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Forbes API: List billionaires

Lists the richest people in rank order from Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, with net worth, daily change and profile details. Filter by country of citizenship or industry; wealth and changes are in billions of US dollars.

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Inputs

Values from the run on Oct 31, 2026, shown under Output.

Country optionalcountry

Country of citizenship to include, for example India. Leave blank for all countries.

(default)

Industry optionalindustry

Industry to include, for example Technology. Leave blank for all industries.

(default)

Max Results optionalmax_results

Maximum number of people to return, for example 25.

25 (default)

Whole number from 1 to 200.

Output

From a run on Oct 31, 2026, shortened for this page.
{  "updated_at": "2026-09-29T02:25:02.187000+00:00",  "billionaires": [    {      "age": 55,      "name": "Elon Musk",      "rank": 1,      "country": "United States",      "industry": "Technology",      "photo_url": "https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/62d700cd6094d2c180f269b9/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&crop=959,959,x0,y0,safe&height=288&width=288&fit=bounds",      "profile_url": "https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/",      "source_of_wealth": "Tesla, SpaceX",      "net_worth_billions_usd": 906.7,      "todays_change_billions_usd": -22.2237    },    {      "age": 62,      "name": "Jeff Bezos",      "rank": 2,      "country": "United States",      "industry": "Technology",      "photo_url": "https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/67531eb2b5f7c9e191f632d7/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&crop=711,713,x316,y125,safe&height=288&width=288&fit=bounds",      "profile_url": "https://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-bezos/",      "source_of_wealth": "Amazon",      "net_worth_billions_usd": 366.4,      "todays_change_billions_usd": -3.1131    },    {      "age": 53,      "name": "Larry Page",      "rank": 3,      "country": "United States",      "industry": "Technology",      "photo_url": "https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/5c76bcaaa7ea43100043c836/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&crop=1795,1795,x227,y22,safe&height=288&width=288&fit=bounds",      "profile_url": "https://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-page/",      "source_of_wealth": "Google",      "net_worth_billions_usd": 281.1,      "todays_change_billions_usd": -1.206    }  ]}
Price
1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free.
Method
forbes.com/list_billionaires
Returns
update time; rank, name, net worth, today's change, source of wealth, industry, country, age, photo, profile URL

Use it from your agent

Give your agent this line. It reads SKILL.md, gets a Fous API key and connects the Fous MCP server. Its run then takes the method forbes.com/list_billionaires with the inputs above.

Ask your agent

  • Who are the 10 richest people in India right now, and how much has each one's net worth moved today?
  • Show me Forbes' real-time ranking of the top 50 billionaires in technology, with their ages and where their money comes from
  • I need the current wealthiest Brazilians: names, net worth in billions, and profile links for the top 15
  • Pull the live Forbes billionaires list for Germany, limited to the automotive industry
  • Give me today's top 100 richest people in the world with their daily wealth change and country of citizenship
  • Looks up a billionaire by name on the Forbes real-time billionaires list and returns their real-time net worth, today's change, rank and public profile details. Wealth figures change throughout the trading day.

    forbes.com/get_person_net_worth
  • Lists companies in the Forbes Global 2000 in rank order, optionally for a given year, country of headquarters and industry. Financial figures are in billions of US dollars; up to 500 results.

    forbes.com/list_global_2000
  • Finds a Forbes company profile by name and returns its Forbes list rankings, company facts and headline financial figures (Forbes list years; market value from the matching Global 2000 list).

    forbes.com/get_company_rankings
  • Lists the Fortune 500 for a year. You can filter by industry or sector and by headquarters state. Each company comes with its public financial and company details.

    fortune.com/list_fortune_500
  • Gets a company's Fortune 500 or Fortune 1000 rank and headline figures for a list year. CEO, ticker and website come from the current company profile and may not reflect a historical year.

    fortune.com/get_company_rank
  • Ranks public companies worldwide, or by country and industry, by market cap, revenue, earnings, employees or dividend yield. When both a country and an industry are set, the industry ranking order is kept and only companies from that country are shown.

    companiesmarketcap.com/list_largest_companies
  • Lists MSN Money's current leading stock gainers, losers, or most-active shares in a selected market, in MSN's order. Lists may contain fewer than 50 stocks and prices may be delayed.

    msn.com/list_market_movers
  • Lists Yahoo Finance's top gainers, top losers, most active stocks, or regional trending tickers in Yahoo's order, with price, change, volume and market cap.

    finance.yahoo.com/list_market_movers