List of wealthiest Americans by net worth

This article is about the contemporary list of wealthiest Americans. For a historical list, see List of richest Americans in history.

This is a list of the wealthiest Americans ranked by net worth. It is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets by Forbes and by data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. ^[1] As of March 2023, there were 735 billionaires in the United States. ^[2]

Top 25 richest Americans

According to Forbes, as of December 2025, the 25 wealthiest people in the United States are as follows: ^{[3] [4]}

Rank	'24 rank	Name	Net worth in billion US$	Source of wealth	Age
1	1	Elon Musk	428	Tesla, SpaceX	54
2	4	Larry Ellison	276	Oracle	81
3	3	Mark Zuckerberg	253	Meta	41
4	2	Jeff Bezos	241	Amazon	61
5	6	Larry Page	179	Alphabet	52
6	7	Sergey Brin	166	Alphabet	52
7	8	Steve Ballmer	153	Microsoft	69
8	11	Jensen Huang	151	Nvidia	62
9	5	Warren Buffett	150	Berkshire Hathaway	95
10	12	Michael Dell	129	Dell	60
11	14	Rob Walton & family	118	Walmart	80
12	13	Jim Walton & family	115	Walmart	77
13	10	Michael Bloomberg	109	Bloomberg L.P.	83
14	9	Bill Gates	107	Microsoft	68
15	15	Alice Walton	106	Walmart	75
16	16	Julia Koch & family	81.2	Koch Industries	63
17	17	Charles Koch & family	73.8	Koch Industries	89
18	23	Thomas Peterffy	73.3	Interactive Brokers	80
19	18	Jeff Yass	65.7	Susquehanna International Group, TikTok	67
20	21	Stephen A. Schwarzman	51.9	Blackstone Group	78
21	22	Ken Griffin	50.4	Citadel LLC	56
22	19	Jacqueline Mars	42.2	Mars	85
22	19	John Mars	42.2	Mars	89
24	25	Lukas Walton	39.8	Walmart	38
25	NR	Miriam Adelson & family	37.9	Las Vegas Sands	79

See also

• The World's Billionaires
• List of countries by the number of billionaires

References

1. "The Forbes 400". Forbes . 2020. Archived from the original on October 7, 2019. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
2. "Forbes Billionaires 2023: The Richest People In The World". Forbes . 2023. Archived from the original on March 21, 2024. Retrieved March 22, 2024. The United States still boasts the most billionaires, with 735 list members [Archive does not include the data.]
3. "The Forbes 400 List 2025 - The Richest People in America Ranked". Forbes. Retrieved January 9, 2026.
4. "Forbes 400 2024". Forbes . December 31, 2024. Archived from the original on December 31, 2024. Retrieved December 31, 2025.

External links

• Bloomberg Billionaires Index
• Forbes 400 - The Richest People in America