Richest People in the World Quiz

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Elon Musk $839B
At 12, he sold the code for a space shooter game he wrote, Blastar, for about $500.
Larry Page $257B
Google's original PageRank algorithm is named partly after him.
Sergey Brin $237B
Born in Moscow, he moved to the US with his family in 1979 at age 6.
Jeff Bezos $224B
He started Amazon in 1994 from the garage of a rented house in Bellevue, Washington.
Mark Zuckerberg $222B
Before Facebook, Harvard shut down his Facemash site, which had users rate classmates' photos.
Larry Ellison $190B
He bought about 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai in 2012.
Bernard Arnault $171B
He began his career as an engineer at his father's construction firm.
Jensen Huang $154B
As a teen he worked at Denny's as a dishwasher, busboy and waiter.
Warren Buffett $149B
He bought his first stock at 11: three shares of Cities Service preferred.
Amancio Ortega $148B
The first Zara store, opened in 1975, was originally to be named Zorba after the film.
Rob Walton $146B
His group bought the Denver Broncos in 2022 for a reported $4.65 billion.
Jim Walton $143B
He chairs Arvest Bank, a Bentonville, Arkansas bank almost wholly owned by the Walton family.
Michael Dell $141B
He started his company in a University of Texas dorm room at 19, with $1,000.
Alice Walton $134B
She founded the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened in Bentonville in 2011.
Steve Ballmer $126B
He bought the LA Clippers for a reported $2 billion in 2014.
Carlos Slim $125B
His father emigrated alone from Lebanon to Mexico in 1902, at age 14.
Changpeng Zhao $110B
The Binance founder served a four-month US prison sentence in 2024 and was pardoned in 2025.
Michael Bloomberg $109B
He served three terms as mayor of New York City.
Bill Gates $108B
At 17, he and Paul Allen formed Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters.
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers $100B
Her grandfather Eugene Schueller founded L'Oreal.
Mukesh Ambani $99.7B
He lives in Antilia, a 27-storey private home in Mumbai with three helipads.
Giancarlo Devasini $89.3B
The Tether co-owner worked as a cosmetic surgeon before going into business.
Thomas Peterffy $82.9B
Born in Budapest, he founded the online brokerage Interactive Brokers.
Julia Koch $81.2B
She is the widow of David Koch, who died in 2019.
Charles Koch $73.8B
He took over Koch Industries in 1967, when it was a medium-sized oil firm.
Zhang Yiming $69.3B
He founded TikTok's parent ByteDance in a four-bedroom apartment in 2012.
Zhong Shanshan $68.1B
Before founding Nongfu Spring, he was a journalist and sold mushrooms and turtles on Hainan.
Jeff Yass $67.4B
Before starting his trading firm, he was a professional gambler at poker and horse racing.
Dieter Schwarz $67.2B
The owner of Lidl and Kaufland is so private that no media recordings of him exist.
German Larrea $67.1B
He runs Grupo Mexico, one of the world's largest copper producers.

Source: Forbes: The World's Billionaires 2026 · as of 2026-03

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