Texas Billionaires Lead Forbes 2026 Richest List

Texan billionaires dominated the annual Forbes' world's billionaire rankings list. Arguably one of the most famous Texas transplants, turned-Austinite Elon Musk, took the top spot as the richest Texan and American, surpassing the likes of Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon's Jeff Bezos.

The Lone Star State continues to top the charts for housing billionaire residents. From oil tycoons to sports franchise moguls — dozens of the wealthiest individuals in the U.S. call Texas home.

And according to Forbes, it's never been a better time to be a billionaire, with the business magazine reporting 400 more added names to its 2026 annual World's Billionaires list rankings compared to last year, bringing the number of billionaires across the world up to 3,428 total.

The ultra-wealthy are even wealthier, too, worth a record $20.1 trillion, up $4 trillion from 2025. The U.S. has the most billionaires, with 989 individuals reporting net worths of at least $1 billion.

Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter), saw his net worth skyrocket to $839 billion — more than double the $342 billion reported in 2025.

Two other Texans ranked among the top 20 billionaires in the world; Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, trailed Musk, slotting in at 13th with $141 billion, and Alice Walton, whose father Sam Walton founded Walmart, followed at 14th with $134 billion. Walton was the wealthiest woman on Forbes' list.

Here are the 30 wealthiest: (See the full list)

• No. 1: Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and X (formerly Twitter): $839B
• No. 13: Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies: $141B
• No. 14: Alice Walton, Walmart heiress and stockholder: $134B
• No. 71: Elaine Marshall, Koch director: $30.9B
• No. 74: Melinda French Gates, Microsoft: $30.3B
• No. 77: Lyndal Stephens Greth, oil & gas: $30B
• No. 114: Stanley Kroenke, real estate and sports mogul: $22.2B
• No. 128: Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys owner and president: $20.3B
• No. 197: Ann Walton Kroenke, Walmart stockholder: $14.6B
• No. 226: Richard Kinder, Kinder Morgan chairman: $13B
• No. 238: Andrew Beal, Beal Bank chairman: $12.6B
• No. 268: Tilman Fertitta, Houston Rockets owner, Entertainment mogul and U.S. ambassador to Italy and San Marino: $11.7B
• No. 279: Dan Friedkin, CEO of Friedkin Group: $11.4B
• No. 289: Charles Butt, chairman of H-E-B Grocery: $11.1B
• No. 323: Randa Duncan Williams, Enterprise Products Partners stockholder: $10.2B
• No. 332: Milane Duncan Franz, Enterprise Products Partners stockholder: $10.1B
• No. 332: Dannine Avara, Enterprise Products Partners stockholder: $10.1B
• No. 341: Jeffery Hildebrand, Hilcorp Energy founder: $10B
• No. 341: Robert F. Smith, founder of Vista Equity Partners: $10B
• No. 353: Scott Duncan, Enterprise Products Partners stockholder: $9.8B
• No. 402: Robert Rowling, hotels and investments, notably, Omni hotels: $8.8B
• No. 440: Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb: $8.4B
• No. 477: Kelcy Warren, Energy Transfer Partners CEO: $7.8B
• No. 509: Thai Lee, SHI International Corporation CEO: $7.5B
• No. 528: Janice McNair, Houston's Texans part-owner: $7.3B
• No. 623: Ray Lee Hunt, oil and real estate: $6.6B
• No. 623: Joseph Liemandt, founder of ESW Capital: $6.6B
• No. 645: H. Ross Perot Jr., real estate developer: $6.5B
• No. 664: Robert Bass, oil and investments: $6.3B

March 12, 2026