Arthur Blank

Arthur Blank

American businessman and sports team owner (born 1942)

Arthur Morris Blank (born September 27, 1942) is an American businessman who co-founded the home improvement retailer The Home Depot. Blank owns four professional sports teams based in Atlanta, Georgia: the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL); Atlanta Drive GC of golf league TGL, which won the SoFi Cup in 2025; Atlanta United FC of Major League Soccer (MLS), which won the 2018 MLS Cup; and Atlanta City FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).2

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Born Sep 27, 1942.1

Net worth $11.4B (as of 2025, per forbes.com).10 Richest people

About

Blank is chairman of the teams' parent company, AMB Group LLC.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedStuyvesant High School3
  • Date not recordedBabson College3

Career

Occupation: businessperson, entrepreneur.5

Personal life

  • BornSep 27, 1942, Sunnyside6
  • CitizenshipUnited States7

Blank has been married and divorced three times. He has three children with his first wife, Diana Blank. They divorced in 1993. In 1995, he married Stephanie V. Blank (born 1968), a Blowing Rock, North Carolina native and Appalachian State University graduate. They met when she worked as a designer at a Home Depot store in Atlanta. They had three children before being divorced. In June 2016, Blank married Angela Macuga (born 1968), who had three children from a previous marriage. They announced their pending divorce on January 1, 2019.

Blank owns Mountain Sky Guest Ranch and West Creek Ranch outside Yellowstone National Park in Paradise Valley, Montana. He also owns a 90-meter (300 ft), $180 million superyacht named with Blank's initials, dreAMBoat, as well as several PGA TOUR Superstores.

On February 9, 2016, Blank disclosed that he had treatable prostate cancer. On March 17, 2016, Blank announced that he was cancer-free following treatment.

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Philanthropy

Blank is chairman of The Arthur Blank Family Foundation, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Emory University.

In March 2020, Blank's foundation announced it would donate nearly $5.4 million to aid the coronavirus pandemic response in Georgia and Montana.

In October 2020, the Arthur M. Blank Foundation awarded a $20 million legacy grant to establish the Arthur M. Blank Center for Stuttering Education and Research at the University of Texas at Austin.

In October 2020, it was announced that the new Children's Healthcare of Atlanta hospital would be named after Arthur Blank after his foundation donated $200 million to the project. The Arthur M. Blank Hospital opened on September 29, 2024.

In February 2026, the foundation announced a $75 million commitment to Blue Meridian Partners, a philanthropic group that invests in anti-poverty initiatives.

He is a signatory of The Giving Pledge, committing himself to give away at least 50% of his wealth to charitable causes.

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Planes and yachts

A position is the aircraft’s or vessel’s, not the person’s. Being on board isn’t confirmed.

Flights, photos and icons: CelebPlanes, from ADS-B data (adsb.lol, ODbL; ADSB.fi). Maps: Esri.

Flight and yacht reports

  • The forty-one-hour run to BarcelonaCelebYachts report On the record, Oct 7, 2026A new Oceanco leaves the Gulf of Naples for Catalonia, covering five hundred and fifty-eight nautical miles at nearly fourteen knots while the signal holds.
  • The scaling of DreamboatCelebYachts report On the record, Oct 5, 2026Arthur Blank’s two Oceanco hulls demonstrate a shift from operational support to sovereign display, funded by the same retail capital that launched in 1979.
  • Why Arthur Blank named his yacht DREAMBOAT 1CelebYachts report On the record, Aug 17, 2026The superyacht uses the owner's initials to bypass traditional naming conventions, treating the hull as a branded asset in his sports portfolio.
  • Arthur Blank's aircraft returns to Atlanta amid Falcons' front-office overhaulCelebPlanes report On the record, Jul 12, 2026If Arthur Blank was aboard, the Bombardier Global 6000 landed at Fulton County Airport the same week the team announced a restructuring and a search for a new president of football.

In the news

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