List of Greeks by net worth

Hellenic Republic (Greece)
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GDP  (PPP)	2023 estimate
• Total	$418.113 billion [1] (54th)
• Per capita	$39,478 [1] (53rd)
GDP  (nominal)	2023 estimate
• Total	$239.300 billion [1] (53rd)
• Per capita	$22,595 [1] (44th)
Currency	Euro (€)

The following is a list of Greek billionaires. It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine in March every year.

2024

Source: 2024 The World's Billionaires ^[2]

Ranking in Greece	World position	Name	Citizenship	Net worth (USD)	Sources of wealth
1	513	Maria Angelicoussis	Greece	$6.4 billion	Daughter of John Angelicoussis CEO of the Angelicoussis Group (shipping)
2	717	George Economou	Greece	$4.8 billion	Greek shipping tycoon who owns several privately held firms under his TMS Group and Dryships
3	928	Evangelos Marinakis & family	Greece	$3.8 billion	owns shipping group Capital Maritime Trading Corp.
4	997	Aristotelis "Telis" Mistakidis	Greece	$3.5 billion	Mining, commodities (owns 3% Glencore), banking (owns 5% Piraeus Bank)
5	1235	Philip Niarchos	Greece   France	$2.8 billion	Art collection (Stavros Niarchos Foundation)
6	1340	George Prokopiou & Family	Greece	$2.6 billion	Shipping owner of Dynacom Tankers, Sea Traders and Dynagas
7	1442	Vardis Vardinoyannis & Family	Greece	$2.4 billion	Oil and gas (Motor Oil Hellas and Vegas Oil and Gas), owns Star Channel and Alpha TV, banking (owns Optima Bank, Vista Bank), owns NJV Athens Plaza
8	1472	Constantinos Martinos & Family	Greece	$2.3 billion	Shipping
9	1569	Spiro Latsis & Family	Greece	$2.2 billion	Son of Yiannis "John Spyridon" Latsis, owner of EFG International (investment banking), major shareholder in Lamda Development (real estate developer in Greece)
10	1896	Andreas Martinos & Family	Greece	$1.8 billion	owner of Greek shipping firm Minerva Marine
11	1908	Marianna Latsis & Family	Greece	$1.8 billion	Daughter of Yiannis "John Spyridon" Latsis, owner of Latsco Shipping, major real estate investments with GEK Terna
12	2153	Athanasios Martinos & Family	Greece	$1.5 billion	owner of Greek shipping firm Eastern Mediterranean Maritime
13	2395	Ioannis Papalekas	Greece	$1.3 billion	Greek real estate investor and the largest shareholder Yoda Group
14	2542	Diamantis Diamantides & Family	Greece	$1.2 billion	owns Greek shipping firms Delta Tankers and Marmaras Navigation

2023

Source: 2023 The World's Billionaires ^[3]

Ranking in Greece	World position	Name	Citizenship	Net worth (USD)	Sources of wealth
1	455	Maria Angelicoussis	Greece	5.6 billion	Daughter of John Angelicoussis CEO of the Angelicoussis Group (shipping)
2	905	Aristotelis "Telis" Mistakidis	Greece	3.2 billion	Mining, commodities (owns 3% Glencore), banking (owns 5% Piraeus Bank)
3	1067	Philip Niarchos	Greece   France	$2.8 billion	Art collection (Stavros Niarchos Foundation)
4	1575	Vardis Vardinoyannis & Family	Greece	1.9 billion	Oil and gas (Motor Oil Hellas and Vegas Oil and Gas), owns Star Channel and Alpha TV, banking (owns Optima Bank, Vista Bank), owns NJV Athens Plaza
5	1804	Marianna Latsis & Family	Greece	1.6 billion	Daughter of Yiannis "John Spyridon" Latsis, owner of Latsco Shipping, major real estate investments with GEK Terna
6	1905	Spiro Latsis & Family	Greece	1.5 billion	Son of Yiannis "John Spyridon" Latsis, owner of EFG International (investment banking), major shareholder in Lamda Development (real estate developer in Greece)

2022

Source: 2022 The World's Billionaires ^[4]

Greece Ranking	World Ranking	Name	Citizenship	Net worth (USD)	Sources of wealth and occupation
1	381	Vicky Safra	Greece   Brazil	$7.2 billion	Inherited from her late husband, Brazilian banker Joseph Safra
2	1125	Aristotelis "Telis" Mistakidis	Greece   United Kingdom	$2.9 billion	Mining, commodities (owns 3% Glencore), banking (owns 5% Piraeus Bank)
3	1163	Philip Niarchos	Greece   France	$2.8 billion	Art collection (Stavros Niarchos Foundation)
4	2128	Vardis Vardinoyannis & Family	Greece	$1.4 billion	Oil and gas (Motor Oil Hellas and Vegas Oil and Gas), owns Star Channel and Alpha TV, banking (owns Optima Bank, Vista Bank), owns NJV Athens Plaza

2021

Source: 2021 The World's Billionaires ^[5]

Greece Ranking	World Ranking	Name	Citizenship	Net worth (USD)	Sources of wealth and occupation
1	365	Vicky Safra	Greece   Brazil	$7.5 billion	Inherited from her late husband, Brazilian banker Joseph Safra
2	1147	Aristotelis "Telis" Mistakidis	Greece   United Kingdom	$2.9 billion	Mining, commodities (owns 3% Glencore), banking (owns 5% Piraeus Bank)
3	1206	Philip Niarchos	Greece   France	$2.8 billion	Art collection (Stavros Niarchos Foundation)
4	2092	Vardis Vardinoyannis & Family	Greece	$1.5 billion	Oil and gas (Motor Oil Hellas and Vegas Oil and Gas), owns Star Channel and Alpha TV, banking (owns Optima Bank, Vista Bank), owns NJV Athens Plaza

2021 Greek Nationals

List of Greek-American, Greek-Cypriots and Greek-Russian Billionaires ^[6]

List Ranking	Ranking World Ranking	Name	Citizenship	Net worth (USD)	Sources of wealth and Occupation
1	373	Jim Davis [7] [8]	United States   Greece	$6.9 billion	Owner of New Balance, Major League Lacrosse
2	458	Tom Gores [9] [10]	United States   Israel   Greece	$5.9 billion	CEO of Platinum Equity Owner Palace Sports and Entertainment Detroit Pistons
3	1064	John Catsimatidis [11]	United States   Greece	$2.8 billion	Owner of Gristedes (Supermarket)
3	1478	George Argyros & family [12]	United States   Greece	$2.1 billion	Owner of Arnel & Affiliates (real estate)
4	1758	Ivan Savvidis [13]	Russia   Greece	$1.7 billion	Agrokom Group (Atlantis-PAK, ТАВР, AKVA DON, BETTEX, Radisson Blu Rostov) Belterra Investments (Owns 44% Port of Thessaloniki and Makedonia Palace) Owner of Dimera Group (owns OPEN TV, PAOK FC) (owns Porto Carras, Souroti, Don Plaza Rostov Hotel, Hyatt Regency Rostov Hotel)
5	2124	Filaret "Filaretos Kaltsidis" Galchev [14]	Russia   Greece	$1 billion	Chairman of Eurocement group

2020

Source: 2020 The World's Billionaires ^[15]

Greece Ranking	World Ranking	Name	Citizenship	Net worth (USD)	Sources of wealth
1	743	Philip Niarchos	Greece   France	$2.8 billion	Art collection (Stavros Niarchos Foundation)
2	1851	Aristotelis "Telis" Mistakidis	Greece   United Kingdom	$1.1 billion	Mining, commodities (owns 3% Glencore)
3	1990	Vardis Vardinoyannis & family	Greece	$1.0 billion	Oil and gas (Motor Oil Hellas and Vegas Oil and Gas)

2019

Source: 2019 The World's Billionaires ^[16]

Greece Ranking	World Ranking	Name	Sources of wealth	Net worth (USD)
1	804	Philip Niarchos	Art collection	$2.8 billion
2	838	Spiros Latsis	Banking, shipping	$2.7 billion
3	1116	Aristotelis Mistakidis	Mining, commodities	$2.1 billion
4	1349	Vardis Vardinoyannis	Oil and gas	$1.7 billion

2018

Source: 2018 The World's Billionaires ^[17]

Greece Ranking	World Ranking	Name	Sources of wealth	Net worth (USD)
1	729	Spiros Latsis	Banking, shipping	$3.2 billion
2	859	Philip Niarchos	Art collection	$2.8 billion
3	965	Aristotelis Mistakidis	Mining, commodities	$2.5 billion
4	1999	Vardis Vardinoyannis	Oil and gas	$1.1 billion

2013

Source: 2013 The World's Billionaires ^[18]

Greece Ranking	World Ranking	Name	Sources of wealth	Net worth (USD)
1	412	Spiros Latsis & family	Banking, shipping	$3.3 billion
2	527	Aristotelis Mistakidis	Glencore International	$2.7 billion
3	554	Philip Niarchos	Art collection	$2.6 billion

Other millionaires

Source: The Ultra Rich Greeks ^[19]

Name	Sources of wealth	Net worth (USD)
Georgios Vernicos & Family	Grandfather of pop singer Victor Vernicos & former CEO of Vernicos Shipping	$1.3 billion
Dimitris Melissanidis	Oil, shipping	$3.4 billion (2015)
Dinos Martinos and family	Shipping	$3.2 billion (2015)
Minos Kiriakou	Shipping, media	$3 billion (2015)
Evangelos Marinakis	media, shipping	$3.1 billion
John Angelicoussis and family	Shipping	$2.4 billion (2015)
Chryss Goulandris	Shipping	$2.4 billion (2015)
George Prokopiou and family	Shipping	$2 billion (2015)
Sokratis Kokkalis	Telecommunications, construction	$1.9 billion (2015)
Evangelos Mytilineos	steel	$1.7 billion
George Economou and family	Shipping, art collector	$1.5 billion (2015)
Nikos Pateras and family	Shipping	$1.1 billion (2014)
Sklavenitis and family	Shipping, retail	$1 billion
Theodore Vassilakis	Sirline	$1 billion
Pavlos Giannakopoulos and family	Pharmaceutical	$975 million
Kostas Makris	Real estate	$850 million
Theodore Angelopoulos and family	Steel, shipping, banking	$819 million
Theodoropoulos family	Good	$800 million
Athina Onassis	Shipping	$800 million
Canellopoulos Papalexopoulos and family	Cement	$771 million
Apostels Vakakis	Retail	$580 million
Nikos & Evangelos Stasinopoulos	Steel	$514 million
Yannis Costopoulos	Finance	$425.5 million
Dimitris Copelouzos	Real estate, energy, lottery
Andreas Vgenopoulos	Banking, shipping
George Bobolas	Media, constructions	$290 million
Vasilis Fourlis	Retail	$212 million
Angeliki Frangou	Shipping	$192 million
Sfakianakis family	Gypsum Quarries	$175 million
George Gerardos	Computers	$ 114.3 million

See also

• Economy of Greece
• List of countries by number of billionaires
• List of companies of Greece
• List of wealthiest families
• List of Cypriot billionaires by net worth

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