List of centibillionaires

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A centibillionaire is someone with a net worth of 100 billion (100,000,000,000) or more units of a given currency, generally of major world currencies such as the United States dollar, euro or pound sterling. [1] This neologism is, however, a misnomer, being based upon an incorrect application of measurement prefixes. [lower-alpha 1]

The following is a list of everyone who has ever been a centibillionaire.

Year reachedNameTerritory/nationalityReference
1999 Bill Gates Flag of the United States.svg  United States [2]
2017 Jeff Bezos Flag of the United States.svg  United States [2]
2020 Bernard Arnault Flag of France.svg  France [1]
Elon Musk Flag of the United States.svg  United States/Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa [1]
Mark Zuckerberg Flag of the United States.svg  United States [1]
2021 Mukesh Ambani Flag of India.svg  India [3]
Steve Ballmer Flag of the United States.svg  United States [3]
Sergey Brin Flag of the United States.svg  United States [3]
Warren Buffett Flag of the United States.svg  United States [3]
Larry Ellison Flag of the United States.svg  United States [3]
Larry Page Flag of the United States.svg  United States [3]
2022 Gautam Adani & familyFlag of India.svg  India [4]
2023 Carlos Slim Helu & familyFlag of Mexico.svg  Mexico [5] [6]
2024 Michael Bloomberg Flag of the United States.svg  United States [7]

Notes

  1. The prefix centi is a multiplier of one hundredth, rather than one hundred (for example, a centimetre is one hundredth of a metre). Thus, a centibillionaire would have a wealth of only ten million dollars, euros or pounds, a discrepancy of four orders of magnitude from the intended value. The correct term would be hectobillionaire.[ citation needed ][ original research? ]

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