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2012 - Richest Billionaire in 59 Countries

Richest Billionaire in each Country... (7 March 2012)... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Citizenship
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Argentina

Carlos and Alejandro Bulgheroni

$5.1 billion

oil, gas (Bridas)

Argentina

na -

2. Australia Georgina Rinehart

$18.0 billion

mining

Australia 58yo - Widowed, 4 children
3. Austria

Johann Graf

$5.3 billion

gaming machines

Austria

65yo - Divorced, 3 children

  Dietrich Mateschitz

$5.3 billion

Red Bull

Austria

66yo - Single, 1 child

4. Belgium

Albert Frere

$3.6 billion $5.3 billion Belgium 86yo - Married, 3 children
5. Belize Huang Maoru & family

$1.1 billion

retail

China

46yo - Married

6. Brazil Eike Batista $30.0 billion iron-ore mining Brazil 55yo - Divorced, 2 children
7. Canada David Thomson & family

$17.5 billion

media

Canada

54yo - Divorced, 3 children

8. Chile Iris Fontbona & family

$17.8 billion

mining/lumber

Chile

na - Widowed, 3 children

9. China Robin Li $10.2 billion Internet China 43yo - Married
10. Colombia Luis Carlos Sarmiento

$12.4 billion

banking

Colombia

79yo - Married, 5 children

11. Cyprus John Fredriksen

$11.3 billion

shipping

UK

67yo - Widowed, 2 children

12. Czech Republic Petr Kellner

$8.2 billion

insurance

Czech Republic

47yo - Married, 4 children

13. Denmark Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen

$6.0 billion

Lego

Denmark

64yo - Married, 3 children

14. Egypt Nassef Sawiris

$5.1 billion

construction

Egypt

51yo - na

15. Finland Antti Herlin

$2.0 billion

elevators, escalators

Finland

55yo - Married, 4 children

16. France Bernard Arnault

$41 billion

LVMH

France

63yo - Married, 5 children

17. Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili

$6.4 billion

investments

Georgia

56yo - Married, 4 children 

18. Germany Karl Albrecht

$25.4 billion

Aldi supermarkets

Germany

92yo - Married, 2 children 

19. Greece

Aristotelis Mistakidis

$2.8 billion

Glencore International

Switzerland

50yo - Married, 1 child 

20. Hong Kong Li Ka-shing

$25.5 billion

diversified

Hong Kong

83yo - Widowed, 2 children

21. India

Mukesh Ambani

$22.3 billion

petrochemicals, oil & gas

India

54yo - Married, 3 children

22. Indonesia R. Budi Hartono $6.5 billion

tobacco

Indonesia 71yo - Married, 3 children
23. Ireland Pallonji Mistry

$9.7 billion

construction

India

82yo - Married, 4 children

24. Israel Idan Ofer

$6.2 billion

inherited

Israel

56yo - Married, 5 children

25. Italy Michele Ferrero & family

$19.0 billion

Ferrero chocolates

Monaco

85yo - Married, 2 children

26. Japan

Tadashi Yanai & family

$10.0 billion

retail

Japan

63yo - Married, 2 children

27. Kazakhstan Vladmir Kim

$3.5 billion

mining

Kazakhstan

51yo - Married, 3 children

28. Kuwait

Bassam Alghanim

$1.6 billion

diversified

Kuwait

60yo - Married

29. Lebanon

Najib Mikati

$3.0 billion

telecom

Lebanon

56yo - Married, 3 children

  Taha Mikati $3.0 billion telecom Lebanon 63yo - Married
30. Malaysia Robert Kuok

$12.4 billion

diversified (shipping, real estate, media)

Hong Kong

88yo - Married, 8 children

31. Mexico Carlos Slim Helu & family

$69 billion

telecom

Mexico

72yo - Widowed, 6 children

32. Monaco David Nahmad & family $3.0 billion art Monaco 64yo - Married, 3 children
33. Morocco

Miloud Chaabi

$2.9 billion real estate Morocco 83yo - Married, 6 children
34. Netherlands Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken

$7.7 billion

Heineken

UK

57yo - Married, 5 children

35. New Zealand Graeme Hart

$5.7 billion

investments

New Zealand

56yo - Married, 2 children

36. Nigeria Aliko Dangote

$11.2 billion

sugar, flour, cement manufacturing

Nigeria

54yo - Married, 2 children

37. Norway Olav Thon

$5.0 billion

real estate

Norway

88yo - Married

38. Peru

Eduardo Hochschild

$2.2 billion

inherited (mining)

Peru

48yo - na, na

39. Philippines Henry Sy & family

$8.0 billion

diversified

Philippines

87yo - Married, 6 children

40. Poland Jan Kulczyk

$2.7 billion

telecom, oil, beer

Poland

62yo - Divorced, 2 children

41. Portugal Americo Amorim

$4.4 billion

cork, investments

Portugal

77yo - Married, 3 children

42. Romania Dinu Patriciu

$1.5 billion

oil & gas refineries

Romania

61yo - Married, 2 children

43. Russia Alisher Usmanov $18.1 billion steel, telecom, stocks Russia 58yo - Married
44. Saudi Arabia Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud

$18.0 billion

investments

Saudi Arabia

57yo - Married, 2 children

45. Singapore Wee Cho Yaw & family

$3.8 billion

banking

Singapore

83yo - Married, 5 children

46. South Africa Nicky Oppenheimer & family

$6.8 billion

De Beers (diamond mining)

South Africa

66yo - Married, 1 child

47. South Korea Lee Kun-Hee

$8.3 billion

Samsung

South Korea

70yo - Married, 3 children

48. Spain Amancio Ortega

$37.5 billion

Zara (apparel)

Spain

75yo - Married, 3 children

49. St.Kitts and Nevis

Jacky Xu

$1.6 billion

apparel

China

na - na

50. Sweden Stefan Persson

$26.0 billion

H&M

Sweden

64yo - Married, 3 children

51. Switzerland Ernesto Bertarelli & family

$10.6 billion

biotech

Switzerland

46yo - Married, 3 children

52. Taiwan

Tsai Wan-tsai & family

$6.5 billion

finance

Taiwan

82yo - Married, 4 children

53. Thailand Dhanin Chearavanont & family

$7.0 billion

diversified

Thailand

72yo - Married, 5 children

54. Turkey

Husnu Ozyegin

$3.0 billion finance, retail Turkey 67yo - Married, 2 children
55. Ukraine Rinat Akhmetov

$16.0 billion

steel, coal mines

Ukraine

45yo - Married, 2 children

56. United Arab Emirates Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family

$2.9 billion

banking

United Arab Emirates

57yo - Married, 5 children

57. United Kingdom Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family

$11.0 billion

real estate (incl. Mayfair)

UK

60yo - Married, 4 children

58. United States William Gates III $61.0 billion Microsoft  USA 56yo - Married, 3 children  
59. Venezuela Gustavo Cisneros & family

$4.2 billion

inherited (media)

Venezuela

66yo - Married, 3 children  


Did you know...?

Argentina - Carlos and Alejandro Bulgheroni ...
Australia - Georgina Rinehart
(battled for 14 years to win control of her father's assets from her stepmother)
Austria - Dietrich Mateschitz
(Red Bull banned because of its contents in Iceland and Uruguay)
Belgium - Patokh Chodiev
(Uzbekistan native)
Belize -
Huang Maoru & family (operates one of China's largest department store chains ... brother of Huang Shih Tsai (Taiwan) ... Maoye has 37 department stores in 16 Chinese cities)
Brazil -
Eike Batista (college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father was former mining minister of Brazil ... formerly married to Playboy cover girl)
Canada - David Thomson & family
(father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006 ...
split from Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C., April 2008 when she gave birth to a daughter)
Chile - Iris Fontbona & family
(second wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005)
China - Robin Li
(wealth estimate includes shares held by wife, Melissa Ma)
Colombia - Luis Carlos Sarmiento
(in association with Grameen Bank, will begin extending credit to micro-entrepreneurs)
Cyprus - John Fredriksen
(born in Norway ... world's leading oil tanker tycoon ... runs empire from 30,000 square foot manse in London's Chelsea)
Czech Republic - Petr Kellner
(in 1992, used a $1 million loan he got through his small office-supplies business to start an investment fund)
Denmark - Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen
(grandson of the founder of Danish toymaker Lego; sole owner ...
world's fourth-largest toymaker by sales)
Egypt - Nassef Sawiris
(youngest son of Orascom conglomerate founder and fellow billionaire, Onsi Sawiris)
Finland - Antti Herlin ...
France - Bernard Arnault
(richest European ... skilled pianist ...
world's largest luxury goods empire)  
Georgia - Bidzina Ivanishvili ... wants to become Prime Minister of Georgia ... stripped of Georgian citizenship ... denied Russian citizenship ... only has French citizenship now
Germany - Karl Albrecht
(fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf ... over 8,000 Aldi stores)
Greece - Spiro Latsis & family ...
Hong Kong - Li Ka-shing
high school drop out ... Asia's most generous individual, has given out $1.56 billion to education and medical research ...
world's largest operator of container terminals, world's largest health and beauty retailer)
India - Lakshmi Mittal
(world's largest steelmaker)
Indonesia - Michael Hartono
(brother of R. Budi Hartono) &
R. Budi Hartono (brother of Michael Hartono)
Ireland - Pallonji Mistry
(rarely ever seen in public; became Irish citizen in recent years but maintains a residence in Mumbai ...
businesses are located in India)
Israel - Sir Sammy Ofer & family
(Romanian-born Israeli ... famously press-shy ... in May 2006, paid $40 million for Van Gogh's "Madame Ginoux" ... awarded an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth for his services to U.K. maritime heritage)
Italy - Michele Ferrero & family
(real life Willie Wonka is one of Europe's richest and most secretive tycoons ...
also Nutella and Tic Tac ... 18 factories, more than 21,000 employees worldwide)
Japan -
Masayoshi Son ...
Kazakhstan - Vladmir Kim
(former member of Kazakh President Nazarbayev's political council)
Kuwait - Nasser Al-Kharafi & family
(has exclusive franchise rights in Middle East for brands like Pizza Hut, TGI Fridays, KFC and Wimpy)
Lebanon -
Najib Mikati (former Lebanese Prime Minister - briefly in 2005) & Taha Mikati (brother of Najib Mikati) 
Malaysia - Robert Kuok (once known as the Sugar King of Asia)
Mexico - Carlos Slim Helu & family
(2010 and 2011 World's richest man ... son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector)
Monaco - David Nahmad & family
(megadealers of modern and impressionist art by the most well-known names, from Monet and Matisse to Renoir and Rothko ... a skilled backgammon player who bets hundreds of thousands on the game in Monte Carlo, David holds the 1996 world title ...
among those holdings: 300 Picassos, worth some $900 million ... the family buys and sells most of their works at auction)
Morocco - Miloud Chaabi ...
dubbed "the red capitalist"
Netherlands - Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken
(in 2002 Inherited 25% stake in Dutch brewer, Heineken, from her late father, Freddy Heineken ...
over 170 premium brands in more than 65 countries)
New Zealand - Graeme Hart
(former tow truck driver now known for astute leveraged purchases ... owner of 190-foot yacht, Ulysses)
Nigeria - Aliko Dangote
(closely linked to Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo)
Norway - Olav Thon
(owns 425 properties in Norway and 25 abroad ...
includes 61 shopping malls, hotels - 7,000 rooms)
Peru - Eduardo Hochschild ...
kidnapped in 1998 by gunmen who killed his father during the attack, but released 6 days later
Philippines - Henry Sy & family
(came to the Philippines as a child from China ...
Philippines largest shopping mall developer with 39 malls)
Poland - Jan Kulczyk
(owns a yacht, travels in his own plane)
Portugal - Americo Amorim
(King of cork ...
world's largest producer of cork)
Romania - Dinu Patriciu
(onetime architect and former parliamentarian)
Russia - Vladimir Lisin
(in 1992 he joined up with tough group of traders called Trans-World Group; they came to dominate Russia's aluminum and steel exports)
Saudi Arabia - Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
(nephew f 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)
Singapore - Wee Cho Yaw & family
(educated in China ... avid tennis player)
South Africa - Nicky Oppenheimer & family ...
South Korea - Lee Kun-Hee
(paid $130 million in overdue taxes in 2008 after allegations of tax evasion, but got a presidential pardon later that year ... father of Jay Y. Lee ...
second largest mobile phone manufacturer after Nokia)
Spain - Amancio Ortega
(High School drop out ... shuns neckties ...
5,000 stores in 77 countries)
St.Kitts and Nevis - Jacky Xu ...
Chinese-born ... lives in China
Sweden - Stefan Persson
(acquired the village of Linkenholt in Hampshire, England in 2009 ... affordable fashion collections in 2,200 stores in over 32 countries)
Switzerland - Ernesto Bertarelli & family
(inherited the business after father's death in 1998 ... yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007 ... m
arried to British beauty queen/singer ... released her debut album 'Elusive' in early 2010)
Taiwan - Cher Wang & Wenchi Chen
(daughter of the late Taiwan billionaire Y.C. Wang)
Thailand - Dhanin Chearavanont & family
(philanthropist restores Buddhist temples in Thailand, sponsors schools and orphanages ...
wealth of his three brothers has been added to Dhanin's total worth)
Turkey - Mehmet Emin Karamehmet
(sentenced in Feb, 2010, to 11 years and 8 months jail and fined $300 million dollars for embezzlement ... not in custody yet and has the right to appeal)
Ukraine - Rinat Akhmetov
(son of a coal miner, made his first million trading coal and coke ... serves as parliamentary member representing Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's party)
United Arab Emirates - Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family
(paragliding enthusiast )
United Kingdom - Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family
(6th Duke of Westminister ... supports more than 150 charities)
United States -
William Gates III (was world's richest person for 14 of the past 18 years ... Harvard Uni drop out ... he's given away $28 billion to his Gates Foundation)
Venezuela -
Gustavo Cisneros & family (Cisneros and his wife are familiar figures in high society, hobnobbing with former presidents like George H. W. Bush, designers and fellow billionaires)

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.



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53. Richest Man or Woman in Thailand
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