List of Americans by net worth

This is a list of wealthy Americans ranked by net worth. It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets by Forbes and by data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

This article is about the contemporary list of wealthiest Americans. For a historical list, see List of richest Americans in history.

The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2019 class of the 400 richest Americans was $2.9 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017.[1] As of October 2019, there were 621 billionaires--a record high--in the United States.[1]

Top 15 richest Americans

According to Forbes, as of October 2019, the 15 wealthiest people in the United States are as follows:[1]

Rank	Name	Net worth (USD)	Age	Sources of wealth
1	Jeff Bezos	$145 billion	56	Amazon, The Washington Post, Blue Origin
2	Bill Gates	$106 billion	64	Microsoft, Cascade Investment
3	Warren Buffett	$80.8 billion	89	Berkshire Hathaway
4	Mark Zuckerberg	$69.6 billion	36	Facebook
5	Larry Ellison	$65 billion	75	Oracle
6	Larry Page	$55.5 billion	47	Google
7	Sergey Brin	$53.5 billion	46	Google
8	Michael Bloomberg	$53.4 billion	78	Bloomberg L.P.
9	Steve Ballmer	$51.7 billion	63	Microsoft, LA Clippers
10	Jim Walton	$51.6 billion	70	Walmart, inherited
11	Alice Walton	$51.4 billion	70	Walmart, inherited
12	S. Robson Walton	$51.3 billion	74	Walmart, inherited
13	Charles Koch	$41 billion	83	Koch Industries
13	Julia Koch	$41 billion	57	Koch Industries, inherited
15	MacKenzie Scott	$36.1 billion	50	Amazon, through divorce

Other wealthy Americans

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, each of the following Americans had a net worth of more than $10 billion and less than $40 billion as of March 2018:[2]

Jacqueline Mars 80, investor and heiress to candy company Mars, Incorporated John Mars 84, Mars, Inc. Phil Knight 82, founder of Nike Inc. Thomas Peterffy 75, Interactive Brokers Michael Dell 55 Len Blavatnik, 63 Access Industries conglomerate Elon Musk, 48 SpaceX and Tesla Carl Icahn 84 Laurene Powell Jobs Ron Perelman 77 Dustin Moskovitz 36 Donald Bren 88 Leonard Lauder 87 Thomas Frist Elaine Marshall Jim Simons 82 Lukas Walton Rupert Murdoch 89

Harold Hamm Sheldon Adelson Ray Dalio Eric Schmidt Charlie Ergen John Menard Jr. Steve Schwarzman George Kaiser Steve Cohen Micky Arison Donald Newhouse Abby Johnson Phil Anschutz Jan Koum Jim Goodnight Charles Schwab David Tepper

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, each of the following Americans had a net worth of more than $4 billion and less than $10 billion as of March 2018:[3]

Jack Dangermond Robert F. Smith Dave Duffield Andy Beal Carl Cook John Malone Pierre Omidyar Blair Parry-Okeden Jim Kennedy Patrick Soon-Shiong Bernie Marcus Stan Kroenke Ken Griffin Sun Hongbin Dan Gilbert David Geffen George Soros Jeff Hildebrand Marijke Mars Victoria Mars Pamela Mars-Wright Valerie Mars Richard LeFrak Robert Rowling Diane Hendricks Les Wexner Ned Johnson David Sun John Tu Eli Broad Ingrid Wu Christy Walton John Albert Sobrato Marian Ilitch John Paulson George Lucas Charles Butt Richard Kinder Gabe Newell Ralph Lauren Reinhold Schmieding Rich Devos Ray Hunt Jim Davis Leon Black Steven Spielberg Margaretta Taylor James Chambers Katharine Rayner George Roberts Henry Kravis Marc Benioff Jensen Huang Robert E. Rich Jr. Randa Duncan Williams Dannine Avara		Scott Duncan Milane Duncan Frantz David Filo Stan Druckenmiller Rupert Johnson Jr. Ira Rennert Lynn Schusterman Mark Cuban Trevor Rees-Jones Terry Pegula John Sall Charles Johnson Ronda Stryker Charles Dolan Jeff Sutton Nancy Walton Laurie Leonard Stern Shahid Khan David Shaw Dan Friedkin Jerry Jones Dennis Washington Whitney MacMillan Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer Pauline MacMillan Keinath Steve Bechtel Rocco Commisso Jude Reyes Chris Reyes Igor Olenicoff Sam Zell Reed Hastings Edward Roski Kelcy Warren Tom Love Judy Love Judy Faulkner Izzy Englander Tamara Hughes Gustavson Mary Malone Fred Smith Pat Stryker Dagmar Dolby Clay Mathile Thomas Pritzker Woody Johnson Dick Schulze Robert Pera Bob Kraft Ken Fisher B. Wayne Hughes Travis Kalanick Gordon Moore Dan Cathy Bubba Cathy Johnny Morris

See also

• The World's Billionaires
• List of countries by the number of billionaires

References

1. "The Forbes 400 2019". Forbes. October 2, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
2. "Bloomberg Billionaires Index". Retrieved 11 March 2018.
3. "Bloomberg Billionaires Index". Retrieved 11 March 2018.

External links

• Bloomberg Billionaires Index
• Forbes 400 - The Richest People in America - 2018 list