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Steve Ballmer

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Steven Anthony Ballmer (; March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and a co-founder of Ballmer Group, a philanthropic investment company. As of May 2025, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his personal wealth at around $151 billion, making him the eighth-richest person in the world, and the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List ranked him as the ninth-richest person with a net worth of $118 billion. Ballmer was hired by Bill Gates at Microsoft in 1980, and subsequently left the MBA program at Stanford University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Steve Ballmer is the 27th most popular businessperson (down from 25th in 2019), the 307th most popular biography from United States (down from 234th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Businessperson.

Steve Ballmer is most famous for being the former CEO of Microsoft.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Steve Ballmer ranks 27 out of 847. Before him are Bernard Arnault, Tim Cook, Fred Trump, William Boeing, Jeffrey Epstein, and Estée Lauder. After him are Lee Byung-chul, Amancio Ortega, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Ludwig Erhard, P. T. Barnum, and Guccio Gucci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Steve Ballmer ranks 3. Before him are Tom Hanks, and Frank-Walter Steinmeier. After him are Mel Gibson, Christoph Waltz, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Björn Borg, John Lydon, Paolo Rossi, Christine Lagarde, José Manuel Barroso, and Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Steve Ballmer ranks 307 out of 20,380. Before him are Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Jerry Brown (1938), Calvin Coolidge (1872), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), Leon Czolgosz (1873), and Wild Bill Hickok (1837). After him are Samuel P. Huntington (1927), William Jennings Bryan (1860), Orson Welles (1915), Tommy Lee Jones (1946), Billy the Kid (1859), and Steve Bannon (1953).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Steve Ballmer ranks 14. Before him are Robert McNamara (1916), Tim Cook (1960), Fred Trump (1905), William Boeing (1881), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), and Estée Lauder (1906). After him are P. T. Barnum (1810), Margaret Hamilton (1936), Linda McMahon (1948), Colonel Sanders (1890), Robert Kiyosaki (1947), and John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874).

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