Richest People

#1 Vladimir Putin — $200 Billion
 

 

“Putin … is one of the richest men in the world. I estimate that he has accumulated $200 billion of ill-gotten gains … over his 17 years in power. He keeps his money in the West and all of his money in the West is potentially exposed to asset freezes and confiscation. Therefore, he has a significant and very personal interest in finding a way to get rid of the Magnitsky sanctions” — Bill Browder

“I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe but in the whole world: I collect emotions” – Vladimir Putin

Name   Net Worth B   Country

• • Elon Musk – $217 Billion – Tesla Motors, Spacex, – United States
  • Vladimir Putin – $200 Billion – 64 – Kleptocracy – Russia
  • Bernard Arnault – $177 Billion – 63 – LVMH -France
  • Jeff Bezos – $158 Billion – Amazon – United States
  • Larry Ellison – $131 Billion – 76 – Oracle – United States
  • Warren Buffett – $114 Billion – 96 – Berkshire Hathaway – United States
  • Bill Gates – $110 Billion – 65 – Microsoft – United States
  • Mark Zuckerberg, 32 – $107 billion – Facebook
  • Larry Page – $105 billion – United States
  • Sergey Brin – $101 billion – United States
  • Mukesh Ambani – $84.5 Billion – India
  • Amancio Ortega – $77 Billion – 76 – Zara – Spain
  • Francoise Bettencourt – $73.6 Billion – L’Oréal – France
  • Zhong Shanshan – $68.9 Billion – beverages, pharmaceuticals – China
  • Steve Ballmer – $102 Billion – Microsoft – United States
  • Ma Huateng – $65.8 – Internet – China
  • Carlos Slim Helu – $67.1 Billion – 72 – Telecom – Mexico
  • Alice Walton – $61.8 – Wal-Mart – United States
  • Jim Walton – $60.2 – Wal-Mart – United States
  • Rob Walton – $59.5 – Wal-Mart – United States
  • Michael R. Bloomberg $59 Billion – United States
  • Charles Koch – $60 – diversified – United States
  • David Koch – $60 – diversified – United States
  • Jim Walton – $46.4 – Wal-Mart – United States
  • S. Robson Walton – $46.2 – Wal-Mart – United States
  • Christy Walton – $46 – Wal-Mart – United States
  • Yun “Jack” Ma – $39 Billion – China
  • Sheldon Adelson – $38.5 Billion – Casinos – United States
  • Li Ka-shing – $38.9 Billion – Diversified – Hong Kong
  • Mackenzie Bezos – $34.5 Billion – Amazon – United States

Wealthiest in Hong Kong

• • Hui Ka Yan – $30.4 Billion – Real Estate – China
  • Lee Shau Kee – $30.3 Billion – Real Estate – Hong Kong
  • Wang Jianlin – $30 Billion – Entertainment, Real Estate – China
  • Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr. – $29.8 Billion – Germany – Supermarkets
  • Phil Knight $ 29.6 billion – Nike – United States
  • Jorge Paulo Lemann – $27.4 Billion – Brazil
  • Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Al Saud – 31 – Saudi Arabia
  • Eike Batista – $30 Billion – 55 -Mining, oil – Brazil
  • Francois Pinault – $27 Billion – Luxury Goods – France
  • Georg Schaeffler $25.3 Billion – Auto parts – Germany
  • Susanne Klatten – $25 Billion – BMW, Pharmacy – Germany
  • David Thomson – $25 Billion – Media – Canada
  • Jacqueline Mars $23.6 Billion – Candy, Pet Food – United States
  • John Mars $23.6 Billion – Candy, Pet Food – United States
  • Joseph Safra $23.5 Billion – Banking – Brazil
  • Giovanni Ferrero – $24 Billion – Italy
  • Dietrich Mateschitz – $23 Billion – Austria
  • Michael Dell $ 22.7 billion – Dell Computers – United States
  • Masayoshi Son $22.7 Billion – Internet, Telco – Japan
  • Serge Dassault – 22.6 Billion – Diversified – France
  • Stefan Quandt $22 Billion – BMW – Germany
  • Yang Huiyan – $21 Billion – Real Estate – China
  • Paul Allen – $21.7 Billion – Microsoft, Investments – United States
  • Leonardo Del Vecchio- $21.7 Billion – Eyeglasses – Italy
  • Dieter Schwarz – $20.9 Billion – Retail – Germany
  • Karl Albrecht – $20.9 Billion – 92 – Aldi, Trader Joes – Germany
  • Thomas Peterffy – $20.3 – Discount Brokerage – United States
  • Theo Albrecht, – $20.2 Billion – Germany – Jr. Aldi, Trader Joes
  • Len Blavatnik $20.2 Billion – Diversified – United States
  • He Xiangjian – $20.2 Billion – Home Appliances – China
  • Lui Che Woo – $20.2 Billion – Casinos – Hong Kong
  • James Simons – $20 Billion – Hedge funds – United States
  • Henry Sy – $20 Billion – Diversified – Philippines
  • Hinduja family $19.5 Billion – Diversified – United Kingdom
  • Tadashi Yanai – $19.5 Billion – Japan
  • Vladimir Lisin – $19.1 – Steel, Transport – Russia
  • Laurene Powell Jobs – $18.8 Billion – Apple, Disney – United States
  • Azim Premji – $18.8 Billion – Software Services – India
  • Alexey Mordashov $18.7 Billion – Steel, Investments – Russia
  • Lee Kun-Hee – $18.6 Billion – South Korea
  • Lakshmi Mittal – $18.5 – Steel – India
  • Wang Wei – 18.2 Billion – Package Delivery – China
  • Leonid Mikhelson – $18 Billion – Gas, Chemicals – Russia
  • Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi – $17.9 Billion – Drinks, Real Estate – Thailand
  • Pallonji Mistry – $17.8 Billion – Real Estate – Ireland
  • Ray Dalio $17.7 billion – Hedge Funds – United States
  • Takemitsu Takizaki $17.5 Billion – Sensors – Japan
  • William Ding $17.4 Billion – Online Games – China
  • R. Budi Hartono – $17.4 Billion – Banking, Tobacco – Indonesia
  • Gina Rinehart – $17.4 Billion – Mining – Australia
  • German Larrea Mota Velasco $17.4 Billion – Mining – Mexico
  • Carl Icahn – $16.8 Billion – Investments – United States
  • Stefan Persson – $16.8 Billion – 65 – H&M – Sweden
  • Michael Hartono – $16.7 Billion – Banking, tobacco – Indonesia
  • Joseph Lau – $16.7 Billion – Real Estate – Hong Kong
  • Thomas & Raymond Kwok – $16.5 Billion – Real Estate – Hong Kong
  • Vagit Alekperov – $16.4 Billion – Oil – Russia
  • James Ratcliffe – $16.4 Billion – Chemicals – United Kingdom
  • Donald Bren – $16.3 Billion – Real Estate – United States
  • Iris Fontbona – $16.3 Billion – Mining – Chile
  • Gennady Timchenko – $16 Billion – Oil, Gas Russia
  • Abigail Johnson $ 15.9 billion – Money management – United States
  • Vladimir Potanin – $15.9 – Metals – Russia
  • Lukas Walton – $ 15.9 billion – Wal-Mart – United States
  • Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken $15.8 Billion – Inheritance, Brewing, Banking – Netherlands
  • Zhang Zhidong $15.6 billion – Internet, Media – China
  • Petr Kellner $15.5 Billion – Banking, Czech Republic
  • Andrey Melnichenko $15.5 Billion – Coal, Fertilizer – Russia
  • David and Simon Reuben – $15.5 Billion – Property, Internet – United Kingdom
  • Klaus-Michael Kuehne – $15.3 Billion – Shipping – Germany
  • Li Shufu – $15.3 Billion – Automobiles – China
  • Mikhail Fridman – $15.1 Billion – Oil, Banking, Telecom – Russia
  • Rupert Murdoch – $15 Billion – Newspapers, Tv Network – United States
  • Alhaji Aliko Dangote – $14.1 Billion – Cement, Sugar – Nigeria
  • Robert Kuok Hock Nien – $12.5 Billion – Palm Oil, Shippig – Malaysia
  • Alisher Usmanov – $12.5 Billion – Steel, Telecom – Russia
  • Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo – $12.1 Billion – Banking – Colombia
  • Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi – $12 Billion – Thailand

• • Rinat Akhmetov – $12 Billion – Ukraine
  • Henry Sy Sr. – $12 Billion – Philippines
  • Petr Kellner – $11 Billion – Czech Republic
  • Charlene L. De Carvalho-Heineken – $10 Billion – Netherlands
  • Tsai Eng-Meng – $9 Billion – Taiwan
  • Majid Al Futtaim – $9 Billion – U.A.E.
  • W.G. Galen Weston – $9 Billion – Canada
  • Ernesto Bertarelli – $8.9 Billion – Biotech, Investmets – Switzerland
  • Wee Cho Yaw – $8 Billion – Singapore
  • Graeme Richard Hart – $8 Billion – New Zealand
  • Johann P. Rupert – $8 Billion – South Africa
  • Tan Siok Tijen – $8 Billion – Indonesia
  • John Fredriksen – $7 Billion – Shipping – Cyprus
  • Kjeld Kirk Kristansen – $7 Billion – Denmark
  • Eyal M. Ofer – $7 Billion – Israel
  • Nassef Onsi Naguib Sawiris – $7 Billion – Egypt
  • Bidzina Ivanishivili – $6 Billion – Georgia
  • Olav Thon – $6 Billion – Norway
  • Dick & Betsy DeVos – $5.1 Billion – United States
  • John P. Grayken – $5 Billion – Ireland
  • Anthony von Mandl – $3.5 Billion – Canada
  • Herbert Wertheim – $3.1 Billion – United States
  • Orlando Bravo – $3 Billion – United States

Pat Bagley – Salt Lake Tribune

Wealthiest Women

• • • MacKenzie Bezos
    • Net worth: $34.5 billion
    • Country: US
    • N/A
    • Industry: Ecommerce
    • Source of wealth: Amazon
    • Lynda Resnick
    • Charley Gallay/Getty
    • Net worth: $2.4 billion
    • Country: US
    • Age: 72
    • Industry: Agriculture
    • Source of wealth: The Wonderful Company
  • • Marian Ilitch
    • Net worth: $2.4 billion
    • Country: US
    • Age: 83
    • Industry: Diversified
    • Source of wealth: Little Caesars
  • • Johnelle Hunt
    • Net worth: $2.5 billion
    • Country: US
    • Age: 84
    • Industry: Logistics
    • Source of wealth: J.B. Hunt Transport Services
  • • Zhang Xin
    • Net worth: $2.5 billion
    • Country: China
    • Age: 50
    • Industry: Real estate
    • Source of wealth: Soho China
  • • Judy Faulkner
    • Net worth: $2.5 billion
    • Country: US
    • Age: 72
    • Industry: Healthcare software
    • Source of wealth: Epic Systems
  • • Giuliana Benetton
    • Net worth: $2.7 billion
    • Country: Italy
    • Age: 78
    • Industry: Fashion retail
    • Source of wealth: Benetton Group
  • • Wu Yajun
    • Net worth: $2.8 billion
    • Country: China
    • Age: 51
    • Industry: Real estate
    • Source of wealth: Longfor Properties
  • • Oprah Winfrey
    • Net worth: $2.8 billion
    • Country: US
    • Age: 62
    • Industry: Media
    • Source of wealth: Harpo Productions
  • • Jin Sook Chang
    • Net worth: $3.1 billion
    • Country: US
    • Age: 52
    • Industry: Fashion retail
    • Source of wealth: Forever 21
  • • Doris Fisher
    • Net worth: $3.2 billion
    • Country: US
    • Age: 84
    • Industry: Fashion retail
    • Source of wealth: Gap
  • • Elizabeth Holmes
    • Net worth: $4.5 billion
    • Country: US
    • Age: 32
    • Industry: Healthcare
    • Source of wealth: Theranos
  • • Pollyanna Chu
    • Net worth: $4.9 billion
    • Country: Hong Kong
    • Age: 58
    • Industry: Finance
    • Source of wealth: Kingston Financial Group
  • • Chan Laiwa
    • Net worth: $5.2 billion
    • Country: China
    • Age: 74
    • Industry: Real estate
    • Source of wealth: Fu Wah International
  • • Diane Hendricks
    • Net worth: $5.6 billion
    • Country: US
    • Age: 69
    • Industry: Building materials
    • Source of wealth: ABC Supply Co.
  • • Zhou Qunfei
    • Net worth: $6 billion
    • Country: China
    • Age: 46
    • Industry: Manufacturing
    • Source of wealth: Lens Technology

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World’s Richest 85 People Have As Much As Bottom Half Of The Population https://t.co/3qLpExCjW2 pic.twitter.com/cRInHP0Miy

— Captain Clarion (@citizensrock) September 21, 2014

TitleMax provides this list of which countries have the most Billionaires:

No matter where you go in the world, rich people aren’t far away. Every continent is home to a billionaire — or at least a millionaire who has profited from the continent’s bounty. Here is a look at wealth by continent and an introduction to the world’s richest people.

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Richest Members of Congress, 2014

• • • Darrell Issa (R-Calif) $436,500,015.00
    • Jared Polis (D-Colo) $387,864,231.00
    • Mark Warner (D-Va) $242,889,630.00
    • John K. Delaney (D-Md) $214,902,588.00
    • Michael McCaul (R-Texas) $160,340,931.00
    • Dave Trott (R-Mich) $113,844,576
    • Vernon Buchanan (R-Fla) $106,912,071.00
    • Diane Feinstein (D-WVa) $101,290,514.00
    • Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) $101,273,023.00
    • Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) $81,745,158.00

Winters, Jeffrey A, Wealth Defense and the Limits of Liberal Democracy (2014). APSA 2014 Annual Meeting Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2452419

Here are the wealthiest people in each state of the U.S.:

• • • Washington – Jeff Bezos – $158 Billion
    • Nebraska – Warren Buffett $ 114 billion
    • New York – Michael R. Bloomberg $ 50 billion
    • California – Larry Ellison $ 131 billion
    • Kansas – David Koch $ 42 billion
    • Arkansas – Christy Walton $ 37.9 billion
    • Nevada – Sheldon Adelson $ 29 billion
    • Virginia – Forrest Mars Jr. $ 25.9 billion
    • Oregon – Phil Knight $ 19 billion
    • Texas – Michael Dell $ 17.9 billion
    • Oklahoma – Harold Hamm $ 17.6 billion
    • Colorado – Charles Ergen $16.7 billion
    • Massachusetts – Abigail Johnson $ 16.2 billion
    • Connecticut – Raymond Dalio $ 14.3 billion
    • Georgia – Ann Cox Chambers $ 12.1 billion
    • North Carolina – James Goodnight $ 11.1 billion
    • New Hampshire – Richard Cohen $ 10.1 billion
    • New Jersey – David Tepper $ 10 billion
    • Wisconsin – John Menard Jr. $9.2 billion
    • Missouri – Jack C. Taylor $ 7.4 billion
    • Florida – Mickey Arison $ 6.5 billion
    • Michigan – Kenneth Dart $ 5.8 billion
    • Montana – Dennis Washington $ 5.8 billion
    • Illinois – Kenneth C. Griffin $5.3 billion
    • Indiana – Gayle Cook $ 5.1 billion
    • Ohio – Leslie Wexner $ 5.1 billion
    • Minnesota – Whitney MacMillan $ 5.1 billion
    • Arizona – Bruce Halle Sr. $ 4.7 billion
    • Tennessee – Thomas Frist Jr. $ 4.3 billion
    • Maryland – Theodore Lerner $ 3.7 billion
    • South Carolina – Anita Drucker $ 2.7 billion
    • Kentucky – Brad M. Kelley $ 2 billion
    • Alabama – Marguerite Harbert $ 1.8 billion
    • Pennsylvania – John S. Middleton $ 1.8 billion
    • Rhode Island – Jonathan Nelson $ 1.6 billion
    • Vermont – Robert Stiller $ 1.6 billion
    • West Virginia – James C. Justice II $ 1.6 billion
    • Louisiana – Thomas Benson $ 1.5 billion
    • Iowa – Dennis Albaugh $ 1.4 billion
    • Idaho – Frank Vandersloot $ 1.2 billion
    • North Dakota – Gary Tharaldson $ 1 billion
    • Utah – John M. Huntsman Sr. $ .95 billion
    • New Mexico – Mack C. Chase $ .91 billion
    • Mississippi – David H. Nutt $ .88 billion
    • Maine – Leon Gorman $ .84 billion
    • Delaware – Robert Gore $ .83 billion
    • Hawaii – Jay Shidler $ .70 billion
    • South Dakota – Denny T. Sanford $ .58 billion
    • Alaska – Robert Gilliam $ .48billion
    • Wyoming – Jonathan Ledecky $ .34 billion

Youngest Billionaires

• • • Lukas Walton, 30 – $11.2 billion – Wal-Mart
    • Dustin Moskovitz, 32 – $10.4 billion – Facebook
    • Scott Duncan, 33 – $5.2 billionn – Pipelines
    • Andres Santo Domingo, 38 – $4.8 bil – Beer
    • Alejandro Santo Domingo, 39 – $4.8 billion – Beer
    • Nathan Blecharczyk, 33 – $3.3 billion – Airbnb
    • Brian Chesky, 35 – $3.3 billion – Airbnb
    • Joe Gebbia, 35 – $3.3 billlion – Airbnb
    • Robert Pera, 38 – $3.2 billion – Wireless equipment

• • • Julio Mario Santo Domingo III, 31 – $2.4 billion – Beer
    • Sean Parker, 36 – $2.4 billion – Facebook
    • Evan SpiegeL, 26 – $2.1 billlion – Snapchat
    • Bobby Murphy, 28 – $1.8 billion – Snapchat

Richest Britains 2017

The 2017 Sunday Times Rich List (U.K.):

• • • Sri and Gopi Hinduja (Industry, Finance) £16.2bn
    • Len Blavatnik (Investment, Music, Media) £15.9bn
    • David and Simon Reuben (Property, Internet) £14bn
    • Lakshmi Mittal and family (Steel) £13.2bn
    • Alisher Usmanov (Mining, Investment) £11.8bn
    • Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli (Pharmaceuticals) £11.5bn
    • Guy, George and Galen Jr Weston and family (Retailing) £10.5bn
    • Kirsten and Jorn Rausing (Inheritance, Investment) £9.6bn
    • The Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family (Property) £9.5bn
    • Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho (Inheritance, Brewing, Banking) £9.3bn
    • Hans Rausing and family (Packaging) £9.25bn
    • John Fredriksen and family (Shipping, Oil services) £8bn
    • Roman Abramovich (Industry, Oil) £8bn
    • Sir James Dyson and family (Household goods, Technology) £7.8bn
    • Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay (Property, Media, Internet retailing) £7.2bn
    • Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and family (Hotels, Food, Industry) £6.7bn
    • Earl Cadogan and family (Property) £6.5bn
    • Jim Ratcliffe (Chemicals) £5.75bn
    • Nicky Oppenheimer and family (Mining, Diamonds) £5.5bn
    • Carrie and Francois Perrodo and family (Oil, Gas, Wine) £5.17bn

That list totals £658bn ($851bn USD as of May 2017) of wealth in total for the above list of 20 richest in Britain.

Here are the 125 Wealthiest People in the World (updated as new data is released), where they are from and the industry that made them rich:

Before you allow envy to creep in, take note of a 2018 study, titled ‘Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure‘
A. Pluchino, A. E. Biondo, A. Rapisarda state quite plainly that it’s all a matter of luck:

Distribution of wealth – often considered a proxy of success – follows typically a power law (Pareto law), with a large majority of poor people and a very small number of billionaires.
— A. Pluchino, A. E. Biondo, A. Rapisarda

This paper got plenty of attention from the press. Inc. created an article titled, ‘If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich??’ along with similar commentary elsewhere. Who knows? You could be lucky!

Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

The communist nation now boasts 596 billionaires – 60 more than the U.S.- after a staggering 242 Chinese people became billionaires for the first time in just one year, according to a new survey

Source BloomBerg