Forbes 250: America’s Most Successful Living Immigrants

Edited By Alex Knapp and Michael Noer, Forbes StaffNo less an icon than the Statue of Liberty celebrates America’s 50 million foreign-born residents, welcoming the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Lady Liberty is herself foreign-born, an 1885 gift to the nation from France, and a reminder that this is a place where people come to build a new life for themselves and their children. In that spirit, for the country’s 250th anniversary, we have ranked America’s 250 greatest living immigrants.America’s Most Successful Immigrants#1-50austin hargrave/august#1. Arnold Schwarzenegger, 78 • Austria 🇦🇹Schwarzenegger was already a champion bodybuilder when he came to the U.S. in 1968 to conquer other fields: The billionaire is a real estate mogul, a movie star and served two terms as California’s governor. He loves his adopted land, once saying: “There is one label I hold above all else: American.”martin schoeller#2. Elon Musk, 54 • South Africa 🇿🇦The world’s richest-ever person grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, where he taught himself to code. He became a U.S. citizen in 2002, the same year he founded SpaceX.illustration by lina jaradat for forbes#3. Sergey Brin, 52 • Russia 🇷🇺The Google cofounder arrived in the U.S. at age 6 with his family as Soviet refugees escaping persecution of Jews. Brin stepped away from Google in 2019 but became active again four years later to spearhead its AI efforts.Joe Pugliese/August#4. Jensen Huang, 63 • Taiwan 🇹🇼Nvidia’s CEO told his employees in a memo last year that “the miracle of Nvidia—built by all of you, and by brilliant colleagues around the world, would not be possible without immigration.”martin schoeller for forbes#5. Rupert Murdoch, 95 • Australia 🇦🇺The media mogul arrived in the States in 1973 and has had a profound impact on American business, culture and politics through his ownership of the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and Fox News.illustration by lina jaradat for forbes#6. Peter Thiel, 58 • Germany 🇩🇪Silicon Valley’s philosopher king came to the U.S. as an infant from Germany before earning undergraduate and law degrees at Stanford, after which he cofounded PayPal.matthew furman for forbes#7. Thomas Peterffy, 81 • Hungary 🇭🇺The electronic-trading pioneer and founder of Interactive Brokers arrived in New York at 21, a penniless descendant of aristocrats who lost their wealth to communism.Jamel Toppin for Forbes#8. Lisa Su, 56 • Taiwan 🇹🇼AMD’s CEO immigrated with her parents when she was 3. When she took the chief executive job in 2014, many on Wall Street considered AMD “uninvestable.” She turned it into an AI powerhouse—and became a billionaire in the process.Guerin Blask for Forbes#9. Vlad Tenev, 39 • Bulgaria 🇧🇬Tenev came to America when he was just 5; he met his Robinhood cofounder, Baiju Bhatt—an American born to immigrant parents—while attending Stanford.illustration by lina jaradat for forbes#10. Wolfgang Puck, 76 • Austria 🇦🇹The celebrity chef was a pioneer of “California cuisine” in the 1980s with his West Hollywood restaurant Spago; he leveraged his culinary fame into dozens of fine-dining and fast-casual restaurants, then frozen dinners and cookware.#11. Shahid Khan, 75 • Pakistan 🇵🇰With $500 in his pocket, Khan arrived in Illinois to get his engineering degree. After winning a lawsuit against his former employer, Flex-N-Gate, he bought the company and made it the cornerstone of an auto parts empire. He also owns the Jacksonville Jaguars, and hosts naturalization ceremonies for new citizens at the team’s stadium.gabriela hasbun for forbes#12. Jan Koum, 50 • Ukraine 🇺🇦The WhatsApp founder and his mother came to the United States in 1992 as refugees, living in a small two-bedroom apartment and relying on food stamps.julian hamilton/getty images#13. Ryan Reynolds, 49 • Canada 🇨🇦He has funneled his Hollywood dollars into multiple ventures, including Aviation Gin and Mint Mobile, which were acquired by Diageo and T-Mobile, respectively.Guerin Blask for Forbes#14. Vinod Khosla, 71 • India 🇮🇳Khosla came to the U.S. in 1976 and cofounded Sun Microsystems in 1982 before becoming one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful venture capitalists.#15. Isaac Perlmutter, 83 • Israel 🇮🇱A veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces, Perlmutter arrived in New York in 1967 after fighting in the Six-Day War. In 1998, the distressed-asset investor beat Carl Icahn to buy Marvel out of bankruptcy. Eleven years later, he sold it to Disney for $4 billion.#16. George Soros, 95 • Hungary 🇭🇺The currency trader who broke the British pound in 1992 later became an influential philanthropist. His Open Society Foundations have distributed more than $24 billion to causes such as human rights and public health.Ethan Pines for Forbes#17. Patrick Soon-Shiong, 73 • South Africa 🇿🇦The medical doctor who invented the cancer drug Abraxane was born to Chinese parents in South Africa and came to the U.S. in 1980. He owns the Los Angeles Times.#18. Miriam Adelson, 80 • Israel 🇮🇱Adelson, who is a trained doctor, arrived in 1986 to research addiction. She became a citizen in 1991, the same year she married casino magnate Sheldon Adelson (d. 2021).michael loccisano/getty images#19. Lorne Michaels, 81 • Canada 🇨🇦In 1968, Michaels moved to Hollywood to write for the variety TV show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. Seven years later, he premiered Saturday Night Live.mandel ngan/getty images#20. Melania Trump, 56 • Slovenia 🇸🇮She is the first naturalized citizen to become First Lady of the United States.#21. Linus Torvalds, 56 • Finland 🇫🇮Torvalds was already nerd-famous for having invented Linux when he immigrated to the United States in 1997. The open source pioneer later developed Git, used by software developers worldwide to track changes to code.#22. Tony Xu, 41 • China 🇨🇳The China-born Xu spent his childhood washing dishes in the restaurant where his mother worked as a waitress. After earning an MBA from Stanford, he cofounded DoorDash in 2013, revolutionizing the food-delivery landscape.#23. Paul Graham, 61 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧Graham arrived as a child in 1968, and in 2005 he cofounded Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s legendary startup accelerator, which has been instrumental in building companies including Airbnb and Stripe.lia clay miller#24. Katalin Kariko, 71 • Hungary 🇭🇺Before she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for her work on mRNA vaccines, she came to the U.S. in 1985 from Hungary with about $1,200 stuffed inside a teddy bear for safekeeping.horacio villalobos/getty images#25. Yo-Yo Ma, 70 • France 🇫🇷Born in Paris to Chinese parents, the world’s most famous classical musician performed for President John F. Kennedy as a child and has since won 20 Grammys.#26. Mortimer Zuckerman, 88 • Canada 🇨🇦The real-estate baron stepped away from his company Boston Properties nearly a decade ago but still serves as editor-in-chief of U.S. News and World Report, which he bought in 1984.#27. Naval Ravikant, 51 • India 🇮🇳The cofounder of investment platform AngelList made early bets on Uber, Twitter and delivery service Postmates, which Uber acquired for $2.7 billion in 2020.david paul morris/bloomberg#28. Max Levchin, 51 • Ukraine 🇺🇦The fintech entrepreneur came to the U.S. as a refugee before cofounding PayPal. He’s now chairman and CEO of “buy now, pay later” service Affirm.Michael Prince for Forbes#29. Noubar Afeyan, 63 • Lebanon 🇱🇧Afeyan came to the United States to study biochemical engineering. He stayed to become an investor, whose firm Flagship Pioneering has launched more than 70 healthcare companies.#30. Min Kao, 77 • Taiwan 🇹🇼He’s the “Min” in GPS and fitness wearable giant Garmin.Cody Pickens for Forbes#31. Hemant Taneja, 50 • India 🇮🇳Among the General Catalyst founder’s investments are Stripe, social media platform Snap and defense firm Andruil.#32. Jeff Skoll, 61 • Canada 🇨🇦After serving as eBay’s first employee and president, he founded Participant Media, which produced socially motivated films like Syriana and An Inconvenient Truth before shutting down in 2024.#33. Michael Polsky, 76 • Russia 🇷🇺After selling his natural gas business in 2001, his renewable energy ventures made him a billionaire.#34. Mario Capecchi, 88 • Italy 🇮🇹His invention of “knockout mice,” which allow researchers to genetically fine-tune the animals to study disease, earned him the 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine.#35. Daphne Koller, 57 • Israel 🇮🇱Koller is one of America’s richest self-made women thanks to first cofounding digital education company Coursera in 2012 with Andrew Ng (#122) and then AI-powered biotech company Insitro in 2018.#36. Eric Kandel, 96 • Austria 🇦🇹His discoveries of how the brain stores memories earned him a Nobel prize in 2000 and laid the foundation for his company Memory Pharmaceuticals, which is now a subsidiary of Roche.david sime#37. Jony Ive, 59 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧He designed the iMac, iPod, iPad and iPhone.#38. Roald Hoffmann, 88 • Poland 🇵🇱As a child, Hoffmann was smuggled out of Poland to escape the Nazis. He immigrated to America and won the Nobel Prize in 1981 for discovering how to use quantum mechanics to predict chemical reactions. He’s also written several volumes of poetry and his plays have been performed around the world.#39. Igor Olenicoff, 83 • Russia 🇷🇺Olenicoff was born in the Soviet Union and raised in Iran before coming to the United States, where his real estate development business made him a billionaire.robert severi for forbes#40. Kamal Ghaffarian, 67 • Iran 🇮🇷Ghaffarian came to the United States during its bicentennial year of 1976; 48 years later his company Intuitive Machines landed the first American spacecraft on the Moon since the Apollo program.#41. Feng Zhang, 44 • China 🇨🇳A pioneer of gene-editing technology CRISPR, his company Beam Therapeutics currently has drugs in clinical trials to cure genetic diseases like sickle cell anemia.Ethan Pines for Forbes#42. Peggy Cherng, 78 • Myanmar 🇲🇲She used her engineering prowess to turn she and her husband’s fast-food chain Panda Express into an American staple.#43. Andrew Cherng, 78 • China 🇨🇳In 1973, Cherng opened a Chinese restaurant called Panda Inn in Pasadena, California, which he and his wife Peggy later turned into Panda Express.#44. Sanjay Mehrotra, 67 • India 🇮🇳The CEO of Micron rode the computer memory boom to a trillion-dollar valuation as of early June. Prior to that, he founded memory chip giant Sandisk, which was acquired by Western Digital for $19 billion in 2016.Michael Prince for Forbes#45. C. Dean Metropoulos, 80 • Greece 🇬🇷The distressed-asset investor has saved iconic American brands like Hostess, Chef Boyardee and Pabst Blue Ribbon.#46. Yann LeCun, 65 • France 🇫🇷His research into neural networks paved the way for the modern AI boom. After years at Meta, the “Godfather of AI” struck out on his own in December 2025, raising more than $1 billion for his AI startup.#47. Sebastian Thrun, 58 • Germany 🇩🇪Thrun was the CEO of Google X, the company’s moonshot division, spearheading projects like self-driving cars and Google Glass before cofounding digital education startup Udacity in 2011.#48. Pierre Omidyar, 58 • France 🇫🇷The eBay founder also owns stakes in resort properties around the world.#49. Michael Moritz, 72 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧The former Time magazine journalist turned venture capitalist is a billionaire thanks to early bets on the likes of PayPal, Google and YouTube.illustration by krishna shenoi for forbes#50. Neil Young, 80 • Canada 🇨🇦The folk-rock legend drove across the border in a hearse in 1966 to start his music career.#51-100#51. John Tu, 84 • China 🇨🇳Tu and his Kingston Technology cofounder David Sun have made their company a dominant player in computer memory without taking any outside investment.Cody Pickens for Forbes#52. Eren Ozmen, 67 • Turkey 🇹🇷Eren Ozmen came to the United States to get her MBA. In 1994, she and her husband Fatih bought Sierra Nevada Corp and built it into a defense aerospace powerhouse.#53. Fatih Ozmen, 68 • Turkey 🇹🇷Fatih Ozmen was an engineer at Sierra Nevada Corporation before he and his wife bought the company.#54. Haim Saban, 81 • Egypt 🇪🇬Saban was born in Egypt, raised in Israel and lived in France before settling in the United States where he created the Power Rangers franchise, which sold to Disney in 2001 as part of the acquisition of Fox Family. He rebought Power Rangers in 2010 for around $60 million, then sold it again to Hasbro in 2018 for $522 million.illustration by lina jaradat for forbes#55. Sundar Pichai, 53 • India 🇮🇳Pichai joined Google in 2004 to lead development of its Chrome browser. Its success helped him rise all the way to CEO in 2015.#56. Arieh Warshel, 85 • Israel 🇮🇱Warshel pioneered the use of computer simulations for complex chemical and biological systems, revolutionizing drug discovery. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in 2013.Jamel Toppin for Forbes#57. Herriot Tabuteau, 54 • Haiti 🇭🇹The billionaire founder of Axsome Therapeutics holds more than 200 patents on potential medicines for diseases like depression and Alzheimer’s.#58. Adam Foroughi, 45 • Iran 🇮🇷Foroughi built a career as a derivatives trader and launched several businesses before cofounding Applovin, a publicly traded AI-powered ad platform that had $5.5 billion in 2025 revenue.#59. Abhijit Banerjee, 65 • India 🇮🇳Banerjee is the cofounder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which tests economic policy with randomized controlled trials. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019.#60. Esther Duflo, 53 • France 🇫🇷Her work with Banerjee at J-PAL made her the second woman to win an Economics Nobel.#61. Luis von Ahn, 47 • Guatemala 🇬🇹Luis von Ahn sold his first business, reCAPTCHA which millions have used to prove they are human, to Google in 2009 before creating language learning app Duolingo.#62. Joachim Frank, 85 • Germany 🇩🇪The Nobel Prize-winning chemist developed high-resolution imaging techniques for biological molecules, which now underpin drug discovery.#63. Adebayo "Bayo" Ogunlesi, 72 • Nigeria 🇳🇬The founder of investment firm Global Infrastructure Partners began his career as a clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall.cindy ord/getty images#64. Padma Lakshmi, 55 • India 🇮🇳The Top Chef host came to the U.S. as a child in 1974.Jamel Toppin for Forbes#65. Tope Awotona, 44 • Nigeria 🇳🇬Awotona built a career in tech sales at IBM and EMC before founding scheduling app Calendly in 2013.#66. Albert Pujols, 46 • Dominican Republic 🇩🇴The baseball legend hit 703 home runs in his career, the 4th highest in Major League Baseball history.#67. David Sun, 74 • Taiwan 🇹🇼He launched computer memory giant Kingston Technology with John Tu after he lost his savings in the 1987 stock market crash.jonathan kozowyk for forbes#68. Thai Lee, 67 • Thailand 🇹🇭The IT billionaire built a career in finance before purchasing a small tech company in 1989 and renaming it SHI International, which now provides IT services to more than 17,000 corporate customers like Boeing and AT&T.#69. Jack Clark, 37 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧Clark was a tech journalist before becoming OpenAI’s strategy director. He is now better known as one of Anthropic’s cofounders.timothy archibald for forbes#70. Weili Dai, 64 • China 🇨🇳Dai cofounded semiconductor maker Marvell Technology in 1995, then founded AI company MeetKai in 2018 and most recently started semiconductor company Silicon Box in 2021.#71. Alanis Morissette, 51 • Canada 🇨🇦The alt-rock icon took her album, Jagged Little Pill, and turned it into a Tony-award winning Broadway musical in 2019.#72. Jorge Perez, 76 • Argentina 🇦🇷Miami’s “Condo King” was born in Argentina to Cuban parents and was raised in Colombia before coming to the U.S. in 1968.#73. Egon Durban, 52 • Germany 🇩🇪The founding principal and co-CEO of private equity firm Silver Lake orchestrated the 2016 $67 billion acquisition of EMC by Dell and helped facilitate Elon Musk’s 2022 takeover of Twitter.illustration by krishna shenoi for forbes#74. David Byrne, 73 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧The Talking Heads frontman also has an Oscar for writing the score to The Last Emperor and a Special Tony Award for his 2020 Broadway show American Utopia.#75. Elizabeth Blackburn, 77 • Australia 🇦🇺Blackburn won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2003 for her co-discovery of the molecular mechanisms of aging.#76. Sanjit Biswas, 44 • Canada 🇨🇦Biswas sold his first company, Meraki, to Cisco for $1.2 billion in 2012. Three years later he founded cloud platform Samsara, which saw a 33% increase in revenue from 2024 to 2025 to nearly $1.5 billion.#77. Pantas Sutardja, 63 • Indonesia 🇮🇩Sutardja earned his PhD in electrical engineering, which informed his work at Marvell, the semiconductor company he cofounded in 1995.Levon Biss for Forbes#78. Michele Kang, 66 • South Korea 🇰🇷After selling her healthtech firm Cognosante to Accenture in 2024, she focused her efforts on women’s professional soccer through her ownership of Washington Spirit, Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, and London City Lionesses.Guerin Blask for Forbes#79. Marc Lasry, 66 • Morocco 🇲🇦The former co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks earned his $2.2 billion fortune through his investment firm Avenue Capital Group.#80. Bernie Moreno, 59 • Colombia 🇨🇴Moreno built one of the biggest luxury car dealership groups in the Midwest before being elected U.S. Senator from Ohio in 2024.#81. Jahm Najafi, 63 • Iran 🇮🇷The private equity financier has stakes in the Phoenix Suns and the McLaren Formula 1 team.#82. Fei-Fei Li, 49 • China 🇨🇳The Stanford professor and AI pioneer cofounded ImageNet in 2006, a database that powers deep learning models. She founded AI company World Labs, which recently raised $1 billion investment at a $5 billion valuation.#83. Qasar Younis, 44 • Pakistan 🇵🇰Younis was the first chief operating officer of Silicon Valley accelerator YCombinator before cofounding Applied Intuition in 2017, which builds software for autonomous vehicles.#84. Andrew Viterbi, 91 • Italy 🇮🇹Viterbi came to the U.S. with his family in 1939 to escape anti-Semitism. At the University of Southern California, he developed an algorithm used in almost all modern digital communications, and cofounded Qualcomm in 1985.#85. Anousheh Ansari, 59 • Iran 🇮🇷The first Iranian-born woman to go to space was also a cofounder of Telecom Technologies provided software switching to telecom providers before its 2001 acquisition by Sonus and is now CEO of the XPrize Foundation.#86. Joe Kiani, 61 • Iran 🇮🇷Kiani launched healthtech company, Masimo in 1989, out of his garage. It became a leader in non-invasive patient monitoring technologies before being acquired by Danaher Corporation for $9.9 billion in a deal expected to close later this year.#87. Jerry Yang, 57 • Taiwan 🇹🇼One of the Internet’s OGs, Yang founded Yahoo in 1994 and later AME Cloud Ventures, which made early investments in the likes of Zoom and Lyft.#88. David Hindawi, 81 • Iraq 🇮🇶The billionaire serial entrepreneur pioneered point-to-point cybersecurity with Tanium, the company he cofounded with his son.Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg#89. Satya Nadella, 58 • India 🇮🇳Since taking the reins at Microsoft in 2014, Nadella has guided the company towards cloud computing and AI while spearheading acquisitions of Activision Blizzard and LinkedIn.#90. Bharat Desai, 73 • Kenya 🇰🇪Desai cofounded IT consulting firm Syntel with his wife Neerja Sethi in their apartment in 1980, then sold it to Atos in 2018 for $3.4 billion.#91. Neerja Sethi, 71 • India 🇮🇳After selling their IT consulting firm Syntel, Sethi and her husband pledged to give away $1.3 billion of their $2.8 billion combined fortune in 2025.#92. Mazie Hirono, 78 • Japan 🇯🇵The U.S. Senator from Hawaii fled an abusive household with her mother in 1955 and came to the United States.#93. Jay Chaudhry, 67 • India 🇮🇳Before founding cloud security firm ZScaler, Chaudhry founded four other companies–all of which were acquired.borja b hojas/getty images#94. Gloria Estefan, 68 • Cuba 🇨🇺The Latin music icon and her family came to the U.S. after the 1959 Cuban revolution.#95. Ken Xie, 63 • China 🇨🇳Xie’s parents wanted him to be an academic. Instead, he became the billionaire founder and CEO of cybersecurity enterprise Fortinet.Ethan Pines for Forbes#96. Eric Yuan, 56 • China 🇨🇳The Zoom founder’s visa application was denied eight times before he was finally allowed to immigrate to the U.S.#97. Farhad Ebrahimi, 86 • Iran 🇮🇷Since selling his stake in publishing company Quark to PE firm Platinum Equity in 2011, which he founded in 1981, he’s been focused on his Chorus Foundation, which focuses on environmental justice.#98. Romesh T. Wadhwani, 78 • India 🇮🇳Wadhwani sold his company Aspect Development for $9.3 billion in 2000. He now serves as chairman of enterprise AI company Symphony AI, which he founded in 2018.#99. Behdad Eghbali, 49 • Iran 🇮🇷After fleeing the Iran-Iraq War in 1986, the billionaire worked in private equity before cofounding his own firm, Clearlake Capital, in 2006.#100. Hakeem Olajuwon, 63 • Nigeria 🇳🇬After retiring from the NBA, the Hall of Fame center invested in undervalued Texas real estate and is now expanding his holdings into Guyana.#101-150#101. Thierry Cruanes, 58 • France 🇫🇷Cruanes is cofounder and CTO of Snowflake, which went public in 2020 in what was then the largest software IPO in U.S. history.#102. David Ho, 73 • Taiwan 🇹🇼After Ho came to the U.S. at age 12, he went to CalTech and then Harvard Medical School. His research in anti-viral therapy has transformed HIV into a manageable chronic infection.#103. Kavitark Ram Shriram, 69 • India 🇮🇳The venture capitalist was a founding investor in Google, and also made early bets on Stripe and Notion.#104. Omar M. Yaghi, 61 • Jordan 🇯🇴Yaghi cofounded two different cleantech companies based on his Nobel Prize-winning research into metal-organic frameworks, which can be used to capture and store chemical substances, such as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.#105. Isabel Allende, 83 • Chile 🇨🇱Allende has sold more than 80 million copies of her books through her lifetime, with novels like The House of the Spirits and Daughter of Fortune being adapted to film and television. She came to the U.S. in 1987 and has since been inducted into the California Hall of Fame and received multiple literary honors such as Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award (2010).#106. Stanley Tang, 33 • China 🇨🇳Tang came to the U.S. to study computer science at Stanford before cofounding restaurant delivery company DoorDash.#107. Shuo Wang, 37 • China 🇨🇳The cofounder of HR and payroll platform Deel sold scooters at flea markets as a teenager to help her single mother after they immigrated.simon dawson/bloomberg#108. Steven Udvar-Hazy, 80 • Hungary 🇭🇺The aircraft leasing pioneer fled the Soviet occupation of Hungary with his family in 1958.#109. Mark Jones, 63 • Canada 🇨🇦The Goosehead Insurance cofounder and CEO came to the U.S. to attend Harvard Business School.#110. Robyn Jones, 63 • Canada 🇨🇦Jones worked in real estate before she and her husband cofounded Goosehead Insurance, which now has over 1,000 franchises across the country.#111. Alexei Ekimov, 81 • Russia 🇷🇺Ekimov’s Nobel Prize-winning discovery of quantum dots underlay modern high-definition displays and medical imagers, and his work made Bawendi’s (#112) possible.#112. Moungi Bawendi, 65 • France 🇫🇷His research on the chemical production of “quantum dots” (discovered by Alexei Ekimov, #111) made it possible to scale their manufacturing, providing the basis of the modern imaging industry, powering everything from TVs to medical instruments. It won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023.tim clayton/getty images#113. Martina Navratilova, 69 • Czech Republic 🇨🇿The women’s tennis GOAT won a record 59 Grand Slam titles, most recently the 2006 Mixed Doubles championship at the US Open when she was 49. She defected to the U.S. from Communist Czechoslovakia in 1975.#114. Shuji Nakamura, 71 • Japan 🇯🇵The inventor of the blue light-emitting diode won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work. He also created the lasers used in Blu-Ray players, and cofounded a fusion power company, Blue Laser Fusion, in 2022.#115. David Baszucki, 63 • Canada 🇨🇦Baszucki founded Roblox, a social platform that lets kids build games for each other to play together, which sees more than 85 million active users every day.#116. Tom Gores, 61 • Israel 🇮🇱The Detroit Pistons owner briefly worked for his brother Alec before earning his fortune through his private equity firm Platinum Equity, which specializes in the buyouts of underperforming companies.#117. Alec Gores, 73 • Israel 🇮🇱Gores bagged groceries as a teenager before going into private equity and turning around companies like Twinkie-maker Hostess.#118. Michael Hsing, 66 • China 🇨🇳The billionaire founder, CEO and chairman of semiconductor company Monolith Power Systems came to the U.S. in 1982 as a foreign exchange student.#119. Karim Atiyeh, 37 • Lebanon 🇱🇧The cofounder and CTO of fintech company Ramp launched his first company, price-tracking app Paribus, while an undergrad at Harvard.#120. Susan Ocampo, 67 • Philippines 🇵🇭Ocampo and her husband cofounded Sirenza Microdevices, which sold for $900 million in 2007. She’s the largest individual shareholder in $27 billion (market cap) semiconductor company Macom Technology Solutions.#121. Benoit Dageville, 59 • France 🇫🇷Before cofounding data platform giant Snowflake, Dageville spent 16 years as a database architect at Oracle.#122. Andrew Ng, 49 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧The Coursera founder was born in London to parents from Hong Kong, and cofounded Google Brain before launching education platform Coursera with Daphne Koller (see #35).Jamel Toppin for Forbes#123. John Catsimatidis, 77 • Greece 🇬🇷Catsimatidis dropped out of NYU in 1969 to buy a piece of a grocery store. That business expanded into the New York City chain Gristedes, which is now part of a giant conglomerate with holdings in oil, real estate and aviation.illustration by krishna shenoi for forbes#124. Mario Lemieux, 60 • Canada 🇨🇦The NHL legend bought the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1999, saving the team from bankruptcy.#125. Viet Thanh Nguyen, 55 • Vietnam 🇻🇳Nguyen arrived in the U.S. as a refugee in 1975, and his experience inspired his novel The Sympathizer, which won multiple awards, including a Pulitzer; sold over one million copies and was adapted into a TV series.Jamel Toppin for Forbes#126. Abel Avellan, 55 • Venezuela 🇻🇪The Venezuelan-born engineer used the proceeds from the sale of his first company, satellite communications company EMC, to found $41 billion market cap company AST SpaceMobile, which is building a satellite-based cellular broadband network.#127. Jyoti Bansal, 48 • India 🇮🇳After waiting seven years for his green card, Bansal founded software company AppDynamics, which he sold to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017. His new AI company, Harness, last raised at a $5 billion valuation.#128. Angus Deaton, 80 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧Deaton’s research on consumption changed how the economic impacts of government policies are measured around the world. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2015.#129. Ardem Patapoutian, 58 • Lebanon 🇱🇧Before the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine conducted his research on how sensory perception works, he helped pay for his undergraduate education by delivering pizza.#130. Maky Zanganeh, 56 • Iran 🇮🇷The billionaire co-CEO of infectious disease pharmaceutical company Summit Therapeutics spearheaded the sale of her former company, Pharmacyclics, to AbbVie for $21 billion as its chief operating officer.#131. Aziz Sancar, 79 • Turkey 🇹🇷After winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for his research into DNA repair, he established the Sancar Turkish Cultural and Community Center to support Turkish students who come to study in the United States.#132. Ion Stoica, 61 • Romania 🇷🇺Stoica was a professor at Berkeley when he cofounded software company Databricks, which last raised at a $134 billion valuation.#133. Adrian Krainer, 67 • Uruguay 🇺🇾Krainer’s research led to the development of Spinraza, the first FDA-approved medicine for spinal muscular atrophy, and he is cofounder of the $1.8 billion (market cap) biotech company Stoke Therapeutics.mike coppola/getty images#134. Charlize Theron, 50 • South Africa 🇿🇦Theron came to the U.S. on a modeling contract before she became an Academy Award-winning actress.#135. Napoleone Ferrara, 69 • Italy 🇮🇹His research led to the development of blockbuster drugs Avastin (for cancer) and Lucentis (for macular degeneration).#136. Luke Nosek, 50 • Poland 🇵🇱Nosek left the VC firm he cofounded, Founders Fund, to start his own, Gigafund, in 2017. An early investor in SpaceX, his small stake in the $1.75 trillion valuation company is enough to make the PayPal cofounder a billionaire by itself.#137. Pablo Legorreta, 63 • Mexico 🇲🇽The founder of Royalty Pharma, which saw 2025 revenue of more than $2.4 billion, built his fortune acquiring stakes in pharmaceutical royalty streams.alexander karnyukhin for forbes#138. Igor Tulchinsky, 59 • Belarus 🇧🇾Tulchinsky’s company, WorldQuant, uses predictive algorithms to make its investments, and its ancillary business WorldQuant University offers free online master’s degrees to teach others to do the same.#139. John Oliver, 48 • United Kingdom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿The British-born comedian won three Emmys as a writer on The Daily Show before launching his own show, Last Week Tonight, which has won more than 30.#140. James Park, 49 • South Korea 🇰🇷The Fitbit cofounder dropped out of college in 1998 to launch his first company, Wind-Up. He’s now an executive at Google.#141. Jim Lee, 61 • South Korea 🇰🇷He gained fame in the comics industry drawing the X-Men before he cofounded Image Comics in 1992, which published series like The Walking Dead while allowing its owners to retain their ownership rights. He sold his studio, WildStorm Productions, to DC Comics in 1998. He currently serves as DC’s president, publisher and chief creative officer.#142. Neha Narkhede, 41 • India 🇮🇳Narkhede cofounded data streaming platform Confluent, which was acquired by IBM in March for $11 billion.martin bureau/getty images#143. Mikhail Baryshnikov, 78 • Latvia 🇱🇻After the Soviet’s preeminent ballet dancer defected to the United States, he found success in TV and movies, including an Academy Award nomination for 1977’s The Turning Point.#144. Pedro Martinez, 54 • Dominican Republic 🇩🇴The Hall of Fame pitcher helped break the curse of the Bambino when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004. He also holds the record for single season ERA and has the 10th highest winning percentage of a pitcher in MLB history.#145. David Paul, 59 • India 🇮🇳In 2003, Paul founded medtech company Globus Medical, which builds imaging equipment and robots for spinal surgeries.#146. Denis Yarats, 38 • Belarus 🇧🇾Yarats worked on Microsoft’s Bing search engine before cofounding AI-powered search company Perplexity.#147. Jitendra Mohan, 52 • India 🇮🇳Mohan first worked at Texas Instruments before cofounding and becoming CEO of semiconductor company Astera Labs.#148. Ramzi Musallam, 57 • Jordan 🇯🇴Since Musallam took the reins at private equity firm Veritas Capital, its assets under management have grown from $2 billion to $54 billion.#149. Mike Krieger, 40 • Brazil 🇧🇷The Instagram cofounder is now chief product officer at AI powerhouse Anthropic.#150. Annika Sorenstam, 55 • Sweden 🇸🇪 Arguably the greatest to play the game of gold, Sorenstam won 72 LPGA tournaments, including ten majors, with a career winning percentage of 23.5%. (By way of comparison, Tiger Woods’ is 22.8%.)#151-200#151. George Marcus, 85 • Greece 🇬🇷The billionaire cofounder of commercial real estate brokerage Marcus & Millichap has donated more than $25 million to support liberal arts programs at San Francisco State University.Jamel Toppin for Forbes#152. Ignacio Torras, 60 • Spain 🇪🇸The founder & CEO of commodities trading giant Tricon Energy also owns Michelin-starred Houston restaurant BCN Taste and Tradition.#153. Jayshree Ullal, 65 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧Ullal joined cloud firm Arista Networks as CEO in 2008 and led it through its 2014 IPO to its present $200 billion market cap.#154. Frank Slootman, 67 • Netherlands 🇳🇱Slootman was CEO of ServiceNow before becoming CEO of Snowflake and taking it through its IPO. He now serves as its executive chairman.#155. Nikesh Arora, 58 • India 🇮🇳Arora was an executive at T-Mobile and Google before becoming CEO of cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks in 2018.#156. Shyam Sankar, 44 • India 🇮🇳The chief technology officer of defense technology company Palantir is also chairman of biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks.Cody Pickens for Forbes#157. Guillermo Rauch, 35 • Argentina 🇦🇷Rauch was a legendary coder as a teenager before moving to the U.S., where he founded and sold his first company before launching AI cloud platform Vercel, which is used by brands like Stripe and Under Armour and valued at $9 billion.#158. Amjad Masad, 39 • Jordan 🇯🇴Masad came to the U.S. to work at Codeacademy before founding vibe coding startup Replit with his wife Haya, which has made the pair billionaires.#159. Douglas Leone, 69 • Italy 🇮🇹The venture capitalist famed for early bets on Google and ServiceNow spearheaded Sequoia Capital’s expansion into China and India as its managing partner.jake rosenberg for forbes#160. Ratmir Timashev, 59 • Russia 🇷🇺Timashev is cofounder and former CEO of cloud data management pioneer Veeam.#161. Patrizio Vinciarelli, 79 • Italy 🇮🇹Billionaire Vinciarelli was a physicist before he founded Vicor Corp in 1981, which manufactures power components like AC to DC converters to support applications in multiple industries like automotive, aerospace and computing.#162. Anthony Wood, 61 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧The founder and CEO of streaming giant Roku holds dozens of patents.#163. Syukuro Manabe, 94 • Japan 🇯🇵Manabe won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021 for his climate modeling.#164. Thomas Sudhof, 70 • Germany 🇩🇪Sudhof’s Nobel Prize-winning discoveries underpin research initiatives into neurological conditions like autism and Alzheimer’s.#165. Hock Tan, 75 • Malaysia 🇲🇾The CEO of Broadcom grew up in Malaysia before earning degrees at MIT and Harvard.#166. Mira Murati, 37 • Albania 🇦🇱At OpenAI, Murati led development of ChatGPT before leaving to found her own AI company, Thinking Machines Lab.#167. Charles Simonyi, 77 • Hungary 🇭🇺Beginning in the 1980s, Simonyi led the development of Microsoft’s key business products, including Word and Excel. He’s also traveled to the International Space Station twice as a tourist.#168. Arie Belldegrun, 76 • Israel 🇮🇱Belldegrun founded cancer therapeutics Kite Pharma, which sold to Gilead Sciences in 2017 for $12 billion.#169. Helen Greiner, 58 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧The cofounder and former chairman of Roomba maker iRobot is now CEO of Tertill, which makes gardening robots.#170. Jian-Ping Wang, 76 • China 🇨🇳Wang’s physics research underpins his company Niron, which is developing alternatives to rare earth magnets.#171. Bernard Lagat, 51 • Kenya 🇰🇪After winning two Olympic medals representing Kenya, Lagat represented the U.S. at the 2007 World Championships, where he became the first athlete to win gold in both the 1500m and 5000m. He also holds the record for most total wins in the Wanamaker Mile with eight.#172. Raj Panjabi, 45 • Liberia 🇱🇷The founder of nonprofit healthcare company Last Mile Health came to the U.S. as a refugee and is now a partner at healthcare venture firm Flagship Pioneering.#173. Fyodor Urnov, 58 • Russia 🇷🇺The gene-editing pioneer helped lead a team that created a customized gene therapy for an infant born with a deadly genetic disease and is also cofounder of biotech company Tune Therapeutics.#174. Iqram Magdon-Ismail, 42 • Zimbabwe 🇿🇼The cofounder of Venmo has founded several other companies since its acquisition, including social audio company Ense and video platform Jelly.#175. David Tran, 80 • Vietnam 🇻🇳Tran fled Vietnam’s Communist regime in 1978, and founded Sriracha sauce manufacturer Huy Fong Foods in 1980.#176. Mariano Rivera, 56 • Panama 🇵🇦Rivera is the greatest relief pitcher in Major League Baseball history with 652 saves.#177. Nicolas Berggruen, 64 • France 🇫🇷His Berggruen Holdings holds investments in real estate, furniture, logistics companies, career education, HVAC systems and more.#178. Michael Xie, 57 • China 🇨🇳Xie is cofounder and CTO of Fortinet which provides cybersecurity for companies like Siemens and Panasonic.#179. Rodney Sacks, 76 • South Africa 🇿🇦As CEO, his juice company launched Monster energy drink in 2002. Coca-Cola bought a 16.7% stake in it in 2015.#180. Maria Ressa, 62 • Philippines 🇵🇭The investigative journalist is cofounder and CEO of Filipino online news website The Rappler, and she won the Nobel Peace Prize after her arrest and conviction for libel was condemned by international groups as a violation of press freedom.#181. Daniel Lubetzky, 58 • Mexico 🇲🇽Lubetzky came to the U.S. at age 16, earning a law degree at Stanford before founding snack bar company Kind in 2004, which was sold to food giant Mars in 2020.Jamel Toppin for Forbes#182. Albert Bourla, 64 • Greece 🇬🇷As CEO of Pfizer, he led his company’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, producing the first FDA authorized vaccine.#183. Guido Imbens, 62 • Netherlands 🇳🇱Imbens helped develop tools for social scientists to determine cause-and-effect from datasets, which led to his Nobel Prize in Economics in 2021.#184. Jack Szostak, 73 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧The Nobel-prize winning geneticist is now focused on developing artificial cells.#185. James Peebles, 90 • Canada 🇨🇦Peebles won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries into how the universe evolved.#186. Simon Johnson, 63 • UK 🇬🇧The Nobel Prize winning economist is the author of several bestselling books such as Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (co-written with economist Daron Acemoglu, who shared the 2024 Prize with him) and served as chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.#187. Ben Ashkenazy, 58 • Israel 🇮🇱The real estate investor bought his first building when he was 17.#188. Zohran Mamdani, 34 • Uganda 🇺🇬The current mayor of New York City first came to its boroughs in 1998 at the age of seven.#189. Frank Laukien, 65 • Germany 🇩🇪The chairman and CEO of scientific instruments giant Bruker Corporation came to the U.S. to earn his PhD at MIT in chemical physics.#190. Jenny Ming, 70 • China 🇨🇳Ming started her career as a buyer for the Gap before becoming founding president and CEO of its spin-off company Old Navy and later CEO of retail fashion chain Charlotte Russe.#191. Joseph Bae, 54 • South Korea 🇰🇷The co-CEO of private equity giant KKR led the firm's expansion into Asia.#192. Young Sohn, 67 • South Korea 🇰🇷Sohn was a founding board member of life sciences software company Veeva before she cofounded cloud startup Vlocity, which sold to Salesforce for $1.3 billion in 2020.#193. Sheila Lirio Marcelo, 55 • Philippines 🇵🇭Marcelo founded online family care platform Care.com in 2006, which sold to IAC in 2020 for $500 million. She now heads Proof of Learn, which provides tools for teaching developers how to use blockchain.#194. Dara Khosrowshahi, 56 • Iran 🇮🇷The Uber CEO fled the Iranian Revolution with his family in 1978.gabriela hasbun for forbes#195. Theresia Gouw, 58 • Indonesia 🇮🇩The founder of VC firm Acrew Capital made early bets on tech companies like real estate startup Trulia and Facebook.#196. Rodney Brooks, 71 • Australia 🇦🇺After leaving Roomba-maker iRobot, which he cofounded, he co-launched and serves as CTO of Robust.AI, which is building robotic carts to automate warehouse operations for customers like DHL.#197. David MacNeil, 67 • Canada 🇨🇦The founder and CEO of floor mat manufacturer WeatherTech has been nominated by President Trump to serve on the Federal Trade Commission.#198. Raj Sardana, 66 • India 🇮🇳Sardana worked at a missile engine company and owned gas stations before founding IT Services Firm Innova Solutions.#199. Itzhak Ezratti, 73 • Israel 🇮🇱In 1976, Ezratti started his real estate business buying a single duplex. He’s since built more than 85,000 residences across the state of Florida.#200. Michael J. Fox, 64 • Canada 🇨🇦The Emmy-winning actor is best-known for roles on Family Ties and Back to the Future. Since going public with his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in 1998, he has led efforts to combat the disease through his eponymous foundation, which has raised more than $2 billion.#201-250#201. Mark Rein, 62 • Canada 🇨🇦The cofounder of Fortnite maker Epic Games is also a co-owner of the Carolina Hurricanes.martin schoeller/august#202. Jose Andres, 56 • Spain 🇪🇸The James Beard Award winning chef who launched Jaleo in Washington D.C., the first of more than 40 restaurants, provides humanitarian food aid around the globe through his organization World Central Kitchen.#203. Alexis Le-Quoc, 51 • France 🇫🇷Le-Quoc built his career as a systems architect at Wireless Generation before cofounding cloud monitoring company Datadog, which now has a market cap of nearly $80 billion.#204. David Zalik, 52 • Israel 🇮🇱At the age of 14, Zalik started his first business and through the years founded more before launching fintech company GreenSky, which Goldman Sachs acquired for $2.2 billion in 2022.#205. Olga Korbut, 70 • Belarus 🇧🇾Though Korbut represented the Soviet Union at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, her gold medal-winning performance galvanized a generation of American gymnasts, and when she came to the U.S. after the Cold War, she continued to inspire as a gymnastics coach and speaker.#206. Nina Vaca, 55 • Ecuador 🇪🇨Vaca founded IT staffing provider Pinnacle Group with just $300 in 1996. Thirty years later, the company has programs across the U.S. as well as India.#207. Aman Narang, 43 • India 🇮🇳Narang cofounded Toast, an app that serves as the cashier for nearly 100,000 restaurant locations.#208. David Sacks, 54 • South Africa 🇿🇦The PayPal cofounder was the payments provider’s first COO. Afterwards he founded enterprise social network Yammer, acquired by Microsoft in 2012 for $1.2 billion, and in 2017 cofounded VC firm Craft Ventures, which has stakes in SpaceX, Airbnb, reddit and other notable tech companies.#209. Iman Abuzeid, 41 • Sudan 🇸🇩Abuzeid was born in Saudi Arabia to Sudanese parents, moved to the U.K. for medical school, then came to the U.S. where she founded Incredible Health, which helps place nurses into job openings at healthcare providers.#210. Ivan Poupyrev, 55 • Russia 🇷🇺Poupyrev worked in labs at Disney and Sony before coming to Google, where he leads the company's efforts to develop ways to connect computing into the physical world, which has led to his more than 100 patents for sensors and software for gesture-based computer interfaces, smart clothing and more.#211. Seth Boro, 50 • Canada 🇨🇦Boro is a managing partner of software-focused investment firm Thoma Bravo, which has more than $172 billion assets under management. The billionaire is also a minority owner of NHL’s Ottawa Senators, women’s soccer team Bay FC and the parent company of English soccer team Leeds United.#212. Peter Carey, 82 • Australia 🇦🇺With Margaret Atwood, Carey is one of only five people to win the Booker Prize for two novels: Oscar and Lucinda (1988) and True History of the Kelly Gang (2001), both of which have been made into movies.#213. Safra Catz, 64 • Israel 🇮🇱Catz served as CEO of Oracle from 2014 to 2025 and is now its executive vice-chair.#214. Christopher Stolte, 54 • Canada 🇨🇦Stolte’s research at Stanford became the basis of his company Tableau Software, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2019 for $15.7 billion.#215. Angélique Kidjo, 65 • Benin 🇧🇯The five-time Grammy award winning musician, who combines traditional West African rhythms with genres like Jazz, reggae and funk, fled her home country’s Communist regime to pursue creative freedom, going first to Paris and then New York City.#216. Ben Liu, 44 • Taiwan 🇹🇼Liu is cofounder and CEO of AI-powered pharmaceutical startup Formation Bio, which is currently valued at $1.8 billion and has four drugs in clinical trials.#217. Clive Meanwell, 69 • United Kingdom 🇬🇧Meanwell trained as a physician before coming to the U.S., where he founded The Medicines Company in 1996. The pharmaceutical firm was acquired by Novartis in 2019 for $9.7 billion.#218. Aicha Evans, 56 • Senegal 🇸🇳Evans came to the U.S. to study computer science and rose through the ranks at Intel before becoming CEO of autonomous car company Zoox, which was acquired by Amazon in 2020 for $1.2 billion. She remains at its helm.#219. Arvind Krishna, 64 • India 🇮🇳IBM’s CEO joined the company in 1990, rising the ranks through its research and hybrid cloud divisions before taking the reins.#220. Tariq Farid, 56 • Pakistan 🇵🇰Farid worked at a local McDonald’s shortly after arriving in the U.S. before launching a flower shop. In 1999, he founded Edible Arrangements, which now has more than 1,000 franchised storefronts.#221. Shantanu Narayen, 62 • India 🇮🇳Adobe’s CEO started his career at Apple and founded digital photo-sharing pioneer Pictra in 1996.#222. Safi Qureshey, 75 • Pakistan 🇵🇰The personal computer pioneer cofounded AST Research, which shipped its first computer in 1986 and was acquired by Samsung in 1997.#223. K.R. Sridhar, 65 • India 🇮🇳Sridhar led a team at NASA developing oxygen-generation technology before founding clean energy technology company Bloom Energy in 2001.#224. Premal Shah, 51 • India 🇮🇳The cofounder of non-profit organization Kiva, which has helped facilitate more than $1 billion in microloans – short term credit of just a few hundred or thousand dollars– to support small businesses in emerging economies.#225. Art Spiegelman, 78 • Sweden 🇸🇪The Pulitzer-winning author saw Maus, his classic graphic novel about the Holocaust, hit the bestseller list in 2022 after it was banned in Tennessee schools.#226. Yet-Ming Chiang, 67 • Taiwan 🇹🇼The materials scientist’s lab at MIT has spun off multiple tech companies, including 3D-printing company Desktop Metal, energy storage startup Form Energy and low-carbon cement maker Sublime.#227. Martin Selig, 89 • Germany 🇩🇪Seattle’s most prolific billionaire real estate developer fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1940.#228. Sonia Gardner, 64 • Morocco 🇲🇦Garner was an attorney at investment bank Cowen & Co. before cofounding private equity firm Avenue Capital with her brother Marc Lasry (#79).#229. Joseph Neubauer, 84 • Israel 🇮🇱The former CEO of Aramark was born in what would become Israel after his parents fled Nazi Germany in 1938. When he was 15, they sent him to New York to live with an aunt and uncle.#230. Rakesh Gangwal, 72 • India 🇮🇳After serving as CEO for U.S. Airways Group, he cofounded IndiGo, which became India’s largest airline.#231. Rajiv Jain, 58 • India 🇮🇳Jain is the founder and chairman of investment management firm GQG partners, which has more than $162 billion in assets under management.#232. Daron Acemoglu, 58 • Turkey 🇹🇷Acemoglu rose to fame with his book Why Nations Fail, co-written with fellow economist James Robinson, with whom he shared a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024 along with Simon Johnson.#233. Michel Devoret, 73 • France 🇫🇷The chief scientist at Google’s Quantum AI division won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2025 for his contributions to quantum computing.#234. Micky Arison, 76 • Israel 🇮🇱Arison succeeded his father as head of the Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise ship operator, and bought the NBA’s Miami Heat in 1995.#235. Adi Tatarko, 53 • Israel 🇮🇱Tatarko and her husband developed what would become digital home design site Houzz as a side project to help them remodel their own house. The company now supports more than 3 million professionals in the industry.#236. Elad Gil, 36 • Israel 🇮🇱Gil has cofounded two companies: MixerLabs, acquired by Twitter in 2009, and cancer detection firm Color Health. He’s also a prolific solo venture capitalist, counting among his portfolio the likes of defense tech firm Anduril, AI-powered search engine Perplexity and digital design tool Figma.#237. Mamoon Hamid, 48 • Pakistan 🇵🇰The managing partner of pioneering Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins has been an early investor in and served on the boards of Slack, Figma, Rippling, Glean, Applied Intuition and Box.#238. Michael Dorrell, 52 • Australia 🇦🇺Dorrell is cofounder and CEO of Stonepeak, which makes investments in infrastructure like water desalination plants, gas pipelines and data centers. It currently has $76 billion in assets under management.#239. Axel Stawski, 75 • Germany 🇩🇪Born to Holocaust survivors in postwar Germany, the real estate billionaire’s portfolio includes six major office buildings in Manhattan.#240. David Card, 69 • Canada 🇨🇦The Nobel Prize-winning economist pioneered the use of natural experiments in his field, which included findings that minimum wage hikes don’t increase unemployment and immigrants don’t displace native-born workers.#241. Marcelo Claure, 55 • Bolivia 🇧🇴Claure founded wireless distributor Brightstar, which he sold to Softbank in 2014. As CEO of Sprint, he led its merger with T-Mobile in 2020 and now sits on the board.#242. Anastasia Soare, 68 • Romania 🇷🇴A decade after arriving in America as a single mother with a few dollars and very little English, she founded Anastasia Beverly Hills, which produces a line of makeup sold at retailers like Target and Sephora.#243. Albert Chao, 77 • Taiwan 🇹🇼Chao cofounded and served as CEO of petrochemical manufacturing company Westlake Chemical, which saw more than $11 billion revenue in 2025 for twenty years before stepping down to become executive chairman.#244. Philippe Laffont, 59 • Belgium 🇧🇪Laffont runs Coatue Management, an investment firm with more than $92 billion in assets under management that holds stakes in the likes of Nvidia, Spotify and Tik Tok-parent Bytedance.#245. Charles Liang, 69 • Taiwan 🇹🇼In 1993, Liang and his wife, Sara Liu, cofounded Supermicro, a server company that’s seen a surge of demand in the AI era.#246. Sara Liu, 74 • Taiwan 🇹🇼Liu cofounded server and storage maker Supermicro in 1993, which supplies companies like semiconductor giant Nvidia.#247. Dmitri Dolgov, 48 • Russia 🇷🇺The co-CEO of robotaxi company Waymo (a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet), oversees its technology and engineering.#248. Indra Nooyi, 70 • India 🇮🇳During her tenure as CEO and chair of PepsiCo, the company nearly doubled its sales. She now sits on the board of Amazon.#249. Eugene H. Trinh, 75 • Vietnam 🇻🇳Trinh became the first Vietnamese American astronaut in space on the space shuttle Columbia in 1992. Afterwards, he led NASA’s physical sciences research division.#250. Joel Embiid, 32 • Cameroon 🇨🇲The seven-time NBA all-star was training to be a pro volleyball player before shifting gears to basketball.★ ★ ★