Harold Hamm & family

Chairman and CEO, Continental Resources
$18.5B
as of 12/10/24

About Harold Hamm & family

Fracking pioneer Harold Hamm founded and chairs Continental Resources, one of the nation's biggest independent oil companies.

The 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers, Hamm picked cotton barefoot as a child and started working at a gas station at age 16 to support his family.

He eventually started his own trucking company hauling water to and from oilfields, then in 1971 took out a loan to drill his first well.

In the 1990s he had the vision to use horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in North Dakota's Bakken region, transforming the U.S. oil industry.

Today Continental, which went public in 2007, produces 400,000 barrels' worth of oil and gas per day. Hamm and his 5 children took the company private in a $27 billion deal in 2022.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Oil & gas

Residence

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Marital status

Divorced

Birth date

12/11/45 (age 79)

Number of children

5

Education

Diploma, High School

Self-made

self-made

Harold Hamm & family’s fortune is worth

308K

troy ounces of gold

285K

median U.S. household

185K

median U.S. income

0.37%

U.S. credit card volume

0.074%

GDP of the United States

0.054%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Hamm served as an informal energy advisor to former President Donald Trump and spoke on Trump's behalf at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

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