15 World’s richest billionaires as of 1st July 2023: check N0. 1 to 5

The latest list of the World’s richest billionaires have been released by World of Statistics via Twitter,  and it is no surprise that it contains 9 rich people from the United States of America. The league table of the top. The billionaires league table is based on their worth or net worth. Apart from the US, other countries that made it to the list are France, India, Mexico, and Spain.

  15 World’s richest billionaires as of 1st July 2023

World’s richest people:

 Elon Musk: $234b – USA

The 15 World’s richest billionaires leaderboard is led by no other person than the controversial Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner, CTO, and chairman of Twitte

 Bernard Arnault: $200b – France

Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault is a French business magnate, investor, and art collector. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury goods company.

 Jeff Bezos: $154b – USA

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company

 Bill Gates: $134b – USA

William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known for co-founding software giant Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen

 Larry Ellison: $133b – USA

Lawrence Joseph Ellison is an American billionaire business magnate and investor. He is the co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer and former chief executive officer of the American computer technology company Oracle Corporation

 Steve Ballmer: $118b – USA

Steven Anthony Ballmer is an American billionaire businessman and investor who served as the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association

 Warren Buffet: $115b – USA

Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. As a result of his immense investment success, Buffett is one of the best-known fundamental investors in the world.

 Larry Page: $110b – USA

Lawrence Edward Page is an American billionaire business magnate, computer scientist and internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin.

 Sergey Brin: $104b – USA

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin is an American billionaire business magnate best known for co-founding Google with Larry Page. Brin was the president of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019.

 Mark Zuckerberg: $104b – USA

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American business magnate, computer programmer, internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the executive chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder

 Carlos Slim: $96b – Mexico 

Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by the Forbes business magazine. He derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso.

 Francoise Bettencourt Meyers: $93.2b -France

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is a French businesswoman, philanthropist, writer, billionaire heiress, and the richest woman in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$93.2 billion as of March 2022, according to Forbes

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 Mukesh Ambani: $88.2b – India

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is currently the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company by market value. With an estimated net worth of $88.2 billion as of July 1, 2023, he is the richest person in Asia.

 Amancio Ortega: $78b – Spain

Amancio Ortega Gaona is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of Inditex fashion group, best known for its chain of Zara and Bershka clothing and accessories shops

 Jim Walton: $71.3b – USA

James Carr Walton is an American businessman, currently an heir to the fortune of Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. As of October 2022, Walton was the seventeenth-richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$71.3  billion according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He is the youngest son of Sam Walton.

 Rob Walton: $69.4b – USA

Samuel Robson Walton is an American billionaire heir to the fortune of Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. He is the eldest son of Helen Walton and Sam Walton, and was chairman of Walmart from 1992 to 2015.

 Alice Walton: $68.3b – China

 Zhong Shanshan: $63.1b – USA

 Charles Koch: $62.3b – USA

 Julia Flesher Koch: $62.3b – USA

 Gautam Adani: $60.3b -India

 John Mars: $59.5b – – USA

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