- These millionaires and billionaires are on the market.
- Some founded businesses, others have found success in sports or the entertainment world, others have inherited their wealth.
- Many are based in the US, though others have roots around the world.
We've rounded up some of the most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes in the world who have net worths in the millions and billions. Whether their wealth comes from business acumen, athletic prowess, or being an heir to a large fortune, these are some of today's wealthiest, most successful single people.
Katharina Andresen
Age: 23
Country: Norway
Estimated net worth: $1.48 billion
Country: Norway
Estimated net worth: $1.48 billion
At 23 years old, Katharina Andresen is the second-youngest billionaire
in the world. An heir to her family's investment company, Ferd, based
in Oslo, Norway, Andresen and her younger sister each inherited
42 percent of the company. (Their father still runs the company.)
Katharina currentlyworks as an intern at Ernst & Young.
India Rose James
Age: 26
Country: UK
Estimated net worth: $280 million
Country: UK
Estimated net worth: $280 million
India Rose James is an heiress to publishing and real estate tycoon
Paul Raymond, who was her grandfather, according to Wealth-X,
a research firm that studies the wealthy. She founded the Soho
Revue, a contemporary art gallery in London, that has since closed.
James sports a unique, alternative look, and can often be seen with
She has a 1-year-old daughter and recently split from Hugh Harris,
guitarist for English rock band The Kooks.
Louis Tomlinson
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Age: 26
Country: US (Originally UK)
Estimated net worth: $45 million, according to Wealth-X
Country: US (Originally UK)
Estimated net worth: $45 million, according to Wealth-X
Perhaps best known for being a member of pop band One Direction,
Louis William Tomlinson has since begun his own solo singer-songwriter
career. Tomlinson, who grew up in South Yorkshire, England,
auditioned for the reality show X Factor in 2010.
In 2014, the musician showed how much his roots matter to him
when he bought his hometown soccer team, The Doncaster Rovers.
There are some recent rumors that Tomlinson is back with a
former girlfriend, so his single status may not last.
Emma Watson
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Age: 28
Country: UK
Estimated net worth: $35 million, according to Wealth-X
Country: UK
Estimated net worth: $35 million, according to Wealth-X
Emma Watson is philanthropist, activist and model, but is perhaps best
known for her roles as Hermione in the "Harry Potter" films and as
Belle in 2017's rendition of "Beauty and the Beast."
Watson, who was born in Paris, grew up in Oxfordshire, England,
and later lived in the U.S. while attending college at Brown University.
Watson is also a U.N. ambassador. Where she currently resides is
unknown, as she maintains a fairly private personal life.
John Collison
Age: 27
Country: US (originally Ireland)
Estimated net worth:$1 billion
Country: US (originally Ireland)
Estimated net worth:$1 billion
Collison, the youngest self-made billionaire in the world, dropped out
of Harvard at 19 to co-found Stripe, a payment-processing company used
by the likes Facebook and Lyft,
as previously reported by Business Insider.
Originally from the small village of Dromineer, Ireland, Collison founded
the company with his brother, Patrick. Collison now resides in San Francisco,
where
Stripe is headquartered. The adventurous billionaire enjoys flying
Taylor Swift
Age: 28
Country: US
Estimated net worth: $280 million
Country: US
Estimated net worth: $280 million
The pop megastar hardly needs an introduction — her steady climb to
fame over the last 10 years has been heavily documented. Her recent
album, "Reputation," sold over 1.2 million copies in its first week,
and went on to become the best-selling album of 2017 in the U.S.
Swift was included in TIME's Person of the Year list in 2017 as
one of the country's silence breakers. Paparazzi photos have
suggested the singer is dating actor Joe Alwyn, but nothing has
been confirmed.
Patrick Collison
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Age: 29
Country: US (originally Ireland)
Estimated net worth: $1 billion
Country: US (originally Ireland)
Estimated net worth: $1 billion
Patrick Collison, John Collison's brother and the co-founder and
CEO of Stripe, is also one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires.
Patrick attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a bit
before dropping out. He currently resides in San Francisco.
The Collison brothers' wealth isn't anything new; Patrick and
John Collison actually became millionaires in 2008 — long before
Stripe — when they sold Auctomatic, an online marketplace they
had founded, Forbes reports.
Apoorva Mehta
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Age: 31
Country: US
Estimated net worth: $360 million
Country: US
Estimated net worth: $360 million
Apoorva Mehta is the founder and CEO of Instacart, a grocery delivery
service he founded in 2012. Persistence is a virtue, and Mehta has it:
he founded around 20 companies before he saw success with Instacart.
The San Francisco resident enjoys biking and reading, and has
grown his company to havehundreds of employees.
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Lukas WaltonAge: 32
Country: US
Estimated net worth: $14.5 billion
Country: US
Estimated net worth: $14.5 billion
Lukas Walton is the grandson of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, and
therefore an heir to the megastore's fortune. Walton appears to live a
fairly down-to-earth life and stays out of the public eye.
In fact, he was raised in National City, California, a town with a
median household income of about $45,000. Walton graduated from
Colorado College and currently resides in Jackson, Wyoming.
Drew HoustonAge: 35
Country: US
Estimated net worth:$3.4 billion
Country: US
Estimated net worth:$3.4 billion
Drew Houston, the CEO and founder of Dropbox, created his
file-sharing company with a fellow Massachusetts Institute of
Technology classmate in 2007 at just 24 years old, Forbes reports.
The company has since grown significantly and went public in March 2018.
Houston is also a philanthropist and backer for FWD.us, a group
that promotes immigration reform, alongside the likes of Bill Gates
and Mark Zuckerberg. The billionaire currently lives in San Francisco.
Yoshikazu Tanaka
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Age: 41
Country: Japan
Estimated net worth: $1.12 billion
Country: Japan
Estimated net worth: $1.12 billion
One of the few self-made billionaires on this list, Yoshikazu Tanaka
grew his wealth by founding the company GREE, Inc., which develops
Tanaka currently serves as the company's president and chairman.
Fun fact? Tanaka, who was born in Tokyo, was addicted to playing
Sergey Brin
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Age: 44
Country: US
Estimated net worth: $47.3 billionAge: 44
Country: US
Estimated net worth: $47.3 billionAge: 44
Country: US
Estimated net worth: $47.3 billion
Estimated net worth: $47.3 billion
The co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin currently serves as the president of
Alphabet, Google's parent company. Brin was born in Russia, and moved to
the U.S. with his parents at a young age.
After college at the University of Maryland at College Park, Brin pursued a
Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, where he joined forces
with Google co-founder Larry Page. Brin was married to 23andMe
co-founder Anne Wojcicki from 2007 to 2015, and the couple has two
children. He's an active philanthropist, too: Brin has donated over
$100 million to Parkinson's disease research.
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