Top 10 Richest Personalities In The World

10. Jensen Huang

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Recently rising to the chart of top 10 richest personalities of the world, Jensen Huang has claimed the position as the 10th richest businessman of the world early this year of 2025. Jensen Huang is a Taiwanese and American business man as well as a philanthropist, who is best known as the CEO of Nvidia. Huang was born on 17th February, 1963. He spent his childhood in Taiwan and Thailand before being immigrated to America. After graduating from Stanford University, he founded Nvidia in 1993. The company started from a local restaurant and faced several bankruptcy threats. However, under Huang’s guidance, Nvidia survived. Huang has remained president and CEO of the company since the beginning till now.
Hunag has led the company through rapid growth and reached a market capitalization of $3 trillion. It has suppressed other big companies like Microsoft, Meta and Amazon. Nvidia left Microsoft behind and became the most valuable company in June 2024. And in turn Jensen Huang became the 10th richest personality of the world with a net worth of US$ 127.9 billion. Nvidia is now known as the world’s largest semiconductor company, all under Hunag’s leadership.

9. Steve Ballmer

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The 68 years old Steve Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft, who led the company from 2000 to 2014. Ballmer was born on March 24, 1956, in Detroit, Michigan. He joined Microsoft in the year 1980. Bill gates convinced Ballmer to drop out of the MBA program of Stanford university and join Microsoft in the same year. According to internet sources, he was the 30^th employee of Microsoft and he got the position of the CEO of the company in the year 2000. He led the company for 14 years and then dropped his position. After dropping out of his position he purchased the basketball team Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion. He is now the 9th richest person of the world owning 4% of Microsoft’s shares still till now, which also makes him the largest individual shareholder of the company. Ballmer and Bill Gates shared a brotherly relationship until Ballmer started pushing Microsoft towards hardware, which stained their relationship quite a bit.

8. Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett is the most famous value investor as well as the 8th richest personality of the world. He was born on August 30, 1930, in Omaha. According to different sources, Buffett filed his first tax return at the age of 14, in 1944. His earnings were saved from his boyhood paper route job. In 1962, he first bought the share of a textile company called Berkshire Hathaway and within 1965 he became the major shareholder of the company. Within 1967, he expanded the textile company into an insurance carrier as well as in other investments. Currently Berkshire Hathaway is a company with $1.03 trillion-dollar market capture.

Buffett has primarily acquired his position by taking over undervalued companies. He is 94 and is still serving as the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and is still going strong. His noble personality deserves a mention. From 2006 to 2021, Buffett has given away more than $41 billion in different charities and foundations. In 2010, he launched Giving Pledge along with Bill Gates. There are rumors of him retiring from his position soon.

7. Sergey Brin

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Sergey Brin stands as the 7th richest personality of the world in 2025. He was born on 21^st August 1973, in Moscow, Russia. He is the co-founder of google alongside with Larry Page. In 2001, Brin took over the position of CEO of Google. In 2015, he became the CEO of Alphabet after it was established. Brin stepped down from his position in the year of 2019 as Sundar Pichai took over his position. He is still a valuable board member of Google and own 6% of Alphabet’s ownership stake.

Brin has invested much of his 2019 on Alphabet’s research laboratory in innovating technologies, such as self-driving cars. He is also known for his noble personality, as he has donated millions of dollars for Parkinson’s disease research.

6. Larry Page

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In the list of top 10 richest personalities of the world, Larry Page lands on number 6. He was born on March 26, 1973, in East Lansing, Michigan. His and Brin’s journey towards changing the technology world started from the dorm of Stanford University. The duo came up with an idea of improving internet data extraction. They also devised a new search engine technology that called Backrub. In the year of 1998, they founded Google and Page started serving as a CEO. He stepped down from his position in the year of 2001. He re-took the position of CEO in 2011 and served till 2019.

With time Google has become the dominant search engine of the world acquiring more than 92% of global search requests. The company has also acquired some of the other globally popular companies, such as YouTube and Android. Shares of Google went up by 50% only in 2021, which landed both Page and Brin within the list of top 10 richest personalities. The net worth of page went up from $52 billion to $98.7 billion just within 2 years.

5. Bernard Arnault

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Bernard Arnault is the 5th richest personality of 2025 overtaking Elon Musk. He was reportedly the 4th richest personality in 2022, however, a decline in his wealth has crowned him as the 5th of this list in 2025. He was born on 5^th March 1949, in Roubaix, France. He is the chairperson and the CEO of LVMH, the largest luxury goods company of the world. It owns brands like, Louis Vuitton, Hennessey, Sephora, and Marc Jacobs. Arnault’s most wealth comes from his dominant stake in Christian Dior. Moreover, he has an addition 6.2% of stake in LVMH. In 1987 LVMH invited him to invest in the company, which made him a major shareholder as well as the chairperson of board. Two years later he acquired the position of the CEO of the luxury goods company with an inflation of his wealth.

4. Mark Zuckerberg

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On the 4th position of the world’s richest personalities, we have Mark Zuckerbarg. It’s needless to introduce him as he is widely known as the biggest social media platform, Facebook as well as Meta Platforms. Mark Zuckerbarg serves as the CEO and Chairman of the company, and also owns 13.5% of ownership stake at Facebook and Meta, which has landed him as the 4th richest personality of the world with a net worth of $202.5 billion. 
Born on May 14, 1984, Zukerberg attended Harvard university briefly. He launched Facebook in February 2004 with his roommates. Facebook went public in 2012 making him the youngest self-made billionaire at the age of 23 only. Even after being subject to several lawsuits and criticism due to Facebook’s creation and ownership, he managed to continue as one of the wealthiest personalities ever since 2008. 

3. Larry Ellison

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Larry Ellison is crowned as the number 3 of the top 10 richest personalities of the world. The co-founder, executive chair and the CTO of Oracle was born on August 17, 1944, to a 19-year-old single mother. He dropped out of the University of Chicago in 1966 and moved to California. He stared to work as a computer programmer and in the year of 1973, he joined Ampex. After three years Ellison shifted to Precision Instruments and served as the vice president of the research and development department of the company.

In the year of 1977, Ellison founded software department laboratories with his other two partners Oates and Miner. After two years, this company released Oracle, which was the very first commercial relational database program to use a structured query language. The program became so popular that in 1982 SDL changed its name to Oracle Corporation. Ellison gave up his position as CEO in the year of 2014 and joined as a board member of Tesla in 2018. He now owns 40% of Oracle’s stake as well as more than $12 billion public assets of Tesla.

2. Jeff Bezos

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The second richest personality of the world is Jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairperson of Amazon. He was born on 12^th January 1964. The journey of Amazon started in the year of 1994, right after Bezos resigned from D.E. Shaw. At a garage of Seattle, Bezos first started his company with the aim of selling books. However, amazon is now referred as the largest retailer of the world, which sells almost everything that has an existence. The company has expanded its areas of venture and has acquired many companies.

Bezos now owns 10% of Amazon’s shares as he had to transfer 4% to his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, post-divorce. Amazon has seen a soar in its share prices in 2020 by 76% making Bezos the second richest personality to exist. He stepped down from his position of CEO in 2021 and remained as an executive chairperson. He became the first man after Bill Gates to have more than $100 billion net worth.

1. Elon Musk

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Elon Musk is a trending name in today’s world, also, one of the most important names in advanced technology. Musk has acquired the position of the richest person of this world with a net worth of $421.2 billion. He was born on 28^th June 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. He received is bachelor’s degrees in physics and in economics from the university of Pennsylvania. Musk is the one to launch Zip2, one of the earliest navigation systems. He is also the creator of PayPal, which was later sold to eBay before acquiring the name of PayPal.

Elon Musk co-founded Tesla Motors, which is now of the most famous electric vehicle companies. He is now the CEO of Tesla alongside being the CEO of SpaceX. The shares of Tesla went up by 740%, which brought Musk to the list of top 10 richest persons. And within January 2021 he became the richest person in the world. He has also initiated Twitter buyout worth of $44 billion in April 2022. However, within 3 months he decided to back out from the buyout, which resulted in lawsuits against him. However, his successful ventures through Tesla and SpaceX still make him remain as the 2nd richest person of the world.

Apart from the top 10 personality, the name of Mukesh Ambani, Zhong Shanshan and Prajogo Pangestu needs to be mentioned. These personalities have taken the place of the richest Asian Personalities of 2025.