Forbes magazine announced its annual list of world billionaires, and eight Wisconsin residents made the list.
Here’s how they rank on the Forbes world billionaires list:
- 133 John Menard Jr., Menards, $10.5 billion (down from $11.5 billion a year ago)
- 200. Herbert Kohler Jr. and family, Kohler Co., $7.3 billion (down from $9.3 billion a year ago)
- 257. Diane Hendricks, ABC Supply, $6.3 billion (up from $5.5 billion a year ago)
- 504. James Cargill II, Cargill, $4 billion ($4.2 billion a year ago)
- 546. H. Fisk Johnson, S. Curtis Johnson and Helen Johnson-Leipold, S.C. Johnson, each $3.8 billion (up from $3.7 billion a year ago)
- 597. Judy Faulkner, Epic, $3.6 billion (up from $3.5 billion a year ago)
The top 10 world billionaires on the Forbes list are:
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- Jeff Bezos & family, Amazon, $131 billion
- Bill Gates, Microsoft, $96.5 billion
- Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, $82.5 billion
- Bernard Arnault & family, LVMH, $76 billion
- Carlos Slim Helu & family, America Movil, $64 billion
- Amancio Ortega, Inditex, $62.7 billion
- Larry Ellison, Oracle, $62.5 billion
- Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, $62.3 billion
- Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg LP, $55.5 billion
- Larry Page, Google, $50.8 billion
Other billionaires of note on the Forbes list include:
- 257. Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Foxconn, $6.3 billion
- 1281. Marc Lasry, Bucks co-owner, $1.8 billion
