MacKenzie Scott

Philanthropist

Rank on list: 67

Net worth: $59 billion Source of wealth: Amazon

Citizenship: U.S.

Scott is an author and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to whom she was married for 25 years. They divorced in mid2019. As part of the divorce settlement, Jeff transferred 25% of his Amazon stake to MacKenzie, which was 4% of the company. In late July 2020, she announced she’d given nearly $1.7 billion to 119 nonprofit groups and changed her last name from Bezos to Scott.