#45: Shaquille O’Neal
Back in the 1990s and 2000s, there was no American who didn’t know who Shaquille O’Neal was. If you were a sports fan, you knew him as one of the greatest basketball centers of all time, leading the Orlando Magic, then the Los Angeles Lakers, then the Miami Heat to success and championships.
If you weren’t a sports fan, you might know him from his rap career, from a whole range of video games, from numerous TV shows and commercials, from his movies—including the children’s movie Kazaam—or from Aaron Carter’s silly but catchy kid’s rap song “That’s How I Beat Shaq.” All of this has earned him a net worth of 400 million USD.