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]

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]
Jensen Huang Flag of the United States.svg  United States [8]

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