NEW YORK – The analytics news site Stacker drew on the Forbes magazine data on global wealth to list the five richest billionaires in Minnesota. The list has famliar names:
> Glen Taylor, of Mankato: $2.7 billion. Self-made through printing. 1,088th richest person in the world.
> Stanley Hibbard, of St. Paul: $1.6 billion. From DirecTV and broadcasting (1,735th).
> Jeffrey Michael family, of Minnetonka: $1.3 billion. Self-made in data management (2,101th)
> Martha MacMillan, of Orono: $1.2 billion. A Cargill heir. (Also 2,144th)
> John Miller, of Plymouth: Also $1.2 billion. Also a Cargill heir (also 2,144th).
Billionaire tidbits
Stacker added these observations: The first billionaire was either Standard Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller in 1916 or automobile manufacturer Henry Ford in 1925. Data are inconclusive. A century later a record 660 people became billionaires globally, tripling the previous year. The Unite States has more billionaires than any other country. Pew Research data show Americans have good feelings about some individual billionaires, like Bill Gates of Microsoft wealth, but see billionaires as a group negatively. Another factoid: Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos is projected to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2026.