Top
10 Rich Lists 2006
The
World
(men)
| TOP
10 - World's Richest Men ...
(9 March 2006) ... Wealth
in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
William Gates III
(world's
richest person - for 12 years in a row!) |
$50.0 billion |
Microsoft |
USA |
50yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Warren Buffett |
$42.0 billion |
Berkshire
Hathaway |
USA |
75yo
- Widowed,
3 children |
| 3.
Carlos Slim Helu |
$30.0 billion |
Telecom |
Mexico |
66yo
- Widowed, 6 children |
| 4.
Ingvar Kamprad |
$28.0 billion |
Ikea (retail)
|
Sweden |
79yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Lakshmi Mittal |
$23.5 billion |
Mittal
Steel (manufacturing steel) |
India |
55yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Paul Allen |
$22.0 billion |
Microsoft,
investments |
USA |
53yo
- Single,
0 children |
| 7.
Bernard Arnault |
$21.5
billion |
LVMH |
France |
57yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 8.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud |
$20.0 billion |
investments |
Saudi Arabia |
49yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 9.
Kenneth Thomson & family |
$19.6 billion |
publishing |
Canada |
82yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 1.
Li Ka-shing |
$18.8 billion |
diversified |
Hong
Kong |
77yo
-
Widowed, 2 children |
The
World
(women)
| TOP
10 - World's Richest Women
... (9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
Liliane Bettencourt |
$16.0
billion |
L'Oreal |
France |
83yo - Married, 1 child |
| 1.
Christy Walton |
$15.9 billion |
Wal-Mart |
USA |
51yo
- Widowed, 1 child |
| 2.
Alice Walton |
$15.7 billion |
(inheritance)
Wal-Mart |
USA |
56yo
- Divorced |
| 3.
Helen Walton |
$15.6 billion |
Wal-Mart |
USA |
86yo
- Widowed,
4 children |
| 4.
Abigail Johnson |
$12.5 billion |
Fidelity
investments |
USA |
44yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 5.
Barbara Cox Anthony |
$12.4 billion |
media/entertainment |
USA |
82yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 6.
Anne Cox Chambers |
$12.4 billion |
media/entertainment |
USA |
86yo
- Divorced,
3 children |
| 7.
Jacqueline Mars |
$10.0 billion |
candy (incl.
Mars bar) |
USA |
66yo -
Divorced, 3 children |
| 3.
Birgit Rausing & family |
$8.6 billion |
Tetra Laval
(packaging manufacture) |
Sweden |
82yo
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 5.
Susanne Klatten |
$8.1 billion |
BMW |
Germany |
43yo
- Married, 3 children |
Australia
Kerry Packer, Australia's long-time
richest person, died in his sleep on 26th December 2005, aged 68.
| TOP
10 - Australia's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth
in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth
US$
|
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
James Packer |
$5.0 billion |
inherited
(media/Entertainment) (his father, Kerry,
died Dec 26, 2005) |
NSW, Sydney |
38yo
-Divorced, 0 children |
| 2.
Frank Lowy |
$3.8 billion |
retail
property (shopping centres) |
NSW, Sydney |
75yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Richard Pratt |
$2.3 billion |
paper (manufacturing,
recycling) |
Vic, Melbourne |
71yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Zhengrong Shi |
$2.2 billion |
solar energy |
Wuxi, China |
43yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
John Gandel |
$1.4 billion |
retail
property (shopping centres) |
Vic, Melbourne |
71yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Kerry Stokes |
$1.1 billion |
media |
WA, Perth |
65yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 7.
Harry Triguboff |
$1.0 billion |
residential
property development |
NSW, Sydney |
73yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Bob Oatley |
$900 million |
wine, property |
NSW, Denman |
76yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 9.
Bruce Gordon |
$895 million |
media (was
a magician in WWII) |
Bermuda |
76yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Stanley Perron |
$880 million |
property
(high
school drop out) |
(WA, Perth)? |
82yo
- Married, 3 children |
Brazil
| TOP
10 - Brazil's Richest
People ...
(9
March 2006) ...
Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Joseph & Moise Safra (brothers
could split soon) |
$7.4 billion |
banking |
Sao
Paulo |
--
n/a, 0 children |
| 2.
Aloysio de Andrade Faria |
$3.8
billion |
banking |
Sao
Paulo |
85yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 3.
Jorge Paulo Lemann (onetime
tennis champion - he played at Wimbledon) |
$3.4
billion |
banking |
Rio
de Janeiro |
66yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 4.
Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family |
$3.2
billion |
diversified |
Sao
Paulo |
77yo
- n/a, 9 children |
| 5.
Julio Bozano |
$1.6
billion |
banking |
Rio
de Janeiro |
70yo
- n/a, 1 child |
| 6.
Abilio dos Santos Diniz & family |
$1.6
billion |
supermarkets |
Sao
Paulo |
69yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 7.
Marcel Herman Telles |
$1.5
billion |
beer |
Sao
Paulo |
56yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Guilherme Peirao Leal |
$1.4
billion |
Natura
Cosmetics |
Sao
Paulo |
55yo
- n/a, 5 children |
| 9.
Antonio Luiz Seabra |
$1.4
billion |
Natura
Cosmetics (has 519,000 "consultants"
peddling cosmetics door-to-door in South America.) |
London,
UK; and Brazil |
63yo
- n/a, 0 children |
| 10.
Elie Horn (gives 20% of
his earnings to charity) |
$1.3
billion |
real
estate |
Sao
Paulo |
60yo
- married, 2 children |
Canada
| TOP
10 - Canada's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Kenneth Thomson & family (has
amassed an internationally famous art collection of some
3,000 pieces) |
$19.6
billion |
publishing |
Toronto |
82yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Galen Weston & family |
$8.4
billion |
retail |
Toronto |
65yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 3.
James, Arthur & John Irving |
$5.5
billion |
oil
(600 gas stations) |
Saint
John |
n/a
- 0 children |
| 4.
Jeffrey S Skoll |
$5.0
billion |
Ebay |
USA,
CA, Los Angeles |
41yo
-
Single, 0 children |
| 5.
Paul Desmarais (bought
his father's one-route Ontario bus company for $1- in 1951) |
$3.8
billion |
finance |
Montreal |
79yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Bernard (Barry) Sherman |
$3.7
billion |
Apotex
pharmaceuticals (seeking over-the-counter-sales
approval of its controversial "morning-after"
pill ) |
Toronto |
64yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 7.
Jim Pattison |
$3.5
billion |
diversified
(incl. Ripley's Believe It or Not)
|
Vancouver |
77yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Robert Miller |
$3.0
billion |
Future
Electronics (supports cryonics, the
science of freezing bodies with the intent to restore life) |
Montreal |
60yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Edward Rogers |
$3.0
billion |
media |
Toronto |
72yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 10.
Charles R Bronfman |
$2.7
billion |
liquor |
Montreal |
74yo
-
Widowed, 2 children
(his wife, Andrea, was tragically killed in January; a taxi
hit her while she was walking the dog) |
| TOP
10 - China's Richest People ...
(25
January 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
|
| 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 |
$1.00
billion |
Shanda
Interactive Entertainment (online games)
|
Shanghai |
32yo |
France
| TOP
10 - France's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Bernard Arnault |
$21.5
billion |
LVMH |
Paris |
57yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 2.
Liliane Bettencourt |
$16.0
billion |
L'Oreal |
Paris |
83yo - Married, 1 child |
| 3.
Serge Dassault & family |
$8.5
billion |
aviation
(manufacturing) |
Paris |
80yo
- n/a |
| 4.
Alain & Gerard Wertheimer |
$7.5
billion |
Chanel
(apparel) |
Paris |
n/a
- n/a |
| 5.
Francois Pinault |
$7.0
billion |
retail
(incl. Gucci) |
Paris |
69yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Jean-Claude Decaux & family |
$4.2
billion |
advertising |
Paris |
68yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Gerard Louis-Dreyfus & family |
$3.4
billion |
commodities
(inl. natural gas) |
USA,
NY, New York |
73yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Martin Bouygues & family |
$3.2
billion |
Telecom |
Paris |
53yo
-
Married |
| 9.
Jean-Louis Dumas & family |
$2.5
billion |
Hermes
(luxury-goods/apparel ) |
Paris |
67yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Didier Primat |
$2.4
billion |
Oil |
Paris |
61yo
- n/a, 0 children |
Germany
| TOP
10 - Germany's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Karl Albrecht |
$17.0
billion |
supermarkets |
Muehlheim
an der Ruhr |
86yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Theo Albrecht |
$15.2
billion |
supermarkets |
Foehr |
83yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 3.
Adolf Merckle |
$11.5 billion |
pharmaceuticals |
Manheim |
71yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 4.
Michael Otto & family |
$10.4 billion |
retail
(mail order) |
Hamburg |
62yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Susanne Klatten |
$8.1 billion |
BMW |
Bad
Homburg |
43yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Rudolf August Oetker & family |
$8.0 billion |
food |
Bielefeld |
89yo
- Married, 8 children |
| 7.
Reinhold Würth |
$7.5 billion |
manufacturing
(screws) |
Kuenzelsau |
70yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
August von Finck |
$7.0 billion |
investments |
Switzerland,
Thurgau |
76yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 9.
Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler
|
$6.8 billion |
Manufacturing
(ball bearings) |
Herzogenaurach |
--
n/a |
| 10.
Stefan Quandt (one
of the world's most eligible bachelors) |
$6.6 billion |
BMW |
Bad
Homburg |
40yo
- Single, 0 children |
Hong
Kong
| TOP
10 - Hong Kong's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Li Ka-shing |
$18.8
billion |
diversified |
Hong
Kong |
77yo
-
Widowed, 2 children |
| 2.
Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok |
$11.6
billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
n/a -
n/a |
| 3.
Lee Shau Kee |
$11.0
billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
78yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 4.
Stanley Ho |
$6.5 billion |
Macau
Casino |
Hong
Kong |
84yo
- Married, 17 children!!! |
| 5.
Cheng Yu-tung |
$5.1 billion |
New
World Development (real estate) |
Hong
Kong |
80yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Nina Wang (Notoriously
frugal and paranoid, spends $650 a month and travels with a
platoon of 50 bodyguards.) |
$4.2 billion |
real
estate |
Hong Kong |
n/a
-
Widowed?, 0 children
(husband kidnapped in 1990) |
| 7.
Michael Kadoorie & family |
$3.8 billion |
diversified |
Hong
Kong |
65yo
- married |
| 8.
Henry Fok |
$3.7 billion |
Macao
casino |
Hong
Kong |
82yo
- Married |
| 9.
Michael Ying |
$2.7 billion |
Esprit
(apparel) |
Hong
Kong |
56yo
- Married |
| 10.
Chen Din Hwa |
$2.6 billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
83yo
- n/a, 0 children |
India
| TOP
10 - India's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Lakshmi Mittal |
$23.5
billion |
Mittal
Steel (manufacturing steel) |
UK,
London |
55yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Azim Premji |
$13.3
billion |
Wipro
(software) |
Bangalore |
60yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 3.
Mukesh Ambani |
$8.5
billion |
diversified
(manufacturing) |
Mumbai |
48yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Anil Ambani |
$5.7
billion |
diversified
(manufacturing) |
Mumbai |
46yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Kushal Pal Singh |
$5.0
billion |
real
estate |
Delhi |
74yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 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.
Shiv Nadar |
$4.0
billion |
technology |
New
Delhi |
60yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 9.
Pallonji Mistry |
$3.6
billion |
construction |
Mumbai |
76yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 10.
Anurag Dikshit (is this for
real?) |
$3.3
billion |
online
gambling |
Gibraltar |
34yo
- Married, 1 child |
| TOP
8 - Israel's Billionaires...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Shari Arison |
$5.2
billion |
inheritance,
cruise ships |
Tel
Aviv |
48yo - Married, 4 children |
| 2.
Sammy Ofer & family |
$3.0
billion |
shipping |
Tel
Aviv; Monaco |
84yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 3.
Arnon Milchan |
$2.9
billion |
media/entertainment |
Tel
Aviv |
61yo
- Divorced, 4 children
|
| 4.
Lev Leviev |
$2.6
billion |
diamonds
(cuts and polishes more diamonds than
anyone else in the world) |
B'nei
Brak |
50yo
- Married, 9 children |
| 5.
Stef Wertheimer & family (grade
school dropout) |
$2.4
billion |
tools
|
Tefen |
80yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Alexander Machkevich |
$2.0
billion |
mining,
metals
|
Almaty,
Kazakhstan |
52yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Yitzhak Tshuva (his Cinderella
story began in Netanya in a single room where his penniless
family of 11 lived briefly) |
$2.0
billion |
real
estate |
Netanya |
57yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 8.
Morris Kahn |
$1.0
billion |
software |
Israel |
76yo
- Married, 0 children |
Italy
| TOP
10 - Italy's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Silvio Berlusconi - Italy's
Prime Minister since 2001 |
$11.0
billion |
media |
North
of Milan |
69yo - Married, 5 children |
| 2.
Leonardo Del Vecchio |
$10.0
billion |
eyewear
(Ray-Ban) |
Milan |
70yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
Michele Ferrero & family |
$10.0
billion |
chocolates |
Belgium,
Brussels |
79yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Giorgio Armani |
$4.1
billion |
fashion
/ apparel |
Milan |
71yo
- n/a |
| 5.
Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone |
$2.7
billion |
diversified |
Italy |
63yo
- Married |
| 6.
Carlo Benetton |
$2.5
billion |
Benneton
(apparel)
|
Treviso |
62yo
- Single, 4 children |
| 7.
Giuliana Benetton |
$2.5
billion |
Benneton
(apparel)
|
Treviso |
68yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 8.
Gilberto Benetton |
$2.5
billion |
Benneton
|
Treviso |
64yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Luciano Benetton |
$2.5
billion |
Benneton
(apparel) |
Treviso |
70yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 10.
Miuccia Prada & family |
$2.5
billion |
Prada
(apparel) |
Rome |
56yo
- Married |
| TOP
10 - Japan's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Yasuo Takei & family |
$5.4
billion |
Takefuji
(consumer finance) |
Tokyo |
76yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Kunio Busujima & family |
$5.2
billion |
pinball
machines (manufacturing) |
Kiryu |
80yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
Nobutada Saji & family |
$4.7
billion |
Suntory
(beverages) - recently engineered the
world's first blue rose! |
Hyogo |
60yo
- Married |
| 4.
Akira Mori |
$4.5
billion |
Mori
Trust (real estate) |
Tokyo |
68yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Eitaro Itoyama |
$4.2
billion |
golf
courses |
Tokyo |
63yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Tadashi Yanai & family |
$4.2
billion |
retail |
Yamaguchi |
57yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Masatoshi Ito |
$3.6
billion |
retail |
Tokyo |
81yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Yoshitaka Fukuda & family |
$3.2
billion |
Aiful
(consumer finance) |
Kyoto |
58yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 9.
Masayoshi Son |
$3.1
billion |
Softbank
(software) |
Tokyo |
48yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Hiroshi Mikitani |
$3.0
billion |
e-commerce
(Rakuten Internet shopping mall) |
Japan |
41yo
- n/a, 0 children |
*
world's
richest person from 1991-1992 was Taikichiro Mori. (d. 1993)
| TOP
8 - Malaysia's Billionaires...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Robert Kuok |
$5.0
billion |
diversified
(including Shangri-la hotels) |
Hong
Kong |
82yo
- Married, 8 children |
| 2.
Ananda Krishnan |
$4.3
billion |
diversified |
Kuala
Lumpur |
67yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Lim Goh Tong (high school
drop out) |
$2.8
billion |
gaming |
Kuala
Lumpur |
88yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 4.
Teh Hong Piow |
$2.1
billion |
banking
(Public Bank's Islamic banking is
interest-free because Islam prohibits taking or giving interest) |
Kuala
Lumpur |
76yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Quek Leng Chan |
$2.0
billion |
banking |
Wee |
65yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Lee Shin Cheng |
$1.6
billion |
agriculture |
Jeram |
66yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 7.
Yeoh Tiong Lay & family |
$1.1
billion |
construction |
Malaysia |
76yo
- Married, 0 children |
| 8.
Tiong Hiew King |
$1.0
billion |
timber |
Sibu |
70yo
- Married, 3 children |
Mexico
| TOP
10 - Mexico's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Carlos Slim Helu (just call
him Midas) |
$30.0
billion |
Telecom |
Mexico
City |
66yo
- Widowed, 6 children |
| 2.
Jeronimo Arango |
$4.6
billion |
retail
(was a Wal-Mart partner) |
Mexico |
80yo
- n/a |
| 3.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family |
$3.1
billion |
retail/media
(facing business scandal) |
Mexico
City |
50yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Alberto Bailleres |
$2.8
billion |
mining
silver |
Mexico
City |
73yo
- n/a |
| 5.
Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala &
family |
$2.0
billion |
beer
(Corona) |
Mexico
City |
42yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Roberto Hernandez Ramirez |
$2.0
billion |
Banamex
(banking) |
Mexico
City |
64yo
- n/a |
| 7.
Lorenzo Zambrano & family |
$1.8
billion |
cement |
Monterrey |
62yo
- Single |
| 8.
Emilio Azcárraga Jean |
$1.7
billion |
media |
Mexico
City |
38yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 9.
Alfredo Harp Helu |
$1.4
billion |
Banamex
(banking) |
Mexico
City |
62yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 10.
Isaac Saba Raffoul & family |
$1.4
billion |
diversified
(incl. Marriott hotels) |
Mexico
City |
82yo
- n/a |
Russia
| TOP
10 - Russia's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Roman Abramovich |
$18.2
billion |
oil
(fled Russia in 2000 to escape fraud
charges) |
UK,
London |
39yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 2.
Vagit Alekperov |
$11.0
billion |
Lukoil
(oil) |
Moscow |
55yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 3.
Vladimir Lisin |
$10.7
billion |
Novolipetsk
steel mill |
Moscow |
49yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Viktor Vekselberg |
$10.0
billion |
oil
/ metals (laying low to avoid Kremlin
scrutiny) |
Moscow |
48yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Mikhail Fridman |
$9.7
billion |
oil
/ banking |
Moscow |
41yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Oleg Deripaska |
$7.8
billion |
Russian
Aluminum (Married into family of former
President Yeltsin) |
Moscow |
37yo
- Married |
| 7.
Alexei Mordashov |
$7.6
billion |
Severstal
(steel) |
Moscow |
40yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Suleiman Kerimov |
$7.1
billion |
stocks |
Moscow |
40yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 9.
Vladimir Potanin |
$6.4
billion |
metals |
Moscow |
45yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Mikhail Prokhorov |
$6.4
billion |
metals
(often featured in gossip pages for his parties) |
Moscow |
40yo
- Single |
| TOP
10 - Saudi Arabia's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew
of the Saudi king ) |
$20.0
billion |
investments |
Riyadh |
49yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 2.
Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi |
$11.0
billion |
banking |
Jeddah |
86yo
- Married, 23 children
(yes ... 23!!!!) |
| 3.
Mohammed Al Amoudi (Born
in Ethiopia) |
$6.9
billion |
oil |
Jeddah |
60yo
- Married, 0 children
|
| 4.
Saleh Bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi |
$6.5
billion |
banking |
Jeddah |
94yo
- Married, 61 children
(yes,
61!!!! - 22 sons, 39 daughters, from
7 wives) |
| 5.
Saleh Kamel (denies allegations
of ties to Osama bin Laden brought in two Sept. 11th related
lawsuits) |
$5.0
billion |
diversified
(banking/media) |
Makkah
Al-Minkarramah |
64yo
- Married, 0 children |
| 6.
Saad Hariri (second son
of Rafik Hariri, slain prime minister of Lebanon ) |
$4.1
billion |
inherited,
construction, investments |
Riyadh |
35yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Abdullah Al Rajhi |
$3.8
billion |
banking |
Saudi
Arabia |
n/a
- Married, 0 children |
| 8.
Khalid Bin Mahfouz & family |
$3.2
billion |
banking |
Jeddah |
59yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 9.
Ayman Hariri (One of five
children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik ) |
$2.7
billion |
inheritance |
Riyadh |
27yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 10.
Mohammed Al Issa |
$2.3
billion |
food |
Saudi
Arabia
|
n/a
- 0 children |
Spain
| TOP
10 - Spain's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Amancio Ortega |
$14.8
billion |
Zara
(apparel) |
La
Coruna |
70yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Rafael del Pino & family |
$6.50
billion |
Ferrovial
(construction) |
Madrid |
85yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 3.
Esther Koplowitz |
$3.4
billion |
construction |
Barcelona |
55yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Jesus de Polanco |
$2.7
billion |
Grupo
Prisa (media) |
Madrid |
76yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Manuel Jove |
$2.7
billion |
FADESA
Immobiliaria (real estate) |
La
Coruna |
64yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Rosalia Mera |
$2.2
billion |
Zara
(apparel) |
La
Coruna |
62yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 7.
Isak Andic |
$1.8
billion |
Mango
(apparel) |
Barcelona |
51yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Emilio Botin |
$1.7
billion |
banking |
Santander |
71yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 9.
Gabriel Escarrer |
$1.7
billion |
Sol
Melia (hotels) |
Palma
de Majorca |
71yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 10.
Alicia Koplowitz |
$1.5
billion |
investments |
Madrid |
53yo
- Divorced, 3 children |
| TOP
8- Sweden's Billionaires...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Ingvar Kamprad |
$28.0
billion |
Ikea
(retail) |
Switzerland,
Lausanne |
79yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 2.
Stefan Persson |
$12.3
billion |
Hennes
& Mauritz (retail) |
Stockholm |
58yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Birgit Rausing & family
|
$8.6
billion |
Tetra
Laval (packaging manufacture) |
Switzerland,
Vaud |
82yo
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 4.
Hans Rausing |
$8.5
billion |
Tetra
Laval (packaging) - Moved to England
in 1980 to avoid punitive Swedish taxes. |
UK,
Wadhurst |
80yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Antonia Johnson |
$4.1
billion |
A.
Johnson & Co. (diversified) |
Stockholm |
62yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Fredrik Lundberg |
$2.1
billion |
real
estate / investments |
Stockholm |
54yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Gustaf Douglas |
$1.7
billion |
Assa
Abloy (locks) / security |
Stockholm |
68yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Liselott (Lottie) Persson |
$1.5
billion |
Hennes
& Mauritz (clothing retail chain) |
Stockholm |
n/a
- 0 children |
Switzerland
| TOP
8- Switzerland's Billionaires...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| 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.
Thomas Schmidheiny |
$3.8
billion |
Holcim
(cement) |
Balgach |
59yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
Walter Haefner |
$4.3
billion |
Computer
Associates (software) |
Zurich |
94yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Bahaa Hariri (Eldest son of
slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik) |
$4.1
billion |
inheritance |
Geneva |
39yo
- Married, 0 children |
| 5.
Stephan Schmidheiny |
$2.8
billion |
investments |
Zurich |
57yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte |
$2.5
billion |
Mediterranean
Shipping Company |
Geneva |
n/a
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Nicolas Hayek |
$2.5
billion |
Swatch
(world's largest manufacturer of finished
watches with 156 factories) |
Biel |
77yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Sergio Mantegazza |
$3.0
billion |
Globus
& Cosmos (travel) |
Lugano |
77yo
- Married, 1 child |
| TOP
10 - Turkey's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Rahmi Koc |
$1.7
billion |
inherited
(diversified) |
Istanbul |
75yo
- Divorced, 3 children
|
| 2.
Omer Sabanci |
$1.7
billion |
inherited
(diversified) |
Istanbul |
47yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Sevket Sabanci |
$1.7
billion |
diversified |
Istanbul |
70yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Aydin Dogan |
$1.6
billion |
media |
Istanbul |
70yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Turgay Ciner (Personally pays
for much school construction throughout Turkey) |
$1.5
billion |
diversified |
Istanbul |
50yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 6.
Hasan Colakoglu |
$1.5
billion |
diversified |
Turkey
|
50yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Ferit Sahenk |
$1.5
billion |
inherited
(diversified) (bankrolled "Gallipoli"
movie) |
Istanbul |
42yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 8.
Husnu Ozyegin |
$1.5
billion |
banking |
Izmir |
61yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Semahat Arsel |
$1.3
billion |
inherited
(diversified) |
Istanbul |
78yo
- Married, 0 children |
| 10.
Erol Sabanci |
$1.3
billion |
inherited
(diversified) (incl. Akbank, second
largest bank in Turkey) |
Istanbul |
68yo
- Married, 2 children |
United
Kingdom
| TOP
10 - United Kingdom's Richest People ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Philip & Cristina Green |
$7.0
billion |
retail
(Acadia Group) |
Monaco |
n/a
- Married, 2 children |
2.
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family
(6th Duke of Westminister) |
$6.0
billion |
real
estate (incl. Mayfair) |
Chester |
54yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
David & Simon Reuben (two
brothers born in Bombay ) |
$3.6
billion |
investments,
real estate |
London |
n/a
- 3 children |
| 4.
Bernard Ecclestone & family |
$3.4
billion |
Formula
One (car racing)
|
London |
75yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
David & Frederick Barclay
(twins) |
$2.8
billion |
media,
retail (manage their businesses from
the island tax haven of Jersey) |
Island
of Brecquou |
n/a
- n/a |
| 6.
Richard Branson (high school
dropout) |
$2.8
billion |
Virgin
(airlines, etc) |
London |
55yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Charles Cadogan & family |
$2.8
billion |
real
estate |
London |
69yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Bruno Schroder & family |
$2.5
billion |
Schroders
Plc. (banking) |
London |
73yo
- Separated, 1 child |
| 9.
Clive Calder |
$2.4
billion |
Zomba
Recordings (incl. Britney Spears, 'N
Sync and the Backstreet Boys ) |
Cayman
Islands |
59yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Nadhmi Auchi |
$2.0
billion |
diversified |
London |
68yo
- Married, 4 children |
United
States
(men)
| TOP
10 - USA's Richest Men ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
William Gates III |
$50.0
billion |
Microsoft |
WA,
Medina |
50yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Warren Buffett |
$42.0
billion |
Berkshire
Hathaway |
NE,
Omaha |
75yo
- Widowed,
3 children |
| 3.
Paul Allen |
$22.0
billion |
Microsoft,
investments |
WA, Seattle
|
53yo
- Single,
0 children |
| 4.
Michael Dell |
$17.1
billion |
Dell
(world's biggest PC maker) |
TX, Austin
|
41yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Sheldon Adelson |
$16.1
billion |
casinos,
hotels |
NV, Las
Vegas |
72yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 6.
Lawrence Ellison |
$16.0
billion |
Oracle (database
s'ware) |
CA, Silicon
Valley |
61yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 7.
Jim Walton |
$15.9
billion |
Wal-Mart |
AR, Bentonville
|
58yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 8.
S Robson Walton |
$15.8
billion |
Wal-Mart |
AR, Bentonville
|
62yo
- Divorced, 3 children |
| 9.
Steven Ballmer |
$13.6
billion |
Microsoft |
WA, Redmond
|
50yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Sergey Brin |
$12.9
billion |
Google
|
CA, San
Francisco |
32yo
- Single, 0 children |
United
States
(women)
| TOP
10 - USA's Richest Women ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Christy Walton |
$15.9
billion |
Wal-Mart (husband,
John Walton, died in an ultra-light aircraft crash 5th June
2005) |
WY, Jackson |
51yo
- Widowed, 1 child |
| 2.
Alice Walton |
$15.7
billion |
(inheritance)
Wal-Mart |
TX ,
Fort Worth |
56yo
- Divorced |
| 3.
Helen Walton |
$15.6
billion |
Wal-Mart |
AR, Bentonville |
86yo
- Widowed,
4 children |
| 4.
Abigail Johnson |
$12.5
billion |
Fidelity
investments |
MA, Boston |
44yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 5.
Barbara Cox Anthony |
$12.4
billion |
media/entertainment |
HI, Honolulu
|
82yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 6.
Anne Cox Chambers |
$12.4
billion |
media/entertainment |
GA, Atlanta
|
86yo
- Divorced,
3 children |
| 7.
Jacqueline Mars |
$10.0
billion |
candy
(incl. Mars bar) |
NJ, Bedminster
|
66yo -
Divorced, 3 children |
| 8.
Martha Ingram & family |
$2.7
billion |
Ingram
Industries |
TN, Nashville |
70yo
- Widowed, 4 children |
| 9.
Barbara Piasecka Johnson |
$2.6
billion |
Johnson
& Johnson |
Monaco,
Monte Carlo |
69yo
- Widowed |
| 10.
Barbara Davis &
family |
$2.5
billion |
inheritance
(oil) |
CA, Beverly
Hills |
76yo
- Widowed, 5 children |
Under
35
| TOP
11 - Billionaires Under 35yo ...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
Sergey Brin |
$12.9 billion |
Google
(internet gateway)
|
USA |
32yo
- Single, 0 children |
| 2.
Larry Page |
$12.8 billion |
Google
(internet gateway) |
USA |
33yo
- Single, 0 children |
| 3.
Anurag Dikshit |
$3.3 billion |
online
gambling |
India |
34yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 4.
Fahd Hariri (youngest
son of Rafik Hariri) |
$2.7 billion |
inheritance |
Lebanon |
25yo
- Single, 0 children |
| 9.
Ayman Hariri (one
of five children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik ) |
$2.7 billion |
inheritance |
Riyadh |
27yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 6.
Andrei Melnichenko (uni
dropout) |
$2.7 billion |
banking,
energy |
Russia |
34yo
- Married, 0 children |
| 7.
Sergei Popov |
$2.7 billion |
banking,
energy |
Russia |
34yo
- Married, 0 children |
| 8.
Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (lives
in one of the family castles) |
$1.9 billion |
inherited,
diversified |
Germany |
22yo
- Single, 0 children |
| 9.
Daniel Ziff |
$1.5 billion |
inheritance,
hedge funds
|
USA |
34yo
- Single, 0 children |
| 10.
Hind Hariri (Youngest
child of Rafik Hariri and YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE) |
$1.4 billion |
inheritance |
Lebanon |
22yo
- Single, 0 children |
| 11.
Henrique Constantino |
$1.1 billion |
GOL airlines |
Brazil |
34yo
- n/a, 0 children |
| TOP
Celebrity Billionaires...
(9
March 2006)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
George Lucas |
$3.5
billion |
Star
Wars (director/producer) |
USA |
61yo
- Divorced, 3 children |
| 2.
Steven Spielberg |
$2.8
billion |
movies
(director/producer) - incl. War of the Worlds, Raiders of
the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Men in
Black, etc |
USA |
59yo
- Married, 7 children |
| 3.
Oprah Winfrey |
$1.4
billion |
The Oprah
Winfrey Show (Miss Black Tennessee age
19) |
USA |
52yo
- Single |
| 4.
Joanne (JK) Rowling |
$1.0
billion |
Harry
Potter (6 Harry Potter books have sold
310 million copies; grossed over $3 billion in movie/DVD sales) |
UK/Scotland |
40yo
- Married, 2 children |
|