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The richest, by Forbes' estimate

The 73 people on this site, in the order of Forbes' published estimate. Forbes moves these figures with share prices, so each row carries the day of its figure, and two people a few billion apart can swap places within a week. Each profile shows their rank on Forbes' own list.

  1. 1Elon MuskSpaceX$913B15 Oct 2026
  2. 2Jeff BezosAmazon$381B9 Oct 2026
  3. 3Larry PageAlphabet (Google)$286B15 Oct 2026
  4. 4Michael DellDell Technologies$281B6 Oct 2026
  5. 5Sergey BrinAlphabet (Google)$265Bdate not stated
  6. 6Mark ZuckerbergMeta Platforms$253B22 Sep 2026
  7. 7Jensen HuangNvidia$192B15 Oct 2026
  8. 8Larry EllisonOracle$184B9 Oct 2026
  9. 9Steve BallmerMicrosoft$165B15 Oct 2026
  10. 10Warren BuffettBerkshire Hathaway$151B17 Oct 2026
  11. 11Rob WaltonWalmart$142B17 Oct 2026
  12. 12Amancio OrtegaInditex$142B6 Oct 2026
  13. 13Jim WaltonWalmart$137B15 Oct 2026
  14. 14Alice WaltonWalmart$123B12 Oct 2026
  15. 15Carlos Slim HelúAmérica Móvil$120B17 Oct 2026
  16. 16Bernard ArnaultLVMH$119B8 Oct 2026
  17. 17Bill GatesMicrosoft$118B15 Oct 2026
  18. 18Changpeng ZhaoBinance$115B30 Sep 2026
  19. 19Thomas PeterffyInteractive Brokers$107B5 Sep 2026
  20. 20Zhang YimingByteDance$101B4 Sep 2026
  21. 21Michael BloombergBloomberg L.P.$94.9B9 Oct 2026
  22. 22Françoise Bettencourt MeyersL'Oréal$90.7B7 Oct 2026
  23. 23Julia KochKoch, Inc.$84.6B22 Sep 2026
  24. 24Mukesh AmbaniReliance Industries$84.2B15 Oct 2026
  25. 25Gautam AdaniAdani Group (Adani Enterprises)$83.9B25 Aug 2026
  26. 26Jeff YassSusquehanna International Group$77.8B16 Sep 2026
  27. 27Charles KochKoch, Inc.$76.9B14 Oct 2026
  28. 28Zhong ShanshanNongfu Spring$61.3B2 Sep 2026
  29. 29Masayoshi SonSoftBank Group$60.4B9 Oct 2026
  30. 30Dieter SchwarzSchwarz Group (Lidl, Kaufland)$58.2B17 Sep 2026
  31. 31Ken GriffinCitadel$57.4B7 Oct 2026
  32. 32Tadashi YanaiFast Retailing (Uniqlo)$55.1B27 Mar 2026
  33. 33Aliko DangoteDangote Industries (Dangote Group)$51.1B15 Oct 2026
  34. 34Jacqueline MarsMars, Incorporated$50.3B11 Oct 2026
  35. 35Li Ka-shingCK Hutchison Holdings$48.7B9 Oct 2026
  36. 36Giovanni FerreroFerrero Group$48B12 Sep 2026
  37. 37Gianluigi AponteMSC Mediterranean Shipping Company$46.8B9 Oct 2026
  38. 38Robin ZengCATL$45.8B9 Oct 2026
  39. 39Ma HuatengTencent$45.5B15 Oct 2026
  40. 40Stephen SchwarzmanBlackstone$44.8B9 Sep 2026
  41. 41Abigail JohnsonFidelity Investments (FMR LLC)$41.6B16 Oct 2026
  42. 42Peter ThielPalantir$39.9B11 Oct 2026
  43. 43Eduardo SaverinMeta Platforms (Facebook)$39.3B9 Oct 2026
  44. 44Savitri JindalJSW Steel$38.3B9 Oct 2026
  45. 45Eric SchmidtAlphabet (Google)$38B9 Oct 2026
  46. 46Paolo ArdoinoTether$38B9 Oct 2026
  47. 47Thomas Frist Jr.HCA Healthcare$37.4B9 Oct 2026
  48. 48Alexey MordashovSeverstal$36.9B9 Oct 2026
  49. 49Andreas von BechtolsheimArista Networks$36B9 Oct 2026
  50. 50Eyal OferZodiac Maritime$35.8B9 Oct 2026
  51. 51Len BlavatnikWarner Music Group$35.5B9 Oct 2026
  52. 52Melinda French GatesMicrosoft$34.3B9 Oct 2026
  53. 53Pham Nhat VuongVingroup$33.8B9 Oct 2026
  54. 54Miriam AdelsonLas Vegas Sands$31B9 Oct 2026
  55. 55Lakshmi MittalArcelorMittal$30.7B9 Oct 2026
  56. 56Shiv NadarHCLTech$30.5B16 Oct 2026
  57. 57Idan OferQuantum Pacific Group (Eastern Pacific Shipping)$30.2B9 Oct 2026
  58. 58Vladimir PotaninNornickel$29.7B17 Oct 2026
  59. 59Vagit AlekperovLukoil$29.5B9 Oct 2026
  60. 60David TepperAppaloosa Management$28.5B9 Oct 2026
  61. 61Leonid MikhelsonNOVATEK$28.3B9 Oct 2026
  62. 62Israel EnglanderMillennium Management$27.6B9 Oct 2026
  63. 63Stan KroenkeKroenke Sports & Entertainment$27.6B9 Oct 2026
  64. 64MacKenzie ScottAmazon$27.3B9 Oct 2026
  65. 65Reinhold WürthWürth Group$27.3B9 Oct 2026
  66. 66Jay Y. LeeSamsung Electronics$26.7B15 Oct 2026
  67. 67Steve CohenPoint72$26.7B9 Oct 2026
  68. 68Jack MaAlibaba Group$26.1B9 Oct 2026
  69. 69Suleiman KerimovPolyus$25.7B9 Oct 2026
  70. 70Greg BrockmanOpenAI$25.5B9 Oct 2026
  71. 71Vladimir LisinNLMK$25.5B9 Oct 2026
  72. 72Rupert MurdochNews Corp$25.1B9 Oct 2026
  73. 73Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal AlsaudKingdom Holding Company$24.9B9 Oct 2026

Bloomberg publishes its own estimates, which often differ by tens of billions. Each profile shows both.