Portrait of Cargill MacMillan III

Rank #2364

Cargill MacMillan III

Net worth $1.7B

Cargill · United States

Born
Dec 21, 1959
Age
66
Source
Cargill
Residence
Boulder, Colorado
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Children
2
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Cargill MacMillan III is one of 21 billionaire heirs to Cargill, the world's biggest agriculture business.
  • His great-great-grandfather, W.W. Cargill, founded the business as a single grain warehouse on the end of an Iowa railroad line in 1865.
  • The family still owns roughly 90% of Cargill, which did $154 billion in 2025 sales across food, agriculture, financial and industrial divisions.
  • The Cargill-MacMillan family collects an estimated 18% of net profits as dividends every year.