Top 10 richest people in the world

 The Top 10 Richest People in the World (2026): Latest Rankings and Net Worth

Name Net Worth (2026) Source of Wealth

1. Elon Musk $1.1T Tesla, SpaceX

2. Larry Page $294B Google (Alphabet)

3. Sergey Brin $271B Google (Alphabet)

4. Jeff Bezos $249B Amazon, Blue Origin, Prometheus

5. Larry Ellison $231B Oracle

6. Michael Dell $225B Dell Technologies

7. Mark Zuckerberg $194B Meta (Facebook, Instagram)

8. Jensen Huang $177B Nvidia

9. Bernard Arnault & Family $161B LVMH

10. Amancio Ortega $145B Inditex (Zara)

1. Elon Musk | $1.1 Trillion

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world in 2026 and the world’s first trillionaire, with a net worth of $1.1 trillion.

Musk reached this historic milestone on June 12, 2026, after SpaceX IPO at a valuation approaching $2 trillion. As the company’s largest shareholder, Musk benefited enormously from the listing, which transformed his fortune overnight.

The merger of xAI and SpaceX further accelerated his wealth growth, creating one of the world’s most valuable private technology ecosystems worth $1.25 trillion.

2. Larry Page | $294 Billion

Larry Page is the second-richest person in the world with a net worth of $294 billion.

Larry co-founded Google in 1998 with Sergey Brin while they were both PhD students at Stanford. The search engine they built together has since become the most-visited website in the world and the foundation of a $2 trillion tech empire.

Page served as Google’s first CEO, then as CEO of its parent company Alphabet from 2015. He stepped back from day-to-day leadership in 2019 but retains an approximate 6% ownership stake in Alphabet and still holds significant voting power.

Beyond Google, Page has invested heavily in flying cars and clean energy through his venture fund, Playground Global. His portfolio grew significantly in early 2026 as Alphabet’s market capitalization expanded to $4.27 trillion, driven by the commercial scaling of its Gemini large language models across search and cloud computing markets.

3. Sergey Brin | $271 Billion

Sergey Brin holds the distinction of being the third-richest person in the world and only the third individual in global history to cross the $250 billion threshold.

Born in Moscow and raised in the United States after his family emigrated, Sergey Brin developed the PageRank algorithm alongside Page, the mathematical formula that made Google’s search engine work far better than anything else at the time.

Like Larry Page, he stepped down from active leadership of Alphabet in 2019, and his net worth remains tied to an estimated 5.7% equity stake in the company. His capital growth accelerated into 2026 as Alphabet recorded record-breaking quarterly revenue expansions.

Brin’s position among the list of the top 10 richest people in the world 2026 demonstrates the long-term rewards of founding transformative technology companies.