Top 10 Richest Person In The World Of 2019-20{Update-2020}

Here is the top 10 richest person in the world of 2019.The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking of the world's wealthiest billionaires compiled and published every March by the American business magazine Forbes. The total net worth of each individual on the list is estimated, in United States dollars, based on their assets and accounting for debt.For the fourth year in a row, Bill Gates was named the richest man in the world in Forbes Magazine's 2017 list of the world's billion-aires.

Top 10 Richest Person In The World Of 2017

10.  Christy Walton-(Net worth-$38.5 billion)

Christy Ruth Walton (born February 8, 1949) is the widow of John T. Walton, one of the sons of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart.Additionally, she supports her family's own charitable foundation, the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation, which prioritizes education and benefits institutions of higher education such as the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and several other colleges, community trusts, universities and foundations.Since her donation, she has endowed $4 million towards the edifice's preservation.

9.  David Koch-(Net worth-$44.2 billion)

David Hamilton Koch (born May 3, 1940) is an American businessman, philanthropist, political activist, and chemical engineer. He joined the family business Koch Industries.In 1970, Koch joined Koch Industries under his brother Charles, to work as a technical-services manager. He founded the company’s New York office and in 1979 he became the president of his own division, Koch Engineering, renamed Chemical Technology Group.Koch was the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential candidate in the 1980 presidential election, sharing the party ticket with presidential candidate Ed Clark.

8.Michael Bloomberg-(Net worth-$47.5billion)

Michael Rubens "Mike" Bloomberg(born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, author, politician, and philanthropist. His net worth is estimated at US$47.5 billion,as of March 2017, ranking him as the 8th richest person in the United States and the 10th richest person in the world.In 1973, Bloomberg became a general partner at Salomon Brothers, a bulge-bracket Wall Street investment bank, where he headed equity trading and, later, systems development. In 1981, Salomon Brothers was bought by Phibro Corporation, and Bloomberg was laid off from the investment bank.

7.  Charles Koch-(Net worth-$48.7 billion)

Charles de Ganahl Koch (born November 1, 1935) is an American businessman, political donor and philanthropist. He is co-owner, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of Koch Indus-tries.Charles Koch is a classical liberal and has formerly identified as a libertarian.He is opposed to corporate welfare and told the National Journal that his "overall concept is to minimize the role of government and to maximize the role of private economy and to maximize personal freedoms.Koch's business philosophy, "market-based management" (MBM), is described in his 2007 book The Science of Success.

6.  Larry Ellison-(Net worth-$55 billion)

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is co-founder of Oracle Corporation and was CEO from its founding until September 2014.In 2009 Larry purchased the Indian Wells Tennis Garden tennis facility in California's Coachella Valley and the Indian Wells Masters tournament, both of which he still owns.Ellison is one of the top donors to Conservative Solutions PAC, a super PAC supporting Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential bid. As of February 2016, Ellison had given $4 million overall to the PAC.

5. Mark Zuckerberg-(Net worth-$59.4 billion)

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the chairman, chief executive officer, and co-founder of Facebook.
Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004.

4.  Amancio Ortega-(Net worth-71.3 billion)

Amancio Ortega Gaona born 12 March 1936) is a Spanish business tycoon. He is the founder and former chairman of Inditex fashion group, best known for its chain of Zara clothing and accessories retail shops.Zara is part of the Inditex group (Industrias de Diseño Textil Sociedad Anónima), of which Ortega owns 59.29%, and aside from over 6,000 stores includes the brands Zara, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Zara Home, Kiddy's Class, Tempe, Stradivarius, Pull and Bear, Bershka and has more than 92,000 employees.In 1975, he opened his first Zara store with his wife Rosalía Mera,so called because his preferred name Zorba was already taken.

3.  Warren Buffett-(Net worth-$78.7 billion)

Warren Edward Buffett ( born August 30, 1930)[2] is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is considered by some to be one of the most successful investors in the world.Buffett worked from 1951 to 1954 at Buffett-Falk & Co. as an investment salesman; from 1954 to 1956 at Graham-Newman Corp. as a securities analyst; from 1956 to 1969 at Buffett Partnership, Ltd. as a general partner and from 1970, as Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.Buffett married Susan Buffett (née Thompson) in 1952. They had three children, Susie, Howard and Peter.

2.  Bill Gates-(Net worth-$79.2 billion)

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, and philanthropist.In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company.According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Gates was the world's highest-earning billionaire in 2013, as his fortune increased by US$15.8 billion to US$78.5 billion.Gates studied the work of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and in 1994, sold some of his Microsoft stock to create the "William H. Gates Foundation." In 2000.The pair founded the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation through which he donates 50% of his earnings to the poor.

1.  Carlos Slim Helu-(Net worth-$80.3 billion)

Carlos Slim Helu (born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist.From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world.At the age of 11, Carlos invested in a government savings bond that taught him about the concept of compound interest.Slim made a large fortune in the early 1990s when Mexico privatized its telecom industry and Grupo Carso acquired Telmex from the Mexican government.In 1990 the Grupo Carso was floated as a public company initially in Mexico and then worldwide.