List of Richest Billionaires
Herbert Wertheim
Herbert A. Wertheim is an American optometrist, inventor, billionaire businessman, and philanthropist. He is the founder and president of Brain Power Incorporated (BPI).
Todd R. Wanek
Todd Ronald Wanek is an American businessman, the president and chief executive officer of Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.. He is the son of Ronald G. Wanek, chairman of the board of Ashley Furniture.
Ronald Perelman
Ronald Owen Perelman is an American banker, businessman and investor. MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated, his company, has invested in companies with interests in groceries, cigars, licorice, makeup, cars, photography, television, camping supplies, security, gaming, jewelry, banks, and comic book publishing. Perelman holds significant shares in companies such as Deluxe Entertainment, Revlon, SIGA Technologies RetailMeNot, Merisant, Scantron, Scientific Games Corporation, Valassis, vTv Therapeutics and Harland Clarke. He previously owned a majority of shares in AM General, but in 2020 sold the majority of his shares in AM General along with significant works of art, in light of the impact of the economy on the high debt burdens many of his companies have from leveraged buyouts. In early 2020, Revlon, acquired by Perelman in the 1980s, undertook a debt deal. Previously worth 19.8 billion in 2018, Perelman is, as of September 2020, worth 4.3 billion.
Russell Weiner
Russell Goldencloud Weiner is an American businessman and political fundraiser.
Vincent Viola
Vincent "Vinnie" Viola is an American billionaire businessman and U.S. Army veteran. He was for several weeks President Donald Trump's nominee for United States Secretary of the Army, before withdrawing from consideration. He is the former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and the founder and chairman of Virtu Financial. Viola is the owner of the Florida Panthers, a National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey team. He is also the owner of St. Elias Stables and co-owner, with fellow Brooklynite Anthony Bonomo, of the 2017 Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming.
Jeffrey J. Rothschild
Jeffrey Jackiel Rothschild is an American billionaire who co-founded several companies. He is the founding engineer and a large shareholder of Facebook. Despite his name, he is not a member of the Rothschild banking family.
Barry Sternlicht
Barry Stuart Sternlicht is an American billionaire and the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, an investment fund with over $60 billion in assets under management. He is also chairman of Starwood Property Trust. He is the co-founder of Starwood and served as its CEO from 1995 to 2005.
David Steward
David L. Steward is an American businessman. He is chairman and founder of World Wide Technology, one of the largest African-American-owned businesses in America. Steward is one of five black billionaires in America being 745th in the Forbes Billionaires 2019 list. He was rated 239th on the Forbes 400 list of American billionaires in 2019.
David Rubenstein
David Mark Rubenstein is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. A former financial analyst and lawyer, he is a co-founder and co-executive chairman of American private equity firm The Carlyle Group, a global private equity investment company based in Washington, D.C. He is chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, chairman of the Smithsonian Institution, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, and president of The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. According to Forbes, Rubenstein has a net worth of $3.2 billion.
Marianne Cargill Liebmann
Marianne Cargill Liebmann is an American heir.