Top 10 World’s Billionaires in 2016. For the third year in a row, Bill Gates was named the richest man in the world by Forbes‘ 2016 list of the world’s billionaires. This is the 17th time that the founder of Microsoft had claimed the top spot. Amancio Ortega rose from last year’s position of number four to second. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway came in third for the second consecutive time, while Mexican telecommunication mogul Carlos Slim slipped from last year’s second position to fourth. Jeff Bezos of Amazon,Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Michael Bloomberg of Bloomberg L.P., appeared for the first time on the Forbes top 10 billionaires list, coming at fifth, sixth and eighth positions, respectively. Zuckerberg became the youngest top 10 billionaire this year at the age of 31. Larry Ellison, Charles Koch and David Koch also slipped from their previous year’s positions, with Ellison dropping to seventh from fifth, and the Kochs falling to ninth position from sixth.
Here is a List of Top 10 World’s Billionaires in 2016
- Bill Gates – $75.0 billion
- Amancio Ortega – $67.0 billion
- Warren Buffett – $60.8 billion
- Carlos Slim – $50.0 billion
- Jeff Bezos – $45.2 billion
- Mark Zuckerberg – $44.6 billion
- Larry Ellison – $43.6 billion
- Michael Bloomberg – $40.0 billion
- Charles Koch – $39.6 billion
- David Koch – $39.6 billion
