 2003. |
21 | Julia Koch & family | 59 | 60,000 | Diversified | Koch Industries | United States | New York | New York | null | false | F | 1962-04-12T00:00:00 | null | 2 | 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.
An Iowa native, Koch moved to New York City in the 1980s and worked as an assistant to fashion designer Adolfo.
She worked with many of his high-profile clients, including First Lady N... | null |
23 | Amancio Ortega | 86 | 59,600 | Fashion & Retail | Zara | Spain | null | La Coruna | null | true | M | 1936-03-28T00:00:00 | null | null | Amancio Ortega of Spain is one of the wealthiest clothing retailers in the world.
A pioneer in fast fashion, he cofounded Inditex, known for its Zara fashion chain, with his ex-wife Rosalia Mera (d. 2013) in 1975.
He owns about 60% of Madrid-listed Inditex, which has 8 brands, including Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear, a... | Ortega first began his career manufacturing textiles through a small family company in 1963.
He owns a 10% stake in Spanish telecoms firm Telxius and 5% of publicly traded natural gas grid operator Enagás. |
24 | Michael Dell | 57 | 55,100 | Technology | Dell computers | United States | Texas | Austin | Dell Inc. | true | M | 1965-02-23T00:00:00 | Chairman and CEO | 2 | Michael Dell is the chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, which was formed in 2016 when Dell merged with computer storage giant EMC.
The estimated $60 billion Dell-EMC merger, which was finalized in 2016, was the largest technology acquisition ever.
In late 2018 Dell Technologies returned to public markets through a c... | Dell got his start at 19 selling computers out of his University of Texas dorm room, grossing $80,000 by the end of his freshman year.
Dell's MSD Capital owns the Four Seasons Maui, plus indirect stakes in Applebees, IHOP, Calvin Klein and reportedly Grand Central Station. |
25 | Zhang Yiming | 38 | 50,000 | Media & Entertainment | TikTok | China | null | Beijing | ByteDance | true | M | 1984-01-01T00:00:00 | Founder | null | Zhang Yiming is the founder of ByteDance, one of China's largest media content platforms; he was formerly the company's CEO and chairman.
The privately held company raised fresh investment funds at a valuation of $180 billion in 2020; Zhang owns an estimated 22% stake of ByteDance.
ByteDance is most known for its news... | null |
26 | David Thomson & family | 64 | 49,200 | Media & Entertainment | media | Canada | null | Toronto | Thomson Reuters Corporation | false | M | 1957-06-12T00:00:00 | Chairman | null | David Thomson and his family control a media and publishing empire founded by his grandfather Roy Thomson.
The family's biggest holding: more than 320 million shares of Thomson Reuters, where Thomson serves as chairman.
In 2018, Thomson Reuters announced it was selling a controlling stake in Refinitiv, a financial data... | Thomson has a diverse art portfolio reported to include pieces from Pablo Picasso and the world's top collection of English romantic painter John Constable.
He is a part owner of the NHL's Winnipeg Jets, and his family's holding company has a minority stake in the Montreal Canadiens. |
27 | Phil Knight & family | 84 | 47,300 | Fashion & Retail | Nike | United States | Oregon | Hillsboro | Nike | true | M | 1938-02-24T00:00:00 | Chairman | 2 | Phil Knight, founder of shoe giant Nike, retired as chairman in June 2016 after 52 years at the company.
Knight ran track at the University of Oregon and created Nike shoes with his former track coach, Bill Bowerman.
In 1964, they each put up $500 to start what would become Nike, then called Blue Ribbon Sports.
Today ... | Before cofounding Nike, Knight sold Japanese running shoes from the trunk of his car.
Knight paid a Portland State University student $35 to design Nike's iconic "Swoosh" logo. |
28 | Dieter Schwarz | 82 | 47,100 | Fashion & Retail | retail | Germany | null | Neckarsulm | null | false | M | 1939-09-24T00:00:00 | null | null | Dieter Schwarz's Schwarz Group, with revenue of over $140 billion, is comprised of the Kaufland and Lidl (rhymes with needle) discount supermarkets.
Schwarz inherited the company from his father, Josef, who became a partner in Suedfruechte Grosshandel Lidl & Co., a fruit wholesaler, in 1930.
Dieter opened the first... | The Dieter Schwarz Foundation supports education and daycare facilities for children, as well as science and research projects.
A decidedly private person who shuns all publicity, Schwarz has been married for more than 50 years and has two daughters. |
29 | Robin Zeng | 53 | 44,800 | Automotive | batteries | China | null | Ningde | null | true | M | 1969-01-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Zeng is the founder and chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), one of the world's largest suppliers of batteries for electric vehicles.
CATL, which listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2018, has clients such as BMW, Volkswagen and Geely.
Zeng holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics at the Chinese... | Zeng worked at a state-owned shipbuilding company in Fujian Province early on in his career. |
30 | MacKenzie Scott | 51 | 43,600 | Technology | Amazon | United States | Washington | Seattle | null | false | F | 1970-04-07T00:00:00 | Philanthropist | 4 | MacKenzie Scott is a philanthropist, author and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to whom she was married for 25 years. They divorced in mid 2019 and she received 25% of his Amazon stake.
In May 2019, shortly after she announced the terms of the divorce on Twitter, she signed the Giving Pledge, promising to giv... | Scott and Bezos met in 1992 when they both worked at hedge fund D.E. Shaw. They married the next year and moved to Seattle in 1994. |
31 | Rodolphe Saadé & family | 52 | 41,400 | Logistics | shipping | France | null | Marseille | CMA CGM | false | M | 1970-03-03T00:00:00 | Chairman and CEO | null | Rodolphe Saadé is the son of late shipping magnate Jacques Saade, who died in 2018.
Jacques founded CMA CGM, now one of the world's largest shipping companies, in Marseille, France in 1978.
Rodolphe jointly controls the company with his siblings, Tanya Saadé Zeenny and Jacques Saadé Jr., as well as his mother Naila.
H... | null |
32 | François Pinault & family | 85 | 40,400 | Fashion & Retail | luxury goods | France | null | Paris | null | true | M | 1936-08-21T00:00:00 | null | null | François Pinault is honorary chairman of luxury group Kering, which owns fashion brands Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen and Gucci.
Pinault founded Kering, which started as a wood and building materials company, in 1963.
In 1999, Pinault changed the direction of the business toward luxury goods when he bought a control... | Pinault and his family also own several vineyards, a French soccer club, a theater in Paris and a luxury yacht and expedition company.
The Pinault family gave more than $100 million to help rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral following the 2019 fire. |
33 | Klaus-Michael Kuehne | 84 | 37,300 | Logistics | shipping | Switzerland | null | Schindellegi | null | false | M | 1937-06-02T00:00:00 | null | null | Logistics magnate Klaus-Michael Kuehne is honorary chairman of Kuehne + Nagel International AG, based in ‎Schindellegi‎, Switzerland.
He joined the company, cofounded by his grandfather, in 1958, eventually taking over as CEO in 1966.
In 2016, his Kuehne Holding AG acquired 20% of VTG, a rail logistics comp... | Despite expressing frustration with the team's performance, Kuehne remains a minority owner of Hamburger SV, which plays in the second tier of pro soccer in Germany.
He transformed the 600-year old Castell Son Claret on Mallorca into a luxury hotel, and built another hotel, The Fontenay, in Hamburg. |
34 | Ma Huateng | 50 | 37,200 | Technology | internet media | China | null | Shenzhen | Tencent Holdings | true | M | 1971-10-29T00:00:00 | Chairman and CEO | null | Ma Huateng (also known as Pony Ma) chairs Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings, which ranks among the nation's largest businesses by market cap.
Tencent's popular social messaging app WeChat has more than 1 billion users.
The group listed its music-streaming subsidiary, Tencent Music, on the New York Stock Exchange ... | Tencent has minority stakes in electric car maker Tesla, music-streaming service Spotify, and Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc.
Tencent is one of the largest videogame publishers in the world. |
35 | Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr. & family | null | 36,800 | Fashion & Retail | supermarkets | Germany | null | null | null | false | null | null | null | null | Heirs to the Aldi retail fortune, Beate Heister and Karl Albrecht Jr. are the children of Karl Albrecht Sr., who died in 2014 at age 94.
After World War II, Karl Sr. and his brother, Theo Sr., who died in 2010 at age 88, took over their family's corner grocery store in Essen, Germany.
In 1961, the brothers split owner... | Beate Heister has never worked at Aldi Sued (South), but her son Peter Max Heister heads the advisory board. Son Christian also serves on the board.
Karl Jr., who has no children, worked different positions at the company but withdrew from his duties after a cancer diagnosis. |
36 | Giovanni Ferrero | 57 | 36,200 | Food & Beverage | Nutella, chocolates | Belgium | null | Brussels | null | false | M | 1964-09-21T00:00:00 | null | null | Giovanni Ferrero is executive chairman of his family's namesake confections business, which posted $14 billion sales in 2021.
The firm is best known for its iconic Nutella chocolate-hazelnut spread, Kinder chocolates and Tic Tac mints.
Giovanni served as co-CEO with his brother, Pietro, who died of a heart attack in 20... | Ferrero is a novelist who has published eight books. |
37 | Li Ka-shing | 93 | 34,800 | Diversified | diversified | Hong Kong | null | null | CK Hutchison Holdings | true | M | 1928-06-13T00:00:00 | Senior Advisor | null | Nicknamed Superman, Li Ka-shing is revered as one of the most influential businessmen in Asia.
Li retired as chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings in May 2018 but remains senior advisor.
At the announcement of his retirement, Li joked that he'd been "working for a long time, too long."
His son Victor ... | Li says it took him five minutes in December 2007 to decide to invest in Facebook, even though it barely had any revenues. He also invested in Siri and Spotify.
At age 12, Li fled China with his family. Two years later his father, who had been a primary school principal in China but then worked at a watch factory, died... |
37 | Stephen Schwarzman | 75 | 34,800 | Finance & Investments | investments | United States | New York | New York | Blackstone Group | true | M | 1947-02-14T00:00:00 | Chairman and CEO | 2 | The son of a dry goods store owner, Stephen Schwarzman founded private equity firm Blackstone with fellow billionaire Peter Peterson in 1985.
Initially a boutique merger-and-acquisition advisory business, Blackstone grew into the world's largest buyout firm, with $684 billion in assets.
While Peter Peterson (d. 2018) r... | Blackstone is a combination of its founders' names -- "Schwarz" means black in German and Yiddish, while "Peter" means stone in Greek.
His Schwarzman Scholars, inspired by the Rhodes Scholarships, sends students from around the world to a one-year master's program at China's Tsinghua University. |
39 | Lee Shau Kee | 94 | 32,600 | Real Estate | real estate | Hong Kong | null | Hong Kong | null | true | M | 1928-01-29T00:00:00 | null | null | Lee Shau Kee cofounded property developer Sun Hung Kai with Kwok Tak-Seng, the late father of Hong Kong's billionaire Kwok brothers.
He started Henderson Land Development in 1976; the property giant now makes up the bulk of his wealth.
In 2019, he stepped down as chairman of Henderson Land and appointed his sons, Marti... | null |
40 | Len Blavatnik | 64 | 32,500 | Diversified | music, chemicals | United Kingdom | null | London | null | true | M | 1957-06-01T00:00:00 | null | 2 | Born in Ukraine, raised north of Moscow, Len Blavatnik emigrated to the U.S. in 1978 for school; he studied computer science at Columbia University.
He made a fortune selling his stake in Russian oil company TNK-BP for $7 billion in 2013.
After purchasing Warner Music in 2011 for $3.3 billion, he took the company publi... | Blavatnik bought artist Damien Hirst's giant gilded wooly mammoth skeleton entitled "Gone (but) Not Forgotten" for $15 million in 2014.
Blavatnik has been a producer on several Broadway shows including "The Front Page" and "Sunset Boulevard." |
41 | Jacqueline Mars | 82 | 31,700 | Food & Beverage | candy, pet food | United States | Virginia | The Plains | null | false | F | 1939-10-10T00:00:00 | null | null | Jacqueline Mars owns an estimated one-third of Mars, the world's largest candymaker, founded by her grandfather.
She worked for the company for nearly 20 years and served on the board until 2016.
Her son Stephen Badger is on Mars' board of directors.
Mars serves on the board of the National Archives and was formerly ... | Mars owns a horse farm in Virginia that has trained horses ridden by Olympic medalists.
Mars was founded in 1911 by Jacqueline's grandfather, Frank, who, along with her father Forrest Sr., invented the Milky Way bar in 1923. |
41 | John Mars | 86 | 31,700 | Food & Beverage | candy, pet food | United States | Wyoming | Jackson | null | false | M | 1935-10-15T00:00:00 | null | null | John and his siblings Jacqueline and Forrest Jr. (died July 2016) inherited stakes in the candy firm Mars when their father died in 1999.
He and Jacqueline each own an estimated one-third of the company. His late brother Forrest Jr.'s four daughters own the rest.
The $40 billion (sales) candy, petcare and food company... | John and his wife, Adrienne, are noted supporters of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
The company's first big hit was the Milky Way candy bar, introduced in 1923. |
43 | Alain Wertheimer | 73 | 31,200 | Fashion & Retail | Chanel | United States | New York | New York | null | false | M | 1948-08-28T00:00:00 | null | null | Alain Wertheimer is the chairman of Chanel, the French luxury brand.
He owns the company with this brother Gerard, who oversees the watch division.
His grandfather Pierre Wertheimer founded it with Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel, the company's namesake.
Karl Lagerfeld, the public face of Chanel, died in February 2019 at the a... | Alain and Gerard breed and race thoroughbreds. Their horses have won races at the French Derby and the Breeders' Cup Turf in the U.S.
Alain and his brother own vineyards in France and Napa Valley, California. |
43 | Gerard Wertheimer | 71 | 31,200 | Fashion & Retail | Chanel | United States | New York | New York | null | false | M | 1951-01-09T00:00:00 | null | null | Gerard Wertheimer and his brother Alain own French luxury brand Chanel.
Gerard heads the company's watch division and lives in Switzerland.
His grandfather, Pierre, partnered with Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel, the company's namesake, in the 1920s.
Gerard and his brother own vineyards in France and Napa Valley, California. | Gerard and Alain breed and race thoroughbreds.
Gerard and Alain own farms in France and Kentucky. |
45 | German Larrea Mota Velasco & family | 68 | 30,800 | Metals & Mining | mining | Mexico | null | Mexico City | null | false | M | 1953-10-26T00:00:00 | null | null | 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.
Under his leadership as president and CEO, Grupo México expanded into the infrastructure and rail transportation sectors.
In 2014, the mining company faced scrutiny after ... | null |
46 | Gina Rinehart | 68 | 30,200 | Metals & Mining | mining | Australia | null | Perth | Hancock Prospecting | false | F | 1954-02-09T00:00:00 | Executive Chairman | null | Australia's richest citizen, Gina Rinehart built her wealth on iron ore.
The daughter of high profile iron-ore explorer Lang Hancock, Rinehart rebuilt her late father's financially distressed company, Hancock Prospecting.
Hancock's biggest asset is the Roy Hill mining project, which started shipments to Asia in 2015.
T... | Rinehart has been locked in a prolonged legal battle with her children over their family trust. |
47 | Shiv Nadar | 76 | 28,700 | Technology | software services | India | null | Delhi | null | true | M | 1945-07-18T00:00:00 | null | null | Indian IT pioneer Shiv Nadar cofounded HCL in a garage in 1976 to make calculators and microprocessors.
Today, his $11.2 billion (revenue) HCL Technologies is among India's largest software services providers.
In July 2020, he stepped down as chairman of HCL Technologies, handing over the position to his daughter, Ros... | Nadar's education was primarily in the south Indian language of Tamil, and he didn't start speaking much English until age 22.
Nadar's wife Kiran, who is an avid art collector, has two private art museums in Delhi that showcase her vast collection. |
48 | Jim Simons | 83 | 28,600 | Finance & Investments | hedge funds | United States | New York | East Setauket | Renaissance Technologies Corp. | true | M | 1938-04-25T00:00:00 | Founder | 3 | Jim Simons is the founder of Renaissance Technologies, an esteemed quantitative trading hedge fund firm that manages about $55 billion.
He founded Renaissance Technologies in 1982 and retired in 2010, but he still plays a role at Renaissance and benefits from its funds.
Renaissance Technologies is famous for its Medal... | Simons used to chair the math department at Stony Brook University and was a codebreaker for the U.S. during the Vietnam War. |
49 | He Xiangjian | 79 | 28,300 | Manufacturing | home appliances | China | null | Foshan | null | true | M | 1942-08-11T00:00:00 | null | null | Entrepreneur He Xiangjian built Midea Group into one of the world's largest appliance makers.
In 1968, He led a group of 23 residents from the town of Beijiao in Guangdong Province to form a lid production workshop that became Midea.
Midea Group, whose shares trade on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, now has more than 200... | null |
50 | Miriam Adelson | 76 | 27,500 | Gambling & Casinos | casinos | United States | Nevada | Las Vegas | null | false | F | 1945-10-10T00:00:00 | null | 2 | Miriam Adelson is the widow of Sheldon Adelson, the former CEO and chairman of casino company Las Vegas Sands, who died at 87 in January 2021.
She now owns more than half of the $48 billion (market cap) gambling empire, which has casinos in Las Vegas, Singapore and Macao.
As GOP megadonors, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson ... | null |
51 | Dietrich Mateschitz | 77 | 27,400 | Food & Beverage | Red Bull | Austria | null | Fuschl am See | null | true | M | 1944-05-20T00:00:00 | null | null | Red Bull billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz cofounded the ubiquitous energy drink in 1987 with Thai businessman Chaleo Yoovidhya (d. 2012).
Before Red Bull, Mateschitz was a marketing executive for German consumer products company Blendax, known for shampoos.
He decided to go into the energy drink market after tasting Kra... | Through Red Bull, Mateschitz has a stake in two racing teams worth more than $350 million, Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso.
Red Bull sponsored Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner's record 120,000-foot skydive from the edge of space in October 2012. |
52 | Leonardo Del Vecchio & family | 86 | 27,300 | Fashion & Retail | eyeglasses | Italy | null | Milan | null | true | M | 1935-05-22T00:00:00 | null | null | Vision visionary Leonardo Del Vecchio founded eyewear giant Luxottica in 1961, at the age 25.
Over the years, Luxottica acquired Sunglass Hut, Ray-Ban and Oakley and grew to make glasses for virtually every brand, including Bulgari and Chanel.
In 2018 Luxottica merged with French lens maker Essilor, creating the world'... | Del Vecchio's father peddled vegetables on the streets of Milan and died before he was born.
His son Claudio owned storied men's retailer Brooks Brothers until it filed for bankruptcy in July 2020 and was sold to a group backed by Simon Property Group. |
53 | Ken Griffin | 53 | 27,200 | Finance & Investments | hedge funds | United States | Illinois | Chicago | Citadel LLC | true | M | 1968-10-15T00:00:00 | Founder & CEO | 3 | Ken Griffin founded and runs Citadel, a Chicago-based hedge fund firm that manages roughly $39 billion in assets.
He founded Citadel in 1990 but first began trading from his Harvard dorm in 1987. He put a satellite dish on the roof to get real-time stock quotes.
He is the founder of Citadel Securities, one of Wall Stre... | The University of Chicago renamed its economics department after Griffin in 2017 after he donated $150 million.
Griffin's first job was selling Franklin Mint collectibles. |
54 | Tadashi Yanai & family | 73 | 26,100 | Fashion & Retail | fashion retail | Japan | null | Tokyo | null | true | M | 1949-02-07T00:00:00 | null | null | Tadashi Yanai built and runs Tokyo-listed retail clothing empire Fast Retailing, parent of the Uniqlo chain.
Fast Retailing's other brands include Theory, Helmut Lang, J Brand and GU.
The company reported net profit of $1.5 billion for the fiscal year ended August 2021 on revenue of $19.4 billion.
Shares fell in 2021 b... | Yanai resigned as an independent director from the board of SoftBank Group after 18 years, in December 2019.
Yanai grew up living above his parents' clothing store in a small town in Yamaguchi Prefecture in southwestern Japan.
Yanai declared English as the company language at Fast Retailing. |
55 | William Lei Ding | 50 | 25,200 | Technology | online games | China | null | Hangzhou | null | true | M | 1971-10-01T00:00:00 | null | null | William Ding is the CEO of Netease, one of the world's largest online and mobile games businesses.
Netease's business partners include Mojang, a subsidiary of Microsoft, and Blizzard Entertainment.
Netease, facing tough competition in games from Chinese rival Tencent, expanded into movies, online music and e-commerce.... | null |
56 | Susanne Klatten | 59 | 24,300 | Automotive | BMW, pharmaceuticals | Germany | null | Bad Homburg | null | false | F | 1962-04-28T00:00:00 | null | null | Susanne Klatten owns about 19% of automaker BMW; her brother, Stefan Quandt, owns nearly 24%.
Their late mother, Johanna, was the third wife of legendary industrialist Herbert Quandt, who guided BMW to preeminence in the luxury market.
An economist with an M.B.A., Klatten helped transform her grandfather's Altana AG i... | Klatten is founder of an innovation center at Technical University of Munich, UnternehmerTUM, which claims to be the leading center for business creation in Germany.
Her grandfather Guenther Quandt was a Nazi-era industrialist whose ex-wife married Joseph Goebbels. |
56 | Cyrus Poonawalla | 80 | 24,300 | Healthcare | vaccines | India | null | Pune | null | false | M | 1941-05-11T00:00:00 | null | null | 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).
Serum produces over 1.5 billion doses annually of a range of vaccines, including for measles, polio and flu.
Under his U.K.-educated son Adar, Serum's CEO, the company invest... | Son Adar, featured in Forbes Asia's Heroes of Philanthropy list, is one of the brand ambassadors for the government's 'Clean India' mission.
Poonawalla was conferred the honorary degree of the Doctor of Science by the University of Oxford in the U.K.
In 2022, Poonawalla was conferred the Padma Bhushan, one of India's h... |
56 | Wang Wei | 51 | 24,300 | Service | package delivery | China | null | Shenzhen | null | true | M | 1970-10-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Wang Wei chairs S. F. Holding, a package delivery service known as the "FedEx of China"; it's also called SF Express.
In March 2018, the company obtained China's first license for drone deliveries.
S.F. was founded in the city of Shunde in Guangdong Province in 1993; Wang owns roughly 60% of the shares.
Wang took the ... | null |
59 | Qin Yinglin | 56 | 24,100 | Food & Beverage | pig breeding | China | null | Nanyang | null | true | M | 1965-04-17T00:00:00 | null | null | Qin Yinglin, chairman of China's Muyuan Foodstuff, made his fortune as the country's largest pig breeder in the world's biggest pork market.
Qin was born in Neixiang County in Henan, China's most populous province.
He studied animal husbandry at Henan Agricultural University, then started his own business with wife Qia... | null |
60 | Sam Bankman-Fried | 30 | 24,000 | Finance & Investments | cryptocurrency exchange | Bahamas | null | Nassau | FTX | true | M | 1992-03-05T00:00:00 | Founder | 1 | Sam Bankman-Fried is one of the richest people in crypto, thanks to his FTX exchange and Alameda Research trading firm.
The son of two Stanford law professors, he studied physics at MIT but was drawn to "effective altruism," the utilitarian-inflected notion of doing the most good possible.
So he took a job trading ETFs... | So far, Bankman-Fried has only donated about 0.1% of his fortune, to causes like voter registration, global poverty mitigation and artificial intelligence safety.
Bankman-Fried has been pouring hundreds of millions into mainstream marketing, including the naming rights to leading esports league TSM and the Miami Heat's... |
61 | Takemitsu Takizaki | 76 | 23,900 | Manufacturing | sensors | Japan | null | Osaka | null | true | M | 1945-06-10T00:00:00 | null | null | Takemitsu Takizaki is the founder of Keyence, a supplier of sensors and electronic components for factory automation systems.
He stepped down as chairman in March 2015 but remains on the board of directors and is honorary chairman.
Sales to customers outside of Japan have grown steadily and account for more than 50% of... | null |
62 | Li Shufu | 58 | 23,700 | Automotive | automobiles | China | null | Hangzhou | null | true | M | 1963-06-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Li Shufu is the chairman of Geely Automobile Holdings, one of China's largest automakers and one of the few not controlled by the state.
Through his private holding company, he has been expanding globally since 2010, when he acquired Swedish car brand Volvo.
Li has also bought stakes in Daimler, sportscar maker Lotus ... | Li holds an engineering degree from Yan Shan University and is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Li is the son of a farmer from China's eastern Zhejiang province. |
63 | Emmanuel Besnier | 51 | 23,500 | Food & Beverage | cheese | France | null | Laval | null | false | M | 1970-09-18T00:00:00 | null | null | 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.
His father founded the company in 1933. It now sells products including President brie, Milkmaid yogurts and Valbreso feta.
His younger siblings, Jean-Michel and Marie, spli... | Besnier has been called the "French Howard Hughes," "the Emperor of Cheese," and, thanks to his disdain for the press, "the invisible billionaire."
On his first day in business, Besnier's father collected 17 liters of milk and made 35 camemberts. |
64 | R. Budi Hartono | 81 | 23,200 | Finance & Investments | banking, tobacco | Indonesia | null | Kudus | null | false | M | 1941-01-01T00:00:00 | null | null | R. Budi Hartono and his brother, Michael (whose fortune is listed separately), are the two richest people in Indonesia.
The brothers get the bulk of their fortune from their investment in Bank Central Asia.
The Hartonos bought a stake in BCA, after another wealthy family, the Salims, lost control of the bank during the... | Their late father, Oei Wie Gwan, acquired a bankrupt cigarette company in 1950, and later renamed it Djarum after the needle of a gramophone. |
65 | Leonard Lauder | 89 | 23,100 | Fashion & Retail | Estee Lauder | United States | New York | New York | The Estée Lauder Companies | false | M | 1933-03-19T00:00:00 | Chairman Emeritus | 2 | Leonard Lauder spent three decades running his family's publicly traded cosmetics giant, Estée Lauder.
The elder son of the eponymous makeup maven, Lauder joined his mother's company in 1958.
He created the company's first R&D laboratory and started acquiring brands like MAC, Bobbi Brown and Aveda in the mid-1990s... | Lauder gifted his massive Cubist art collection, worth more than $1 billion, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013.
In April 2016, the newly designed home of New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art was named in his honor.
Lauder wrote "The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty," a memoir about his time at Estée... |
66 | Guillaume Pousaz | 40 | 23,000 | Finance & Investments | fintech | null | null | null | null | true | M | 1981-08-15T00:00:00 | null | null | Guillaume Pousaz founded Checkout.com in 2012 to solve the problem of online payment processing for shops and shoppers around the world.
In January 2022, Checkout.com raised $1 billion from private investors, valuing the company at $40 billion.
Pousaz, who is CEO of Checkout.com, owns an estimated nearly two-thirds of ... | null |
67 | Iris Fontbona & family | 79 | 22,800 | Metals & Mining | mining | Chile | null | Santiago | null | false | F | 1943-01-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Iris Fontbona is the widow of Andrónico Luksic, who built a fortune in mining and beverages before dying of cancer in 2005.
He left his businesses to Fontbona and their three sons: Jean-Paul, Andrónico and Guillermo Luksic (who died of lung cancer in 2013 at age 57).
Fontbona and her children control Antofagasta Plc,... | In 2004, her son Andronico climbed Mount Everest, and in 2005 he completed The Seven Summits of the World, reaching the highest peaks on each continent. |
67 | Jack Ma | 57 | 22,800 | Technology | e-commerce | China | null | Hangzhou | Alibaba Group | true | M | 1964-09-10T00:00:00 | Founder and Executive Chairman | null | A former English teacher, Jack Ma cofounded Alibaba Group, one of the world's largest e-commerce businesses.
On Nov. 3, 2020 regulators halted a planned IPO of fintech giant Ant Group-where Ma is the largest individual shareholder-in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
In September 2019, Jack Ma stepped down as Alibaba's executive... | Ma owns a vineyard in France.
Ma is a fan of martial arts and has sparred against Jet Li and others in a short promotional film. |
69 | Michael Hartono | 82 | 22,300 | Manufacturing | banking, tobacco | Indonesia | null | Kudus | null | false | M | 1939-10-02T00:00:00 | null | null | Michael "Bambang" Hartono is the second richest person in Indonesia, just after his brother R. Budi Hartono.
The brothers get the bulk of their fortune from their investment in Bank Central Asia.
The Hartonos bought the stake in BCA after another wealthy family, the Salims, lost control of the bank during the 1997-1998... | Their late father, Oei Wie Gwan, acquired a bankrupt cigarette company in 1950, and later renamed it Djarum after the needle of a gramophone.
Hartono, who long advocated to get the game of bridge included in the Asian Games, won a bronze medal with five teammates in 2018. |
70 | Eric Schmidt | 66 | 22,100 | Technology | Google | United States | California | Atherton | null | true | M | 1955-04-27T00:00:00 | null | 2 | Eric Schmidt left the board of Google parent company Alphabet in June 2019 after 18 years; he stayed on as a technical advisor until February 2020.
Schmidt was Google's CEO from 2001 to 2011; prior to that he had stints as CEO of Novell and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems.
Schmidt is a visiting innovation ... | Schmidt's family is passionate about environmental sustainability and has donated to various projects related to renewable energy and climate change.
He has toured some of the world's most tightly controlled regimes to promote open internet access, including in Cuba and North Korea. |
71 | Ray Dalio | 72 | 22,000 | Finance & Investments | hedge funds | United States | Connecticut | Greenwich | Bridgewater Associates | true | M | 1949-08-08T00:00:00 | Founder & Co-Chief Investment Officer | 2 | Ray Dalio is the founder of the world's biggest hedge fund firm, Bridgewater Associates, which manages $154 billion.
Working to make sure Bridgewater survives him, Dalio moved in 2018 to turn Bridgewater into a partnership and give employees more of a stake in the firm.
Dalio grew up in a middle class Long Island neig... | In 2017, Dalio published "Principles: Life & Work," a New York Times bestseller that codifies his principles.
Bridgewater is known for its culture of "radical transparency," including encouraging dissent, openly airing disagreements, and recording all meetings. |
71 | Daniel Gilbert | 60 | 22,000 | Finance & Investments | Quicken Loans | United States | Michigan | Franklin | null | true | M | 1962-01-17T00:00:00 | null | 1 | Dan Gilbert cofounded what would become Quicken Loans, the largest mortgage lender in the U.S., in 1985 at 22 years old.
Quicken, which originated $320 billion in mortgages in 2020, went public as Rocket Companies in August 2020 at a $36 billion valuation.
He also owns the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers.
He and his companie... | Gilbert started his mortgage lender with $5,000 earned from selling pizzas in college.
He sold Quicken to Intuit for $532 million in 1999, but bought it back 3 years later for $64 million. |
73 | Thomas Frist, Jr. & family | 83 | 21,800 | Healthcare | hospitals | United States | Tennessee | Nashville | null | true | M | 1938-08-12T00:00:00 | null | 1 | Thomas Frist Jr., a former Air Force flight surgeon, founded Hospital Corp. of America with his father in 1968.
He took it public for the third time in 2011 after two management buyouts and owns over 20% of the company.
HCA Healthcare owns and operates 187 hospitals and around 2,000 sites of care in 20 states in the U.... | His brother, Bill Frist, was the U.S. Senate majority leader from 2003 to 2007, while George W. Bush was president.
Through the Frist Foundation, he and his family played an integral role in creating Nashville's Frist Art Museum, where he serves as Director Emeritus. |
74 | Masayoshi Son | 64 | 21,300 | Telecom | internet, telecom | Japan | null | Tokyo | Softbank | true | M | 1957-08-11T00:00:00 | CEO | null | Masayoshi Son founded and runs mobile telecom and investment giant SoftBank Group.
Investors in Son's Vision Fund include Apple, Qualcomm, Foxconn, the family office of billionaire Larry Ellison and Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund.
The Vision Fund has invested in over 100 companies, including ride-share firm Grab, Kore... | Son spent more than $100 million on a 9-acre estate in Silicon Valley with a 9,000 square foot mansion.
Son got his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley.
In December 2016 at Trump Tower, Son promised that SoftBank would lead $50 billion in investments in U.S. companies and create 50,000 jobs. |
75 | Abigail Johnson | 60 | 21,200 | Finance & Investments | money management | United States | Massachusetts | Milton | Fidelity Investments | false | F | 1961-12-19T00:00:00 | Chairman & CEO | 1 | Abigail Johnson has served as CEO of Fidelity Investments since 2014, when she took over for her father, and has been chairman since 2016.
Her grandfather, Edward Johnson II, founded the Boston-based mutual fund giant in 1946.
She owns an estimated 24.5% stake of the firm, which has $4.2 trillion in managed assets.
Joh... | The Johnson family is a frequent donor to nonprofits in the Boston area and has given money to Harvard, the Institute of Contemporary Art and Historic New England. |
76 | Rupert Murdoch & family | 91 | 20,800 | Media & Entertainment | newspapers, TV network | United States | New York | New York | News Corp | false | M | 1931-03-11T00:00:00 | Chairman and CEO | 1 | Murdoch controls a media empire that includes cable channel Fox News, The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal.
Murdoch sold most of Fox's movie studio, FX, and National Geographic Networks and its stake in Star India to Disney for $71.3 billion in March 2019.
Murdoch's son, Lachlan, runs the new Fox, which cons... | Murdoch bought The New York Post, his first major U.S. purchase, in 1976; he still owns the tabloid.
The thrice-divorced billionaire married former model and Mick Jagger's ex-wife, Jerry Hall, in London in 2016. |
77 | Stefan Quandt | 55 | 20,700 | Automotive | BMW | Germany | null | Frankfurt | null | false | M | 1966-05-09T00:00:00 | null | null | Stefan Quandt owns 23.6% of automaker BMW; his sister, Susanne Klatten, the richest woman in Germany, owns 19.1%.
Their late mother, Johanna, was the third wife of legendary industrialist Herbert Quandt, who guided BMW to preeminence in the luxury market.
Both siblings serve on BMW's supervisory board; Quandt is deputy... | After university, Quandt worked at Boston Consulting and as a Hong Kong-based marketing manager for Entrust, which is headquartered in Minneapolis. |
78 | Jensen Huang | 59 | 20,600 | Technology | semiconductors | United States | California | Los Altos | NVIDIA | true | M | 1963-02-17T00:00:00 | CEO & President | 1 | Jensen Huang cofounded graphics-chip maker Nvidia in 1993, and has served as its CEO and president since inception.
Huang owns 3.6% of Nvidia, which went public in 1999.
Born in Taiwan, Huang moved to Thailand as a child, but his family sent him and his brother to the U.S as civil unrest mounted in the Asian nation.
... | Shortly after arriving in the U.S., Huang was sent to a boarding school in rural Kentucky for troubled youth by his aunt and uncle, who mistook it for a prep school.
At boarding school, Huang was assigned to clean the boys' bathroom everyday after class, while his brother worked on the tobacco farm.
Huang also worked a... |
79 | Huang Shilin | 55 | 20,300 | Automotive | batteries | China | null | Ningde | null | true | M | 1967-01-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Huang Shilin is vice chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), one of China's largest battery suppliers for the electric vehicle industry.
CATL's customers include BMW, Volkswagen and Geely.
Huang is a graduate of Hefei University of Technology.
CATL went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2018. | null |
80 | Thomas Peterffy | 77 | 20,100 | Finance & Investments | discount brokerage | United States | Florida | Palm Beach | null | true | M | 1944-09-30T00:00:00 | null | 1 | A digital trading pioneer, Thomas Peterffy chairs Interactive Brokers, which markets its specialized trading platform to sophisticated investors.
He founded Interactive Brokers in 1993 after originally starting in market-making, and was CEO until December 2019.
In March 2017, he announced part of his market-making oper... | In high school in Hungary, Peterffy sold contraband Juicy Fruit gum to classmates at a 500% markup.
After immigrating to America, Peterffy saved up $200,000 working as an engineer to buy a $36,000 seat on the American Stock Exchange, where he traded options. |
81 | Radhakishan Damani | 67 | 20,000 | Fashion & Retail | retail, investments | India | null | Mumbai | null | true | M | 1955-01-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Veteran Mumbai investor Radhakishan Damani became India's retail king after the March 2017 IPO of his supermarket chain Avenue Supermarts.
Damani got into retailing in 2002 with one store in suburban Mumbai. Today his company has 271 DMart stores across India.
Damani also holds stakes in a range of companies, from toba... | Damani was a mentor to billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala.
Low profile Damani rarely makes appearances at public events and avoids speaking to the press. |
82 | Pang Kang | 66 | 19,600 | Food & Beverage | soy sauce | China | null | Foshan | null | true | M | 1956-01-19T00:00:00 | null | null | Pang Kang chairs Foshan Haitian Flavoring & Food, one of China's biggest suppliers of soy sauce.
Haitian went public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2014. | null |
83 | Wang Chuanfu | 56 | 19,500 | Automotive | batteries, automobiles | China | null | Shenzhen | null | true | M | 1966-02-15T00:00:00 | null | null | Wang Chuanfu's BYD reigns as king of China's nascent electric vehicle market, which is the largest EV market in the world.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns an 8% stake in BYD.
Born in a farm village in one of China's poorest provinces in 1966, Wang was orphaned as a teen and raised by his elder brother and sist... | BYD stands for 'Build Your Dreams.'
BYD started out making batteries for the booming mobile phone market, with customers such as Motorola and Nokia. |
84 | Reinhold Wuerth & family | 86 | 19,000 | Manufacturing | fasteners | Germany | null | Kuenzelsau | null | true | M | 1935-04-20T00:00:00 | null | null | Reinhold Wuerth entered his father's wholesale screw business in 1949, at age 14, as the company's second employee and first apprentice.
He took the reins in 1954 and honed a competitive advantage by delivering goods directly to customers on construction sites and in mechanical shops.
Today, with annual sales of over $... | Wuerth's vast art collection, consisting of more than 18,500 pieces, began with an Emil Nolde watercolor painting acquired in 1964.
An avid aviator, Wuerth was president of a German flying club for nearly 25 years. |
85 | Theo Albrecht, Jr. & family | 71 | 18,700 | Fashion & Retail | Aldi, Trader Joe's | Germany | null | Mulheim an der Ruhr | null | false | M | 1951-01-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Theo Albrecht Jr. and the heirs of his brother, Berthold, inherited one of the world's great retail fortunes.
From a corner grocery store in Essen, opened in 1913, their father, Theo Sr., and his brother, Karl Sr., built their empire after World War II.
Propagating the discount revolution in German retailing, they ran... | Little is known about the personal lives of family members. Theo Jr. sits on the board of the family foundation.
His mother, Cecilie, died in November 2018 at age 92. |
85 | Yang Huiyan & family | 40 | 18,700 | Real Estate | real estate | China | null | Foshan | null | false | F | 1981-09-27T00:00:00 | null | null | Yang Huiyan owns 57% of real estate developer Country Garden Holdings, a stake largely transferred to her by her father Yeung Kwok Keung in 2007.
Yang's younger sister Ziyang also sits on Country Garden's board.
Yang chairs Bright Scholar Education Holdings, a Chinese education company that went public on the New York ... | null |
87 | Vladimir Lisin | 65 | 18,400 | Metals & Mining | steel, transport | Russia | null | Moscow | null | true | M | 1956-05-07T00:00:00 | null | null | Vladimir Lisin is chairman of NLMK Group, a leading manufacturer of steel products.
Lisin started out as an electrical fitter in a coal mine in Siberia and then worked as a steelworker in Central Russia.
He then managed factories for Trans-World Group, a collection of commodities traders with stakes in aluminum smelte... | Lisin built one of Europe's largest shooting-range complexes in Lisya Nora, near Moscow.
Lisin is president of the International Sport Shooting Federation. |
88 | Fan Hongwei & family | 55 | 18,200 | Energy | petrochemicals | China | null | Wujiang | null | true | F | 1967-01-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Fan Hongwei chairs Hengli Petrochemical, a chemical fiber supplier.
She is the wife of Chen Jianhua, the chairman of Hengli's holding company; he is also a billionaire.
Hengli Petrochemical, established in 2002, has manufacturing sites in the Chinese cities of Suzhou, Suqian and Nantong.
Fan's daughter is a director o... | null |
89 | Lakshmi Mittal | 71 | 17,900 | Metals & Mining | steel | United Kingdom | null | London | ArcelorMittal (ADR) | false | M | 1950-06-15T00:00:00 | Chairman and CEO | null | Lakshmi Mittal serves as chairman of $76.6 billion (revenue) ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel and mining company by output.
Hailing from a steel clan, he separated from his siblings to start Mittal Steel then went on to merge the company with France's Arcelor in 2006.
Buoyed by higher steel prices, Arcelor Mitt... | Mittal has held a board seat at Goldman Sachs since 2008.
Mittal has received the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour, and a Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award. |
90 | Andrew Forrest | 60 | 17,800 | Metals & Mining | mining | Australia | null | Perth | null | true | M | 1961-11-18T00:00:00 | null | null | Forrest started his first mining company, Anaconda Nickel (now called Minara Resources), in 1994.
Nine years later, he founded Fortescue Metals Group, which mines and ships iron ore to China.
Investing in sustainable energy projects, he's now focused on repositioning the company into a green energy powerhouse to produc... | Known by his schoolboy nickname "Twiggy," Forrest was a onetime stockbroker and keen amateur boxer.
He once tried to make a living as an alpaca farmer and is a descendant of the first premier of the state of West Australia, Lord Forrest of Bunbury.
Regarded as Australia's biggest philanthropist, he made the country's l... |
91 | Jiang Rensheng & family | 68 | 17,700 | Healthcare | vaccines | China | null | Chongqing | null | true | M | 1953-10-08T00:00:00 | null | null | Jiang Rensheng chairs Shenzhen-listed vaccine firm Chongqing ZFSW Biological Products, known as Zhifei.
A longtime distribution partner of Merck, Zhifei won the Chinese sales rights to the U.S. pharma's HPV drug in 2018.
The company went public at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2010.
Prior to striking out on his own, ... | null |
91 | Savitri Jindal & family | 72 | 17,700 | Metals & Mining | steel | India | null | Hisar | null | false | F | 1950-03-20T00:00:00 | null | null | Jindal Group, whose interests include steel, power, cement and infrastructure, is chaired by Savitri Jindal, widow of founder Om Prakash Jindal.
Upon O.P. Jindal's death in 2005 in a helicopter crash, the group's companies were divided among his four sons, who now run them independently.
The biggest assets of the grou... | O.P. Jindal got his start making buckets in 1952, then went on to found a pipe unit named Jindal India in 1964. |
91 | Wang Wenyin | 54 | 17,700 | Metals & Mining | mining, copper products | China | null | Shenzhen | null | true | M | 1968-01-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Wang Wenyin is chairman of cable and copper supplier Amer International Group.
Shenzhen-headquartered Amer employs more than 17,000 workers.
Amer's revenue in 2017 totaled $70 billion, according to company figures. | null |
94 | Li Xiting | 71 | 17,600 | Healthcare | medical devices | China | null | Shenzhen | null | true | M | 1951-01-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Li is founder and chairman of Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics, a supplier of medical devices.
Mindray, founded in 1991, is headquartered in Shenzhen.
Mindray's chairman Xu Hang is also a billionaire.
Li holds an undergraduate degree from University of Science and Technology of China.
During the Covid-19 pa... | null |
94 | Stefan Persson | 74 | 17,600 | Fashion & Retail | H&M | Sweden | null | Stockholm | H&M - Hennes & Mauritz | false | M | 1947-10-04T00:00:00 | Chairman | null | Stefan Persson is Sweden's richest person by way of global cheap chic fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz, of which he owns 36%.
Persson stepped down as chairman in May 2020 after 22 years in the role; his son Karl-Johan succeeded him.
H&M was founded by Persson's father Erling in 1947.
Persson's two other children, ... | Persson personally owns real estate in some of the world's most glamorous shopping districts, spanning New York, London, Rome and Paris. |
96 | Steve Cohen | 65 | 17,400 | Finance & Investments | hedge funds | United States | Connecticut | Greenwich | Point72 Asset Management | true | M | 1956-06-11T00:00:00 | Founder | 3 | Steve Cohen oversees Point72 Asset Management, a $16 billion hedge fund firm that started managing outside capital in 2018.
For years Cohen ran SAC Capital, one of the most successful hedge funds ever.
Cohen was forced to shut down SAC Capital after the firm pleaded guilty to insider trading charges that cost Cohen $1... | The character Bobby Axelrod on Showtime's hit show Billions is based loosely on Cohen. |
97 | Vladimir Potanin | 61 | 17,300 | Metals & Mining | metals | Russia | null | Moscow | null | true | M | 1961-01-03T00:00:00 | null | null | Vladimir Potanin acquired a stake in Norilsk Nickel during Russia's privatization in 1995; today he owns just over a third of the company.
Potanin served as deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin and maintains ties with President Vladimir Putin.
Potanin spent $2.5 billion developing Rosa Khutor, a ski resort, snow... | Potanin split from early partner Mikhail Prokhorov, after the latter's highly publicized arrest on suspicion of trafficking prostitutes. (He wasn't charged.)
Potanin's ex-wife is seeking 50% of his stake in Norilsk Nickel, which could amount to billions and become one of the biggest divorce settlements in history. |
98 | Harold Hamm & family | 76 | 17,200 | Energy | oil & gas | United States | Oklahoma | Oklahoma City | Continental Resources | true | M | 1945-12-11T00:00:00 | Chairman and CEO | 1 | Fracking pioneer Harold Hamm founded and chairs Continental Resources, one of the nation's biggest independent oil companies.
The 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers, he picked cotton barefoot as a child and started working at a gas station at age 16 to support his family.
He eventually started his own trucking comp... | When Hamm divorced his wife of 26 years in late 2014, he wrote her a settlement check for nearly $975 million.
Hamm served as an informal energy advisor to former President Donald Trump and spoke on Trump's behalf at the 2016 Republican National Convention. |
99 | Sun Piaoyang | 63 | 17,100 | Healthcare | pharmaceuticals | China | null | Lianyungang | null | true | M | 1958-09-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Sun Piaoyang turned formerly state-led Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine into one of China's largest producers of anti-infection and tumor-treating medicines.
Sun became the head of Jiangsu Hengrui in 1990 when he was 32 years old.
Sun's wife Zhong Huijuan is the chair of Hansoh Pharmaceutical, a drug maker that listed on the H... | null |
100 | Luo Liguo & family | 66 | 17,000 | Manufacturing | chemicals | China | null | Ningbo | null | true | M | 1956-03-01T00:00:00 | null | null | Luo Liguo chairs Hoshine Silicon Industry, a supplier of silicon metals used in electronics, photovoltaic, and chemical products.
Hoshine went public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on October 30, 2017.
Luo hails from an area famous for making straw hats; Luo started a successful straw-hat making business early in his ... | null |
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