40 Texas Billionaires Are Among The Richest In America: Forbes

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 Texas, 40 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 Texas billionaires on the list:

1. Alice Walton, Walmart, $51.4 billion
2. Michael Dell, Dell computers, $32.3 billion
3. Andrew Beal, banks, real estate, $9.8 billion
4. Stanley Kroenke, sports, real estate, $9.7 billion
5. Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys, $8.6 billion
6. Richard Kinder, pipelines, $7.5 billion
7. Ann Walton Kroenke, Walmart, $7.5 billion
8. Dannine Avara, pipelines, $6.3 billion
9. Scott Duncan, pipelines, $6.3 billion
10. Milane Frantz, pipelines, $6.3 billion
11. Randa Duncan Williams, pipelines, $6.3 billion
12. Robert Rowling, hotels, investments, $5.5 billion
13. Ray Lee Hunt, oil, real estate, $5.2 billion
14. Robert F. Smith, private equity, $5 billion
15. Robert Bass, oil, investments, $4.9 billion
16. Tilman Fertitta, Houston Rockets, entertainment, $4.9 billion
17. Kelcy Warren, pipelines, $4.3 billion
18. Bert Beveridge, vodka, $4.2 billion
19. Margot Birmingham Perot, computer services, real estate, $4.2 billion
20. Mark Cuban, online media, $4.1 billion
21. Dan Friedkin, Toyota dealerships, $4 billion
22. Janice McNair, energy, sports, $4 billion
23. Jeffery Hildebrand, oil, $3.8 billion
24. David Bonderman, private equity, $3.7 billion
25. Trevor Rees-Jones, oil and gas, $3.7 billion
26. John Arnold, hedge funds, $3.3 billion
27. Sid Bass, oil, investments, $3.1 billion
28. John Paul DeJoria, hair products, tequila, $3.1 billion
29. Thai Lee, IT provider, $3 billion
30. Joseph Liemandt, software, $3 billion
31. W. Herber Hunt, oil, $2.6 billion
32. Drayton McLane Jr., Walmart, logistics, $2.6 billion
33. Bill Austin, hearing aids, $2.4 billion
34. George Bishop, oil and gas, $2.4 billion
35. Ray Davis, pipelines, $2.3 billion
36. Gerald Ford, banking, $2.3 billion
37. Edward Bass, oil, investments, $2.2 billion
38. Lee Bass, oil, investments, $2.2 billion
39. H. Ross Perot Jr., real estate, $2.2 billion
40. Brian Sheth, investments, $2.2 billion

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.