James Dyson

$14.58B

as of 03/17/25

About James Dyson

Frustrated with his family's vacuum, Dyson set out to invent a better version in 1978 using a cyclone to lift dirt.

Dyson employs more than 5,000 engineers around the world and said in 2020 it would invest the equivalent of $14 million a week on product development through 2025.

In 2019 Dyson scrapped plans to build electric cars after telling staff they were not commercially viable.

Dyson, who attended art school in London, does not have an engineering degree.

Dyson's popular line of intelligent air purifiers claims to have used the data to create the most accurate picture of indoor air quality worldwide.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Source of wealth

Vacuums

Residence

Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Marital status

Married

Birth date

05/02/47 (age 77)

Number of children

Self-made

self-made

James Dyson’s fortune is worth

243K

troy ounces of gold

224K

median U.S. household

146K

median U.S. income

0.292%

U.S. credit card volume

0.058%

GDP of the United States

0.043%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

After five years of testing and 5,127 prototypes, Dyson invented the world's first bagless vacuum cleaner.