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Top 10 Richest People in The World — Forbes 2023 Ranking

The start of 2023 has seen rearrangement of the world’s billionaires based on their net worth as estimated by Forbes, an American business magazine.

All of the top 10 richest men in the World 2023 are men, out of which seven (7) are Americans.

10 World’s richest men 2023

1. Bernard Arnault

Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault is a French business magnate, investor, and art collector.

He is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury goods company. 

He is the number 1 richest person in the world and currently, his net worth is $213.7 billion.

2. Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk is the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation.

Musk who was the richest man in the world last year is now the second richest with a net worth of $178.3 billion.

3. Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. Bezos is also the founder of private rocket company Blue Origin.

He was the richest man in the world in 2021 but currently sits at the third position with a net worth of $126.3 billion.

4. Larry Ellison

Full name Lawrence Joseph Ellison; Larry Ellison is an American business magnate and investor who is the co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer and former chief executive officer of the American computer technology company Oracle Corporation.

He is the fourth most wealthy man in the world with a net worth of $111.9 billion.

5. Warren Buffett

Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate who is currently the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

He is one of the most successful investors in the world and the fifth richest man in the world with a net worth of $108.5 billion.

6. Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III is a co-founder of Microsoft.

Bill Gates was the richest person in the world from 1995 through 2017 (except in 2008 and from 2010 through 2013).

His current net worth is estimated at $104.5 billion.

7. Carlos Slim Helu

Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist.

He displaced Bill Gates as the richest person from 2010 to 2013.

Carlos Slim derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso.

Presently, he is ranked 7th on the Billionaires list with an estimated net worth of $91.7 billion.

8. Larry Page

Larry Page (full name: Lawrence Edward Page) is the co-founder of Google.

His net worth is $85.8 billion.

9. Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian billionaire businessman.

He is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Ltd., a Fortune Global 500 company and India’s most valuable company by market value.

His net worth is $83.7 billion.

10. Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin (full name: Sergey Mikhailovich Brin) is an American computer scientist well known as the co-founder of Google.

His net worth is $82.2 billion.


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