36 Florida Billionaires Among Richest In U.S., Made The Forbes 400 List

FLORIDA — America’s billionaires are richer than they’ve ever been, Forbes said with Tuesday’s release of The Forbes 400, its annual list of the 400 richest U.S. billionaires. Thirty-six people from Florida made the cut.

In Florida, The Forbes 400 billionaires are:

• No. 36: Thomas Peterffy, founder and chair of Interactive Brokers, $20 billion
• No. 43: Carl Icahn, founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, $16.6 billion
• No. 49: David Tepper, hedge fund manager, $15.8 billion
• No. 94: Shahid Khan, owner of Flex-N-Gate, $8.5 billion
• No. 115: Reinhold Schmieding, CEO and founder of Arthrex, $7.8 billion
• No. 116: Ronald Wanek, founder and chair of Ashley Furniture Industries, $7.6 billion
• No. 123: Paul Tudor Jones, II, $7.3 billion
• No. 128: J. Christopher Reyes, co-chair of Reyes Holdings, $7.1 billion
• No. 128: Jude Reyes, co-chair of Reyes Holdings, $7.1 billion
• No. 141: Micky Arison, Carnival Cruises chair, $6.7 billion
• No. 158: Orlando Bravo, founder and managing partner of Thoma Bravo, $6.3 billion
• No. 172: Isaac Perlmutter, Marvel Comics chair, $6 billion
• No. 188: Terrence Pegula, owner of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres, $5.7 billion
• No. 195: Charles B. Johnson, second largest shareholder in Franklin Resources, $5.6 billion
• No. 209: Tom Golisano, Founder of Paychex, $5.1 billion
• No. 209: Jeff Greene, $5.1 billion
• No. 212: Dirk Ziff, founder of Ziff Brothers Investments, owner of Ziff Capital Partners and grandson of founder of Ziff Davis publishing company, $5 billion
• No. 222: Robert Rich, Jr., chair and majority owner of Rich Products Corporation, $4.9 billion
• No. 224: Richard Schulze, founder of Best Buy, $4.8 billion
• No. 229: Igor Olenicoff, real estate developer, $4.7 billion
• No. 229: Todd Wanek, president and CEO of Ashley Furniture Industries, $4.7 billion
• No. 240: Sami Mnaymneh, co-CEO of private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, $4.6 billion
• No. 247: Barry Sternlicht, CEO and chair of Starwood Capital Group, $4.5 billion
• No. 253: Rakesh Gangwal, co-founder and co-owner of IndiGo airline, $4.4 billion
• No. 261: Daniel Och, founder of the hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management, $4.3 billion
• No. 273: Russ Weiner, creator of the Rockstar energy drink, $4.1 billion
• No. 289: Nick Caporella, chair and CEO of National Beverage, $3.9 billion
• No. 289: Herbert Wertheim, optometrist and investor, $3.9 billion
• No. 300: James Clark, co-founder of the Netscape browser and tech investor, $3.8 billion
• No. 318: John Henry, founder of investment management company John W. Henry & Company, $3.6 billion
• No. 333: Fred Ehrsam, co-founder and managing partner of cryptocurrency investment firm Paradigm, $3.5 billion
• No. 333: William Wrigley, Jr., CEO of Parallel, which sells cannabis products, $3.5 billion
• No. 340: Richard Sands, chair of Constellation Brands, $3.4 billion
• No. 340: Robert Sands, executive chair and former CEO of Constellation Brands, $3.4 billion
• No. 377: William Berkley, founder of W.R. Berkley Corporation, $3 billion
• No. 377: Todd Christopher, founder of hair product company Vogue International, $3 billion

Jeff Bezos, the founder of the e-commerce giant Amazon, again topped The Forbes 400 list. His net worth was $189.8 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time wealth tracker. Bezos has topped the list for four consecutive years.

Rounding out the top five and the size of their fortunes at the end of trading Monday are Tesla founder Elon Musk ($190.5 billion), Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ($134.5 billion), Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($134 billion) and Google executive Larry Page ($123 billion).

Forbes said that though the pandemic made 2020 a terrible year for many, the wealthiest Americans continued to enjoy good economic times. Collectively, the personal fortunes of the 400 richest billionaires increased 40 percent over the past year to $4.5 trillion, up from $3.2 trillion the year prior.

Nearly all are richer than they were a year ago, Forbes said, and the top 20 are worth $1.8 trillion.

Forbes calculated the net worth of those on the list using stock prices at Wall Street’s closing bell on Sept. 3, which was close to a record high close for U.S. stock indices such as the S&P 500.

Among the 44 people who fell off the list was former President Donald Trump, who had been among the 400 richest Americans for 25 years. He continues to be a billionaire. He is as wealthy as he was a year ago, when he ranked 339, but he’s lost $600 million since the start of the pandemic, Forbes noted. Big-city properties, which make up the bulk of the real estate mogul’s holdings, have languished during the pandemic.

Newcomers to The Forbes 400 include cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, who at 29 is the youngest person on the list. He’s worth $22.5 billion, ranks 32nd and is among seven cryptocurrency entrepreneurs on the list.

There are 56 women on the list, the same number as a year ago. Oprah Winfrey and Gap co-founder Doris Fisher fell off the list, but new to the list are Melinda French Gates, following her divorce from Bill Gates; and Miriam Adelson, heir to her late husband Sheldon Adelson’s stake in the Las Vegas Sands casino empire.

Alice Walton remains the richest woman in America for the seventh year. The Walmart heir is worth $67.9 billion.

In all, 282 people on the list are self-made billionaires.