American casino magnate, Sheldon Gary Adelson, has a net worth of $31.4 billion in August 2019. Currently the 8th wealthiest American and 16th wealthiest person in the world, Adelson vastly increased his net worth upon the initial public offering of Las Vegas Sands in December 2004. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited which operates The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. His fortune is up $7 billion since in 2010, as his strong position in the casino-crazy Asian markets has pushed stock of Las Vegas Sands up roughly 50% to a recent $48. (Shares once traded as low as $1.50 in 2009.) Through his majority-owned subsidiary Sands China, Adelson has 3 resorts in Macau.

American businessman, co-founder and Chairman of Nike, Inc., Philip Hampson “Phil” Knight has a net worth of $31.9 billion in August 2019. Knight, a former University of Oregon track star, founded Blue Ribbon sports in 1964, selling Japanese running shoes out of the trunk of his car at track meets on the weekends while teaching accounting at Portland State. He renamed his company Nike after the Greek goddess of Victory in 1971 and paid Carolyn Davidson $35 to design the company’s iconic swoosh logo. In 2002, Knight purchased Will Vinton (Animation) Studios, Travis, Knight’s son, serves as president and CEO of Knight’s stop-motion film studio, Laika. The studio released its first feature film, Coraline, in 2009 and plans to release its second film, ParaNorman, in the summer of 2012. The Knight Management Center at Stanford University opened this past May. The 8 building complex cost a reported $345 million to construct, with $105 million coming from Knight himself.

American businessman Forrest Mars. Jr. has an estimated net worth of $32 billion in July 2016 according to Bloomberg.

Italian businesswoman Maria Franca Fissolo has an estimated net worth of $33.4 billion as of January 2018. She is best recognized as the widower of the famous Italian entrepreneur, Michele Ferrero. Her husband is known to be the founder of the chocolate manufacturing company, Ferrero SpA, which is considered as the second largest confectionery company across Europe. Among the company’s famous brands include Mon Chéri, Ferrero Rocher, Kinder Chocolate, Kinder Eggs, and Nutella.

French businessman Francois Pinault has an estimated net worth of $33.7 billion in August 2019. A high school dropout, Pinault currently runs the retail company Kering.

Ma Huateng is a Chinese business magnate who has an estimated net worth of $34.6 billion. Also known as Pony Ma, he was born in Dongfang, Hainan and attended Shenzhen University in 1989 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in computer science in 1993.

Chinese Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma has an estimated net worth of $41.1 billion in October 2019. He is also #395 in the World Billionaires List, #442 in 2012, #16 in China, and #11 in China Rich List. Born Ma Yun (in Chinese) on September 10, 1964 in Hangzhou, Zheijang, China, he graduated with a degree in English from Hangzhou Teacher’s Institue, now the Hangzhou Normal University, in 1988. He then became an English and International Trade lecturer at the Hangzhou Dianzi University.

American art collector, philanthropist, banker, and financier J.P. Morgan has an estimated net worth of $41.5 billion in 2013.

The daughter of Forrest Edward Mars, Sr., and granddaughter of Frank C. Mars, Jacqueline Mars has a net worth of $41.6 billion in November 2019.

The son of Forrest Mars, Sr., and grandson of Frank C. Mars, John Franklyn Mars has a net worth of $41.6 billion in November 2019. John Mars and his siblings, Forrest Jr. and Jacqueline, own $31.6 billion (sales) Mars, the world’s largest candy company thanks in part to its $23 billion acquisition of gum maker Wrigley’s in 2008. The candy maker’s most famous brands include Milky Way, M&M’s, 3 Musketeers, Twix, Skittles, and Snickers, reportedly named for the Mars family’s favorite horse. John’s grandfather, Frank Mars, began making chocolates in 1911 in his Tacoma, WA kitchen. It was his father Forrest Sr. who invented malt-flavored nougat and M&M’s, over 400 million of which are produced in the United States each day. Mars has even branched out into consumer and pet foods with the well known brands Uncle Ben’s Rice and Whiskas under the Mars umbrella. Mars is a noted supporter of Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.