Seven Americans of Greek descent are in this year’s Forbes 400 list, featuring the wealthiest people in United States, ranked by net worth.
The aggregate wealth of these extremely successful Greek American businessmen stands at 16.68 billion dollars.
It should be noted that joining the ranks of the 400 wealthiest Americans was no easy task this year, as the price of entry to The Forbes 400 in 2014 is $1.55 billion, the highest it’s been since Forbes published its first list in 1982.
Another interesting fact is that, all together, the 400 wealthiest Americans are worth about $2.29 trillion, an amount that is about the same as the gross domestic product of Brazil!
The seven Greek Americans that made the Forbes 400 list are:
Jim Davis
Jim Davis is the chairman of running shoe-maker New Balance, with revenues estimated at $2.7 billion.
John Paul DeJoria
John Paul Jones DeJoria is a Greek American billionaire businessman and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the Paul Mitchell line of hair products and The Patron Spirits Company.
John Catsimatidis
John Catsimatidis is the owner, president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes Foods, the largest grocery chain in Manhattan, and the Red Apple Group, a real estate company with about $700 million to $800 million in holdings.
Michael Jaharis
Jaharis is the founder of Kos Pharmaceuticals and Vatera Healthcare Partners, and co-founder of Arisaph Pharmaceuticals.
Dean Metropoulos
C. Dean Metropoulos is a Greek American investor and businessman and previous owner of Pabst Brewing Company, which was founded by Jacob Best in 1844.
George Argyros
George Leon Argyros is the former United States Ambassador to Spain. He is also a successful real estate investor, and was the owner of Major League Baseball’s Seattle Mariners from 1981 to 1989.
Peter Peterson
The successful businessman, investment banker, fiscal conservative, philanthropist, and author served as United States Secretary of Commerce from February 1972 to February 1973.
