Top
10 Rich Lists 2007
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 |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
n/a
-
n/a |
| 4.
Stanley Ho (uni
drop out) |
$7.0
billion |
Macau
Casino
(The King of Macau held city's only gambling
license for decades.) |
Hong
Kong |
85yo
- Married, 17 children!!! |
| 5.
Cheng Yu-tung |
$6.5
billion |
New
World Development (real estate) |
Hong
Kong |
81yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Sir Michael Kadoorie & family (was
knighted in the U.K. for his extensive charitable and philanthropic
activities.) |
$5.3
billion |
diversified |
Hong
Kong |
66yo
- married |
| 7.
Ronald McAulay
(brother-in-law of Sir
Michael Kadoorie) |
$4.2
billion |
diversified |
Hong
Kong |
70yo
- n/a |
| 7.
Nina Wang (Notoriously
frugal and paranoid, spends $650 a month and travels with a
platoon of 50 bodyguards.) DIED 5th April 2007, aged
69. |
$4.2
billion |
real
estate (inherited) |
Hong
Kong |
69
-
Widowed, 0 children (husband
kidnapped in 1990) |
| 9.
Hui Wing Mau |
$3.5
billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
56yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 10.
Michael Ying |
$3.1
billion |
Esprit
(apparel) |
Hong
Kong |
57yo
- Married |
India
| TOP
10 - India's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Lakshmi Mittal |
$32.0
billion |
Mittal
Steel (manufacturing steel) |
UK,
London |
56yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Mukesh Ambani |
$20.1
billion |
petrochemicals
(manufacturing) |
Mumbai |
49yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Anil Ambani (a
marathon runner; wife Tina is a former Bollywood actress) |
$18.2
billion |
diversified
(manufacturing) |
Mumbai |
47yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Azim Premji |
$17.1
billion |
Wipro
(software) |
Bangalore |
61yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Kushal Pal Singh (former
army officer) |
$10.0
billion |
real
estate |
Delhi |
75yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Sunil Mittal (son
of a politician) |
$9.5
billion |
Telecom |
Delhi |
49yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Kumar Birla |
$8.0
billion |
commodities (copper
& aluminium) |
Mumbai |
39yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Shashi & Ravi Ruia (brothers) |
$8.0
billion |
diversified |
Mumbai |
n/a
- n/a |
| 9.
Ramesh Chandra
(banker's
son) |
$6.4
billion |
real
estate |
New
Delhi |
67yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 10.
Pallonji Mistry |
$5.6
billion |
construction |
Mumbai |
77yo
- Married, 4 children |
| TOP
9 - Israel's Billionaires...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Stef Wertheimer & family (grade
school dropout) |
$4.4
billion |
tools
|
Tefen |
81yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 2.
Shari Arison |
$4.3
billion |
inheritance,
cruise ships |
Tel
Aviv |
49yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
Lev Leviev |
$4.1
billion |
diamonds
(cuts
and polishes more diamonds than anyone else in the world) |
B'nei
Brak |
51yo
- Married, 9 children |
| 4.
Yitzhak Tshuva (his
Cinderella story began in Netanya in a single room where
his penniless family of 11 lived briefly) |
$4.0
billion |
real
estate |
Netanya |
58yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 5.
Sammy Ofer & family
(In May 2006, paid $40 million for Van Gogh's "Madame
Ginoux".) |
$3.9
billion |
shipping |
Tel
Aviv; Monaco |
85yo
- n/a |
| 6.
Arnon Milchan (former
soccer player) |
$3.0
billion |
New
Regency Productions (include
Pretty Woman, The War of the Roses and Fight Club) |
Tel
Aviv |
62yo
- Divorced, 4 children |
| 7.
Alexander Machkevich |
$1.9
billion |
mining,
metals |
Kazakhstan,
Almaty |
53yo - Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Benny Steinmetz |
$1.7
billion |
diamonds
(largest customer of De Beers) |
Belgium;
Israel |
50yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 9.
Morris Kahn (a former diver) |
$1.1
billion |
software
|
Beit
Yanay |
77yo
- Married |
Italy
| TOP
10 - Italy's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Silvio Berlusconi (Italy's
Prime Minister from 2001-2006. Started out singing on cruise
ships.) |
$11.8
billion |
media |
North
of Milan |
70yo - Married, 5 children |
| 2.
Leonardo Del Vecchio (sent
to an orphanage at age 7) |
$11.5
billion |
eyewear
(Ray-Ban) |
Milan |
71yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 3.
Michele Ferrero & family |
$10.0
billion |
Ferrero
chocolates
(also Nutella and Tic Tac) |
Monaco,
Montecarlo |
80yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Giorgio Armani (goes
to the gym for at least an hour a day) |
$4.5
billion |
Armani
fashion / apparel |
Milan |
72yo
- n/a |
| 5.
Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone |
$3.0
billion |
diversified |
Rome |
64yo
- Married |
| 5.
Mario Moretti Polegato |
$3.0
billion |
Geox
shoes |
Crocetta
del Montello |
54yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 7.
Carlo Benetton |
$2.8
billion |
Benetton
(apparel) |
Treviso |
63yo
- Single, 4 children |
| 7.
Luciano Benetton |
$2.8
billion |
Benetton
(apparel) |
Treviso |
71yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 7.
Giuliana Benetton |
$2.8
billion |
Benetton
(apparel) |
Treviso |
69yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 7.
Gilberto Benetton |
$2.8
billion |
Benetton
(apparel)
|
Treviso |
65yo
- Married, 2 children |
| TOP
10 - Japan's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Masayoshi Son |
$5.8
billion |
Softbank
(software) |
Tokyo |
49yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Akira Mori & family |
$5.7
billion |
Mori
Trust (real estate) |
Tokyo |
69yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Nobutada Saji & family |
$4.7
billion |
Suntory
(beverages)
- recently engineered the world's first blue
rose! |
Hyogo |
61yo
- Married |
| 4.
Kunio Busujima & family |
$4.4
billion |
pinball
machines (manufacturing) |
Kiryu |
81yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Hiroko Takei & family (husband,
Yasuo Takei, died last year) |
$4.3
billion |
inherited
(credit) |
Tokyo |
n/a
- widowed, 3 children |
| 6.
Hiroshi Yamauchi |
$3.9
billion |
Nintendo |
Kyoto |
79yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 7.
Eitaro Itoyama |
$3.8
billion |
golf
courses |
Tokyo |
64yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Tadashi Yanai & family |
$3.7
billion |
retail
(Uniqlo discount clothing) |
Yamaguchi |
58yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Hiroshi Mikitani |
$2.9
billion |
e-commerce
(Rakuten Internet shopping mall hosts
more than 18,000 virtual stores) |
Japan |
42yo
- n/a |
| 10.
Takemitsu Takizaki |
$2.8
billion |
sensors |
Osaka |
61yo
- Married |
*
world's
richest person from 1991-1992 was Taikichiro Mori. (d. 1993)
| TOP
9 - Malaysia's Billionaires...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Robert Kuok |
$7.0
billion |
diversified
(including Shangri-la hotels) |
Hong
Kong |
83yo
- Married, 8 children |
| 2.
Ananda Krishnan |
$6.0
billion |
diversified
(Astro satellite TV) |
Kuala
Lumpur |
68yo
- Married, 3 children |
3.
Lim Goh Tong
(high school drop out) |
$4.2
billion |
gaming
(his
First World Hotel has 6,200 rooms, which earned it the Guinness
World Record for the world's largest hotel ) |
Kuala
Lumpur |
89yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 4.
Teh Hong Piow |
$3.0
billion |
banking
(Public Bank's Islamic banking is
interest-free because Islam prohibits taking or giving interest) |
Kuala
Lumpur |
77yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Quek Leng Chan |
$2.9
billion |
banking |
Wee |
66yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Lee Shin Cheng |
$2.6
billion |
agriculture |
Jeram |
67yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 7.
Yeoh Tiong Lay & family |
$1.7
billion |
construction |
Malaysia |
77yo
- Widowed, 7 children |
| 8.
Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary |
$1.3
billion |
rice
and sugar trader |
Kuala
Lumpur |
55yo
- Married,
5 children |
| 9.
Tiong Hiew King |
$1.1
billion |
timber |
Sibu |
71yo
- Married, 3 children |
Mexico
| TOP
10 - Mexico's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Carlos Slim Helu (just call
him Midas) |
$49.0
billion |
Telecom |
Mexico
City |
67yo
- Widowed, 6 children |
| 2.
Alberto Bailleres |
$5.0
billion |
mining
silver |
Mexico
City |
74yo
- Married |
| 3.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
(in
September, paid $7.5 million to settle accusations about a
business scandal) |
$4.6
billion |
retail/media
|
Mexico
City |
51yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Jeronimo Arango |
$4.3
billion |
supermarkets
(was a Wal-Mart partner) |
Mexico |
81yo
- n/a |
| 5.
Emilio Azcárraga Jean |
$2.1
billion |
media
(inherited empire in 1997) |
Mexico
City |
39yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 6.
Roberto Hernandez Ramirez |
$2.0
billion |
Banamex
(banking) |
Mexico
City |
65yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala &
family |
$2.0
billion |
beer
(Corona) |
Mexico
City |
43yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Isaac Saba Raffoul & family |
$1.8
billion |
diversified
(incl. Marriott hotels) |
Mexico
City |
83yo
- n/a |
| 9.
Lorenzo Zambrano & family |
$1.7
billion |
cement |
Monterrey |
62yo
- Single |
| 10.
Alfredo Harp Helu (owns
the Red Devils baseball team) cousin of Carlos
Slim Helu. |
$1.6
billion |
Banamex
(banking) |
Mexico
City |
63yo
- Married, 4 children |
Russia
| TOP
10 - Russia's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Roman Abramovich college
drop out; orphaned as a child |
$18.7
billion |
oil
(fled
Russia in 2000 to escape fraud charges) |
UK,
London |
40yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 2.
Suleiman Kerimov (seriously
injured when he lost control of his Ferrari Enzo in autumn
2006) |
$14.4
billion |
stocks |
Moscow |
41yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Vladimir Lisin |
$14.3
billion |
Novolipetsk
steel mill |
Moscow |
50yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Vladimir Potanin |
$13.5
billion |
metals |
Moscow |
46yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Mikhail Prokhorov |
$13.5
billion |
metals
(often
featured in gossip pages for his parties) |
Moscow |
41yo
- Single |
| 6.
Oleg Deripaska |
$13.3
billion |
Russian
Aluminum
(Married into family of former President
Yeltsin) |
Moscow |
39yo
- Married |
| 7.
Mikhail Fridman (strong
Kremlin connections) |
$12.6
billion |
oil
/ banking |
Moscow |
42yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Vagit Alekperov |
$12.4
billion |
Lukoil
(in December 2006 he acquired nearly
400 stations from ConocoPhillips) |
Moscow |
56yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 9.
Alexei Mordashov |
$11.2
billion |
Severstal
(steel) |
Moscow |
41yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Viktor Vekselberg |
$10.4
billion |
oil
/ metals
(laying low to avoid Kremlin scrutiny) |
Moscow |
49yo
- Married, 2 children |
| TOP
10 - Saudi Arabia's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew
of the Saudi king ) |
$20.3
billion |
investments
(incl. Citicorp) |
Riyadh |
50yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Mohammed Al Amoudi (Born
in Ethiopia) |
$8.0
billion |
oil |
Jeddah |
61yo
- Married, 8 children |
| 3.
Maan Al-Sanea |
$7.5
billion |
construction
/ finance |
Al
Khobar |
52yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 4.
Sulaiman Al Rajhi |
$7.4
billion |
banking |
Riyadh |
87yo
- Married, 23 children
(yes ... 23!!!!) |
| 5.
Saleh Al Rajhi |
$4.4
billion |
banking |
Riyadh |
95yo
- Married, 61 children (yes,
61!!!! - 22 sons, 39 daughters, from
7 wives) |
| 6.
Saleh Kamel
|
$3.5
billion |
diversified
(banking/media)
invented the modern concept of Islamic
banking, which among other things forbids interest payments.
|
Makkah
Al-Minkarramah |
65yo
- Married |
| 7.
Khalid Bin Mahfouz & family (successfully
sued journalists 3 times for libel over accusations that
he helped fund the Sept. 11 attacks) |
$3.1
billion |
banking |
Jeddah |
60yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Abdullah Al Rajhi |
$2.6
billion |
banking |
Saudi
Arabia |
n/a
- Married |
| 9.
Saad Hariri (second
son of Rafik Hariri, slain prime minister of Lebanon ) |
$2.3
billion |
inherited
(construction, investments) |
Riyadh |
36yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Ayman Hariri (One
of five children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik
) |
$1.6
billion |
inherited
(construction, investments) |
Riyadh |
28yo
- Married, 1 child |
| TOP
10 - South Korea's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Lee Kun-Hee |
$2.9
billion |
Samsung
Electronics (accounts for close
to a fifth of the nation's exports!) |
Seoul |
65yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 2.
Chung Mong-Koo (sentenced
in February to 3 years in prison for embezzling corporate
funds. ) |
$2.2
billion |
Hyundai
|
Seoul |
69yo
- Married,
4 children |
3.
Shin Dong-Bin
(younger son of Shin Kyuk-Ho) |
$1.8
billion |
inherited,
Lotte Group trying to build the
world's tallest tower in Seoul) |
Seoul |
52yo
- Married,
3 children |
3.
Lee Myung-Hee
(younger sister of Lee Kun-Hee) |
$1.8
billion |
E-Mart |
Seoul |
63yo
- Married,
2 children |
5.
Lee Jay-Yong
(only son of Lee
Kun-Hee) |
$1.7
billion |
Samsung
Electronics |
Seoul |
38yo
- Married,
2 children |
5.
Shin Dong-Joo
(eldest son of Shin Kyuk-Ho) |
$1.7
billion |
inherited,
Lotte Group |
Japan |
53yo
- Married,
1 child |
| 7.
Yong Keu Cha |
$1.3
billion |
Kazakhmys
(mining, lumber) |
UK,
London |
50yo
- Married,
2 children |
7.
Chung Mong-Joon
(6th son of late Hyundai founder) |
$1.3
billion |
shipbuilding |
Ulsan |
55yo
- Married |
| 9.
Suh Kyung-Bae |
$1.1
billion |
Amorepacific
cosmetics |
Seoul |
44yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 9.
Chung Yong-Jin (best
known for his marriage to a well-known TV star in 1995
- divorced 8 years later; nephew of Lee
Kun-Hee) |
$1.1
billion |
Samsung
Electronics |
Seoul |
38yo
- Divorced,
2 children |
Spain
| TOP
10 - Spain's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Amancio Ortega
(High School drop out; shuns neckties) |
$24.0
billion |
Zara
(apparel) |
La
Coruna |
71yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Rafael del Pino & family |
$8.6
billion |
Ferrovial
(construction) |
Madrid |
86yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 3.
Enrique Bañuelos |
$7.7
billion |
Astroc
(real estate) |
Valencia |
41yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Esther Koplowitz (married
to Fernando Falcó, Marqués de Cubas) |
$5.6
billion |
Fomento
de Construcciones y Contratas (construction) |
Barcelona |
56yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Alicia Koplowitz (rumored
to be romantically involved with the Duque de Huescar; sisiter
of Esther Koplowitz) |
$5.0
billion |
investments |
Madrid |
54yo
- Divorced, 3 children |
| 6.
Luis Portillo |
$3.7
billion |
Inmocaral
/ Inmobiliaria Colonial (real estate) |
Sevilla |
45yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Manuel Jove (carpenter
by trade) |
$3.5
billion |
FADESA
Immobiliaria (real estate) |
La
Coruna |
65yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Isak Andic |
$3.4
billion |
Mango
(apparel)
(over 800 stores in 81 countries ) |
Barcelona |
52yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Rosalia Mera (ex-wife
of Amancio
Ortega) |
$3.4
billion |
Zara
(apparel) |
La
Coruna |
63yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 10.
Jesus de Polanco |
$3.0
billion |
Grupo
Prisa (media) |
Madrid |
77yo
- Married, 4 children |
| TOP
8- Sweden's Billionaires...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Ingvar Kamprad (flies
economy class and frequents cheap restaurants) |
$33.0
billion |
Ikea
(retail) |
Switzerland,
Lausanne |
80yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 2.
Stefan Persson |
$18.4
billion |
Hennes
& Mauritz (retail) (has
1,300 stores in 24 countries) |
Stockholm |
59yo
- Married, 3 children |
3.
Birgit Rausing & family
(husband Gad Rausing died in 2000 ) |
$11.0
billion |
Tetra
Laval (packaging manufacture) |
Switzerland,
Vaud |
83yo
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 4.
Sir Hans Rausing (knighted
last year for his services to charity) |
$9.0
billion |
Tetra
Laval (packaging)
(Moved to England in 1980 to avoid
punitive Swedish taxes) |
UK,
Wadhurst |
81yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Antonia Johnson |
$6.6
billion |
A.
Johnson & Co. (diversified) |
Stockholm |
63yo
- Married, 4 children |
6.
Fredrik Lundberg
(once a junior world champion of curling) |
$3.0
billion |
real
estate / investments |
Stockholm |
55yo
- Married, 2 children |
8.
Liselott (Lottie) Persson
(sister of Stefan
Persson ) |
$2.0
billion |
Hennes
& Mauritz (clothing retail chain) |
Stockholm |
57yo
- n/a |
| 7.
Count Gustaf Douglas |
$1.9
billion |
Assa
Abloy (locks) / security |
Stockholm |
69yo
- Married, 2 children |
Switzerland
| TOP
8- Switzerland's Billionaires...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Ernesto Bertarelli (yachtsman
who won the America's Cup in 2003 ) |
$8.8
billion |
Sereno
(biotech) |
Geneva |
41yo
- Married |
| 2.
Thomas Schmidheiny |
$5.5
billion |
Holcim
(cement)
(world's second-largest supplier of cement and concrete) |
Balgach |
61yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
Walter Haefner |
$4.3
billion |
Computer
Associates (software) |
Zurich |
96yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Stephan Schmidheiny (facing
lawsuits in Switzerland and Italy surrounding the asbestos-related
deaths of former plant workers) |
$3.6
billion |
investments |
Zurich |
59yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Nicolas Hayek
(known as Mr. Swatch) |
$3.2
billion |
Swatch
(world's
largest manufacturer of finished watches with 156 factories) |
Biel |
78yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Sergio Mantegazza (Loves
expensive toys, has a helicopter, a yacht (Lady Marina) and
a $600,000 Mercedes Maybach. ) |
$2.7
billion |
Globus
& Cosmos (travel) |
Lugano |
79yo
- Married, 1 child |
7.
Gianluigi & Rafaela
Aponte
(husband and wife) |
$2.4
billion |
Mediterranean
Shipping Company (world's
second-largest container shipper with 310 container vessels)
|
Geneva |
n/a
- Married |
| 8.
Bahaa Hariri (Eldest son of
slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik) |
$2.2
billion |
inheritance |
Geneva |
40yo
- Married |
| TOP
8- Taiwan's Billionaires...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Tsai Hong-tu & family |
$7.0
billion |
Cathay
Financial Holdings |
Taiwan |
54yo
- n/a,
3 children |
| 2.
Terry Gou (filed
lawsuit, later dropped, against journalists saying he ran
sweatshops) |
$5.5
billion |
Hon
Hai Precision (world's largest contract
manufacturer) |
Taipei |
56yo
- Widowed,
2 children |
3.
YC Wang & family
(only elementary school education) |
$5.1
billion |
Formosa
Plastics (chemicals) |
Taipei |
90yo
- n/a,
10 children |
| 4.
Tsai Wan-Tsai & family |
$3.0
billion |
Fubon
Group (banking) |
Taipei |
77yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 5.
Barry Lam |
$2.1
billion |
Quanta
Computer (world's no. 1 maker of notebook
computers) |
Taiwan |
57yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 6.
Douglas Hsu (Charged
with forgery and breach of trust last fall but denies any
wrongdoing) |
$1.5
billion |
diversified |
Taiwan |
65yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 7.
Tsai Eng Meng |
$1.0
billion |
Want
Want (junk food) |
Taiwan |
50yo
- n/a |
| 7.
Gary Wang |
$1.0
billion |
media
(world's largest privately run Chinese-language
media organization) |
Taipei |
52yo
- Married,
3 children |
Turkey
| TOP
10 - Turkey's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Husnu Ozyegin |
$3.5
billion |
banking |
Istanbul |
62yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Mehmet Karamehmet |
$2.4
billion |
Turkcell
mobile phone company |
Istanbul |
62yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 3.
Erol Sabanci |
$2.1
billion |
inherited
(diversified) (incl. Akbank, second
largest bank in Turkey) |
Istanbul |
69yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 3.
Sevket Sabanci (brother
of Erol Sabanci) |
$2.1
billion |
Sabanci
Group (diversified) |
Istanbul |
71yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Sarik Tara |
$2.0
billion |
Enka
(construction) |
Istanbul |
76yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Ahmet Zorlu (High
School drop out; shuttles around Europe in custom-designed
helicopter) |
$1.8
billion |
electronics,
finance (Turkey's largest exporter) |
Istanbul |
62yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 7.
Aydin Dogan |
$1.6
billion |
media |
Istanbul |
70yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 8.
Turgay Ciner
(Personally pays for much school construction throughout Turkey) |
$1.5
billion |
diversified |
Istanbul |
51yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 9.
Rahmi Koc (avid
sailor, spends months calling on ports around the world aboard
his luxury yacht) |
$1.4
billion |
inherited
(diversified) |
Istanbul |
76yo
- Divorced, 3 children
|
| 9.
Semahat Arsel
(Due to parasite in her blood, spent years fighting illness
in hospitals around the world; sister of Rahmi Koc ) |
$1.4
billion |
inherited
(diversified) |
Istanbul |
78yo
- Married |
United
Kingdom
| TOP
10 - United Kingdom's Richest People ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
1.
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family
(6th Duke of Westminister) |
$11.0
billion |
real
estate (incl. Mayfair) |
Chester |
55yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 2.
Sir Philip & Cristina
Green (Knighted
last year for his services to the retail industry) |
$7.0
billion |
retail
(British Home Stores and Arcadia) |
London;
Monaco |
55yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 3.
David & Simon Reuben
(two brothers born in Mumbai ) |
$4.5
billion |
investments,
real estate |
London
/ Monaco |
n/a
- 3 children |
| 4.
Simon Halabi (born
in Syria) |
$4.3
billion |
real
estate |
London |
57yo
- Married |
| 5.
Richard Branson (high
school dropout) In February, offered $25 million prize to
anyone who can find a way to remove a billion tons of carbon
dioxide a year from the Earth's atmosphere |
$3.8
billion |
Virgin
(airlines, etc) |
London |
56yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Charles Cadogan & family |
$3.6
billion |
real
estate |
London |
70yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Bernard Ecclestone & family |
$3.6
billion |
Formula
One (car racing) |
London |
76yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Nadhmi Auchi (gives
money to grassroots organizations that repatriate young boys
forced to race camels outside Pakistan) |
$3.1
billion |
diversified |
London |
69yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 9.
David & Frederick Barclay (identical
twins) |
$3.0
billion |
media,
retail
(manage their businesses from the island tax haven of Jersey) |
Island
of Brecquou |
n/a
- n/a |
| 9.
Clive Calder |
$3.0
billion |
Zomba
Recordings (incl.
Britney Spears, 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys ) |
Cayman
Islands |
60yo
- Married, 2 children |
United
States
(men)
| TOP
10 - USA's Richest Men ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
1.
William Gates III (world's
richest person - for 13 years in a row!)
Harvard Uni drop out.
|
$56.0
billion |
Microsoft |
WA,
Medina |
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 |
NE,
Omaha |
76yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Sheldon Adelson
(City
College of NY drop out) |
$26.5
billion |
casinos,
hotels |
NV,
Las Vegas |
73yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 4.
Lawrence Ellison (University
of Illinois, drop out) Plans to sail in 2007 America's Cup
in Spain. |
$21.5
billion |
Oracle (database
s'ware) |
CA,
Redwood City |
62yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Paul Allen (Washington
State University, drop
out) Teamed up with high school friend Bill Gates 1975 to
start computer company. |
$18.0
billion |
Microsoft,
investments |
WA,
Mercer Is. |
54yo
-
Single |
| 6.
Jim Walton (child
of Sam Walton - d. 1992) |
$16.8
billion |
Wal-Mart |
AR,
Bentonville |
59yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 7.
S Robson Walton (child
of Sam Walton - d. 1992) |
$16.7
billion |
Wal-Mart |
AR,
Bentonville |
63yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Sergey Brin |
$16.7
billion |
Google |
CA,
Palo Alto |
33yo
- Single |
| 9.
Larry Page |
$16.6
billion |
Google |
CA, San
Francisco |
34yo
- Single |
| 9.
Michael Dell |
$16.6
billion |
Dell
(world's 2nd biggest PC maker) |
TX,
Austin |
42yo
- Married, 4 children |
United
States
(women)
| TOP
10 - USA's Richest Women ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Christy Walton &
family |
$16.7
billion |
Wal-Mart
(widow of John Walton, who died when
his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) |
WY,
Jackson |
52yo
- Widowed, 1 child |
| 2.
Alice Walton |
$16.6
billion |
Wal-Mart |
TX
, Fort Worth |
57yo
- Divorced |
3.
Helen Walton
Died 19 Apr 2007 |
$16.4
billion |
Wal-Mart (widow
of Sam Walton - d.1992) |
AR,
Bentonville |
87yo
-
Widowed, 4 children |
| 4.
Abigail Johnson |
$13.0
billion |
Fidelity
investments |
MA,
Boston |
45yo
-
Married, 2 children |
5.
Barbara Cox Anthony
Died 28 May 2007 |
$12.6
billion |
media/entertainment |
HI,
Honolulu |
83yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Anne Cox Chambers |
$12.6
billion |
media/entertainment |
GA,
Atlanta |
87yo
-
Divorced, 3 children |
| 7.
Jacqueline Mars |
$10.5
billion |
candy
(incl. Mars bar) world's largest confectioner |
NJ,
Bedminster |
67yo -
Divorced, 3 children |
| 8.
Joan Tisch (Widow
of Brooklyn - born Preston Tisch - d. 2005) |
$3.7
billion |
Loews |
NY, New
York |
81yo
-
Widowed, 3 children
|
| 8.
Martha Ingram & family |
$2.9
billion |
Ingram
Industries |
TN,
Nashville |
71yo
- Widowed, 4 children |
| 9.
Barbara Piasecka Johnson |
$2.8
billion |
Johnson
& Johnson |
Monaco,
Monte Carlo |
70yo
- Widowed |
Under
36
| TOP
11 - Billionaires Under 36yo ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
Sergey Brin |
$16.6
billion |
Google
|
USA |
33yo
- Single |
| 1.
Larry Page |
$16.6
billion |
Google |
USA |
34yo
- Single |
| 3.
Andrei Melnichenko (uni
dropout) Son of a respected Soviet physicist. |
$4.6
billion |
banking,
energy |
Russia |
35yo
- Married |
| 3.
Sergei Popov |
$4.6
billion |
banking,
energy |
Russia |
35yo
- Married |
| 5.
Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (lives
in one of the family castles) YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE! |
$2.0
billion |
inherited,
diversified |
Germany |
23yo
- Single |
| 6.
Fahd Hariri (youngest
son of Rafik Hariri) |
$1.6
billion |
inheritance |
Lebanon |
26yo
- Single |
| 6.
Ayman Hariri (one
of five children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik ) |
$1.6
billion |
inheritance |
Saudi
Arabia |
28yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 6.
Anurag Dikshit (is
this for real?) |
$1.6
billion |
online
gambling |
India |
35yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 9.
Daniel Ziff |
$1.5
billion |
inheritance,
hedge funds |
USA |
35yo
- Single |
| 10.
Henrique Constantino |
$1.1
billion |
GOL
airlines |
Brazil |
35yo
- n/a |
| 11.
Kostyantin Zhevago |
$1.0
billion |
banking,
mining |
Ukraine |
33yo
- Married, 2 children |
Over
90
| TOP
11 - Billionaires Over 90yo ...
(8
March 2007)
... Wealth in USD$ |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
John Kluge (onetime
richest man in America) |
$9.1
billion |
Metromedia |
USA |
92yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Anacleto Angelini (Chile's
richest man, remains as vigorous as ever) |
$6.0
billion |
energy |
Chile |
93yo
- Married |
| 3.
Saleh Al Rajhi |
$4.4
billion |
banking |
Saudi
Arabia |
95yo
- Married, 61 children (yes,
61!!!! - 22 sons, 39 daughters, from 7
wives) |
| 4.
Walter Haefner |
$4.3
billion |
Haefner
software |
Switzerland |
96yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
John Simplot & family (OLDEST
BILLIONAIRE!) |
$3.2
billion |
potatoes,
microchips (supplier of more than
half of McDonald's french fries) |
USA |
98yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Hugo Mann & family |
$2.7
billion |
retail |
Germany |
93yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Carl Pohlad (owner
of pro baseball's Minnesota Twins) |
$2.6
billion |
banking |
USA |
91yo
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 7.
David Rockefeller Sr (Grandson
of visionary oil baron John D. Rockefeller now working to
give away his fortune) |
$2.6
billion |
Standard
Oil, banking |
USA |
91yo
- Widowed, 6 children |
| 9.
Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller (donated
an opera house to the Danish state) |
$1.8
billion |
shipping |
Denmark |
93yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Ernest Gallo & family (DIED
on March 6, 2007, 12 days short of his 98th birthday) |
$1.3
billion |
wine |
USA |
97yo
- Widowed, 2 children |
| 11.
Leonard Litwin |
$1.0
billion |
real
estate |
USA |
92yo
- Married, 2 children |
|