Forbes is out with its annual rankings of the world's richest billionaires and Carlos Slim tops with $73 billion in net worth.
Slim, a Mexican telecom mogul who has been ranked the riches for the fourth consecutive year, is followed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates at $67 billion and Spanish fashion executive Amancio Ortega at $57 billion, according to the magazine.
Among some notable names in technology are Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, ranked 19th at $25.2 billion, Google's Sergey Brin ranked 21st at $22.8 billion, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg ranked 66th at $13.3 billion.
In the entertainment industry, Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. ranked 91st with $11.2 billion of net worth, which is up from $8.3 billion from the previous year.
George Lucas (#346, $3.9 billion), Steven Spielberg(#423, $3.2 billion), Oprah Winfrey (#503, $2.8 billion) all slotted in near the bottom, a nice problem to have.
Charlie Ergan of Dish Network came in at 100th with $10.6 billion of net worth, also up from $8.3 billion. And music mogulDavid Geffen ranked 198th with $6 billion of net worth. Cablevision's Charles Dolan was #437th with $3.1 billion.
Other notables: John Malone (#198, $6 billion), Sumner Redstone (#267, $4.7 billion), andMark Cuban (#613, $2.4 billion).
