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Though Bill Gates was No. 1, five of the world’s top ten richest hailed from Asia. Eighteen years later, the number of Asian billionaires has soared.
Apr 2, 2024 · According to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, as of April 2, Mukesh Ambani (66) is the richest man in Asia, with a net worth of $116.1 billion. Ambani is the chairman of Reliance...
- Jack Ma. Net Worth: $38.2 Billion. The richest man in Asia, and one of the most inspiring men on this list, is Jack Ma. Ma has been working his way up the ranks for a while now, and has finally reached the top of this list.
- Hui Ka Yan. Net Worth: $38.1 Billion. Hui Ka Yan is a Chinese businessman, chairman and majority shareholder of Evergrande Group, a Chinese real estate developer.
- Ma Hueteng. Net Worth: $37.9 Billion. Ma Huateng is a Chinese internet entrepreneur. He is the founder, president and CEO of Tencent, one of the largest Internet companies in China.
- Mukesh Ambani. Net Worth: $34.9 Billion. Mukesh Ambani is an Indian business magnate, currently chairman, managing director and majorit shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited.
The World's Billionaires 2014 edition was 28th annual ranking of The World's Billionaires by Forbes magazine. The list estimated the net worth of the world's richest people, excluding royalty and dictators, as of February 12, 2014. It was released online on March 3, 2014. Annual list.
No.NameNet Worth Usd BillionAge1Bill Gates76.00582Carlos Slim Helu & family72.00743Amancio Ortega64.00774Warren Buffett58.2083- Mukesh Ambani
- Gautam Adani
- Zhong Shanshan
- Zhang Yiming
- MA Huateng
- Zeng Yuqun
- Colin Huang
- Jack MA
- Tadashi Yanai
- Li Ka-Shing
Mukesh Ambani’s father, the late Dhirubhai Ambani, had a modest start to his career working as a yarn trader in the 1960s. He went on to establish Reliance Industries, which began as a small-scale textile manufacturing company in 1966. The massive empire of Reliance Industries is now led by Mukesh Ambani, the richest Asian as of 2023. With multinat...
The Adani Group founder is currently the second richest Asian man in the world. Gautam Adani has achieved success through his coal mining, port operations and green energy ventures. With a humble beginning as a small-scale commodities trader, his wealth now stands at USD 72.1 billion. The Adani Group, one of the world’s largest conglomerates fuelin...
As the head of Nongfu Spring, a bottled water company, which went public in September 2020, Zhong Shanshan has amassed wealth worth USD 68.9 billion. As the world’s third richest person in Asia, Shanshan’s net worth saw a surge from his September 2022 net worth of USD 66.9 billion, as per Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Zhong was born in Hangzhou, Ch...
Zhang Yiming takes the title of one of the top ten billionaires in Asia, Zhang has been steadily climbing the Bloomberg wealth ranking list and currently has a net worth of USD 54.9 billion. Born in China’s Fujian province, Zhang earned his degree in software engineering in 2005 from Nankai University and worked for Microsoft in the early stages of...
Also known as Pony Ma, Ma Huateng is the chairman of Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings, one of the country’s highest-valued businesses. With over 1.31 billion monthly active users on the famous social messaging app WeChat, by the end of September 2022 as per Statista, Tencent Group had also publicly listed shares of its music-streaming subsid...
Chinese entrepreneur Zeng Yuqun is the founder of Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), one of the world’s biggest auto-mobile battery makers and suppliers. The company is based in Ningde, China, and was founded in 2011 by Zeng. CATL went public on the Shenzhen stock exchange in June 2018. Zeng is now the sixth richest Asian man, with a net worth...
The founder of the Shanghai-based Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo, Huang has a net worth of USD 36.3 billion. Pinduoduo, also known as PDD, had 733.4 million monthly active users on average in the final quarter of 2021 as per Bloomberg. The company also reported a revenue of USD 14.6 billion for 2021. Huang stepped down as chief executive of Pin...
One of the most enterprising and well-known entrepreneurs, Jack Ma is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group. He has amassed a fortune of USD 35 billion through his business ventures. Alibaba Group went public and started trading its stocks on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014, during which they raised a record-breaking USD...
With 9983 JP equity as his biggest asset, Yanai is the chairman of Asia’s apparel giant, Fast Retailing and has a net worth of USD 31.4 billion.He is the biggest shareholder of the retailer group which has Uniqlo as its primary subsidiary. One of the richest Asians in the world as per the Bloomberg BillionairesIndex, Yanai also owns two golf course...
Founder of Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings, Li is better known in the business world as an asset manager and real estate service provider. Despite being replaced as the chairman of both companies by his son Victor in May 2018, Li manages to become the tenth richest Asian man in the world with a net worth of USD 29.9 bill...
Get to know the who's who of Asia's billionaires as we reveal the top 10 richest in Asia, according to the World’s Billionaires List 2021.
Bill Gates was named the richest man in the world by Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires. This was the 16th time that the founder of Microsoft claimed the top spot. Carlos Slim came in second for the second consecutive time.
