Most of us know the richest person in America (Bill Gates at $70 billion).
But what about the richest person in your state?
Wealth-X has put together a list of all 50 states with their top wealth holders. Surprisingly nine states don't have billionaires (and yet somehow they manage to function). It only took $300 million to be the richest Wyoming resident, and $400 million to be the wealth king of Alaska.
(Read more: The 10 richest states in America)
Granted, many of the super rich don't really "live" anywhere, since they flit from home to home and state to state. Wealth-X used the business address for each wealth holder to determine residence.
Here's the list.
The richest person in every state
| State | Person <th style="text-align: right;"> Net Worth Value after Valuation (US$ Billion) </th> | |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Marguerite Harbert | 1.5 |
| Alaska | Robert Gillam | 0.4 |
| Arizona | Bruce Halle Sr. | 4.4 |
| Arkansas | James Walton | 37.1 |
| California | Lawrence Ellison | 46.4 |
| Colorado | Charles Ergen | 13.7 |
| Connecticut | Raymond Dalio | 13.4 |
| Delaware | Robert Gore | 0.8 |
| Florida | Micky Arison | 5.9 |
| Georgia | Anne Cox Chambers | 11.4 |
| Hawaii | Jay Shidler | 0.7 |
| Idaho | Frank Vandersloot | 1.2 |
| Illinois | Samuel Zell | 3.8 |
| Indiana | Gayle Cook | 4.8 |
| Iowa | Dennis Albaugh | 1.6 |
| Kansas | David Koch | 41.5 |
| Kentucky | Brad M. Kelley | 1.9 |
| Louisiana | Thomas Benson | 1.3 |
| Maine | Leon Gorman | 0.8 |
| Maryland | Theodore Lerner | 4.1 |
| Massachusetts | Abigail Johnson | 16.9 |
| Michigan | Kenneth Dart | 6.6 |
| Minnesota | Whitney MacMillan | 3.8 |
| Mississippi | Jim Barksdale | 0.6 |
| Missouri | John L. Morris | 3.8 |
| Montana | Dennis Washington | 5.6 |
| Nebraska | Warren Buffett | 59.8 |
| Nevada | Sheldon Adelson | 32.3 |
| New Hampshire | Richard Cohen | 10.0 |
| New Jersey | David Tepper | 7.9 |
| New Mexico | John A Yates | 0.8 |
| New York | Michael Bloomberg | 21.4 |
| North Carolina | James Goodnight | 7.4 |
| North Dakota | Gary Tharaldson | 0.9 |
| Ohio | Leslie Wexner | 5.2 |
| Oklahoma | George Kaiser | 9.8 |
| Oregon | Phillip Knight | 14.7 |
| Pennsylvania | Hansjorg Wyss | 9.2 |
| Rhode Island | Jonathan Nelson | 1.5 |
| South Carolina | Anita Zucker | 2.6 |
| South Dakota | T. Denny Sanford | 1.3 |
| Tennessee | Thomas Frist Jr. | 3.2 |
| Texas | Michael Dell | 16.0 |
| Utah | Blake Roney | 0.6 |
| Vermont | Robert Stiller | 1.1 |
| Virginia | Forrest Mars Jr. | 20.1 |
| Washington | Bill Gates | 70.8 |
| West Virginia | James Justice II | 1.6 |
| Wisconsin | John Menard Jr | 7.3 |
| Wyoming | John Martin | 0.3 |
Source: Source: Wealth-X
(CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story inadvertently omitted Missouri. The richest person in Missouri is John Morris. He has a net worth value after valuation of $3.8 billion, according to Wealth-X.)
—By CNBC's Robert Frank. Follow him on Twitter @robtfrank.
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