List of wealthiest Americans by net worth

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

This is a list of the wealthiest 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.

The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017.[1] As of March 2023, there were 735 billionaires in the United States.[2]

Top 25 richest Americans

According to Forbes, as of September 2023, the 25 wealthiest people in the United States are as follows: [3]

Rank Name Net worth in
billion US$		 Source of wealth Age
1 Elon Musk 251 Tesla, SpaceX 52
2 Jeff Bezos 161 Amazon 59
3 Larry Ellison 158 Oracle 79
4 Warren Buffett 121 Berkshire Hathaway 93
5 Larry Page 114 Alphabet 50
6 Bill Gates 111 Microsoft 67
7 Sergey Brin 110 Alphabet 50
8 Mark Zuckerberg 106 Meta 39
9 Steve Ballmer 101 Microsoft 67
10 Michael Bloomberg 96.3 Bloomberg L.P. 81
11 Michael Dell 71.5 Dell 58
12 Jim Walton & family 68.2 Walmart 75
13 Rob Walton & family 67.4 Walmart 78
14 Alice Walton 66.5 Walmart 73
15 Julia Koch & family 59.8 Koch Industries 61
16 Charles Koch & family 54.5 Koch Industries 87
17 Jensen Huang 40.7 Nvidia 60
18 Phil Knight & family 39.5 Nike 85
19 Jacqueline Mars 38.9 Mars 83
19 John Mars 38.9 Mars 87
21 MacKenzie Scott 37.1 Amazon 53
22 Ken Griffin 35.4 Citadel LLC 54
23 Stephen A. Schwarzman 34.5 Blackstone Group 76
24 Miriam Adelson & family 32.8 Las Vegas Sands 77
25 Len Blavatnik 30.7 Access Industries 66

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Forbes 400". Forbes. 2020. Archived from the original on 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
  2. ^ "Forbes Billionaires 2023: The Richest People In The World". Forbes. 2023. Archived from the original on 2024-03-21. Retrieved 2024-03-22. The United States still boasts the most billionaires, with 735 list members [Archive does not include the data.]
  3. ^ "Forbes 400 2023". Forbes. September 8, 2023. Archived from the original on 2024-03-21. Retrieved 2024-03-22. [Archive does not include the data.]