Four Virginians Make 2016 Forbes 400 List

Four Virginia residents made this year's Forbes 400 list -- three are residents of Northern Virginia and one is a resident of Virginia Beach. The average Forbes 400 member's net worth in 2016 is $6 billion. The #1 richest American on the list was Bill Gates, 60, founder of Microsoft, with a net worth of $81 billion.

Here are the Virginia residents who made the list, with information provided by Forbes:

#16 Jacqueline Mars: Worth $27 billion. Jacqueline, John and Forrest Jr. (who died in July 2016 at age 84) inherited Mars, Inc., headquartered in McLean, the secretive Virginia-based firm in 1999 when their father, Forrest Sr., passed away. Mars is known for candy (3 Musketeers, M&Ms, MilkyWay, etc.) but has many other brands outside the sweets area including pet food and gum.

#156: Winnie Johnson-Marquart: Worth $3.7 billion; Johnson-Marquart, of Virginia Beach, is president of the Johnson Family Foundation and an heir to the SC Johnson family fortune. The foundation focuses on the environment and issues such as early education and infant mortality. The SC Johnson Co has estimated sales of $9 billion and is best known for brands such as Ziploc, Glade, Drano and Pledge. Her brother Fisk leads the company; her sister Helen Johnson-Liepold runs Johnson Financial and Johnson Outdoors.

#290 William Conway Jr.: Worth $2.4 billion; Conway, of McLean, is one of three billionaires who founded and control the $178 billion private equity firm Carlyle Group. He serves as co-CEO along with David Rubenstein. Daniel D'Aniello is chairman. They took the firm public in 2012; Conway previously worked for MCI Communications as CFO.

#290 Daniel D'Aniello: Worth $2.4 billion; D'Aniello, of Vienna, is one of the co-founders of the $178 billion private equity firm Carlyele Group. Today he runs the day to day operations of the firm. Forbes notes D'Aniello's humble beginnings, growing up in Butler, Pa., working to help his single mom by bagging groceries. He attended Syracuse U on a scholarship and went on to earn an MBA from Harvard. D'Aniello has made charitable gifts to several universities including his alma mater, Syracuse University.

Read more about this year's list here, on Forbes.com.

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