RankNameNetWorthAgeSourceCountry of Citizenship
#1Bill Gates$75 B60MicrosoftUnited States
#2Amancio Ortega$67 B80ZaraSpain
#3Warren Buffett$60.8 B85Berkshire HathawayUnited States#4Carlos Slim Helu$50 B76telecomMexico
#5Jeff Bezos$45.2 B52Amazon.comUnited States#6Mark Zuckerberg$44.6 B32FacebookUnited States
#7Larry Ellison$43.6 B71OracleUnited States
#8Michael Bloomberg$40 B74Bloomberg LPUnited States
#9Charles Koch$39.6 B80diversifiedUnited States
#9David Koch$39.6 B76diversifiedUnited States
#11Liliane Bettencourt$36.1 B93L'OrealFrance
#12Larry Page$35.2 B43GoogleUnited States
#13Sergey Brin$34.4 B42GoogleUnited States
#14Bernard Arnault$34 B67LVMHFrance
#15Jim Walton$33.6 B67Wal-MartUnited States
#16Alice Walton$32.3 B66Wal-MartUnited States
#17S. Robson Walton$31.9 B71Wal-MartUnited States
#18Wang Jianlin$28.7 B61real estateChina
#19Jorge Paulo Lemann$27.8 B76beerBrazil
#20Li Ka-shing$27.1 B87diversifiedHong Kong
#21Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr.$25.9 B-supermarketsGermany#22Sheldon Adelson$25.2 B82casinosUnited States
#23George Soros$24.9 B85hedge fundsUnited States
#24Phil Knight$24.4 B78NikeUnited States
#25David Thomson$23.8 B58mediaCanada
#26Steve Ballmer$23.5 B60MicrosoftUnited States
#27Forrest Mars, Jr.$23.4 B84candyUnited States
#27Jacqueline Mars$23.4 B76candyUnited State
s#27John Mars$23.4 B79candyUnited States
#30Maria Franca Fissolo$22.1 B98Nutella, ChocolatesItaly
#31Lee Shau Kee$21.5 B88real estateHong Kong
#32Stefan Persson$20.8 B68H&MSweden
#33Jack Ma$20.5 B51AlibabaChina
#34Theo Albrecht, Jr.$20.3 B65Aldi, Trader Joe'sGermany
#35Michael Dell$19.8 B51DellUnited States
#36Mukesh Ambani$19.3 B59petrochemicals, oil & gasIndia
#37Leonardo Del Vecchio$18.7 B81eyeglassesItaly
#38Susanne Klatten$18.5 B54BMW, pharmaceuticalsGermany
#39Georg Schaeffler$18.1 B51automotiveGermany
#40Paul Allen$17.5 B63Microsoft, investmentsUnited States
#41Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud$17.3 B61investmentsSaudi Arabia#42Joseph Safra$17.2 B77bankingBrazil
#43Carl Icahn$17 B80investmentsUnited State
s#44Laurene Powell Jobs$16.7 B52Apple, DisneyUnited States#44Dilip Shanghvi$16.7 B60pharmaceuticalsIndia
#46Ma Huateng$16.6 B44internet servicesChina
#47Dieter Schwarz$16.4 B76retailGermany
#48Ray Dalio$15.6 B66hedge fundsUnited States
#48Stefan Quandt$15.6 B50BMWGermany
#50James Simons$15.5 B78hedge fundsUnited States
#51Aliko Dangote$15.4 B59cement, sugar, flourNigeria
#51Michael Otto$15.4 B73retail, real estateGermany
#53Len Blavatnik$15.3 B58diversifiedUnited States
#54Donald Bren$15.1 B84real estateUnited States
#55Azim Premji$15 B70software servicesIndia
#56Serge Dassault$14.7 B91aviationFrance
#57Tadashi Yanai$14.6 B67retailJapan
#58Cheng Yu-tung$14.5 B90diversifiedHong Kong
#58Hinduja family$14.5 B-HindujaGroupUnited Kingdom
#60Leonid Mikhelson$14.4 B60gas, chemicalsRussia
#60David & Simon Reuben$14.4 B73investments, real estateUnited Kingdom#62Stefano Pessina$13.4 B74drugstoresItaly
#63Mikhail Fridman$13.3 B52oil, banking, telecomRussia
#64Dietrich Mateschitz$13.2 B72Red BullAustria
#65Abigail Johnson$13.1 B54money managementUnited States#65Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen$13.1 B68LegoDenmark
#65Joseph Lau$13.1 B64real estateHong Kong
#68Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor$13 B64real estateUnited Kingdom
#68Thomas & Raymond Kwok$13 B-real estateHong Kong
#68Marcel Herrmann Telles$13 B66beerBrazil
#71Henry Sy$12.9 B91SM Investments CorporationPhilippines
#72Steve Cohen$12.7 B60hedge fundsUnited States
#73Pallonji Mistry$12.5 B86constructionIreland
#73Hans Rausing$12.5 B90packagingSweden
#73Alisher Usmanov$12.5 B62steel, telecom, investmentsRussia
#76Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken$12.3 B61HeinekenNetherlands#77Charles Ergen$12.2 B63satellite TVUnited States
#78Ronald Perelman$12.1 B73leveraged buyoutsUnited States
#78Vladimir Potanin$12.1 B55metalsRussia
#80Stephen Ross$12 B76real estateUnited States
#81Patrick Soon-Shiong$11.9 B64pharmaceuticalsUnited States
#82Masayoshi Son$11.7 B58internet, telecomJapan
#82Heinz Hermann Thiele$11.7 B75brakesGermany
#84Francois Pinault$11.5 B79retailFrance
#85David Tepper$11.4 B58hedge fundsUnited States
#85Gennady Timchenko$11.4 B63oil & gasRussia
#87Carlos Alberto Sicupira$11.3 B68beerBrazil
#88Shiv Nadar$11.1 B70software servicesIndia
#88Thomas Peterffy$11.1 B71discount brokerageUnited States
#90Robin Li$11 B47internet searchChina
#90Alain Wertheimer$11 B67ChanelFrance
#90Gerard Wertheimer$11 B65ChanelFrance
#93Alexey Mordashov$10.9 B50steel, investmentsRussia
#94Elon Musk$10.7 B44Tesla MotorsUnited States
#94Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi$10.7 B72beveragesThailand#96Petr Kellner$10.6 B52banking, insuranceCzech Republic
#96Rupert Murdoch$10.6 B85mediaUnited States
#98Viktor Vekselberg$10.5 B59metals, energyRussia
#99Lukas Walton$10.4 B29Wal-MartUnited States
#100Eric Schmidt$10.2 B61GoogleUnited States
#101Iris Fontbona$10.1 B73miningChile
#101Massimiliana Landini Aleotti$10.1 B73pharmaceuticalsItaly
#103Mike Adenuga$10 B63telecom, oilNigeria
#103Klaus-Michael Kuehne$10 B78shippingGermany
#103Robert Kuok$10 B92palm oil/shipping/real estateMalaysia
#103Samuel Newhouse, Jr.$10 B88mediaUnited States
#107Lei Jun$9.8 B46smartphonesChina
#108Philip Anschutz$9.7 B76investmentsUnited States
#108Jim Kennedy$9.7 B68mediaUnited States
#108Blair Parry-Okeden$9.7 B66mediaUnited States
#108John Paulson$9.7 B60hedge fundsUnited States
#112Lee Kun-Hee$9.6 B74SamsungSouth Korea
#113Hasso Plattner$9.5 B72softwareGermany
#113Stephen Schwarzman$9.5 B69investmentsUnited States#115Andrew Beal$9.4 B63banks, real estateUnited States
#116Vladimir Lisin$9.3 B60steel, transportRussia
#116John Menard, Jr.$9.3 B76retailUnited States
#116Donald Newhouse$9.3 B86mediaUnited States
#116UdoHarald Tschira$9.3 B-SoftwareGerman
y#116Galen Weston$9.3 B75retailCanada
#121German LarreaMota Velasco$9.2 B62miningMexico
#122He Xiangjian$9 B73home appliancesChina
#122Leonard Lauder$9 B83Estee LauderUnited States
#124Vagit Alekperov$8.9 B65oilRussia
#124Dustin Moskovitz$8.9 B32FacebookUnited States
#124Luis Carlos Sarmiento$8.9 B83bankingColombia#127Gina Rinehart$8.8 B62miningAustralia
#128German Khan$8.7 B54oil, banking, telecomRussia
#129Ernesto Bertarelli$8.6 B50biotech, investmentsSwitzerland
#129Hui Ka Yan$8.6 B57real estateChina
#129Jan Koum$8.6 B40WhatsAppUnited States
#129Xavier Niel$8.6 B48internet, telecomFrance
#133John Fredriksen$8.5 B71shippingCyprus
#133Cyrus Poonawalla$8.5 B75vaccinesIndia
#135Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte$8.4 B-shippingSwitzerland
#135Lakshmi Mittal$8.4 B65steelIndia
#135Eyal Ofer$8.4 B65real estate, shippingIsrael
#138Mohammed Al Amoudi$8.3 B69oil, diversifiedSaudi Arabia
#139Hank & Doug Meijer$8.2 B-supermarketsUnited States
#139Andrey Melnichenko$8.2 B44coal, fertilizersRussia
#141William Ding$8.1 B44online gamesChina
#141R. Budi Hartono$8.1 B75banking, tobaccoIndonesia
#141Reinhold Wuerth$8.1 B81fastenersGermany
#144James Goodnight$8 B73softwareUnited States
#144Johann Graf$8 B69gamblingAustria
#146Michael Hartono$7.9 B76tobacco, bankingIndonesia
#146Dietmar Hopp$7.9 B76softwareGermany
#148Stanley Kroenke$7.7 B68sports, real estateUnited States
#148Dmitry Rybolovlev$7.7 B49fertilizerRussia
#148Suh Kyung-Bae$7.7 B53cosmeticsSouth Korea
#151Roman Abramovich$7.6 B49steel, investmentsRussia
#151Emmanuel Besnier$7.6 B45cheeseFrance
#151Lui Che Woo$7.6 B87casinosHong Kong
#151Robert & Philip Ng$7.6 B-real estateSingapore
#151Mikhail Prokhorov$7.6 B51investmentsRussia
#151August von Finck$7.6 B86investmentsGermany
#157Ken Griffin$7.5 B47hedge fundsUnited States
#158Ananda Krishnan$7.4 B78telecomMalaysia
#159Eli Broad$7.3 B82investmentsUnited States
#159Thomas Frist, Jr.$7.3 B77health careUnited States
#159Herbert Kohler, Jr.$7.3 B77plumbing fixturesUnited States
#159Harry Triguboff$7.3 B83propertyAustralia
#163Edward Johnson, III.$7.2 B85money managementUnited States
#163Pierre Omidyar$7.2 B48eBayUnited States
#163Takemitsu Takizaki$7.2 B70sensorsJapan
#163Wang Wenyin$7.2 B48mining, copper productsChina
#167Micky Arison$7.1 B66Carnival CruisesUnited States#167George Kaiser$7.1 B73oil & gas, bankingUnited States
#167Les Wexner$7.1 B78retailUnited States
#170Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez$6.9 B84miningMexico
#171Dhanin Chearavanont$6.8 B77diversifiedThailand
#171Margarita Louis-Dreyfus$6.8 B53commoditiesSwitzerland
#173Alexei Kuzmichev$6.7 B53oil, banking, telecomRussia
#174Nicky Oppenheimer$6.6 B70diamondsSouth Africa
#174Peter Woo$6.6 B69real estateHong Kong
#176Jean-Claude Decaux$6.5 B78advertisingFrance
#176David Geffen$6.5 B73entertainmentUnited States
#178James Chambers$6.4 B59MediaUnited States
#178Walter Droege$6.4 B63ConsultingGermany
#178Graeme Hart$6.4 B60investmentsNew Zealand
#178Sandra Ortega Mera$6.4 B47ZaraSpain
#178Katharine Rayner$6.4 B71mediaUnited States
#178Margaretta Taylor$6.4 B74mediaUnited States
#184John Grayken$6.3 B59private equityIreland
#184Uday Kotak$6.3 B57bankingIndia
#184Liu Qiangdong$6.3 B41e-commerceChina
#184John Malone$6.3 B75cable televisionUnited States
#188Silvio Berlusconi$6.2 B79mediaItaly
#188Garrett Camp$6.2 B37Uber TechnologiesCanada
#188Curt Engelhorn$6.2 B90pharmaceuticalsGermany
#188Travis Kalanick$6.2 B39Uber TechnologiesUnited States#188Walter Kwok$6.2 B65real estateHong Kong
#188Eduardo Saverin$6.2 B34FacebookBrazil
#188Xu Shihui$6.2 B58snacks, beveragesChina
#188Zong Qinghou$6.2 B70beveragesChina
#196Giorgio Armani$6.1 B81ArmaniItaly
#196Kumar Birla$6.1 B48commoditiesIndia
#196Eva Gonda de Rivera$6.1 B-beveragesMexico
#196Wolfgang Marguerre$6.1 B75pharmaceuticalsGermany
#196Hansjoerg Wyss$6.1 B81medical devicesSwitzerland#201Jay Y. Lee$6 B47SamsungSouth Korea
#201Gordon Moore$6 B87IntelUnited States
#201Frederik Paulsen$6 B65health careSweden
#201Tsai Eng-Meng$6 B59food, beveragesTaiwan
#205Patrick Drahi$5.9 B52telecomFrance
#205Philip & Cristina Green$5.9 B64retailUnited Kingdom
#205Mikhail Gutseriev$5.9 B58oil, real estateRussia
#205Shahid Khan$5.9 B65auto partsUnited States
#205Richard LeFrak$5.9 B70real estateUnited States
#205Tom & Judy Love$5.9 B78retail & gas stationsUnited States
#205Pan Sutong$5.9 B53real estate, financeHong Kong
#205Zhang Zhidong$5.9 B44internet mediaChina
#205Zhou Qunfei$5.9 B46smartphone glass coversHong Kong#214Michael Kadoorie$5.8 B74hotels, energyHong Kong
#214Jorn Rausing$5.8 B56packagingSweden
#214John A. Sobrato$5.8 B77real estateUnited States
#214Dennis Washington$5.8 B81construction, miningUnited States
#214Christoffel Wiese$5.8 B74retailingSouth Africa
#219Francis Choi$5.7 B68real estateHong Kong
#219Sergei Galitsky$5.7 B48retailRussi