Full list of top 10 richest people in the world as Elon Musk nears trillionaire status
This October has been a crazy year, with six of the ten richest people on the planet witnessing a change in their fortunes, resulting in a change in their position on the billionaires list, according to Forbes.
Technology billionaire Elon Musk continues to maintain his place at the top since May 2024 with his fortune of $ 497 billion. He had a brief brush with a $500 billion fortune twice this October, making him the first person to achieve that kind of fortune, albeit briefly.
But that’s not all for Elon Musk, who is set to become the world’s first trillionaire in the next decade; Tesla shareholders approved Musk’s extravagant pay package, giving him up to $1 trillion in additional stock.
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg had his worst October; His fortune fell by an estimated $29 billion, dropping him two spots on the list and helping Amazon’s Jeff Bezos boost his ranking.
For the first time in years, Warren Buffett did not make the top 10 list as his fortune fell by $7 billion. Buffett’s 10th place is now occupied by Dell Technologies’ Michael Dell.
However, the 10 richest people are all men, each with a fortune of $155 billion or more. Forbes also noted that nine out of ten of these men were Americans, with the only non-US citizen being Frenchman Bernard Arnault.
According to Forbes, the 10 richest people in the world as of November 1, 2025 are as follows:
1.Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s net worth has increased by $6 billion since last month to $437 billion, making him the richest person in the world. Now that Tesla’s board has approved the landmark pay package, he’s also poised to become the world’s first trillionaire.
Tesla president Robyn Denholm reportedly wrote a letter to shareholders on October 27 saying Musk could leave the company if the vote doesn’t go his way.
Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and rocket company SpaceX, the president and chief technology officer of social media company X (formerly Twitter), and the founder of artificial intelligence firm xAI. In late March, xAI acquired X at a valuation that Musk put at $45 billion (including debt); It paid $44 billion to buy Twitter in 2022.
Currently, before the new Tesla pay package goes into effect, it owns about 12% of Tesla shares and has pledged some of its shares as collateral for loans.
2. Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison founded the Oracle software company in 1977 and served as CEO until 2014. He currently serves as the company’s president and chief technology officer.
His net worth has now dropped from $22 billion to $320 billion since last month.
3.Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 and served as CEO until July 2021. He is currently the company’s executive chairman.
In July 2021, he went to space with a rocket built by Blue Origin, the private rocket company he founded and financed with billions of dollars.
Bezos’ net worth is estimated at $254 billion, up $22 billion since last month, improving his ranking on the list.
4. Larry Page
Larry Page founded the Google search engine with Stanford doctoral student Sergey Brin in 1998 and served as CEO from 1998 to 2001 and 2011 to 2015.
He serves as a board member of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and remains the controlling shareholder.
Page’s net worth is reportedly $232 billion as of November 1, up $30 billion since last month. This month also witnessed a promotion in rank.
5.Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in 2004 while he was a student at Harvard University. This network, now known as Meta, has become the world’s largest social network, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp.
Zuckerberg’s wealth has fallen by $29 billion since last month, falling to $223 billion. Its ranking on the list also dropped by two places.
6. Sergey Brin
Google co-founder Sergey Brin came out of semi-retirement last year to push changes to Google’s Gemini AI chatbot and was among the “key contributors” when the model was launched in December.
His net worth is estimated at $215 billion, up $28 billion since last month.
7.Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault is the CEO and chairman of luxury goods group LVMH. He used $15 million of his father’s fortune to buy Christian Dior and has since built the world’s largest luxury goods company with over 70 fashion and cosmetics brands, including Louis Vuitton, Moët & Chandon, Sephora and jeweler Tiffany & Co.
Arnault was the richest person in the world for most of the first half of 2023 and again from February until the end of May 2024.
His net worth currently stands at $183 billion, up $23 billion since last month.
8.Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and has served as the company’s CEO and president ever since. Under Huang, Nvidia’s GPUs have become dominant first in computer gaming and now in artificial intelligence, helping the company become the first company to reach a $5 trillion valuation in October.
His net worth currently stands at $176 billion, up $14 billion since last month.
9.Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft. In June, he announced his intention to retain most of the Microsoft shares he has held since leaving the company in 2014. After his retirement, he purchased the NBA team Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion.
Currently, his net worth is $156 billion.
10. Michael Dell
Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, started out selling computers at the age of 19 from his University of Texas dorm room. After shares of Dell Technologies and Broadcom rose in October, Dell’s personal wealth increased by $14 billion, reaching an estimated $155 billion.
After briefly becoming the 10th richest person in the world for the first time in mid-December last year, he returned to the list in November.
