Richest Women in the World 2023 (Top 20 List)

Women have made their names in every field including the list of billionaire people in the world. Although most of them have acquired their wealth by being an heiress, they have worked hard in taking their name and fame to a whole new level. Not only have they maintained their fortune but added riches to them as well. Here in this article, you can find the list of top 20 richest women in the world 2023 along with their journey to become a billionaire.

World’s Richest Women 2023

Explore the list of top 20 richest women in the world 2023 along with their updated net worth.

Richest WomenNet Worth (2023)Nationality
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers$93 billionFrance
Alice Walton$62.1 billionUnited States
Julia Koch$58.2 billionUnited States
Mackenzie Scott$35.8 billionUnited States
Jacqueline Mars$38.8 billionUnited States
Gina Rinehart$27.9 billionAustralia
Miriam Adelson & family$36.4 billionUnited States, Israel
Susanne Klatten$26 billionGermany
Iris Fontbona & family$23.8 billionChile
Yang Huiyan & family$5.8 billionChina
Abigail Johnson$22.4 billionUnited States
Laurene Powell Jobs & Family$14.2 billionUnited States
Wu Yajun$8 billionChina
Fan Hongwei$4.1 billionChina
Lu Zhongfang$1.3 billionChina
Zhou Qunfei$6.1 billionChina
Charlene de Carvalho Heineken & family$15.1 billionDutch
Kirsten Rausing$9.3 billionSwedish
Wang Laichun$8.2 billionChina
Kwong Siu-hing$13.5 billionChina

Note: We have not followed increasing or decreasing order while listing the richest women in the world 2023.

Richest Women in the World 2023

There are the richest women of the world in 2023, most of who are of American nationality. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is leading the list with a net worth of $93 billion.

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers net worth 2023: $93 billion

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is a French businesswoman and billionaire heiress who holds the title of world’s richest woman. She is also a writer, pianist and a philanthropist and her estimated net worth is $93 billion US dollars. She acquired this massive fortune from her grandfather Eugène Schueller, who was the founder of L’Oréal, a French personal care company. After the death of her mother in September 2017 her fortune tripled with her investments through her family holding company, Tethys Invest.

Alice Walton

Alice Walton

Alice Louise Walton net worth 2023: $62.1 billion

Alice Louise Walton acquired her huge fortune by being the heiress of Walmart Inc., an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. Alice lost the tile of richest woman in 2020 when she was replaced by Francoise Bettencourt Meyers but still among the 20 richest women in the world 2023. She has made notable contributions to the conservative Progress for America group and Restore Our Future, the super PAC associated with Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.

Julia Koch

Julia Koch

Julia Koch net worth 2023: $58.2 billion

Julia Margaret Flesher Koch became a billionaire by inheriting fortune from her husband, David Koch, who died in 2019. She is the president of David H. Koch Foundation and was formerly on the board of directors of the School of American Ballet. Along with her husband she made huge donations to institutions such as the Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. She was included on Forbes’ list of the 10 richest women in the world in 2020. She is also a well-known socialite and a philanthropist.

Mackenzie Scott

Mackenzie Scott

Mackenzie Scott net worth 2023: $35.8 billion

Owing to her divorce in 2019, Mackenzie Scott became the fourth richest women in the world. She was married to Jeff Bezos and held a 4% stake in Amazon, the company founded by her ex-husband. She is also a novelist and philanthropist and was named one of the world’s most powerful women by Forbes in 2021. She is also the winner of American Book Award for her 2005 debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020. Scott is the founder and executive director of Bystander Revolution an anti-bullying organization. She is one of the largest private individual annual distributors of working charities.

Jacqueline Mars

Jacqueline Mars

Jacqueline Mars net worth 2023: $38.8 billion

Jacqueline Mars is the heiress of the American candy company Mars, which was founded by Audrey Ruth (Meyer), Forrest Mars, Sr., and Frank C. Mars. She is among top 10 richest women of 2023, 18th richest American and 48th richest person in the world. She is also the wealthiest resident living in Virginia. She joined Mars, Inc. as Food Product Group President in 1982 and retired in 2001.

Gina Rinehart

Gina Rinehart

Gina Reinhart net worth 2023: $27.9 billion

Gina Reinhart (full name Georgina Hope Rinehart) is the Executive Chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting. Hancock Prospecting is a privately-owned mineral exploration and extraction company found by her father, Lang Hancock. Rinehart is Australia’s richest person. In a May 2021 Guardian Australia investigation, it was reported that Rinehart was the single largest landholder in Australia. She was named the world’s richest woman in 2012 and is still among the top 10 richest women of the world. Her wealth suffered a dip after 2012 but was rebuilt again in 2020 due to increased demand for Australian iron ore.

Miriam Adelson

Miriam Adelson

Miriam Adelson net worth 2023: $36.4 billion

Miriam Adelson is an Israeli American physician and current publisher of the newspaper Israel Hayom. On the board of trustees at the University of Southern California, she acts a voting member. In 2008, along with her husband she was presented with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. In 2013, she also received honorary citizenship of Jerusalem. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump in 2018. Adelson is the 7th richest woman, 44th richest person and richest Israeli in the world, with through her majority ownership of Las Vegas Sands.

Susanne Klatten

Susanne Klatten

Susanne Klatten net worth 2023: $26 billion

Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten is a German billionaire heiress who is the richest woman in Germany, 8th richest women in the world and 65th overall. She inherited her father’s pharmaceutical and chemicals manufacturing company Atlanta and thus made her name as a billionaire. She made tremendous efforts as a member of the company’s supervisory board and transformed it into a world-class corporation. As of 2023, her net worth was estimated at US$26 billion. She was appointed to the supervisory board of BMW with her brother Stefan Quandt in 1997 and had a stake of 12.50% in BMW which rose to 19.2% following her mother’s death.

Iris Fontbona

Iris Fontbona

Iris Fontbona net worth 2023: $23.8 billion

Iris Balbina Fontbona González inherited Antofagasta PLC after the death of her husband making her a billionaire businesswoman. She owns Antofagasta mining company and also controls Banco de Chile, Madeco, a copper products manufacturer, the country’s largest brewer, CCU, and a shipping company, CSAV. She is the wealthiest person in Chile, among the wealthiest in Latin America, and among the wealthiest women worldwide in 2023. Following the death of her husband, she not only managed to make their family business grow but it reached its new heights of success.

Yang Huiyan

Yang Huiyan

Yang Huiyan Net Worth 2023: $5.8 billion

Yang Huiyan was born in the year 1981 in Shunde, Guangdong, China. She is a billionaire businesswoman and property developer who holds majority of shares of Country Garden Holdings. She used to be the richest woman in Asia.

The real estate company Country Garden Holdings was established by her father in 1997. His father Yang Guoqiang transferred 70% shares of Country Garden Holdings to Yang Huiyan prior to its IPO in 2007. The estimated net worth of Yang Huiyan is $5.8 billion.

Abigail Johnson

Abigail Pierrepont Johnson - Top 10 Richest Women In the World

Abigail Johnson net worth 2023: $22.4 billion

Abigail Pierrepont Johnson is granddaughter of founder of Fidelity Investments, late Edward C. Johnson II. She has been president and chief executive officer (CEO) of American investment firm Fidelity Investments since 2014 and was named as sixth “Powerful Women” 2021 by Forbes. She was named on Forbes as the richest person in America’s 50 largest cities and was also the richest person in Massachusetts in 2020.

Laurene Powell

Laurene Powell

Laurene Powell Net Worth 2023: $14.2 billion

Laurene Powell is founder and chair of Emerson Collective and co-founder and chairwoman of XQ Institute. She is a billionaire businesswoman who was born on November 6, 1963 in West Milford, New Jersey, U.S.

Powell is the widow of Apple Inc’s co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs. Apart from being involved in various businesses she also manages the Steve Jobs Trust. Her estimated net worth as of 2023 is $14.2 billion.

Wu Yajun

Wu Yajun

Wu Yajun Net Worth 2023: $8 billion

Once the world’s richest self-made woman, Wu Yajun is chairwoman, co-founder, and former CEO of Longfor Properties. He used to work as journalist and editor and then moved to real estate in the 1990s. She has also made investment in technology companies including Evernote and Uber.

Wu Yajun was born in the year 1964 at Chongqing, China. The estimated net worth of Wu Yajun is $8 billion.

Fan Hongwei

Fan Hongwei

Fan Hongwei Net Worth 2023: $4.1 billion

Fan Hongwei is the CEO and Chairman of Hengli Petrochemical and one of the 20 richest women in the world 2023. Her estimated net worth is $4.1 billion. She used to be the fourth richest woman in China in 2019.

She is also a vice-chairman of Hengli Group. She started her career as an accountant and today she owns one of the largest fiber producers in China.

Lu Zhongfang

Lu Zhongfang Net Worth 2023: $1.3 billion

Lu Zhongfang is a billionaire businesswoman and founder of Offcn Education Technology. Her institution Offcn Education Technology is involved in providing training for the civil service exam.

Zhou Qunfei

Zhou Qunfei

Zhou Qunfei Net Worth 2023: $6.1 billion

Zhou Qunfei is known as the richest woman in tech, richest self-made woman of the world, and richest woman in China. She is the founder of one of the most renowned touchscreen maker Lens Technology. Her net worth is estimated around $6.1 billion in 2023.

She was born in the year 1970 in Xiangxiang, Hunan, China. Though, she had dream to become a fashion designer, she had to work in a small company who was involved in making watch parts. Later in the year 1993, she established her own company by investing HK$20,000 from her saving.

Charlene de Carvalho Heineken

Charlene de Carvalho Heineken

Charlene de Carvalho Heineken Net Worth 2023: $15.1 billion

Being the richest person in the Netherlands, Charlene de Carvalho Heineken owns a 25% controlling stake in the 2nd largest brewer of the world Heineken N.V. She is also among the richest women in the world 2023 with her net worth $15.1 billion.

She was born on 30 June 1954 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is the daughter of a Dutch industrialist Freddy Heineken. She acquired a law degree from Leiden University.

Kirsten Rausing

Kirsten Rausing

Kirsten Rausing Net Worth 2023: $9.3 billion

Kirsten Rausing is one of the 20 richest women in the world 2023 with her net worth $9.3 billion. She was born on 6th June 1952 in Lund, Sweden. She is one of the members of holding company Tetra Laval.

She is also a member former director of The National Stud and a member of the Jockey Club. She is one of the richest women of Britain.

Wang Laichun

Wang Laichun

Wang Laichun Net Worth 2023: $8.2 billion

Wang Laichun is a chairwoman, and co-founder of Luxshare Precision Industry Co.Ltd – an electronics manufacturer. According to The Daily Telegraph, she was one of the youngest self-made women billionaires in the world in 2014.

Wang Laichun has worked in Foxconn for 10 years before founding Luxshare Precision Industry Co.Ltd. Her estimated net worth is $8.2 billion.

Kwong Siu-hing

Kwong Siu-hing

Kwong Siu-hing Net Worth 2023: $13.5 billion

Kwong Siu-hing, also popular as Kwok Kwong Siu-hing, is a board member of Sun Hung Kai Properties. She is the widow of Sun Hung Kai Properties founder Kwok Tak-seng. Forbes listed Kwok family at third in Asia’s Richest Families 2017.

She was born on December 2, 1929 in Hua County, Guangdong, China. As of 2023, her estimated net worth is $13.5 billion.

FAQs

Which is the richest woman in the world?

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers

Who are the 5 richest woman in the world?

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, Alice Walton, Julia Koch, Jacqueline Mars, and Miriam Adelson & family

Who is the richest female in 2023?

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers

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