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
