Rich Bastards - Top 10 Rich Lists

Australia (RECENTLY UPDATED)
Kerry Packer, Australia's long-time richest person, died in his sleep on 26th December 2005, aged 68.

Brazil

TOP 8 - Brazil's Billionaires... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Joseph & Moise Safra	$5.2 billion	banking	Sao Paulo	-- n/a
2. Aloysio de Andrade Faria	$3.2 billion	banking	Sao Paulo	84yo - Married, 5 children
3. Jorge Paulo Lemann	$2.6 billion	banking	Rio de Janeiro	65yo - n/a
4. Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family	$2.5 billion	diversified	Sao Paulo	76yo - n/a, 9 children
5. Julio Bozano	$1.6 billion	banking	Rio de Janeiro	69yo - n/a, 1 child
6. Abilio dos Santos Diniz & family	$1.3 billion	supermarkets	Sao Paulo	68yo - Married, 4 children
7. Marcel Telles	$1.2 billion	beer	Sao Paulo	55yo - Married
8. Carlos Sicupira	$1.0 billion	beer	Sao Paulo	57yo - Married

Canada

TOP 10 - Canada's Richest People ... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Kenneth Thomson & family	$17.9 billion	publishing	Toronto	81yo - Married, 3 children
2. Galen Weston & family	$9.9 billion	retail	Toronto	64yo - Married, 2 children
3. Jeffrey S Skoll	$5.0 billion	Ebay	USA, LA, Los Angeles	40yo - Single
4. Jim Pattison	$4.8 billion	diversified	Vancouver	76yo - Married, 3 children
5. James, Arthur & John Irving	$4.4 billion	oil/gas	Saint John	n/a -
6. Paul Desmarais	$3.3 billion	finance	Montreal	78yo - Married, 4 children
7. Charles R Bronfman	$2.8 billion	liquor	Montreal	73yo - Married, 2 children
8. Michael Lee-Chin	$2.5 billion	mutual funds	Burlington	54yo - Divorced, 5 children
9. Bernard (Barry) Sherman	$2.5 billion	pharmaceuticals	Toronto	63yo - Married, 4 children
10. Edward Rogers	$2.4 billion	media	Toronto	71yo - Married, 4 children

China (RECENTLY UPDATED)

TOP 10 - China's Richest People ... (25 January 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Head Office	Personal
1. Larry Rong Zhijian	$1.64 billion	CITIC Pacific Group (steel, property, power)	Hong Kong	63yo
2. Zhu Mengyi & family	$1.43 billion	Hopson Development (real estate & investment)	Guangdong	46yo
3. William Ding Lei	$1.27billion	Netease.com (internet portal & online games)	Beijing	34yo
4. Wong Kwong Yu	$1.25 billion	Gome Appliances (& real estate)	Beijing	36yo
5. Liu Yongxing	$1.16 billion	East Hope Group (animal feed, finance, aluminium)	Shanghai	57yo
6. Liu Yonghao	$1.12 billion	New Hope Group (animal feed, finance, real estate)	Chengdu	54yo
7. Guo Guangchang	$1.09 billion	Fosun High-Tech Group (retail, media, real estate)	Shanghai	38yo
8. Xu Ming	$1.05 billion	Shide Group (insurance & banking)	Dalian	34yo
9. Hui Wing Mau	$1.00 billion	Shimao Group (real estate)	Shanghai/H.K.	55yo
10. Chen Tianqiao	$1.00 billion	Shanda Interactive Entertainment (online games)	Shanghai	32yo

France

TOP 10 - France's Richest People ... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Liliane Bettencourt	$17.2 billion	L'Oreal	Paris	82yo - Married, 1 child
2. Bernard Arnault	$17.0 billion	LVMH	Paris	56yo - Married, 5 children
3. Serge Dassault & family	$7.8 billion	aviation (manufacturing)	Paris	80yo - n/a
4. Francois Pinault	$5.9 billion	retail (incl. Gucci)	Paris	68yo - Married, 3 children
5. Jean-Claude Decaux & family	$5.4 billion	advertising	Paris	67yo - Married, 3 children
6. Alain & Gerard Wertheimer	$4.8 billion	Chanel (apparel)	Paris	n/a - n/a
7. Gerard Louis-Dreyfus & family	$3.2 billion	commodities (inl. natural gas)	USA, NY, New York	72yo - Married, 3 children
8. Martin Bouygues & family	$2.4 billion	Telecom	Paris	53yo - Married
9. Jean-Louis Dumas & family	$2.3 billion	Hermes (luxury-goods/apparel )	Paris	66yo - Married, 2 children
*10. Vincent Bollore*	$2.2 billion	investments	Paris	52yo - Married, 4 children

Germany

India (RECENTLY UPDATED)

TOP 10 - India's Richest People ... (15 December 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Lakshmi Mittal	$20.0 billion	Mittal Steel (manufacturing steel)	UK, London	55yo - Married, 2 children
2. Azim Premji	$11.0 billion	Wipro (software)	Bangalore	60yo - Married, 2 children
3. Mukesh Ambani	$7.0 billion	diversified (manufacturing)	Mumbai	48yo - ?
4. Anil Ambani	$5.5 billion	diversified (manufacturing)	Mumbai	46yo - ?
5. Kushal Pal Singh	$5.0 billion	?	Delhi	74yo - ?
6. Sunil Mittal	$4.9 billion	Telecom	Delhi	48yo - Married, 3 children
7. Kumar Birla	$4.4 billion	commodities (copper & aluminium)	Mumbai	38yo - Married, 2 children
8. Tulsi Tanti	$3.7 billion	?	Pune	47yo - ?
9. Pallonji Mistry	$3.3 billion	construction	Mumbai	76yo - Married, 4 children
10. Anurag Dikshit (is this for real?)	$3.1 billion	?	NA	NA

Italy

TOP 10 - Italy's Richest People ... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Silvio Berlusconi - Italy's Prime Minister since 2001	$12.0 billion	media	North of Milan	68yo - Married, 5 children
2. Luciano Benetton & family	$9.9 billion	Benneton (apparel)	Treviso	69yo - Married, 4 children
=3. Leonardo Del Vecchio	$8.5 billion	eyewear (Ray-Ban)	Milan	69yo - Married, 4 children
=3. Michele Ferrero & family	$8.5 billion	chocolates	Belgium, Brussels	78yo - Married, 2 children
5. Giorgio Armani	$4.5 billion	fashion / apparel	Milan	70yo - n/a
6. Miuccia Prada & family	$3.0 billion	Prada (apparel)	Rome	55yo - Married
7. Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone & family	$2.1 billion	diversified	Italy	62yo - Married
8. Ennio Doris & family	$2.0 billion	insurance	Tombolo	64yo - Married, 2 children
9. Stefano Pessina	$1.7 billion	pharmaceuticals	Monaco, Monte Carlo	63yo - Married, 2 children
10. Steno Marcegaglia & family	$1.0 billion	steel manufacture	Mantova	74yo - Married, 2 children

Japan

TOP 10 - Japan's Richest People ... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Nobutada Saji & family	$5.8 billion	Suntory (beverages) - recently engineered the world's first blue rose!	Hyogo	59yo - Married
2. Yoshitaka Fukuda & family	$5.6 billion	Aiful (consumer finance)	Kyoto	57yo - Married, 3 children
3. Yasuo Takei & family	$5.5 billion	Takefuji (consumer finance)	Tokyo	75yo - Married, 3 children
4. Eitaro Itoyama	$4.9 billion	golf courses	Tokyo	62yo - Married, 2 children
=5. Kunio Busujima & family	$4.7 billion	pinball machines (manufacturing)	Kiryu	79yo - Married, 4 children
=5. Kyosuke Kinoshita & family	$4.7 billion	Acom (consumer finance)	Tokyo	64yo - Married, 3 children
7. Fukuzo Iwasaki	$4.4 billion	real estate	Kagoshima	80yo - Married, 3 children
8. Masayoshi Son	$4.3 billion	Softbank (software)	Tokyo	47yo - Married, 2 children
9. Yoshiaki Tsutsumi	$3.7 billion	real estate (arrested in March for insider trading) - world's richest person from 1987-1990	Tokyo	70yo - Married
10. Akira Mori	$3.2 billion	Mori Trust (real estate)	Tokyo	67yo - Married, 3 children

* world's richest person from 1991-1992 was Taikichiro Mori. (d. 1993)

Mexico

TOP 10 - Mexico's Richest People ... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Carlos Slim Helu (just call him Midas)	$23.8 billion	Telecom	Mexico City	65yo - Widowed, 6 children
2. Jeronimo Arango	$3.6 billion	retail (was a Wal-Mart partner)	Mexico	79yo - n/a
3. Alberto Bailleres	$2.7 billion	mining silver	Mexico City	72yo - n/a
4. Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family	$2.6 billion	retail (facing business scandal)	Mexico City	49yo - Married, 3 children
5. Lorenzo Zambrano & family	$2.2 billion	cement	Monterrey	61yo - Single
6. Roberto Hernandez	$2.0 billion	Banamex (banking)	Mexico City	63yo - n/a
7. Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala & family	$1.8 billion	beer (Corona)	Mexico City	41yo - Married, 2 children
8. Alfredo Harp Helu	$1.6 billion	Banamex (banking)	Mexico City	61yo - Married, 4 children
9. Isaac Saba Raffoul & family	$1.2 billion	diversified (incl. Marriott hotels)	Mexico City	81yo - n/a
10. Emilio Azcarraga Jean	$1.0 billion	media	Mexico City	37yo - Married

Russia

TOP 10 - Russia's Richest People ... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Roman Abramovich	$13.3 billion	oil (fled Russia in 2000 to escape fraud charges)	UK, London	38yo - Married, 5 children
=2. Mikhail Fridman	$7.0 billion	oil / banking	Moscow	40yo - Married, 2 children
=2. Vladimir Lisin	$7.0 billion	Novolipetsk steel mill	Moscow	48yo - Married, 3 children
4. Oleg Deripaska	$5.5 billion	Russian Aluminum (Married into family of former President Yeltsin)	Moscow	36yo - Married
5. Viktor Vekselberg	$5.0 billion	oil / metals (laying low to avoid Kremlin scrutiny)	Moscow	47yo - Married, 2 children
6. Alexei Mordashov	$4.8 billion	Severstal (steel)	Moscow	39yo - Married, 3 children
=7. Vladimir Potanin	$4.4 billion	metals	Moscow	44yo - Married, 3 children
=7. Mikhail Prokhorov	$4.4 billion	metals (often featured in gossip pages for his parties)	Moscow	39yo - Single
9. Vagit Alekperov	$4.3 billion	Lukoil (oil)	Moscow	54yo - Married, 1 child
10. Victor Rashnikov	$3.6 billion	Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works	Magnitogorsk	56yo - Married, 2 children

Spain

TOP 10 - Spain's Richest People ... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Amancio Ortega	$12.6 billion	Zara (apparel)	La Coruna	69yo - Married, 3 children
2. Rafael del Pino	$5.0 billion	Ferrovial (construction)	Madrid	84yo - Married, 5 children
3. Jesus de Polanco	$2.8 billion	Grupo Prisa (media)	Madrid	75yo - Married, 4 children
4. Esther Koplowitz	$2.5 billion	construction	Barcelona	54yo - Married, 3 children
=5. Isak Andic	$2.0 billion	Mango (apparel)	Barcelona	50yo - Married, 3 children
=5. Rosalia Mera	$2.0 billion	Zara (apparel)	La Coruna	61yo - Divorced, 2 children
7. Emilio Botin	$1.9 billion	banking (faces potential scandal: misspending $200 million of bank funds in early retirement payments)	Santander	70yo - Married, 6 children
8. Manuel Jove	$1.6 billion	FADESA Immobiliaria (real estate)	La Coruna	63yo - Married, 2 children
9. Alicia Koplowitz	$1.4 billion	investments	Madrid	52yo - Divorced, 3 children
10. Gabriel Escarrer	$1.3 billion	Sol Melia (hotels)	Palma de Majorca	70yo - Married, 6 children

Sweden

TOP 9 - Sweden's Billionaires... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Ingvar Kamprad	$23.0 billion	Ikea (retail)	Switzerland, Lausanne	78yo - Married, 4 children
2. Stefan Persson	$11.2 billion	Hennes & Mauritz (retail)	Stockholm	57yo - Married, 3 children
3. Hans Rausing	$8.2 billion	Tetra Laval (packaging) - Moved to England in 1980 to avoid punitive Swedish taxes.	UK, Wadhurst	79yo - Married, 3 children
4. Birgit Rausing & family	$7.6 billion	Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture)	Switzerland, Vaud	81yo - Widowed, 3 children
5. Antonia Johnson	$5.4 billion	A. Johnson & Co. (diversified)	Stockholm	61yo - Married, 4 children
6. Fredrik Lundberg	$2.0 billion	real estate / investments	Stockholm	53yo - Married, 2 children
=7. Gustaf Douglas	$1.5 billion	Assa Abloy (locks) / security	Stockholm	67yo - Married, 2 children
=7. Jorgen Philip-Sorensen	$1.5 billion	Group 4 Falck AS (security)	UK, Broadway	66yo - Married, 4 children
9. Liselott (Lottie) Persson	$1.3 billion	Hennes & Mauritz (retail)	Stockholm	n/a - n/a

Switzerland

TOP 7- Switzerland's Billionaires... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Ernesto Bertarelli	$5.8 billion	Sereno (biotech) - yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 2003	Geneva	39yo - Married, 2 children
2. Walter Haefner	$4.3 billion	Computer Associates (software)	Zurich	94yo - Married, 2 children
3. Thomas Schmidheiny	$3.8 billion	Holcim (cement)	Balgach	59yo - Married, 4 children
4. Willi & Isolde Liebherr & family	$3.5 billion	construction	Bulle	n/a
5. Sergio Mantegazza	$3.0 billion	Globus & Cosmos (travel)	Lugano	77yo - Married, 1 child
6. Stephan Schmidheiny	$2.8 billion	investments	Zurich	57yo - Married, 2 children
7. Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte	$2.5 billion	Mediterranean Shipping Company	Geneva	n/a - Married, 2 children

United Kingdom

TOP 10 - United Kingdom's Richest People ... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th Duke of Westminister)	$5.6 billion	real estate (incl. Mayfair)	Chester	53yo - Married, 4 children
2. David Sainsbury & family (Tony Blair's Science Minister)	$4.3 billion	supermarkets	London	64yo - Married, 3 children
3. Bernard Ecclestone & family	$3.6 billion	Formula One (car racing)	London	74yo - Married, 2 children
4. David & Frederick Barclay (twins)	$3.4 billion	media, retail (manage their businesses from the island tax haven of Jersey)	Island of Brecquou	n/a - n/a
5. Richard Branson (high school dropout)	$3.2 billion	Virgin (airlines, etc)	London	54yo - Married, 2 children
6. Charles Cadogan & family	$2.7 billion	real estate	London	68yo - Married, 3 children
7. Clive Calder	$2.3 billion	Zomba Recordings (incl. Britney Spears, 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys )	Cayman Islands	58yo - Married, 2 children
8. Bruno Schroder & family	$2.0 billion	Schroders Plc. (banking)	London	72yo - Separated, 1 child
9. John Whittaker	$1.7 billion	real estate	Isle of Man	63yo - Married, 4 children
10. Joseph Lewis (high school dropout)	$1.6 billion	finance	Bahamas, Lyford Cay	68yo - Married, 2 children

United States
(men)

TOP 10 - USA's Richest Men ... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. William Gates III	$46.5 billion	Microsoft	WA, Medina	49yo - Married, 3 children
2. Warren Buffett	$44.0 billion	Berkshire Hathaway	NE, Omaha	74yo - Widowed, 3 children
3. Paul Allen	$21.0 billion	Microsoft, investments	WA, Seattle	52yo - Single
4. Lawrence Ellison	$18.4 billion	Oracle (database s'ware)	CA, Silicon Valley	60yo - Married, 2 children
5. S Robson Walton	$18.3 billion	Wal-Mart	AR, Bentonville	61yo - Divorced, 3 children
=6. Jim Walton	$18.2 billion	Wal-Mart	AR, Bentonville	57yo - Married, 4 children
=6. John Walton	$18.2 billion	Wal-Mart DIED in plane crash June 05	AR, Bentonville	59yo - Married, 1 child
8. Michael Dell	$16.0 billion	Dell (world's biggest PC maker)	TX, Austin	56yo - Married, 4 children
9. Sheldon Adelson	$15.6 billion	casinos, hotels	NV, Las Vegas	71yo - Married, 5 children
10. Steven Ballmer	$12.1 billion	Microsoft	WA, Redmond	49yo - Married, 2 children

United States
(women)

TOP 10 - USA's Richest Women ... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
=1. Alice Walton	$18.0 billion	Wal-Mart	TX , Fort Worth	56yo - Divorced
=1. Helen Walton	$18.0 billion	Wal-Mart	AR, Bentonville	85yo - Widowed, 4 children
3. Abigail Johnson	$12.0 billion	Fidelity investments	MA, Boston	43yo - Married, 2 children
4. Barbara Cox Anthony	$11.7 billion	media/entertainment	HI, Honolulu	81yo - Married, 2 children
5. Anne Cox Chambers	$11.7 billion	media/entertainment	GA, Atlanta	85yo - Divorced, 3 children
6. Jacqueline Mars	$10.4 billion	candy (incl. Mars bar)	NJ, Bedminster	65yo - Divorced, 3 children
7. Barbara Piasecka Johnson	$2.9 billion	Johnson & Johnson	Monaco, Monte Carlo	68yo - Widowed
8. Martha Ingram & family	$2.6 billion	Ingram Industries	TN, Nashville	69yo - Widowed, 4 children
9. Nancy Walton Laurie	$2.5 billion	Wal-Mart	MO, Columbia	53yo - Married, 1 child
10. Leona Mindy Rosenthal Helmsley (known as as "Queen of Mean")	$2.2 billion	real estate (served 18 months in jail for tax evasion)	NY, New York	85yo - Widowed, 1 child

Under 37

Wal-Mart
Founded by Sam Walton (d. 1992), legendary merchant who opened first discount store in Rogers, Ark. in 1962.
Took Wal-Mart public 1970; explosive growth. Wal-Mart now world's largest retailer, with more than 5,000 stores.

TOP 9 - Wal-Mart Billionaires ... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	USA Residence	Personal
1. S Robson Walton - eldest son	$18.3 billion	Wal-Mart	AR, Bentonville	61yo - Divorced, 3 children
2. Jim Walton - 3rd (and youngest) son	$18.2 billion	Wal-Mart	AR, Bentonville	57yo - Married, 4 children
3. John Walton - 2nd son	$18.2 billion	Wal-Mart DIED June 05	AR, Bentonville	59yo - Married, 1 child
4. Alice Walton - only daughter	$18.0 billion	Wal-Mart	TX, Fort Worth	56yo - Divorced
5. Helen Walton - Sam's widow	$18.0 billion	Wal-Mart	AR, Bentonville	85yo - Widowed, 4 children
6. Ann Walton Kroenke - niece	$3.0 billion	Wal-Mart	MO, Columbia	55yo - Married, 2 children
7. Nancy Walton Laurie - niece	$2.5 billion	Wal-Mart	MO, Columbia	53yo - Married, 1 child
8. E Stanley Kroenke - nephew-in-law	$1.7 billion	sports, real estate	MO, Columbia	57yo - Married, 2 children
9. Robert D McLane Jr - sold his grocery distribution business to Sam in 1990.	$1.3 billion	Wal-Mart, logistics	TX, Temple	68yo - Married, 2 children

Pritzker Billionaires
(A family with more billionaires than the Waltons and most countries in the world!)
A.N. Pritzker (d. 1986), with sons Jay (d. 1999) and Robert
created industrial conglomerate Marmon (2003 sales: $5.5 billion) and hotel chain Hyatt (207 hotels worldwide).

TOP 11 - Pritzker Billionaires... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	USA Residence	Personal
1. Thomas Pritzker - grandchild	$1.7 billion	hotels (Hyatt), investments	IL, Chicago	54yo - n/a
2. Penny Pritzker - grandchild	$1.6 billion	hotels (Hyatt), investments	IL, Chicago	45yo - Married, 2 children
=3. Anthony Pritzker - grandchild	$1.5 billion	hotels (Hyatt), investments	CA, Los Angeles	44yo - Married, 4 children
=3. Daniel Pritzker - grandchild	$1.5 billion	hotels (Hyatt), investments	CA, Marin County	46yo - Married, 5 children
=3. James Pritzker - grandchild	$1.5 billion	hotels (Hyatt), investments	IL, Chicago	53yo - Divorced, 3 children
=3. Jay Robert (JB) Pritzker - ?	$1.5 billion	hotels (Hyatt), investments	IL, Evanston	40yo - ?
=3. Jean (Gigi) Pritzker - grandchild	$1.5 billion	hotels (Hyatt), investments	IL, Chicago	43yo - Married, 3 children
=3. John Pritzker - grandchild	$1.5 billion	hotels (Hyatt), investments	CA, San Francisco	52yo - Married, 3 children
=3. Karen Pritzker - grandchild	$1.5 billion	hotels (Hyatt), investments	CT, New Haven	47yo - Married, 4 children
=3. Linda Pritzker - grandchild	$1.5 billion	hotels (Hyatt), investments	MT, St Ignatius	51yo - Divorced, 3 children
*11. Nicholas Pritzker II -* nephew	$1.1 billion	hotels (Hyatt), investments	IL, Chicago	61yo - Married, 4 children

Celebrity Billionaires

TOP Celebrity Billionaires... (11 February 2005) ... Wealth in USD$
Name	Wealth	Source	Citizenship	Personal
1. George Lucas	$3.0 billion	Star Wars (director/producer)	USA	60yo - Divorced, 3 children
2. Steven Spielberg	$2.7 billion	movies (director/producer) - incl. Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Men in Black, etc	USA	58yo - Married, 7 children
3. Oprah Winfrey	$1.3 billion	The Oprah Winfrey Show (Miss Black Tennessee age 19)	USA	51yo - Single
4. Joanne (JK) Rowling	$1.0 billion	Harry Potter (5 Harry Potter books have sold 265 million copies; grossed over $3 billion in movie/DVD sales)	UK/Scotland	39yo - Married, 2 children