The world's billionaires born in the year of the Ox

1. Larry Page

Nationality: American

Assets: 90.8 billion USD

Larry Page co-founded Google with Sergey Brin in 1998. The two created Google's PageRank algorithm, which powers the search engine. Today, Alphabet (Google's parent company) is involved in video content, mobile technology, education, digital libraries, and even self-driving cars.

Page served as CEO of Google until 2001, when he was replaced by Eric Schmidt. He continued to serve as CEO of Alphabet from 2011 to 2015. Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet at the end of 2019, but remains a controlling shareholder of the company. Page is also the founder of space research company Planetary Resources and has funded flying car startups such as Kitty Hawk and Opener.

2. Sergey Brin

Age: 48

Nationality: American

Assets: 88.1 billion USD

Sergey Brin co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998, after meeting at Stanford University. He stepped down as Alphabet CEO in December 2019, but remains the company's controlling shareholder. In 2019, he was absent from most Alphabet events to devote his time to the company's X lab. Brin is said to be funding ahigh-tech balloon project.

3. Jane Lauder

Age: 48

Nationality: American

Assets: 5.6 billion USD

Jane Lauder is the granddaughter ofcosmetics company founderEsteé Lauder (USA). She joined the company in 1996, a year after graduating from Stanford University. She currently manages the company's Clinique brand and, before that, Origins.

Jane Lauder has been on the board of directors since 2009. In 2018, she also joined the Board of Directors of Eventbrite – a ticketing and event technology company.

4. Angela Leong

Age: 60

Nationality: Hong Kong (China)

Assets: 3.3 billion USD

Angela Leong, 60, is the fourth wife of Macau casino king Stanley Ho and has given birth to five children. She comes from a wealthy military family, but was suddenly plunged into poverty after her father died. Leong had to enroll in a dance school to get free accommodation.

She has been investing since her early 20s and now has a large real estate portfolio in Hong Kong, where most of her wealth comes from. Angela Leong is currently the director and largest individual shareholder of the SJM Holdings casino empire. She is also involved in Macau politics.

5. Bernard Arnault

Age: 72

Nationality: French

Assets: 152 billion USD

Arnault is currently the chairman and CEO of the luxury empire LVMH. He started his business in the 70s and now manages 70 brands, including Louis Vuitton and Sephora. The billionaire is currently the richest man in the global fashion industry. Four of his five children also work for LVMH.

6. Tadashi Yanai

Age: 72

Nationality: Japanese

Assets: 43.7 billion USD

Tadashi Yanai is the founder of Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo. He opened the first Uniqlo store in 1984, and the first store in Tokyo in 1998.

Fast Retailing recorded $2.3 billion in net profit and $21.3 billion in revenue in fiscal 2019. The company also owns other brands, including Theory, Helmut Lang, J Brand and GU. Yanai's goal is to make Fast Retailing the world's largest fashion retailer, surpassing H&M and Inditex (Zara's parent company).

7. Alice Walton

Age: 72

Nationality: American

Assets: 67.5 billion USD

Despite being one of four heirs to the Walmart family, Alice Walton has little involvement in the company's operations. She is known for her love of collecting art. The divorced billionaire owns properties in New York and Texas.

8. Miuccia Prada

Age: 72

Nationality: Italy

Assets: 4.8 billion USD

Miuccia is the granddaughter of the founder of the Prada fashion empire. She inherited the company with her two sisters in 1977.

She is currently the co-CEO and chief designer of the brand. Her husband, billionaire Patrizio Bertelli, co-manages Prada with Miuccia. In 2011, the two held an IPO for the company in Hong Kong.

9. Les Wexner

Age: 84

Nationality: American

Assets: 5.8 billion USD

Les Wexner is the founder of L Brands – the global retail empire that owns Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works. He has been CEO of the company for more than five decades.

Wexner started his business in 1963, using a $5,000 loan from his aunt to open The Limited, which sold only fast-moving items like socks and pants. He bought Victoria's Secret in 1982 for $1 million, when it was just a small lingerie chain in San Francisco.

10. Paolo Bulgari

Age: 84

Nationality: Italy

Assets: 1.6 billion USD

Paolo Bulgari is the grandson of the founder of the Bulgari luxury jewelry empire. He joined the company when he was just 18. At the time, Paolo was still a law student, but his father asked him to design necklaces, rings, and bracelets for the company.

By 1984, he had become chairman of Bulgari. In 2011, the Bulgari family sold a controlling stake to LVMH in exchange for $5.2 billion in cash and stock. Paolo also serves on LVMH's advisory board.