Hoosiers Make Forbes Billionaire List
Carl Cook is tops among Hoosier billionaires for the third consecutive year.
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThree Hoosiers have landed on the Forbes World’s Billionaires list. Carl Cook, Herb Simon and Jim Irsay all appear again on the annual list compiled by the magazine.
Bloomington-based Cook Medical’s CEO is the most wealthy Hoosier, coming in at no. 190 on the list. The 55-year old Cook has $8 billion in net worth, which is over $2 billion more than when he appeared at no. 82 on the list in 2015. Chairman Emeritus of Simon Property Group (NYSE:SPG) Herb Simon, is the second Hoosier on the Forbes list. Simon is no. 791 with $3 billion. Colts owner Jim Irsay is no. 887, with an estimated $2.7 billion.
The top 5 richest billionaires in the world are Jeff Bezos at $112 billion, followed by Bill Gates at $90 billion, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is third with $84 billion, LVMH’s Bernard Arnault of France is no. 4 at $72 billion and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg rounds out the top five with $71 billion. The cutoff for the annual list was $1 billion. Forbes ranked 2,124 billionaires on this year’s list. The entire inventory can be found here.