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Richest people in the world

The richest people in the world, ranked by their latest public net worth estimate. Fatih ร–zmen leads with $5.9 billion as of October 2026. Every row shows the date and the source of its figure.
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Rank Name Net worth
701 Fatih ร–zmen 68 Sierra Nevada Corporation, United States $5.9B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
702 Balkrishan Goenka 60 Diversified, India $5.9B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
703 Johnelle Hunt 94 J.B. Hunt Transport, United States $5.9B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
704 Zhang Daocai 76 Valves, China $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
705 Robert E. Rich, Jr. 85 Rich Products (inherited), United States $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
706 Alexander Abramov 67 Steel, mining, Russia $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
707 Russell Savage 56 Energy drinks, United States $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
708 Andrew Currie 71 Ineos, United Kingdom $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
709 Alex Behring 59 Investments, Brazil $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
710 Steven Hao 30 AI software, United States $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
711 Peter Kellogg 84 Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, United States $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
712 John Reece 69 Ineos, United Kingdom $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
713 Joseph Grendys 46 Koch Foods poultry, United States $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
714 Reinhold Schmieding 71 Medical devices, United States $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
715 M. A. Yusuff Ali 70 Retail, India $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
716 Angelo Koo 60 Finance, Taiwan $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
717 Gaye Farncombe 74 Thomson Reuters, Canada $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
718 Linda Campbell 76 Thomson Reuters, Canada $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
719 Gordon Getty 92 Getty Oil (inherited), United States $5.8B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
720 Penny Pritzker 67 Hyatt, Marmon (inherited), United States $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
721 Li Hua 48 Financial services, China $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
722 John Sall 78 SAS Institute, United States $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
723 Margarita Louis-Dreyfus 64 Commodities, Switzerland $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
724 Stephen Mandel 70 Lone Pine Capital, United States $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
725 Paul Foster 68 Western Refining, United States $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
726 Chao Yung-Tsang 70 Cooling devices and components, Taiwan $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
727 Chandru Raheja 85 K Raheja Corp, India $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
728 Emanuele (Lino) Saputo 89 Cheese, Canada $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
729 Liu Hanyuan 61 Agribusiness, new energy, China $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
730 Ben Lamm 44 Biotech, United States $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
731 Annette Lerner 96 Lerner Enterprises (inherited), United States $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
732 Tom Morris 72 Home Bargains, United Kingdom $5.7B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
733 Marina Budiman 65 Data centers, Indonesia $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
734 Naguib Sawiris 72 Orascom Telecom, Egypt $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
735 Steven Klinsky 70 New Mountain Capital, United States $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
736 Luke Nosek 51 PayPal, Founders Fund, United States $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
737 Richard Liu 52 E-commerce, China $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
738 Bruce Flatt 61 Money management, Canada $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
739 Kailashchandra Nuwal 69 Industrial explosives, India $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
740 Robert Low 77 Trucking, United States $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
741 Bert Beveridge 64 Tito's Handmade Vodka, United States $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
742 Carl Douglas 65 Investments, Sweden $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
743 Eric S. Yuan 56 Zoom, United States $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
744 Thomas Tull 56 Legendary Entertainment, Tulco, United States $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
745 Andre Koo 59 Financial services, Taiwan $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
746 Cen Junda 62 Pharmaceuticals, China $5.6B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
747 Rupert Johnson, Jr. 85 Franklin Templeton (inherited), United States $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
748 Mario Verrocchi 69 Pharmacies, Australia $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
749 Dan Kurzius 54 Mailchimp, United States $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
750 Cho Jyh-jer 70 Semiconductors, Taiwan $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
751 Florentino Perez 79 Construction, Spain $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
752 Liu Qiangdong 53 Diversified, China $5.5B 1 Oct 2026, Forbes
753 Shapoor Mistry 62 Diversified, Ireland $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
754 Bob Gaglardi 85 Hotels, Canada $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
755 Jiang Bin 56 Acoustic components, China $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
756 Gary Rollins 82 Rollins Inc. (Orkin), United States $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
757 Chen Bang 56 Hospitals, China $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
758 Alejandro Bulgheroni 81 Oil & gas, Argentina $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
759 Benu Gopal Bangur 56 Cement, India $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
760 Zhu Yan 55 Real estate, China $5.5B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
761 Dinara Kulibayeva 59 Banking, Kazakhstan $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
762 Timur Kulibayev 60 Banking, Kazakhstan $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
763 Joy Alukkas 70 Jewelry, India $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
764 Ronald Lauder 82 Estee Lauder (inherited), United States $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
765 Heinrich Otto Deichmann 63 Shoes, retail, Germany $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
766 Andy Mills 65 Medical supplies, United States $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
767 Michaล‚ Soล‚owow 64 Investments, Poland $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
768 Matthias Reinhart 66 Financial services, Switzerland $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
769 Cai Haoyu 39 Mobile games, China $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
770 Bulat Utemuratov 68 Mining, banking, hotels, Kazakhstan $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
771 Tsai Eng-meng 69 Want Want, Taiwan $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
772 Lynda Resnick 82 The Wonderful Company, United States $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
773 Stewart Resnick 89 The Wonderful Company, United States $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
774 Lutz Mario Helmig 80 Hospitals, Germany $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
775 Mitchell Rales 70 Danaher, United States $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
776 George Lucas 82 Lucasfilm, Star Wars, United States $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
777 Ratmir Timashev 60 Software, United States $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
778 Eric Douglas 58 Investments, Sweden $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
779 Joao Moreira Salles 64 Banking, minerals, Brazil $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
780 Walther Moreira Salles Junior 70 Banking, minerals, Brazil $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
781 Tomas Olivo Lopez 52 Shopping centers, Spain $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
782 Ivan Tavrin 49 Private equity, Russia $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
783 Sofia Hรถgberg Schรถrling 47 Investments, Sweden $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
784 Torbjรถrn Tรถrnqvist 72 Gunvor commodity trading, Sweden $5.4B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
785 Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer 65 Cargill (inherited), United States $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
786 Daniel Snyder 61 Snyder Communications, Commanders, United States $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
787 Falguni Nayar 63 Retailing, India $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
788 George Economou 73 Shipping, Greece $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
789 Georg Nemetschek 92 Software, Germany $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
790 Michel Leclercq 87 Sporting goods, France $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
791 Mรคrta Schรถrling Andreen 42 Investments, Sweden $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
792 Abdulla bin Ahmad Al Ghurair 97 Diversified, United Arab Emirates $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
793 Rajiv Bajaj 59 Diversified, India $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
794 Sanjiv Bajaj 56 Diversified, India $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
795 Marc Stad 47 Venture capital, United States $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
796 Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio 31 EssilorLuxottica via Delfin, Italy $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
797 Ruan Xueping 54 Power strip, Hong Kong $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
798 Jose Joao Abdalla Filho 81 Investments, Brazil $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
799 Fan Hongwei 59 Petrochemicals, China $5.3B 15 Oct 2026, Forbes
800 Arkady Rotenberg 74 Construction, pipes, banking, Russia $5.3B 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?
Fatih ร–zmen is first in the BillionaireList ranking with a latest public estimate of $5.9 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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