Bill
Gates now only world's second richest
August 7, 2007
Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim
has overtaken Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the world's
wealthiest man with riches of $US59 billion, Fortune
magazine said on Monday.
Fortune, which tracks the performance of the world's top
companies, said Slim has increased his net worth by $US12
billion so far this year based on the market value of his
companies listed on stock exchanges.
In an online profile of Slim, 67, Fortune said he had a
fortune of $US59 billion based on the value of his public
holdings at the end of July.
Gates, the Microsoft founder and perennial No. 1, had a
net worth estimated to be at least $US58 billion,"
the magazine said.
Slim, the son of a Lebanese immigrant, owns Latin America's
largest cell phone company America Movil.
Fortune said Slim's companies, ranging from a restaurant
chain to a bank, made up a third of the Mexican stock market
and his family's holdings represented more than 5 percent
of Mexico's gross domestic product last year.
In July, a respected Mexican financial journalist announced
that Slim had overtaken Gates as the world's richest man
but the magnate said he did not care.
"It's water off a duck's back to me," the cigar-smoking
Slim told foreign correspondents last week. "I don't
know if I'm No. 1, No. 20, or No. 2000. It doesn't matter."
Gates and billionaire U.S. investor Warren Buffett, who
was the second-richest person in the world until Slim overtook
him this year, have been giving more of their money to charity
in recent years.
Slim also backs philanthropic causes and last week announced
a $US300 million plan to build 100 schools in Mexico, but
says he does more good by creating wealth and jobs through
his own companies.
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Top
10 Rich Lists 2007
Note:
The ladies are highlighted in LILAC
for easy identification.
The
World
(men)
| TOP
10 - World's Richest Men ...
(8 March 2007) ... Wealth
in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
1.
William Gates III (world's
richest person - for 13 years in a row!)
Harvard Uni drop out. |
$56.0
billion |
Microsoft |
USA
|
51yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Warren Buffett (married
longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday last Aug.) Will donate
$31 billion to charity! |
$52.0
billion |
Berkshire
Hathaway |
USA
|
76yo
-
Married, 3 children |
3.
Carlos Slim Helu
$19 billion richer this year! |
$49.0
billion |
Telecom |
Mexico |
67yo
- Widowed, 6 children |
4.
Ingvar Kamprad & family
Started selling furniture
in 1947. |
$33.0
billion |
Ikea
(retail) Has stores in 34 countries. |
Sweden |
80yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Lakshmi Mittal |
$32.0
billion |
Mittal
Steel (manufacturing steel) |
India |
56yo
- Married, 2 children |
6.
Sheldon Adelson
City College of NY drop
out. |
$26.5
billion |
casinos,
hotels |
USA |
73yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 7.
Bernard Arnault |
$26.0
billion |
LVMH
(world's largest luxury goods empire)
|
France |
58yo
-
Married, 5 children |
8.
Amancio Ortega
High
School drop out.
|
$24.0
billion |
Zara
(apparel manufacturer) owns 3,000 Zara retail stores in 64 countries |
Spain |
71yo
- Married, 3 children
|
9.
Li Ka-shing
High
School drop out.
|
$23.0
billion |
diversified |
Hong
Kong |
78yo
-
Widowed, 2 children |
| 10.
David Thomson &
family |
$22.0
billion |
inherited
(father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died last
June) |
Canada |
49yo
-
Divorced, 3 children |
The
World
(women)
| TOP
10 - World's Richest Women
... (8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
Liliane Bettencourt |
$20.7
billion |
L'Oreal
(daughter of L'Oréal founder Eugene
Schueller) |
France |
84yo - Married, 1 child |
| 2.
Christy Walton &
family |
$16.7
billion |
Wal-Mart
(widow of John Walton, who died when his
ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) |
USA |
52yo
- Widowed, 1 child |
| 3.
Alice Walton |
$16.6
billion |
Wal-Mart |
USA |
57yo
- Divorced |
4.
Helen Walton
Died 19 Apr 2007 |
$16.4
billion |
Wal-Mart (widow
of Sam Walton - d.1992) |
USA |
87yo
-
Widowed, 4 children |
| 5.
Abigail Johnson |
$13.0
billion |
Fidelity
investments |
USA |
45yo
-
Married, 2 children |
6.
Barbara Cox Anthony
Died 28 May 2007 |
$12.6
billion |
media/entertainment |
USA |
83yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Anne Cox Chambers |
$12.6
billion |
media/entertainment |
USA
|
87yo
-
Divorced, 3 children |
| 8.
Jacqueline Mars |
$10.5
billion |
candy
(incl. Mars bar) world's largest confectioner |
USA |
67yo -
Divorced, 3 children |
| 9.
Susanne Klatten |
$9.6
billion |
BMW,
pharmaceuticals |
Germany |
44yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler
(mother
and son) |
$8.7
billion |
ball bearings
(inherited) |
Germany |
n/a
- n/a |
Australia
Kerry Packer, Australia's long-time
richest person, died in his sleep on 26th December 2005, aged 68.
| TOP
10 - Australia's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth
in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth
US$
|
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
James Packer
(father, Kerry, died Dec 26, 2005) |
$5.5
billion |
inherited
(media/Entertainment) |
Sydney |
39yo
-Divorced, 0 children |
| 2.
Frank Lowy & family |
$4.6
billion |
retail
property (shopping centres) |
Sydney |
76yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Richard Pratt (onetime actor) |
$2.5
billion |
packaging
(manufacturing, recycling) |
Melbourne |
72yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 4.
Harry Triguboff (born
in China to Russian parents ) |
$2.3
billion |
residential
property development |
Sydney |
74yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Shi Zhengrong |
$2.2
billion |
solar
energy |
China |
44yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Stanley Perron (quit
school at 14) |
$1.8
billion |
property,
cars |
Perth |
84yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
John Gandel (Medical Doctor ) |
$1.8
billion |
retail
property (shopping centres) |
Melbourne |
72yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 8.
Kerry Stokes |
$1.4
billion |
media,
Caterpillar |
Perth |
65yo
- Divorced, 4 children |
| 9.
Andrew Forrest |
$1.3
billion |
mining,
metals
|
Perth |
45yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 10.
Gerald Harvey |
$1.2
billion |
retail
(Harvey Norman electronics ) |
Australia |
67yo
- Married,
4 children |
Brazil
| TOP
10 - Brazil's Richest
People ...
(8
March 2007) ...
Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Joseph Safra (cut financial
ties with his older brother Moise in mid-2006. ) |
$6.0 billion |
banking |
Sao
Paulo |
68yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 2.
Jorge Paulo Lemann (onetime
tennis champion - he played at Wimbledon) |
$4.9
billion |
banking,
beer |
Sao
Paulo |
67yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 3.
Aloysio de Andrade Faria |
$4.0
billion |
banking |
Sao
Paulo |
86yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 4.
Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family |
$3.9
billion |
diversified |
Sao
Paulo |
78yo
- n/a, 9 children |
| 5.
Moise Safra (cut financial
ties with his younger brother Joseph in mid-2006. ) |
$2.9
billion |
banking |
Sao
Paulo |
72yo
- Married |
| 6.
Liu Ming Chung |
$2.4
billion |
paper
manufacturing |
Hong
Kong |
44yo
- Married |
| 7.
Marcel Herman Telles |
$2.2
billion |
banking,
beer |
Sao
Paulo |
57yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Carlos Alberto Sicupira |
$2.0
billion |
banking,
beer |
Sao
Paulo |
59yo - Married,
3 children |
| 8.
Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello |
$2.0
billion |
sugar,
ethanol |
Sao
Paulo |
n/a
- Married |
| 10.
Julio Bozano |
$1.9
billion |
banking |
Rio
de Janeiro |
71yo
- n/a, 1 child |
Canada
| TOP
10 - Canada's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
David Thomson & family |
$22.0
billion |
inherited
(father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died
last June) |
Toronto |
49yo
-
Divorced, 3 children |
| 2.
Galen Weston & family (Avid
collector of avant-garde artist Christo) |
$7.9
billion |
retail |
Toronto |
66yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 3.
James, Arthur & John Irving
(brothers) |
$5.8
billion |
oil
/ gas (own
600 gas stations) |
Saint
John |
n/a
- n/a |
| 9.
Edward Rogers |
$4.9
billion |
media |
Toronto |
73yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Bernard (Barry) Sherman |
$4.4
billion |
Apotex
pharmaceuticals (seeking
over-the-counter-sales approval of its controversial "morning-after"
pill ) |
Toronto |
65yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 4.
Jeffrey S Skoll |
$4.2
billion |
Ebay |
USA,
CA, Los Angeles |
42yo
-
Single |
| 5.
Paul Desmarais (bought
his father's one-route Ontario bus company for $1- in 1951) |
$4.0
billion |
finance |
Montreal |
80yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 7.
Jim Pattison |
$3.8
billion |
diversified
(incl. Ripley's Believe It or Not) |
Vancouver |
78yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Robert Miller |
$2.9
billion |
Future
Electronics (supports
cryonics, the science of freezing bodies with the intent
to restore life) |
Montreal |
61yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Wallace McCain |
$2.6
billion |
food
(McCain's - world's largest producer of frozen french fries) |
Toronto |
77yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| TOP
10 - China's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007) ... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Head
Office |
Personal |
| 1.
Yan Cheung (In
1985, with $4,000 in savings, set up a company importing
waste paper) |
$2.4
billion |
paper
manufacturing (Nine Dragons) |
Hong
Kong |
49yo
- Married |
| 2.
Wong Kwong Yu |
$2.3
billion |
Gome
Appliances (& real estate) |
Beijing |
37yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 3.
Larry Yung |
$2.2
billion |
diversified |
Hong
Kong |
65yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Zhang Li |
$2.1
billion |
real
estate |
Guangzhou |
53yo
- n/a |
| 5.
Zhang Jindong |
$2.0
billion |
Sunning
Appliances
(China's second-biggest electrical appliance chain - has
400 retail stores and plans to open another 600 by 2010) |
Nanjing
|
44yo
- |
| 6.
Chu Mang Yee
(Former government bureaucrat) |
$1.7
billion |
real
estate |
Guangzhou |
48yo
- n/a |
| 7.
Zhang Cheng Fei
(younger brother of Yan Cheung) |
$1.6
billion |
paper
manufacturing (Nine Dragons) |
Dongguan |
39yo
- n/a |
| 8.
Guo Guangchang |
$1.5
billion |
Fosun
High-Tech Group (retail, media, real estate) |
Shanghai |
40yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 8.
Liu Yongxing |
$1.5
billion |
East
Hope Group (animal feed, finance, aluminium) |
Chengdu |
58yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 10.
Xu Jiayin |
$1.3
billion |
real
estate |
Guangzhou |
49yo
- n/a |
France
| TOP
10 - France's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Bernard Arnault |
$26.0
billion |
LVMH
(world's
largest luxury goods empire)
|
Paris |
58yo
-
Married, 5 children |
2.
Liliane Bettencourt
(world's richest woman) |
$20.7
billion |
L'Oreal |
Paris |
84yo - Married, 1 child |
3.
Francois Pinault
High
School drop out
|
$14.5
billion |
retail
(incl. Gucci) |
Paris |
70yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Serge Dassault & family |
$10.0
billion |
aviation
(manufacturing) |
Paris |
81yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 4.
Alain & Gerard Wertheimer (brothers) |
$10.0
billion |
Chanel
(apparel, perfume) |
Paris |
n/a
- n/a |
| 6.
Jean-Claude Decaux & family (Started
out putting ads on public toilets and bus shelters. ) |
$5.0
billion |
advertising |
Paris |
69yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Martin & Olivier Bouygues (brothers) |
$4.5
billion |
telecom,
media, construction |
Paris |
54/56yo
-n/a
|
| 8.
Gérard Louis-Dreyfus & family |
$3.4
billion |
Oil /
gas |
USA,
NY,
NY |
74yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 9.
Pierre Bellon & family |
$2.8
billion |
food
services |
Paris |
77yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 10.
Didier Primat |
$2.3
billion |
Oil
/ gas |
Switzerland,
Geneva |
62yo
- Married |
Germany
| TOP
10 - Germany's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Karl Albrecht (Fiercely
private) |
$20.0
billion |
supermarkets
(over
7,000 Aldi stores) |
Muehlheim
an der Ruhr |
87yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Theo Albrecht (was
kidnapped for 17 days in 1971 ) |
$17.5
billion |
supermarkets
(over
7,000 Aldi stores) |
Foehr |
84yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 3.
Michael Otto & family |
$13.3
billion |
retail
(world's largest mail-order company) |
Hamburg |
63yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Adolf Merckle |
$12.8
billion |
pharmaceuticals |
Manheim |
72yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Susanne Klatten |
$9.6
billion |
BMW,
pharmaceuticals
|
Bad
Homburg |
44yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Reinhold Würth |
$9.0
billion |
manufacturing
(screws) |
Kuenzelsau |
71yo
- Married, 3 children |
7.
Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler
(mother
and son)
|
$8.7
billion |
Manufacturing
(ball bearings) |
Herzogenaurach |
n/a
- n/a |
| 8.
August von Finck |
$8.4
billion |
investments |
Switzerland,
Thurgau |
77yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 9.
Stefan Quandt (recently married) |
$7.6
billion |
BMW |
Frankfurt |
41yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 10.
Johanna Quandt |
$6.7
billion |
BMW |
Bad
Homburg |
80yo
- Widowed, 2 children |
Hong
Kong
| TOP
10 - Hong Kong's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Li Ka-shing (High
School drop out) |
$23.0
billion |
diversified |
Hong
Kong |
78yo
-
Widowed, 2 children |
| 2.
Lee Shau Kee |
$17.0
billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
79yo
-
Divorced, 5 children
|
| 3.
Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok (brothers) |
$15.0
billion |
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