Indian business magnate, Mukesh Ambani, has an estimated net worth of $57 billion in November 2019. Despite dropping from the list of top ten richest people in the world after losing $4.7 billion, Mukesh Ambani is still the richest Indian in the world. He is the chairman and managing director of the one of India’s largest conglomerate, Reliance Industries Limited.
Michael Bloomberg is an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He was mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, and the founder and CEO of the financial data-services and media company Bloomberg L.P. He owns 88% of the firm and has an estimated net worth of $59 billion as of March 2021.
Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican businessman with an estimated net worth of $60.35 billion as of April 2021. He had earnings of more than $10 billion from April 2020 to April 2021 and is the sixteenth wealthy person in the world according to Forbes, and the twenty-third according to Bloomberg. Forbes’ 2010 list of the world’s great fortunes states that Slim was the wealthiest person on earth, and he ranked as the world’s richest man again in 2011 and 2012.
American businessman Sam Walton had an estimated net worth of $65 billion as of February 2013. Walton is best recognized as the founder of the world renowned, Wal-mart. He was also the founder of Sam’s Club.
Stephen Van Rensselaer was an American Lieutenant-Governor, stateman, land owner, and soldier who had an inflation-adjusted estimated net worth of $68 billion.
According to Los Angeles Times the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had “secretly salted away more than $200 billion in bank accounts, real estate and corporate investments around the world before he was killed.” The story was repeated around the world, with various news sites reporting that Gadhafi died richer than the three richest people on the planet – Carlos Slim, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett – combined. This means, prior to his death, he was by far the richest person in the world. Currently, he has an estimated net worth of $70 billion.