U.S. healthcare billionaires now have a collective net worth of $113.6 billion. In total, there are 2,640 real-time billionaires across the world in 2024.
Here are the 34 U.S.-based healthcare billionaires of 2024 and their billionaire ranking nationally:
81. Thomas Thomas Frist Jr., MD, $20.2 billion, founded Hospital Corp. of America in 1968.
171. Carl Cook, $10.2 billion, is CEO of medical device manufacturer Cook Group.
282. Reinhold Schmieding, $7.7 billion, started orthopedic surgical tools company Arthrex in 1981 and still owns more than 90 percent of the company.
344. Ronda Stryker, $6.9 billion, is a director of medical equipment company Stryker Corp.
442. Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, $5.8 billion, was a practicing physician before inventing the cancer medication Abraxane.
445. John Brown, $5.7 billion, ran Stryker Corp. for 32 years.
455. Li Ge, $5.6 billion, co-founded WuXi AppTech, a provider of research and clinical trial services.
636. Jon Stryker, $4.3 billion, inherited a stake in Stryker Corp.
905. Pat Stryker, $3.2 billion, inherited a stake in Stryker Corp.
1067. Stewart Rahr, $2.8 billion, expanded and sold his father’s pharmaceutical company Kinray.
1104. Wayne Rothbaum, $2.7 billion, founded investment firm Quogue Capital in 2001 and became a successful biotech investor.
1164. Leonard Schleifer, $2.6 billion, co-founded and remains CEO of drugmaker Regeneron.
1368. Hao Hong, $2.2 billion, is the chair of pharmaceutical outsourcing company Asymchem Laboratories.
1368. Alice Schwartz, $2.2 billion, launched lab research facilitator Bio-Rad in 1952.
1434. Timothy Springer, PhD, $2.1 billion, was a founding investor in Moderna and works as a professor of biochemistry at Boston-based Harvard Medical School.
1647. Robert Duggan, $1.8 billion, led the 2015 sale of biotech firm Pharmacyclics to AbbVie.
1647. Phillip Frost, $1.8 billion, runs diagnostic-maker Opko Health.
1647. Gary Michelson, MD, $1.8 billion, is a retired orthopedic and spine surgeon who holds over 340 U.S. patents.
1647. Amy Wyss, $1.8 billion, worked at her father’s medical equipment firm Synthes for years before it sold to Johnson & Johnson.
1725. Keith Dunleavy and family, $1.7 billion, is the founder of cloud-based data analytics company Inovalon.
1725. Osman Kibar, $1.7 billion, is the founder and CEO of San Diego-based biotech firm Samumed.
1725. James Leininger, MD, $1.7 billion, is the founder of medical device company Kinetic Concepts.
1804. Noubar Afeyan, $1.6 billion, is the founder and CEO of life sciences innovation firm Flagship Pioneering.
1804. Randal Kirk, $1.6 billion, is chair of private equity firm Third Security and the former CEO of biotech firm Precigen.
1804. Robert Langer, $1.6 billion, is a scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge) and a co-founder of Moderna.
1804. August Troendle, $1.6 billion, is the president and CEO of clinical research company Medpace.
1804. George Yancopoulos, MD, PhD, $1.6 billion, is the chief scientific officer at biotech firm Regeneron.
1905. Jeff Tangney, $1.5 billion, co-founded Doximity.
2020. David Paul, $1.4 billion, is the founder and executive chair of spine manufacturer Globus Medical.
2133. Joe Kiani, $1.3 billion, runs medical technology firm Masimo Corp.
2133. John Oyler, $1.3 billion, is the CEO and cofounder of biotech outfit BeiGene.
2259. Alan Miller and family, $1.2 billion, founded Universal Health Services, a chain of hospitals and health providers, in 1979.
2259. Forrest Preston, $1.2 billion, founded Life Care Centers of America in 1970 to house and care for the elderly.
2259. Zhao Ning, $1.2 billion, was a co-founder and director of WuXi AppTec. She died in May 2023 at age 56.
