North Texas Billionaires Top Forbes List

0:00It's April 8th. Welcome to Dallas News Today, powered by AI. Fort Worth got called out by some influencer saying billionaires there, just poverty cosplay, but Forbes latest list for 2026 shuts that down hard. Alice Walton, living right in Caltown, ranks 14th richest worldwide with $134 billion. She's the top woman on the planet, daughter of Walmart's founder, and has held that spot three years running. North Texas packs a punch with billionaires from oil, sports, and investments. Elaine Marshall and family sit second at $30.9 billion from Coke Industry Sticks in Dallas. Lindel Stevens' Grets family hits third with $30 billion, after selling their massive oil outfit. Then Stanley Cronkey in a lecture with $22.2 billion from real estate and teams like the Rams and Arsenal. Jerry Jones and his Dallas Cowboys crew round out 5th at $20.3 billion, mixing oil roots with that $13 billion franchise.

1:01The full top 10 includes more Dallas heavyweights like Ken Fisher and Andrew Beale, plus Ann Walton Cranky tied to Walmart shares. Robert Bass, another Fort Worth name, clocks in at 664th globally with $6.3 billion from oil inheritance. Wealth jumped big from last year. Alice Walton's fortune ballooned from $101 billion and most others gained two, like the Marshall's up from. 28.3. Marshall's Cronkays joined the North Texas top 10 this time around. So while Elon Musk holds the world crown at $8.39 billion down in Austin, North Texas proves its billionaire central, blending, old oil money with new empire builders. Use the region flexing quiet power.