There are currently a total of twelve Dutch billionaires, according to the Forbes Billionaires List. But who are these richest people in the Netherlands and what is their net worth in 2024?
You know the number 1 by now if you occasionally scroll through Manners. That is Heineken heiress Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken. If Jesus Christ had worked from the age of 18 until now, he would have had to earn 623,441 euros per month for more than 2,000 years to reach her assets.
All Dutch billionaires in 2024 according to Forbes
The Forbes Billionaires List is a list of all the billionaires on earth. It is currently led by Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. The highest Dutch person is at position 132 and the Netherlands’ lowest billionaire has to make do with position 2257. Poor Joop van den Ende. An overview in which the amounts have been converted into euros and rounded to one decimal place after the comma.
1. Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken
Assets in 2024: 14.3 billion dollars / 13.3 billion euros
Earned with: Heineken
Age: 69 years
2. Ralph Sonnenberg *
Assets in 2024: 10.8 billion dollars / 9.87 billion euros
Earned with: Luxaflex
Age: 89 years
3. Frits Goldschmeding
Assets in 2024: 6.1 billion dollars / 5.7 billion euros
Earned with: Randstad
Age: 90 years
4. Arnout Schuyff
Assets in 2024: 2.9 billion dollars / 2.7 billion euros
Earned with: payment platform Adyen
Age: 56 years
Arnout Schuijff is one of the self-made billionaires from the Netherlands. We do not have a photo of the Adyen founder within our image banks.
5. Pieter van der Does
Assets in 2024: 2.1 billion dollars / 1.9 billion euros
Earned with: payment platform Adyen
Age: 55 years
6. Doom Damen
Assets in 2024: 2.1 billion dollars / 1.9 billion euros
Earned with: Damen Shipyards Group (shipbuilder)
Age: 79 years
7. John de Mol
Assets in 2024: 1.8 billion dollars / 1.7 billion euros
Earned from: TV shows
Age: 68 years
8. Adriaan Mol
Assets in 2024: 1.8 billion dollars / 1.7 billion euros
Earned with: Mollie / MessageBird
Age: 40 years
Interesting detail: the youngest of all Dutch billionaires
9. Lesley Bamberger
Assets in 2024: 1.8 billion dollars / 1.7 billion euros
Earned with: Real estate
Age: 59 years
Interesting detail: owner Almere City and father-in-law of footballer Steven Berghuis
10. Sytse ‘Sid’ Sijbrandij
Assets in 2024: 1.5 billion dollars / 1.4 billion euros
Earned with: GitLab (online DevOps tool)
Age: 44 years
11. Steven Schuurman
Assets in 2024: 1.3 billion dollars / 1.2 billion euros
Earned with: Elastic (data search and analytics company)
Age: 48 years
12. Joop van den Ende
Assets in 2024: 1.2 billion dollars / 1.1 billion euros
Earned from: TV shows and musicals
Age: 82 years
* Ralph Sonneberg is not in the Forbes Billionaires List, but is in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. We have therefore added him to the list of all billionaires from the Netherlands.
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