Pavel Baudiš is a Czech software engineer, entrepreneur and the co-founder of Avast along with Eduard Kučera. He became the largest Gen Digital individual or non-institutional shareholder.
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| As of | Estimate | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3B | Forbes · current |
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Also born on May 15
Entrepreneur
1951 · United States
$15.6Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes
Nancy Walton Laurie is an American billionaire who is an heir to the Walmart fortune.
Entrepreneur · Aon plc
1937 · United States
$10Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes
Patrick George Ryan is an American billionaire insurance businessman. He is the founder and retired chairman and CEO of Aon. In 2010, he founded Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) as a holding company aimed at providing specialty services to insurance brokers, agents and carriers.
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Entrepreneur
1985 · Sweden
$1.9Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes
Tom Stefan Persson is a Swedish billionaire businessman, who works in the film industry. He is an heir of the fashion company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), which was founded by his grandfather Erling Persson in 1947.
Athlete
1997 · France
Masour Ousmane Dembélé is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward and right winger for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team.
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Athlete
1987 · United Kingdom
Sir Andrew Barron Murray is a British professional tennis coach and former player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 in 2016.
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Scientist
1859–1906 · France
Pierre Curie was a French physicist and chemist, and a pioneer in crystallography and magnetism. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, for their work on radioactivity.
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