List of Richest Billionaires

Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin is a Ukrainian American software engineer and businessman. In 1998, he co-founded the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin notably made contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts and is also the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA challenge response human test.

Randal J. Kirk is an American businessman and investor in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Kirk was the chairman and chief executive officer of Intrexon, a biotechnology company, until 2020. Kirk started as a lawyer, but is best known for his investments in pharmaceutical and biotech companies. In addition to high-profile sales of New River Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Clinical Data, Inc, Kirk also founded investment firm Third Security, LLC, and has held board seats with biotech companies, such as Scios, Inc., and ZIOPHARM Oncology. He is a billionaire.

Peter Spuhler is a Swiss entrepreneur and politician of the Swiss People's Party, from 1999 to 2012 he was a member of the Swiss National Council for the canton of Thurgau. Spuhler was CEO of the family firm Stadler Rail from 1989 to 2017 and from 2020 onwards. As of April 2019, he held a 40% shareholding in Stadler.

Scott Lin is a Taiwanese billionaire and cofounder of Largan Precision.

Brian N. Sheth is the former President of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity fund based in Austin, Texas. Sheth was listed in the Forbes 2018 World Billionaires list with an estimated net worth of $2 billion. He was also a member of Fortune’s 2015 “40 under 40” list and Forbes’ 40 under 40 in 2015. In 2020, Forbes ranked him No. 359 in the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America.

Sir David Roberts McMurtry, is an Irish billionaire, the co-founder of Renishaw plc, the United Kingdom's largest supplier of metrology equipment.

Robert Ralph "Bob" Parsons is an American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist. In 1997, he founded the GoDaddy group of companies, including domain name registrar GoDaddy.com, reseller registrar Wild West Domains, and Blue Razor Domains. In July 2011, Parsons sold approximately 70 percent of GoDaddy to a private equity consortium and resigned his position as CEO. In June 2014, he stepped down from his position as Executive Chairman and served on the board until 2018.

Dermot Desmond is an Irish businessman and financier. He is estimated to be worth €2.04 billion and is ranked by the Sunday Independent as the ninth-richest person in Ireland.

Wu Yiling is a Chinese billionaire whose fortunes derive from his stake in Yiling Pharmaceutical, founded by his father in 1992. He graduated from Hebei Medical University and Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, and resides in Shijiazhuang.

Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, known internationally as Thor Bjorgolfsson, and colloquially in Iceland as Bjöggi, is an Icelandic businessman and entrepreneur, and former chairman of Straumur-Burðarás and chairman of Novator Partners. Björgólfur has invested in a number of larger companies and smaller startups, including Play—a Polish telecom outfit, Rebag—the luxury handbag marketplace, and Zwift—an online platform for indoor cycling. Other companies invested in by Björgólfur and Novator include Xantis Pharma, Klang, and Lockwood Publishing.