8. Larry Page: Lawrence Larry Page is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He co-founded Google along with Sergey Brin. He became the Chief Executive Officer of Google by replacing Eric Schmidt in 2011. His personal wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billion. He has invented PageRank, which became the foundation of Google’s search ranking algorithm.

Google earned a Webby Award, People’s Voice Award for Technical Achievement in 2000. In 2011, it was awarded for Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards. He was ranked 24^th in the Forbes list of Billionaires and also the 11^th richest person in the U.S. He is ranked as the 30^th most powerful people in the world by Forbes.