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3. Tom Cruise – estimated $480 million
Cruise was born as Thomas Cruise Mapother IV in Syracuse, New York, the son of Mary Lee (née Pfeiffer), a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III (1934–84), an electrical engineer. Cruise has three sisters, Lee Anne, Marian, and Cass. Cruise’s surname originates from his great-grandfather, born Thomas Cruise O’Mara, Jr., who was renamed “Thomas Cruise Mapother”. Cruise is of Irish,German, and English ancestry. One of his paternal great-great-great-grandfathers, Patrick Russell Cruise, was born in north County Dublin, in 1799; he married Teresa Johnson in Warrenstown House, County Meath, in 1825.
