Booming tech shares lifted the fortunes of eight of the realm’s high 10 wealthiest. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang hit a excessive mark.
Closing change: August 1, 2025, 12 A.M. EDT
In a month the attach the largest tech companies led U.S. stock market indices to successive new highs, the CEO of sizzling AI chip firm Nvidia furthermore joined the upward march. Jensen Huang begins August because the sixth richest particular person within the realm, per Forbes’ estimates, up from No. 10 at the starting up of July. His fortune expanded by $17 billion within the past month to virtually $155 billion as Nvidia grew to remodel the important firm with a market capitalization of $4 trillion; its shares rose about 14% at some stage in July.
Huang wasn’t even the largest gainer amongst the cease ten wealthiest, in greenback phrases. That prize went to the realm’s No. 2 richest, Larry Ellison. Shares of his blueprint and cloud computing firm Oracle furthermore surged 14% at some stage in July, and added $37 billion to Ellison’s fetch price; it’s now simply fearful of $300 billion. In unhurried July his son David Ellison’s firm Skydance sealed a deal to present Paramount–owner of CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon and extra–for $8 billion, helped along by Larry Ellison’s fortune and his warm ties with President Trump.
One more within the cease 10, Meta CEO Imprint Zuckerberg, attracted hundreds consideration for the $100 million-sized pay programs his firm has been awarding the cream of AI talent. On the final day of July, Zuckerberg’s fortune rallied by virtually $27 billion following a right quarterly earnings anecdote on July 30. No topic the mammoth July 31 surge, Zuckerberg’s fetch price jump for the month turned into a extra muted $12 billion produce, placing him at a runt below $267 billion.
Eight of the realm’s high 10 richest starting up August with fatter fortunes than on July 1. The 2 outliers: Elon Musk, whose fortune gotten smaller by $5.3 billion, and Warren Buffett, whose fetch price dropped by $2.2 billion. Musk is aloof the realm’s richest particular person, price an estimated $401 billion–and basically the most efficient particular person on Forbes’ record price extra than $400 billion. Buffett fell to No. 9, down three spots from a month within the past. Altogether, the realm’s high 10 richest are price $2.1 trillion– $100 billion extra than on July 1.
Forbes has been conserving display screen of the realm’s billionaires since 1987. In April 2025 we came all the absolute top design by 3,028 of them for our annual record.
Under are the 10 richest folks on earth as of August 1, 2025 at 12 a.m. Jap time, in step with Forbes. Stock prices fluctuate robotically, so these fetch worths can also alternate on a day to day basis. Forbes tracks the day to day adjustments on our Real Time record of billionaires.
Key Information
Elon Musk
is the richest particular person within the realm, a title he’s held since Would possibly well well furthermore 2024.
Larry Ellison
stays the realm’s 2nd wealthiest particular person for the 2nd month in a row.
Invoice Gates
dropped out of the cease 10 richest in October 2024 after Forbes obtained new records about a broad contraction in his fortune.
9/10
of the richest folks within the realm are Americans. The one non-U.S. citizen: France’s Bernard Arnault.
All
of the cease ten richest folks as of August 1 are males. Every of them is price $138 billion or extra.
Who are the cease 10 richest folks within the realm?*
1. Elon Musk
2. Larry Ellison
3. Imprint Zuckerberg
4. Jeff Bezos
5. Larry Page
6. Jensen Huang
7. Sergey Brin
8. Steve Ballmer
9. Warren Buffett
10. Bernard Arnault
*As of August 1, 2025 at 12 a.m. ET
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1. Elon Musk
Get price: $401 billion
Offer: Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, X
Age: fifty three
Field: Austin, Texas
Citizenship: U.S.
Musk’s fortune dropped $5.5 billion within the past month this capability that of a 3% decline within the price of electrical automotive firm Tesla’s shares. That’s a runt sliver of his present estimated $401 billion fetch price. Challenges at Tesla were repeated with loads of quarters of declining EV sales. Musk vows that Tesla’s robotaxi service, currently a minute operation, will assemble bigger dramatically within the approaching months.
Musk is CEO of Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX; chairman and chief expertise officer of social media firm X, formerly identified as Twitter; and founding father of man made intelligence firm xAI. In unhurried March, xAI obtained X at a valuation that Musk stated turned into $Forty five billion (including debt); Musk paid $44 billion (including debt) to present Twitter in October 2022.
He owns about 12% of Tesla’s stock and has pledged some of his stock as collateral for loans. The electric automotive maker’s shareholders voted in June 2024 in prefer of Musk conserving efficiency based fully stock alternatives that will well per chance be price virtually $90 billion this present day in what a Delaware judge had earlier known as “a really grand capability compensation opportunity ever seen in public markets,” when she voided the award in January 2024 and affirmed the ruling in December. A lengthy enchantment of the Delaware ruling is likely ongoing. Until Musk receives these alternatives, Forbes will proceed to low cost the Tesla alternatives from the pay package by 50%.
At the starting up from South Africa, Musk moved to Canada earlier than his 18th birthday, worked a diversity of jobs, enrolled at Queen’s College in Ontario and then transferred to the College of Pennsylvania, the attach he earned a bachelor’s level in economics.
In 2000, he merged an on-line bank he cofounded, X.com, with a identical outfit cofounded by Peter Thiel to net PayPal, which eBay sold in 2002 for $1.4 billion. He based SpaceX in 2002 in El Segundo, come Los Angeles. In 2004 he joined Tesla as an investor and chairman, a year after it turned into based; he turned into later granted the cofounder title. Musk, who grew to remodel CEO of Tesla in 2008, took the firm public in 2010. In September 2021, Musk grew to remodel the realm’s richest particular person. Musk turned into furthermore the realm’s richest particular person for most of 2022—till December 2022. Musk grew to remodel the realm’s richest particular person but another time on June 8, 2023 and held onto the no 1 blueprint for the remainder of 2023. He fell to No. 2 on January 31, 2024.
Musk grew to remodel the realm’s richest particular person over but another time in unhurried Would possibly well well furthermore 2024, after his startup xAI raised $6 billion from non-public investors at a $24 billion valuation. Primarily based on Musk, xAI is now price $80 billion.
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2. Larry Ellison
Get price: $299.6 billion
Offer: Oracle
Age: 80
Field: Woodside, California
Citizenship: U.S.
Ellison maintains his blueprint because the realm’s No. 2 richest as of August 1, following a $37 billion jump in his fortune in a month. The gap between Ellison and No. 1 Musk narrowed from $144 billion on July 1 to $101.6 billion at hour of darkness on August 1.
In January, the day after Donald Trump turned into inaugurated as president, Ellison turned into on hand when Trump announced the Stargate Mission, a conducting with Ellison’s firm Oracle, Chat GPT creator OpenAI, Japan’s Masayoshi Son and his firm Softbank and MGX of the UAE. The group at the starting up attach stated it could well per chance say $500 billion over four years to net AI infrastructure—mainly records centers—within the U.S. The Wall Avenue Journal reported in July that Stargate has scaled abet its dreams for 2025 to net one minute records heart.
Ellison cofounded blueprint firm Oracle in 1977 and ran it as CEO till 2014; he now serves as chairman and chief expertise officer of the firm.
In 2012, Ellison sold 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai for $300 million. He furthermore owns homes in California, Nevada and Florida. Ellison invested in Tesla and served on the board of the electric automotive firm from 2018 by August 2022.
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3. Imprint Zuckerberg
Get price: $266.7 billion
Offer: Meta (Facebook)
Age: 41
Field: Palo Alto, California
Citizenship: U.S.
The social media CEO ended July with a bang after Meta beat analysts’ expectations with 2nd quarter earnings. Earnings per share hit $7.14 per share on earnings of $47.5 billion, beating reported analyst expectations of $5.89 a share. Income furthermore beat expectations, and shares rose 11% in a day.
Zuckerberg cofounded Facebook—now known as Meta Platforms—when he turned into a pupil at Harvard College in 2004. It has grown to be the realm’s largest social network, with loads of billion users globally. The firm furthermore owns Instagram and WhatsApp, each and each of which it obtained and very a lot expanded. Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, took the firm public in 2012 and aloof owns about 13% of it.
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4. Jeff Bezos
Get price: $246.4 billion
Offer: Amazon
Age: 61
Field: Miami, Florida
Citizenship: U.S.
Bezos’ fortune climbed by $13 billion within the month of July as Amazon shares rose virtually 7%. The Amazon founder furthermore made headlines in unhurried June for his blowout marriage ceremony to Lauren Sanchez in Venice, Italy.
Bezos created e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 and ran it as CEO till July 2021 (he stays chairman); that identical month he went to dwelling on a rocket built by non-public rocket firm Blue Starting up attach, which he based and has funded with billions of bucks. (Blue Starting up attach mercurial despatched an all-female crew to dwelling final month—including pop enormous title Katy Perry, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King and Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sanchez.)
Sooner than founding Amazon.com in his garage in Seattle, Bezos worked in Original York at hedge fund D.E. Shaw. Amazon started as an on-line bookseller at a time when few folks sold items on-line. The firm furthermore grew to dominate cloud storage and moved into movie and assortment production to feed Amazon Top Video.
Bezos turned into the realm’s richest particular person on Forbes’ record of the World’s Billionaires from 2018 by 2021; he dropped to 2nd richest on the 2022 billionaires record and No. 3 on the 2024 record.
In 2019, Bezos and his associate MacKenzie divorced; as piece of the settlement, she obtained 4% of Amazon’s shares and he saved 12%. He has since offered and given away extra of his stake and owns 9% of the firm. Since Amazon went public in 1997, Forbes calculates that he has offered extra than $38 billion price of his stock. Thru his Bezos Expeditions he has invested in an array of companies, including Airbnb and blueprint firm Workday.
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5. Larry Page
Get price: $158 billion
Offer: Google
Age: 52
Field: Palo Alto, California
Citizenship: U.S.
The fortune of Google cofounder Larry Page rocketed up a runt extra than $12 billion within the past month on the abet of a virtually 9% uptick in Alphabet shares. The hunt-engine and AI giant rode the market elevated along with its high-tier tech chums. Page’s No. 5 grievous is unchanged from a month within the past.
Page cofounded search engine Google with fellow Stanford PhD pupil Sergey Brin in 1998 and served as CEO till 2001 and from 2011 to 2015. He now serves as a board member of Google’s parent firm Alphabet and continues to be a controlling shareholder.
In unhurried 2024, the Department of Justice stated Google must aloof promote its Chrome browser as a technique to cut the firm’s dominance on-line. In response, Google stated in an announcement that such a circulation would damage patrons and The United States’s technological management. The choice can also were one motive that Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai attended Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.
Page turned into a founding investor in asteroid mining firm Planetary Property, which turned into obtained by blockchain firm ConsenSys in 2018.
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6. Jensen Huang
Get price: $154.8 billion
Offer: Semiconductors
Age: 62
Field: Los Altos, California
Citizenship: U.S.
Huang, now No. 6 within the realm this capability that of surging Nvidia shares, stated the aloof piece out loud as of late. “I’ve created extra billionaires on my management group than any CEO within the realm,” the Nvidia CEO stated at a panel hosted by the All-In podcast. He’s undoubtedly enriched anyone who’s owned Nvidia stock for the lengthy haul.
Huang cofounded graphics-chip maker Nvidia in 1993 and has served as its CEO and president ever since. He owns approximately 3% of the firm, which he took public in 1999. Beneath Huang, Nvidia’s GPUs grew to remodel dominant first in pc gaming and now in AI, propelling the firm’s market capitalization to $3.9 trillion as of June 30.
Born in Taiwan, Huang moved to Thailand as a runt one, but his family despatched him and his brother to the usas civil unrest mounted within the Asian nation.
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7. Sergey Brin
Get price: $150.8 billion
Offer: Google
Age: 51
Field: Los Altos, California
Citizenship: U.S.
The fortune of Google cofounder Sergey Brin rose by $11.3 billion within the month, this capability that of the assemble bigger in Alphabet shares within the past month.
Brin and his cofounder Larry Page launched the search engine Google when they had been each and each Stanford pc science PhD candidates. Delight in Page, Brin currently serves as a board member of Google’s parent firm Alphabet and is a controlling shareholder.
Brin came out of semi-retirement to submit adjustments to Google’s Gemini AI chatbot final year and turned into listed as a “core contributor” when the model turned into released in December.
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8. Steve Ballmer
Get price: $148.7 billion
Offer: Microsoft, LA Clippers, investments
Age: 69
Field: Hunts Point, Washington
Citizenship: U.S.
The mature Microsoft CEO–who spoke on a podcast in June about his dedication to keeping onto most of his Microsoft shares since he left the firm in 2014–obtained an estimated $7.5 billion wealthier within the past month, buoyed by a 7% advance in Microsoft shares.
Ballmer, a classmate of Invoice Gates at Harvard College, joined Microsoft as worker number 30 in 1980 after falling by the wayside of the MBA program at Stanford College. He ran Microsoft as its CEO from 2000 to 2014.
When Ballmer retired from Microsoft, he bought the Los Angeles Clippers group for $2 billion—a file excessive for an NBA group at the time. Forbes now values the group at $5.5 billion. The new dwelling for the Clippers, the Intuit Dome in Inglewood—now now not some distance from Los Angeles World Airport—opened in August 2024.
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9. Warren Buffett
Get price: $143.4 billion
Offer: Berkshire Hathaway
Age: 94
Field: Omaha, Nebraska
Citizenship: U.S.
Warren Buffett turned into one in all simply two within the cease 10 whose fortunes fell within the past month, a $2.2 billion drop as a outcomes of a a runt extra than 1% decline in Berkshire Hathaway shares. Buffett dropped from No. 6 richest in July to No. 9.
Identified because the “Oracle of Omaha,” Buffett is one in all basically the most profitable investors of all time. He aloof runs Berkshire Hathaway, which owns dozens of companies, including insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and restaurant chain Dairy Queen, but announced in Would possibly well well furthermore that he will retire as CEO at the dwell of 2025. The son of a U.S. congressman, he first sold stock at age 11 and first filed taxes at age 13.
Buffett created the Giving Pledge with Invoice Gates and Melinda French Gates in 2010, asking billionaires to determine to give away now now not now now not as a lot as half of their fortune to charitable groups. Buffett has stated he would donate Ninety 9% of his fortune. Up to now he’s give extra than $66 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Gates Basis (formerly the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis), foundations stride by his formative years and one started by his unhurried first associate. The Giving Pledge turns 15 years frail this year.
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10. Bernard Arnault
Get price: $142.9 billion
Offer: LVMH/ luxury items
Age: 76
Field: Paris
Citizenship: France
The ravishing items magnate obtained $4.5 billion richer this capability that of a roughly 6% upward push in LVMH shares. Nonetheless that wasn’t sufficient to preserve the No. 9 blueprint he had a month within the past. Now he ranks No. 10 within the realm.
Bernard Arnault is CEO and chairman of luxury items group LVMH. Arnault’s father made tens of millions within the construction alternate; to net his starting up, Arnault mature $15 million of that fortune to contain Christian Dior. He has since built a really grand luxury items firm within the realm with some 70 vogue and cosmetics manufacturers, including Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Moet & Chandon, Sephora and jeweler Tiffany & Co.
All 5 of Arnault’s formative years work in parts of the LVMH empire. In 2024, Arnault nominated two of his sons—Alexandre and Frédéric—to the board of LVMH; Alexandre turned into named deputy CEO of LVMH’s wine and spirits division. His daughter Delphine, who runs Dior, and son Antoine, already sit down on the board. In June 2024, he named son Frédéric as head of LVMH’s family keeping group. His youngest son, Jean, is director of watches at Louis Vuitton.
Arnault turned into the realm’s richest particular person for many of the important half of of 2023 and but another time from February by unhurried Would possibly well well furthermore 2024.
Who’s the richest man within the realm?
As of August 1, 2025, the richest particular person within the realm is Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He’s price $401.2 billion. He moved into the no 1 blueprint in unhurried Would possibly well well furthermore 2024, overtaking Bernard Arnault of France.
Who’s the richest lady within the realm?
The richest lady within the realm is Alice Walton, daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton. As of August 1, 2025, she is price an estimated $107 billion and is the realm’s 16th richest particular person. Her fortune lies in her possession stake in retailer Walmart, which she inherited from her unhurried father. Her brothers Rob, Jim and John (d. 2005) furthermore inherited stakes in Walmart from their father. John’s widow Christy Walton and their son Lukas Walton inherited John’s shares and each and each grievous on Forbes’ billionaires record.
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