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  1. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Muscles, movies, money

    Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Mr Universe to cinematic superstar and billionaire investor

  2. Elon Musk: Money, memes and Mars

    How Elon Musk became the richest person on the planet

  3. Martha Stewart: The original lifestyle influencer

    Martha Stewart, the homemaker who sold perfection to America

  4. Strive Masiyiwa: Connecting a continent

    Telecoms magnate Strive Masiyiwa escaped kidnap to become Zimbabwe’s first billionaire

  5. John de Mol: Big Brother’s daddy

    By reinventing reality TV, John de Mol made television history and a billion dollars

  6. Markus Persson: Minecraft maker

    How did Markus Persson create Minecraft, the most successful computer game ever?

  7. Aliko Dangote: Africa’s richest person

    Aliko Dangote started a cement business, and went on to become Africa’s richest person

  8. Zhang Yiming: TikTok’s tech boss

    How Chinese tech company ByteDance became a multi-billiondollar social media business

  9. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: Beer, brewing and biotech

    How India’s first female self-made billionaire built a pharmaceutical empire

  10. George Soros: 'The man who broke the Bank of England'

    A hedge fund tycoon who became one of the most successful investors ever

  11. Jerry Seinfeld: The world’s richest comedian

    How a hit sitcom made a New York stand-up the richest comedian in history

  12. Peter Jackson: Lord of the Films

    A blockbuster tale: How the Lord of the Rings director became a billionaire

  13. Miuccia Prada: ‘Ugly fashion’

    How a communist mime artist became the boss of one of the world’s biggest fashion houses

  14. Sergey Brin: Googling billions

    By founding Google, Sergey Brin helped shape the internet. He also got very, very rich

  15. Tiger Woods: Golf’s ‘golden boy’

    Golfing superstardom made Tiger Woods rich. Personal disasters nearly took it all away

  16. Warren Buffett: The Oracle of Omaha

    How Warren Buffett became the richest investor ever after buying his first shares at 11.

  17. Jim Ratcliffe: Man U Mogul

    He's spent a billion on Manchester United, but how did Jim Ratcliffe become a billionaire?

  18. Taylor Swift: Swiftonomics

    From public feuds to private legal battles, how a country singer became a billionaire.

  19. Oprah Winfrey: Queen Of All Media

    How Oprah became the richest African American of the 20th Century and queen of all media.

  20. George Lucas: Box Office Billions

    How George Lucas became a billionaire filmmaker despite directing just six movies.

  21. Rihanna: Turning Beauty into Billions

    How pop star Rihanna became the richest person from Barbados in all of history.

  22. Michael Jordan: Most Valuable Player

    How basketball's biggest superstar became the world's first athlete billionaire.

  23. Bill Gates: Software Hardman

    The story of the Microsoft boss who was the richest person in the world for over a decade.

  24. Yvon Chouinard: A $3 billion giveaway

    The founder of sporting apparel firm Patagonia made billions - then gave it all away

  25. Whitney Wolfe Herd: Dating app entrepreneur

    How the woman who founded dating apps Bumble and Tinder was briefly a billionaire

  26. Warren Buffett: The oracle of Omaha

    How Warren Buffett became the richest investor ever after buying his first shares at 11

  27. Vince McMahon: Wrestling's ringmaster

    Vince McMahon turned professional wrestling into a global phenomenon

  28. Viktor Bout: Merchant of death

    How Viktor Bout made billions selling weapons to just about anyone who wanted them

  29. Tyler Perry: Homeless to Hollywood entrepreneur

    How Tyler Perry went from living in his car to becoming a Hollywood mogul

  30. The dead billionaires: What do you think?

    Your verdicts on Rockefeller, Ford, Hughes, Walton and Green

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