As of October 4, 2024, the biggest billionaire winner was Jensen Huang. His wealth has increased by almost $3.4 billion. Close behind him in terms of gains was Mark Zuckerberg, who jumped by $3.4 billion. Manuel Villar is the third-biggest gainer, with an additional $2.6 billion increase through the year.
The Biggest Billionaire Winners, 2024
| Rank | Name | Net Worth | Increase | Source | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jensen Huang | $107.4 B | $3.4 B | Semiconductors | United States |
| 2 | Mark Zuckerberg | $201.5 B | $3.4 B | United States | |
| 3 | Manuel Villar | $16.9 B | $2.6 B | Real estate | Philippines |
| 4 | Tadashi Yanai & family | $47.7 B | $2.1 B | Fashion retail | Japan |
| 5 | Michael Dell | $103.2 B | $1 B | Dell Technologies | United States |
| 6 | Wang Xing | $16.7 B | $946 M | Food delivery | China |
| 7 | Ma Huateng | $51.4 B | $732 M | Online games | China |
| 8 | Sarath Ratanavadi | $15.5 B | $596 M | Energy | Thailand |
| 9 | Thomas Peterffy | $44.4 B | $590 M | Discount brokerage | United States |
| 10 | Eduardo Saverin | $31.9 B | $532 M | Brazil | |
| 11 | Li Hua | $6.2 B | $502 M | Financial services | China |
| 12 | Lei Jun | $20.2 B | $492 M | Smartphones | China |
| 13 | Terry Gou | $11.8 B | $366 M | Electronics | Taiwan |
| 14 | Zhu Yan & family | $7.5 B | $323 M | Real estate | China |
| 15 | Takemitsu Takizaki | $22.1 B | $287 M | Sensors | Japan |
| 16 | Masayoshi Son | $31.0 B | $265 M | Telecom, Investments | Japan |
| 17 | Zhang Tao | $5.3 B | $241 M | E-commerce | China |
| 18 | Mu Rongjun | $3.4 B | $238 M | E-commerce | China |
| 19 | Peter Thiel | $10.2 B | $226 M | Facebook, investments | United States |
| 20 | Zhang Zhidong | $15.5 B | $223 M | Online games | China |
| 21 | Zheng Shuliang & family | $14.5 B | $220 M | Aluminum products | China |
| 22 | Yang Qiumei | $1.9 B | $205 M | Software | Hong Kong |
| 23 | Dustin Moskovitz | $15.3 B | $199 M | United States | |
| 24 | Pan Dong | $2.1 B | $189 M | Consumer goods | Canada |
| 25 | Bin Lin | $8.2 B | $176 M | Smartphones | United States |
| 26 | Alexander Karp | $4.3 B | $171 M | Software firm | United States |
| 27 | Len Blavatnik | $30.3 B | $171 M | Music, chemicals | United States |
| 28 | Sudhir Mehta | $8.1 B | $167 M | Pharmaceuticals, power | India |
| 29 | Samir Mehta | $8.1 B | $167 M | Pharmaceuticals, power | India |
| 30 | Xu Gaoming | $2.3 B | $165 M | Gold and Jewelry | China |
| 31 | David Duffield | $13.4 B | $165 M | Business software | United States |
| 32 | Park Soon-jae | $2.8 B | $157 M | Biopharmaceuticals | South Korea |
| 33 | Mark Stevens | $8.4 B | $155 M | Venture capital | United States |
| 34 | Tench Coxe | $5.3 B | $149 M | Venture capital | United States |
| 35 | Patrick Ryan | $13.0 B | $145 M | Insurance | United States |
| 36 | Dilip Shanghvi | $31.6 B | $137 M | Pharmaceuticals | India |
| 37 | Fan Daidi | $4.4 B | $135 M | Skincare | China |
| 38 | Jeff T. Green | $6.0 B | $130 M | Digital advertising | United States |
| 39 | Yasumitsu Shigeta | $5.5 B | $121 M | Mobile phone retailer | Japan |
| 40 | Jerry Jones & family | $15.5 B | $121 M | Dallas Cowboys | United States |
| 41 | Adam Foroughi | $4.1 B | $116 M | mobile games | United States |
| 42 | P.V. Ramprasad Reddy | $3.9 B | $112 M | Pharmaceuticals | India |
| 43 | Murali Divi & family | $9.3 B | $112 M | Pharmaceuticals | India |
| 44 | Torstein Hagen | $8.1 B | $110 M | Cruises | Norway |
| 45 | Ioannis Papalekas | $1.3 B | $110 M | Real estate | Greece |
| 46 | Cai Dongchen | $2.7 B | $109 M | Pharmaceuticals | China |
| 47 | Henry Samueli | $17.7 B | $108 M | Semiconductors | United States |
| 48 | John Fredriksen | $16.8 B | $105 M | Shipping | Cyprus |
| 49 | Richard Kinder | $9.8 B | $105 M | Pipelines | United States |
| 50 | Tahir & family | $6.0 B | $104 M | Diversified | Indonesia |
| 51 | Dhanin Chearavanont | $16.8 B | $90 M | Diversified | Thailand |
| 52 | Wang Shih-Chung | $1.1 B | $88 M | Pneumatic equipments | Taiwan |
| 53 | Tse Ping & family | $5.5 B | $87 M | Pharmaceuticals | China |
| 54 | Gustav Magnar Witzoe | $3.4 B | $87 M | Fish farming | Norway |
| 55 | Andrew Karam | $3.1 B | $85 M | mobile games | United States |
| 56 | Lo Kenneth | $1.4 B | $83 M | textiles | United Kingdom |
| 57 | Henry Nicholas III | $14.7 B | $82 M | Semiconductors | United States |
| 58 | Eugene Murtagh | $2.8 B | $81 M | Building materials | Ireland |
| 59 | Ling Tang | $3.0 B | $80 M | Mobile games | Canada |
| 60 | Kelcy Warren | $6.7 B | $78 M | Pipelines | United States |
| 61 | Jeff Rothschild | $5.7 B | $75 M | United States | |
| 62 | Chirayu Amin | $2.2 B | $74 M | Pharmaceuticals | India |
| 63 | Enrique Razon Jr. | $12.3 B | $73 M | Ports | Philippines |
| 64 | Juan Domingo Beckmann Legorreta & family | $3.0 B | $71 M | Tequila | Mexico |
| 65 | Seo Jung-jin | $7.8 B | $69 M | Biotech | South Korea |
| 66 | Sandro Veronesi & family | $2.1 B | $69 M | Fashion | Italy |
| 67 | Beda Diethelm | $3.0 B | $69 M | Hearing aids | Switzerland |
| 68 | Shigenobu Nagamori | $3.1 B | $68 M | Motors | Japan |
| 69 | Basudeo Singh | $2.9 B | $65 M | Pharmaceuticals | India |
| 70 | Alain Bouchard | $7.2 B | $64 M | Convinience stores | Canada |
| 71 | Masahiro Noda | $4.1 B | $63 M | Software | Japan |
| 72 | Cho Jung-ho | $7.4 B | $59 M | Finance | South Korea |
| 73 | Daniel D'Aniello | $4.5 B | $58 M | Private equity | United States |
| 74 | Miriam Adelson & family | $34.8 B | $58 M | Casinos | United States |
| 75 | Yin Yee Lee | $2.1 B | $58 M | Glass | China |
| 76 | William Conway Jr | $4.0 B | $57 M | Private equity | United States |
| 77 | Andre Koo Sr | $5.1 B | $56 M | Financial services | Taiwan |
| 78 | Kim Beom-su | $3.3 B | $56 M | Online services | South Korea |
| 79 | Tsai Ming-kai | $3.6 B | $51 M | Semiconductors | Taiwan |
| 80 | Ren Jinsheng & family | $1.4 B | $51 M | Pharmaceutical | China |
| 81 | Nicolas D'Ieteren | $4.1 B | $50 M | Auto parts, distribution | Belgium |
| 82 | Lam Kong | $2.1 B | $50 M | Pharmaceuticals | China |
| 83 | Martin Lau | $3.1 B | $50 M | E-commerce | Hong Kong |
| 84 | Karen Virginia Beckmann Legoretta | $2.1 B | $49 M | Tequila | Mexico |
| 85 | Sohmen Helmut | $7.2 B | $49 M | Shipping | Austria |
| 86 | Arvind Lal | $2.0 B | $49 M | Medical diagnostics | India |
| 87 | Hong Feng | $2.1 B | $49 M | Smartphones | China |
| 88 | Hiroshi Mikitani | $4.1 B | $49 M | Online retail | Japan |
| 89 | Jose Joao Abdalla Filho | $3.6 B | $48 M | Investments | Brazil |
| 90 | Li Wanqiang | $2.1 B | $48 M | Smartphones | China |
| 91 | Yuji Otsuka | $3.6 B | $48 M | Copy machines, software | Japan |
| 92 | Pierre Karl Péladeau | $2.1 B | $48 M | Media | Canada |
| 93 | Edward Stack & family | $5.1 B | $47 M | Dick's Sporting Goods | United States |
| 94 | Mustafa Latif Topbas | $1.1 B | $47 M | food, retail | Turkey |
| 95 | George Kurtz | $5.7 B | $46 M | Security software | United States |
| 96 | George Kaiser | $15.1 B | $45 M | Oil & gas, banking | United States |
| 97 | N.R. Narayana Murthy | $5.3 B | $45 M | Software services | India |
| 98 | Alexander Otto | $9.5 B | $45 M | Real estate | Germany |
| 99 | Djoko Susanto | $4.8 B | $45 M | Supermarkets | Indonesia |
| 100 | Yoo Jung-hyun | $2.6 B | $44 M | Online games | South Korea |
| 101 | Kentaro Ogawa | $3.5 B | $44 M | Restaurants | Japan |
| 102 | John Krystynak | $1.9 B | $43 M | mobile games | United States |
| 103 | David Rubenstein | $3.8 B | $43 M | Private equity | United States |
| 104 | Andreas Struengmann & family | $11.3 B | $42 M | Pharmaceuticals | Germany |
| 105 | Thomas Struengmann & family | $11.3 B | $42 M | Pharmaceuticals | Germany |
| 106 | Senapathy Gopalakrishnan | $4.3 B | $42 M | Software services | India |
| 107 | Catheline Perier D'Ieteren | $3.4 B | $42 M | Auto parts, distribution | Belgium |
| 108 | Jan Koum | $16.3 B | $41 M | United States | |
| 109 | Donald Trump | $4.0 B | $41 M | Real estate | United States |
| 110 | Carl Icahn | $6.0 B | $41 M | Investments | United States |
| 111 | Huang Jiangji | $1.9 B | $41 M | smartphones | Hong Kong |
| 112 | Takaya Awata | $1.1 B | $40 M | Restaurants | Japan |
| 113 | Yang Xuegang | $1.6 B | $40 M | Coking | China |
| 114 | Kjell Inge Rokke | $4.5 B | $38 M | Shipping, seafood | Norway |
| 115 | Maria Fernanda Amorim & family | $6.2 B | $38 M | Energy, investments | Portugal |
| 116 | Sanjeev Bikhchandani | $4.1 B | $38 M | Internet | India |
| 117 | Serge Godin | $3.3 B | $37 M | Information technology | Canada |
| 118 | Tadako Nakatani | $1.3 B | $37 M | Medical diagnostic equipment | Japan |
| 119 | Aneel Bhusri | $3.0 B | $35 M | Business software | United States |
| 120 | Nadia Thiele | $8.2 B | $35 M | Investments | Germany |
| 121 | Michael Rees | $1.9 B | $34 M | Private equity | United States |
| 122 | Kevin Systrom | $3.1 B | $34 M | United States | |
| 123 | Nobutoshi Shimamura | $1.6 B | $34 M | Retail | Japan |
| 124 | Horst Paulmann & family | $3.9 B | $34 M | Retail | Chile |
| 125 | Bang Si-hyuk | $1.6 B | $33 M | Entertainment | South Korea |
| 126 | Marc Benioff | $9.7 B | $33 M | Business software | United States |
| 127 | Hary Tanoesoedibjo | $1.6 B | $32 M | media, real estate | Indonesia |
| 128 | Shen Neil | $4.2 B | $32 M | Venture capital | China |
| 129 | Alisher Usmanov | $14.0 B | $32 M | Steel, telecom, investments | Russia |
| 130 | Jeffrey Cheah | $3.3 B | $32 M | Property, healthcare | Malaysia |
| 131 | Masaaki Arai | $1.8 B | $32 M | Real estate | Japan |
| 132 | Doug Ostrover | $3.0 B | $32 M | Private equity | United States |
| 133 | Ugur Sahin | $4.8 B | $31 M | Biotechnology | Germany |
| 134 | Jacques D'Amours | $3.5 B | $31 M | Convenience stores | Canada |
| 135 | Masateru Uno & family | $2.2 B | $30 M | Drugstores | Japan |
| 136 | Nandan Nilekani | $3.6 B | $30 M | Software services | India |
| 137 | Timur Turlov | $4.3 B | $30 M | Stock brokerage | Kazakhstan |
| 138 | Randa Duncan Williams | $8.6 B | $30 M | Pipelines | United States |
| 139 | Drew Houston | $1.9 B | $30 M | Cloud storage service | United States |
| 140 | Dannine Avara | $8.6 B | $29 M | Pipelines | United States |
| 141 | Milane Frantz | $8.6 B | $29 M | Pipelines | United States |
| 142 | Harvey Jones | $1.3 B | $29 M | Nvidia | United States |
| 143 | Leonid Boguslavsky | $4.7 B | $29 M | Venture capital | Canada |
| 144 | Jack Dorsey | $4.1 B | $28 M | Twitter, Square | United States |
| 145 | Scott Duncan | $8.3 B | $28 M | Pipelines | United States |
| 146 | Soegiarto Adikoesoemo | $1.5 B | $28 M | Chemicals | Indonesia |
| 147 | Henry Sy Jr | $2.5 B | $28 M | Diversified | Philippines |
| 148 | Frank Holding | $1.4 B | $28 M | Banking | United States |
| 149 | Keiichi Shibahara | $1.2 B | $28 M | Healthcare | Japan |
| 150 | Roy Mann | $1.6 B | $27 M | software | Israel |
| 151 | Zhong Sheng Jian | $1.4 B | $27 M | Real estate | Singapore |
| 152 | K. Dinesh | $2.8 B | $26 M | Software services | India |
| 153 | Carson Brice | $1.3 B | $26 M | Banking | United States |
| 154 | Marc Lipschultz | $2.1 B | $26 M | Private equity | United States |
| 155 | Cho Jyh-jer | $1.7 B | $25 M | Semiconductors | Taiwan |
| 156 | Hajime Satomi | $1.4 B | $25 M | Video games, Pachinko | Japan |
| 157 | Kim Jun-ki | $2.1 B | $24 M | Diversified | South Korea |
| 158 | James Clark | $4.8 B | $24 M | Netscape, investments | United States |
| 159 | John Gandel | $3.8 B | $24 M | Shopping malls | Australia |
| 160 | Habil Khorakiwala | $1.2 B | $24 M | pharmaceuticals | India |
| 161 | Olivier Pomel | $2.9 B | $24 M | Cloud computing | France |
| 162 | Kim Jung-min | $1.7 B | $24 M | Online gaming | South Korea |
| 163 | Kim Jung-youn | $1.7 B | $24 M | Online gaming | South Korea |
| 164 | V. Prem Watsa | $2.0 B | $23 M | Insurance, investments | Canada |
| 165 | Hisako Yamamoto | $1.5 B | $23 M | Retail | Japan |
| 166 | Junro Ito | $1.5 B | $23 M | Retail | Japan |
| 167 | Yasuhisa Ito | $1.5 B | $23 M | Retail | Japan |
| 168 | Jay Y. Lee | $9.8 B | $23 M | Samsung | South Korea |
| 169 | Lee Boo-jin | $2.6 B | $23 M | Samsung | South Korea |
| 170 | Mong-Koo Chung | $4.6 B | $22 M | Hyundai | South Korea |
| 171 | Anthony Wood | $1.9 B | $22 M | Roku | United States |
| 172 | Kuok Khoon Hong | $3.0 B | $22 M | Palm oil | Singapore |
| 173 | Ibrahim Erdemoglu | $2.2 B | $22 M | Carpet | Turkey |
| 174 | Vincent Viola | $4.9 B | $22 M | Electronic trading | United States |
| 175 | Andreas von Bechtolsheim & family | $20.4 B | $22 M | Germany | |
| 176 | Henri Beaufour | $2.9 B | $22 M | Pharmaceuticals | France |
| 177 | Anne Beaufour | $2.9 B | $22 M | Pharmaceuticals | France |
| 178 | Dong Jinggui | $2.7 B | $22 M | Electric scooters | China |
| 179 | Lee Jay-hyun | $1.2 B | $21 M | food products, entertainment | South Korea |
| 180 | Ryuji Arai | $1.1 B | $21 M | Electronics Retail | Japan |
| 181 | Wei Ing-Chou | $2.1 B | $21 M | Food, beverages | Taiwan |
| 182 | Ray Davis | $3.6 B | $21 M | Pipelines | United States |
| 183 | S.D. Shibulal | $2.2 B | $20 M | Software services | India |
| 184 | Wei Ying-Chiao | $2.1 B | $20 M | Food, beverages | Taiwan |
| 185 | Wei Yin-Chun | $2.1 B | $20 M | Food, beverages | Taiwan |
| 186 | Wei Yin-Heng | $2.1 B | $20 M | Food, beverages | Taiwan |
| 187 | Danielle Bellon & family | $3.7 B | $20 M | Food services | France |
| 188 | Chip Wilson | $5.0 B | $20 M | Lululemon | Canada |
| 189 | Kim Taek-jin | $1.1 B | $20 M | Online games | South Korea |
| 190 | Katharina Otto-Bernstein | $3.3 B | $20 M | Real estate | Germany |
| 191 | Alexis Lê-Quôc | $2.7 B | $20 M | Cloud computing | United States |
| 192 | Dan Wilks | $2.0 B | $20 M | Natural gas | United States |
| 193 | Morris Chang | $4.1 B | $20 M | Semiconductors | Taiwan |
| 194 | Eugene Wu | $1.5 B | $20 M | Finance | Taiwan |
| 195 | N. Murray Edwards | $3.2 B | $20 M | Oil & gas | Canada |
| 196 | Ali Erdemoglu | $1.9 B | $19 M | Carpet | Turkey |
| 197 | Jack Cowin | $3.4 B | $19 M | Fast food | Australia |
| 198 | Eiichi Kuriwada | $1.2 B | $19 M | Package delivery | Japan |
| 199 | Chen Xueli | $1.4 B | $18 M | Pharmaceuticals | China |
| 200 | Manoj Punjabi | $1.4 B | $18 M | Movies | Indonesia |
| 201 | Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono | $4.4 B | $18 M | Palm oil, nickel mining | Indonesia |
| 202 | Hartley Rogers | $1.6 B | $18 M | asset management | United States |
| 203 | Premchand Godha | $1.7 B | $17 M | Pharmaceuticals | India |
| 204 | Matthias Reinhart | $4.4 B | $17 M | Financial services | Switzerland |
| 205 | Sid Bass | $3.8 B | $17 M | Oil, investments | United States |
| 206 | Lee Thiam Wah | $4.2 B | $17 M | Retailing | Malaysia |
| 207 | Sumet Jiaravanon | $6.7 B | $17 M | Diversified | Thailand |
| 208 | Jim Coulter | $5.3 B | $17 M | Private equity | United States |
| 209 | Jaran Chiaravanont | $6.6 B | $17 M | Diversified | Thailand |
| 210 | Thomas James | $2.8 B | $17 M | Finance | United States |
| 211 | Timothy Springer | $1.5 B | $16 M | Biotech | United States |
| 212 | Richard Fortin | $1.9 B | $16 M | Convinience stores | Canada |
| 213 | David Bonderman | $7.0 B | $16 M | Private equity | United States |
| 214 | Chandru Raheja | $5.4 B | $16 M | Real estate | India |
| 215 | Anders Holch Povlsen | $12.8 B | $15 M | Fashion retail | Denmark |
| 216 | Shu Ping | $2.4 B | $15 M | Restaurants | Singapore |
| 217 | Goh Cheng Liang | $12.9 B | $15 M | Paints | Singapore |
| 218 | Mike Cannon-Brookes | $10.9 B | $15 M | Software | Australia |
| 219 | Will Adderley | $2.0 B | $14 M | Home furnishings | United Kingdom |
| 220 | Nathan Kirsh | $7.3 B | $14 M | Retail, real estate | Eswatini (Swaziland) |
| 221 | Julia Thiele-Schuerhoff | $3.4 B | $14 M | Brakes, investments | Germany |
| 222 | Lisa Su | $1.1 B | $14 M | Semiconductors | United States |
| 223 | Gianluigi Aponte | $34.8 B | $14 M | Shipping | Switzerland |
| 224 | Rafaela Aponte-Diamant | $34.8 B | $14 M | Shipping | Switzerland |
| 225 | Sheryl Sandberg | $2.2 B | $14 M | United States | |
| 226 | Lee Hae-jin | $1.3 B | $14 M | Internet | South Korea |
| 227 | Koos Bekker | $3.2 B | $13 M | Media, investments | South Africa |
| 228 | Ding Shizhong | $8.2 B | $13 M | Sports apparel | China |
| 229 | Tony Tan Caktiong | $1.4 B | $13 M | Food | Philippines |
| 230 | Jeff Sprecher | $1.1 B | $13 M | stock exchanges | United States |
| 231 | Ding Shijia | $7.8 B | $13 M | Sports apparel | China |
| 232 | Haryanto Tjiptodihardjo | $1.2 B | $13 M | Manufacturing | Indonesia |
| 233 | Ralph Dommermuth | $2.3 B | $12 M | Internet service provider | Germany |
| 234 | Nir Zuk | $1.6 B | $12 M | software | United States |
| 235 | Michael Minhong Yu | $2.3 B | $12 M | Education | China |
| 236 | Peng Zhao | $1.3 B | $12 M | Online recruitment | China |
| 237 | Li Ge | $5.1 B | $12 M | Pharmaceuticals | United States |
| 238 | Deepinder Goyal | $1.7 B | $12 M | Food delivery service | India |
| 239 | Ronald Clarke | $1.5 B | $11 M | payments technology | United States |
| 240 | Farris Wilks | $1.9 B | $11 M | Natural gas | United States |
| 241 | Tilman Fertitta | $10.3 B | $11 M | Entertainment, Houston Rockets | United States |
| 242 | Gerald Schwartz | $1.5 B | $11 M | Finance | Canada |
| 243 | Réal Plourde | $1.2 B | $11 M | Convenience stores | Canada |
| 244 | Shi Yonghong & family | $2.7 B | $11 M | Restaurants | China |
| 245 | Douglas Leone | $7.9 B | $11 M | Venture capital | United States |
| 246 | Tran Dinh Long | $2.4 B | $11 M | Steel | Vietnam |
| 247 | Igor Bukhman | $9.1 B | $11 M | Online games | Israel |
| 248 | Dmitri Bukhman | $9.1 B | $11 M | Online games | Israel |
| 249 | Li Haiyan | $2.0 B | $11 M | Restaurants | China |
| 250 | Scott Farquhar | $10.5 B | $10 M | Software | Australia |
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