Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey’s media empire made her the first female black billionaire—she’s worth an estimated $3 billion today. Before she made it the top, Oprah started off her career with a petty job at the grocery story close to her father's barbershop in Nashville, Tenn. Winfrey claimed the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant, at the of age 17. Winfrey is best known for her multi-award-winning talk show ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show,’ which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Oprah has also been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America's only black billionaire.

Michael Bloomberg
The eleventh-richest person in the United States and the sixteenth-wealthiest in the world, Michael Bloomberg was born to a middle class family. He went to Johns Hopkins University, and joined Phi Kappa Psi where he worked as a parking lot attendant to pay his tuition fee. He graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, and later received his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Bloomberg today owns a net worth of $34 billion and served as the 108th Mayor of New York City, holding office for three consecutive terms beginning with his first election in 2001.
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