10 Richest Jewish Billionaires in 2026: Page vs. Dell

Larry Page’s estimated $277.9 billion fortune puts him just $1.4 billion ahead of Michael Dell. The race at the top of the world’s richest Jewish billionaires is remarkably close on September 12, 2026. Sergey Brin follows at $255.8 billion, while Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison complete a top five dominated by the companies behind everyday digital life.

These fortunes have strikingly different beginnings: a Stanford research project, computers sold from a college dorm room, a campus social network and software built for business customers. Farther down the list, a trading partnership, a financial terminal and a shipping company show how many routes there are to building a major enterprise.

The people featured below are publicly identified in Forbes Israel’s 2026 Jewish billionaires list. Their individual net worth figures here are dated September 12, 2026, with all amounts in US dollars.

The 10 richest Jewish billionaires: 2026 net worth ranking

Six people in this table also rank among the ten wealthiest individuals worldwide. The Forbes real-time billionaires ranking places Page second globally and Dell third. At the other end of this top ten, less than a billion dollars separates Aponte-Diamant and Schwarzman.

1. Larry Page: $277.9 billion from the Google revolution

Larry Page’s net worth is estimated at $277.9 billion. His biggest financial asset traces back to his time at Stanford, where he met Sergey Brin. Their work on organizing information became Google in 1998, transforming a university project into one of the internet’s most familiar services.

Page served as Google’s CEO until 2001 and returned to that job in 2011. When Alphabet became the parent company in 2015, he took its top executive role. He stepped down in 2019 while remaining a board member and controlling shareholder. That continuing ownership explains why his wealth remains tied so closely to the company years after leaving day-to-day leadership.

Search advertising supplied Google’s commercial engine: businesses paid to reach people actively looking for products, services and answers. Cloud computing and artificial intelligence have opened further fields of competition. Page’s position at the top of this list reflects the value of his Alphabet holdings after almost three decades of company building.

Larry Page cofounded Google and remains a major Alphabet shareholder.

2. Michael Dell: $276.5 billion, from a dorm room to data centers

Michael Dell has an estimated net worth of $276.5 billion. He began selling computers as a 19-year-old student at the University of Texas. Selling directly to customers helped turn a small operation into a household name, and the business eventually expanded far beyond desktop machines.

Three corporate milestones reshaped the empire: the 2013 buyout with Silver Lake, the combination with EMC in 2016 and Dell Technologies’ return to public markets in 2018. VMware was spun off in 2021 and acquired by Broadcom in 2023. Those transactions made Dell’s financial story as much about ownership and dealmaking as about computer sales.

His private investment firm, DFO Management, holds interests in hotels and invests in corporate credit. Meanwhile, Dell Technologies supplies the servers and infrastructure that businesses need to run demanding computing workloads. The Forbes profile of Michael Dell connects these investments with the company bearing his name. His second-place position is a reminder of how far the original PC business has evolved.

Michael Dell’s business career spans personal computers, enterprise infrastructure and investing.

3. Sergey Brin: $255.8 billion and a life changed by Google

Sergey Brin’s estimated net worth is $255.8 billion. Born in Moscow, he moved to the United States at six after his family experienced antisemitism in the Soviet Union. His academic path eventually brought him to Stanford and the partnership with Page that produced Google.

The company’s 2004 stock market debut was a major turning point for its founders. In 2015, Google became part of Alphabet, with Brin serving as the parent company’s president. He left that executive position in 2019 but retained his board seat and role as a controlling shareholder.

Brin’s public interests also extend into medical science. Forbes reports that he has donated more than $2 billion to Parkinson’s research, alongside support for work on other conditions affecting the central nervous system and climate change. His fortune therefore connects the commercial success of online search with substantial funding for scientific research.

4. Mark Zuckerberg: $222.6 billion behind Facebook and Meta

Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune is estimated at $222.6 billion. Facebook began in 2004 as a service for students, when Zuckerberg was 19. Its growth beyond college campuses created a vast audience and a platform on which advertisers could reach people across countries and interests.

Facebook went public in 2012. The corporate name changed to Meta in 2021, reflecting an expansion into virtual reality and the metaverse. Instagram and WhatsApp joined Facebook at the heart of a group whose products shape how users communicate, watch video and discover businesses.

Zuckerberg owns around 13% of Meta’s shares, according to Forbes. That stake is the central driver of his net worth. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged in 2015 to give away 99% of their shares over their lifetimes, adding a long-term philanthropic commitment to one of the most prominent business careers of the internet era.

Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook before the company became Meta.

5. Larry Ellison: $195.4 billion, Oracle and a Hawaiian island

Larry Ellison has an estimated net worth of $195.4 billion. Oracle’s cofounder spent 37 years as CEO before stepping down from that position in 2014. He remains chairman and chief technology officer, with roughly 40% of the software company, according to Forbes.

Oracle built its reputation on databases used by businesses to manage information. Enterprise applications and cloud infrastructure expanded its role in corporate technology. For Ellison, a large retained shareholding turned that development into a huge personal fortune.

His most spectacular property purchase came in 2012, when he bought nearly all of Lanai in Hawaii for $300 million. He also has a major interest in Paramount Skydance, adding entertainment to a career rooted in software. His Forbes biography places these investments alongside Oracle. The island may attract the photographs, but the software stake remains the foundation of his wealth.

Larry Ellison’s fortune grew with Oracle’s databases, business software and cloud operations.

6. Steve Ballmer: $155 billion from Microsoft to the Clippers

Steve Ballmer’s net worth is estimated at $155 billion. He joined Microsoft in 1980 as employee number 30, having met Bill Gates while studying at Harvard. Ballmer became CEO in 2000 and led the company until 2014, navigating the period after the dot-com crash and competition in search and mobile technology.

His financial story is especially striking because he joined an existing company early and retained much of his stock. He owned about 4% of Microsoft when he retired. Its subsequent development continued to affect his fortune even after he left the executive suite.

In 2014, Ballmer paid $2 billion for the Los Angeles Clippers. His investment in the team’s new arena added another highly visible chapter to his life in basketball. Forbes also documents his expanding philanthropy. The result is an unusual combination: a fortune anchored in software ownership and a public presence defined increasingly by an NBA franchise.

7. Michael Bloomberg: $94.9 billion from a Wall Street essential

Michael Bloomberg has an estimated fortune of $94.9 billion. His career began at Salomon Brothers in 1966. After losing that job 15 years later, he cofounded Bloomberg LP in 1981 and supplied its initial funding.

The business brought financial prices, news and analytical tools into a single professional service. The Bloomberg Terminal became familiar across trading floors, while the company also developed its news and media operations. His wealth is linked principally to the business he built, rather than his later political career.

Bloomberg served three terms as mayor of New York City, from 2002 to 2013. He owns 88% of Bloomberg LP, according to Forbes, and has committed to transferring that stake to Bloomberg Philanthropies during his lifetime or at his death. Education, public health and climate initiatives are major themes in his charitable work.

8. Jeff Yass: $77.8 billion from trading and private investments

Jeff Yass’s estimated net worth is $77.8 billion. After attending SUNY Binghamton, he became a professional gambler and began trading on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange in 1981. He cofounded Susquehanna International Group with several partners in 1987.

The firm developed into a major participant in options trading and market making. Those businesses require pricing securities, managing exposure and making decisions as information changes. Poker remains part of Susquehanna’s recruiting and training culture because it exercises judgment under uncertainty.

A second source of value comes from investments in private businesses. Susquehanna has backed hundreds of companies, including TikTok parent ByteDance, identified by Forbes as its most valuable holding. The Yass profile shows how trading operations and long-term company investments became two connected parts of his fortune.

9. Rafaela Aponte-Diamant: $45.4 billion built at sea

Forbes estimates Rafaela Aponte-Diamant’s personal fortune at $45.4 billion. She and her husband, Gianluigi Aponte, entered shipping together in 1970, buying their first vessel with a $200,000 loan. Mediterranean Shipping Company grew from that beginning into the international MSC group.

Container transport is only part of the story. The group’s activities include cruises, inland logistics and port operations, linking the movement of goods at sea to delivery networks on land. Rafaela has also been involved in decorating ships for MSC Cruises.

In April 2026, MSC announced that Gianluigi’s ownership had transferred to their children, Diego and Alexa, during the final quarter of 2025. Diego is group president, Alexa is chief financial officer and Gianluigi continues as executive chairman.

MSC’s acquisition of Bolloré Africa Logistics in 2022 added another major chapter to its expansion. It also connects this shipping story with the transport and logistics businesses associated with Vincent Bolloré.

10. Stephen Schwarzman: $44.5 billion and the Blackstone story

Stephen Schwarzman’s fortune is estimated at $44.5 billion. The son of a store owner, he began his Wall Street career at Lehman Brothers before founding Blackstone with Peter Peterson in 1985.

Blackstone started as a mergers-and-acquisitions advisory firm. It expanded into private equity and other alternative investments, including property and credit, and went public in 2007. Schwarzman remains its chairman and CEO. His career illustrates how an investment business can grow from advising on transactions to managing portfolios across several markets.

The firm’s investments serve clients who entrust capital to it; Schwarzman’s personal wealth reflects his own economic interests. His Forbes profile also describes an earlier entrepreneurial venture: a teenage lawn-mowing operation in which he found customers while his younger brothers did the mowing. Decades separate that small business from Blackstone, but both began with organizing a service people would pay for.

Beyond the top ten: Len Blavatnik and the Adelson family

Len Blavatnik’s net worth is estimated at $35.1 billion. His career spans oil, chemicals, investing and entertainment. Born in Ukraine, he moved to the United States with his family in 1978, later studying at Columbia and Harvard.

An early fortune came from TNK-BP, including dividends and the sale of his stake in 2013. He purchased Warner Music for $3.3 billion in 2011 and took the company public in 2020. Access Industries is the investment company behind his wider business interests. Forbes also records his university philanthropy, giving his story a connection to both commercial entertainment and education.

Len Blavatnik’s investments range from industrial businesses to Warner Music.

Miriam Adelson and her family have an estimated combined fortune of $32.9 billion. A physician specializing in addiction, she is the widow of Las Vegas Sands founder Sheldon Adelson, who died in 2021. The family owns more than half of the casino company, whose operations include Singapore and Macao.

Adelson acquired a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks in 2023. That deal places her alongside Ballmer among prominent NBA owners. The Forbes Adelson profile reports wealth for her and her family together, a broader ownership group than the individual fortunes in the top-ten table.

What businesses drive these fortunes?

The companies behind the first six positions serve very different customers. Google connects people to information and advertisers to audiences. Meta connects users through social platforms. Oracle sells business software and infrastructure; Dell supplies computing equipment; Microsoft spans software and cloud services. A familiar technology label therefore covers several distinct commercial models.

Their competition also reaches beyond this ranking. Amazon’s cloud operations, central to the business story behind Jeff Bezos’s fortune, compete in the same broad market as services from Google, Microsoft and Oracle. In luxury, Bernard Arnault’s business empire illustrates another route to scale through brands, distribution and acquisitions.

Other entries depend on professional services or physical networks. Bloomberg sells financial information, Susquehanna trades and invests, Blackstone manages investment strategies and MSC transports goods and passengers. Their owners built wealth through different products, customers and ownership histories.

Questions readers ask about Jewish billionaires

Who is richer, Larry Page or Larry Ellison?

Larry Page leads with $277.9 billion, compared with Larry Ellison’s estimated $195.4 billion on September 12, 2026. Michael Dell, at $276.5 billion, is Page’s nearest competitor in this ranking. Page and Sergey Brin remain closely associated through Alphabet, but their fortunes are recorded individually.

Are these fortunes the same as annual salaries?

Net worth is accumulated wealth, while a salary pays someone for work during a particular period. For these entrepreneurs, company shares and other investments account for much of that wealth. Page, Brin and Ballmer retained valuable ownership positions after leaving their main executive jobs, so their fortunes continued to develop beyond those salaries.

How many Israeli billionaires appear in the 2026 annual list?

Forbes Israel identifies 52 billionaires with Israeli citizenship in its annual 2026 edition. Jewish heritage and nationality are separate facts: the people in this top ten are predominantly American citizens, while Aponte-Diamant is Swiss. A list of Israeli citizens therefore describes a different group from a worldwide list of people of Jewish heritage.

What happened to Benjamin de Rothschild?

Benjamin de Rothschild died on January 15, 2021. He had chaired the Edmond de Rothschild group and supported the Gitana sailing team. The wider history of the Rothschild family’s banking businesses spans several branches and separate companies, rather than one individual running a single worldwide enterprise.