Bay Area High-Rollers Make Forbes Top Billionaires List

Some of the top Bay Area billionaires are listed below. None of those are in Napa Valley, but there are two in Marin County -- filmmaker George Lucas and hotelier David Pritzker.

Also, there are 14 billionaires living in San Francisco, including five members of the Gap store-founding Fisher family.

There is also a Bay Area icon, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who leads the rankings for the region and all of California.

Ellison ranks No. 5 on Forbes' Billionaires list, the same place he held in 2011. He is the third richest person in the United States, the magazine reports. The 68-year-old Woodside resident is worth an estimated $43 billion. Ellison made his fortune as co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation. 

Here are a sampling of the Bay Area billionaires on the Forbes list.

Wealthiest People in the Bay Area
Name Net Worth International Ranking U.S. Ranking Company Age Residence Larry Ellison $43 billion #5 3rd Oracle Corporation 68 Woodside Larry Page $23 billion #20 13th Google 39 Palo Alto Sergey Brin $22.8 billion #21 14th Google 39 Los Altos Mark Zuckerberg $13.3 billion #66 25th Facebook 28 Palo Alto Laurene Powell Job and family $10.7 billion #98 36th widow of Steve Jobs, founder of Emerson Collective 49 Palo Alto Eric Schmidt $8.2 billion #138 45th Google 57 Atherton Charles Johnson $5.7 billion #211 64th Franklin Resources (parent of mutual fund purveyor Franklin Templeton) 80 Hillsborough Rupert Johnson, Jr. $5.6 billion #215 66th Franklin Resources
71 Burlingame Charles Schwab $4.3 billion #299 95th Charles Schwab (financial broker) 75 Atherton Gordon Moore $4.1 billion #316 101st
Intel 84 Woodside George Roberts $4.1 billion #316
101st
KKR (leveraged buyouts) 69 Atherton George Lucas $3.9 billion #346
111th
director/producer 68 San Anselmo John A. Sobrato and family $3.9 billion #346
111th
Sobrato Development 73 Atherton Jeffrey Skoll $3.7 billion #363 120th eBay 48 Woodside Reid Hoffman $3.1 billion #437 144th LinkedIn 45 Palo Alto Andreas von Bechtolsheim $2.8 billion #503 German citizen Google 57 Palo Alto John Doerr
$2.7 billion #527 181st Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 61 Woodside Richard Peery $2 billion #736 249th real estate 74 Palo Alto Romesh T. Wadhwani $1.95 billion #785 262nd Symphony Technology Group 65 Palo Alto Meg Whitman $1.9 billion #792 264th eBay 56 Atherton Thomas Siebel $1.8 billion #831 279th software 60 Woodside David Pritzker $1.75 billion #868 290th hotels, investments 54 Marin County David Cheriton $1.7 billion #882 292nd Google 61 Palo Alto David Filo $1.7 billion #882 292nd Yahoo 46 Palo Alto Kavitark Ram Shriram $1.65 billion #922 304th Google 56 Menlo Park Scott Cook $1.5 billion #974 328th Intuit 60 Woodside Jerry Yang
$1.5 billion #974 328th Yahoo 44 Los Altos Hills Mark Stevens $1.3 billion #1107 359th S-Cubed Capital 53 Atherton Jim Breyer
$1.2 billion #1175 377th venture capital 51 Woodside Robert Duggan $1.2  billion #1175 377th Pharmacyclics 68 Palo Alto Carl Berg $1.1 billion #1268
392nd
real estate 75 Atherton Source: Forbes.com

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