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The list also marks for the first time a French citizen was in the top position as well as a non-American for the first time since 2013 when the Mexican Carlos Slim Helu was the world's richest person. The list, like in 2022, counted 15 under 30 billionaires with the richest of them being Red Bull heir Mark Mateschitz with a net worth of $34.7 ...
Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$343 billion as of February 25, 2025, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, [420] and $353 billion according to Forbes, [421] primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla, Inc., and SpaceX.
Shahid Rafiq "Shad" Khan [1] (Urdu: شاہد خان; born July 18, 1950) [2] [3] is a Pakistani-American billionaire businessman and sports tycoon. Khan is the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL) and Fulham F.C. of the Premier League, and co-owner of the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW), along with his son, Tony Khan.
Over the course of the 2020s, depending on the source and the year, the world's richest person has been reckoned to be Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault and family, or Elon Musk. In 2019, 19 people became billionaires. Four were a result of death or divorce, including Julia Koch, and Jeff Bezos's former wife MacKenzie Scott. [15]
George Soros [a] (born György Schwartz; August 12, 1930) [1] [2] is an American [b] investor and philanthropist. [7] [8] As of October 2023, he had a net worth of US$6.7 billion, [9] [10] having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, [11] of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune.
According to Forbes, as of 17 February 2025, Bezos' estimated net worth stood at US$241.9 billion, making him the third richest individual in the world [3], behind Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. He was the wealthiest person from 2017 to 2021, according to Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. [4] [5]
This made him the richest person in the world at the time, surpassing Elon Musk. Musk would surpass Arnaut in June 2023 in net worth with $240 billion, as Arnault's wealth dropped to $190 billion. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index Arnault was the wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of about US $218 billion in May 2024. [75]
In 2016, Forbes ranked "Rupert Murdoch & Family" as the 35th most powerful person in the world. [255] According to Forbes' 2017 real-time list of world's billionaires, Murdoch was the 34th richest person in the US and the 96th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$13.1 billion as of February 2017. [256]