《福布斯》评出美国最成功的移民，前25名有些在预料之中，有些在预料之外。有几位华人上榜？《福布斯》一句话说出美国这个国家的本相“连自由女神都是外国出生的”。“1. Arnold Schwarzenegger 78 ● Country of Birth: Austria

2. Elon Musk 54 ● South Africa

3. Sergey Brin 52 ● Russia
The Google cofounder arrived in the U.S. at age 6 with his family as Soviet refugees esca­ping persecution of Jews.

4. Jensen Huang 63 ● Taiwan
Nvidia’s CEO told his employees in a memo last year that “the miracle of Nvidia—built by all of you, and by brilliant colleagues around the world, would not be possible without immigration.”

5. Rupert Murdoch 95 ● Australia
The media mogul arrived in the States in 1973 and has had a profound impact on American business, ”

6. Peter Thiel 58 ● Germany
Silicon Valley’s philosopher king came to the U.S. as an infant from Germany before earning undergraduate and law degrees at Stanford. He later cofounded PayPal.

“7. Thomas Peterffy 81 ● Hungary
The electronic-trading pioneer and founder of Interactive Brokers arrived in New York at 21, a penniless descendant of aristocrats who lost their wealth to communism.

8. Lisa Su 56 ● Taiwan
AMD’s CEO emigrated with her parents when she was 3. When she took AMD’s chief executive job in 2014, many on Wall Street considered the company “uninvestable.” She turned it into an AI powerhouse—and became a billionaire in the process.

9. Vlad Tenev 39 ● Bulgaria
Tenev came to America when he was just 5; he met his Robinhood cofounder, Baiju Bhatt—an American born to immigrant parents—while attending Stanford.

10. Wolfgang Puck 76 ● Austria
The celebrity chef was a pioneer of “California cuisine” in the 1980s with his West Holly­wood restaurant Spago; he leveraged his culinary fame into dozens of fine-dining and fast-casual restaurants, then frozen dinners and cookware.

11. Shahid Khan 75 ● Pakistan
With $500 in his pocket, Khan arrived in Illinois to get his engineering degree. After winning a lawsuit against his former employer, Flex-N-Gate, he bought the company and made it the cornerstone of an auto parts empire.

12. Jan Koum 50 ● Ukraine
The WhatsApp founder and his mother came to the United States in 1992 as refugees, living in a small two-bedroom apartment and relying on food stamps.

13. Ryan Reynolds 49 ● Canada
He has funneled his Hollywood dollars into multiple ventures, including Aviation Gin and Mint Mobile, which were acquired by Diageo and T-Mobile, respectively”

14. Vinod Khosla 71 ● India
Cofounder of Sun Microsystems.

15. Isaac Perlmutter 83 ● Israel

16. George Soros 95 ● Hungary

17. Patrick Soon-Shiong 73 ● South Africa
He invented the cancer drug Abraxane and owns the Los Angeles Times.

18. Miriam Adelson 80 ● Israel

19. Lorne Michaels 82 ● Canada
He premiered Saturday Night Live.

“20. Melania Trump 56 ● Slovenia
She is the first naturalized citizen to become First Lady of the United States.

21. Linus Torvalds 57 ● Finland
Torvalds invented Linux.

22. Tony Xu 41 ● China
The China-born Xu spent his childhood washing dishes in the restaurant where his mother worked as a waitress. After earning an MBA from Stanford, he cofounded DoorDash in 2013, revolutionizing the food-delivery landscape.

23. Paul Graham 61 ● United Kingdom
He cofounded Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s legendary startup accelerator, which has been instrumental in building companies including Airbnb and Stripe.

24. Katalin Karikó 71 ● Hungary
She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for her work on mRNA vaccines。

25. Yo-Yo Ma 71 ● France
Born in Paris to Chinese parents, the world’s most famous classical musician performed for President John F. Kennedy as a child and has since won 20 Grammys.

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