Top 10 Richest People In The World 2025. 

...As Tech Barons take over the world.

By Charles Segun Adegbite 

Who are the richest people in the world today? Forbes has the answer? Below are the Top 10 Richest People In The World As At January 1, 2025, according to rankings of the American business magazine, Forbes.

The world top 10 richest people are mostly tech barons. Only luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault and investor Warren Buffett are not in the tech field. 

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Published below are the top 10 people:

1. Elon Musk
With estimated net worth of $421.2B, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and cofounder of seven companies, including electric car maker Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX and artificial intelligence startup xAI, is the richest man in the world today.

Born in 1971, this 53years old tech Baron was the richest person in the world at the beginning of 2024. He dropped to Number 2 shortly after, following his purchase of Twitter. But he staged a heavy comeback before the middle of the year. And has remained in the first place since then, even with geometric progression.

#2 Jeff Bezos
This 60years old e-commerce tech giant is the Amazon chairman and founder. With estimated net worth of $233.5bn, Jeff Bezos is the second richest person in the world today.

He is about $60bn richer than he was this time last year, when he was ranked third richest in the world.

He founded Amazon in his garage in 1994. The e-commerce business as has grown from a book specialist to sell everything under the sun, with astonishing logistical power. Bezos also owns the Washington Post and space firm Blue Origin.

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3. Larry Ellison
An 80years old tech giant is the founder, chairman and chief technology officer of software megalith Oracle. With a net worth of $209.7bn Larry Ellison is third richest person in the world today.

He became the second richest person on earth in September, but was later overtaken by Jeff Bezos. Of course he was at a time also the fourth richest in 2024 before he climbed higher with a net worth of $135.3bn.

4. Mark Zuckerberg
The youngest of all the Top 10 Richest people in the world today with a net worth of $202bn, Zuckerberg, clocked 40 in May 2024. He is another tech baron who founded Facebook when he was a 19-year-old in 2004.

A dropout of the Harvard University, Zuckerberg experienced rapid financial growth with a net worth that increased by more than $75bn within the last 12 months.

5. Bernard Arnault
This 75years old and the richest French man is the 5th richest man in the world today, whose net worth and that of his family he represents was $168.8bn on January 1, 2025, according to Forbes.
Although he dropped to $166.1bn on January 2, 2025 when the family lost $2.2bn at the stock market.

Within the last one year, he has experienced a lot of ups and downs which saw him slipping out of his first richest with $200.7bn net worth to second place, until he slumped to the fifth place in the rankings.

Arnault's business LVMH is a bywords for luxury, encompassing as it does Moët, Hennessy and Louis Vuitton, as well as Sephora and Tiffany. His holding company also has a sizeable stake in TikTok owner ByteDance. Arnault's five children all work for LVMH.

6. Larry Page
This renown tech Baron who cofounded Google in 1998, with Sergey Brin, by revolutionising search on the embryonic days of the web via prioritising links as part of the page ranking algorithm, is today the 6th richest person on earth.

Mr. Page, former CEO of Alphabet, mother company of Google, who remains the Cofounder and Board member of the company, is today 51years old. He is currently worth $156bn, more than last year when he was placed eight at $117.2bn.

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7. Sergey Brin
With the net worth of 149bn in the morning of January 1, 2025 the Google cofounder Sergey Brin is the 7th richest person in the world.

While he is no longer president of Google's parent company Alphabet, Sergey remains a board member and a controlling shareholder. At the dawn of 2025 he is valued at $149bn, making him richer than the $112.4bn a year ago.

8. Warren Buffett
This 94years old renown investor is the eighth on the list of world's richest people, whose net worth this year is valued at $141.7bn.

Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; which owns dozens of companies, including insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and US restaurant Dairy Queen, is more than the £118.6bn which was his worth at the start of 2024.

9. Steve Ballmer
This 68years old former CEO of Microsoft who led the company from 2000 to 2014, is nineth richest person in the world, with a net worth of $124.6B.
He is the owner of Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, which he bought for $2bn in 2014, after his retirement as Microsoft CEO. The Los Angeles Clippers is now valued at $4.65bn.

10. Jensen Huang
The 10th richest man in the world today is Jensen Huang, the CEO and President of Nvidia; the company he founded in 1993.

With $120B net worth, Huang, a Taiwanese who migrated to USA has turned his company to what Forbes described as, "probably the single biggest business success of 2024, as the chips it produced became more and more in demand for high-speed gaming and - in particular - AI functions".

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