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Mukesh Ambani
Born
US$99.7bn. Ambani's Reliance career spans the Jamnagar refinery and the expansion into retail and Jio telecommunications. That mix places industrial infrastructure and consumer services inside the same business story.
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Zhang Yiming
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US$69.3bn. Zhang founded ByteDance, the company behind Toutiao, Douyin and TikTok. His fortune illustrates the scale that recommendation-driven media can achieve, even after a founder steps back from the chief executive role.
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Zhong Shanshan
US$68.1bn. Zhong founded bottled-water producer Nongfu Spring and is a major owner of vaccine and diagnostic-test maker Wantai. Everyday drinks and healthcare manufacturing provide two distinct foundations for his wealth.
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Gautam Adani
Born
US$63.8bn. Adani founded a group whose activities include ports and other infrastructure. His position reflects ownership across capital-intensive businesses, where financing and construction matter alongside the demand for services.
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Pony Ma
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US$53.8bn. Ma Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, co-founded Tencent. Messaging, online games and digital entertainment underpin a technology fortune with a different commercial model from the shopping platforms elsewhere in this list.
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Robin Zeng
US$53.2bn. Zeng founded battery manufacturer CATL. His business sits inside the electric-vehicle supply chain: its customers need battery technology and manufacturing capacity before they can sell a finished car.
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Masayoshi Son
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US$51.5bn. Son founded SoftBank and developed it from software distribution into telecommunications and technology investing. His career links an operating business with large ownership bets on other companies.
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Li Ka-shing
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US$47bn. Li developed businesses in property, ports, utilities and retail before retiring as chairman of CK Hutchison and CK Asset in 2018. His fortune represents decades of diversification across services and physical infrastructure.
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Ding Lei
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US$37.9bn. William Ding is Ding Lei, the founder of NetEase. Online games and internet services are central to his business, making this a digital-entertainment fortune rather than a hardware-manufacturing one.
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Colin Huang
Born
US$36.6bn. Huang founded Pinduoduo and later stepped away from its leadership. His wealth remains associated with ownership in the ecommerce business, illustrating the distinction between being a founder-shareholder and running daily operations.
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Idan Ofer
Born
US$34.6bn. Idan Ofer founded Quantum Pacific, with interests spanning shipping, energy and mining. His separately estimated fortune should not be confused with that of his brother Eyal, whose business portfolio follows below.
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Eyal Ofer
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US$33.6bn. Eyal Ofer's interests include Zodiac's shipping activities and Global Holdings' property investments. Real assets connect his maritime and real-estate businesses, although they serve different customers and economic cycles.
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Lakshmi Mittal
US$31bn. Mittal built an international steel business through acquisitions and consolidation, culminating in ArcelorMittal. His entry shows how ownership in a heavy industrial sector can sit beside software and consumer brands in a wealth ranking.
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Shiv Nadar
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US$30.9bn. Nadar founded HCL in 1976 and helped take it from computing hardware into IT services. His fortune reflects the development of an Indian technology business serving organisations rather than principally selling consumer apps.
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Jack Ma
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US$29.1bn. Ma co-founded Alibaba, whose businesses developed around ecommerce and services supporting online trade. His story belongs with platform builders, while the ranking measures an estimated ownership position rather than Alibaba's entire value.
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Prajogo Pangestu
Born
US$28.6bn. Pangestu's Barito Pacific roots lie in forestry, with later expansion into petrochemicals and energy. His position demonstrates how a diversified industrial group can evolve far beyond the sector in which it began.
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Lei Jun
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US$27.9bn. Lei founded Xiaomi, building a consumer-electronics business that later entered electric vehicles. The move from phones into cars connects this fortune to both digital devices and large-scale manufacturing.
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Phạm Nhật Vượng
Born
US$27.7bn. Vuong built the Mivina food business in Ukraine before developing Vingroup in Vietnam. Property and the VinFast vehicle business make his career a striking progression from packaged food into capital-intensive industries.
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Lee Jae-yong
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US$27bn. Lee Jae-yong, also known as Jay Y. Lee, comes from Samsung's controlling family and became chairman of Samsung Electronics. Semiconductors and consumer electronics are central to the business context behind this inherited ownership position.
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Cyrus S. Poonawalla
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US$27bn. Poonawalla founded the Serum Institute of India, a vaccine manufacturer. His entry connects personal wealth with the production capacity, scientific work and distribution requirements of a healthcare business.
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Dilip Shanghvi
Born
US$25.6bn. Shanghvi founded Sun Pharmaceutical Industries. Medicines and pharmaceutical manufacturing distinguish his business from the consumer internet firms above him, despite both sectors relying on specialised knowledge and international markets.
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Yu Yong
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US$25.4bn. Yu founded investment company Cathay Fortune, associated with a major stake in mining group CMOC. This is the investor and mining businessman, not the similarly named steel executive or economist. The image is a symbolic illustration of his industry.
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Huang Shilin
US$24.4bn. Huang is associated with an ownership stake in CATL and previously served as its vice-chairman, leaving that executive role in 2022. His entry separates shareholder wealth from holding a current management position.
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Wang Chuanfu
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US$21.5bn. Wang founded BYD as a battery business before expanding into cars. His fortune connects two adjacent stages of the electric-vehicle industry, battery production and the design and manufacture of complete vehicles.
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