All 10 female billionaires are in the Top 100 richest people in the world. Most of their assets are divided or inherited shares from the world’s major corporations. Let’s take a look at the top 10 richest women in the world in this article with Top10theworld.com!
1. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family (70.8 billion USD)
- Age: 67
- Nationality: French
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is the richest woman in the world and the granddaughter of the founder of L’Oreal. Bettencourt Meyers and family own 33% of L’Oreal, recording its best sales growth in over a decade in 2019. She has served on the board of L’Oreal since 1997 and is the president of the family’s parent company. She became the reigning Heiress of France’s L’Oreal in 2017. At that time, her mother, Liliane Bettencourt, known as the world’s richest woman, died at 94.
Bettencourt Meyers is the president of her family’s charity, which promotes the advancement of the French in the sciences and arts. Together, L’Oreal and the Bettencourt Meyers family have agreed to provide $226 million in funding to repair Notre Dame after the April 2019 fire.
2. Alice Walton (67.6 billion USD)
- Age: 71
- Nationality: American
Although Alice Walton is the only daughter of Walmart founder – Sam Walton, she has focused on art management. Unlike her siblings Rob and Jim, who are working for Walmart. In January 2020, she aimed at America’s “broken” healthcare system and announced plans to open a holistic health institute in Bentonville.
3. MacKenzie Scott (54.8 billion USD)
- Age: 50
- Nationality: American
MacKenzie Scott is an author and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to whom she has been married for 25 years. They divorced in mid-2019. As part of the divorce settlement, Jeff transferred 25% of his Amazon shares to MacKenzie, 4% of the company.
In May 2019, shortly after she announced the divorce terms on Twitter, she signed the Giving Pledge. MacKenzie and Jeff met in 1992 while both were working at hedge fund D.E. Shaw. Their marriage has published two novels, was a student of author Toni Morrison at Princeton, and worked as her research assistant. At the end of July 2020, she announced that she had given away nearly $1.7 billion to 119 nonprofit groups and that she changed her last name from Bezos to Scott.
4. Julia Koch & family (44.9 billion USD)
- Age: 58
- Nationality: American
Julia Koch and her three children inherited a 42% stake in Koch Industries from her husband, David, who passed away in August 2019 at 79. A native of Iowa, Koch moved to New York City in the 1980s and worked as an assistant to fashion designer Adolfo.
She has worked with many of his famous clients, including First Lady Nancy Reagan. Along with her husband, she donated $10 million to Mount Sinai Medical Center and $10 million to Stanford Children’s Hospital for food allergy research.
5. Yang Huiyan & family (32.1 billion USD)
- Age: 39
- Nationality: Chinese
Yang Huiyan owns 57% of the real estate developer Country Garden Holdings. The majority of which was transferred to her by her father, Yeung Kwok Keung, in 2007. Yang’s younger sister Ziyang also sits on Country Garden’s board of directors. Yang chairs Bright Scholar Education Holdings, a Chinese education company that was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2007. Yang’s aunt, Yang Meirong, holds shares of Bright Scholar and is a member of Forbes’ 2017 China Rich List.
6. Jacqueline Mars (28.9 billion USD)
- Age: 81
- Nationality: American
Jacqueline Mars owns an estimated one-third of Mars, the world’s largest candle maker, founded by her grandfather. She has been with the company for nearly 20 years and served on the board until 2016. Her son, Stephen Badger, is the chairman of Mars’ board of directors. A prominent philanthropist, she served on six boards, including at the Smithsonian and the National Archives.
Her brother John is estimated to own a third of “Mars”; Her late brother, Forrest Jr’s. Four daughters own the rest. In June 2020, Mars announced they would be changing the logo for their Uncle Ben brand.
7. Susanne Klatten (25.7 billion USD)
- Age: 58
- Nationality Germany
Susanne Klatten owns 19.2% of shares in BMW; Her brother, Stefan Quandt, owns 23.7%. Their late mother, Johanna, was the third wife of the legendary industrialist. Johanna’s father was the third wife of legendary industrialist Herbert Quandt, who guided BMW to a dominant position in the luxury car market.
An economist with a Master’s degree in Economics, Klatten helped turn her grandfather’s Altana AG into a world-class specialty chemical/pharmaceutical corporation. Klatten is the sole owner and vice president of Altana, which generates more than $2.5 billion in annual revenue. She also holds shares in wind power company Nordex AG and carbon and graphite producer SGL Group.
8. Zhong Huijuan (23.3 billion USD)
- Age: 60
- Nationality: Chinese
Zhong Huijuan presides over Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturer Hansoh Pharmaceutical, which makes cancer, neurological, diabetes, and other drugs. Zhong’s husband, Sun Piaoyang, is also a pharmaceutical billionaire and leader of Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine, Shanghai.
Zhong owns more than three-quarters of Hansoh Pharmaceutical’s stock along with their daughter, Sun Yuan. Headquartered in the Chinese coastal city of Lianyungang, Hanson was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in June 2019.
9. Laurene Powell Jobs & family (21.9 billion USD)
- Age: 57
- Nationality: American
Laurene Powell Jobs inherited billions of dollars in Apple and Disney shares from her late husband, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In 2017, she acquired a minority stake in the parent company of the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals. She also bought shares in several media outlets, including most of The Atlantic and California Sunday and Popup Magazine.
She has poured her fortune into working through Emerson Collective. This company combines investment, social impact, and philanthropy that she founded in 2004. She founded the Emerson Collective Fund in the second half of 2016 with a gift of $1.2 billion, most of it Disney stock.
10. Iris Fontbona & family (21 billion USD)
- Age: 78
- Nationality: Chile
Iris Fontbona is the widow of Andrónico Luksic, who made a fortune in the mining and beverage sectors before dying of cancer in 2005. He left his business to Fontbona and their three sons: Jean-Paul, Andronico, and Guillermo Luksic (who died of lung cancer in 2013 at 57). Fontbonne and her children control Antofagasta Plc, which owns copper mines in Chile and trades on the London Stock Exchange.
Fontbonne and her children also own a majority stake in Quiñenco, a listed Chilean corporation engaged in banking, beer, and manufacturing. Jean-Paul Luksic is president of Antofagasta, and Andronico Luksic heads Quiñenco.
Above is the list of top 10 richest women in the world compiled by Top10theworld.com. Which female billionaire do you like the most? Please leave a comment below the article!!!
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