Marijke Elizabeth Mars (born 1965) is an American billionaire heiress and businesswoman. In March 2018 ''Forbes'' estimated her wealth to be $5.9 billion. She was ranked as the 30th-richest woman in the world, a position shared with her three sisters. Marijke Mars is a fourth generation member of the

Mars family The Mars family is an American family that owns the confectionery company Mars Inc. In 1988, the family was ranked as the richest family in the United States of America by ''Fortune'' magazine. It has since been surpassed by the Walton family ...

. Her father was the late Forrest Mars Jr. (1931–2016). She has three sisters: Pamela Mars-Wright, Valerie Mars and Victoria B. Mars. She inherited about an 8 percent stake on Mars Inc. in 2016, which made her a

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultr ...

. According to ''

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'', her shares were valued at $5.9 billion (March 2018). She graduated (B.A./B.Sc.) from

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

. After her graduation she worked as a regional manager for Kal Kan Foods, one of Mars Inc.'s pet food companies. Nowadays she works at Mars Food. She married Stephen J. Doyle in 1991, but later (2000) divorced.

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