A handful of wealthy business executives and investors from the Philadelphia region, led by residential landlord Mitchell Morgan, made Forbes’ annual list of the world’s billionaires for the first time this year.

T he world’s billionaire club has never been more crowded, reaching a record 3,028 members in 2025. Still, as in 2024, about a quarter of the list saw their net worth shrink compared to the previous year. For 107 entrepreneurs, investors and heirs on last year’s list, the drop was steep enough to knock them out of the three-comma club altogether.

In the top 25 of Forbes' richest are familiar names including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

Forbes’ Definitive Ranking of the World’s Richest People Features More Billionaires Than Ever Before With A Record-Breaking 3,028

From Kim Kardashian to Jerry Seinfeld, here are the 18 stars who’ve capitalized on their renown enough to rank among the world’s wealthiest people.

After ranking as runner-up the past two years, Elon Musk reclaims the No. 1 spot on Forbes’ 2025 World’s Billionaires list, our annual ranking of the planet’s wealthiest people. The 53-year-old businessman,

Shahid Khan, owner of auto parts supplier Flex-N-Gate and the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, is the richest person in Naples with a net worth of $13.4 billion. Other notable billionaires on the list include Reinhold Schmieding, founder of Arthrex, and Tom Golisano, founder of Paychex.

Wisconsin billionaires John Menard Jr. and Diane Hendricks landed on the list, which was a snapshot the richest people in the world as of April 2025.

Forbes removed the Kingdom’s billionaires from our ranking of the world’s wealthiest people in 2018, but they’re back now. Here’s what happened and why.