The top 6 richest Romanians in the Forbes list are occupied by Daniel Dines, Ion Ţiriac, the Dragoş and Adrian Pavăl brothers, Ion Stoica and Matei Zaharia.
The richest Romanian is Daniel Dines, 52 years old, the co-founder and CEO of the technology company UiPath, with a fortune estimated by Forbes at 2.7 billion dollars. He occupies the 1,238th place in the ranking in which there are 2,781 people from around the world with assets of at least one billion dollars.
Dines, a graduate of the University of Bucharest, lives in New York and entered the Forbes list in 2020. His wealth increased in 2024 by 1.1 billion dollars compared to 2023, but reached its peak in 2021, the year of listing on the New York Stock Exchange York, when it was valued at $6 billion.
The second richest Romanian is Ion Ţiriac, with a fortune of 2.1 billion dollars. Aged 84, the former great tennis player made a fortune in banking and insurance, real estate and cars, occupying the 1,545th place in the Forbes ranking, which he first entered in 2019, with a fortune then estimated at 1 .2 billion dollars. Now, Ţiriac has reached the highest estimated value of the wealth, in a slight increase compared to last year, when it was valued at two billion dollars.
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The third richest Romanian, with a fortune of two billion dollars, is Dragoş Pavăl, 57 years old, co-founder of the chain of construction and DIY stores Dedeman. Entered in 2022 among the world’s billionaires, his wealth is on the rise, increasing from 1.5 billion to 1.7 billion in 2023 and reaching two billion in 2024.
His brother, Adrian Pavăl, 55, co-founder of Dedeman, has an estimated fortune of 1.4 billion dollars and is the fourth richest Romanian. And he entered the top again in 2022, with a billion dollars, reaching 1.1 billion dollars in 2023 and increasing to 1.4 billion in 2024.
Romania’s fifth billionaire is Ion Stoica, 59, co-founder and executive chairman of the software startup Databricks, with a fortune of $1.2 billion, the same as last year, but down from 2022 when it was valued to 1.6 billion dollars.
The sixth richest Romanian is businessman Matei Zaharia, 38 years old, co-founder and technology director of the software startup Databricks, with an estimated fortune of 1.2 billion dollars.
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