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![]() Sam Walton, founder of Walmart | |
Etymology | Walton (surname); for "a place with the suffix tun ('town, farm, hamlet') and one of the prefixes wald ('a wood'), walesc ('foreigner') or walh ('farm worker')" |
Founder | Sam Walton (1918–1992) |
Titles | Founder of Walmart, richest family in the United States |
Estate(s) | $US 324.3 billion (2024) |
The Walton family is an American family whose collective fortune derived from Walmart makes them the richest family in the United States.[1][2][3]