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  1. 1Warren BuffettWarren BuffettBorn 30 Aug 1930Estimated US$149bn. Finance and diversified ownership. Berkshire Hathaway combines insurance with railways, energy, manufacturing and retail businesses. Its investment portfolio also holds technology shares, so this is a classification by the business behind the fortune, not a claim that Buffett…0i
  2. 2Amancio OrtegaAmancio OrtegaBorn 28 Mar 1936Estimated US$148bn. Fashion retail. Ortega’s Inditex holding, centred on Zara and its sister chains, anchors the fortune, alongside substantial property investments. Online shopping is part of the retailer’s distribution system; the underlying business sells clothing rather than software.0
  3. 3Alice WaltonAlice WaltonBorn 7 Oct 1949Estimated US$134bn. Retail inheritance. Walton’s wealth is tied to the Walmart family fortune, originating in mass-market stores. Walmart’s e-commerce operations do not change its retail classification here, and her art and philanthropic work should not be mistaken for the source of the estimate.0i
  4. 4Mukesh AmbaniMukesh AmbaniBorn 19 Apr 1957Estimated US$99.7bn. Diversified industry. Reliance spans energy, materials, retail and digital services. This is an important mixed case: Ambani qualifies under the publisher’s diversified classification, but the Jio telecoms business means his fortune certainly includes significant…0i
  5. 5Thomas PeterffyThomas PeterffyBorn 30 Sept 1944Estimated US$82.9bn. Financial services. Peterffy’s Interactive Brokers stake is classified as brokerage wealth. Its electronic trading system depends on sophisticated software, but its core service is executing and financing customers’ investments rather than selling general-purpose software…0i
  6. 6Zhong ShanshanZhong ShanshanEstimated US$68.1bn. Consumer goods and healthcare. Nongfu Spring’s bottled drinks and his pharmaceutical interests place Zhong outside the core technology sector. The fortune joins a mass-market consumer business with health-related ownership rather than relying on a single internet platform.0
  7. 7Jeff YassJeff YassEstimated US$67.4bn. Trading and investments. Yass’s wealth comes through Susquehanna and its investments. Those include exposure to ByteDance, making him another explicit boundary case: investment-company wealth can depend partly on technology holdings without being classified as a…0
  8. 8Dieter SchwarzDieter SchwarzBorn 24 Sept 1939Estimated US$67.2bn. Grocery retail. Schwarz Group’s Lidl and Kaufland businesses anchor this fortune. The group also invests in digital infrastructure, but its principal wealth classification remains retail, illustrating why secondary technology activities do not automatically remove a person from…0
  9. 9Gautam AdaniGautam AdaniBorn 24 Jun 1962Estimated US$63.8bn. Infrastructure and commodities. Adani Group’s ports, airports and energy businesses supply the main connection. Digital and data-centre projects coexist with those assets; the sector label describes the core fortune rather than every activity across the group.0i
  10. 10Robin ZengRobin ZengEstimated US$53.2bn. Energy and batteries. Zeng’s CATL holding is classified as energy wealth. Battery production is technically sophisticated, but this rule treats industrial energy equipment separately from the software, computing and internet businesses in the technology sector.0i