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2009
TOP 10 Rich Lists you'll find below ...

TOP 10 - World's Richest Men
TOP 10 - World's Richest Women

Richest Billionaire in each Country

TOP 10 - Australia's Richest People
TOP 10 - Brazil'sRichest People
TOP 10 - Canada's Richest People

TOP 14 - China's Richest People
TOP 10 - France's Richest People
TOP 10 - Germany's Richest People
TOP 10 - Hong Kong's Richest People
TOP 10 - India's Richest People
TOP 10 - Israel's Billionaires
TOP 10 - Italy's Richest People
TOP 10 - Japan's Richest People
TOP 9 - Mexico's Richest People
TOP 10 - Russia's Richest People
TOP 11 - Saudi Arabia's Richest People
TOP 11 - Spain's Richest People
TOP 9 - Sweden's Richest People
TOP 9- Switzerland's Richest People
TOP 13- Turkey's Richest People
TOP 10 - United Kingdom's Richest People
TOP 12 - USA's Richest Men
TOP 10 - USA's Richest Women ... Oprah is No.8!


TOP 13 - Billionaires Under 38
TOP 11 - Billionaires Over 90



Top 10 Rich Lists 2009

The World
(men)

TOP 10 - World's Richest Men ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. William Gates III (world's richest person - for 13 years in a row!)
Harvard Uni drop out.
$40.0 billion Microsoft  USA 53yo - Married, 3 children  
2. Warren Buffett (America's most beloved investor ... married longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday in Aug. 2006 ... will donate $31 billion to charity!)

$37.0 billion

Berkshire Hathaway 

USA

78yo - Widowed, re-married, 3 children

3. Carlos Slim Helu
$19 billion richer this year!
$35.0 billion Telecom Mexico 69yo - Widowed, 6 children
4. Lawrence Ellison $22.5 billion   USA 64yo
5. Ingvar Kamprad & family (flies economy class and frequents cheap restaurants)

$22 billion

Ikea (retail) (stores in 40 countries)

Sweden

83yo - Married, 4 children

6. Karl Albrecht (Fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf)

$21.5 billion

supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores)

Germany

89yo - Married, 2 children 

7. Mukesh Ambani (Asia's richest resident ... is using some of his money to build a 27-story home.) $19.5 billion petrochemicals India 51yo - Married, 3 children
8. Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's richest resident)

$19.3 billion

Mittal Steel (world's largest steelmaker)

India

58yo - Married, 2 children

9. Theo Albrecht $18.8 billion   Germany 87yo
10. Amancio Ortega $18.3 billion   Spain 73yo

The World
(women)

TOP 10 - World's Richest Women ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Alice Walton (Daughter of retail pioneer Sam Walton) $17.6 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) USA 59yo - Divorced
1. Christy Walton & family (widow of John Walton - son of retail pioneer Sam Walton - who died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) $17.6 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) USA 54yo - Widowed, 1 child
3. Liliane Bettencourt $13.4 billion L'Oreal (daughter of L'Oréal founder Eugene Schueller) France 86yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband, Andre Bettencourt , died Nov 2007 at age 88)
4. Abigail Johnson $10.0 billion Fidelity investments USA 47yo - Married, 2 children
4. Susanne Klatten (Inherited stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt) $10.0 billion BMW, pharmaceuticals Germany 46yo - Married, 3 children
6. Birgit Rausing & family
(husband Gad Rausing died in 2000)
$9.9 billion Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture) Sweden 85yo - Widowed, 3 children
7. Anne Cox Chambers $9.0 billion media/entertainment - Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers, 15 TV stations, 80 radio stations) USA 89yo - Divorced, 3 children
7. Jacqueline Mars $9.0 billion candy, pet food (incl. Mars bar, Snickers, M&Ms) world's largest confectioner ... pet food division (includes Whiskas, Pedigree) now larger than candy by sales. USA 69yo - Divorced, 3 children
9. Iris Fontbona & family (Second wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005)

$6.0 billion

mining/lumber

Chile

na - Widowed, 3 children

10. Antonia Johnson $4.8 billion   Sweden 65yo

Helen Walton - widow of Sam Walton (d.1992) - died 19 Apr 2007 at age 87. She was the world's 4th richest woman at the time - worth $16.4 billion.
Barbara Cox Anthony - sister of Anne Cox Chambers - died 28 May 2007 at age 83. She was the world's 6th richest woman - worth $12.6 billion.

Richest Billionaire in 54 Countries

Richest Billionaire in each Country... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Citizenship
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Argentina

Gregorio Perez Companc & family
(High school drop out)

$1.8 billion

oil & gas

Argentina

74yo - Married, 7 children

2. Australia Frank Lowy & family (Czech-born) $2.7 billion retail property (shopping centres) (biggest shopping mall chains, Westfield, with 119 malls in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Britain) Australia 78yo - Married, 3 children
3. Austria Karl Wlaschek (former jazz pianist)

$4.2 billion

department stores

Austria

91yo - Widowed, 2 children

4. Belgium Albert Frere (High school drop out)

$2.4 billion

investments

Belgium

83yo - Married, 3 children

5. Brazil Eike Batista (college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father was former mining minister of Brazil) $7.5 billion iron-ore mining Brazil 52yo - Divorced, 2 children (formerly married to Playboy cover girl)
6. Canada David Thomson & family (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006)

$13.0 billion

inherited

Canada

51yo - Divorced, 3 children (split from Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C., last April when she gave birth to a daughter)

7. Chile Iris Fontbona & family (Second wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005)

$6.0 billion

mining/lumber

Chile

na - Widowed, 3 children

8. China Liu Yongxing $3.0 billion agriculture/aluminium (Hope Group became one of China's largest makers of animal feed) China 60yo - Married 1 child
9. Colombia Julio Mario Santo Domingo

$4.0 billion

beverages

Colombia

85yo - Married, 3 children

10. Cyprus John Fredriksen (Born in Norway ... World's leading oil tanker tycoon )

$4.0 billion

shipping

UK

64yo - Widowed, 2 children

11. Czech Republic Petr Kellner (in 1992, used a $1 million loan he got through his small office-supplies business to start an investment fund)

$6.0 billion

insurance

Czech Republic

44yo - Married, 4 children

12. Denmark Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (Grandson of the founder of Danish toymaker Lego; sole owner)

$2.1 billion

manufacturing

Denmark

61yo - Married, 3 children

13. Egypt Nassef Sawiris(Youngest son of Orascom conglomerate founder and fellow billionaire, Onsi Sawiris)

$3.1 billion

construction

Egypt

47yo - na

14. France Bernard Arnault (skilled pianist)

$16.5 billion

LVMH (world's largest luxury goods empire)  

France

60yo - Married, 5 children

15. Germany Karl Albrecht (Fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf)

$21.5 billion

supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores)

Germany

89yo - Married, 2 children 

16. Greece Spiro Latsis & family

$3.8 billion

banking/diversified

Switzerland

62yo - Married, 2 children 

17. Hong Kong Li Ka-shing (High School drop out)

$16.2 billion

diversified (world's largest operator of container terminals, world's largest health and beauty retailer)

Hong Kong

80yo - Widowed, 2 children

18. Iceland Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson

$1.0 billion

diversified

UK

42yo - Engaged, 1 child (long-time girlfriend is a movie producer)

19. India Mukesh Ambani (Asia's richest resident ... is using some of his money to build a 27-story home.) $19.5 billion petrochemicals India 51yo - Married, 3 children
20. Indonesia Michael Hartono

$1.7 billion

tobacco

Indonesia

69yo - Married, 4 children

  R Budi Hartono $1.7 billion     68yo
21. Ireland Pallonji Mistry (rarely ever seen in public; became Irish citizen in recent years but maintains a residence in Mumbai)

$2.5 billion

construction

India

79yo - Married, 4 children

22. Israel Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born Israeli ... famously press-shy)

$4.0 billion

diversified (shipping, banking, real estate)

Monaco

87yo - Married, 2 children

23. Italy Michele Ferrero & family (Tied up in legal battle that pits Ferrero against a Chinese chocolate maker that also makes a gold-wrapped candy. )

$9.5 billion

Ferrero chocolates (also Nutella and Tic Tac)

Monaco

82yo - Married, 2 children

24. Japan Tadashi Yanai & family (His discount clothing chain Fast Retailing has thrived amid the downturn; shifting production away from China to lower-wage Cambodia to keep prices low)

$6.0 billion

retail

Japan

60yo - Married, 2 children

25. Kazakhstan Alijan Ibragimov

$1.2 billion

mining

Kazakhstan

55yo - Married, 6 children

26. Kuwait Nasser Al-Kharafi & family (has exclusive franchise rights in Middle East for brands like Pizza Hut, TGI Fridays, KFC and Wimpy)

$8.1 billion

construction

Kuwait

65yo - Married, 5 children

27. Lebanon

Najib Mikati (Former Lebanese Prime Minister - briefly in 2005)

$2.0 billion

telecom

Lebanon

53yo - Married, 3 children

  Taha Mikati $2.0 billion   Lebanon 60yo
28. Malaysia Ananda Krishnan (Malaysia's largest cell phone service provider, with more than 10 million subscribers)

$7.0 billion

Telecom

Malaysia

70yo - Married, 3 children

  Robert Kuok (Onetime rice and sugar trader)

$7.0 billion

diversified (shipping, real estate, media)

Hong Kong

85yo - Married, 8 children

29. Mexico Carlos Slim Helu & family (son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector)

$35.0 billion

telecom

Mexico

69yo - Widowed, 6 children

30. Monaco Lily Safra (Widow of Brazilian billionaire banker Edmond Safra, who died in a fire in his Monaco apartment 1999) $1.0 billion  inheritance UK 71yo - Widowed, 2 children
31. Netherlands Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken

$4.6 billion

 inheritance (Inherited 25% stake in Dutch brewer Heineken 6 years ago from her late father, Freddy Heineken)

UK

54yo - Married, 5 children

32. New Zealand Graeme Hart (Former tow truck driver now known for astute leveraged purchases ... owner of 190-foot yacht, Ulysses)

$4.5 billion

investments

New Zealand

53yo - Married, 2 children

33. Nigeria Aliko Dangote (Closely linked to Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo)

$2.5 billion

inheritance (sugar, flour, cement manufacturing)

Nigeria

51 - na

34. Norway Stein Erik Hagen & family (owns island in the Caribbean and one of the biggest sailboats in Europe)

$3.1 billion

supermarkets

Norway

52yo - Married, 4 children

35. Philippines Henry Sy & family

$2.7 billion

Philippines

84yo

36. Poland Zygmunt Solorz-Zak

$1.0 billion

leasing, banking

Poland

52yo

37. Portugal Americo Amorim (King of cork)

$3.3 billion

cork, investments (world's largest producer of cork)

Portugal

74yo - Married, 3 children

38. Romania Dinu Patriciu (Onetime architect and former parliamentarian)

$1.8 billion

oil & gas refineries

Romania

58yo - Married, 2 children

39. Russia Mikhail Prokhorov $9.5 billion metals (often featured in gossip pages for his parties) Russia 43yo - Single
40. Saudi Arabia Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of the Saudi king )

$13.3 billion

investments (incl. Citicorp)

Saudi Arabia

54yo - Married, 2 children

41. Singapore Ng Teng Fong (developed more than 700 hotels, malls and condos in Singapore)

$5.5 billion

real estate

Singapore

80yo - Married, 6 children

42. South Africa Nicky Oppenheimer & family

$5.0 billion

De Beers (diamond mining)

South Africa

63yo - Married, 1 child

43. South Korea Lee Kun-Hee

$3.0 billion

South Korea

67yo

44. Spain Amancio Ortega (High School drop out ... shuns neckties)

$18.3 billion

Zara (apparel) (3,245 stores in 66 countries)

Spain

73yo - Married, 3 children

45. Sweden Ingvar Kamprad & family (flies economy class and frequents cheap restaurants)

$22.0 billion

Ikea (retail) (stores in 40 countries)

Switzerland, Lausanne

83yo - Married, 4 children

46. Switzerland Ernesto Bertarelli (inherited the business after father's death in 1998 ... yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007)

$8.2 billion

Sereno (biotech)

Switzerland

43yo - Married (to British beauty queen)

47. Taiwan Tsai Wan-Tsai & family

$3.3 billion

Taiwan

79yo

48. Thailand Chaleo Yoovidhya

$3.7 billion

Red Bull (beverages)

Thailand

77yo - Married, 5 children

49. Turkey Husnu Ozyegin (gives away 2% of net income every month for the construction of primary schools and girls' dormitories in poor Turkish neighborhoods) $2.9 billion banking Turkey 64yo - Married, 2 children
50. Ukraine Victor Pinchuk

$2.6 billion

Ukraine

48yo

51. United Arab Emirates Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family (Paragliding enthusiast )

$7.8 billion

banking

United Arab Emirates

55yo - Married, 5 children

52. United Kingdom Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th Duke of Westminister ... supports more than 150 charities)

$11.0 billion

real estate (incl. Mayfair)

UK

57yo - Married, 4 children

53. United States William Gates III (world's richest person - for 13 years in a row!)
Harvard Uni drop out.
$40.0 billion Microsoft  USA 53yo - Married, 3 children  
54. Venezuela Gustavo Cisneros & family

$3.8 billion

Venezuela

63yo

Australia

TOP 10 - Australia's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth US$
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Frank Lowy & family (Czech-born) $2.7 billion retail property (shopping centres) (biggest shopping mall chains, Westfield, with 119 malls in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Britain) Sydney 78yo - Married, 3 children
2. James Packer (father, Kerry, died Dec 26, 2005) $2.5 billion inherited (media/Entertainment)   Sydney 41yo -Married (to model turned singer/songwriter Erica Baxter)
3. Gina Rinehart (Battled for 14 years to win control of his assets from her stepmother) $1.9 billion mining Perth 55yo - Widowed, 4 children
3. Andrew Forrest (nicknamed Twiggy)

$1.9 billion

mining, metals

Perth

47yo - Married, 3 children

5. Harry Triguboff (born in China to Russian parents ) $1.5 billion residential property development (Biggest builder of apartments in Australia) Sydney 76yo - Married, 2 children
5. Richard Pratt (onetime actor ... In Oct 2007 Visy admitted colluding with its main competitor Amcor to fix prices in the corrugated box industry. Pratt apologized for his role in cartel and paid $33 million fine to Australian government.) $1.5 billion Visy packaging (manufacturing, recycling) Melbourne

74yo - Married, 4 children
DIED: 29 April, 2009 - from prostate cancer.

7. Kerr Neilson (South African-born) $1.1 billion investments Sydney 59yo - Married, 2 children
7. John Gandel (Medical Doctor ) $1.1 billion retail property (shopping centres) (Owns 50% of Chadstone mall in Melbourne, the biggest in the southern hemisphere) Melbourne 74yo - Married, 4 children
9. Kerry Stokes $1.0 billion     67yo
9. Lindsay Fox $1.0 billion     70yo

Kerry Packer, Australia's long-time richest person, died 26 Dec 2005, age 68.

Brazil

TOP 10 - Brazil's Richest People ... (11 March 2009)... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Eike Batista (college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father was former mining minister of Brazil) $7.5 billion iron-ore mining Rio de Janeiro 52yo - Divorced, 2 children (formerly married to Playboy cover girl)
2. Joseph Safra (cut financial ties with his older brother Moise in mid-2006. ) $7.0 billion banking Sao Paulo 70yo - Married, 4 children
3. Jorge Paulo Lemann (onetime tennis champion - he played at Wimbledon) $5.3 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 69yo - Married, 5 children
4. Aloysio de Andrade Faria $3.1 billion banking Sao Paulo 88yo - Married, 5 children
5. Dorothea Steinbruch & family (sister-in-law of Eliezer Steinbruch) $3.0 billion Inheritence (steel) Sao Paulo na - Widowed, 3 children
6. Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family

$2.8 billion

diversified

Sao Paulo

80yo - na, 9 children

7. Marcel Herman Telles (keen spearfisher) $2.4 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 59yo - Married, 2 children
8. Moise Safra (cut financial ties with his younger brother Joseph in mid-2006. ) $2.1 billion banking Sao Paulo 74yo - Married
8. Carlos Alberto Sicupira $2.1 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 61yo - Married, 3 children
10. Abilio dos Santos Diniz $1.5 billion     72yo

Canada

TOP 10 - Canada's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. David Thomson & family (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006)

$13.0 billion

inherited

Toronto

51yo - Divorced, 3 children (split from Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C., last April when she gave birth to a daughter)

2. Galen Weston & family (Plays polo with Prince Charles ... Avid collector of avant-garde artist Christo) $5.0 billion retail (owns controlling stake in Canada's largest supermarket chain) Toronto 68yo - Married, 2 children
3. James, Arthur & John Irving (brothers) $3.9 billion oil / gas (own 600 gas stations) Saint John n/a - n/a
4. Paul Desmarais (bought his father's one-route Ontario bus company for $1- in 1951) $2.6 billion finance Montreal 82yo - Married, 4 children
5. Guy Laliberte $2.5 billion     49yo
5. Bernard (Barry) Sherman $2.5 billion Apotex pharmaceuticals (seeking over-the-counter-sales approval of its controversial "morning-after" pill ) Toronto 67yo - Married, 4 children
7. David Azrieli & family $2.1 billion     86yo
7. Jim Pattison $2.1 billion diversified (incl. Ripley's Believe It or Not ... Bought Guinness World Records in February) Vancouver 80yo - Married, 3 children
7. Robert Miller $2.1 billion     63yo
10. Wallace McCain $2.0 billion     79yo

China

TOP 14 - China's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Head Office
Personal
1. Liu Yongxing $3.0 billion agriculture/aluminium (Hope Group became one of China's largest makers of animal feed) China 60yo - Married 1 child
2. Zhang Jindong $2.7 billion Sunning Appliances (China's second-biggest electrical appliance chain - has 600 retail stores and plans to open another 400 by 2010) Nanjing 46yo - Married
3. Zhou Chengjian & family $2.6 billion     44yo
4. Liu Yonghao $2.5 billion Hope Group (agriculture, investments) (with three brothers, Liu started Hope Group 1982 with about $120; eventually became China's second-largest animal feed maker) Chengdu 57yo - Married, 2 children
5. Yang Huiyan $2.3 billion real estate (received 58% stake in real estate developer Country Garden from its main founder, her father, Yeung Kwok Keung) Shunde 27yo - Married
6. Shen Wenrong $2.0 billion     63yo
7. Zong Qinghou $1.9 billion     63yo
8. He Xiangjian & family $1.8 billion     66yo
9. Zhang Xin & family (husband, Pan Shiyi, transferred shares to Zhang, prior to 2008 listing) $1.6 billion real estate Beijing 44yo - Married
10. Zhou Furen & family $1.5 billion     58yo
10. Lu Zhiqiang (Beijing's richest resident) $1.5 billion real estate Beijing 56yo - Married
10. Chen Fashu $1.5 billion     48yo
10. Liang Wengen $1.5 billion Sany Heavy Industry (makers of construction equipment) Changsha 52yo - Married, 1 child
10. Shi Yuzhu (Shanghai's richest resident) $1.5 billion online gaming Shanghai 47yo - Single

France

TOP 10 - France's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Bernard Arnault (skilled pianist)

$16.5 billion

LVMH (world's largest luxury goods empire)  

Paris

60yo - Married, 5 children

2. Liliane Bettencourt (world's richest woman) $13.4 billion L'Oreal (daughter of L'Oréal founder Eugene Schueller) Paris 86yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband, Andre Bettencourt , died Nov 2007 at age 88)
3. Alain & Gerard Wertheimer (brothers) $8.0 billion Chanel (apparel, perfume) (Chanel No. 5 perfume is the world's top selling scent) USA, New York n/a - n/a
4. Francois Pinault (High School drop out ... was awarded the French Legion d'honneur last year)
$7.6 billion retail (incl. Gucci) Paris 72yo - Married, 3 children
5. Serge Dassault & family (French senator) $5.4 billion aviation (makers of Mirage and Rafale jets) Paris 83yo - Married, 4 children
6. Jean-Claude Decaux & family (Started out putting ads on public toilets and bus shelters) $3.2 billion advertising (number one outdoor advertiser in China) Paris 71yo - Married, 3 children
7. Martin & Olivier Bouygues (brothers) $2.7 billion telecom, media, construction Paris 56/58yo -n/a
8. Alain Merieux & family $2.4 billion biotech (specializes in the diagnosis of bacteria in the human body and infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis) Lyon

71yo - Married, 3 children (eldest son killed in plane crash in 1996, age 28. 2nd- eldest son died of cardiac failure in 2006, age 32)

9. Pierre Bellon & family $2.2 billion     79yo
10. Philippe Foriel-Destezet $1.8 billion     73yo

Germany

TOP 10 - Germany's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Karl Albrecht (Fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf)

$21.5 billion

supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores)

Muehlheim an der Ruhr

89yo - Married, 2 children 

2. Theo Albrecht (was kidnapped for 17 days in 1971 ) $18.8 billion supermarkets (over 7,000 Aldi stores) Foehr  87yo - Married, 2 children
3. Michael Otto & family $13.2 billion retail (world's largest mail-order company) Hamburg  65yo - Married, 2 children
4. Susanne Klatten (Inherited stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt) $10.0 billion BMW, pharmaceuticals Bad Homburg 46yo - Married, 3 children
5. August von Finck $6.7 billion investments Switzerland, Thurgau 79yo - Married, 4 children
6. Curt Engelhorn $6.3 billion     82yo
7. Erivan Haub & family $5.4 billion retail Mulheim an der Ruhr 77yo - Married, 3 children
8. Karl-Heinz Kipp $5.2 billion     85yo
8. Reinhold Würth (Took over tiny screw business from his father at age 19 ... has professional pilot's license; rides a Harley-Davidson) $5.2 billion manufacturing (screws) Kuenzelsau  73yo - Married, 3 children
10. Klaus-Michael Kuhne $4.7 billion     71yo

Adolf Merckle
committed suicide 6 January 2009. He was 5th richest in Germany (valued at $9.2 billion) in 2008.

Hong Kong

TOP 10 - Hong Kong's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal

1. Li Ka-shing (High School drop out)

$16.2 billion

diversified (world's largest operator of container terminals, world's largest health and beauty retailer)

Hong Kong

80yo - Widowed, 2 children

2. Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok (brothers ... eldest brother Walter "temporarily" stepped down as chairman after disputing with his mother and two younger siblings over his unpopular long-term girlfriend) $10.5 billion real estate (Sun Hung Kai Properties) Hong Kong n/a - n/a
3. Lee Shau Kee (nicknamed "Asia's Warren Buffett" ) $9.0 billion real estate Hong Kong 81yo - Divorced, 5 children 
4. Sir Michael Kadoorie & family (was knighted in the U.K. for his extensive charitable and philanthropic activities.) $4.2 billion diversified Hong Kong 68yo - married
5. Cheng Yu-tung $4.0 billion New World Development (real estate) Hong Kong  83yo - Married, 4 children
5. Joseph Lau (socialite ... one of largest collectors of red wine, with at least 10,000 bottles) $4.0 billion real estate Hong Kong 57yo - Divorced, 3 children
7. Peter Woo & family $2.6 billion real estate Hong Kong 63yo - na
8. Michael Ying $2.2 billion     59yo
9. Chen Din Hwa $1.8 billion real estate Hong Kong 86yo -
10. William Fung $1.7 billion     61yo

Nina Wang - widow of husband kidnapped in 1990 - died 5 April 2007, age 69. She was worth $4.2 billion at the time.

India

TOP 10 - India's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Mukesh Ambani (Asia's richest resident ... is using some of his money to build a 27-story home.) $19.5 billion petrochemicals Mumbai 51yo - Married, 3 children
2. Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's richest resident)

$19.3 billion

Mittal Steel (world's largest steelmaker)

UK, London

58yo - Married, 2 children

3. Anil Ambani $10.1 billion diversified Mumbai 49yo - Married, 2 children
4. Sunil Mittal (son of a politician) $7.7 billion Telecom (has 60 million customers) Delhi  51yo - Married, 3 children
5. Azim Premji $5.7 billion Wipro (software)   Bangalore  63yo - Married, 2 children
6. Shashi & Ravi Ruia (brothers) $5.6 billion diversified Mumbai   65yo - n/a
7. Kushal Pal Singh (in 2008 was 10th richest in the world and world's richest real estate baron ... lost $25.0 billion last year!) $5.0 billion real estate Delhi 77yo - Married, 3 children
8. Kumar Birla $4.2 billion commodities (copper & aluminium) Mumbai   41yo - Married, 2 children
9. Adi Godrej & family $3.3 billion     66yo
10. Dilip Shanghvi $3.0 billion     53yo

Israel

TOP 10 - Israel's Billionaires... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born Israeli ... famously press-shy ... In May 2006, paid $40 million for Van Gogh's "Madame Ginoux")

$4.0 billion

diversified (shipping, banking, real estate)

Tel Aviv; Monaco

87yo - Married, 2 children

2. Stef Wertheimer & family (grade school dropout) $3.5 billion tools Tefen 83yo - Married, 4 children
3. Shari Arison (In June Arison's husband was released from prison following a three-month stint for a sexual harassment conviction) $2.7 billion inheritance, cruise ships Tel Aviv 51yo - Married, 4 children
4. Arnon Milchan (former soccer player) $2.0 billion New Regency Productions (include Pretty Woman, The War of the Roses, Fight Club and Mr. and Mrs. Smith) Tel Aviv 64yo - Divorced, 4 children
4. Benny Steinmetz $2.0 billion diamonds (largest customer of De Beers) Netanya 52yo - Married, 4 children
6. Lev Leviev (Leviev's new home is the $65 million Palladio, a seven-bedroom bulletproof estate replete with in-house nightclub and gold-plated indoor pool—the most expensive new home in Britain) $1.5 billion diamonds (cuts and polishes more diamonds than anyone else in the world) UK, London 53yo - Married, 9 children
7. Yitzhak Tshuva (his Cinderella story began in Netanya in a single room where his penniless family of 11 lived briefly) $1.3 billion real estate (also operates 232 gas stations in Israel) Netanya 60yo - Married, 5 children
8. Alexander Machkevich (native of Kyrgyzstan ... has been very active in Jewish causes) $1.2 billion mining, metals Kazakhstan, Almaty 55yo - Married, 2 children
9. Morris Kahn (a former diver) $1.0 billion software Beit Yanay 79yo - Married
9. Michael Federmann & family $1.0 billion     65yo

Italy

TOP 10 - Italy's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Michele Ferrero & family (Tied up in legal battle that pits Ferrero against a Chinese chocolate maker that also makes a gold-wrapped candy. )

$9.5 billion

Ferrero chocolates (also Nutella and Tic Tac)

Monaco, Montecarlo

82yo - Married, 2 children

2. Silvio Berlusconi (Italy's Prime Minister from 2001-2006. Started out singing on cruise ships.) $6.5 billion media North of Milan 72yo - Married, 5 children
3. Leonardo Del Vecchio (sent to an orphanage at age 7) $6.3 billion eyewear (Ray-Ban) (owns over 6,000 retail stores) Milan 73yo - Married, 6 children
4. Giorgio Armani (goes to the gym for at least an hour a day) $2.8 billion Armani fashion / apparel Milan 74yo - n/a
5. Stefano Pessina $1.6 billion     67yo
6. Carlo Benetton $1.5 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)  Treviso 65yo - Single, 4 children
6. Mario Moretti Polegato (owns two Lamborghinis, a Ferrari 360 Modena Spider, five Arabian horses and six antique Moto Guzzi motorcycles.) $1.5 billion Geox shoes Crocetta del Montello 56yo - Married, 1 child
6. Gilberto Benetton $1.5 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) 
Treviso 67yo - Married, 2 children
6. Luciano Benetton $1.5 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) Treviso 73yo - Married, 4 children
6. Giuliana Benetton $1.5 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)  Treviso 71yo - Married, 4 children

Japan

TOP 10 - Japan's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Tadashi Yanai & family (His discount clothing chain Fast Retailing has thrived amid the downturn; shifting production away from China to lower-wage Cambodia to keep prices low)

$6.0 billion

retail

Tokyo

60yo - Married, 2 children

2. Kunio Busujima & family $5.2 billion pinball machines (manufacturing) Gunma 83yo - Married, 4 children
3. Hiroshi Yamauchi $4.5 billion Nintendo Kyoto 81yo - Married, 2 children
4. Akira Mori & family (Hobbies: golf, Japanese chess, and reading)

$4.2 billion

Mori Trust (real estate)

Tokyo

72yo - Married, 3 children

5. Eitaro Itoyama (Likes to collect expensive wines) $3.7 billion golf courses Tokyo 66yo - Married, 2 children
5. Masayoshi Son $3.7 billion Softbank (software) Tokyo 51yo - Married, 2 children
7. Nobutada Saji & family (Avid swimmer, opening chain of gyms through Suntory) $3.5 billion Suntory (beverages) - recently engineered the world's first blue rose! Tokyo 63yo - Married
8. Hiroshi Mikitani $3.4 billion e-commerce (Rakuten, Internet shopping mall, hosts more than 18,000 virtual stores) Tokyo 44yo - n/a
9. Takemitsu Takizaki $2.5 billion sensors (manufacturing) Osaka 63yo - Married
10. Masatoshi Ito $2.2 billion retail (Has 12,000 7-Eleven stores and 160 Denny's restaurants in Japan. Has expanded 7-Eleven to China ) Tokyo 84yo - Married, 3 children

Taikichiro Mori (d. 1993) was the World's Richest Person from 1991-1992.

Mexico

TOP 9 - Mexico's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Carlos Slim Helu & family (son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector)

$35.0 billion

telecom

Mexico City

69yo - Widowed, 6 children

2. Alberto Bailleres $5.7 billion mining silver (world's top producer of silver) Mexico City 76yo - Married
3. Ricardo Salinas Pliego (in Sep 2006, paid $7.5 million to settle accusations about a business scandal) $4.2 billion retail/media Mexico City 53yo - Married, 3 children
4. Jeronimo Arango $3.4 billion supermarkets (was a Wal-Mart partner) Mexico City 83yo - n/a
5. German Larrea Mota-Velasco & family $2.6 billion mining Mexico City 55yo - na
6. Roberto Hernandez Ramirez $1.2 billion Banamex (banking) Mexico City 67yo - Married, 3 children
7. Joaquin Guzman Loera $1.0 billion     54yo
7. Emilio Azcárraga Jean $1.0 billion media (inherited empire in 1997) Mexico City 41yo - Married, 1 child
7. Alfredo Harp Helu (owns the Red Devils baseball team) cousin of Carlos Slim Helu. $1.0 billion Banamex (banking) Mexico City 65yo - Married, 4 children

Russia

TOP 10 - Russia's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Mikhail Prokhorov $9.5 billion metals (often featured in gossip pages for his parties) Moscow 43yo - Single
2. Roman Abramovich (college drop out; orphaned as a child ... owns U.K. soccer club, Chelsea) $8.5 billion oil UK, London 42yo - Divorced, 5 children
3. Vagit Alekperov (Has good relationship with Vladimir Putin) $7.8 billion Lukoil (in December 2006 he acquired nearly 400 stations from ConocoPhillips) Moscow 58yo - Married, 1 child
4. Mikhail Fridman (strong Kremlin connections) $6.3 billion oil / banking Moscow 44yo - Divorced, 2 children
5. Vladimir Lisin $5.2 billion Novolipetsk steel mill Moscow 52yo - Married, 3 children

6. Alexander Abramov

$4.4 billion     50yo
7. Leonid Fedun $4.3 billion     52yo
7. Alexei Mordashov $4.3 billion Severstal (steel) Moscow 43yo - Married, 3 children
9. German Khan $4.0 billion oil Moscow 47yo - Married, 2 children
10. Oleg Deripaska (Married into family of former President Yeltsin; in 2008 was 9th richest in the world and richest in Russia ... lost $24.5 billion last year)

$3.5 billion

Russian Aluminum (world's largest aluminum producer)

Moscow

41yo - Married, 2 children

Saudi Arabia

TOP 11 - Saudi Arabia's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of the Saudi king )

$13.3 billion

investments (incl. Citicorp)

Riyadh

54yo - Married, 2 children

2. Mohammed Al Amoudi (Born in Ethiopia) $9.0 billion oil Jeddah 63yo - Married, 8 children
3. Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber $7.0 billion real estate, hotels Jeddah 50yo - Married, 3 children
3. Maan Al-Sanea $7.0 billion construction / finance Al Khobar 54yo - Married, 5 children
5. Sulaiman Al Rajhi (brother of Saleh and Abdullah Al Rajhi) $6.2 billion banking Riyadh 89yo - Married, 23 children
(yes ... 23!!!!)
6. Saleh Kamel $3.5 billion     67yo
7. Saleh Al Rajhi (brother of Sulaiman and Abdullah Al Rajhi) $3.3 billion banking Riyadh 97yo - Married, 61 children (yes, 61!!!! - 22 sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)
8. Sulaiman Algosaibi $2.0 billion diversified Al Khobar na - Married
8. Khalid Bin Mahfouz & family $2.0 billion     80yo
10. Mohammed Al Issa $1.8 billion     na
10. Abdullah Al Rajhi $1.8 billion     na

NOTE: Two of the three Al Rajhi brothers have 84 children between them!

Spain

TOP 11 - Spain's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Amancio Ortega (High School drop out ... shuns neckties)

$18.3 billion

Zara (apparel) (3,245 stores in 66 countries)

La Coruna

73yo - Married, 3 children

2. Rosalia Mera (ex-wife of Amancio Ortega) $2.6 billion Zara (apparel) (3,245 stores in 66 countries) La Coruna 65yo - Divorced, 2 children
3. Isak Andic (enthusiastic sailor ... his family came to Spain from Turkey) $2.3 billion Mango (apparel) (over 900 stores in 89 countries ) Barcelona 54yo - Married, 3 children
4. Alicia Koplowitz (sister of Esther Koplowitz ... rumored to be romantically involved with the Duque de Huescar ) $2.1 billion investments Madrid 56yo - Divorced, 3 children
5. Manuel Jove (carpenter by trade) $1.9 billion FADESA Immobiliaria (real estate) La Coruna 67yo - Married, 2 children
6. Florentino Perez $1.8 billion construction Madrid 62yo - Married, 3 children
7. Esther Koplowitz (married to Fernando Falcó, Marqués de Cubas) $1.7 billion Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (construction) Barcelona 58yo - Married, 3 children
8. Jose Maria Aristrain (Press shy, reportedly never goes out in public without a bodyguard to safeguard him and his family from kidnapping and assassination attempts by Basque separatists) $1.3 billion steel Madrid 46yo - Married, 1 child
9. Alberto Alcocer $1.1 billion     66yo
9. Emilio Botin (enjoys golf, hunting and fishing) $1.1 billion banking Santander 74yo - Married, 6 children
9. Alberto Cortina $1.1 billion     63yo

Sweden

TOP 9- Sweden's Richest People... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Ingvar Kamprad & family (flies economy class and frequents cheap restaurants)

$22.0 billion

Ikea (retail) (stores in 40 countries)

Switzerland, Lausanne

83yo - Married, 4 children

2. Stefan Persson (enjoys downhill skiing, tennis and golf) $14.5 billion Hennes & Mauritz (retail) (has 1,400 stores in 28 countries) Stockholm 61yo - Married, 3 children
3. Sir Hans Rausing (knighted last year for his services to charity ... resides on a 900-acre estate in the village of Wadhurst in East Sussex where he collects vintage cars) $10.0 billion Tetra Laval (packaging) (Moved to England in 1980 to avoid punitive Swedish taxes) UK, Wadhurst 83yo - Married, 3 children
4. Birgit Rausing & family (husband Gad Rausing died in 2000 ... family keeps low profile due to kidnapping attempt on son, Jorn, in 1989) $9.9 billion Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture) Switzerland, Vaud 85yo - Widowed, 3 children
5. Antonia Johnson (avid horsewoman ) $4.8 billion A. Johnson & Co. (diversified) Stockholm 65yo - Married, 4 children
6. Liselott (Lottie) Persson
(sister of
Stefan Persson )
$2.0 billion Hennes & Mauritz (clothing retail chain) (has 1,400 stores in 28 countries) Stockholm 59yo - n/a
7. Fredrik Lundberg (once a junior world champion of curling) $1.8 billion real estate / investments Stockholm 57yo - Married, 2 children
8. Count Gustaf Douglas $1.3 billion Assa Abloy (locks) / security (worlds largest producer of locks) Stockholm 71yo - Married, 2 children
9. Thomas Sandell $1.0 billion     48yo

Switzerland

TOP 9- Switzerland's Richest People... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Ernesto Bertarelli (inherited the business after father's death in 1998 ... yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007)

$8.2 billion

Sereno (biotech)

Geneva

43yo - Married (to British beauty queen)

2. Hansjorg Wyss (Wine connoisseur owns a 900-acre ranch and vineyard in California) $5.7 billion Synthes (medical-implants and biomaterials ) USA, NY, Westchester 74yo - na
3. Bahaa Hariri (Eldest son of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik) $2.9 billion inheritance Geneva 42yo - Married
4. Walter Haefner (his Moyglare Stud Farm in Ireland has approx. 100 horses and has bred such winners as Simple Exchange and Media Puzzle) $2.7 billion Computer Associates (software) Zurich 98yo - Married, 2 children
4. Thomas Schmidheiny $2.7 billion Holcim (cement) (world's second-largest supplier of cement and concrete) Balgach 63yo - Married, 4 children
6. Sergio Mantegazza (Loves expensive toys, has a helicopter, a yacht (Lady Marina) and a $600,000 Mercedes Maybach. ) $2.6 billion Globus & Cosmos (travel) Lugano 81yo - Married, 1 child
7. Stephan Schmidheiny (facing lawsuits in Switzerland and Italy surrounding the asbestos-related deaths of former plant workers) $2.5 billion investments Zurich 61yo - Married, 2 children
8. Nicolas Hayek (known as Mr. Swatch ... creating an eco-friendly auto with Mercedes-Benz to be called Swatchmobil smart car ) $2.0 billion Swatch (world's largest manufacturer of finished watches with 156 factories) Biel 80yo - Married, 2 children
9. Jean-Claude Gandur (His collection of Egyptian antiquities is among the best in the world) $1.0 billion oil trading and exploration Geneva 60yo - na

Turkey

TOP 13 - Turkey's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Husnu Ozyegin (gives away 2% of net income every month for the construction of primary schools and girls' dormitories in poor Turkish neighborhoods) $2.9 billion banking Istanbul 64yo - Married, 2 children
2. Mehmet Emin Karamehmet

$2.8 billion

Turkcell mobile phone company

Istanbul

64yo - Married, 1 child

3. Sarik Tara (born in Macedonia) $1.6 billion Enka (Turkey's largest construction company) Istanbul  78yo - Married, 3 children
4. Ali Ibrahim Agaoglu $1.5 billion     55yo
5. Ahmet Nazif Zorlu (High School drop out; shuttles around Europe in custom-designed helicopter) $1.3 billion electronics, finance (Turkey's largest exporter) Istanbul   64yo - Married, 1 child
6. Ferit Sahenk $1.1 billion diversified Istanbul 45yo - Married, 2 children
6. Murat Ulker $1.1 billion     49yo
6. Mubariz Gurbanoglu $1.1 billion     41yo
6. Murat Vargi $1.1 billion     60yo
10. Kamil Yazici $1.0 billion     79yo
10. Ahmet Calik $1.0 billion     50yo
10. Filiz Sahenk $1.0 billion     42yo
10. Tuncay Ozilhan $1.0 billion     61yo

United Kingdom

TOP 10 - United Kingdom's Richest People ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th Duke of Westminister ... supports more than 150 charities)

$11.0 billion

real estate (incl. Mayfair)

Chester

57yo - Married, 4 children

2. David & Simon Reuben (two brothers born in Mumbai ) $5.0 billion investments, real estate London / Monaco n/a - 3 children
3. Sir Philip & Cristina Green (Knighted in 2006 for his services to the retail industry ... known for circulating with celebrities) $4.8 billion retail (British Home Stores and Arcadia) London 57yo - Married, 2 children
4. Bernard Ecclestone & family (acquired Queens Park Rangers soccer club in September 2007) $3.7 billion Formula One (car racing) London 78yo - Married, 2 children
5. Charles Cadogan & family (involved in animal welfare and cancer-research charities) $3.3 billion real estate London 72yo - Married, 3 children
6. Simon Halabi (born in Syria) $2.8 billion real estate London 59yo - Married
7. Richard Branson (high school dropout ... in February 2006, 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) $2.5 billion Virgin (airlines, etc) (Virgin Galactic space flights inched closer to takeoff: recently unveiled models of aircraft meant to carry civilian space travelers) London 587yo - Married, 2 children
7. Joseph Lewis (nicknamed "the boxer" on Wall Street ) $2.5 billion finance (currency speculator) Bahamas, Lyford Cay 72yo - Married, 2 children
9. Clive Calder (started out playing in a band at age 18 to support his mother and sister after his father's death) $2.4 billion Zomba Recordings (incl. Britney Spears, 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys ... sold Zomba Recordings to BMG for $2.7 billion in 2002) Cayman Islands 62yo - Married, 2 children
10. Laurence Graff $2.2 billion     70yo

United States
(men)

TOP 12 - USA's Richest Men ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. William Gates III (world's richest person - for 13 years in a row!)
Harvard Uni drop out.
$40.0 billion Microsoft  WA, Medina 53yo - Married, 3 children  
2. Warren Buffett (America's most beloved investor ... married longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday in Aug. 2006 ... will donate $31 billion to charity!)

$37.0 billion

Berkshire Hathaway 

NE, Omaha

78yo - Widowed, re-married, 3 children

3. Lawrence Ellison (University of Illinois, drop out ... still yearning to win yachting's most prestigious trophy, the America's Cup. Lost in 2007 to Luna Rossi) $22.5 billion Oracle (purchased 21 firms for more than $19 billion since the beginning of 2006) CA, Redwood City 64yo - Married, 2 children 
4. Jim Walton (child of Sam Walton - d. 1992) $17.8 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) AR, Bentonville 61yo - Married, 4 children 
5. S Robson Walton (child of Sam Walton - d. 1992) $17.6 billion  Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) AR, Bentonville 65yo - Married, 3 children 
6. Michael Bloomberg $16.0 billion     67yo
7. Charles Koch (Recently published self-help business book The Science of Success; claimed company would go public "over my dead body.") $14.0 billion Koch Industries (nation's largest privately held company) KA, Wichita 73yo - Married, 2 children 
7. David Koch (ran as vice presidential candidate on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1980) $14.0 billion Koch Industries (nation's largest privately held company) NY, New York 68yo - Married, 3 children 
9. Michael Dell $12.3 billion     44yo
10. Donald Bren $12.0 billion     76yo
10. Larry Page (school drop out ... son of a professor) $12.0 billion Google (bought Web video portal YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006 ... hit all-time high of $740 a share in early Nov 2007) CA, San Francisco 36yo - Married
10. Sergey Brin (school drop out ... son of a professor ... emigrated from Russia) $12.0 billion Google (bought Web video portal YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006 ... hit all-time high of $740 a share in early Nov 2007) CA, Palo Alto 35yo - Married

Sheldon Adelson (third Richest USA man in 2008) lost $22.6 billion last year and now is only worth $3.4 billion.

Uniteded States
(women)

TOP 10 - USA's Richest Women ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Alice Walton (Daughter of retail pioneer Sam Walton) $17.6 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) TX , Fort Worth 59yo - Divorced
1. Christy Walton & family (widow of John Walton - son of retail pioneer Sam Walton - who died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) $17.6 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) WY, Jackson 54yo - Widowed, 1 child
3. Abigail Johnson $10.0 billion Fidelity investments MA, Boston 47yo - Married, 2 children
4. Anne Cox Chambers $9.0 billion media/entertainment - Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers, 15 TV stations, 80 radio stations) GA, Atlanta 89yo - Divorced, 3 children
4. Jacqueline Mars $9.0 billion candy, pet food (incl. Mars bar, Snickers, M&Ms) world's largest confectioner ... pet food division (includes Whiskas, Pedigree) now larger than candy by sales. NJ, Bedminster 69yo - Divorced, 3 children
6. Pauline MacMillan Keinath $3.6 billion agriculture (Cargill Inc. has more than 900 subsidiaries in 66 countries) MO, St Louis 75yo - Married, 4 children
6. Marion MacMillan Pictet $3.6 billion agriculture (Cargill Inc. has more than 900 subsidiaries in 66 countries) Bermuda, Hamilton 76yo - Divorced, 1 child
8. Oprah Winfrey $2.7 billion TV (The Oprah Winfrey Show launched nationally 1986; currently airs in 135 countries, drawing 46 million viewers a week in the U.S) IL, Chicago 55yo - Single
9. Barbara Piasecka Johnson (Polish immigrant ... married Johnson & Johnson heir John Seward Johnson - d. 1983. Inherited 36 million J&J shares) $2.6 billion Johnson & Johnson Monaco, Monte Carlo 72yo - Widowed
9. Ann Walton Kroenke (neice of retail pioneer Sam Walton) $2.6 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) MO, Columbia 60yo - Married, 2 children

Helen Walton - widow of Sam Walton (d.1992) - died 19 Apr 2007 at age 87. She was the world's 4th richest woman at the time - worth $16.4 billion.
Barbara Cox Anthony - sister of Anne Cox Chambers - died 28 May 2007 at age 83. She was the world's 6th richest woman - worth $12.6 billion.

Billionaires Under 38

TOP 13 - Billionaires Under 38yo ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Sergey Brin (school drop out ... son of a professor ... emigrated from Russia) $12.0 billion Google (bought Web video portal YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006 ... hit all-time high of $740 a share in early Nov 2007) USA 35yo - Married
2. Larry Page (school drop out ... son of a professor) $12.0 billion Google (bought Web video portal YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006 ... hit all-time high of $740 a share in early Nov 2007) USA 36yo - Married
3. Daniel Ziff $3.5 billion   USA 37yo
4. John Arnold (raised by a lawyer dad and accountant mom) $2.7 billion  hedge funds USA 35yo - Married
5. Malvinder & Shivinder Singh $2.6 billion   India 33yo
6. Sergei Popov $2.4 billion   Russia 37yo

7. Yang Huiyan
YOUNGEST FEMALE BILLIONAIRE!

$2.3 billion real estate (received 58% stake in real estate developer Country Garden from its main founder, her father, Yeung Kwok Keung) China 27yo - Married
8. Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (lives in one of the family castles ... went to high school in Rome; studied economics and theology in Scotland ... racecar driver, tours with a German auto-racing league)
YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE!
$2.1 billion inherited, diversified (his 30,000 hectares of woodland in Germany is considered one of the largest forest holdings in Europe) Germany 25yo - Single
9.Ma Huateng $1.4 billion   China 37yo
10. Fahd Hariri (youngest son of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik) $1.1 billion inheritance Lebanon 28yo - Single
11. Aymin Hariri (one of five children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik ) $1.1 billion inheritance Saudi Arabia 30yo - Married, 1 child
12. Anurag Dikshit $1.0 billion   India 37yo
12. Andrey Melnichenko $1.0 billion   Russia 37yo

Billionaires Over 90

TOP 11 - Billionaires Over 90yo ... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. John Kluge (German immigrant ... became richest man in America 1989, lost title to Bill Gates 3 years later) $6.0 billion Metromedia USA 94yo - Married, 3 children
2. Kirk Kerkorian $5.0 billion   USA 91yo
3. Karl Wlaschek $4.2 billion   Austria 91yo
4. Saleh Al Rajhi (brother of Sulaiman and Abdullah Al Rajhi) $3.3 billion banking Saudi Arabia 97yo - Married, 61 children (yes, 61!!!! - 22 sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)
5. Walter Haefner (his Moyglare Stud Farm in Ireland has approx. 100 horses and has bred such winners as Simple Exchange and Media Puzzle) $1.0 billion Computer Associates (software) Switzerland 94yo - Married, 2 children
6. David Rockefeller Sr (Grandson of visionary oil baron John D. Rockefeller now working to give away his fortune ... Beetle enthusiast has one of largest collections in world: 160,000 specimens) $2.2 billion Standard Oil, banking USA 93yo - Widowed, 6 children
7. Eugen Viehof & family $1.9 billion     92yo
8. John Anderson $1.8 billion     91yo
9. Leonore Annenberg $1.7 billion     91yo
10. Albert Ueltschi $1.4 billion     91yo
11. Walter Shorenstein & family (Uni drop out ... began buying commercial property in San Francisco after discharge from military 1946, at one time owned 20% of city's office space) $1.0 billion real estate USA 94yo - Widowed, 2 children

Ernest Gallodied 6 Mar 2007, 12 days short of his 98th birthday. He was worth $1.3 billion.
Anacleto Angelinidied 28 August 2007, age 93. He was worth $6.0 billion.
John Simplot died May 25, 2008, age 99. He was the OLDEST BILLIONAIRE in 2008, worth $3.8 billion.




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