Aliko Dangote

First Senator: Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American ever elected to the U.S. Senate. He represented the state of Mississippi from February 1870 to March 1871.

Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8, he became the first African American in space as well as the second person of African ancestry in space, after Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.

Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, considered to be the first Black actor to have a successful film career….

Jeremiah Hamilton

Folorunso Alakija

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers

2.4 billion USD (2021)

2,755

Mansa Musa

Bernard Arnault

United States

614 billionaires

These are the states with the most billionaire residents; net worths are as of March 5, 2021.

• #1 | California. 189 BILLIONAIRES. COMBINED NET WORTH: $1.04 TRILLION.
• #2 | New York. 126 BILLIONAIRES. COMBINED NET WORTH: $672.7 BILLION.
• #3 | Florida. 70 BILLIONAIRES.
• #4 | Texas. 64 BILLIONAIRES.
• #7 | Washington. 21 BILLIONAIRES.

198.6 billion USD (2021)

Table

Top 27 richest Indians

Benu Gopal Bangur (born 1931) is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Shree Cement….

Maharashtra is India’s most industrialised state contributing 20 of national industrial output. Almost 46% of the GSDP is contributed by industry. Maharashtra has software parks in many cities around the state, and is the second largest exporter of software with annual exports over ₹ 80,000 crores.

It refers to the total value of net wealth possessed by the citizens of a nation at a set point in time….Total wealth by country.

Qatar is a World Bank high-income economy, backed by the world’s third-largest natural gas reserves and oil reserves. For its size, Qatar wields disproportionate influence in the world, and has been identified as a middle power.

The financial position of the United States includes assets of at least $269.6 trillion (1576% of GDP) and debts of $145.8 trillion (852% of GDP) to produce a net worth of at least $123.8 trillion (723% of GDP) as of Q1 2014.

China’s GDP was $15.66 trillion (101.6 trillion yuan) in 2020. The country has natural resources with an estimated worth of $23 trillion, 90% of which are coal and rare earth metals.

2021 Chinese billionaires top 30 list

Shenzhen has the fourth-highest number of billionaires of any city in the world (after Beijing, Shanghai and New York City). It has the third busiest container port in the world….Shenzhen.

Alibaba Group

Daniel Zhang (May 10, 2015–)

Alibaba Group

56 years (September 10, 1964)