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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]
In the 1996 book The Wealthy 100, authors Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther placed John D. Rockefeller atop the list of the richest Americans in history, followed by Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor. [8] Bill Gates was the top living person, coming in fifth.
The Forbes 400 or 400 Richest Americans is a list published by Forbes magazine of the wealthiest 400 American citizens who own assets in the U.S., ranked by net worth. The 400 was started by Malcolm Forbes in 1982 and the list is published annually around September. [ 2 ]
There's rich and then there's making the Forbes-richest-people list rich. Forbes recently released its list of the 400 richest people in America in 2024 and 10 of those billionaires hail from Georgia.
Iowa native Harry Stine landed in the top 100 on the Forbes 400 list, which ranks the richest Americans. And Iowa's richest man still lives in Adel.
Steve Ballmer. U.S. wealth rank: 8 Overall wealth rank: 10 Net worth: $123 billion 2023 net worth: $80.7 billion Age: 68 Source of income: Microsoft, self-made Stanford dropout Steve Ballmer ...
In the 32nd annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the aggregate wealth of the top 20 richest people on Earth amounted to about 13 percent of all billionaires' fortunes combined. [16] A record of 2,208 billionaires were in the ranking and the total wealth was $9.1 trillion, up 18% since 2017.
Top 10 Richest Americans in History. John Csiszar. April 6, 2023 at 2:00 PM ... An interesting note is that most of these richest Americans weren’t actually born in the U.S. but were immigrants.