A
billionaire, in countries that use the
short scale number naming system, is a person with a
net worth of at least
one billion (1,000,000,000; a thousand million) units of a given
currency, usually major currencies such as the
United States dollar, the
euro, or the
pound sterling. The American business magazine
Forbes produces
a complete global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year, and updates an Internet version of this list in real time. The American oil magnate
John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed U.S. dollar billionaire in 1916; as of 2015, there are over 1,800 U.S. dollar billionaires worldwide, with a combined wealth of over US$7 trillion.