“Two’s a company”, “Everything’s better in two’s”. Finding that right person to spend your life with can bring you success and happiness not only in your personal life but within your professional life also. When you are part of a couple, you share a special connection with one another and if used in the right way, you can do great things with each others love and determination. Below is a list of top 10 most powerful couples in the world. This is a list according to Forbes magazine ranking of the World’s Most Powerful Couples, assembling an eclectic menagerie of formidable twosomes who span the worlds of entertainment, politics, media and, natch, royalty.
Presenting The World’s Most Powerful Couples.
10. Patrizio Bertelli and Miuccia Prada
Fashion legend Miuccia Prada, 64, runs the luxury goods and clothing company Prada with her husband Patrizio Bertelli, 67. Prada is the lead designer, while Bertelli handles the business side as CEO. This stylish power couple is also loaded — their combined worth is $19 billion.
9. Gerard Pique and Shakira
The Colombian-born performer and her footballer-boyfriend welcomed their first child, Milan Pique Mebarak, in January. Shakira, a UNICEF ambassador, quickly became a fan favorite when she joined NBC’s hit “The Voice” as a judge. Pique plays for FC Barcelona, one of soccer’s most valuable teams, and is one of Spain’s most popular athletes.
8. Hillary and Bill Clinton
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are both private citizens now, but they are still one of the most influential couples in the world. Mrs. Clinton has been hitting the speaking circuit at an estimated $200,000 fee per event and reportedly inked a $14 million book deal. The ex-Prez is focused on his Global Initiative, which has raised $73.1 billion in commitments from major philanthropists, CEOs and heads of state to fund charitable action around the globe. Last year, he hit the campaign trail for Obama, cementing his status as a rainmaker.
7. Marissa Mayer and Zachary Bogue
Yahoo CEO Mayer and Bogue, a former lawyer who invests in big-data startups and founded investment fund Data Collective, married in 2009. In September, Silicon Valley’s most powerful couple welcomed a baby boy, Macallister.
6. Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres
The talk show host/comedienne and ‘Arrested Development’ actress married in 2008. In March, DeGeneres took to her blog to urge the Supreme Court to strike down California’s Prop 8: “Portia and I aren’t as different from you as you might think. We’re just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.”
5. Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr
Snapchat cofounder and CEO Evan Spiegel is one of the richest millennial billionaires in America, with a fortune around $3.4 billion. Earlier this year, he married Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr, who’s wealthy in her own right with an estimated net worth of $45 million.
Like any good power couple, Spiegel and Kerr purportedly share interests in each others’ endeavors.
4. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan
The founder and CEO of Facebook has often been characterized as a wunderkind, earning his first billion at just 23 years old, and his college-sweetheart wife, Priscilla Chan, has been by his side since the start.
Zuckerberg and Chan married in 2012 and are now parents to two daughters. In addition to the tech mogul’s widespread revolutionizing of communication through social media, the couple is using their power to research and improve global health, education, and community through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. (Source).
3. Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan
Peng Liyuan is the stylish second wife of newly-installed Chinese President Xi Jinping. The first lady is a former superstar folk singer, and it’s often joked that she’s more famous than her husband: “Who is Xi Jinping? He is Peng Liyuan’s husband.”
2. Jay-Z and Beyonce
The first couple of music is tight with the first couple of the United States. The superstars hosted a fund-raiser for President Obama during his re-election campaign last fall, and Beyonce later performed the national anthem at January’s inauguration. The couple’s April trip to Cuba was investigated by the U.S. Treasury Department, after lawmakers raised questions about the legality of the visit (the controversy was overblown — the anniversary trip was pre-approved). Jay-Z is on tour with Justin Timberlake this summer, where he’s taking home an estimated $100,000 per show, and Beyonce kicked off her 65-date world tour a couple of weeks ago.
1. Melinda Gates and Bill Gates
With a net worth of $67 billion, Bill Gates is the United States’ richest man, and through the work of the foundation he founded and runs with wife Melinda, he’s also the world’s most generous. The couple’s Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last year gave away $3.4 billion, and its primary goals this year have been to eradicate polio worldwide by 2018 and get modern contraceptives to another 120 million women by 2020; the Foundation has committed $140 million annually to this cause. Melinda, a Duke alum, delivered a commencement address at her alma mater this spring and encouraged the Class of 2013 to recognize “the boundless dignity of all people.”
