Forbes' Billionaire List

Michael Bloomberg

#10 $48 B Founded Bloomberg LP- financial information and media company Donated over $4 B to gun control, climate change, and other causes

Bernard Arnault

#11 $59 B Founder of Louis Vuitton

Sergey Brin

#13 $44 B Co-Founder of Alphabet- parent company of Google

Liliane Bettencourt

#14 $45 B World's richest woman Founded L'Oreal- cosmetics company

S. Robinson Walton

#15 $39 B Oldest son of the Wal-Mart founder- Sam Walton

Alice Walton

#17 $38 B Only daughter of the Wal-Mart founder- Sam Walton

Want Jianlin

#18 $30 B Richest man in China Founder of Dalian Wanda- entertainment and real estate empire

Sheldon Adelson

#20 $36 B Founded Las Vegas Sands- largest casino compnay in America

Jacqueline Mars

#26 $26 B Inherited Mars when father died Mars- candy company Philathropist

George Soros

#29 $25 B Founder of Soros Fund Management LLC- hedge funds

Maria Franca Fissolo

#29 $31 B Ferrero Group- sweets company, Nutella, Kinder, Tic-Tacs

Jeff Bezos

#3 $84 B Founder of Amazon

Amancio Ortega

#4 $82 B Richest man in Europe and wealthiest retailer in the world Cofounded Zara

Mark Zuckerberg

#5 $72 B Founded Facebook Pledge to give away 99% of Facebook stake

Carlos Slim Helu

#6 $70 B Richest man in Mexico Founded America Movil- Latin America's biggest mobile telecom firm

Larry Ellison

#7 $64 B Founded Oracle

David Koch

#8 $53 B Co-Founded Koch Industries- America's second largest private company Sells pipelines, chemicals, Dixie cups, Brawny paper towels

Charles Koch

#8 $53 B Co-Founded Koch Industries- America's second largest private compnay Sells pipelines, chemicals, Dixie cups, Brawny paper towels

Bill Gates

#1 $86 B Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation- world's largest charitable foundation Founded Microsoft Dropped out of Harvard

Larry Page

#12 $45 B Co-Founder of Alphabet- parent company of Google

Jim Walton

#16 $39 B Youngest son of the Wal-Mart founder- Sam Walton

Li Ka- shing

#19 $34 B Hong Kong's richest person Founded Ck Hutchinson Holdings

Warren Buffet

#2 $76 B Berkshire Hathaway owns more than 60 companies including Geico, Duracell, and Dairy Queen Pledge to give away 99% of money

Steve Ballmer

#21 Former CEO of Microsoft- led Microsoft from 2000 to 2014

Jorge Paulo Lemann

#22 $31 B Philanthropist and Investor Gained wealth from beer company

Jack Ma

#23 $39 B Founded Alibaba Group- one of world's largest e-commerce businesses

David Thomson

#24 $28 B Thomson Reuters- media and publishing empire

Beate Heister and Karl Albrecht Jr.

#24 $31 B Children of the founder of Aldi- supermarket powerhouse, grocery chain

John Mars

#26 $26 B Inherited Mars when father died Mars- candy company

Phil Knight

#28 $25 B Founder of Nike