All 35 Forbes billionaires under age 30 on the 2026 list (net worths as of March 1, 2026) — $92.4B combined net worth across 13 countries. Filter by self-made vs inherited, country, and industry.
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Subscribe Free →Forbes counts 35 billionaires under the age of 30 across 13 countries in its 2026 list. The top of that list is unusually concentrated: the six wealthiest are all heirs, and all six come from just two European family fortunes.
| # | Name | Company | Net worth | Age | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clemente Del Vecchio | EssilorLuxottica | $6.8B | 21 | Italy |
| 2 | Luca Del Vecchio | EssilorLuxottica | $6.8B | 24 | Italy |
| 3 | Johannes von Baumbach | Boehringer Ingelheim | $6.6B | 20 | Germany |
| 4 | Franz von Baumbach | Boehringer Ingelheim | $6.6B | 24 | Germany |
| 5 | Katharina von Baumbach | Boehringer Ingelheim | $6.6B | 26 | Germany |
| 6 | Maximilian von Baumbach | Boehringer Ingelheim | $6.6B | 28 | Germany |
Most under-30 billionaires did not build the company their fortune came from. The EssilorLuxottica and Boehringer Ingelheim heirs alone account for $40.0B of the list — about 43% of the cohort’s $92.4B combined net worth, held by six people.
Germany and Italy are overrepresented for the same reason: both have large private family companies that pass down intact rather than going public and diluting. That is a structural difference from the US, where under-30 wealth is far more likely to be equity in a company the person founded.
The self-made third of the list (12 of 35) is remarkably narrow. Each one built in artificial intelligence — Scale AI, Cursor, Mercor, Lovable — or in prediction markets, namely Kalshi and Polymarket. There are no under-30 billionaires in this cohort from consumer apps, e-commerce, crypto exchanges, or social media, categories that produced young billionaires in every prior cycle.
That concentration says something about where value accrued between 2023 and 2026: foundation-model tooling and the infrastructure around it compressed the time from founding to billion-dollar valuation more than any category since early social.
Clemente Del Vecchio, at $6.8B. He and his brother Luca each hold an equal stake in EssilorLuxottica, the Italian eyewear group behind Ray-Ban and Oakley, inherited from their father Leonardo Del Vecchio.
Amelie Voigt Trejes, age 20, an heir to Brazilian industrial-machinery maker WEG, with a net worth of $1.1B (Forbes 2026 list, net worths as of March 1, 2026). She is about seven weeks younger than Johannes von Baumbach (20, $6.6B), an heir to German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim, who is now second youngest.
Forbes counts 35 billionaires under the age of 30 in its 2026 list, spread across 13 countries.
No. The majority of under-30 billionaires inherited their wealth. Self-made members of the list are a minority (12 of 35, a record per Forbes), and every one of them built in AI or prediction markets.
Source: Forbes, “The World’s Youngest Billionaires 2026” (2026 World’s Billionaires list; net worths as of March 1, 2026). Net worth figures are point-in-time and move with the underlying share prices.