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April was a great month to be a billionaire, as the SMP 500 and NASDAQ

soared by 9% and 15% respectively, boosting the fortunes of the world's 10 richest people,

all of them Americans, to $2.7 trillion combined as of May 1st at 12 a.m. Eastern Time. As a group, they're 260 billion

dollars richer than they were a month ago. But no one fared better than Google co-founder Larry Page,

who became the third person ever worth at least $300 billion on Thursday.

Our top 10 richest people in the world list is as of May 1st, 2026 at 12 a.m. Eastern Time.

As a reminder, stock prices fluctuate routinely, so the net worths on our list may change on a

daily basis. Forbes tracks the daily changes on our real-time list of billionaires.

Forbes has been keeping track of the world's billionaires since 1987. In March 2026, we found 3,428 of them for our annual list.

Larry Page, who ranks as the world's second richest person for the sixth straight month, saw his

fortune soar by $76 billion to an estimated $313 billion, as shares of Google's parent

company Alphabet soared by more than 33% over the past month.

Page is still $469 billion poorer than Elon Musk, but he's closed the gap from $580 billion

at the start of April. Musk, whose net worth declined by $35 billion, or 4%, to an estimated

$782 billion, is the only person in the top 10 whose fortune fell over the past 30 days.

That's mostly because Forbes lowered its estimate of Musk's stake in $1.25 trillion

SpaceX from 43% to 40% based on an updated corporate filing in Alaska released in April.

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