The 20 Richest People in the World
20) Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers
The queen of cosmetics cash. As L’Oréal’s heiress and power steward, she’s proof that great hair days and generational strategy can add up to eyewatering billions. Net worth: about $91B.
19) Carlos Slim
Telecom titan turned all-around empire builder. From phones to finance to construction, Slim’s portfolio is basically a Latin American power map. Net worth: about $95B.
18) Amancio Ortega
The fast-fashion whisperer behind Zara and Inditex. He turned “see it, want it, wear it” into a global retail machine that prints money as fast as it turns trends. (~$100B-ish).
17) Alice Walton
Walmart royalty with a curator’s eye. When she’s not redefining philanthropy and art patronage, she’s reminding the world that distribution scale is a superpower. (~$110B+).
16) Rob Walton
From the family that made weekly shopping trips a cultural ritual. Rob’s fortune rides on the same retail juggernaut—and yes, owning a piece of “how America shops” pays. (~$110B-ish).
15) Jim Walton
Another branch of the Walmart tree, same towering results. Banking chops + big retail stake = quietly colossal wealth. (~$110B-ish).
14) Michael Dell
From dorm-room tinkerer to enterprise-grade rainmaker. He took PCs, went private, went huge in cloud and infrastructure, and kept compounding like a pro. (~$110B+).
13) Jensen Huang
The leather-jacket legend of the AI boom. Nvidia’s chips power your games, your AI models, and increasingly, the future—no wonder his wealth leveled up too. (~$130B+).
12) Sergey Brin
Search pioneer, moonshot enthusiast, and perennial top-tier tech founder. When your early bets reshape the internet, your net worth tends to… search higher. (~$150B+).
11) Larry Page
The other Google co-founder who turned curiosity into a kingdom. From search to self-driving to sci-fi-sounding R&D, Page’s portfolio is future-proofed. (~$160B+).
10) Steve Ballmer
Hype man turned business monk. Microsoft’s ex-CEO rode the cloud wave, then bought an NBA team, then kept winning. Big energy, bigger balance sheet. (~$150B+).
9) Bill Gates
The original software sage. Windows, Office, and decades of compounding—now paired with philanthropy at industrial scale. Still very much in the money conversation. (~$170B-ish).
8) Warren Buffett
The Oracle who made patience glamorous. He buys great businesses, holds forever, and lets time do the heavy lifting—an investing masterclass in human form. (~$150B+).
7) Bernard Arnault
Luxury’s final boss. LVMH is the A‑list of handbags, champagne, and haute everything; when the world wants “it,” Arnault’s brands already have it. (~$170B-$200B range).
6) Mukesh Ambani
Reliance Industries is Ambani’s Swiss-army conglomerate—energy, telecom, retail, media. He’s scaled India’s growth story like few others. (~$110B-$130B).
5) Gautam Adani
Infrastructure, ports, energy—Adani’s empire is built on the backbone of a fast-moving economy. After market whiplash, he’s firmly back in the ultra-rich chat. (~$110B-$140B).
4) Larry Ellison
Enterprise software’s samurai. Oracle’s cloud push plus decades of database dominance keep Ellison cruising near the very top—often literally, on a yacht. (~$170B-$250B).
3) Jeff Bezos
Everything store, everything else. From Prime boxes to cloud servers to rockets, Bezos turned “convenience” into a global operating system. (~$200B-$250B).
2) Mark Zuckerberg
From dorm room to the metaverse to AI—Zuck keeps re-architecting the social web and the hardware around it. The pivot-and-scale playbook is alive and well. (~$200B-$250B).
1) Elon Musk
EVs, rockets, AI, satellite internet—Musk’s portfolio reads like a sci-fi table of contents. Volatile? Sure. But when his bets work, they really work. (Often cited north of $300B, sometimes far higher depending on the day.)
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