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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Bill Gates	United States	Founders	99.0	5.7
#2	—	Steve Jobs	United States	Founders	96.1	11.1
#3	—	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Turkey	Founders	94.2	10.0
#4	—	Henry Ford	United States	Founders	88.4	1.4
#5	—	Sung Jae-gi	South Korea	Founders	82.7	0.0
#6	—	Umar	—	Founders	82.7	16.1
#7	—	Mikhail Khodorkovsky	—	Founders	82.4	23.7
#8	—	Jensen Huang CEO of NVIDIA	United States	Founders	81.4	11.4
#9	—	Jawed Karim	United States	Founders	81.1	3.1
#10	—	Jeff Bezos	United States	Founders	80.5	10.1
#11	—	Peter Thiel	New Zealand	Founders	80.5	17.4
#12	—	Pavel Durov	—	Founders	79.4	7.8
#13	—	Vivek Ramaswamy	United States	Founders	79.1	2.4
#14	—	Kate Spade	United States	Founders	78.6	10.9
#15	—	Gary Vaynerchuk	United States	Founders	76.8	0.3
#16	—	Oleg Tinkov	—	Founders	76.1	25.0
#17	—	Donald Trump Jr.	United States	Founders	75.8	20.3
#18	—	Yevgeny Chichvarkin	—	Founders	75.7	22.5
#19	—	David Rubenstein	United States	Founders	75.6	6.2
#20	—	Fabrizio Corona	Italy	Founders	75.1	15.0
#21	—	Ricardo Salinas Pliego	Mexico	Founders	74.1	22.9
#22	—	Chad Hurley	United States	Founders	73.9	16.6
#23	—	Zbigniew Stonoga	—	Founders	73.9	7.5
#24	—	Alexis Ohanian	United States	Founders	73.6	7.5
#25	—	Andrew Yang	United States	Founders	73.4	0.0
#26	—	Elie Saab	—	Founders	73.3	2.3
#27	—	Tony Hawk	United States	Founders	72.7	0.0
#28	—	Ahn Cheol-soo	South Korea	Founders	72.6	5.7
#29	—	Larry Page	United States	Founders	71.7	2.1
#30	—	Terry Gou	—	Founders	71.6	1.3
#31	—	Greg Brockman	United States	Founders	71.4	10.0
#32	—	Kaesang Pangarep	Indonesia	Founders	71.3	2.0
#33	—	Noh Hong-chul	South Korea	Founders	70.9	2.7
#34	—	Darius the Great	—	Founders	70.7	3.0
#35	—	Natalya Kaspersky	—	Founders	70.0	15.0
#36	—	Trajan	Spain	Founders	69.9	0.0
#37	—	German Sterligov	—	Founders	69.6	3.5
#38	—	Ramesses II	—	Founders	69.3	2.2
#39	—	Mukhtar Ablyazov	—	Founders	68.9	0.1
#40	—	Tareq Al-Suwaidan	—	Founders	68.8	0.0
#41	—	Rupert Murdoch	United States	Founders	68.8	10.0
#42	—	Dick Morris	United States	Founders	68.4	11.7
#43	—	David Perdue	United States	Founders	68.2	11.8
#44	—	Xerxes I	—	Founders	68.2	15.0
#45	—	John D. Rockefeller	United States	Founders	68.2	0.6
#46	—	Dmitry Potapenko	—	Founders	67.8	1.9
#47	—	J. R. D. Tata	India	Founders	67.5	10.0
#48	—	Henry Dunant	Switzerland	Founders	67.1	0.0
#49	—	Andriy Palchevskyi	—	Founders	67.0	6.3
#50	—	ET Erik Tegnér	France	Founders	67.0	15.0
#51	—	Tsai Eng-meng	—	Founders	66.8	2.6
#52	—	Yevgeny Prigozhin	—	Founders	66.5	3.7
#53	—	Richard Branson	United Kingdom	Founders	66.3	10.0
#54	—	Jack Ma	China	Founders	66.2	2.2
#55	—	Isabel dos Santos	—	Founders	66.0	1.1
#56	—	Anders Behring Breivik	Norway	Founders	66.0	1.7
#57	—	Alessandro Benetton	Italy	Founders	65.9	2.9
#58	—	Daniel Vávra	—	Founders	65.9	0.0
#59	—	Toto Wolff	Austria	Founders	65.8	24.7
#60	—	PT Putri Tanjung	Indonesia	Founders	65.8	8.3
#61	—	Enzo Ferrari	Italy	Founders	65.7	10.0
#62	—	Pyrrhus of Epirus	—	Founders	65.7	16.7
#63	—	Barry Lam	China	Founders	65.6	10.0
#64	—	Hatshepsut	Egypt	Founders	65.5	0.0
#65	—	Roman Abramovich	Portugal	Founders	65.4	17.6
#66	—	Ibn Saud	—	Founders	65.4	0.0
#67	—	Keith Raniere	United States	Founders	65.3	0.8
#68	—	Cecil Rhodes	United Kingdom	Founders	65.2	0.0
#69	—	Gabe Newell	United States	Founders	65.0	23.9
#70	—	Ratan Tata	India	Founders	65.0	10.0
#71	—	Steve Ballmer	United States	Founders	64.2	10.7
#72	—	Charles Martel	—	Founders	64.2	1.3
#73	—	Masayoshi Son	Japan	Founders	64.0	9.6
#74	—	Skanderbeg	—	Founders	63.6	1.6
#75	—	Hibatullah Akhundzada	—	Founders	63.5	10.4
#76	—	Azim Premji	India	Founders	63.4	8.0
#77	—	Niki Lauda	Austria	Founders	63.2	1.0
#78	—	Boris Berezovsky	—	Founders	63.1	11.9
#79	—	Mustafa Süleyman	United Kingdom	Founders	63.1	0.4
#80	—	Mukesh Ambani	India	Founders	62.7	0.5
#81	—	Oskar Schindler	—	Founders	62.7	0.0
#82	—	Dan Bricklin	United States	Founders	62.5	4.7
#83	—	DA Daniela Amodei	United States	Founders	62.5	8.3
#84	—	David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon	United Kingdom	Founders	62.4	17.2
#85	—	John Elkann	United States	Founders	62.3	13.3
#86	—	Helen Doron	United Kingdom	Founders	62.3	1.0
#87	—	Stan Kroenke	United States	Founders	62.3	1.6
#88	—	Marc Andreessen	United States	Founders	62.2	6.0
#89	—	John Jacob Astor IV	United States	Founders	62.2	15.0
#90	—	Colonel Sanders	United States	Founders	62.1	1.6
#91	—	Eduardo Saverin	Brazil	Founders	62.1	2.5
#92	—	Alice Walton	United States	Founders	62.1	7.8
#93	—	Hasan ibn Ali	—	Founders	61.9	1.2
#94	—	Shu Uemura	Japan	Founders	61.9	0.0
#95	—	Ronald Wayne	United States	Founders	61.8	0.0
#96	—	Khufu	—	Founders	61.6	0.2
#97	—	John Brown	United States	Founders	61.6	0.0
#98	—	Jamsetji Tata	India	Founders	61.6	40.0
#99	—	Sean Parker	United States	Founders	61.6	7.9
#100	—	Adolf Dassler	Germany	Founders	61.5	15.4

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