Here are the TOP 10 richest Hungarians!

Similarly to previous years, Forbes magazine has published the list of the 50 wealthiest Hungarians. Let’s see who is in the lead with around EUR 1.3 billion.

Every year since 2018, Forbes magazine has published the TOP 50 list of the wealthiest Hungarians. The past three years have clearly shown the rise of Lőrinc Mészáros, which has been proven again this year. As the Hungarian news portal reports,

Lőrinc Mészáros is in the lead of the ranking with an estimated EUR 1.3 billion (HUF 488.1 billion), followed by Sándor Csányi, the CEO of OTP, whose wealth is estimated at EUR 1.26 billion (HUF 468.9 billion).

The competition between Hungary’s two richest men has never been so close. In 2018, the wealth of Lőrinc Mészáros exceeded that of Sándor Csányi by EUR 175-230 million (HUF 65-85 billion). This year, however, the difference is “only” EUR 51.8 million (HUF 19.2 billion).

This might be explained by the unprecedented stagnation of Lőrinc Mészáros’s wealth, which has not increased as dynamically this year as in previous years. Numerically, the billionaire from Felcsút has increased his wealth by “only” EUR 24.3 million (HUF 9 billion) in 2021.

On the other hand, Sándor Csányi has increased his wealth by nearly EUR 202 million (HUF 75 billion), the largest increase since 2014. This is mainly due to the growth of Bonafarm Group, but the value of the bank leader’s OTP package has also increased significantly. In its quarterly reports for 2021, the bank has set record after record, with its share price having reached a historic peak in November.

Previously, the two Hungarian billionaires were among the richest people in the world on Forbes‘s World’s Billionaires List. They are already on Forbes.com’s real-time online list with the current data.