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Richest people in the world

The richest people in the world, ranked by their latest public net worth estimate. Peter Unger leads with $2.8 billion as of October 2026. Every row shows the date and the source of its figure.
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Rank Name Net worth
1501 Peter Unger 82 Auto repair, Germany $2.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1502 Wu Kai 58 Batteries, China $2.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1503 Christian Latouche 86 Accounting services, France $2.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1504 Manohar Lal Agarwal 71 Snacks, India $2.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1505 Katarina Martinson 45 L E Lundbergforetagen, Sweden $2.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1506 Mitchell Goldhar 65 Real estate, Canada $2.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1507 Herb Chambers 84 Car dealerships, United States $2.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1508 John Tyson 73 Food processing, United States $2.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1509 Harsh Goenka 68 Diversified, India $2.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1510 Fernando Chico Pardo 74 Airport management, Mexico $2.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1511 Guo Guangchang 59 Diversified, China $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1512 Guilherme Benchimol 50 Financial services, Brazil $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1513 Joseph Edelman 70 Perceptive Advisors, United States $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1514 Firoz Mistry 29 Diversified, Ireland $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1515 Zahan Mistry 27 Diversified, Ireland $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1516 Xie Liangzhi 60 Biotech, China $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1517 Marcel Telles 76 3G Capital, AB InBev, Brazil $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1518 M.Satyanarayana Reddy 69 Pharmaceuticals, India $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1519 Mariarosa Lavelli 82 Microchip testing, Italy $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1520 Pham Thuy Hang 52 Diversified, Vietnam $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1521 Ye Qiongjiu 72 Software, China $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1522 Jennifer Pritzker 76 Hotels, investments, United States $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1523 Bernard Saul II 94 Banking, real estate, United States $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1524 Bernard Lewis 100 Fashion retailer, United Kingdom $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1525 Mortimer Zuckerman 89 Real estate, media, United States $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1526 Lin Lairong 58 Iron ore mining, China $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1527 Farhad Moshiri 71 Investments, USM Holdings, Iran $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1528 Zhao Fenggang 60 Batteries, China $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1529 Satyanarayana Chava 65 Pharmaceuticals, India $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1530 Alan Trefler 70 Pegasystems, United States $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1531 Yan Zhou 38 Snacks, China $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1532 Selçuk Bayraktar 47 Baykar drones, Türkiye $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1533 Bidzina Ivanishvili 70 Investments, Georgia $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1534 Fernando Roig 79 Supermarkets, Spain $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1535 Richard LeFrak 81 Real estate, United States $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1536 Luca Garavoglia 57 Campari Group, Italy $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1537 Jeff Sutton 66 Real estate, United States $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1538 Michael Hintze 73 Investment, Australia $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1539 Semahat Arsel 98 Koc Holding, Türkiye $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1540 Wu Guangming 64 Medical equipment, China $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1541 David Booth 80 Mutual funds, United States $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1542 Kalanithi Maran 62 Media, India $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1543 Walter P.J. Droege 71 Droege Group, Germany $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1544 Aneel Bhusri 60 Business software, United States $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1545 Huang Shan 56 Software, China $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1546 Byunghoon Kim 37 Beauty devices, South Korea $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1547 Toto Wolff 54 Mercedes F1 stake, investments, Austria $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1548 Mathias Doepfner 63 Media, Germany $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1549 Sunil Vachani 57 Electronics, India $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1550 Charles Edelstenne 88 Aviation, France $2.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1551 Oei Hong Leong 56 Investments, Singapore $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1552 Hamdi Akin 71 Diversified, Türkiye $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1553 Zhang Li 73 Real estate, China $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1554 Albert Chao 77 Chemicals, building products, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1555 Dorothy Chao Jenkins 81 Chemicals, building products, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1556 James Chao 79 Chemicals, building products, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1557 Jorge Perez 77 Real estate, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1558 Alex Beard 56 Glencore oil trading, United Kingdom $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1559 Yang Huiyan 45 Country Garden (inherited), China $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1560 Anna Angelicoussis 71 Shipping, Greece $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1561 Andrey Andreev 52 Badoo and Bumble, United Kingdom $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1562 Reid Hoffman 59 LinkedIn, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1563 Hu Rongda 67 Chemicals, China $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1564 Travis Boersma 55 Dutch Bros Coffee, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1565 Bernie Ecclestone 95 Formula One, United Kingdom $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1566 Jian Yao Medical devices, China $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1567 Aman Sanger 26 AI software, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1568 Arvid Lunnemark 26 AI software, Sweden $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1569 Michael Truell 26 AI software, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1570 Sualeh Asif 26 AI software, Pakistan $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1571 Bertil Hult 85 EF Education First, Sweden $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1572 Jack Cowin 84 Fast food, Australia $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1573 Drew Houston 43 Dropbox, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1574 Wee Ee Cheong 73 Banking, Singapore $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1575 Filiz Sahenk 59 Diversified, Türkiye $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1576 Jimmy John Liautaud 62 Sandwich chain, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1577 Zadik Bino 82 Banking, oil, Israel $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1578 Song Chi-hyung 47 Fintech, South Korea $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1579 David Peñaloza Alanís 52 Toll roads, Mexico $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1580 Li Xiang 45 Electric vehicles, China $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1581 Tang Yiu 56 Fashion retail, China $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1582 Hao Hong 70 Pharmaceuticals, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1583 Robert Langer 78 Biotech, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1584 Jaroslav Hascak 57 Investments, Slovakia $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1585 Chao Teng-hsiung 82 Real estate, Taiwan $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1586 Gabriele Gebauer 85 Textile, Germany $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1587 Luana Lopes Lara 30 Prediction markets, Brazil $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1588 Tarek Mansour 30 Prediction markets, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1589 Bom Kim 48 Coupang, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1590 John Abele 89 Healthcare, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1591 Madeleine Grogg Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1592 Ajay Bhardwaj 66 Biopharma, India $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1593 Wang Yun'an 40 Milk tea, China $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1594 Catherine Phillips 75 Investments, Canada $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1595 John Phillips 75 Investments, Canada $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1596 J. Hyatt Brown 89 Insurance, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1597 Stephan Schmidheiny 78 Investments, Switzerland $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1598 Mi Enhua 68 Retail, China $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1599 Anu Aga 84 Engineering, India $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
1600 William Young 85 Plastics, United States $2.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes

Not in the table because the estimate is under one billion dollars: Szymon Susz, Polish internet entrepreneur.

Questions people ask

Who is the richest person in the world?
Peter Unger is first in the BillionaireList ranking with a latest public estimate of $2.8 billion, dated October 2026. The ranking orders living people by their latest dated public estimate.
How many billionaires are in this list?
3,368 people are ranked right now: everyone in our records whose latest public estimate is above one billion dollars and dated on or after 1 September 2026, from an established publisher.
Why do estimates have different dates?
Each figure comes from a dated public source. We show the date next to every number instead of mixing dates silently, so you can see how fresh each estimate is.

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