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Richest Americans 2015
Rank Name Net Worth Age Residence Source
#1 Bill Gates $76 B 60 Medina, WA Microsoft
#2 Warren Buffett $62 B 85 Omaha, NE Berkshire Hathaway
#3 Larry Ellison $47.5 B 71 Woodside, CA Oracle
#4 Jeff Bezos $47 B 52 Seattle, WA Amazon.com
#5 Charles Koch $41 B 80 Wichita, KS diversified
#5 David Koch $41 B 76 New York, NY diversified
#7 Mark Zuckerberg $40.3 B 32 Palo Alto, CA Facebook
#8 Michael Bloomberg $38.6 B 74 New York, NY Bloomberg LP
#9 Jim Walton $33.7 B 68 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
#10 Larry Page $33.3 B 43 Palo Alto, CA Google
#11 Sergey Brin $32.6 B 42 Los Altos, CA Google
#12 Alice Walton $32 B 66 Fort Worth, TX Wal-Mart
#13 S. Robson Walton $31.7 B 71 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
#14 Christy Walton $30.2 B 67 Jackson, WY Wal-Mart
#15 Sheldon Adelson $26 B 83 Las Vegas, NV casinos
#16 George Soros $24.5 B 85 Katonah, NY hedge funds
#17 Phil Knight $24.4 B 78 Hillsboro, OR Nike
#18 Forrest Mars, Jr. $23.4 B 84 Big Horn, WY candy
#18 Jacqueline Mars $23.4 B 76 The Plains, VA candy
#18 John Mars $23.4 B 80 Jackson, WY candy
#21 Steve Ballmer $21.6 B 60 Hunts Point, WA Microsoft
#22 Carl Icahn $20.5 B 80 New York, NY investments
#23 Michael Dell $19.1 B 51 Austin, TX Dell
#23 Laurene Powell Jobs $19.1 B 52 Palo Alto, CA Apple, Disney
#25 Anne Cox Chambers $18 B 96 Atlanta, GA media
#26 Paul Allen $17.8 B 63 Mercer Island, WA Microsoft, investments
#27 Len Blavatnik $17.7 B 59 London diversified
#28 Charles Ergen $16.4 B 63 Denver, CO satellite TV
#29 Ray Dalio $15.3 B 67 Greenwich, CT hedge funds
#30 Donald Bren $15.2 B 84 Newport Beach, CA real estate
#31 Abigail Johnson $14.2 B 54 Milton, MA money management
#32 James Simons $14 B 78 East Setauket, NY hedge funds
#33 Thomas Peterffy $13.5 B 71 Palm Beach, FL discount brokerage
#34 Elon Musk $13.3 B 45 Los Angeles, CA Zip2, PayPal, Tesla Motors
#35 Patrick Soon-Shiong $12.9 B 64 Los Angeles, CA pharmaceuticals
#36 Ronald Perelman $12.5 B 73 New York, NY leveraged buyouts
#37 Steve Cohen $12 B 60 Greenwich, CT hedge funds
#38 Rupert Murdoch $11.6 B 85 New York, NY media
#38 Stephen Schwarzman $11.6 B 69 New York, NY investments
#38 David Tepper $11.6 B 58 Livingston, NJ hedge funds
#41 John Paulson $11.4 B 60 New York, NY hedge funds
#42 Andrew Beal $11 B 63 Dallas, TX banks, real estate
#43 Philip Anschutz $10.9 B 76 Denver, CO investments
#44 Charles Butt $10.7 B 78 San Antonio, TX supermarkets
#45 Donald Newhouse $10.6 B 86 Somerset County, NJ media
#46 Samuel Newhouse, Jr. $10.3 B 88 New York, NY media
#47 Jack Taylor $10.1 B 93 St. Louis, MO Enterprise Rent-A-Car
#48 Eric Schmidt $9.9 B 61 Atherton, CA Google
#49 John Menard, Jr. $9.2 B 76 Eau Claire, WI retail
#50 Jim Kennedy $9 B 68 Atlanta, GA media
#50 Blair Parry-Okeden $9 B 66 Scone, Australia media
#52 Richard Kinder $8.9 B 71 Houston, TX pipelines
#53 George Kaiser $8.8 B 74 Tulsa, OK oil & gas, banking
#54 Thomas Frist, Jr. $8.7 B 77 Nashville, TN health care
#55 Leonard Lauder $8.4 B 83 New York, NY Estee Lauder
#55 Dustin Moskovitz $8.4 B 32 San Francisco, CA Facebook
#57 Pierre Omidyar $8 B 49 Honolulu, HI eBay
#58 Hank & Doug Meijer $7.9 B - Grand Rapids, MI supermarkets
#59 Edward Johnson, III. $7.8 B 86 Boston, MA money management
#60 Micky Arison $7.7 B 67 Bal Harbour, FL Carnival Cruises
#60 James Goodnight $7.7 B 73 Cary, NC software
#60 Jan Koum $7.7 B 40 Santa Clara, CA WhatsApp
#63 Stanley Kroenke $7.6 B 69 Columbia, MO sports, real estate
#63 Leslie Wexner $7.6 B 78 New Albany, OH retail
#65 Eli Broad $7.4 B 83 Los Angeles, CA investments
#65 Harold Hamm $7.4 B 70 Oklahoma City, OK oil & gas
#65 Herbert Kohler, Jr. $7.4 B 77 Kohler, WI plumbing fixtures
#68 John Malone $7.2 B 75 Elizabeth, CO cable television
#69 Ken Griffin $7 B 47 Chicago, IL hedge funds
#70 David Geffen $6.9 B 73 Malibu, CA entertainment
#71 Stephen Ross $6.7 B 76 New York, NY real estate
#72 Charles Schwab $6.4 B 79 Atherton, CA discount brokerage
#73 Jeffery Hildebrand $6.3 B 57 Houston, TX oil
#74 Ralph Lauren $6.2 B 76 New York, NY Ralph Lauren
#74 Gordon Moore $6.2 B 87 Woodside, CA Intel
#76 Bruce Halle $6.1 B 86 Paradise Valley, AZ tires
#76 Richard LeFrak $6.1 B 70 New York, NY real estate
#76 Robert Rowling $6.1 B 62 Dallas, TX investments
#76 Dennis Washington $6.1 B 82 Missoula, MT construction, mining
#80 David Duffield $6 B 75 Blackhawk, CA business software
#80 Travis Kalanick $6 B 39 San Francisco, CA Uber Technologies
#82 Carl Cook $5.8 B 54 Bloomington, IN medical devices
#83 Ray Lee Hunt $5.7 B 73 Dallas, TX oil, real estate
#84 Richard DeVos $5.6 B 90 Holland, MI Amway
#84 Shahid Khan $5.6 B 66 Naples, FL auto parts
#86 Ted Lerner $5.5 B 90 Chevy Chase, MD real estate
#86 Kelcy Warren $5.5 B 60 Dallas, TX pipelines
#88 David Green $5.4 B 74 Oklahoma City, OK retail
#88 Michael & Marian Ilitch $5.4 B 87 Bingham Farms, MI pizza
#90 Charles Johnson $5.3 B 83 Palm Beach, FL money management
#90 Pauline MacMillan Keinath $5.3 B 82 St. Louis, MO Cargill
#90 Trevor Rees-Jones $5.3 B 64 Dallas, TX oil & gas
#93 Bruce Kovner $5.2 B 71 New York, NY hedge funds
#94 Dannine Avara $5 B 52 Houston, TX pipelines
#94 Leon Black $5 B 65 New York, NY private equity
#94 Scott Duncan $5 B 33 Houston, TX pipelines
#94 Milane Frantz $5 B 47 Houston, TX pipelines
#94 Jerry Jones $5 B 73 Dallas, TX Dallas Cowboys
#94 Randal Kirk $5 B 62 - pharmaceuticals
#94 George Lucas $5 B 72 San Anselmo, CA Star Wars
#94 Sumner Redstone $5 B 93 Beverly Hills, CA Media
#94 John A. Sobrato $5 B 77 Atherton, CA real estate
#94 Randa Williams $5 B 55 Houston, TX pipelines
#94 Daniel Ziff $5 B 44 New York, NY investments
#94 Dirk Ziff $5 B 52 North Palm Beach, FL investments
#94 Robert Ziff $5 B 49 New York, NY investments
#107 Sam Zell $4.9 B 74 Chicago, IL real estate, private equity
#108 Israel Englander $4.8 B 67 New York, NY hedge funds
#108 Robert Kraft $4.8 B 75 Brookline, MA New England Patriots
#108 Henry Kravis $4.8 B 72 New York, NY private equity
#108 Tom & Judy Love $4.8 B 78 Oklahoma City, OK retail & gas stations
#108 Ira Rennert $4.8 B 82 New York, NY investments
#108 George Roberts $4.8 B 72 Atherton, CA private equity
#114 Charles Dolan $4.7 B 89 Oyster Bay, NY cable television
#114 Rupert Johnson, Jr. $4.7 B 75 Burlingame, CA money management
#114 Paul Tudor Jones, II. $4.7 B 61 Greenwich, CT hedge funds
#114 David Shaw $4.7 B 65 New York, NY hedge funds
#114 Leonard Stern $4.7 B 78 New York, NY real estate
#119 Jin Sook & Do Won Chang $4.6 B 53 Beverly Hills, CA fashion retail
#119 Mark Shoen $4.6 B 64 Phoenix, AZ U-Haul
#121 Elizabeth Holmes $4.5 B 32 Palo Alto, CA blood testing
#121 Ann Walton Kroenke $4.5 B 67 Columbia, MO Wal-Mart
#121 Donald Trump $4.5 B 70 New York, NY television, real estate
#124 Jim Davis $4.4 B 73 Newton, MA New Balance
#124 Stanley Druckenmiller $4.4 B 63 New York, NY hedge funds
#124 Tamara Gustavson $4.4 B 54 Malibu, CA self storage
#124 Whitney MacMillan $4.4 B 87 Minneapolis, MN Cargill
#124 Jerry Speyer $4.4 B 76 New York, NY real estate
#129 Phillip Frost $4.3 B 79 Miami Beach, FL pharmaceuticals
#129 Martha Ingram $4.3 B 80 Nashville, TN book distribution, transportation
#129 Karen Pritzker $4.3 B 58 Branford, CT hotels, investments
#129 Stewart and Lynda Resnick $4.3 B - Beverly Hills, CA agriculture, water
#133 David Sun $4.2 B 64 Irvine, CA computer hardware
#133 John Tu $4.2 B 75 Rolling Hills, CA computer hardware
#135 John Doerr $4.1 B 65 Woodside, CA venture capital
#135 Reinhold Schmieding $4.1 B 61 Naples, FL medical devices
#135 Jeffrey Skoll $4.1 B 51 Los Angeles, CA eBay
#138 Brian Acton $4 B 44 Palo Alto, CA WhatsApp
#138 Jeremy Jacobs, Sr. $4 B 76 East Aurora, NY sports concessions
#138 James Jannard $4 B 67 San Juan Islands, WA sunglasses
#138 Nancy Walton Laurie $4 B 65 Henderson, NV Wal-Mart
#138 Terrence Pegula $4 B 65 Boca Raton, FL natural gas
#138 H. Ross Perot, Sr. $4 B 86 Dallas, TX computer services, real estate
#138 Edward Roski, Jr. $4 B 77 Los Angeles, CA real estate
#145 John Morris $3.9 B 68 Springfield, MO sporting goods retail
#145 Isaac Perlmutter $3.9 B 73 Palm Beach, FL Marvel comics
#145 Kevin Plank $3.9 B 43 Lutherville-Timonium, MD Under Armour
#145 Sheldon Solow $3.9 B 88 New York, NY real estate
#149 Marc Benioff $3.8 B 51 San Francisco, CA business software
#149 Daniel Gilbert $3.8 B 54 Franklin, MI Quicken Loans
#149 Kieu Hoang $3.8 B 72 Los Angeles, CA pharmaceuticals
#149 Steven Rales $3.8 B 65 Santa Barbara, CA manufacturing
#149 J. Christopher Reyes $3.8 B 62 Hobe Sound, FL food distribution
#149 Jude Reyes $3.8 B 60 Palm Beach, FL food distribution
#149 John Sall $3.8 B 68 Cary, NC software
#149 Alejandro Santo Domingo $3.8 B 39 New York, NY beer
#149 Andres Santo Domingo $3.8 B 38 New York, NY beer
#149 Walter Scott, Jr. $3.8 B 85 Omaha, NE utilities, telecom
Source: The Richest People in America List - Forbes


Worlds Billionaires 2016
Rank Name Net Worth Age Source Country of Citizenship
#1 Bill Gates $75 60 Microsoft United States
#2 Amancio Ortega $67 80 Zara Spain
#3 Warren Buffett $60.8 85 Berkshire Hathaway United States
#4 Carlos Slim Helu $50 76 telecom Mexico
#5 Jeff Bezos $45.2 52 Amazon.com United States
#6 Mark Zuckerberg $44.6 32 Facebook United States
#7 Larry Ellison $43.6 71 Oracle United States
#8 Michael Bloomberg $40 74 Bloomberg LP United States
#9 Charles Koch $39.6 80 diversified United States
#9 David Koch $39.6 76 diversified United States
#11 Liliane Bettencourt $36.1 93 L'Oreal France
#12 Larry Page $35.2 43 Google United States
#13 Sergey Brin $34.4 42 Google United States
#14 Bernard Arnault $34 67 LVMH France
#15 Jim Walton $33.6 68 Wal-Mart United States
#19 Jorge Paulo Lemann 27.8 76 Beer Brazil
#20 Li Ka-shing 27.1 88 diversified Hong Kong
#21 Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr. 25.9 Supermarkets Germany
#22 Sheldon Adelson $25.2 83 casinos United States
#23 George Soros $24.9 85 hedge funds United States
#24 Phil Knight $24.4 78 Nike United States
#25 David Thomson 25.9 59 media Canada
#30 Maria Franca Fissolo 22.1 98 Nutella, Chocolates Italy
#33 Jack Ma 20.5 51 Alibaba China
#34 Theo Albrecht, Jr. 20.3 65 Aldi, Trader Joe's Germany
#36 Mukesh Ambani 19.3 59 petrochemicals, oil & gas India
#37 Leonardo Del Vecchio 18.7 81 eyeglasses Italy
#38 Susanne Klatten 18.5 54 BMW, pharmaceuticals Germany
#41 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud 17.3 61 Investments Saudi Arabia
#51 Aliko Dangote 15.4 59 cement, sugar, flour Nigeria
#57 Tadashi Yanai 14.6 67 retail Japan
#60 Leonid Mikhelson 14.4 60 gas, chemicals Russia
#64 Dietrich Mateschitz 13.2 72 Red Bull Austria
#65 Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen 13.1 68 Lego Denmark
#76 Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken 12.3 62 Heineken Netherlands
#286 Richard Branson 4.9 66 Virgin United Kingdom
The World's Billionaires List - Forbes
Links:
Billion-Dollar Clans: America's 25 Richest Families 2016 - Forbes
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last updated 11 Feb 2011