Louisiana’s Richest Person Identified Along with the Billionaires

Forbes has come out with its annual list of the world's billionaires, and this year's list includes two people from Louisiana.

The world is full of 2545 billionaires, and topping this year's list is the man behind the fashion brands Louis Vuitton and Sephora. Louis Vuitton is known as a luxury luggage brand and Sephora is a beauty and cosmetics empire.

Who Made The List Of The World's Richest People?

#10  Larry Page of Google

#9    Mukesh Ambani  Diversied/Various Industries

#8    Steve Balmer of Microsoft

#7    Bill Gates of Microsoft

#6     Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway

#5     Larry Ellison of Oracle

#4     Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook

#3     Jeff Bezos of Amazon

#2     Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX

When researching the entire list, we found that two Louisianans, a male and a female, have each made the list.

Out Of The Two People, Which Person Is The Richest In Louisiana?

If you eat at Raising Cane's, you have helped this man climb the ladder of the billionaires club. Todd Graves, the creator of Raising Cane's, is worth $9.1 billion, making him the 270th richest person in the world.

Graves is the perfect example of why you should never abandon your dreams. This is part of his biography on the billionaire's list:

His professor gave his idea (of opening a chicken restaurant) the lowest grade int he class and he couldn't get bank financing, so he worked as a boilermaker and salmon fisher to save up cash.

Eventually, he poured all of that saved-up money into his idea and secured an SBA loan. He has been successful for a company that he started in 1996 even though his LSU professor told him he would never succeed.

Gayle Benson, the owner of the New Orleans Saints, the New Orleans Pelicans, and other businesses comes in a little lower on the list, but she is a billionaire.

This lovely lady is worth $6.1 billion. Benson inherited the teams from her husband, Tom Benson, who died in 2018, but she was always business savvy. She worked from the 60s to build her livelihood.

She did not start in sports. Gayle was an interior designer who started her business in that industry in the 1970s. She later diversified with real estate and thoroughbred horses.

Gayle and Tom Benson married one another in 2004.