PA Billionaires: Meet The Keystone State's Wealthiest People
By Eric Heyl
Published on March 10, 2026.
Forbes has named the list of The Richest People in the World, with Pennsylvanians including co-founder of Susquehana, a trading firm that ranks 62nd and 114th with a net worth of $16.3 billion. Other Pennsylvanian billionaires on the list include Arthur Dantchik, 67, a co-founding of the company, which ranks him at 62nd. Michael Rubin, founder and CEO of Fanatics, is worth $9.6 billion and ranked 129th, while Jeff Lurie, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, ranked 191st. Thomas Hagen, chairman of Erie Indemnity, is 219th. U.S. billionaires dominate the ranking, with 989 people on the top 10, followed by China (including Hong Kong) with 610, and India in third place with 229 billionaires. The rise of wealth tied to artificial intelligence is also a prominent theme in this year's list, with at least 86 members of the so-called “centibillionaire club’s” club (AI enterprises) owing to their fortunes in significant part to AI enterprises.
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