Rank #439
Agnete Kirk Thinggaard
Net worth $8.2B
Lego · Denmark
- Born
- May 18, 1983
- Age
- 43
- Source
- Lego
- Residence
- Billund
- Citizenship
- Denmark
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- A fourth-generation owner of Lego, Agnete Kirk Thinggaard splits ownership of a 75% stake in the toy company with her father, sister and brother.
- Thinggaard also sat on the Lego Foundation's board until 2020, when she stepped down to join family holding company Kirkbi as a board observer.
- Her great-grandfather Ole, a carpenter, started making wooden toys in his workshop in 1932 before moving into plastic in the 1940s.
- The family also owns about half of theme park operator Merlin Entertainments, which it took private with a consortium in 2019.
- Thinggaard represented Denmark in dressage at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016; she placed 26th in individual competition.