Marianne Liebmann | Great-Granddaughter of William Wallace Cargill – Cargill

Net worth: $49 billion

One of the remaining heirs to the Cargill fortune, American florist Marianne Liebmann is the great-granddaughter of William W. Cargill, the founder of Cargill, and the sister of Austen Cargill II and James Cargill II. Cargill, the largest privately owned corporation in the United States, is an American privately held global food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, with 155,000 professionals in 70 countries. As of January 2020, Cargill’s investments in cultured protein include 2017 and 2020 investments in Memphis Meats, and in 2019, the company also invested in Aleph Farms.

Marianne is one of the wealthiest people in Montana, with a net worth of $2.8 billion. She received her bachelor’s degree from Montana State University-Bozeman. She is married and has two children. The Cargill-MacMillan family collects an estimated 18 percent of net profits as dividends every year and still owns roughly 90 percent of Cargill. The company reached $114 billion in 2019 sales across agriculture, food, industrial and financial divisions.