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Welcome to Rich-Bastards.com

Spend a few moments going through these Top 10 Rich Lists and just wonder what the hell you could do with just a fraction of the billions of dollars these guys and gals have.

And if your name is on one of these lists, I'd welcome any how-to-get-rich tips you may like to share with my readers.

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BILLIONAIRE
JOKES

Before You Meet With God

A billionaire died and went to The Judgment. St. Peter met him at the Gates of Heaven and said, "Before you meet with God, I thought I should tell you -- we've looked at your life, and your really didn't do anything particularly good or bad.

We're not at all sure what to do with you. Can you tell us anything you did that can help us make a decision?"

The billionaire thought for a moment and replied, "Yeah, once I was driving along in my ferrari and came upon a woman who was being harassed by a group of bikers. So I pulled over, got out my tire iron, and went up to the leader of the bikers. He was a big, muscular, hairy guy with tattoos all over his body and a ring pierced through his nose. Well, I tore the nose ring out of his nose, and told him he and his gang had better stop bothering the woman or they would have to deal with me!"

"I'm impressed," St. Peter responded, "When did this happen?"

"About two minutes ago," came the reply.

Heaven Cafeteria

A billionaire dies and goes to heaven. St. Peter meets him at the Pearly Gates and checks him in.

After he's registered, St. Peter says to him, "Look at the time: you must be hungry! Heaven Cafeteria is serving lunch, why don't you get yourself something to eat?"

The billionaire goes to the cafeteria and notices the long line. He immediately cuts in at the front, only to hear loud protests. "I'm a billionaire" he says, "I'm a busy man, I don't have time to wait in line."

The others say, "You're in heaven now, we're all the same here, get to the back of the line and wait your turn!"

A few weeks later, waiting patiently on line for lunch, the billionaire notices a man come dashing in wearing a 3 piece suit and accompanied by a 6 man entourage. He butts in at the head of the line and no one utters a peep.

"Hey," he says to the guy in front of him, "Who does that guy think he is?" "Oh, that's God," says the guy, "He likes to play billionaire."

Genie With A Catch

A guy found a bottle on the beach. He rubbed it and, sure enough, out popped a genie.

"I will grant you three wishes," said the Genie. "But there's a catch." "What catch?" he asked.

The genie replied, "Every time you make a wish, every politician in the world will receive double what you asked for."

"Well, I can live with that! No problem!" replied the elated man.

"What is your first wish?" asked the Genie. "Well, I've always wanted a Ferrari," he said. POOF! A Ferrari appeared in front of the man. "Now, every politician in the world has two Ferraris," said the genie.

"Next wish?" "I'd love a billion dollars," replied the man. POOF! One billion dollars appeared at his feet. "Now, every politician in the world has two billion dollars," said the genie. "Well, that's okay, as long as I've got my billion," replied the man.

"What is your final wish?" asked the genie. The man thought long and hard, and finally said, "Well, you know, I've always wanted to donate a kidney."

VW v. Rolls Royce

A man from Texas, driving a Volkswagen Beetle, pulls up next to a billionaire in a Rolls Royce at a stop sign. Their windows are open and he yells at the billionaire, "Hey, you got a telephone in that Rolls?"

The billionaire says, "Yes, of course I do."

"I got one too... see?” the Texan says.

"Uh, huh, yes, that's very nice."

"You got a fax machine?" asks the Texan.

"Why, actually, yes, I do."

"I do too! See? It's right here!" brags the Texan.

The light is just about to turn green and the guy in the Volkswagen says, "So, do you have a double bed in back there?"

The billionaire replies, "NO! Do you?"

"Yep, got my double bed right in back here," the Texan replies.

The light turns and the Volkswagen takes off.

Well, the billionaire is not about to be one-upped, so he immediately goes to a customizing shop and orders them to put a double bed in back of his Rolls.

About two weeks later, the job is finally done. He picks up his Rolls and drives all over town looking for the Volkswagen beetle with the Texas plates. Finally, he finds it parked alongside the road, so the billionaire pulls his Rolls up next to it.

The windows on the Volkswagen are all fogged up ...

(it's OK to continue ... it's a clean joke.)

... and he feels somewhat awkward about it, but the billionaire gets out of his newly modified Rolls and taps on the foggy window of the Volkswagen.

The man in the Volkswagen finally opens the window a crack and peeks out.

The billionaire says, "Hey, remember me?"

"Yeah, yeah, I remember you," replies the Texan, "What's up?"

"Check this out...I got a double bed installed in my Rolls."

The Texan exclaims, "YOU GOT ME OUT OF THE SHOWER TO TELL ME THAT!"

Be Nice To Your Nurse

A billionaire had to spend a couple of days in the hospital. He was a royal pain in the butt to the nurses because he bossed them around just like he did his staff. None of the hospital staff wanted to have anything to do with him.

The head nurse was the only one who could stand up to him. She came into his room and announced, "I have to take your temperature."

After complaining for several minutes, the billionaire finally settled down, crossed his arms and opened his mouth.

"No, I'm sorry, the nurse stated, "but for this reading, I can't use an oral thermometer."

This started another round of complaining, but eventually he rolled over and bared his backside.

After feeling the nurse insert the thermometer, the billionaire heard her announce, "I have to get something. Now you stay JUST LIKE THAT until I get back!"

She leaves the door to his room open on her way out. The billionaire curses under his breath as he hears people walking past his door, laughing.

After a half hour, the billionaire's doctor comes into the room.

"What's going on here?" asked the doctor.

Angrily, the billionaire answers, "What's the matter, Doc? Haven't you ever seen someone having their temperature taken?"

After a pause, the doctor confesses, "Yes, but Not with a carnation."

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Richest Billionaire in each Country

TOP 10 - World's Richest Men
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TOP 10 - Australian Billionaires
TOP 10 - Braziian Billionaires
TOP 11 - Canadian Billionaires
TOP 11 - Chinese Billionaires
TOP 10 - French Billionaires
TOP 12 - German Billionaires
TOP 10 - Hong Kong Billionaires
TOP 10 - Indian Billionaires
TOP 10 - Israeli Billionaires
TOP 10 - Italian Billionaires
TOP 10 - Japanese Billionaires
TOP 9 - Malaysian Billionaires...NEW ENTRY
TOP 9 - Mexican Billionaires
TOP 10 - Russian Billionaires
TOP 10 - Saudi Arabian Billionaires
TOP 11 - South KoreanBillionaires...NEW ENTRY
TOP 10 - Spanish Billionaires
TOP 10 - Swedish Billionaires
TOP 10- Swiss Billionaires
TOP 10- Taiwanese Billionaires...NEW ENTRY
TOP 10- Turkish Billionaires
TOP 10 - United Kingdom Billionaires
TOP 10 - USA Billionaire Men
TOP 10 - USA Billionaire Women

TOP 13 - Billionaires Under 37
TOP 10 - Billionaires Over 90

NEW LIST FOR 2010

Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man
Matthew Miller and Luisa Kroll, 03.10.10, 06:00 PM EST

Carlos Slim Helu takes No. 1 spot on Forbes World's Billionaires list as a record
164 10-figure titans return to the ranking amid the global economic recovery.

For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man.

Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil ( AMX - news - people ), Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the World's Billionaires.

Slim's fortune has swelled to an estimated $53.5 billion, up $18.5 billion in 12 months. Shares of America Movil, of which Slim owns a $23 billion stake, were up 35% in a year.

That massive hoard of scratch puts him ahead of Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) cofounder Bill Gates, who had held the title of world's richest 14 of the past 15 years.

Gates, now worth $53 billion, is ranked second in the world. He is up $13 billion from a year ago as shares of Microsoft rose 50% in 12 months. Gates' holdings in his personal investment vehicle Cascade ( CAE - news - people ) also soared with the rest of the markets.

Buffett's fortune jumped $10 billion to $47 billion on rising shares of Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK - news - people ). He ranks third.

The Oracle of Omaha shrewdly invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs ( GS - news - people ) and $3 billion in General Electric ( GE - news - people ) amid the 2008 market collapse. He also recently acquired railroad giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe ( BNI - news - people ) for $26 billion.

In his annual shareholder letter Buffett wrote, "We've put a lot of money to work during the chaos of the last two years. When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble."

Many plutocrats did just that. Indeed, last year's wealth wasteland has become a billionaire bonanza. Most of the richest people on the planet have seen their fortunes soar in the past year.

This year the World's Billionaires have an average net worth of $3.5 billion, up $500 million in 12 months. The world has 1,011 10-figure titans, up from 793 a year ago but still shy of the record 1,125 in 2008. Of those billionaires on last year's list, only 12% saw their fortunes decline.

U.S. billionaires still dominate the ranks--but their grip is slipping. Americans account for 40% of the world's billionaires, down from 45% a year ago.

The U.S. commands 38% of the collective $3.6 trillion net worth of the world's richest, down from 44% a year ago.

Of the 97 new members of the list, only 16% are from the U.S. By contrast, Asia made big gains. The region added 104 moguls and now has just 14 fewer than Europe, thanks to several large public offerings and swelling stock markets.

The new billionaires include American Isaac Perlmutter, who flipped Marvel Entertainment ( MVL - news - people ) to Disney ( DIS - news - people ) for $4 billion last December. The Spider-Man mogul netted nearly $900 million in cash and 20 million shares of Disney in the transaction.

Also new to the ranking: 27 billionaires from China, including Li Shufu, whose automaker, Geely, announced plans to buy Swedish brand Volvo from Ford in December. The deal is expected to close in March 2010.

Finland and Pakistan both welcomed their first billionaires.

For the first time China (including Hong Kong) has the most billionaires outside the U.S. with 89.

Russia has 62 billionaires, 28 of them returnees who had fallen off last year's list amid a meltdown in commodities. Total returnees to the list this year: 164.

Eleven countries have at least double the number of billionaires they had a year ago, including China, India, Turkey and South Korea.

Thirty members of last year's list fell out of the billionaire's club. Moguls who couldn't make the cut: Iceland's Thor Bjorgolfsson, Russia's Boris Berezovsky and Saudi Arabia's Maan Al-Sanea.

Another 13 members of last year's list died. Among the deceased: real estate developer Melvin Simon and glass tycoon William Davidson.

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Here's something I stumbled across which made me laugh because it seemed so appropriate for this site.

A letter to "Rich Bastards" from a bank!
(From New Scientist, 28 August 1993, Feedback column)

The National Westminster Bank admitted last month that it keeps personal information about its customers-such as their political affiliation-on computer. But now Computer Weekly reveals that a financial institution, sadly unnamed, has gone one better and moved into the realm of personal abuse.

The institution decided to mailshot 2000 of its richest customers, inviting them to buy extra services. One of its computer programmers wrote a program to search through its databases and select its customers automatically. He tested the program with an imaginary customer called Rich Bastard.

Unfortunately, an error resulted in all 2000 letters being addressed "Dear Rich Bastard". The luckless programmer was subsequently sacked.

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Billionaire News and Tips ...

I must admit that reseaching this information has been very enlightening, and loads of fun. Here's a few things I came up with:

How to Become a Billionaire by H. L. Hunt.

Wealth building habits for kids by John D. Rockerfeller, Jr.

4 Tips (Trumpisms) from Donald Trump.

8 Wealth Building Secrets from J Paul Getty.

Billionaire Revelations (including):

Which billionaire eats Happy Meals at McDonalds?

Which billionaire used to drive a beat up car?

Which billionaire paid $127 million for his London mansion?

The Real Estate Billionaires

Who was the highest paid English celebrity in 2004?

Who are the 40 richest celebrities in the USA under 40?

Hollywood's Richest Celebrities

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How to Become a Billionaire by H. L. Hunt

When H. L. Hunt was asked what does it take to become a billionaire he said:

1. You must know what you really want.

2. You must know what you are willing to sacrifice to get it. And be willing to do what it takes to accomplish it.

3. You must write it down.

Mr. Hunt in the latter years of his life had a personal income of over 5 million dollars a DAY. (He should know what he was taking about.)

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Wealth building habits for kids by John D. Rockerfeller, Jr

According to Nelson Rockerfeller, the one time Vice President of the United States, his father John D. Rockerfeller, Jr, gave each of his five sons an allowance "We got 25 cents a week, and had to earn the rest of the money we got."

To earn part of that extra money he raised vegetables and rabbits...

"We always worked. All the boys were required to keep personal daily account books. They were required to give 10 percent of their income to charity, to save 10 percent, and to account for all the rest."

They had to balance their account books every month and to be able to tell what happened to every penny they earned.

(From the book, Kids and Cash
Ken Davis and Tom Taylor, 1979, Oak Tree Publications)

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4 Tips (Trumpisms) from Donald Trump

Trumpism #1: Making It Big

“I like things big. I always have. To me, it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”

Trumpism #2: Accentuate the Negative

“It’s been said that I believe in the power of positive thinking. In fact, I believe in the power of negative thinking. I happen to be very conservative in business. I always go into the deal anticipating the worst. If you plan for the worst – if you can live with the worst – the good will always take care of itself.”

Trumpism #3: Hiding Your Light Under A Bushel

"You can have the most wonderful product in the world, but if people don’t know about it, it’s not going to be worth much.”

Trumpism #4: Show Me the Money

“Don’t believe the critics unless they love your work.”

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8 Wealth Building Secrets from J Paul Getty

Let the Wealth Building Secrets of one of America's greatest and famous Billionaire, J. Paul Getty inspire you to a great Achievement.

One of the shortcuts to building wealth is to learn from those who have achieved great wealth.

The late Billionaire John Paul Getty was known as one of the greatest wealth builders in American history.

He was kind enough to distill his building wealth rules for anyone who desires to amass wealth like him to follow.

Do you want to be fabulously rich? Then learn from the master wealth builder himself, and follow in his footsteps:

Building Wealth Secret No. 1:

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.

You may think that the corporate executive with a $100,000 salary is better off than small shop owner, but the executive will be hard-pressed to double his income and taxes will eat up most of any increase.

The simplest peanut vendor has unlimited opportunity to expand his business and his income, and even salesmen, who in most cases are able to write their own paychecks, can control his sale increases himself.

Building Wealth Secret No. 2.

You must have a working knowledge of the business when you start and continue to increase your knowledge of it as you go along.

If you don't know what you're doing when you start, your mistakes will be costly and often unnecessary, and you won't be able to keep up with the technological explosions in any field.

Start smart and stay that way.

Building Wealth Secret No. 3.

You must save money in your personal life and in your business venture as well.

Discipline is the key to saving money. You must develop the will power to deny yourself immediate gratification or the temptation to gamble on the quick buck. Resources will be needed for expansion and should be guarded carefully.

Building Wealth Secret No. 4.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money.

Risk-taking is essential to business growth.

Nelson Bunker Hunt is admired for his guts in trying to corner the silver market, not scorned for losing money on this deal.

Some of the richest men have staked their entire fortunes and lost, several times over, before the risk-taking paid off.

Back those risks with good judgment, experience, commitment, And the right support.

Seek advice on risks from the wealthy who still take risks, not friends who dare nothing more than a football bet.

Building Wealth Secret No. 5.

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out.

Thrive on stress! If it means getting physically fit, having a psychiatric overall or losing 50 pounds before you can handle it, do it.

Once you can learn to thrive on stress, you will not only enjoy it, you will seek it out willingly and enthusiastically and wonder how you could live any other way.

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play.

Consider it serious business and you will suffer far more stress than you need or want.

Keep your perspective or your stress level will rocket beyond your control.

Building Wealth Secret No. 6.

Build wealth as a by-product of your business success.

If wealth is your only object in business, you will probably fail.

Wealth is only a benefit of the game. If you win, the money will be there.

If you lose, and you will from time to time if you play long and hard enough, it must have been fun or it was not worth it.

Building Wealth Secret No. 7.

Patience.

This is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

Let your business grow naturally, not by pressing your luck.

Building Wealth Secret No. 8.

Diversify at the top.

Once you've made it, you'll understand that any business is limited in the challenges it offers.

You'll want and need other games to play, so you'll look for other ventures to hold your interest.
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There are
1,011
Billionaires in
56 Countries
in 2010

(2009-793 billionaires)
(2008-1125 billionaires)
(2007-946 billionaires)

Rating-Country 
1-USA
403
2-China
64
3-Russia
62
4-Germany
53
5-India
49
6-UK
29
7-Turkey
28
8-Hong Kong
25
9-Canada
24
10-Japan
22
11-Brazil
18
12-Taiwan
18
13-Italy
13
14-Spain
13
15-France
12
16-Australia
11
17-South Korea
11
18-Switzerland
11
19-Israel
10
20-Saudi Arabia
10
21-Sweden
10
22-Malaysia
9
23-Mexico
9
24-Indonesia
7
25-Ireland
6
26-Kazakhstan
5
27-Netherlands
5
28-Ukraine
5
29-Austria
4
30-Chile
4
31-Egypt
4
32-Lebanon
4
33-Norway
4
34-Poland
4
35-Singapore
4
36-United Arab Emirates
4
37-Czech Republic
3
38-New Zealand
3
39-Romania
3
40-South Africa
3
41-Thailand
3
42-Belgium
2
43-Colombia
2
44-Denmark
2
45-Greece
2
46-Philippines
2
47-Portugal
2
48-Venezuela
2
49-Argentina
1
50-Belize
1
51-Cyprus
1
52-Finland
1
53-Kuwait
1
54-Monaco
1
55-Nigeria
1
56-Pakistan
1
xx-Iceland
0
xx-Oman
0
TOTAL:
1011
COMPARE TO
2009

There were
793
Billionaires in
54 Countries
in 2009

(2008-1125 billionaires)
(2007-946 billionaires)

Rating-Country 
1-USA
359
2-Germany
54
3-Russia
32
4-China
28
5-UK
25
6-India
24
7-Canada
20
8-Hong Kong
19
9-Japan
17
10-Saudi Arabia
14
12-Brazil
13
11-Turkey
13
13-Italy
12
14-Spain
12
15-Australia
10
16-France
10
17-Israel
10
19-Mexico
9
20-Sweden
9
18-Switzerland
9
21-Malaysia
6
22-United Arab Emirates
6
23-Indonesia
5
24-Ireland
5
25-Taiwan
5
26-Austria
4
27-Kuwait
4
28-Norway
4
29-South Korea
4
30-Ukraine
4
31-Chile
3
32-Egypt
3
33-Lebanon
3
34-Netherlands
3
35-New Zealand
3
36-South Africa
3
37-Thailand
3
38-Belgium
2
39-Colombia
2
40-Denmark
2
41-Kazakhstan
2
42-Nigeria
2
43-Philippines
2
44-Portugal
2
45-Singapore
2
46-Venezuela
2
47-Argentina
1
48-Cyprus
1
49-Czech Republic
1
50-Greece
1
51-Iceland
1
52-Monaco
1
53-Poland
1
54-Romania
1
xx-Belize
0
xx-Oman
0
TOTAL:
793
COMPARE TO
2008

There were
1,125
Billionaires in
56 Countries
in 2008

(2007 - 946 billionaires)

Rating-Country 
1-USA
469
2-Russia
87
3-Germany
59
4-India
53
5-China
42
6-Turkey
35
7-UK
35
8-Hong Kong
26
9-Canada
25
10-Japan
24
11-Brazil
18
12-Spain
18
13-Australia
14
14-France
14
15-Italy
13
16-Saudi Arabia
13
17-South Korea
12
18-Switzerland
11
19-Mexico
10
20-Sweden
10
21-Israel
9
22-Malaysia
8
23-Taiwan
7
24-Lebanon
7
25-Ukraine
7
26-Ireland
6
27-Kazakhstan
6
28-Poland
6
29-United Arab Emirates
6
30-Indonesia
5
31-Netherlands
5
32-Singapore
5
33-Austria
4
34-Chile
4
35-Egypt
4
36-Greece
4
37-Kuwait
4
38-New Zealand
4
39-Norway
4
40-Portugal
4
41-South Africa
4
42-Thailand
3
43-Belgium
2
44-Colombia
2
45-Cyprus
2
46-Iceland
2
47-Philippines
2
48-Romania
2
49-Venezuela
2
50-Argentina
1
51-Belize
1
52-Czech Republic
1
53-Denmark
1
54-Monaco
1
55-Nigeria
1
56-Oman
1
TOTAL:
1,125
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MORE BILLIONAIRE
JOKES

50cents To Heaven

A billionaire died and arrived at the Pearly Gates. Saint Peter asked him, "What have you done to merit entrance into Heaven?"

The billionaire thought a moment, then said, "A week ago, I gave a quarter to a homeless person on the street."

Saint Peter asked Gabriel to check this out in the records, and after a moment Gabriel affirmed that it was true. Saint Peter said, "Well , that's fine, but it's not really quite enough to get you into Heaven."

The billionaire said, "Wait, wait! There's more! Three years ago, I also gave a homeless person a quarter." Saint Peter nodded to Gabriel, who, after a moment, nodded back to affirm that it was true.

Saint Peter then whispered to Gabriel, "Well, what do you suggest we do with this fellow?" Gabriel gave the billionaire a sidelong glance, then said to Saint Peter, "Let's give him back his 50 cents and tell him to go to Hell."

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Top 10 Rich Lists 2010

Richest Billionaire in 56 Countries

Richest Billionaire in each Country... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Citizenship
 Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Argentina

Gregorio Perez Companc & family
(High school drop out)

$2.0 billion

oil & gas

 Argentina

75yo - Married, 7 children

2. Australia Andrew Forrest (nicknamed Twiggy)

$4.1 billion

mining, metals

Australia 48yo - Married, 3 children
3. Austria Karl Wlaschek (former jazz pianist)

$4.4 billion

department stores

Austria

92yo - Widowed, 2 children

4. Belgium Patokh Chodiev (Uzbekistan native)

$3.3 billion

mining, metals

Belgium

57yo - Married, 3 children

5. Belize Huang Maoru & family (operates one of China's largest department store chains)

$1.2 billion

retail

 Belize

45yo - Married
6. Brazil Eike Batista (college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father was former mining minister of Brazil) $27.0 billion iron-ore mining Brazil 53yo - Divorced, 2 children (formerly married to Playboy cover girl)
7. Canada David Thomson & family (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006)

$19.0 billion

inherited (media)

Canada

52yo - Divorced, 3 children (split from Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C., April 2008 when she gave birth to a daughter)
8. Chile Iris Fontbona & family (Second wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005)

$11.0 billion

mining/lumber

 Chile

na - Widowed, 3 children

9. China Zong Qinghou (Wahaha brand) $7.0 billion beverages China 64yo - Married, 1 child
10. Colombia Julio Mario Santo Domingo

$6.0 billion

beverages (beer)

Colombia

86yo - Married, 3 children

11. Cyprus John Fredriksen (Born in Norway ... World's leading oil tanker tycoon )

$7.7 billion

shipping

 UK

65yo - Widowed, 2 children

12. Czech Republic Petr Kellner (in 1992, used a $1 million loan he got through his small office-supplies business to start an investment fund)

$7.6 billion

insurance

 Czech Republic

45yo - Married, 4 children

13. Denmark Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (Grandson of the founder of Danish toymaker Lego; sole owner)

$3.5 billion

manufacturing

 Denmark

62yo - Married, 3 children

14. Egypt Nassef Sawiris(Youngest son of Orascom conglomerate founder and fellow billionaire, Onsi Sawiris)

$5.9 billion

construction

 Egypt

48yo - na
15. Finland Antti Herlin

$1.3 billion

elevators, escalators

Finland

53yo - Married, 4 children

16. France Bernard Arnault (skilled pianist)

$27.5 billion

LVMH (world's largest luxury goods empire)  

France

61yo - Married, 5 children

17. Germany Karl Albrecht (Fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf)

$23.5 billion

supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores)

 Germany

90yo - Married, 2 children 

18. Greece Spiro Latsis & family

$5.3 billion

banking/diversified

 Switzerland

63yo - Married, 2 children 

19. Hong Kong Li Ka-shing (High School drop out)

$21.0 billion

diversified (world's largest operator of container terminals, world's largest health and beauty retailer)

 Hong Kong

81yo - Widowed, 2 children

20. India Mukesh Ambani (Asia's richest resident ... built a 27-story home.) $29.0 billion petrochemicals India 52yo - Married, 3 children
21. Indonesia Michael Hartono

$3.5 billion

tobacco

 Indonesia

70yo - Married, 4 children

  R Budi Hartono $3.5 billion

tobacco

 Indonesia 69yo - Married, 3 children
22. Ireland Pallonji Mistry (rarely ever seen in public; became Irish citizen in recent years but maintains a residence in Mumbai)

$5.8 billion

construction (businesses are located in India)

 India

80yo - Married, 4 children

23. Israel Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born Israeli ... famously press-shy)

$6.5 billion

diversified (shipping, banking, real estate)

 Monaco

88yo - Married, 2 children

24. Italy Michele Ferrero & family (Tied up in legal battle that pits Ferrero against a Chinese chocolate maker that also makes a gold-wrapped candy. )

$17.0 billion

chocolates (Ferrero, Nutella and Tic Tac)

 Monaco

83yo - Married, 2 children

25. Japan Tadashi Yanai & family (His discount clothing chain, Fast Retailing, keeps prices low by outsourcing production to China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh)

$7.6 billion

retail

 Japan

61yo - Married, 2 children

26. Kazakhstan Vladmir Kim

$3.7 billion

mining

 Kazakhstan

49yo - Married, 3 children

27. Kuwait Nasser Al-Kharafi & family (has exclusive franchise rights in Middle East for brands like Pizza Hut, TGI Fridays, KFC and Wimpy)

$8.7 billion

construction

Kuwait

66yo - Married, 5 children

28. Lebanon

Najib Mikati (Former Lebanese Prime Minister - briefly in 2005)

$2.5 billion

telecom

 Lebanon

54yo - Married, 3 children

  Taha Mikati (brother of Najib Mikati) $2.5 billion telecom Lebanon 61yo - Married
29. Malaysia Robert Kuok (Onetime rice and sugar trader)

$14.5 billion

diversified (shipping, real estate, media)

 Hong Kong

86yo - Married, 8 children

30. Mexico Carlos Slim Helu & family (World's richest person - son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector)

$53.5 billion

telecom

 Mexico

70yo - Widowed, 6 children

31. Monaco Lily Safra (Widow of Brazilian billionaire banker Edmond Safra, who died in a fire in his Monaco apartment 1999) $1.2 billion  inheritance UK 72yo - Widowed, 2 children
32. Netherlands Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken (Inherited 25% stake in Dutch brewer, Heineken, 7 years ago from her late father, Freddy Heineken)

$7.0 billion

 inheritance x

UK

55yo - Married, 5 children

33. New Zealand Graeme Hart (Former tow truck driver now known for astute leveraged purchases ... owner of 190-foot yacht, Ulysses)

$5.3 billion

investments

 New Zealand

54yo - Married, 2 children

34. Nigeria Aliko Dangote (Closely linked to Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo)

$2.1 billion

inheritance (sugar, flour, cement manufacturing)

Nigeria

52 - Married, 2 children

35. Norway Stein Erik Hagen & family (owns island in the Caribbean and one of the biggest sailboats in Europe)

$3.5 billion

supermarkets

 Norway

53yo - Married, 4 children

36. Pakistan Mian Muhammad Mansha (Gap ... Pakistan's largest exporter of cotton clothes)

$1.0 billion

inherited (diversified)

Pakistan

62yo - Married, 3 children

37. Philippines Henry Sy & family (came to the Philippines as a child from China)

$4.2 billion

malls

 Philippines

85yo - Married, 6 children

38. Poland Jan Kulczyk

$2.1 billion

telecom, oil, beer

 Poland

60yo - Divorced, 2 children

39. Portugal Americo Amorim (King of cork)

$4.0 billion

cork, investments (world's largest producer of cork)

 Portugal

75yo - Married, 3 children

40. Romania Dinu Patriciu (Onetime architect and former parliamentarian)

$2.2 billion

oil & gas refineries

 Romania

59yo - Married, 2 children

41. Russia Vladimir Lisin $15.8 billion Novolipetsk steel mill Russia 53yo - Married, 3 children
42. Saudi Arabia Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of the Saudi king ... his palaces and real estate are worth more than $3 billion ... owns jewellery collection valued at $730 million, plus 4 airplanes, including an Airbus A380)

$19.4 billion

investments (incl. Citicorp)

 Saudi Arabia

55yo - Married, 2 children

43. Singapore Kuok Khoon Hong (nephew of billionaire, Robert Kuok)

$3.5 billion

inherited (palm oil)

 Singapore

60yo - Married, 4 children

  Wee Cho Yaw & family (educated in China ... avid tennis player)

$3.5 billion

banking

 Singapore

81yo - Married, 5 children

44. South Africa Nicky Oppenheimer & family

$5.0 billion

De Beers (diamond mining)

 South Africa

64yo - Married, 1 child
45. South Korea Lee Kun-Hee (convicted of tax evasion in Aug 2009)

$7.2 billion

inherited (Samsung)

South Korea

68yo - Married, 3 children

46. Spain Amancio Ortega (High School drop out ... shuns neckties)

$25.0 billion

Zara (apparel) (4,500 stores in 73 countries)

 Spain

74yo - Married, 3 children

47. Sweden Ingvar Kamprad & family (used to be frugal ... now drives a Porche)

$23.0 billion

Ikea (retail) (stores in 37 countries)

 Switzerland

83yo - Married, 4 children

48. Switzerland Ernesto Bertarelli (inherited the business after father's death in 1998 ... yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007)

$10.0 billion

inherited (Sereno Biotech)

 Switzerland

44yo - Married (to British beauty queen), 3 children

49. Taiwan Terry Gou (started company with $7,500 in 1974)

$5.5 billion

electronics

 Taiwan

59yo - Married, 2 children (remarried in 2008 after first wife passed away)
50. Thailand Chaleo Yoovidhya

$4.1 billion

Red Bull (beverages)

 Thailand

78yo - Married, 5 children

51. Turkey Husnu Ozyegin (gives away 2% of net income every month for the construction of primary schools and girls' dormitories in poor Turkish neighborhoods) $3.0 billion banking Turkey 65yo - Married, 2 children
52. Ukraine Rinat Akhmetov (built his business in the mid 1990's by forging ties with then prime minister,Viktor Yanukovych)

$5.2 billion

stel, coal mines

 Ukraine

43yo - Married, 2 children
53. United Arab Emirates Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family (Paragliding enthusiast )

$3.5 billion

banking

 United Arab Emirates

55yo - Married, 5 children

54. United Kingdom Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th Duke of Westminister ... supports more than 150 charities)

$12.0 billion

real estate (incl. Mayfair)

 UK

58yo - Married, 4 children

55. United States William Gates III (was world's richest person for 14 of the past 16 years) ... Harvard Uni drop out. $53.0 billion Microsoft  USA 54yo - Married, 3 children  
56. Venezuela Gustavo Cisneros & family

$4.2 billion

inherited (media)

Venezuela

64yo - Married, 3 children  

Anacleto Angelini, Chile's (and South America's) richest man, died 28 August 2007, age 93. He was worth $6.0 billion.
Ng Teng Fong, Singapore's richest man, died Feb 2, 2010, age 82. He was worth $5.5 billion.

The World
(men)

TOP 10 - World's Richest Men ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Carlos Slim Helu
$19 billion richer this year!		 $53.5 billion Telecom Mexico 70yo - Widowed, 6 children
2.William Gates III (was world's richest person for 14 of the past 16 years) ... Harvard Uni drop out. $53.0 billion Microsoft  USA 54yo - Married, 3 children  
3. Warren Buffett (America's most beloved investor ... married longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday in Aug. 2006 ... will donate $31 billion to charity!)

$47.0 billion

Berkshire Hathaway 

 USA

79yo - Widowed, re-married, 3 children

4. Mukesh Ambani (Asia's richest resident ... built a 27-story home.) $29.0 billion petrochemicals India 52yo - Married, 3 children
5. Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's richest resident)

$28.7 billion

Mittal Steel (world's largest steelmaker)

 India

59yo - Married, 2 children

6. Lawrence Ellison $28.0 billion  Oracle USA 65yo - Married, 2 children
7. Bernard Arnault $27.5 billion LVMH France 61yo  - Married, 5 children
8. Eike Batista $27.0 billion mining, oil Brazil 53yo - Divorced, 2 children
9. Amancio Ortega $25.0 billion  Zara Spain 74yo - Married, 3 children
10. Karl Albrecht (Fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf)

$23.5 billion

supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores worldwide)

 Germany

90yo - Married, 2 children 

The World
(women)

TOP 10 - World's Richest Women ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Christy Walton & family (widow of John Walton - son of retail pioneer Sam Walton - who died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) $22.5 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) USA 55yo - Widowed, 1 child
2. Alice Walton (Daughter of retail pioneer Sam Walton) $20.6 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) USA 60yo - Divorced
3. Liliane Bettencourt (2009 world's richest woman ... is being taken to court by her daughter for giving $1.4 billion to a well-known photographer) $20.0 billion L'Oreal (daughter of L'Oréal founder Eugene Schueller) France 87yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband, Andre Bettencourt , died Nov 2007 at age 88)
4. Birgit Rausing & family
(husband Gad Rausing died in 2000) 		$13.0 billion Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture) Sweden 86yo - Widowed, 3 children
5. Savitri Jindal (husband, Om Prakash Jindal, died in helicopter crash in 2005) $12.2 billion inherited (steel) India 60yo - Widowed, 9 children
6. Abigail Johnson $11.5 billion Fidelity investments USA 48yo - Married, 2 children
7. Susanne Klatten (won a civil case against Helg Sgarbi, the ex-lover who tried to blackmail her for millions. Sgarbi is now in jail.) $11.1 billion BMW, pharmaceuticals (Inherited stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt) Germany 47yo - Married, 3 children
8. Iris Fontbona & family (Second wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005)

$11.0 billion

mining/lumber

 Chile

na - Widowed, 3 children

8. Jacqueline Mars (third generation inherited company when dad died in 1999) $11.0 billion candy, pet food (incl. Mars bar, Snickers, M&Ms) world's largest confectioner ... pet food division (includes Whiskas, Pedigree) now larger than candy by sales. USA 70yo - Divorced, 3 children
10. Anne Cox Chambers $10.0 billion media/entertainment - Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers, 15 TV stations, 86 radio stations) USA 90yo - Divorced, 3 children

Helen Walton - widow of Sam Walton (d.1992) - died 19 Apr 2007 at age 87. She was the world's 4th richest woman at the time - worth $16.4 billion.
Barbara Cox Anthony - sister of Anne Cox Chambers - died 28 May 2007 at age 83. She was the world's 6th richest woman - worth $12.6 billion.

Australia

TOP 10 - Australian Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
 Wealth US$
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Andrew Forrest (nicknamed Twiggy)

$4.1 billion

mining, metals

Perth

48yo - Married, 3 children
2. Frank Lowy & family (Czech-born) $3.6 billion retail property (shopping centres) (biggest shopping mall chains, Westfield, with 119 malls in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Britain) Sydney 79yo - Married, 3 children
3. James Packer (father, Kerry, died Dec 26, 2005) $3.5 billion inherited (media/Entertainment)   Sydney 42yo -Married (to model turned singer/songwriter Erica Baxter), 2 children
4. Harry Triguboff (born in China to Russian parents ) $3.0 billion residential property development (Biggest builder of apartments in Australia) Sydney 77yo - Married, 2 children
5. John Gandel (medical doctor ) $2.4 billion retail property (shopping centres) (Owns 50% of Chadstone mall in Melbourne, the biggest in the southern hemisphere) Melbourne 75yo - Married, 4 children
6. Kerr Neilson (South African-born) $2.2 billion investments Sydney 60yo - Married, 2 children
7. Gina Rinehart (Battled for 14 years to win control of her father's assets from her stepmother) $2.0 billion mining Perth 56yo - Widowed, 4 children
8. Lindsay Fox (dropped out of school at 16 ... avid car enthusiast ... owns 130 rare classic cars) $1.5 billion  logistics (Linfox has a truck fleet of 5,000 ... 20 million square feet of warehousing, 2 airports and 1,000 armoured vehicles to transport cash)  Melbourne 72yo - Married, 5 children
9. Gerald Harvey (owns ~ 900 horses) $1.3 billion retail (Harvey Norman has 245 stores) Sydney 70yo - Married, 4 children
10. Michael Hintze (collects rural propereties in Australia) $1.1 billion hedge funds UK, London 56yo - Married, 4 children

Kerry Packer, Australia's long-time richest person, died 26 Dec 2005, age 68 ... he was worth $5.0 billion.
Richard Pratt, died 29 April, 2009, age 75, from prostate cancer ... he was worth $1.5 billion.

Brazil

TOP 10 - Brazilian Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Eike Batista (college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father was former mining minister of Brazil) $27.0 billion iron-ore mining Rio de Janeiro 53yo - Divorced, 2 children (formerly married to Playboy cover girl)
2. Jorge Paulo Lemann (onetime tennis champion - he played at Wimbledon) $11.5 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 70yo - Married, 5 children
3. Joseph Safra (cut financial ties with his older brother Moise in mid-2006. ) $10.0 billion banking Sao Paulo 71yo - Married, 4 children
4. Dorothea Steinbruch & family (sister-in-law of Eliezer Steinbruch) $5.5 billion Inheritence (steel) Sao Paulo na - Widowed, 3 children
5. Marcel Herman Telles (keen spearfisherman) $5.1 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 60yo - Married, 2 children
6. Carlos Alberto Sicupira $4.5 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 62yo - Married, 3 children
7. Aloysio de Andrade Faria $4.2 billion banking Sao Paulo 89yo - Married, 5 children
8. Abilio dos Santos Diniz (in 1989 was kidnapped by Canadian terrorists and held for 7 days in underground cells until the federal police set him free) $3.0 billion  supermarkets Sao Paulo 73yo - Married, 4 children
8. Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family

$3.0 billion

diversified

 Sao Paulo

81yo - na, 9 children
10. Moise Safra (cut financial ties with his younger brother Joseph in mid-2006. ) $2.3 billion banking Sao Paulo 75yo - Married

Canada

TOP 11 - Canadian Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. David Thomson & family (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006)

$19.0 billion

inherited (media)

Toronto

52yo - Divorced, 3 children (split from Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C., last April when she gave birth to a daughter)
2. Galen Weston & family (Plays polo with Prince Charles ... Avid collector of avant-garde artist Christo) $7.2 billion retail (owns controlling stake in Canada's largest supermarket chain) Toronto 69yo - Married, 2 children
3. James, Arthur & John Irving (brothers) $4.0 billion oil, gas (own 600 gas stations) Saint John n/a - n/a
3. Jim Pattison (owns massive Palm Springs lair that once belonged to Frank Sinatra) $4.0 billion diversified (incl. Ripley's Believe It or Not ... Bought Guinness World Records in February) Vancouver 81yo - Married, 3 children
5. Paul Desmarais (bought his father's one-route Ontario bus company for $1- in 1951) $3.9 billion finance Montreal 83yo - Married, 4 children
6. Bernard (Barry) Sherman (locked in court fight with relatives who allege they vare owed part of the fortune) $3.8 billion Apotex pharmaceuticals (seeking over-the-counter-sales approval of its controversial "morning-after" pill ) Toronto 68yo - Married, 4 children
7. David Azrieli & family $2.5 billion  shopping malls  Montreal 87yo - Married, 4 children
7. Guy Laliberte (accordian-playing fire-breather formed Cirque du Soleil in 1984 with a gang og of street performing friends) $2.5 billion  Cirque du Soleil  Montreal 50yo - Divorced, 5 children
7. Robert Miller $2.5 billion electronics (Future Electronics is the world's 3rd largest electronics distributor)  Montreal 64yo - Married, 2 children
10. Emanuele (Lino) Saputo $2.4 billion inherited (dairy) Quebec 73yo - Married, 3 children
10. Jeffrey Skoll $2.4 billion Ebay USA, LA 45yo - single

Kenneth Thomson, Canada's richest man, died June 2006, age 82. He was worth $19.6 billion.

China

TOP 11 - Chinese Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Head Office
Personal
1. Zong Qinghou $7.0 billion Wahaha (beverages) Hangzhou 64yo - Married, 1 child
2. Liu Yongxing $5.0 billion agriculture/aluminium (Hope Group became one of China's largest makers of animal feed) Shanghai 62yo - Married, 1 child
3. Zhang Jindong $4.5 billion Sunning Appliances (China's second-biggest electrical appliance chain - has 600 retail stores and plans to open another 400 by 2010) Nanjing 47yo - Married
4. Wang Chuanfu $4.4 billion batteries, electric cars Shenzhen 44yo - Married
5. Hui Ka Yan (shares wealth with wife) $4.0 billion real estate Guangzhou 51yo - Married
6. Wu Yajun & family $3.9 billion real estate Chongqing 46yo - Married
7. Liang Wengen $3.6 billion Sany Heavy Industry (makers of construction equipment) Changsha 53yo - Married, 1 child
7. Ma Huateng $3.6 billion Internet (cofounded Tencent in 1999 - it's powerful "QQ" chat has over 500 million regular users) Shenzhen 38yo - Married
9. Robin Li $3.5 billion Baidu (China's online search leader) Beijing 41yo - Married
10. Chen Fashu $3.4 billion  investment Fuzhou 49yo - Married, 2 children
10. Yang Huiyan (was China's richest person in 2007 with $16.2 billion) $3.4 billion inherited (real estate) (received 58% stake in real estate developer Country Garden from its main founder, her father, Yeung Kwok Keung) Foshan 28yo - Married

France

TOP 10 - French Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Bernard Arnault (skilled pianist)

$27.5 billion

LVMH (world's largest luxury goods empire)  

Paris

61yo - Married, 5 children

2. Liliane Bettencourt (2009 world's richest woman ... is being taken to court by her daughter for giving $1.4 billion to a well-known photographer) $20.0 billion L'Oreal (daughter of L'Oréal founder Eugene Schueller) Paris 87yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband, Andre Bettencourt , died Nov 2007 at age 88)
3. Francois Pinault (High school drop out ... was awarded the French Legion d'honneur last year)
$8.7 billion retail (incl. Gucci) Paris 73yo - Married, 3 children
4. Serge Dassault & family (French senator) $7.6 billion aviation (makers of Mirage and Rafale jets) Paris 84yo - Married, 4 children
5. Alain & Gerard Wertheimer (brothers) $7.5 billion Chanel (apparel, perfume) (Chanel No. 5 perfume is the world's top selling scent) USA, New York; Cologny n/a - Married / Married
6. Jean-Claude Decaux & family (Started out putting ads on public toilets and bus shelters) $4.6 billion advertising (places ads in almost 50 countries) Paris 72yo - Married, 3 children
7. Alain Merieux & family $4.0 billion biotech (specializes in the diagnosis of bacteria in the human body and infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis) Lyon

72yo - Married, 3 children (eldest son killed in plane crash in 1996, age 28. 2nd- eldest son died of cardiac failure in 2006, age 32)
8. Martin & Olivier Bouygues (brothers) (Martin is a close confident of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and godfather of the president's son) $3.4 billion telecom, media, construction Paris 57/59yo -n/a
9. Pierre Bellon & family $2.2 billion  inherited (food services)  Paris 80yo - Married, 4 children
10. Philippe Foriel-Destezet (lives as a tax exile in London) $1.8 billion  temp agency  UK, London 74yo - Married, 4 children

Germany

TOP 12 - German Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Karl Albrecht (Fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf)

$23.5 billion

supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores)

 Muehlheim an der Ruhr

90yo - Married, 2 children 

2. Michael Otto & family $18.7 billion retail (world's largest mail-order company) Hamburg  66yo - Married, 2 children
3. Theo Albrecht (was kidnapped for 17 days in 1971 ) $16.7 billion supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores) Foehr  88yo - Married, 2 children
4. Susanne Klatten (sister of Stefan Quandt ... won a civil case against Helg Sgarbi, the ex-lover who tried to blackmail her for millions. Sgarbi is now in jail.) $11.1 billion BMW, pharmaceuticals (Inherited stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt) Bad Homburg 47yo - Married, 3 children
5. August von Finck $7.3 billion investments Switzerland, Thurgau 80yo - Married, 4 children
6. Klaus-Michael Kuhne $6.6 billion  shipping Switzerland, Schindellegi 72yo - Married
7. Curt Engelhorn $6.3 billion  pharmaceuticals Switzerland, Gstaad 83yo - Married, 5 children
8. Stefan Quandt (brother of Susanne Klatten) $5.7 billion BMW Frankfurt 43yo - Married, 1child
8. Reinhold Würth (Took over tiny screw business from his father at age 19 ... has professional pilot's license; rides a Harley-Davidson) $5.7 billion manufacturing (screws) Kuenzelsau  74yo - Married, 3 children
10. Karl-Heinz Kipp $5.0 billion retail Arosa 86yo - Married, 2 children
10. Hasso Plattner (Germany's largest philanthropist) $5.0 billion SAP (software) Heidelberg 66yo - Married, 2 children
10. Joanna Quandt (3rd wife of Herbert Quandt) $5.0 billion BMW Bad Homburg   83yo - Widowed, 2 children

Adolf Merckle committed suicide 6 January 2009. He was 5th richest in Germany (valued at $9.2 billion) in 2008.

Hong Kong

TOP 10 - Hong Kong Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal

1. Li Ka-shing (High School drop out ... Asia's most generous individual, has given out $1.4 billion to education and nedical research)

$21.0 billion

diversified (world's largest operator of container terminals, world's largest health and beauty retailer)

 Hong Kong

81yo - Widowed, 2 children

2. Lee Shau Kee (nicknamed "Asia's Warren Buffett" ) $18.5 billion real estate Hong Kong 82yo - Divorced, 5 children 
3. Kwok family (deeply religious brothers, opened replica of Noah's Ark in Hong Kong in May 2009) $17.0 billion real estate (Sun Hung Kai Properties) Hong Kong n/a - n/a
4. Cheng Yu-tung $6.8 billion New World Development (real estate) Hong Kong  84yo - Married, 4 children
5. Joseph Lau (socialite ... art collector, paid $39 million for Paul Gaugin's Te Poipoi ... Spent $9.5 million for a 7.03-carat blue diamond ... one of largest collectors of red wine, with at least 10,000 bottles) $5.8 billion real estate Hong Kong 58yo - Divorced, 3 children
6. Sir Michael Kadoorie & family (was knighted in the U.K. for his extensive charitable and philanthropic activities.) $5.1 billion diversified Hong Kong 69yo - Married
7. Peter Woo & family (inherited fortune from father-in-law, Sir Y.K.Pao) $4.3 billion real estate Hong Kong 64yo - Married
8. William Fung $3.5 billion  distribution  Hong Kong 62yo - Married, 1 child
9. Hui Wing Mau $3.3 billion real estate Hong Kong 60yo - Married, 2 children
10. Chen Din Hwa $3.2 billion real estate Hong Kong 87yo - na

Nina Wang, widow of husband kidnapped in 1990, died 5 April 2007, age 69. She was worth $4.2 billion.

India

TOP 10 - Indian Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Mukesh Ambani (Asia's richest resident and older brother of Anil Ambani ... recently built a 27-story home) $29.0 billion petrochemicals, oil, gas Mumbai 52yo - Married, 3 children
2. Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's richest resident)

$28.7 billion

Mittal Steel (world's largest steelmaker)

 UK, London

59yo - Married, 2 children

3. Azim Premji $17.0 billion Wipro (software)   Bangalore  64yo - Married, 2 children
4. Anil Ambani (marathon runner ... younger brother of Mukesh Ambani.) $13.7 billion diversified Mumbai 50yo - Married, 2 children
5. Shashi & Ravi Ruia (brothers) $13.0 billion diversified Mumbai   66yo - Married, 2 children
6. Savitri Jindal (husband, Om Prakash Jindal, died in helicopter crash in 2005) $12.2 billion inherited (steel) Delhi & Hisar 60yo - Widowed, 9 children
7. Kushal Pal Singh (in 2008 was 10th richest in the world and world's richest real estate baron ... lost $25.0 billion later that year) $9.0 billion real estate Delhi 78yo - Married, 3 children
8. Kumar Birla $7.9 billion commodities (cement, copper & aluminium) Mumbai   42yo - Married, 3 children
9. Sunil Mittal (son of a politician) $7.8 billion Telecom (has 60 million customers) Delhi  52yo - Married, 3 children
10. Anil Agarwal (is facing flak over his business practises) $6.4 billion mining, metals UK, London 56yo - Married, 2 children

Israel

TOP 10 - Israeli Billionaires... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born Israeli ... famously press-shy ... In May 2006, paid $40 million for Van Gogh's "Madame Ginoux")

$6.5 billion

diversified (shipping, banking, real estate)

 Monaco, Monte Carlo

88yo - Married, 2 children

2. Arnon Milchan (former soccer player) $3.6 billion New Regency Productions (include Pretty Woman, The War of the Roses, Fight Club and Mr. and Mrs. Smith) Tel Aviv 65yo - Married, 4 children
3. Stef Wertheimer & family (grade school dropout) $3.5 billion tools Tefen 84yo - Married, 4 children
4. Shari Arison $3.4 billion inherited (banking, housing & construction) Tel Aviv 52yo - Married, 4 children
5. Alexander Machkevich (native of Kyrgyzstan ... has been very active in Jewish causes) $3.3 billion mining, metals Kazakhstan, Almaty 56yo - Married, 2 children
6. Yitzhak Tshuva (his Cinderella story began in Netanya in a single room where his penniless family of 11 lived briefly) $2.1 billion real estate (also operates 232 gas stations in Israel) Netanya 61yo - Married, 5 children
7. Beny Steinmetz $2.0 billion diamonds (largest customer of De Beers) Netanya 53yo - Married, 4 children
8. Lev Leviev (born in Uzbekistan ... Leviev's new home is the $65 million Palladio, a seven-bedroom bulletproof estate replete with in-house nightclub and gold-plated indoor pool—the most expensive new home in Britain) $1.5 billion diamonds (cuts and polishes more diamonds than anyone else in the world) UK, London 54yo - Married, 9 children
9. Michael Federmann & family $1.4 billion  defense, hotels Tel Aviv 66yo - Married, 3 children
10. Morris Kahn (a former diver ... spends most of his time on a 100-foot-yacht) $1.0 billion software Beit Yanay 80yo - Married

Italy

TOP 10 - Italian Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Michele Ferrero & family

17.0 billion

Ferrero chocolates (also Nutella and Tic Tac)

 Monaco, Monte Carlo

83yo - Married, 2 children

2. Leonardo Del Vecchio (sent to an orphanage at age 7) $10.5 billion eyewear (Ray-Ban) (owns over 6,000 retail stores) Milan 74yo - Married, 6 children
3. Silvio Berlusconi (became Italy's Prime Minister for the 3rd time in 2008 ... started out singing on cruise ships ... in Dec 2009 a man broke his nose and teeth with a statue of Milan's cathedral ) $9.0 billion media North of Milan 73yo - Married, 5 children
4. Giorgio Armani (goes to the gym for at least an hour a day) $5.3 billion Armani fashion / apparel Milan 75yo - n/a
5. Mario Moretti Polegato (owns two Lamborghinis, a Ferrari 360 Modena Spider, five Arabian horses and six antique Moto Guzzi motorcycles.) $2.4 billion Geox shoes Crocetta del Montello 57yo - Married, 1 child
6. Carlo Benetton $2.1 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)  Treviso 66yo - Single, 4 children
6. Gilberto Benetton $2.1 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) 
 Treviso 68yo - Married, 2 children
6. Luciano Benetton $2.1 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) Treviso 74yo - Married, 4 children
6. Giuliana Benetton $2.1 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)  Treviso 72yo - Married, 4 children
10. Ennio Doris & family $1.9 billion insurance Tombolo 69yo - Married, 2 children

Japan

TOP 10 - Japanese Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Tadashi Yanai & family

$7.6 billion

retail (His discount clothing chain, Fast Retailing, keeps prices low by outsourcing production to China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh)

Tokyo

61yo - Married, 2 children

2. Nobutada Saji & family (Avid swimmer, opening chain of gyms through Suntory) $7.5 billion Suntory (beverages) - recently engineered the world's first blue rose! Tokyo 64yo - Married
3. Akira Mori & family (Hobbies: golf, Japanese chess, and reading)

$6.3 billion

Mori Trust (real estate)

Tokyo

73yo - Married, 3 children

4. Masayoshi Son $5.9 billion Softbank (software) Tokyo 52yo - Married, 2 children
5. Kunio Busujima & family $5.4 billion pinball machines (manufacturing) Gunma 84yo - Married, 4 children
6. Hiroshi Mikitani $4.8 billion e-commerce (Rakuten, Internet shopping mall, hosts more than 30,000 virtual stores selling 40,000 products) Tokyo 45yo - Married, 1 child
7. Hiroshi Yamauchi $4.2 billion Nintendo Kyoto 82yo - Married, 2 children
8. Eitaro Itoyama (circumnavigated the world 3 times in a 150-foot-yacht) $3.4 billion golf courses Tokyo 67yo - Married, 2 children
9. Takemitsu Takizaki $3.1 billion sensors (manufacturing) Osaka 64yo - Married
10. Masahiro Miki (former amateur boxer ... founder ABC Mart) $2.2 billion retail (ABC Mart), (discount shoe retailer, opens an average of 50 new stores a year) Tokyo 54yo - Married

Taikichiro Mori (d. 1993) was the World's Richest Person from 1991-1992.

Malaysia

TOP 9 - Malaysian Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Robert Kuok (once known as the Sugar King of Asia) $14.5 billion diversified (shipping, real estate, media...) Hong Kong 86yo - Married, 8 children
2. Ananda Krishnan (notable philanthropist ... has son who is a monk and lives in a forest) $7.6 billion telecom Kuala Lumpur 71yo - Married, 3 children
3. Lee Shin Cheng $4.4 billion palm oil (IOI Group is one of the biggest property developers in Malaysia) Jeram 70yo - Married, 6 children
4. Quek Leng Chan $3.4 billion diversified (incl. banking) Wee 69yo - Married, 3 children
4. Teh Hong Piow $3.4 billion banking Kuala Lumpur 80yo - Married, 4 children
6. Yeoh Tiong Lay & family $2.3 billion diversified (construction, utilities, hotels ...) Kuala Lumpur 80yo - Married, 7 children
7. Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary $1.5 billion diversified (rice, mining ...) Kuala Lumpur 58yo - Married, 5 children
8. Vincent Tan (exercise buff, loves scuba diving) $1.2 billion diversified (hotels, lotteries, real estate, finance, fast food franchises...) Kuala Lumpur na - Married, 11 children
9. Tiong Hiew King (some call him Asia's Rupert Murdoch) $1.0 billion timber, palm oil, media Sibu 75yo - Married, 4 children

Mexico

TOP 9 - Mexican Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Carlos Slim Helu & family (2010 World's richest man ... $19 billion richer this year! ... son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector)

$53.5 billion

telecom

 Mexico City

70yo - Widowed, 6 children

2. Ricardo Salinas Pliego (in Sep 2006, paid $7.5 million to settle accusations about a business scandal) $10.1 billion retail, media , financing Mexico City 54yo - Married, 6 children (3 with first wife, 3 with second wife ... including twins born Feb 2009)
3. German Larrea Mota-Velasco & family $9.7 billion mining Mexico City 56yo - Married
4. Alberto Bailleres & family (has a 300-foot-yacht) $8.3 billion mining silver (world's top producer of silver) Mexico City 77yo - Married
5. Jeronimo Arango & family $4.0 billion supermarkets (was a Wal-Mart partner) Mexico City 84yo - n/a
6. Emilio Azcárraga Jean $1.5 billion media (inherited empire in 1997) Mexico City 42yo - Married, 1 child
7. Roberto Hernandez Ramirez $1.2 billion Banamex (banking) Mexico City 68yo - Married, 3 children
8. Joaquin Guzman Loera (Mexico's most wanted man ... an illegal and violent criminal! ... arrested in Mexico in 1993 and escaped 8 years later ... US gov't is offering $5 million reward for information leading to his capture) $1.0 billion  drug trafficking (the Sinaloa cartel is one of the biggest suppliers of coccaine to the USA) Sinaloa State 55yo - na
8. Alfredo Harp Helu (Kidnapped in 1994 for 3 months ... owns the Red Devils baseball team ... cousin of Carlos Slim Helu) $1.0 billion Banamex (banking) Mexico City 66yo - Married, 4 children

Russia

TOP 10 - Russian Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Vladimir Lisin $15.8 billion Novolipetsk steel mill Moscow 53yo - Married, 3 children
2. Mikhail Prokhorov $13.4 billion metals (often featured in gossip pages for his parties) Moscow 44yo - Single
3. Mikhail Fridman (strong Kremlin connections) $12.7 billion oil, banking, telecom Moscow 45yo - Divorced, 2 children
4. Roman Abramovich (college drop out; orphaned as a child ... owns U.K. soccer club, Chelsea) $11.2 billion steel, investments Moscow 43yo - Divorced, 6 children (last child in 2009 with g'f)
5. Oleg Deripaska (Married into family of former President Yeltsin; in 2008 was 9th richest in the world and richest in Russia, lost $24.5 billion later that year)

$10.7 billion

Russian Aluminum (world's largest aluminum producer)

Moscow

42yo - Married, 2 children

6. Vagit Alekperov (Has good relationship with Vladimir Putin) $10.6 billion Lukoil (in December 2006 he acquired nearly 400 gas stations from ConocoPhillips) Moscow 59yo - Married, 1 child
7. Vladmir Potanin (in Jan 2010 announced he will transfer his fortune to charity and not his children) $10.3 billion Norilsk Nickel Moscow 49yo - Married, 3 children
8. Alexei Mordashov $9.9 billion Severstal (steel) Moscow 44yo - Divorced, 3 children
9. Viktor Rashnikov $9.8 billion steel Magnitogorsk 61yo - Married, 2 children
10. Dimitry Rybolovlev (in 2008 bought Donald Trump's Palm Beach mansion, Maison de l'Amitie, for $100 million) $8.6 billion fertilizer Moscow 43yo - Married, 2 children (pending divorce from wife, Elena)

Saudi Arabia

TOP 10 - Saudi Arabian Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of the Saudi king ... his palaces and real estate are worth more than $3 billion ... owns jewellery collection valued at $730 million, plus 4 airplanes, including an Airbus A380)

$19.4 billion

investments (incl. Citicorp)

 Riyadh

55yo - Married, 2 children

2. Mohammed Al Amoudi (Born in Ethiopia) $10.0 billion oil Jeddah 64yo - Married, 8 children
3. Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber $7.5 billion real estate, hotels Jeddah 51yo - Married, 3 children
4. Sulaiman Al Rajhi (one of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) $6.5 billion banking Riyadh 90yo - Married, 23 children
(yes ... 23!!!!)
5. Saleh Al Rajhi (one of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) $5.8 billion banking Riyadh 98yo - Married, 61 children (yes, 61!!!! - 22 sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)
6. Saleh Kamel $2.6 billion  diversified (media, banking, tourism, real estate...)  Jeddah 68yo - Married
7. Mohammed Al Issa (fined $26,667 in June 2009 for insider trading) $2.4 billion investments  Riyadh 85yo - na
8. Abdullah Al Rajhi (one of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) $2.3 billion banking   Riyadh na - Married
9. Mohammed Al Rajhi (one of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) $1.5 billion banking   Riyadh na - Married
10. Aymin Hariri (son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafiq Hariri who died in 2005) $1.4 billion inherited (construction, investments) Riyadh 31yo - Married, 1 child
Sulaiman Algosaibi, died Feb 2009 (age n/a). He was worth $2.0 billion.
Khalid Bin Mahfouz, died Aug 16, 2009, age 59. He was worth 2.0 billion.

NOTE: Two of the three Al Rajhi brothers have 84 children between them!

South Korea

TOP 11 - South Korean Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Lee Kun-Hee (paid $130 million in overdue taxes in 2008 after allegations of tax evasion, but got a presidential pardon later that year) $7.2 billion Samsung Seoul 68yo - Married, 3 children
2. Chung Mong-Koo $3.6 billion Hyundai Seoul 72yo - Married, 4 children
3. Jay Y. Lee (only son of Lee Kun-Hee) $1.9 billion inherited (Samsung) Seoul 41yo - Divorced, 2 children
4. Shin Chang-Jae $1.6 billion inherited (insurance) Seoul 56yo - Married, 2 children
4. Chung Mong-Joon (Korean politician) $1.6 billion inherited (manufacturing, ship-building) Seoul 58yo - Married, 3 children
6. Shin Dong-Bin $1.5 billion inherited (retail, food) Seoul 55yo - Married, 3 children
6. Shin Dong-Joo $1.5 billion inherited (retail, food) Japan, Tokyo 56yo - Married, 1 child
8. Lee Myung-Hee $1.4 billion inherited (retail) Seoul 66yo - Married, 2 children
9. Chung Eui-Sun (oldest son of Chung Mong-Koo) $1.3 billion inherited (hyundai) Seoul 39yo - Married, 2 children
10. Chey Tae-Won (pardoned in 2008 for accounting fraud) $1.1 billion inherited (diversified) Seoul 49yo - Married, 3 children (wife is daughter of South Korea's former president, Roh Tae Woo)
10. Koo Bon-Moo $1.1 billion inherited (electronics) Seoul 65yo - Married, 3 children

Spain

TOP 10 - Spanish Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Amancio Ortega (High School drop out ... shuns neckties)

$25.0 billion

Zara (apparel) (4,500 stores in 73 countries)

 La Coruna

74yo - Married, 3 children

2. Isak Andic (enthusiastic sailor ... his family came to Spain from Turkey) $4.8 billion Mango (apparel) (over 1,200 stores in 92 countries ) Barcelona 55yo - Married, 3 children
3. Rosalia Mera (ex-wife of Amancio Ortega) $3.5 billion Zara (apparel) (4,500 stores in 73 countries) La Coruna 66yo - Divorced, 2 children
4. Manuel Jove (carpenter by trade) $2.4 billion real estate La Coruna 68yo - Married, 2 children
5. Alicia Koplowitz (sister of Esther Koplowitz ... rumored to be romantically involved with the Duque de Huescar ) $2.2 billion investments Madrid 55yo - Divorced, 3 children
6. Esther Koplowitz (married to Fernando Falcó, Marqués de Cubas) $2.0 billion Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (construction) Barcelona 56yo - Married, 3 children
7. Florentino Perez $1.9 billion construction Madrid 63yo - Married, 3 children
8. Jose Maria Aristrain (Press shy, reportedly never goes out in public without a bodyguard to safeguard him and his family from kidnapping and assassination attempts by Basque separatists) $1.8 billion steel Madrid 47yo - Married, 1 child
9. Emilio Botin (enjoys golf, hunting and fishing) $1.7 billion banking Santander 75yo - Married, 6 children
10. Enrique Banuelos $1.5 billion real estate UK, London 44yo - Married, 2 children

Sweden

TOP 10 - Swedish Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Ingvar Kamprad & family (used to be frugal ... now drives a Porche)

$23.0 billion

Ikea (retail) (stores in 37 countries)

 Switzerland, Lausanne

83yo - Married, 4 children

2. Stefan Persson (enjoys downhill skiing, tennis and golf) $22.4 billion Hennes & Mauritz (retail) (has 1,900 stores in over 28 countries) Stockholm 62yo - Married, 3 children
3. Birgit Rausing & family (husband Gad Rausing - brother of Hans Rausing - died in 2000 ... family keeps low profile due to kidnapping attempt on son, Jorn, in 1989) $13.0 billion Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture) Switzerland, Vaud 86yo - Widowed, 3 children
4. Sir Hans Rausing (brother of Gad Rausing - knighted last year for his services to charity ... resides on a 900-acre estate in the village of Wadhurst in East Sussex where he collects vintage cars) $10.0 billion Tetra Laval (packaging) (Moved to England in 1980 to avoid punitive Swedish taxes) UK, Wadhurst 84yo - Married, 3 children
5. Antonia Johnson (avid horsewoman ) $6.0 billion A. Johnson & Co. (diversified) Stockholm 66yo - Married, 4 children
6. Liselott (Lottie) Persson
(sister of Stefan Persson )		 $3.0 billion Hennes & Mauritz (retail) (has 1,900 stores in over 28 countries) Stockholm 60yo - n/a
7. Count Gustaf Douglas (his familly is of Scottish origin) $2.0 billion Assa Abloy (locks) / security (worlds largest producer of locks) Stockholm 72yo - Married, 2 children
8. Melker Schorling $1.7 billion investments Stockholm 62yo - Married, 2 children
9. Fredrik Lundberg (once a junior world champion of curling) $1.5 billion real estate / investments Stockholm 58yo - Married, 2 children
10. Thomas Sandell $1.1 billion hedge funds USA, NY, New York 49yo - Married, 1child

Switzerland

TOP 10 - Swiss Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Ernesto Bertarelli (inherited the business after father's death in 1998 ... yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007)

$10.0 billion

inherited (Sereno Biotech)

 Geneva

44yo - Married (to British beauty queen), 3 children

2. Hansjorg Wyss (Wine connoisseur owns a 900-acre ranch and vineyard in California) $6.1 billion Synthes (medical-implants and biomaterials ) USA, Penn, West Chester 75yo - na
3. Thomas Schmidheiny (one of the Schmidheiny brothers) $4.3 billion Holcim (cement) (world's second-largest supplier of cement and concrete) Balgach 64yo - Married, 4 children
4. Nicolas Hayek (known as Mr. Swatch ... creating an eco-friendly auto with Mercedes-Benz to be called Swatchmobile smart car ) $3.9 billion Swatch (world's largest manufacturer of finished watches with 156 factories) Biel 81yo - Married, 2 children
5. Walter Haefner (his Moyglare Stud Farm in Ireland has approx. 100 horses and has bred such winners as Simple Exchange and Media Puzzle) $3.3 billion Computer Associates (software) Zurich 99yo - Married, 2 children
6. Bahaa Hariri (Eldest son of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik) $3.0 billion inheritance Geneva 43yo - Married
7. Sergio Mantegazza (Loves expensive toys, has a helicopter, a yacht (Lady Marina) and a $600,000 Mercedes Maybach. ) $2.8 billion Globus & Cosmos (travel) Lugano 82yo - Married, 1 child
7. Stephan Schmidheiny (one of the Schmidheiny brothers ... facing lawsuits in Switzerland and Italy surrounding the asbestos-related deaths of former plant workers) $2.8 billion investments Zurich 62yo - Married, 2 children
9. Jean-Claude Gandur (His collection of Egyptian antiquities is among the best in the world) $1.9 billion oil trading and exploration UK, London 61yo - na
10. Esther Grether & family $1.5 billion art collection, Swatch Basel 74yo - Widowed, 2 children

Taiwan

TOP 10 - Taiwanese Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Terry Gou (started company with $7,500 in 1974) $5.5 billion electronics Taipei 59yo - Married, 2 children (remarried in 2008 after first wife passed away)
2. Tsai Wan-Tsai & family (uncle of 3 billionaire brothers - Tsai Hong-tu, T.Y. Tsai, Chen-da Tsai) $4.9 billion banking Taipei 80yo - Married, 4 children
3. Tsai Eng-Meng $4.3 billion food China, Shanghai 53yo - Married
4. Barry Lam $2.9 billion electronics (Quanta Computer) Taipei 60yo - Married, 2 children
5. Lin Rong San (one fo the Lin brothers) $2.3 billion real estate Taipei na - Married
6. Lin Yu-lin (one fo the Lin brothers) $2.0 billion real estate Taipei 74yo - Married, 2 children
6. Cher Wang & Wenchi Chen $2.0 billion inherited (technology) Taipei 52yo - Married, 2 children
8. Tsai Hong-tu (one of 3 Tsai brothers ... $1.7 billion inherited (Cathay Financial ) ... father, Tsai Wan-lin, died 2004. Taipei 57yo - Married, 3 children
8. T.Y. Tsai (one of 3 Tsai brothers ... collects cars) $1.7 billion inherited (Cathay Financial ) ... father, Tsai Wan-lin, died 2004. Taipei na - Married, 1 child
8. Chen-da Tsai (one of 3 Tsai brothers) $1.7 billion inherited (Cathay Financial ) ... father, Tsai Wan-lin, died 2004. Taipei na - Married

Turkey

TOP 10 - Turkish Billionaires ... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Husnu Ozyegin (gives away 2% of net income every month for the construction of primary schools and girls' dormitories in poor Turkish neighborhoods) $3.0 billion banking Istanbul 65yo - Married, 2 children
2. Mehmet Emin Karamehmet