Forbes: 33 Florida Billionaires Are Among The Richest In America

SARASOTA, FL — America’s richest keep getting richer. The wealthiest Americans on the annual Forbes 400 list grew their combined net worth by just over 2 percent from the previous year, making them worth $2.96 trillion in 2019.

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is once again at the top of the list. His ex-wife, Mackenzie Bezos, who got 25 percent of the couple’s shares in Amazon as part of their divorce settlement, is now the 15th richest person in America, according to the list.

In Florida, 33 people were among the 400 richest in America in 2019.

According to Forbes, the minimum net worth to qualify for the list is $2.1 billion. The average wealth of those on the list increased by $200 million to $7.4 billion, Forbes writes.

With the vast amounts of wealth in the pockets of those on the exclusive list, Forbes notes that a number of high-profile billionaires such as Kylie Jenner and Michael Jordan, didn’t even make the list.

Here are the Florida billionaires on the list:

1. Thomas Peterffy: $17.5 B, age 75, discount brokerage
2. David Tepper: $12 B, age 62, hedge funds
3. Micky Arison: $8.1 B, age 70, Carnival Cruises
4. Shahid Khan: $7.8 B, age 69, auto parts
5. J. Christopher Reyes; $6.7 B, age 65, food distribution
6. Jude Reyes: $6.7 B, age 64, food distribution
7. Reinhold Schmieding: $6.6 B, age 64, medical devices
8. Whitney MacMillan: $5.1 B, age 90, Cargill
9. Isaac Perlmutter: $5.1 B, age 76, Marvel comics
10. Paul Tudor Jones, II: $5 B, age 65, hedge funds
11. Dirk Ziff: $5 B, age 55, investments
12. Charles B. Johnson: $4.9 B, age 86, money management
13. Terrence Pegula: $4.9 B, age 68, natural gas
14. Igor Olenicoff: $4.3 B, age 77, real estate
15. Robert Rich, Jr.: $4.3 B, age 78, frozen foods
16. Tom Golisano: $3.9 B, age 77, payroll services
17. Jeff Greene: $3.9 B, age 64, real estate and investments
18. Russ Weiner: $3.9 B, age 49, energy drinks
19. Rakesh Gangwal: $3.8 B, age 66, airline
20. Richard Schulze: $3.8 B, age 78, Best Buy
21. Ronald Wanek: $3.4 B, age 78, furniture
22. Leon G. Cooperman: $3.2 B, age 76, hedge funds
23. Herbert Wertheim: $3.1 B, age 80, investments
24. William Wrigley, Jr.: $3 B, age 55, chewing gum
25. Edward DeBartolo, Jr.: $2.7 B, age 72, shopping centers
26. John Henry: $2.7 B, age 70, sports
27. William Berkley: $2.6 B, age 73, insurance
28. Norman Braman: $2.5 B, age 87, art and car dealerships
29. C. Dean Metropoulos: $2.5 B, age 73, investments
30. Todd Christopher: $2.2 B, age 57, hair care products
31. Randal J. Kirk: $2.2 B, age 65, pharmaceuticals
32. James Clark: $2.1 B, age 75, Netscape, investments
33. Henry Laufer: $2.1 B, age 74, hedge funds

The top 10 richest people in America for 2019 are:

1. Jeff Bezos: $114 billion
2. Bill Gates: $106 billion
3. Warren Buffett: $80.8 billion
4. Mark Zuckerberg: $69.6 billion
5. Larry Ellison: $65 billion
6. Larry Page: $55.5 billion
7. Sergey Brin: $53.5 billion
8. Michael Bloomberg: $53.4 billion
9. Steve Ballmer: $51.7 billion
10. Jim Walton: $51.6 billion

See the full list and read more via Forbes.