Henry Samueli, co-founder and chairman of Broadcom and owner of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks, is ranked No. 73 on the Forbes 2026 World’s Billionaires list with a net worth of $30.8 billion.
Henry Samueli was born on September 20, 1954. His parents, Sala and Aron, were Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors who reached the United States with almost nothing. He stocked shelves in the family’s Los Angeles liquor store, and became interested in electronics after building an AM/FM radio in a school shop class.
Net Worth and Rank
- Forbes 2026 list: No. 73, with $30.8 billion
- Earlier estimate: Wikipedia cites $25.3 billion as of December 17, 2024, according to Forbes and Bloomberg
Engineer and Professor
Samueli earned his bachelor’s degree (1975), master’s (1976) and PhD (1980) at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a professor on leave in UCLA’s electrical and computer engineering department and a distinguished adjunct professor at UC Irvine. He is a named inventor on 75 US patents, and a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 and won the Marconi Prize in 2012 for advances in analogue and mixed-signal circuits, in particular the cable modem. In 2026 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Broadcom
- 1991: while a UCLA professor he co-founded Broadcom Corporation with his PhD student Henry Nicholas; each put in $5,000 and they worked at first from Nicholas’s home in Redondo Beach
- 1992: they rented their first office in Westwood, near the UCLA campus
- 1995: the company moved to Irvine, California
- Today: Samueli is chairman of Broadcom Inc.
Sports and Philanthropy
He owns the Anaheim Ducks of the NHL and is a prominent philanthropist in Orange County, California.
Why It Matters
Broadcom makes chips and software used across networking and data centres, and Samueli’s stake in it, built up over three decades, is the source of his wealth.
Net worth figures change daily with share prices. Rankings here follow the Forbes 2026 World’s Billionaires list, with wealth measured on March 1, 2026.
Image: The Honda Center in Anaheim, home of the Anaheim Ducks, which Henry Samueli owns (file photo, 2021; he is not pictured). Photo: Troutfarm27 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
