The Wealthiest People Beyond Technology: A March 2026 Snapshot

Thirty individual fortunes ranked by Forbes’s 2026 annual estimates, valued on 1 March in US dollars; bn means billion. Selection starts with the publisher’s primary industry classification and removes Technology entries, plus fortunes centred on software, financial-data platforms, cryptocurrency or telecoms even when filed elsewhere. Finance, manufacturing, retail and diversified groups remain eligible: using software, holding technology shares or operating a telecoms subsidiary does not by itself exclude them. This measures the main business source of wealth, not zero technology exposure; mixed cases are explained. Entries explicitly combining a person with their family are excluded. Estimates are personal net worth, not company revenues or cash balances, and remain fixed to this historical publication.