The Top 10 Richest People in the World | July 2026

Today on Forbes, the top 10 richest people in the world, July 2026. Elon Musk became the first trillionaire in world history in June after SpaceX went public during the month, helping boost the fortune of the rocket maker's founder by an estimated $218 billion over the past 30 days, to an estimated $1.053 trillion as of July 1st at 12am eastern time. The rest of top 10 richest people on the planet didn't fare so well, as their net worths fell by $181 billion combined, amid a broad sell-off of technology stocks that saw the tech-heavy Nasdaq drop by nearly 3%, or almost three times the S&P 500's nearly 1% decline. But the world's 10 richest people are still fabulously wealthy. The world's 10 richest people are worth $2.951 trillion combined as of July 1st at 12am eastern time. As a group, they're $37 billion richer than they were a month ago. Our top 10 richest people in the world list is as of July 1st, 2026 at 12am eastern time. As a reminder, stock prices fluctuate routinely, so the net worths on our list may change on a daily basis. Forbes tracks the daily changes on our real-time list of billionaires. Forbes has been keeping track of the world's billionaires since 1987. In March 2026, we found 3,428 of them for our annual list. Elon Musk is now more than three and a half times richer than the world's second wealthiest person, Google co-founder Larry Page, whose fortune fell by an estimated $18 billion to $291 billion, as shares of Google's company Alphabet fell by 6%. The fortune of his co-founder, Sergey Brin, meanwhile, declined by an estimated $16 billion to $269 billion. Despite their losses, Page's and Brin's ranks remained unchanged at No. 2 and No. 3 richest, respectively. The second biggest loser of the month, Jeff Bezos, also held onto the No. 4 spot, even though his fortune fell by an estimated $28 billion to $249 billion, as Amazon's stock sank by 12%. June's biggest loser was May's biggest winner. After adding an estimated $71 billion to his fortune the previous month as Oracle's stock soared by 40%, Larry Ellison saw his net worth fall by an estimated $84 billion to $192 billion, as shares of his software and cloud computing giant sank by 35% in June. That dropped Ellison, who briefly became the world's second richest person in early June, from No. 5 richest on last month's top 10 to No. 7 this month. The decline of Ellison's fortune made room for Michael Dell and Mark Zuckerberg to each move up one ranking, to No. 5 and No. 6, respectively, despite seeing their own net worths fall. Zuckerberg was the month's third biggest loser, as his fortune shrank by an estimated $24 billion to $194 billion, as shares of Facebook's parent company Meta dropped by 11%. Dell's net worth, meanwhile, dipped by a relatively modest $9 billion to an estimated $235 billion, as Dell Technologies' stock rose by only 3%, and shares of Broadcom, which acquired Dell Technologies' cloud software spinoff VMware in 2023, fell by 15%. Frenchman Bernard Arnault of luxury goods conglomerate LVMH remained in the No. 9 spot, despite being the only member of last month's top 10, other than Musk, who didn't get poorer. His fortune remained unchanged at an estimated $147.9 billion. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, meanwhile, dropped out of the top 10 this month, after his fortune fell by an estimated $20 billion to $121 billion, as shares of the company the world's 19th richest person Bill Gates, with an estimated fortune of $106 billion, co-founded, slid by 17%. That dropped Ballmer from No. 10 to No. 15 richest. Warren Buffett, whose net worth increased by an estimated $8 billion to $147.8 billion, as Berkshire Hathaway's stock rose by 5%, took his place at No. 10. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Buffett won't be making his annual mid-year donation of Berkshire stock to the Gates Foundation until a review of the nonprofit's ties to Jeffrey Epstein is completed. Not mentioned so far is No. 8 this month, Jensen Huang, the co-founder, president, and CEO of semiconductor maker NVIDIA. His fortune was down $9 billion since last month to $173 billion. All of the top 10 richest people as of July 1st are men. Each of them is worth $148 billion or more, up from $141 billion last month. For full coverage and to see the whole list, check out the Forbes Wealth Teams piece on Forbes.com. This is Kieran Meadows from Forbes. Thanks for tuning in.