The granddaughter of the L'Oréal founder,
There were 328 women listed on the world's billionaires as of 17 March 2021, up from 241 in March 2020. Since 2021, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is listed as the world's wealthiest woman.
1. Elon Musk – $221 billion. With a current wealth of $221 billion, Elon Musk maintains his position as the world's wealthiest person. The valuation of his current firm, Tesla, which manufactures electric vehicles, is over $800 billion.
1. Princess Charlotte of Cambridge: $5 billion. Princess Charlotte of Wales is one of the richest kids in the world, with a net worth of $5 billion (£3.85 billion). She is the second child of Prince William and Catherine, the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge.
Hailing from Lagos, Nigeria, Mompha Junior, is the son of multimillionaire Nigerian internet celebrity Ismailia Mustapha, Muhammed Awal Mustapha. The young influencer boasts 29,800 followers on his Instagram account, where he posts photos of his grand lifestyle.
Stormi Webster: $410 Million
Five-year-old Stormi Webster is the eldest child of makeup magnate Kylie Jenner and rapper Travis Scott.
Mia Talerico: $1.5 Million
At 14 years old, Mia Talerico has more than $1 million to her name.
Forbes' real-time data shows that as of June 2023, there are 47 Australian billionaires on the list of the world's richest people.
A trillion is such a huge number, followed by twelve zeros. That is one thousand times a billion (nine zeros followed by 1). Do you know that only 6 trillionaires ever lived on the face of earth? As of today, there are no trillionaires who live on earth.
Gina Rinehart: $43.17 billion
With a net worth of an excruciating $43 billion, Rinehart is not only the richest woman in Australia - by a large margin - she is also the eighth-richest woman in the world and among the wealthiest humans alive.
Bettencourt Meyers' rise to the world's richest woman did not come without turmoil–most notably a French scandal around a sensational trial involving billions of dollars that led to a publicly turbulent mother-daughter rift.
1. Gina Rinehart, $37.41 billion (up $3.39 billion) Another year, another Rich List crowning Gina Rinehart as Australia's wealthiest person. 2023 marks the fourth consecutive year the mining magnate has held that mantle.
The 92-year-old billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch is preparing to walk down the aisle for the fifth time.
Bernard Arnault
Billionaire, businessman and the chairman and chief executive of LVMH (LVMUY), Bernard Arnault holds the crown as the richest person in the world. According to Forbes, Arnault has a fortune of $234.5 billion.
Australians wanting to be in the country's top 1% for wealth need to have an individual net worth of US$5.5 million ($8.3 million), Knight Frank's 2023 Wealth Report has found.
Australians are the richest people in the world, with a median wealth three times that of the average American, a new report has shown.
Gina Rinehart
Gina Rinehart has kept the top spot on the rich list once again. The mining magnate has an estimated $37.1 billion. Her wealth derives from the privately owned mining company Hancock Prospecting, founded by her father Lang Hancock.
Millie Bobby Brown: $14 Million
She appeared in a television show for the first time in 2013, when she was just 11 years old.
Princess Charlotte has been refered as "the richest kid in the world" due to her status as a member of the British royal family, which is one of the wealthiest and most prominent royal families in the world.
The four-year-old is without a doubt one of the wealthiest kids in Hollywood thanks to her very famous family, and is reportedly set to amass a jaw-dropping £240million fortune by the time she is 18!