List of Richest Billionaires
Jim Pattison
James Allen Pattison, is a Canadian business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he holds the position of chief executive officer, chairman and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group, Canada's second largest privately-held company, with more than 45,000 employees worldwide, and annual sales of $10.1 billion. The Group is active in 25 divisions, according to Forbes, including packaging, food, forestry products.
Israel Englander
Israel Englander is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1989, he founded his hedge fund, Millennium Management, with Ronald Shear. The fund was started with $35 million, and as of 2019 had $39.2 billion in assets under management. With a personal net worth of $7.2 billion as of October 2020, he is the 74th-richest person in the United States. In 2019, he was the 7th-highest earning hedge fund manager.
Charlie Ergen
Charles William Ergen is an American billionaire businessman. He is co-founder and chairman of Dish Network and EchoStar. He stepped down as CEO of Dish in May 2011 in favor of Joseph Clayton. Ergen resumed as CEO upon Clayton's March 2015 retirement and was CEO until December 2017, when he promoted president and COO Erik Carlson to CEO, but remains as chairman. Reuters reported that the move was effected to remove the day-to-day responsibilities of running DISH and provide more time for Ergen to build out the company’s emerging wireless business. Ergen owns 48 percent of Dish and 46 percent of Echostar shares. He holds 78 percent of Dish's and 72 percent of EchoStar's total voting power.
David Geffen
David Lawrence Geffen is an American business magnate, producer, film studio executive, and philanthropist. Geffen co-created Asylum Records in 1971 with Elliot Roberts, Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and DreamWorks SKG in 1994. As a philanthropist he has donated to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and other educational and research institutes.
Blair Parry-Okeden
Blair Parry-Okeden is an American-born Australian billionaire heiress and philanthropist. According to Forbes Asia, she was Australia's richest person by net worth in 2016. Parry-Okeden is an heiress to the Cox Enterprises.
Sun Hongbin
Sun Hongbin is a Chinese billionaire real estate developer. He is the founder, chairman, and majority owner of Sunac.
John Tu
John Tu is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Kingston Technology.
Viktor Vekselberg
Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg is a Russian billionaire businessman. He is the owner and president of Renova Group, a Russian conglomerate. According to Forbes, as of October 2019, his fortune is estimated at $11.4 billion, making him the 119th richest person in the world.
Jerry Jones
Jerral Wayne "Jerry" Jones is an American billionaire businessman and has been the owner, president and general manager of the National Football League (NFL)'s Dallas Cowboys since 1989.
Gautam Adani
Gautam Shantilal Adani is an Indian billionaire industrialist who is the chairman and founder of the Adani Group -- an Ahmedabad-based multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India. Adani is the president of the Adani Foundation, which is primarily led by his wife, Priti Adani.