Top Richest People in the world
Top Richest People in the World
(1) Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, one of the capital cities of South Africa,and was baptized into an Anglican church. Musk has British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His mother is Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada and raised in South Africa. His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer who was a half-owner of a Zambian emerald mine near Lake Tanganyika. Musk has a younger brother Kimbal (born 1972) and a younger sister Tosca (born 1974). family was wealthy during his youth. His father was elected to the Pretoria City Council as a representative of the anti-apartheid Progressive Party, with his children reportedly sharing their father's dislike of apartheid. His maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was an adventurous American-born Canadian who took his family on record-breaking journeys in a single-engine Bellanca airplane to Africa and Australia. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk mostly lived with his father. Musk later regretted his decision as he has become estranged from his father. He has a paternal half-sister and a half-brother. In his biography, Ashlee Vance described Musk as an awkward and introverted child. When Musk was 10, he developed an interest in computing and video games, so he brought a Commodore VIC-20[vague] and taught himself programming from a user manual. At age 12, he sold his BASIC-based game Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for approximately $500.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos born
January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. With a net worth of around US$139 billion as of October 2022, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021 according to both Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and Forbes. Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is currently the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch. Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015 and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth. He also purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos
Expeditions. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded biotechnology company Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner. first centibillionaire on the Forbes wealth index, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, his wealth grew by approximately $24 billion. On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as the CEO and President of Amazon and transferred to the role of executive chairman
Jeff Bezos
Bezos at the opening of Amazon Spheres in Seattle, 2018Born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen
January 12, 1964
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. Education Princeton University (BSE) Occupation - Entrepreneur
- media proprietor
- investor
- computer engineer
Years active 1986–present Title - Founder and executive chairman of Amazon
- Founder of Blue Origin
- Founder of Bezos Expeditions
Spouse Partner(s) Lauren Sánchez
(2019–present) Children 4 Relatives Mark Bezos (half-brother)[1] Signature 
Bil Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist.
He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen.
During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions
of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May2014. He was a major entrepreneur of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
Gates was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 1975, he and Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It became the world's largest personal computer software company. Gates led the company as chairman and CEO until stepping down as CEO in January 2000, succeeded by Steve Ballmer During the late 1990s, he was criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive. This opinion has been upheld by numerous court rulings. In June 2008, Gates transitioned to a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his then-wife, Melinda Gates, established in 2000.
He stepped down as chairman of the board of Microsoft in February 2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser to support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella. In March 2020, Gates left his board positions
at Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway to focus on his philanthropic efforts on climate change, global health and development, and education.
Bill Gates
Gates in 2017Born William Henry Gates III
October 28, 1955
Seattle, Washington, U.S. Education Harvard University (dropped out) Occupation - Software developer
- investor
- entrepreneur
Years active 1972–present Known for Co-founder of Microsoft and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Title - Co-chairperson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Chairman and founder of Branded Entertainment Network
- Chairman and founder of Cascade Investment
- Chairman and co-founder of TerraPower
- Founder of Breakthrough Energy
- Technology advisor of Microsoft[1]
Board member of Berkshire Hathaway
Microsoft (former, both) Spouse Children 3 Parents - Bill Gates Sr. (father)
- Mary Maxwell (mother)
Awards - Presidential Medal of Freedom (2016)
- Hilal-e-Pakistan (2022)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2005)Website www .gatesnotes .com Signature 
Gautam Adani
Gautam Shantilal Adani (born 24 June, 1962) is an Indian billionaire tycoon. He is the chairman and founder of Adani Group, an Ahmedabad-based multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India. Adani is also the president of Adani Foundation, which is primarily led by his wife, Priti Adani. As of 4 October 2022, with a net worth of US$132.1 billion according to Forbes and $120 billion according to Bloomberg, he is the richest person in both India and Asia. According to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes Real Time Billionaires list he is the fourth richest person in the world.
In 1981, his elder brother Mahasukhbhai Adani bought a plastics unit in Ahmedabad and invited him to manage the operations. This venture turned out to be Adani's gateway to global trading through polyvinyl chloride (PVC) imports.
In 1985, he started importing primary polymers for small-scale industries In 1988, Adani established Adani Exports, now known as Adani Enterprises, the holding company of the Adani Group. Originally, the company dealt in agricultural and power commodities.
In 1991, the economic liberalization policies turned out to be favorable for his company and he started expanding the businesses into trading of metals, textiles, and agro products.
In 1994, the Government of Gujarat announced managerial outsourcing of the Mundra Port and in 1995, Adani got the contract.
In 1995, he set up the first jetty. Originally operated by Mundra Port & Special Economic Zone, the operations were transferred to Adani Ports & SEZ (APSEZ). Today, the company is the largest private multi-port operator. Mundra Port is the largest private sector port in India, with the capacity of handling close to 210 million tons of cargo per annum.
In 1996, the power business arm of the Adani Group, Adani Power, was founded by Adani.Adani Power holds thermal power plants with a capacity of 4620MW, the largest private thermal power producer of the country.
In 2006, Adani entered the power generation business.From 2009 to 2012, he acquired Abbot Point Port in Australia and Carmichael coal mine in Queensland.
In May 2020, Adani won the world's largest solar bid by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) worth US$6 billion. The 8000MW photovoltaic power plant project will be taken up by Adani Green; Adani Solar will establish 2000MW of additional solar cell and module manufacturing capacity.
In September 2020, Adani acquired a 74% stake in Mumbai International Airport, India's second busiest afterGautam Adani
Official portrait in 2012Born Gautam Shantilal Adani
24 June 1962
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Nationality Indian Education Gujarat University (dropped out, 1978)[1] Occupation • Businessman • Industrialist Years active 1981- present Title - Founder and Chairman of Adani Group
- President of Adani Foundation
Spouse Priti Adani Children 2, including Karan Adani Relatives Pranav Adani (nephew)
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, one of the capital cities of South Africa,and was baptized into an Anglican church. Musk has British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His mother is Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada and raised in South Africa. His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer who was a half-owner of a Zambian emerald mine near Lake Tanganyika. Musk has a younger brother Kimbal (born 1972) and a younger sister Tosca (born 1974). family was wealthy during his youth. His father was elected to the Pretoria City Council as a representative of the anti-apartheid Progressive Party, with his children reportedly sharing their father's dislike of apartheid. His maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was an adventurous American-born Canadian who took his family on record-breaking journeys in a single-engine Bellanca airplane to Africa and Australia. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk mostly lived with his father. Musk later regretted his decision as he has become estranged from his father. He has a paternal half-sister and a half-brother. In his biography, Ashlee Vance described Musk as an awkward and introverted child. When Musk was 10, he developed an interest in computing and video games, so he brought a Commodore VIC-20[vague] and taught himself programming from a user manual. At age 12, he sold his BASIC-based game Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for approximately $500.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos born
January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer engineer, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. With a net worth of around US$139 billion as of October 2022, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021 according to both Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and Forbes. Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is currently the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch. Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015 and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth. He also purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos
Expeditions. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded biotechnology company Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner. first centibillionaire on the Forbes wealth index, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, his wealth grew by approximately $24 billion. On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as the CEO and President of Amazon and transferred to the role of executive chairman
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Born | Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen January 12, 1964 Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. |
Education | Princeton University (BSE) |
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Years active | 1986–present |
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Partner(s) | Lauren Sánchez (2019–present) |
Children | 4 |
Relatives | Mark Bezos (half-brother)[1] |
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Bil Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist.
He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen.
During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions
of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May2014. He was a major entrepreneur of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
Gates was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 1975, he and Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It became the world's largest personal computer software company. Gates led the company as chairman and CEO until stepping down as CEO in January 2000, succeeded by Steve Ballmer During the late 1990s, he was criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive. This opinion has been upheld by numerous court rulings. In June 2008, Gates transitioned to a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his then-wife, Melinda Gates, established in 2000.
He stepped down as chairman of the board of Microsoft in February 2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser to support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella. In March 2020, Gates left his board positions
at Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway to focus on his philanthropic efforts on climate change, global health and development, and education.
Bill Gates | |
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Born | William Henry Gates III October 28, 1955 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
Education | Harvard University (dropped out) |
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Years active | 1972–present |
Known for | Co-founder of Microsoft and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
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Board member of | Berkshire Hathaway Microsoft (former, both) |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
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Website | www |
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In 1985, he started importing primary polymers for small-scale industries In 1988, Adani established Adani Exports, now known as Adani Enterprises, the holding company of the Adani Group. Originally, the company dealt in agricultural and power commodities.
In 1991, the economic liberalization policies turned out to be favorable for his company and he started expanding the businesses into trading of metals, textiles, and agro products.
In 1994, the Government of Gujarat announced managerial outsourcing of the Mundra Port and in 1995, Adani got the contract.
In 1995, he set up the first jetty. Originally operated by Mundra Port & Special Economic Zone, the operations were transferred to Adani Ports & SEZ (APSEZ). Today, the company is the largest private multi-port operator. Mundra Port is the largest private sector port in India, with the capacity of handling close to 210 million tons of cargo per annum.
In 1996, the power business arm of the Adani Group, Adani Power, was founded by Adani.
In 2006, Adani entered the power generation business.From 2009 to 2012, he acquired Abbot Point Port in Australia and Carmichael coal mine in Queensland.
In May 2020, Adani won the world's largest solar bid by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) worth US$6 billion.
In September 2020, Adani acquired a 74% stake in Mumbai International Airport, India's second busiest after
Gautam Adani | |
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![]() Official portrait in 2012 | |
Born | Gautam Shantilal Adani 24 June 1962 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | Gujarat University (dropped out, 1978)[1] |
Occupation | • Businessman • Industrialist |
Years active | 1981- present |
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Spouse | Priti Adani |
Children | 2, including Karan Adani |
Relatives | Pranav Adani (nephew) |
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