Rich Bastards - Top 10 Rich Lists

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

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.

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