Rank #671
Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer
Net worth $6.2B
Cargill · United States
- Born
- Oct 27, 1961
- Age
- 64
- Source
- Cargill
- Residence
- Rancho Santa Fe, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer inherited an estimated 8% stake in food giant Cargill.
- The heiress spends most of her time on a farm in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., training horses that compete in show jumping.
- Her great-grandfather, W.W. Cargill, the son of a Scottish sea captain, founded Cargill in Conover, Iowa in 1865.
- The family still owns roughly 90% of Cargill, which did $154 billion in 2025 sales across food, agriculture, financial and industrial divisions.