TOP
10 - World's Richest Men
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
1.
Carlos Slim Helu
$19 billion richer this year! |
$53.5
billion |
Telecom |
Mexico |
70yo
- Widowed, 6 children |
| 2.William
Gates III (was
world's richest person for 14 of the past 16 years) ... Harvard
Uni drop out. |
$53.0
billion |
Microsoft |
USA
|
54yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Warren Buffett (America's
most beloved investor ... married
longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday in Aug. 2006 ...
will donate $31 billion to charity!) |
$47.0
billion |
Berkshire
Hathaway |
USA |
79yo
-
Widowed, re-married, 3 children |
| 4.
Mukesh Ambani (Asia's
richest resident ... built a 27-story home.) |
$29.0
billion |
petrochemicals |
India |
52yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's
richest resident) |
$28.7
billion |
Mittal
Steel (world's largest steelmaker) |
India |
59yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Lawrence Ellison |
$28.0
billion |
Oracle |
USA |
65yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Bernard Arnault |
$27.5
billion |
LVMH |
France |
61yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 8.
Eike Batista |
$27.0
billion |
mining,
oil |
Brazil |
53yo
-
Divorced, 2 children |
| 9.
Amancio Ortega |
$25.0
billion |
Zara |
Spain |
74yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Karl Albrecht (Fiercely
private ... raises orchids and plays golf) |
$23.5
billion |
supermarkets
(over
8,000 Aldi stores worldwide) |
Germany |
90yo
-
Married, 2 children |
The World
(women)
TOP
10 - World's Richest Women ...
(10
March 2010) ...
Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
Christy
Walton & family (widow
of John Walton - son
of retail pioneer Sam Walton - who
died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) |
$22.5
billion |
Wal-Mart
(world's
largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and
1.9 million employees) |
USA |
55yo
- Widowed, 1 child |
| 2.
Alice
Walton (Daughter
of retail pioneer Sam Walton) |
$20.6
billion |
Wal-Mart
(world's
largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and
1.9 million employees) |
USA |
60yo
- Divorced |
| 3.
Liliane
Bettencourt (2009
world's richest woman ... is being taken to court by her daughter
for giving $1.4 billion to a well-known photographer) |
$20.0
billion |
L'Oreal
(daughter of L'Oréal founder
Eugene Schueller) |
France |
87yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband,
Andre Bettencourt , died Nov 2007 at age 88) |
4.
Birgit
Rausing & family
(husband Gad Rausing died in 2000) |
$13.0
billion |
Tetra
Laval (packaging manufacture) |
Sweden |
86yo
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 5.
Savitri Jindal (husband,
Om Prakash Jindal, died in helicopter crash in 2005) |
$12.2
billion |
inherited
(steel) |
India |
60yo
- Widowed, 9 children |
| 6.
Abigail
Johnson |
$11.5
billion |
Fidelity
investments |
USA |
48yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Susanne
Klatten (won
a civil case against Helg Sgarbi, the ex-lover who tried to
blackmail her for millions. Sgarbi is now in jail.) |
$11.1
billion |
BMW,
pharmaceuticals (Inherited
stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt) |
Germany |
47yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Iris Fontbona
& family (Second
wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in
2005) |
$11.0
billion |
mining/lumber |
Chile |
na
-
Widowed, 3 children |
| 8.
Jacqueline
Mars (third
generation inherited company when dad died in 1999) |
$11.0
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 |
70yo -
Divorced, 3 children |
| 10.
Anne
Cox Chambers |
$10.0
billion |
media/entertainment
- Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers,
15 TV stations, 86 radio stations) |
USA
|
90yo
-
Divorced, 3 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 $12.6 billion.
Richest
Billionaire in 56 Countries
Richest
Billionaire in each Country...
(10
March 2010) ...
Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Citizenship |
Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Argentina |
Gregorio
Perez Companc & family
(High
school drop out) |
$2.0
billion |
oil
& gas |
Argentina |
75yo
-
Married, 7 children |
| 2.
Australia |
Andrew
Forrest (nicknamed
Twiggy) |
$4.1
billion |
mining,
metals
|
Australia |
48yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Austria |
Karl
Wlaschek (former
jazz pianist) |
$4.4
billion |
department
stores |
Austria |
92yo
-
Widowed, 2 children |
| 4.
Belgium |
Patokh
Chodiev (Uzbekistan
native) |
$3.3
billion |
mining,
metals |
Belgium |
57yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Belize |
Huang
Maoru & family (operates
one of China's largest department store chains) |
$1.2
billion |
retail |
Belize |
45yo
-
Married |
| 6.
Brazil |
Eike
Batista (college dropout
... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father
was former mining minister of Brazil) |
$27.0
billion |
iron-ore
mining |
Brazil |
53yo
- Divorced, 2 children (formerly married
to Playboy cover girl) |
| 7.
Canada |
David
Thomson & family (father,
Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006) |
$19.0
billion |
inherited
(media) |
Canada |
52yo
-
Divorced, 3 children (split from Kelly
Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C., April 2008 when
she gave birth to a daughter) |
| 8.
Chile |
Iris
Fontbona
& family (Second
wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in
2005) |
$11.0
billion |
mining/lumber |
Chile |
na
-
Widowed, 3 children |
| 9.
China |
Zong
Qinghou (Wahaha
brand) |
$7.0
billion |
beverages |
China |
64yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 10.
Colombia |
Julio Mario Santo Domingo |
$6.0
billion |
beverages
(beer) |
Colombia |
86yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 11.
Cyprus |
John
Fredriksen (Born
in Norway ... World's leading oil tanker tycoon ) |
$7.7
billion |
shipping |
UK |
65yo
-
Widowed, 2 children |
| 12.
Czech Republic |
Petr
Kellner
(in 1992, used a $1 million loan he got through his small
office-supplies business to start an investment fund) |
$7.6
billion |
insurance |
Czech
Republic |
45yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 13.
Denmark |
Kjeld
Kirk Kristiansen (Grandson
of the founder of Danish toymaker Lego; sole owner) |
$3.5
billion |
manufacturing |
Denmark |
62yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 14.
Egypt |
Nassef
Sawiris(Youngest
son of Orascom conglomerate founder and fellow billionaire,
Onsi Sawiris) |
$5.9
billion |
construction |
Egypt |
48yo
-
na |
| 15.
Finland |
Antti
Herlin |
$1.3
billion |
elevators,
escalators |
Finland |
53yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 16.
France |
Bernard
Arnault (skilled
pianist) |
$27.5
billion |
LVMH
(world's
largest luxury goods empire)
|
France |
61yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 17.
Germany |
Karl
Albrecht (Fiercely
private ... raises orchids and plays golf) |
$23.5
billion |
supermarkets
(over
8,000 Aldi stores) |
Germany |
90yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 18.
Greece |
Spiro
Latsis & family |
$5.3
billion |
banking/diversified |
Switzerland |
63yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 19.
Hong Kong |
Li
Ka-shing (High
School drop out) |
$21.0
billion |
diversified
(world's largest operator of container terminals, world's
largest health and beauty retailer) |
Hong
Kong |
81yo
-
Widowed, 2 children
|
| 20.
India |
Mukesh
Ambani (Asia's
richest resident ... built a 27-story home.) |
$29.0
billion |
petrochemicals |
India |
52yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 21.
Indonesia |
Michael
Hartono |
$3.5
billion |
tobacco |
Indonesia |
70yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| |
R
Budi Hartono |
$3.5
billion |
tobacco |
Indonesia |
69yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 22.
Ireland |
Pallonji
Mistry (rarely
ever seen in public; became Irish citizen in recent years
but maintains a residence in Mumbai) |
$5.8
billion |
construction
(businesses are located in India) |
India |
80yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 23.
Israel |
Sammy
Ofer & family (Romanian-born
Israeli ... famously press-shy) |
$6.5
billion |
diversified
(shipping, banking, real estate) |
Monaco |
88yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 24.
Italy |
Michele
Ferrero & family (Tied
up in legal battle that pits Ferrero against a Chinese chocolate
maker that also makes a gold-wrapped candy. ) |
$17.0
billion |
chocolates
(Ferrero, Nutella and Tic Tac) |
Monaco |
83yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 25.
Japan |
Tadashi
Yanai & family
(His
discount clothing chain, Fast Retailing, keeps prices low
by outsourcing production to China, Vietnam, Cambodia and
Bangladesh) |
$7.6
billion |
retail |
Japan
|
61yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 26.
Kazakhstan |
Vladmir
Kim |
$3.7
billion |
mining |
Kazakhstan
|
49yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 27.
Kuwait |
Nasser
Al-Kharafi & family (has
exclusive franchise rights in Middle East for brands like
Pizza Hut, TGI Fridays, KFC and Wimpy) |
$8.7
billion |
construction
|
Kuwait
|
66yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 28.
Lebanon |
Najib
Mikati (Former
Lebanese Prime Minister - briefly in 2005) |
$2.5
billion |
telecom |
Lebanon
|
54yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| |
Taha
Mikati (brother of
Najib Mikati) |
$2.5
billion |
telecom |
Lebanon
|
61yo
-
Married |
| 29.
Malaysia |
Robert
Kuok (Onetime
rice and sugar trader) |
$14.5
billion |
diversified
(shipping, real estate, media) |
Hong
Kong |
86yo
-
Married, 8 children |
| 30.
Mexico |
Carlos
Slim Helu & family (World's
richest person - son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just
call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector) |
$53.5
billion |
telecom |
Mexico |
70yo
-
Widowed, 6 children |
| 31.
Monaco |
Lily
Safra (Widow
of Brazilian billionaire banker Edmond Safra, who died in
a fire in his Monaco apartment 1999) |
$1.2
billion |
inheritance |
UK |
72yo
-
Widowed, 2 children |
| 32.
Netherlands |
Charlene
de Carvalho-Heineken (Inherited
25% stake in Dutch brewer, Heineken, 7 years ago from her
late father, Freddy Heineken) |
$7.0
billion |
inheritance
x |
UK |
55yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 33.
New Zealand |
Graeme
Hart (Former
tow truck driver now known for astute leveraged purchases
... owner of 190-foot yacht, Ulysses) |
$5.3
billion |
investments |
New
Zealand |
54yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 34.
Nigeria |
Aliko
Dangote (Closely
linked to Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo) |
$2.1
billion |
inheritance
(sugar, flour, cement manufacturing) |
Nigeria
|
52
-
Married, 2 children |
| 35.
Norway |
Stein
Erik Hagen & family (owns
island in the Caribbean and one of the biggest sailboats in
Europe) |
$3.5
billion |
supermarkets |
Norway
|
53yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 36.
Pakistan |
Mian
Muhammad Mansha (Gap
... Pakistan's largest exporter of cotton clothes) |
$1.0
billion |
inherited
(diversified) |
Pakistan |
62yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 37.
Philippines |
Henry
Sy & family (came
to the Philippines as a child from China) |
$4.2
billion |
malls |
Philippines
|
85yo
-
Married, 6 children |
| 38.
Poland |
Jan
Kulczyk |
$2.1
billion |
telecom,
oil, beer |
Poland
|
60yo
-
Divorced, 2 children |
| 39.
Portugal |
Americo
Amorim (King
of cork) |
$4.0
billion |
cork,
investments (world's largest producer
of cork) |
Portugal
|
75yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 40.
Romania |
Dinu
Patriciu (Onetime
architect and former parliamentarian) |
$2.2
billion |
oil
& gas refineries |
Romania
|
59yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 41.
Russia |
Vladimir
Lisin |
$15.8
billion |
Novolipetsk
steel mill |
Russia |
53yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 42.
Saudi Arabia |
Prince
Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew
of the Saudi king ... his palaces and real estate are worth
more than $3 billion ... owns jewellery collection valued
at $730 million, plus 4 airplanes, including an Airbus A380) |
$19.4
billion |
investments
(incl. Citicorp) |
Saudi
Arabia |
55yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 43.
Singapore |
Kuok
Khoon Hong (nephew
of billionaire, Robert Kuok) |
$3.5
billion |
inherited
(palm oil) |
Singapore
|
60yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| |
Wee
Cho Yaw & family (educated
in China ... avid tennis player) |
$3.5
billion |
banking |
Singapore
|
81yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 44.
South Africa |
Nicky
Oppenheimer & family |
$5.0
billion |
De
Beers (diamond mining) |
South
Africa |
64yo
-
Married, 1 child |
| 45.
South Korea |
Lee
Kun-Hee (convicted
of tax evasion in Aug 2009) |
$7.2
billion |
inherited
(Samsung) |
South
Korea |
68yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 46.
Spain |
Amancio
Ortega
(High School drop out ... shuns neckties) |
$25.0
billion |
Zara
(apparel) (4,500 stores in 73 countries) |
Spain |
74yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 47.
Sweden |
Ingvar
Kamprad & family (used
to be frugal ... now drives a Porche) |
$23.0
billion |
Ikea
(retail) (stores in 37 countries) |
Switzerland
|
83yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 48.
Switzerland |
Ernesto
Bertarelli (inherited
the business after father's death in 1998 ... yachtsman
who won the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007) |
$10.0
billion |
inherited
(Sereno Biotech) |
Switzerland |
44yo
-
Married (to British beauty queen),
3 children |
| 49.
Taiwan |
Terry
Gou (started
company with $7,500 in 1974) |
$5.5
billion |
electronics |
Taiwan
|
59yo
- Married, 2 children (remarried in
2008 after first wife passed away) |
| 50.
Thailand |
Chaleo
Yoovidhya |
$4.1
billion |
Red
Bull (beverages) |
Thailand
|
78yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 51.
Turkey |
Husnu
Ozyegin (gives
away 2% of net income every month for the construction of
primary schools and girls' dormitories in poor Turkish neighborhoods) |
$3.0
billion |
banking |
Turkey |
65yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 52.
Ukraine |
Rinat
Akhmetov (built
his business in the mid 1990's by forging ties with then prime
minister,Viktor Yanukovych) |
$5.2
billion |
stel,
coal mines |
Ukraine
|
43yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 53.
United Arab Emirates |
Abdul
Aziz Al Ghurair & family (Paragliding
enthusiast ) |
$3.5
billion |
banking |
United
Arab Emirates |
55yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 54.
United Kingdom |
Gerald
Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th
Duke of Westminister ... supports more than 150 charities) |
$12.0
billion |
real
estate (incl. Mayfair) |
UK |
58yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 55.
United States |
William
Gates III (was
world's richest person for 14 of the past 16 years) ... Harvard
Uni drop out. |
$53.0
billion |
Microsoft |
USA |
54yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 56.
Venezuela |
Gustavo
Cisneros & family |
$4.2
billion |
inherited
(media) |
Venezuela
|
64yo
- Married, 3 children |
Anacleto
Angelini, Chile's
(and South America's) richest man, died 28 August 2007, age 93.
He was worth $6.0 billion.
Ng
Teng Fong, Singapore's richest man, died
Feb 2, 2010, age 82. He was worth $5.5 billion.
Australia
TOP
10 - Australian Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth
US$
|
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Andrew Forrest (nicknamed
Twiggy) |
$4.1
billion |
mining,
metals
|
Perth |
48yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Frank Lowy & family (Czech-born) |
$3.6
billion |
retail
property (shopping centres) (biggest
shopping mall chains, Westfield, with 119 malls in Australia,
New Zealand, the U.S. and Britain) |
Sydney |
79yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
James Packer
(father, Kerry, died Dec 26, 2005) |
$3.5
billion |
inherited
(media/Entertainment) |
Sydney |
42yo
-Married (to model turned singer/songwriter
Erica Baxter),
2 children |
| 4.
Harry Triguboff (born in China
to Russian parents ) |
$3.0
billion |
residential
property development (Biggest builder
of apartments in Australia) |
Sydney |
77yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
John Gandel (medical doctor
) |
$2.4
billion |
retail
property (shopping centres) (Owns 50%
of Chadstone mall in Melbourne, the biggest in the southern
hemisphere) |
Melbourne |
75yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Kerr Neilson (South
African-born) |
$2.2
billion |
investments |
Sydney |
60yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Gina Rinehart (Battled
for 14 years to win control of her father's assets from her
stepmother) |
$2.0
billion |
mining |
Perth |
56yo
- Widowed, 4 children |
| 8.
Lindsay Fox (dropped
out of school at 16 ... avid car enthusiast ... owns 130 rare
classic cars) |
$1.5
billion |
logistics
(Linfox has a truck fleet of 5,000 ...
20 million square feet of warehousing, 2 airports and 1,000
armoured vehicles to transport cash) |
Melbourne |
72yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 9.
Gerald Harvey
(owns ~ 900 horses) |
$1.3
billion |
retail
(Harvey Norman has 245 stores) |
Sydney |
70yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 10.
Michael Hintze (collects
rural propereties in Australia) |
$1.1
billion |
hedge
funds |
UK,
London |
56yo
- Married,
4 children |
Kerry
Packer, Australia's long-time richest person, died
26 Dec 2005, age 68 ...
he was worth $5.0 billion.
Richard
Pratt, died 29 April, 2009, age 75, from prostate
cancer ... he was worth $1.5 billion.
Brazil
TOP
10 - Brazilian
Billionaires
... (10
March 2010) ...
Wealth in USD$ ... 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) |
$27.0
billion |
iron-ore
mining |
Rio
de Janeiro |
53yo
- Divorced, 2 children (formerly
married to Playboy cover girl) |
| 2.
Jorge Paulo Lemann (onetime
tennis champion - he played at Wimbledon) |
$11.5
billion |
banking,
beer |
Sao
Paulo |
70yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 3.
Joseph Safra (cut financial
ties with his older brother Moise in mid-2006. ) |
$10.0 billion |
banking |
Sao
Paulo |
71yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 4.
Dorothea Steinbruch &
family (sister-in-law
of Eliezer
Steinbruch) |
$5.5
billion |
Inheritence
(steel) |
Sao
Paulo |
na
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 5.
Marcel Herman Telles (keen
spearfisherman) |
$5.1
billion |
banking,
beer |
Sao
Paulo |
60yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Carlos Alberto Sicupira |
$4.5
billion |
banking,
beer |
Sao
Paulo |
62yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Aloysio de Andrade Faria |
$4.2
billion |
banking |
Sao
Paulo |
89yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 8.
Abilio dos Santos Diniz (in
1989 was kidnapped by Canadian terrorists and held for
7 days in underground cells until the federal police
set him free) |
$3.0
billion |
supermarkets |
Sao
Paulo |
73yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 8.
Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family |
$3.0
billion |
diversified |
Sao
Paulo |
81yo
-
na, 9 children |
| 10.
Moise Safra (cut financial
ties with his younger brother Joseph in mid-2006. ) |
$2.3
billion |
banking |
Sao
Paulo |
75yo
- Married |
Canada
TOP
11 - Canadian
Billionaires
... (10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ...
compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
David Thomson & family (father,
Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006) |
$19.0
billion |
inherited
(media) |
Toronto |
52yo
-
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) |
$7.2
billion |
retail
(owns controlling stake in Canada's
largest supermarket chain) |
Toronto |
69yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 3.
James, Arthur & John Irving
(brothers) |
$4.0
billion |
oil,
gas (own
600 gas stations) |
Saint
John |
n/a
- n/a |
| 3.
Jim Pattison (owns
massive Palm Springs lair that once belonged to Frank
Sinatra) |
$4.0
billion |
diversified
(incl. Ripley's Believe It or Not ... Bought Guinness
World Records in February) |
Vancouver |
81yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Paul Desmarais (bought
his father's one-route Ontario bus company for $1- in
1951) |
$3.9
billion |
finance |
Montreal |
83yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Bernard (Barry) Sherman (locked
in court fight with relatives who allege they vare owed
part of the fortune) |
$3.8
billion |
Apotex
pharmaceuticals (seeking
over-the-counter-sales approval of its controversial "morning-after"
pill ) |
Toronto |
68yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 7.
David Azrieli & family |
$2.5
billion |
shopping
malls |
Montreal |
87yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 7.
Guy Laliberte (accordian-playing
fire-breather formed Cirque du Soleil in 1984 with a gang
og of street performing friends) |
$2.5
billion |
Cirque
du Soleil |
Montreal |
50yo
- Divorced,
5 children |
| 7.
Robert Miller |
$2.5
billion |
electronics
(Future Electronics is the world's
3rd largest electronics distributor) |
Montreal |
64yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 10.
Emanuele (Lino) Saputo |
$2.4
billion |
inherited
(dairy) |
Quebec |
73yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 10.
Jeffrey Skoll |
$2.4
billion |
Ebay |
USA,
LA |
45yo
- single |
Kenneth Thomson, Canada's richest man, died June
2006, age 82. He was worth $19.6 billion.
TOP
11 - Chinese
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Head
Office |
Personal |
| 1.
Zong Qinghou |
$7.0
billion |
Wahaha
(beverages) |
Hangzhou |
64yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 2.
Liu Yongxing |
$5.0
billion |
agriculture/aluminium
(Hope Group became one of China's
largest makers of animal feed) |
Shanghai |
62yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 3.
Zhang Jindong |
$4.5
billion |
Sunning
Appliances
(China's second-biggest electrical appliance chain - has
600 retail stores and plans to open another 400 by 2010) |
Nanjing
|
47yo
- Married |
| 4.
Wang Chuanfu |
$4.4
billion |
batteries,
electric cars |
Shenzhen |
44yo
- Married |
| 5.
Hui Ka Yan (shares
wealth with wife) |
$4.0
billion |
real
estate |
Guangzhou |
51yo
- Married |
| 6.
Wu Yajun & family |
$3.9
billion |
real
estate |
Chongqing |
46yo
- Married |
| 7.
Liang Wengen |
$3.6
billion |
Sany
Heavy Industry (makers of construction equipment) |
Changsha |
53yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 7.
Ma Huateng |
$3.6
billion |
Internet
(cofounded Tencent in 1999 - it's
powerful "QQ" chat has over 500 million regular
users) |
Shenzhen |
38yo
- Married |
| 9.
Robin Li |
$3.5
billion |
Baidu
(China's online search leader) |
Beijing |
41yo
- Married |
| 10.
Chen Fashu |
$3.4
billion |
investment |
Fuzhou |
49yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Yang Huiyan (was
China's richest person in 2007 with $16.2 billion) |
$3.4
billion |
inherited
(real estate) (received 58% stake
in real estate developer Country Garden from its main
founder, her father, Yeung Kwok Keung) |
Foshan |
28yo
- Married |
France
TOP
10 - French
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Bernard Arnault
(skilled
pianist) |
$27.5
billion |
LVMH
(world's
largest luxury goods empire)
|
Paris |
61yo
-
Married, 5 children |
| 2.
Liliane
Bettencourt
(2009
world's richest woman ... is being taken to court by her
daughter for giving $1.4 billion to a well-known photographer)
|
$20.0
billion |
L'Oreal
(daughter of L'Oréal founder
Eugene Schueller) |
Paris |
87yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband,
Andre Bettencourt , died Nov 2007 at age 88) |
3.
Francois Pinault (High
school drop out ... was awarded the French Legion d'honneur
last year)
|
$8.7
billion |
retail
(incl. Gucci) |
Paris |
73yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Serge Dassault & family (French
senator) |
$7.6
billion |
aviation
(makers of Mirage and Rafale jets) |
Paris |
84yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 5.
Alain & Gerard Wertheimer (brothers) |
$7.5
billion |
Chanel
(apparel, perfume) (Chanel No. 5 perfume
is the world's top selling scent) |
USA,
New York; Cologny |
n/a
- Married / Married |
| 6.
Jean-Claude Decaux & family (Started
out putting ads on public toilets and bus shelters) |
$4.6
billion |
advertising
(places
ads in almost 50 countries)
|
Paris |
72yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Alain Merieux & family |
$4.0
billion |
biotech
(specializes in the diagnosis of bacteria in the human body
and infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis) |
Lyon |
72yo
- Married, 3 children (eldest son
killed in plane crash in 1996, age 28. 2nd- eldest son
died of cardiac failure in 2006, age 32) |
| 8.
Martin & Olivier Bouygues (brothers)
(Martin is a close confident of French President Nicolas
Sarkozy and godfather of the president's son) |
$3.4
billion |
telecom,
media, construction |
Paris |
57/59yo
-n/a
|
| 9.
Pierre Bellon & family |
$2.2
billion |
inherited
(food services) |
Paris |
80yo
- Married,
4 children |
| 10.
Philippe Foriel-Destezet (lives
as a tax exile in London) |
$1.8
billion |
temp
agency |
UK,
London |
74yo
- Married,
4 children |
Germany
TOP
12 - German
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Karl Albrecht (Fiercely
private ... raises orchids and plays golf) |
$23.5
billion |
supermarkets
(over
8,000 Aldi stores) |
Muehlheim
an der Ruhr |
90yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Michael Otto & family |
$18.7
billion |
retail
(world's largest mail-order company) |
Hamburg |
66yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 3.
Theo Albrecht (was
kidnapped for 17 days in 1971 ) DIED 24 July 2010 |
$16.7
billion |
supermarkets
(over
8,000 Aldi stores) |
Foehr |
88yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Susanne
Klatten (sister
of Stefan Quandt ... won a civil case against Helg Sgarbi,
the ex-lover who tried to blackmail her for millions. Sgarbi
is now in jail.) |
$11.1
billion |
BMW,
pharmaceuticals (Inherited
stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt) |
Bad
Homburg |
47yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 5.
August von Finck |
$7.3
billion |
investments |
Switzerland,
Thurgau |
80yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Klaus-Michael Kuhne |
$6.6
billion |
shipping |
Switzerland,
Schindellegi |
72yo
- Married |
| 7.
Curt Engelhorn |
$6.3
billion |
pharmaceuticals |
Switzerland,
Gstaad |
83yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 8.
Stefan Quandt (brother
of Susanne Klatten) |
$5.7
billion |
BMW |
Frankfurt |
43yo
- Married,
1child |
| 8.
Reinhold Würth (Took over
tiny screw business from his father at age 19 ... has professional
pilot's license; rides a Harley-Davidson) |
$5.7
billion |
manufacturing
(screws) |
Kuenzelsau |
74yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Karl-Heinz Kipp |
$5.0
billion |
retail |
Arosa |
86yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Hasso Plattner (Germany's
largest philanthropist) |
$5.0
billion |
SAP (software) |
Heidelberg |
66yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 10.
Joanna Quandt (3rd
wife of Herbert Quandt) |
$5.0
billion |
BMW |
Bad
Homburg |
83yo
- Widowed,
2 children |
Adolf Merckle,
74, committed suicide 6 January 2009. He was 5th richest in Germany
(valued at $9.2 billion) in 2008.
Theo
Albrecht,
88, died 24 July 2010. He was 3rd richest in Germany (valued at
$16.7 billion) in 2009.
Hong
Kong
TOP
10 - Hong Kong
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
1.
Li
Ka-shing (High
School drop out ... Asia's most generous individual, has
given out $1.4 billion to education and nedical research) |
$21.0
billion |
diversified
(world's largest operator of container terminals, world's
largest health and beauty retailer) |
Hong
Kong |
81yo
-
Widowed, 2 children
|
| 2.
Lee Shau Kee (nicknamed
"Asia's Warren Buffett" ) |
$18.5
billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
82yo
-
Divorced, 5 children
|
| 3.
Kwok family
(deeply
religious brothers, opened replica of Noah's Ark in Hong Kong
in May 2009) |
$17.0
billion |
real
estate (Sun Hung Kai Properties) |
Hong
Kong |
n/a
-
n/a |
| 4.
Cheng Yu-tung |
$6.8
billion |
New
World Development (real estate) |
Hong
Kong |
84yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Joseph Lau (socialite
... art collector, paid $39 million for Paul Gaugin's Te Poipoi
... Spent $9.5 million for a 7.03-carat blue diamond ... one
of largest collectors of red wine, with at least 10,000 bottles) |
$5.8
billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
58yo
- Divorced, 3 children |
| 6.
Sir Michael Kadoorie & family (was
knighted in the U.K. for his extensive charitable and philanthropic
activities.) |
$5.1
billion |
diversified |
Hong
Kong |
69yo
- Married |
| 7.
Peter Woo & family (inherited
fortune from father-in-law, Sir Y.K.Pao) |
$4.3
billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
64yo
- Married |
| 8.
William Fung |
$3.5
billion |
distribution |
Hong
Kong |
62yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 9.
Hui Wing Mau |
$3.3
billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
60yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 10.
Chen Din Hwa |
$3.2
billion |
real
estate |
Hong
Kong |
87yo
- na |
Nina
Wang,
widow of husband
kidnapped in 1990, died 5 April 2007, age
69. She was worth $4.2 billion.
India
TOP
10 - Indian
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Mukesh Ambani
(Asia's richest
resident and older
brother of Anil Ambani ... recently
built a 27-story home) |
$29.0
billion |
petrochemicals,
oil, gas |
Mumbai |
52yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Lakshmi Mittal
(Europe's
richest resident) |
$28.7
billion |
Mittal
Steel (world's largest steelmaker) |
UK,
London |
59yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 3.
Azim Premji |
$17.0
billion |
Wipro
(software) |
Bangalore |
64yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Anil Ambani (marathon
runner ... younger
brother of Mukesh Ambani.) |
$13.7
billion |
diversified |
Mumbai |
50yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Shashi & Ravi Ruia (brothers) |
$13.0
billion |
diversified |
Mumbai |
66yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Savitri Jindal (husband,
Om Prakash Jindal, died in helicopter crash in 2005) |
$12.2
billion |
inherited
(steel) |
Delhi
& Hisar |
60yo
- Widowed, 9 children |
| 7.
Kushal Pal Singh (in
2008 was 10th richest in the world and world's richest
real estate baron ... lost $25.0 billion later that year) |
$9.0
billion |
real
estate |
Delhi |
78yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Kumar Birla |
$7.9
billion |
commodities (cement,
copper & aluminium) |
Mumbai |
42yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 9.
Sunil Mittal (son
of a politician) |
$7.8
billion |
Telecom (has
60 million customers) |
Delhi |
52yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Anil Agarwal (is
facing flak over his business practises) |
$6.4
billion |
mining,
metals |
UK,
London |
56yo
- Married,
2 children |
TOP
10 - Israeli
Billionaires...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... 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") |
$6.5
billion |
diversified
(shipping, banking, real estate) |
Monaco,
Monte Carlo
|
88yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Arnon Milchan (former
soccer player) |
$3.6
billion |
New
Regency Productions (include
Pretty Woman, The War of the Roses, Fight Club and Mr.
and Mrs. Smith) |
Tel
Aviv |
65yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
Stef Wertheimer & family (grade
school dropout) |
$3.5
billion |
tools
|
Tefen |
84yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 4.
Shari
Arison |
$3.4
billion |
inherited
(banking, housing & construction) |
Tel
Aviv |
52yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
Alexander Machkevich (native
of Kyrgyzstan ... has been very active in Jewish causes) |
$3.3
billion |
mining,
metals |
Kazakhstan,
Almaty |
56yo - Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Yitzhak Tshuva (his
Cinderella story began in Netanya in a single room where
his penniless family of 11 lived briefly) |
$2.1
billion |
real
estate (also operates 232 gas stations
in Israel) |
Netanya |
61yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 7.
Beny Steinmetz |
$2.0
billion |
diamonds
(largest customer of De Beers) |
Netanya |
53yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 8.
Lev Leviev (born
in Uzbekistan ... 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 |
54yo
- Married, 9 children |
| 9.
Michael Federmann & family |
$1.4
billion |
defense,
hotels |
Tel
Aviv |
66yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 10.
Morris Kahn (a former diver
... spends most of his time on a 100-foot-yacht) |
$1.0
billion |
software
|
Beit
Yanay |
80yo
- Married |
Italy
TOP
10 - Italian
Billionaires ...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Michele Ferrero & family |
17.0
billion |
Ferrero
chocolates
(also Nutella and Tic Tac) |
Monaco,
Monte Carlo |
83yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Leonardo Del Vecchio (sent
to an orphanage at age 7) |
$10.5
billion |
eyewear
(Ray-Ban) (owns over 6,000 retail
stores) |
Milan |
74yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 3.
Silvio Berlusconi (became
Italy's Prime Minister for the 3rd time in 2008 ... started
out singing on cruise ships ... in Dec 2009 a man broke
his nose and teeth with a statue of Milan's cathedral ) |
$9.0
billion |
media |
North
of Milan |
73yo - Married, 5 children |
| 4.
Giorgio Armani (goes
to the gym for at least an hour a day) |
$5.3
billion |
Armani
fashion / apparel |
Milan |
75yo
- n/a |
| 5.
Mario Moretti Polegato (owns
two Lamborghinis, a Ferrari 360 Modena Spider, five Arabian
horses and six antique Moto Guzzi motorcycles.) |
$2.4
billion |
Geox
shoes |
Crocetta
del Montello |
57yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 6.
Carlo Benetton |
$2.1
billion |
Benetton
(apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) |
Treviso |
66yo
- Single, 4 children |
| 6.
Gilberto Benetton |
$2.1
billion |
Benetton
(apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)
|
Treviso |
68yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Luciano Benetton |
$2.1
billion |
Benetton
(apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) |
Treviso |
74yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Giuliana Benetton |
$2.1
billion |
Benetton
(apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) |
Treviso |
72yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 10.
Ennio Doris & family |
$1.9
billion |
insurance |
Tombolo |
69yo
- Married, 2 children |
TOP
10 - Japanese
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Tadashi
Yanai & family
|
$7.6
billion |
retail
(His
discount clothing chain, Fast Retailing, keeps prices
low by outsourcing production to China, Vietnam, Cambodia
and Bangladesh) |
Tokyo
|
61yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Nobutada Saji & family (Avid
swimmer, opening chain of gyms through Suntory) |
$7.5
billion |
Suntory
(beverages)
- recently engineered the world's first blue
rose! |
Tokyo |
64yo
- Married |
| 3.
Akira Mori & family (Hobbies:
golf, Japanese chess, and reading) |
$6.3
billion |
Mori
Trust (real estate) |
Tokyo |
73yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Masayoshi Son |
$5.9
billion |
Softbank
(software) |
Tokyo |
52yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Kunio Busujima & family |
$5.4
billion |
pinball
machines (manufacturing) |
Gunma |
84yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Hiroshi Mikitani |
$4.8
billion |
e-commerce
(Rakuten, Internet shopping mall,
hosts more than 30,000 virtual stores selling 40,000 products) |
Tokyo |
45yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 7.
Hiroshi Yamauchi |
$4.2
billion |
Nintendo |
Kyoto |
82yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Eitaro Itoyama (circumnavigated
the world 3 times in a 150-foot-yacht) |
$3.4
billion |
golf
courses |
Tokyo |
67yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Takemitsu Takizaki |
$3.1
billion |
sensors
(manufacturing) |
Osaka |
64yo
- Married |
| 10.
Masahiro Miki (former
amateur boxer ... founder ABC Mart) |
$2.2
billion |
retail
(ABC Mart), (discount shoe retailer,
opens an average of 50 new stores a year) |
Tokyo |
54yo
- Married |
Taikichiro
Mori (d. 1993) was the World's
Richest Person from 1991-1992.
TOP
9 - Malaysian
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Robert Kuok
(once known as the Sugar King of Asia) |
$14.5
billion |
diversified
(shipping, real estate, media...) |
Hong
Kong |
86yo
- Married, 8 children |
| 2.
Ananda Krishnan (notable
philanthropist ... has son who is a monk and lives in
a forest) |
$7.6
billion |
telecom |
Kuala
Lumpur |
71yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Lee Shin Cheng |
$4.4
billion |
palm
oil (IOI Group is one of the biggest
property developers in Malaysia) |
Jeram |
70yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 4.
Quek Leng Chan |
$3.4
billion |
diversified
(incl. banking) |
Wee |
69yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Teh Hong Piow |
$3.4
billion |
banking |
Kuala
Lumpur |
80yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 6.
Yeoh Tiong Lay & family |
$2.3
billion |
diversified
(construction, utilities, hotels ...) |
Kuala
Lumpur |
80yo
- Married, 7 children |
| 7.
Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary |
$1.5
billion |
diversified
(rice, mining ...) |
Kuala
Lumpur |
58yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 8.
Vincent Tan (exercise
buff, loves scuba diving) |
$1.2
billion |
diversified
(hotels, lotteries, real estate, finance, fast food
franchises...) |
Kuala
Lumpur |
na
- Married, 11 children |
| 9.
Tiong Hiew King (some
call him Asia's Rupert Murdoch) |
$1.0
billion |
timber,
palm oil, media |
Sibu |
75yo
- Married, 4 children |
Mexico
TOP
9 - Mexican
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Carlos Slim Helu & family (2010
World's richest man ... $19
billion richer this year!
... son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just
call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector) |
$53.5
billion |
telecom |
Mexico
City |
70yo
-
Widowed, 6 children |
| 2.
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
(in
Sep 2006, paid $7.5 million to settle accusations about
a business scandal) |
$10.1
billion |
retail,
media , financing |
Mexico
City |
54yo
- Married, 6 children (3 with first
wife, 3 with second wife ... including twins born Feb 2009) |
| 3.
German Larrea Mota-Velasco & family |
$9.7
billion |
mining |
Mexico
City |
56yo
- Married |
| 4.
Alberto Bailleres & family (has
a 300-foot-yacht) |
$8.3
billion |
mining
silver (world's top producer of silver) |
Mexico
City |
77yo
- Married |
| 5.
Jeronimo Arango & family |
$4.0
billion |
supermarkets
(was a Wal-Mart partner) |
Mexico
City |
84yo
- n/a |
| 6.
Emilio Azcárraga Jean |
$1.5
billion |
media
(inherited empire in 1997) |
Mexico
City |
42yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 7.
Roberto Hernandez Ramirez |
$1.2
billion |
Banamex
(banking) |
Mexico
City |
68yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Joaquin Guzman Loera (Mexico's
most wanted man ... an illegal and violent criminal! ...
arrested in Mexico in 1993 and escaped 8 years later ...
US gov't is offering $5 million reward for information leading
to his capture) |
$1.0
billion |
drug
trafficking (the Sinaloa cartel is
one of the biggest suppliers of coccaine to the USA) |
Sinaloa
State |
55yo
- na |
| 8.
Alfredo Harp Helu (Kidnapped
in 1994 for 3 months ... owns the Red Devils baseball team
... cousin of Carlos
Slim Helu) |
$1.0
billion |
Banamex
(banking) |
Mexico
City |
66yo
- Married, 4 children |
Russia
TOP
10 - Russian
Billionaires ...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Vladimir Lisin |
$15.8
billion |
Novolipetsk
steel mill |
Moscow |
53yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Mikhail Prokhorov
|
$13.4
billion |
metals
(often
featured in gossip pages for his parties) |
Moscow |
44yo
- Single |
| 3.
Mikhail Fridman
(strong
Kremlin connections) |
$12.7
billion |
oil,
banking, telecom |
Moscow |
45yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 4.
Roman Abramovich
(college
drop out; orphaned as a child ... owns U.K. soccer club,
Chelsea) |
$11.2
billion |
steel,
investments |
Moscow |
43yo
- Divorced, 6 children (last child
in 2009 with g'f) |
| 5.
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 later that year) |
$10.7
billion |
Russian
Aluminum
(world's largest aluminum producer) |
Moscow
|
42yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Vagit Alekperov (Has
good relationship with Vladimir Putin) |
$10.6
billion |
Lukoil
(in December 2006 he acquired nearly
400 gas stations from ConocoPhillips) |
Moscow |
59yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 7.
Vladmir Potanin (in
Jan 2010 announced he will transfer his fortune to charity
and not his children) |
$10.3
billion |
Norilsk
Nickel |
Moscow |
49yo
- Married,
3 children |
| 8.
Alexei Mordashov
|
$9.9
billion |
Severstal
(steel) |
Moscow |
44yo
- Divorced, 3 children |
| 9.
Viktor Rashnikov |
$9.8
billion |
steel |
Magnitogorsk |
61yo
- Married,
2 children |
| 10.
Dimitry Rybolovlev (in
2008 bought Donald Trump's Palm Beach mansion, Maison
de l'Amitie, for $100 million) |
$8.6
billion |
fertilizer |
Moscow |
43yo
- Married,
2 children (pending
divorce from wife, Elena) |
TOP
10 - Saudi Arabian
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Prince
Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew
of the Saudi king ... his palaces and real estate are
worth more than $3 billion ... owns jewellery collection
valued at $730 million, plus 4 airplanes, including
an Airbus A380) |
$19.4
billion |
investments
(incl. Citicorp) |
Riyadh |
55yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Mohammed Al Amoudi (Born
in Ethiopia) |
$10.0
billion |
oil |
Jeddah |
64yo
- Married, 8 children |
| 3.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber |
$7.5
billion |
real
estate, hotels |
Jeddah |
51yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Sulaiman Al Rajhi (one
of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) |
$6.5
billion |
banking |
Riyadh |
90yo
- Married, 23 children
(yes ... 23!!!!) |
| 5.
Saleh Al Rajhi (one
of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) |
$5.8
billion |
banking |
Riyadh |
98yo
- Married, 61 children (yes,
61!!!! - 22 sons, 39 daughters, from
7 wives) |
| 6.
Saleh Kamel |
$2.6
billion |
diversified
(media, banking, tourism, real estate...) |
Jeddah |
68yo
- Married |
| 7.
Mohammed Al Issa (fined
$26,667 in June 2009 for insider trading) |
$2.4
billion |
investments |
Riyadh |
85yo
- na |
| 8.
Abdullah Al Rajhi (one
of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) |
$2.3
billion |
banking |
Riyadh |
na
- Married |
| 9.
Mohammed Al Rajhi (one
of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) |
$1.5
billion |
banking |
Riyadh |
na
- Married |
| 10.
Aymin Hariri (son
of slain Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafiq Hariri who died
in 2005) |
$1.4
billion |
inherited
(construction, investments) |
Riyadh |
31yo
- Married, 1 child |
Sulaiman
Algosaibi,
died Feb 2009 (age n/a). He was worth $2.0 billion.
Khalid Bin Mahfouz, died Aug 16,
2009, age 59. He was worth 2.0 billion.
NOTE:
Two of the three Al Rajhi brothers
have 84 children between them!
TOP
11 - South Korean Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ...
compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Lee Kun-Hee (paid
$130 million in overdue taxes in 2008 after allegations
of tax evasion, but got a presidential pardon later
that year) |
$7.2
billion |
Samsung |
Seoul |
68yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Chung Mong-Koo |
$3.6
billion |
Hyundai |
Seoul |
72yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
Jay Y. Lee (only
son of Lee Kun-Hee) |
$1.9
billion |
inherited
(Samsung) |
Seoul |
41yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 4.
Shin Chang-Jae |
$1.6
billion |
inherited
(insurance) |
Seoul |
56yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Chung Mong-Joon (Korean
politician) |
$1.6
billion |
inherited
(manufacturing, ship-building) |
Seoul |
58yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Shin Dong-Bin |
$1.5
billion |
inherited
(retail, food) |
Seoul |
55yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Shin Dong-Joo |
$1.5
billion |
inherited
(retail, food) |
Japan,
Tokyo |
56yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 8.
Lee Myung-Hee |
$1.4
billion |
inherited
(retail) |
Seoul |
66yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Chung Eui-Sun (oldest
son of Chung Mong-Koo) |
$1.3
billion |
inherited
(hyundai) |
Seoul |
39yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Chey Tae-Won (pardoned
in 2008 for accounting fraud) |
$1.1
billion |
inherited
(diversified) |
Seoul |
49yo
- Married, 3 children (wife
is daughter of South Korea's former president, Roh
Tae Woo) |
| 10.
Koo Bon-Moo |
$1.1
billion |
inherited
(electronics) |
Seoul |
65yo
- Married, 3 children |
Spain
TOP
10 - Spanish
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Amancio Ortega
(High School drop out ... shuns neckties) |
$25.0
billion |
Zara
(apparel) (4,500 stores in 73
countries) |
La
Coruna
|
74yo
-
Married, 3 children |
| 2.
Isak Andic (enthusiastic
sailor ... his family came to Spain from Turkey) |
$4.8
billion |
Mango
(apparel)
(over 1,200 stores in 92 countries
) |
Barcelona |
55yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Rosalia
Mera (ex-wife
of Amancio
Ortega) |
$3.5
billion |
Zara
(apparel) (4,500 stores in 73 countries) |
La
Coruna |
66yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 4.
Manuel Jove (carpenter
by trade) |
$2.4
billion |
real
estate |
La
Coruna |
68yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Alicia
Koplowitz (sister
of Esther Koplowitz
... rumored to be romantically involved with the Duque
de Huescar ) |
$2.2
billion |
investments |
Madrid |
55yo
- Divorced, 3 children |
| 6.
Esther
Koplowitz (married
to Fernando Falcó, Marqués de Cubas) |
$2.0
billion |
Fomento
de Construcciones y Contratas (construction) |
Barcelona |
56yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 7.
Florentino Perez |
$1.9
billion |
construction |
Madrid |
63yo
- 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) |
$1.8
billion |
steel |
Madrid |
47yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 9.
Emilio Botin (enjoys
golf, hunting and fishing) |
$1.7
billion |
banking |
Santander |
75yo
- Married, 6 children |
| 10.
Enrique Banuelos |
$1.5
billion |
real
estate |
UK,
London |
44yo
- Married, 2 children |
TOP
10 - Swedish
Billionaires
...
(10
March 2010) ...
Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Ingvar Kamprad &
family (used
to be frugal ... now drives a Porche) |
$23.0
billion |
Ikea
(retail) (stores in 37 countries) |
Switzerland,
Lausanne
|
83yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 2.
Stefan Persson (enjoys
downhill skiing, tennis and golf) |
$22.4
billion |
Hennes
& Mauritz (retail) (has
1,900 stores in over 28 countries) |
Stockholm |
62yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Birgit
Rausing & family (husband
Gad Rausing - brother of Hans Rausing - died in 2000 ...
family keeps low profile due to kidnapping attempt on
son, Jorn, in 1989) |
$13.0
billion |
Tetra
Laval (packaging manufacture) |
Switzerland,
Vaud |
86yo
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 4.
Sir Hans Rausing (brother
of Gad 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 |
84yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 5.
Antonia
Johnson (avid
horsewoman ) |
$6.0
billion |
A.
Johnson & Co. (diversified) |
Stockholm |
66yo
- Married, 4 children |
6.
Liselott (Lottie) Persson
(sister of Stefan
Persson ) |
$3.0
billion |
Hennes
& Mauritz (retail) (has
1,900 stores in over 28 countries) |
Stockholm |
60yo
- n/a |
| 7.
Count Gustaf Douglas (his
familly is of Scottish origin) |
$2.0
billion |
Assa
Abloy (locks) / security (worlds
largest producer of locks) |
Stockholm |
72yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Melker Schorling |
$1.7
billion |
investments |
Stockholm |
62yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Fredrik Lundberg
(once a junior world champion of curling) |
$1.5
billion |
real
estate / investments |
Stockholm |
58yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Thomas Sandell |
$1.1
billion |
hedge
funds |
USA,
NY, New York |
49yo
- Married, 1child |
Switzerland
| |
| 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) |
$10.0
billion |
inherited
(Sereno Biotech) |
Geneva |
44yo
-
Married (to British beauty queen),
3 children |
| 2.
Hansjorg Wyss (Wine
connoisseur owns a 900-acre ranch and vineyard in California) |
$6.1
billion |
Synthes
(medical-implants and biomaterials ) |
USA,
Penn, West Chester |
75yo
- na |
| 3.
Thomas Schmidheiny (one
of the Schmidheiny brothers) |
$4.3
billion |
Holcim
(cement)
(world's second-largest supplier of cement and concrete) |
Balgach |
64yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 4.
Nicolas Hayek
(known as Mr. Swatch ... creating an eco-friendly auto with
Mercedes-Benz to be called Swatchmobile smart car ) |
$3.9
billion |
Swatch
(world's
largest manufacturer of finished watches with 156 factories) |
Biel |
81yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Walter Haefner (his
Moyglare Stud Farm in Ireland has approx. 100 horses and
has bred such winners as Simple Exchange and Media Puzzle) |
$3.3
billion |
Computer
Associates (software) |
Zurich |
99yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Bahaa Hariri (Eldest son
of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik) |
$3.0
billion |
inheritance |
Geneva |
43yo
- Married |
| 7.
Sergio Mantegazza (Loves
expensive toys, has a helicopter, a yacht (Lady Marina)
and a $600,000 Mercedes Maybach. ) |
$2.8
billion |
Globus
& Cosmos (travel) |
Lugano |
82yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 7.
Stephan Schmidheiny (one
of the Schmidheiny brothers ... facing lawsuits in Switzerland
and Italy surrounding the asbestos-related deaths of former
plant workers) |
$2.8
billion |
investments |
Zurich |
62yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Jean-Claude Gandur (His
collection of Egyptian antiquities is among the best in
the world) |
$1.9
billion |
oil
trading and exploration |
UK,
London |
61yo
- na |
| 10.
Esther Grether & family |
$1.5
billion |
art
collection, Swatch |
Basel |
74yo
- Widowed, 2 children |
TOP
10 - Taiwanese
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Terry Gou (started
company with $7,500 in 1974) |
$5.5
billion |
electronics |
Taipei |
59yo
- Married, 2 children (remarried
in 2008 after first wife passed away) |
| 2.
Tsai Wan-Tsai & family (uncle
of 3 billionaire brothers - Tsai Hong-tu,
T.Y. Tsai,
Chen-da Tsai) |
$4.9
billion |
banking |
Taipei |
80yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 3.
Tsai Eng-Meng |
$4.3
billion |
food |
China,
Shanghai |
53yo
- Married |
| 4.
Barry Lam |
$2.9
billion |
electronics
(Quanta Computer) |
Taipei |
60yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 5.
Lin Rong San (one
fo the Lin brothers) |
$2.3
billion |
real
estate |
Taipei |
na
- Married |
| 6.
Lin Yu-lin (one
fo the Lin brothers) |
$2.0
billion |
real
estate |
Taipei |
74yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Cher Wang & Wenchi
Chen |
$2.0
billion |
inherited
(technology) |
Taipei |
52yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Tsai Hong-tu (one
of 3 Tsai brothers ... |
$1.7
billion |
inherited
(Cathay Financial ) ...
father, Tsai Wan-lin, died 2004. |
Taipei |
57yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
T.Y. Tsai (one
of 3 Tsai brothers ... collects cars) |
$1.7
billion |
inherited
(Cathay Financial ) ...
father, Tsai Wan-lin, died 2004. |
Taipei |
na
- Married, 1 child |
| 8.
Chen-da Tsai (one
of 3 Tsai brothers) |
$1.7
billion |
inherited
(Cathay Financial ) ...
father, Tsai Wan-lin, died 2004. |
Taipei |
na
- Married |
Turkey
TOP
10 - Turkish
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... 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) |
$3.0
billion |
banking |
Istanbul |
65yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Mehmet Emin Karamehmet (sentenced
in Feb, 2010, to 11 years and 8 months jail and fined $300
million dollars for embezzlement ... not in custody yet
and has the right to appeal) |
$2.9
billion |
Turkcell
mobile phone company |
Istanbul
|
65yo
-
Married, 1 child |
| 3.
Sarik Tara (born
in Macedonia) |
$2.6
billion |
Enka
(Turkey's largest construction company) |
Istanbul |
79yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
Ferit Sahenk (brother
of Filiz Sahenk ... bankrolled
"Gallipoli" movie) |
$2.1
billion |
bank
and media |
Istanbul |
46yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Murat Ulker (fluent
in English and German ... enjoys sailing, hunting and travel) |
$2.1
billion |
food
manufacturing |
Istanbul |
50yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Erman Ilicat |
$2.0
billion |
construction |
Istanbul |
43yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Filiz Sahenk (sister
of Ferit Sahenk ... has large antique collection) |
$2.0
billion |
bank
and media |
Istanbul |
43yo
- Single |
| 6.
Ali Ibrahim Agaoglu (passionate
about luxury cars, has Lambourghini, 2 Bentleys and a Ferrari
California) |
$2.0
billion |
construction |
Istanbul |
56yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 9.
Semahat Arsel (one
of 3 Koc children ... because of parasite in her blood spent
years fighting illness in hospital) |
$1.7
billion |
diversified |
Istanbul |
81yo
- Married (husband is a doctor) |
| 10.
Rahmi Koc (one
of 3 Koc children ... avid sailor) |
$1.6
billion |
diversified |
Istanbul |
79yo
-Divorced, 3 children |
United
Kingdom
TOP
10 - United Kingdom
Billionaires
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... 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) |
$12.0
billion |
real
estate (incl. Mayfair) |
Chester |
58yo
-
Married, 4 children |
| 2.
David & Simon Reuben
(two brothers born in Mumbai ) |
$7.5
billion |
investments,
real estate |
London
/ Monaco |
n/a
- Married, 3 children |
| 3.
Sir Philip & Cristina
Green (high
school dropout ... Knighted in 2006 for his services to
the retail industry ... known for circulating with celebrities) |
$6.7
billion |
retail
(British Home Stores and Arcadia) |
London |
58yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
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) |
$4.0
billion |
Virgin
(airlines, etc) (Virgin Galactic space
flights inched closer to takeoff: recently unveiled models
of aircraft meant to carry civilian space travelers) |
London |
59yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Bernard Ecclestone & family (acquired
Queens Park Rangers soccer club in September 2007) |
$4.0
billion |
Formula
One (car racing) |
London |
79yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 6.
Joseph Lewis (nicknamed
"the boxer" on Wall Street ) |
$3.0
billion |
finance
(currency speculator) |
Bahamas,
Lyford Cay |
73yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
Charles Cadogan & family (8th
Earl of Cadogan ... involved in animal welfare and cancer-research
charities) |
$2.9
billion |
real
estate |
London |
73yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 8.
Laurence Graff (fathered
a child out of wedlock in 2009) |
$2.5
billion |
diamond
jewellery |
Switzerland,
Gstaad |
71yo
- Married, 3 children (47-year marriage) |
| 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 |
63yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 10.
Xiuli Hawken |
$2.4
billion |
real
estate (made her fortune in mainland
China) |
London |
na
- na |
United
States
(men)
TOP
10 - USA
Billionaire Men
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
William
Gates III (was
world's richest person for 14 of the past 16 years) ...
Harvard Uni drop out. |
$53.0
billion |
Microsoft |
WA,
Medina |
54yo
- 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!) |
$47.0
billion |
Berkshire
Hathaway |
NE,
Omaha |
79yo
-
Widowed, re-married, 3 children |
| 3.
Lawrence Ellison (University
of Illinois, drop out ... Feb 2010, finally won yachting's
most prestigious trophy, the America's Cup) |
$28.0
billion |
Oracle (purchased
57 firms in past 5 years) |
CA,
Redwood City |
65yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Jim Walton (child
of Sam Walton - d. 1992) |
$20.7
billion |
Wal-Mart (world's
largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) |
AR,
Bentonville |
62yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 5.
S Robson Walton (child
of Sam Walton - d. 1992) |
$19.8
billion |
Wal-Mart (world's
largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) |
AR,
Bentonville |
66yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 6.
Michael Bloomberg
(New York City Mayor for 3rd term after spending more than
$90 million of personal fortune ... has given away neary
$1 billion in charity in the last 5 years) |
$18.0
billion |
Bloomberg |
NY,
New York |
68yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 7.
Sergey Brin (school
drop out ... son of a professor ... emigrated from Russia) |
$17.5
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 |
36yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 7.
Larry Page (school
drop out ... son of a professor) |
$17.5
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 |
37yo
- Married |
| 7.
Charles Koch (Recently
published self-help business book The Science of
Success; claimed company would go public "over
my dead body.") |
$17.5
billion |
Koch
Industries (nation's largest privately
held company) |
KA,
Wichita |
74yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 7.
David Koch (ran
as vice presidential candidate on the Libertarian Party
ticket in 1980) |
$17.5
billion |
Koch
Industries (nation's 2nd-largest privately
held company) |
NY,
New York |
69yo
- Married, 3 children |
United
States
(women)
TOP
10 - USA
Billionaire Women
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Residence |
Personal |
| 1.
Christy
Walton & family (widow
of John Walton - son
of retail pioneer Sam Walton - who
died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) |
$22.5
billion |
Wal-Mart (world's
largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) |
WY,
Jackson |
55yo
- Widowed, 1 child |
| 2.
Alice
Walton (Daughter
of retail pioneer Sam Walton) |
$20.6
billion |
Wal-Mart (world's
largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) |
TX
, Fort Worth |
60yo
- Divorced |
| 3.
Abigail
Johnson |
$11.5
billion |
Fidelity
investments |
MA,
Boston |
48yo
-
Married, 2 children |
| 4.
Jacqueline
Mars (third
generation inherited company when dad died in 1999) |
$11.0
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 |
70yo -
Divorced, 3 children |
| 5.
Anne
Cox Chambers |
$10.0
billion |
media/entertainment
- Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers,
15 TV stations, 86 radio stations) |
GA,
Atlanta |
90yo
-
Divorced, 3 children |
| 6.
Marion MacMillan Pictet |
$4.5
billion |
agriculture
(Cargill Inc. has more than 900 subsidiaries
in 66 countries) |
Bermuda,
Hamilton |
77yo
- Divorced, 1 child |
| 6.
Whitney MacMillan |
$4.5
billion |
agriculture
(Cargill Inc. has more than 900 subsidiaries
in 66 countries) |
MI,
Minneapolis |
81yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 6.
Pauline MacMillan Keinath |
$4.5
billion |
agriculture
(Cargill Inc. has more than 900 subsidiaries
in 66 countries) |
MO,
St Louis |
76yo
- Married, 4 children |
| 9.
Ann Walton Kroenke (neice
of retail pioneer Sam Walton) |
$3.2
billion |
Wal-Mart (world's
largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) |
MO,
Columbia |
61yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 9.
Barbara
Piasecka Johnson (Polish
immigrant ... married Johnson & Johnson heir John Seward
Johnson - d. 1983. Inherited 36 million J&J shares) |
$3.0
billion |
Johnson
& Johnson |
Monaco,
Monte Carlo |
73yo
- Widowed |
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 $12.6 billion.
Billionaires
Under 37
TOP
13 - Billionaires Under 37yo
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
Mark Zuckerberg (Harvard
Uni dropout ... YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE!) |
$4.0
billion |
Facebook |
USA |
25yo
- Single |
| 2.
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) |
$2.2
billion |
inherited,
diversified (his 30,000 hectares of
woodland in Germany is considered one of the largest forest
holdings in Europe) |
Germany |
26yo
- Single |
3.
Yang Huiyan ... YOUNGEST
FEMALE BILLIONAIRE! |
$3.4
billion |
real
estate (received 58% stake in real estate
developer Country Garden from its main founder, her father,
Yeung Kwok Keung) |
China |
28yo
- Married |
| 4.
Fahd Hariri (youngest son of
slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik) |
$1.4
billion |
inheritance |
Lebanon |
29yo
- Single |
| 4.
Li Zhaohui (father
was shot in 2003) |
$1.0
billion |
inherited
(manufacturing) |
China |
29yo
- Married (to Chinese actress, Che Xiao,
in Jan 2010) |
| 6.
Aymin Hariri (one of five children
of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik ) |
$1.4
billion |
inheritance |
Saudi
Arabia |
31yo
- Married, 1 child |
| 7.
Yoshikazu Tanaka |
$1.4
billion |
social
networking (Gree) (attracting about
a million new subscribers a month) |
Japan |
33yo
- na |
| 8.
Sergey Brin (school
drop out ... son of a professor ... emigrated from Russia) |
$17.5
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, 1 child |
| 8.
John Arnold (raised
by a lawyer dad and accountant mom) |
$4.0
billion |
hedge
funds |
USA |
36yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Fang Wei |
$1.4
billion |
manufacturing |
China |
36yo
- na |
| 8.
Kostyantin Zhevago |
$1.2
billion |
banking,
mining |
Ukraine |
36yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 8.
Xian Yang |
$1.0
billion |
minerals |
China |
36yo
- na |
| 8.
Shahid Balwa |
$1.0
billion |
real
estate |
India |
36yo
- Married, 2 children |
Billionaires Over 90
TOP
10 - Billionaires Over 90yo
...
(10 March 2010) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled
by www.Rich-Bastards.com |
| Name |
Wealth |
Source |
Citizenship |
Personal |
| 1.
Walter Haefner (his
Moyglare Stud Farm in Ireland has approx. 100 horses and
has bred such winners as Simple Exchange and Media Puzzle
... OLDEST
BILLIONAIRE!) |
$3.3
billion |
Computer
Associates (software) |
Switzerland |
99yo
- Married, 2 children |
| 2.
Saleh Al Rajhi (brother
of Sulaiman and Abdullah Al Rajhi) |
$5.8
billion |
banking |
Saudi
Arabia |
98yo
- Married, 61 children (yes,
61!!!! - 22 sons, 39 daughters, from
7 wives) |
| 3.
John Kluge (German
immigrant ... became richest man in America 1989, lost
title to Bill Gates 3 years later) |
$6.5
billion |
Metromedia |
USA |
95yo
- Married, 3 children |
| 4.
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) |
$1.1
billion |
real
estate |
USA |
95yo
- Widowed, 3 children |
| 5.
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 |
94yo
- Widowed, 6 children |
| 6.
Karl Wlaschek (former
jazz pianist) |
$4.4
billion |
department
stores (Billa) |
Austria |
92yo
- Widowed, 2 children |
| 7.
Kirk Kerkorian (8th
grade dropout ... trained fighter pilots during WWII) |
$3.1
billion |
investments,
casinos |
USA |
92yo
- Divorced, 2 children |
| 8.
Albert Ueltschi (Uni
of Kentucky dropout) |
$1.9
billion |
FlightSafety |
USA |
92yo
- Widowed, 4 children |
| 9.
John Anderson (says
he'll never retire) |
$1.8
billion |
investments |
USA |
92yo
- Married, 5 children |
| 10.
Henry Hillman (philanthropist
... shuns publicity) |
$2.1
billion |
investments |
USA |
90yo
- Married, 4 children |
Ernest
Gallo
(USA)
died 6 Mar 2007, 12
days short of his 98th birthday. He was worth
$1.3 billion.
Anacleto Angelini (Chile's
and South America's richest man) died 28 August 2007, age
93. He was worth $6.0 billion.
John
Simplot (USA)
died May 25, 2008, age 99. He was the
OLDEST BILLIONAIRE in 2008, worth
$3.8 billion .
Leonore
Annenberg (USA) died March 12 2009, age
91. She was worth $1.7 billion.
Eugen
Viehof (Germany) died Feb 5, 2010, age
93. He was worth $1.9
billion.
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