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Alice Walton
Born
US$134bn. Walton inherited Walmart shares as the daughter of founder Sam Walton. Her place at the top concerns a personal ownership estimate, rather than the revenue of the retailer or the value of the entire Walton family fortune.
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Jacqueline Mars
Born
US$49.1bn. Mars is an heir to the privately owned confectionery and pet-care company founded by her grandfather. Her estimate is separate from those of the next generation of Mars shareholders further down this list.
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Rafaela Aponte-Diamant
Born
US$44.5bn. Aponte-Diamant co-founded MSC with Gianluigi Aponte. Forbes assigned the spouses equal individual estimates in March. This entry preserves that published assessment, before the April announcement about transferring the shipping group to their children.
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Abigail Johnson
Born
US$33.2bn. Johnson inherited a stake in Fidelity Investments and also rose through its management, becoming chief executive in 2014. Her case combines family ownership with operational leadership, rather than fitting neatly into either a founder or passive-heir category.
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Melinda French Gates
US$30.3bn. French Gates worked at Microsoft before her marriage to Bill Gates and later co-led their foundation. This estimate reflects her personal fortune following their divorce; her independent philanthropic and investment work operates through Pivotal.
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Susanne Klatten
US$29.7bn. Klatten inherited BMW interests and built an investment career around that ownership. The family also has a long association with Altana, but she transferred more than 99% of its parent SKion to her children in 2024, so describing her as its sole owner would be misleading.
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MacKenzie Scott
Born
US$28.6bn. Scott received Amazon shares in her 2019 divorce and has since made substantial charitable gifts through Yield Giving. The March estimate values what remains attributable to her, rather than adding past donations back into a lifetime total.
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Gina Rinehart
Born
US$25.5bn. Rinehart took charge of Hancock Prospecting after her father died and developed major mining projects including Roy Hill. Inherited business interests and subsequent expansion both matter when interpreting this Australian iron-ore fortune.
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Christy Walton
Born
US$24.3bn. Walton inherited wealth after the death of her husband John, a son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. Her estimate is recorded separately from their son Lukas: the whole estate should not be attributed to her alone.
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Diane Hendricks
Born
US$22.3bn. Hendricks co-founded building-products distributor ABC Supply with her husband Ken in 1982. Their partnership built the business that underpins her fortune, giving this ranking an example of jointly founded wealth outside technology and consumer luxury.
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Kwong Siu-hing
Born
US$20.7bn. Kwong is the matriarch of the family behind Hong Kong developer Sun Hung Kai Properties. This is the estimate Forbes attributes to her within a family ownership structure, not a valuation of every property controlled by the company.
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Nancy Walton Laurie
US$20bn. Laurie inherited Walmart stock from her father Bud Walton, Sam Walton’s brother and early business partner. Her entry is distinct from the fortune of her sister Ann Walton Kroenke, despite their shared commercial origin.
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Beate Heister
Born
US$19.1bn. Heister inherited interests associated with Aldi Süd from her father Karl Albrecht. Forbes estimates her separately here, although older rankings sometimes combined her wealth with her brother’s. The image is an original grocery illustration, not a portrait.
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Zhong Huijuan
US$18.7bn. Zhong founded Hansoh Pharmaceutical and became its chair and chief executive. Medicine development and manufacturing underpin this founder-led fortune, rather than a consumer brand or an inherited stake in a long-established family company.
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Ann Walton Kroenke
US$14.6bn. Kroenke inherited Walmart shares from her father Bud Walton. Her ownership interests also include the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche, but the retail inheritance is essential context for the personal wealth estimate.
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Trudy Cathy White
US$13.7bn. White is the daughter of Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy and an owner within the family business. She has operated a restaurant and serves as a company ambassador; the fortune is not an estimate of earnings from her books or speaking engagements.
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Laurene Powell Jobs
Born
US$13.7bn. Powell Jobs inherited wealth after Steve Jobs’s death and founded Emerson Collective, which combines investment and philanthropy. The estimate is personal wealth, distinct from the capital deployed by organisations and companies she supports.
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Sandra Ortega Mera
Born
US$13.2bn. Ortega Mera inherited most of her mother Rosalía Mera’s estate, including an Inditex stake. This is a separately attributed fortune from that of her father Amancio Ortega, even though both lead back to the group behind Zara.
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Marijke Mars
US$12.3bn. Marijke Mars inherited an interest in Mars, Incorporated after her father Forrest Mars Jr. died. She also worked within the business. Her estimate matches those of her three sisters, so the displayed order does not imply a meaningful wealth difference.
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Pamela Mars-Wright
US$12.3bn. Pamela Mars-Wright is one of Forrest Mars Jr.’s four daughters and inherited a stake in the candy and pet-care group. Her corporate career included family-business leadership; the estimate concerns her individual holding rather than the combined Mars estate.
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Valerie Mars
US$12.3bn. Valerie Mars combines inherited ownership with a career in corporate development at Mars. She shares the same estimated fortune as her sisters, while the company behind it operates across confectionery, pet food and animal care.
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Victoria Mars
US$12.3bn. Victoria Mars inherited a share of the family company and also served as its first corporate ombudsman and later board chair. Her entry illustrates how an inherited stake can coexist with a substantial management and governance career.
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Zhou Chaonan
US$12.2bn. Zhou founded businesses in communications, data centres and logistics technology. Range Intelligent Computing Technology Group is the central business here: her inclusion reflects entrepreneur-held computing infrastructure wealth rather than ownership of an internet consumer platform.
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Kirsten Rausing
Born
US$11.8bn. Rausing owns an interest in Tetra Laval, the packaging and processing group associated with her family. She also developed a prominent horse-breeding operation, but industrial packaging is the principal origin of this wealth estimate.
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