Top Ten Billionaires in the World 2016
For the third year in a row, Bill Gates was named the richest man in the world by Forbes's 2016 list of the world's billionaires. This is the 17th time that the founder of Microsoft has claimed the top spot.
For the third year in a row, Bill Gates was named the richest man in the world by Forbes's 2016 list of the world's billionaires. This is the 17th time that the founder of Microsoft has claimed the top spot. Amancio Ortega rose from last year's position of number four to second.
'Forbes' 2016 richest list: Zuckerberg zooms up. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the biggest gainer in Forbes' 2016 billionaires list of the world's richest people, moving up 10 spots from last year to claim the ranking as the world's sixth richest person.
On the 30th anniversary of the Forbes' list of the world's billionaires, for the fourth year in a row, Bill Gates was named the richest man in the world. In 2017, there was a record of 2,043 people on the list, which is the first time over 2,000 people were listed, that included 195 newcomers that included 76 from China and 25 from the U.S.; there were 56 people under 40 and it had a record of 227 women.
On the 30th anniversary of in Forbes' list of the world's billionaires, for the fourth year in a row, Bill Gates was named the richest man in the world. The number of billionaires increased 13% to 2,043 from 1,810 in 2016; this is the biggest change in over 30 years of tracking billionaires globally.
Jeff Bezos is the founder of Blue Origin and CEO of Amazon (Picture: REUTERS) Jeff Bezos is now richer than Iceland, Tunisia, Jamaica, and Estonia combined. Forbes, the other major tracker of the net worth of the world’s richest, put Bezos’ net worth at $104.4 billion (£75.8 billion).
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Alice Walton is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton. She has focused on curating art, rather than working for Walmart like her siblings, Rob and Jim. In 2011 she opened the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in her hometown, Bentonville, Arkansas.
S. Robson Walton is the eldest son of Sam Walton and board member of Walmart stores. He was the chairman of Walmart for 23 years and stepped down from.. S. Robson Walton is the eldest son of Sam Walton and board member of Walmart stores.
In the 32nd annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the gap between the top one percent and the rest of the billionaires continued to widen with the 20 richest people on the planet worth $1.2 trillion that amounts to 13 percent of all billionaires' fortunes combined.
Forbes' 2016 billionaires list is the 30th from the magazine and compiles 1,810 billionaires around the world, down from a record 1,826 billionaires in 2015. The total aggregate net worth of the billionaires is $6.48 trillion.
The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking by documented net worth of the world's wealthiest billionaires compiled and published in March annually by the American business magazine Forbes. The list was first published in March 1987.
A well-known philanthropist, David is a donor to New York's Lincoln Center and Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party's vice presidential candidate in 1980 on a ticket with Ed Clark; they won 1% of the vote.
Bill Gates remains richest man in world in 2016 list of billionaires ... and tied for ninth are David and Charles Koch; Forbes found 1,810 billionaires this year, ...