Top 8 Most Famous Women

Women have always played a crucial role in establishing their identity in this male-dominant society and have made their place in various fields. Surprisingly, even some women outpaced their man equals and have crowned themselves as a successful entrepreneur. It was the men, who were considered good enough for an entrepreneur, but the recent evolution of women’s involvement has changed the perspective.

There is no more gender-based mark, and there are many success stories to be heard year by year. From media to politics, corporate to business, women are breaking barriers! Check out the list of the top 8 most famous women entrepreneurs!

1. Gina Rinehart

She is an Australian billionaire businesswoman, chairperson of the Hancock Prospecting Group. Gina is one of the richest people in Australia with a net worth of 15.6 billion US$. The company was founded by her father and is handed over to her after his death in 1992 when she recreated his slashed estate to something this big.

This mining company is continued to expand steadily, making her one of the famous and richest entrepreneurs in the world. She has also gained the title as a 36th powerful woman as per Forbes in 2019.

2. Denise Coates

She is a British entrepreneur, billionaire businesswoman, and founder cum chief executive of Bet365 which is an online gambling company. With a net worth of US$7.7 billion, Denise purchased the domain name back in January 2000 and presented this website publicly in 2001.

Bet365 is running successfully and has become one of the largest online gambling sites in the world with generating revenue of $2 billion and promoting $45 billion in yearly bets, making her a famous entrepreneur.

3. Wang Laichun

Wang is a Chinese woman entrepreneur with a net worth of US$9.0 billion. She is a billionaire and part-owner of a Chinese electronic manufacturer, Luxshare Precision Industry that supplies parts to Apple. She is known to be one of the world’s youngest self-made women billionaires and ranked as the 71st wealthy person in China.

Wang Laichun has started working for Terry Gou’s Hon initially and later bought the company, Luxshare in 2004. She is among the famous and richest women entrepreneurs with huge revenues.

4. Oprah Winfrey

She is a world-known name, isn’t she? Oprah is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. Her show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, was the highest-rated television program of its kind and was her most successful as well as a popular project which made her earn around 2–3 billion dollars.

Having a net worth of 250 crores USD, she is one of the richest and famous women entrepreneurs in the world. She has also been ranked 10th in the list of America’s self-made women in the year 2019.

5. Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl is the chief operating officer of Facebook, and also the founder of Leanin.org. In addition to this, she is also an American technology executive, author, activist, and philanthropist. Earlier, she was also vice president of online global sales and operations at Google and chief of staff at US Secretary of the Treasury, Lawrence Summers.

Sheryl has a net worth of 180 crores USD due to her stock holdings in Facebook and other companies and was in the list of the world’s most influential people in 2012. She is the 29th powerful woman in the world!

6. Sara Blakely

An American businesswoman, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of Spanx — an intimate apparel company! Sara was named in the world’s 100 most influential people in 2012 and has also been listed as the 93rd most powerful woman in the world. The current worth of Sara Blakely is around US$1.0 billion.

She is one of the most famous self-made women entrepreneurs and got success after many failures at the initial stage. The credit of boost in sale product goes to the compliments received from Oprah Winfrey.

7. Cher Wang

She is the chairperson and co-founder of HTC — which we all know is a popular mobile technology company. A Taiwanese businesswoman entrepreneur, Cher is also a philanthropist and has marked herself in the most influential and successful women’s entrepreneur list of technical industries.

She is listed as the 54th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes back in 2014. Her net worth is 1.6 billion dollars and she has been featured on Forbes continuously in the years 2010, 11 and 12.

8. Susan Wojcicki

Susan is the CEO of YouTube and is known as the longest remained CEO in past history. She is a Polish- American entrepreneur who became Google’s first marketing manager. Having a net worth of around $500 million, she has been ranked as the world’s 12th most powerful women.

She upheld for 1.65 billion dollars claim of YouTube in the year of 2006 and has been running it since 2014. Susan is one of the famous and richest women entrepreneurs!