Stryker among world’s billionaires

FORT COLLINS — Philanthropist Patricia Stryker is among Colorado billionaires included on Forbes magazine’s just-released list of the world’s wealthiest people.

Stryker, whose grandfather launched medical products company Stryker Corp., ranks 413 among 497 worldwide billionaires, with $1.1 billion in net worth. Stock losses shrank the global list from the 580 counted in 2001. She joins seven other state residents on the list, all ranked above her, with Wal-Mart heir John Walton — worth $20.7 billion — topping the Colorado group.

Stryker is noted by Forbes under her married name, Patricia Short, on the list released Thursday. With former husband Tommy…