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America's Top 25 Richest Immigrant Billionaires
From arriving on student visas or escaping hardship to building multi-trillion dollar tech empires, foreign-born entrepreneurs hold over $2.2 trillion in wealth and represent one-quarter of America's richest citizens.
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America's Top 25 Richest Immigrant Billionaires 
25. Hamdi Ulukaya (Turkey)The Kurdish immigrant who built Greek yogurt empire Chobani. 
24. Jerry Yang (Taiwan)The Taiwanese immigrant who co-founded internet pioneer Yahoo!. 
23. Noubar Afeyan (Lebanon)The Armenian-Lebanese immigrant who co-founded biotechnology pioneer Moderna. 
22. Tony Xu (China)The Chinese immigrant who built food delivery titan DoorDash. 
21. Steven Udvar-Hazy (Hungary)The Hungarian refugee who created the modern aircraft leasing industry. 
20. Jeff Skoll (Canada)The Canadian engineer who served as the first president of eBay. 
19. Garrett Camp (Canada)The Canadian technologist who co-founded ride-hailing giant Uber. 
18. Romesh Wadhwani (India)The Indian engineer who founded enterprise AI giant SymphonyAI. 
17. Patrick Soon-Shiong (South Africa)The South African surgeon who invented revolutionary cancer therapies. 
16. Douglas Leone (Italy)The Italian immigrant who led Sequoia Capital to record heights. 
15. John Collison (Ireland)The Irish wunderkind who co-founded payments juggernaut Stripe. 
14. Patrick Collison (Ireland)The Irish coder who engineered the infrastructure of internet commerce. 
13. Vinod Khosla (India)The Indian-born engineer who co-founded Sun Microsystems. 
12. Pierre Omidyar (France)The Paris-born software engineer who created online auctions at eBay. 
11. Peter Thiel (Germany)The German-born venture capitalist behind PayPal and Palantir. 
10. Safra Catz (Israel)The Israeli-born executive leading enterprise software giant Oracle. 
9. Shahid Khan (Pakistan)The Pakistani student who built an automotive and NFL empire. 
8. Andreas Von Bechtolsheim (Germany)The German hardware visionary who wrote Google's first check. 
7. Jan Koum (Ukraine)The Ukrainian immigrant who connected billions via WhatsApp. 
6. Rupert Murdoch (Australia)The Australian mogul who built a multi-continental media empire. 
5. Thomas Peterffy (Hungary)The Hungarian refugee who pioneered automated stock trading. 
4. Miriam Adelson (Israel)The Israeli-born physician controlling a premier gaming empire. 
3. Jensen Huang (Taiwan)The Taiwanese immigrant powering the global AI revolution. 
2. Sergey Brin (Russia)The Soviet-born prodigy who co-founded Google and Alphabet. 
1. Elon Musk (South Africa)The South African visionary leading Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI.
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