2011
TOP 10 Rich Lists you'll find below ...

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

Richest Billionaire in 55 Countries

TOP 10 - Australian Billionaires
TOP 11 - Braziian Billionaires
TOP 12 - Canadian Billionaires

TOP 10 - Chinese Billionaires
TOP 8 - Egyptian Billionaires ... NEW!
TOP 10 - French Billionaires
TOP 10 - German Billionaires

TOP 10 - Hong Kong Billionaires
TOP 1
1 - Indian Billionaires
TOP 10 - Indonesian Billionaires ... NEW!
TOP 10 - Israeli Billionaires

TOP 11 - Italian Billionaires
TOP 10 - Japanese Billionaires
TOP 9 - Malaysian Billionaires

TOP 11 - Mexican Billionaires
TOP 10 - Russian Billionaires
TOP 8 - S
audi Arabian Billionaires
TOP 10 - South Korean Billionaires
TOP 10 - Spanish Billionaires
TOP 10 - Swedish Billionaires
TOP 9- Swiss Billionaires

TOP 10- Taiwanese Billionaires
TOP 10- Turkish Billionaires
TOP 8- Ukranian Billionaires
... NEW!
TOP 10 - United Kingdom Billionaires
TOP 10 - USA Billionaire Men
TOP 10 - USA Billionaire Women

TOP 10 - Billionaires Under 35
TOP 12 - Billionaires Over 90




Top 10 Rich Lists 2011

The World
(men)

TOP 10 - World's Richest Men ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Carlos Slim Helu & family (2010 and 2011 World's richest man ... $20.5 billion richer this year! ... son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector) $74 billion Telecom Mexico 71yo - Widowed, 6 children
2.William Gates III (was world's richest person for 14 of the past 17 years ... Harvard Uni drop out ... he's given away $30 billion to his Gates Foundation), $56.0 billion Microsoft  USA 55yo - 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!)

$50.0 billion

Berkshire Hathaway 

USA

80yo - Widowed, re-married, 3 children

4. Bernard Arnault (up $13.5 billion from last year! ... richest European ... skilled pianist) $41 billion LVMH (world's largest luxury goods empire) France 62yo  - Married, 5 children
5. Lawrence Ellison (up $11.5 billion this year! ... University of Illinois, drop out ... Feb 2010, finally won yachting's most prestigious trophy, the America's Cup ... Intends to give 95% of wealth to charity.) $39.5 billion Oracle (purchased 75 companies over the years worth $40 billion) USA 66yo - Divorced, 2 children
6. Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's richest resident)

$31.1 billion

Mittal Steel (world's largest steelmaker)

India

60yo - Married, 2 children

7. Amancio Ortega (high school drop out ... shuns neckties) $31.0 billion Zara (apparel) (5,000 stores in 77 countries) Spain 74yo - Married, 3 children
8. Eike Batista (college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father was former mining minister of Brazil) $30.0 billion mining, oil Brazil 54yo - Divorced, 2 children (formerly married to Playboy cover girl)
9. Mukesh Ambani (Asia's richest resident ... built a 27-story home in Mumbai.) $27.0 billion petrochemicals India 53yo - Married, 3 children

10. Li Ka-shing (high school drop out ... Asia's most generous individual, has given out $1.56 billion to education and medical research)

$26.0 billion

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

Hong Kong

82yo - Widowed, 2 children

The World
(women)

TOP 10 - World's Richest Women ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
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) $26.5 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) USA 56yo - Widowed, 1 child
2. Liliane Bettencourt (2009 world's richest woman ... in Dec 2010 she reconciled with her daughter who was taking her to court for giving $1.4 billion to a well-known photographer) $23.5 billion L'Oreal (daughter of L'Oréal founder Eugene Schueller) France 88yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband, Andre Bettencourt - thought to have wartime ties with the Nazis - died Nov 2007 at age 88)
3. Alice Walton (daughter of retail pioneer Sam Walton) $21.2 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees) USA 61yo - Divorced
4. Iris Fontbona & family (up $8.2 billion from last year! ... second wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005)

$19.2 billion

mining/lumber

Chile

na - Widowed, 3 children

5. Susanne Klatten (won a civil case against Helg Sgarbi, the ex-lover who tried to blackmail her for millions. Sgarbi is now in jail.) $14.6 billion BMW, pharmaceuticals (inherited stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt) Germany 48yo - Married, 3 children
6. 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) $14.0 billion Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture) Sweden 87yo - Widowed, 3 children
7. Anne Cox Chambers $13.4 billion media/entertainment - Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers, 15 TV stations, 86 radio stations) USA 91yo - Divorced, 3 children
8. Savitri Jindal (husband, Om Prakash Jindal, died in helicopter crash in 2005) $13.2 billion inherited (steel) India 60yo - Widowed, 9 children
9. Abigail Johnson $11.3 billion Fidelity investments USA 49yo - Married, 2 children
10. Jacqueline Mars (third generation inherited company when dad died in 1999) $10.0 billion candy, pet food (incl. Mars bar, Snickers, M&Ms) world's largest confectioner ... acquired gum maker Wrigley in 2008 for $23 billion ... pet food division (includes Whiskas, Pedigree) now larger than candy by sales. USA 71yo - Divorced, 3 children

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

Richest Billionaire in 55 Countries

Richest Billionaire in each Country... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Citizenship
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Argentina

Carlos and Alejandro Bulgheroni

$5.1 billion

oil, gas (Bridas)

Argentina

na -

2. Australia Georgina Rinehart (battled for 14 years to win control of her father's assets from her stepmother)

$9.0 billion

mining

Australia 57yo - Widowed, 4 children
3. Austria Dietrich Mateschitz

$5.0 billion

Red Bull (banned because of its contents in Iceland and Uruguay)

Austria

66yo - Single, 1 child

4. Belgium Patokh Chodiev (Uzbekistan native)

$3.7 billion

mining, metals

Kazakhstan

58yo - Married, 3 children

5. Belize Huang Maoru & family (operates one of China's largest department store chains ... brother of Huang Shih Tsai (Taiwan))

$1.8 billion

retail (Maoye has 37 department stores in 16 Chinese cities)

China

45yo - Married

6. Brazil Eike Batista (college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father was former mining minister of Brazil) $30.0 billion iron-ore mining Brazil 54yo - Divorced, 2 children (formerly married to Playboy cover girl)
7. Canada David Thomson & family (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006)

$23.0 billion

inherited (media)

Canada

53yo - 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 (up $8.2 billion from last year! ... second wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005)

$19.2 billion

mining/lumber

Chile

na - Widowed, 3 children

9. China Robin Li (wealth estimate includes shares held by wife, Melissa Ma) $9.4 billion Internet China 42yo - Married
10. Colombia Luis Carlos Sarmiento (in association with Grameen Bank, will begin extending credit to micro-entrepreneurs)

$10.5 billion

banking

Colombia

78yo - Married, 5 children

11. Cyprus John Fredriksen (born in Norway ... world's leading oil tanker tycoon ... runs empire from 30,000 square foot manse in London's Chelsea)

$10.7 billion

shipping

UK

66yo - 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)

$9.2 billion

insurance

Czech Republic

46yo - Married, 4 children

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

$4.7 billion

Lego (world's fourth-largest toymaker by sales)

Denmark

63yo - Married, 3 children

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

$5.6 billion

construction

Egypt

50yo - na

15. Finland Antti Herlin

$1.9 billion

elevators, escalators

Finland

54yo - Married, 4 children

16. France Bernard Arnault (up $13.5 billion from last year! ... richest European ... skilled pianist)

$41 billion

LVMH (world's largest luxury goods empire)  

France

62yo - Married, 5 children

17. Germany Karl Albrecht (fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf)

$25.5 billion

supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores)

Germany

91yo - Married, 2 children 

18. Greece Spiro Latsis & family

$4.8 billion

banking, shipping, diversified

Switzerland

64yo - Married, 2 children 

19. Hong Kong Li Ka-shing (high school drop out ... Asia's most generous individual, has given out $1.56 billion to education and medical research)

$26.0 billion

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

Hong Kong

82yo - Widowed, 2 children

20. India Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's richest resident)

$31.1 billion

Mittal Steel (world's largest steelmaker)

UK

60yo - Married, 2 children

21. Indonesia Michael Hartono (brother of R. Budi Hartono)

$5.0 billion

tobacco

Indonesia

71yo - Married, 4 children

  R. Budi Hartono (brother of Michael Hartono) $5.0 billion

tobacco

Indonesia 70yo - Married, 3 children
22. Ireland Pallonji Mistry (rarely ever seen in public; became Irish citizen in recent years but maintains a residence in Mumbai)

$8.8 billion

construction (businesses are located in India)

India

81yo - Married, 4 children

23. Israel Sir Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born Israeli ... famously press-shy ... in May 2006, paid $40 million for Van Gogh's "Madame Ginoux" ... awarded an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth for his services to U.K. maritime heritage)

$10.3 billion

diversified (shipping, banking, real estate)

Monaco

89yo - Married, 2 children

24. Italy Michele Ferrero & family (real life Willie Wonka is one of Europe's richest and most secretive tycoons)

$18.0 billion

Ferrero chocolates (also Nutella and Tic Tac ... 18 factories, more than 21,000 employees worldwide)

Monaco

84yo - Married, 2 children

25. Japan Masayoshi Son

$8.1 billion

Softbank

Japan

53yo - Married, 2 children

26. Kazakhstan Vladmir Kim (former member of Kazakh President Nazarbayev's political council)

$4.7 billion

mining

Kazakhstan

50yo - 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)

$10.4 billion

construction

Kuwait

67yo - Married, 5 children

28. Lebanon

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

$2.8 billion

telecom

Lebanon

55yo - Married, 3 children

  Taha Mikati (brother of Najib Mikati) $2.8 billion telecom Lebanon 62yo - Married
29. Malaysia Robert Kuok (once known as the Sugar King of Asia)

$12.5 billion

diversified (shipping, real estate, media)

Hong Kong

87yo - Married, 8 children

30. Mexico Carlos Slim Helu & family (2010 and 2011 World's richest man ... $20.5 billion richer this year! ... son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector)

$74 billion

telecom

Mexico

71yo - Widowed, 6 children

31. Monaco David Nahmad & family (megadealers of modern and impressionist art by the most well-known names, from Monet and Matisse to Renoir and Rothko ... a skilled backgammon player who bets hundreds of thousands on the game in Monte Carlo, David holds the 1996 world title) $3.0 billion art (among those holdings: 300 Picassos, worth some $900 million ... the family buys and sells most of their works at auction) Monaco 63yo - Married, 3 children
32. Netherlands Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken (in 2002 Inherited 25% stake in Dutch brewer, Heineken, from her late father, Freddy Heineken)

$7.5 billion

inherited (Heineken) (over 170 premium brands in more than 65 countries)

UK

56yo - Married, 5 children

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

$5.5 billion

investments

New Zealand

55yo - Married, 2 children

34. Nigeria Aliko Dangote (up $11.7 billion since last year! ... closely linked to Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo)

$13.8 billion

inherited (sugar, flour, cement manufacturing)

Nigeria

53 - Married, 2 children

35. Norway Olav Thon (owns 425 properties in Norway and 25 abroad)

$4.0 billion

real estate (includes 61 shopping malls, hotels(7,000 rooms)

Norway

87yo - Married

36. Philippines Henry Sy & family (came to the Philippines as a child from China)

$5.8 billion

malls (Philippines largest shopping mall developer with 39 malls)

Philippines

86yo - Married, 6 children

37. Poland Jan Kulczyk (owns a yacht, travels in his own plane)

$2.6 billion

telecom, oil, beer

Poland

61yo - Divorced, 2 children

38. Portugal Americo Amorim (King of cork)

$5.1 billion

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

Portugal

76yo - Married, 3 children

39. Romania Dinu Patriciu (onetime architect and former parliamentarian)

$2.2 billion

oil & gas refineries

Romania

60yo - Married, 2 children

40. Russia Vladimir Lisin (in 1992 he joined up with tough group of traders called Trans-World Group; they came to dominate Russia's aluminum and steel exports) $24 billion Novolipetsk steel mill Russia 54yo - Married, 3 children
41. 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)

$19.6 billion

investments (incl. Citicorp)

Saudi Arabia

56yo - Married, 2 children

42. Singapore Wee Cho Yaw & family (educated in China ... avid tennis player)

$4.0 billion

banking

Singapore

82yo - Married, 5 children

43. South Africa Nicky Oppenheimer & family

$7.0 billion

De Beers (diamond mining)

South Africa

65yo - Married, 1 child

44. South Korea Lee Kun-Hee (paid $130 million in overdue taxes in 2008 after allegations of tax evasion, but got a presidential pardon later that year ... father of Jay Y. Lee)

$8.6 billion

Samsung (second largest mobile phone manufacturer after Nokia)

South Korea

69yo - Married, 3 children

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

$31.0 billion

Zara (apparel) (5,000 stores in 77 countries)

Spain

74yo - Married, 3 children

46. Sweden Stefan Persson (acquired the village of Linkenholt in Hampshire, England in 2009)

$24.5 billion

Hennes & Mauritz (retail) (affordable fashion collections in 2,200 stores in over 32 countries)

Sweden

63yo - Married, 3 children

47. Switzerland Ernesto Bertarelli & family (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

45yo - Married (to British beauty queen/singer ... released her debut album 'Elusive' in early 2010), 3 children

48. Taiwan Cher Wang & Wenchi Chen (daughter of the late Taiwan billionaire Y.C. Wang)

$6.8 billion

electronics

Taiwan

53yo - Married, 2 children

49. Thailand Dhanin Chearavanont & family (philanthropist restores Buddhist temples in Thailand, sponsors schools and orphanages)

$6.5 billion (wealth of his three brothers has been added to Dhanin's total worth)

diversified

Thailand

71yo - Married, 5 children

50. Turkey 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) $4.0 billion Turkcell mobile phone company Turkey 66yo - Married, 1 child
51. Ukraine Rinat Akhmetov (son of a coal miner, made his first million trading coal and coke ... serves as parliamentary member representing Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's party)

$16.0 billion

steel, coal mines

Ukraine

44yo - Married, 2 children

52. United Arab Emirates Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family (paragliding enthusiast )

$2.7 billion

banking

United Arab Emirates

56yo - Married, 5 children

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

$13.0 billion

real estate (incl. Mayfair)

UK

59yo - Married, 4 children

54. United States William Gates III (was world's richest person for 14 of the past 17 years ... Harvard Uni drop out ... he's given away $30 billion to his Gates Foundation), $56.0 billion Microsoft  USA 55yo - Married, 3 children  
55. Venezuela Gustavo Cisneros & family (Cisneros and his wife are familiar figures in high society, hobnobbing with former presidents like George H. W. Bush, designers and fellow billionaires)

$4.2 billion

inherited (media)

Venezuela

65yo - 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 ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Georgina Rinehart (battled for 14 years to win control of her father's assets from her stepmother) $9.0 billion mining Perth 57yo - Widowed, 4 children
2. Andrew Forrest (nicknamed Twiggy ... onetime stockbroker and keen amateur boxer ... a descendant of the first premier of the state of West Australia, Lord Forrest of Bunbury)

$6.7 billion

mining, metals

Perth

49yo - Married, 3 children

3. Frank Lowy & family (Czech-born) $4.4 billion retail property (shopping centres) (biggest shopping mall chains, Westfield, with 119 malls in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Britain) Sydney 80yo - Married, 3 children
3. James Packer (father, Kerry, died Dec 26, 2005) $4.4 billion inherited (media/Entertainment)   Sydney 43yo -Married (to model turned singer/songwriter Erica Baxter), 2 children
5. Harry Triguboff (born in China to Russian parents ) $3.4 billion residential property development (biggest builder of apartments in Australia ... owns and manages 4,000 apartments) Sydney 78yo - Married, 2 children
5. John Gandel (medical doctor ) $3.4 billion retail property (shopping centres) (owns 50% of Chadstone mall in Melbourne, the biggest in the southern hemisphere) Melbourne 76yo - Married, 4 children
7. Kerr Neilson (South African-born ... bought his first stock at age 13) $2.4 billion investments Sydney 61yo - Married, 2 children
8. Kerry Stokes (started out installing television aerials on suburban homes as a teenager) $2.0 billion media, Caterpillar (owns Channel 7 TV station) Perth 70yo - Divorced, 4 children
8. David Hains (active horse breeder and racer) $2.0 billion finance Melbourne  80yo - Married, 5 children
10. Lindsay Fox (dropped out of school at 16 ... avid car enthusiast ... owns 130 rare classic cars ... his business card still reads "Truck Driver.") $1.7 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 73yo - Married, 5 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 11 - Brazilian Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Eike Batista (college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father was former mining minister of Brazil) $30.0 billion iron-ore mining Rio de Janeiro 54yo - Divorced, 2 children (formerly married to Playboy cover girl)
2. Jorge Paulo Lemann (onetime tennis champion - he played at Wimbledon) $13.3 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 71yo - Married, 5 children
3. Joseph Safra (cut financial ties with his older brother Moise in mid-2006. ) $11.4 billion banking Sao Paulo 72yo - Married, 4 children
4. Marcel Herman Telles (keen spearfisherman) $6.2 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 61yo - Married, 2 children
5. Dorothea Steinbruch & family (sister-in-law of billionaire, Eliezer Steinbruch, who died in 2008) $5.8 billion inherited (steel) Sao Paulo na - Widowed, 3 children
6. Carlos Alberto Sicupira $5.5 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 63yo - Married, 3 children
7. Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family

$5.3 billion

diversified

Sao Paulo

82yo - na, 9 children

8. Aloysio de Andrade Faria (owns 150 pure-bred horses ... trained as a doctor) $4.3 billion banking Sao Paulo 90yo - Married, 5 children
9. Abilio dos Santos Diniz (in 1989 he was kidnapped by Canadian terrorists who held him in underground cells for 7 days until the federal police set him free) $3.4 billion inherited (retail) Sao Paulo  74yo - Married, 6 children
10. Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela (sister of Alfredo Egydio Arrudo Villela Filho) $3.2 billion inherited  (banking) Sao Paulo   37yo - Married
10. Alfredo Egydio Arrudo Villela Filho (brother of Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela) $3.2 billion inherited (banking) Sao Paulo   41yo - Married

Canada

TOP 12 - Canadian Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. David Thomson & family (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006)

$23.0 billion

inherited (media)

Toronto

53yo - Divorced, 3 children (split from Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show "The O.C.", April 2009 when she gave birth to a daughter)

2. Galen Weston & family (plays polo with Prince Charles ... Avid collector of avant-garde artist Christo) $7.1 billion retail (owns controlling stake in Canada's largest supermarket chain) Toronto 70yo - Married, 2 children
3. Jim Pattison (owns massive Palm Springs lair that once belonged to Frank Sinatra) $5.8 billion diversified (incl. Ripley's Believe It or Not and Guinness World Records) Vancouver 82yo - Married, 3 children
4. Paul Desmarais (bought his father's one-route Ontario bus company for $1- in 1951 ... family is friends with French President Nicolas Sarkozy) $4.5 billion finance Montreal 84yo - Married, 4 children
5. James & Arthur Irving (their brother and business partner John died at 78 in July 2010) $3.5 billion oil, gas (own 600 gas stations) Saint John n/a - n/a
6. Emanuele (Lino) Saputo (high school graduate ... born in Sicily, started Saputo in Montreal in 1954 with parents. Delivered mozzarella by bicycle in the early days) $3.4 billion inherited (dairy) Quebec 74yo - Married, 3 children
7. Jeffrey Skoll (now funnels his money, energy into making films for social change through Participant Media and supporting social entrepreneurs through his philanthropic Skoll Foundation) $3.2 billion Ebay USA, LA 46yo - Single
8. David Azrieli & family (Polish-born) $3.1 billion shopping malls Montreal 88yo - Married, 4 children
9. Bernard (Barry) Sherman (locked in court fight with relatives who allege they are owed part of the fortune) $2.9 billion Apotex pharmaceuticals (seeking over-the-counter-sales approval of its controversial "morning-after" pill ) Toronto 69yo - Married, 4 children
10. Guy Laliberte (accordian-playing fire-breather formed Cirque du Soleil in 1984 with a gang of street performing friends ... in 2009 became the first clown in space when he blasted into orbit after 6 months training in Russia) $2.5 billion Cirque du Soleil Montreal 51yo - Divorced, 5 children
10. Robert Miller (supports Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which promotes cryonics, the science of freezing bodies with the intent to restore life when technology becomes available) $2.5 billion electronics (Future Electronics is the world's 3rd largest electronics distributor) Montreal 65yo - Divorced, 2 children (currently sitting in the middle of a messy divorce with wife, Margaret Antonier)
10. Clayton Riddell $2.5 billion oil & gas Calgary  73yo - Married, 4 children

Kenneth Thomson,
Canada's richest man, died June 2006, age 82. He was worth $19.6 billion.
John Irving, died July 2010, age 78. At the time, he and his brothers, James and Arthur, were worth $4.0 billion.

China

TOP 10 - Chinese Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Robin Li (wealth estimate includes shares held by wife, Melissa Ma) $9.4 billion Baidu (China's online search leader) Beijing 42yo - Married
2. Liang Wengen $8.0 billion Sany Heavy Industry (makers of construction equipment) (Sany Group, employs 53,000 people around the world) Changsha 54yo - Married, 1 child
3. Zong Qinghou $5.9 billion beverages (Wahaha) Hangzhou  65yo - Married, 1 child
4. Li Li & family $5.7 billion pharmaceuticals Shenzhen  47yo - Married
5. He Xiangjian $5.5 billion appliances (Midea) Foshan  68yo - Married, 2 children
5. Wu Yajun & family (richest self-made woman in the world) $5.5 billion real estate Chongqing 47yo - Married
7. Hui Ka Yan (briefly China's richest man in 2009 ... shares wealth with wife) $5.1 billion real estate (has more than 18,000 employees and projects (mostly residential) in 60 Chinese cities) Guangzhou 52yo - Married
8. Ma Huateng $5.0 billion Internet (cofounded Tencent in 1999 - it's powerful "QQ" chat has over 500 million regular users) Shenzhen 39yo - Married
8. Zhang Jindong $5.0 billion Suning Appliances (China's largest electrical appliance chain - had 600 retail stores and planned to open another 400 by 2010) Nanjing 47yo - Married
10. Wang Jianlin $4.6 billion real estate (in a flurry of openings in the month of December, 2010, alone, Wanda opened five "Wanda Plazas" in different cities, plus two hotels on picturesque Hainan Island) Dalian  56yo - Married, 1 child

Egypt

TOP 8 - Egyptian Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Nassef Sawiris (youngest son of Orascom conglomerate founder and fellow billionaire, Onsi Sawiris) $5.6 billion inherited (construction) Cairo  50yo - n/a
2. Naguib Sawiris (eldest son of Orascom conglomerate founder and fellow billionaire, Onsi Sawiris) $3.5 billion inherited (telecom) Cairo  56yo - Married, 4 children
3. Onsi Sawiris (Onsi's three sons Naguib, Samih and Nassef run separate Orascom telecom, hotels and construction divisions) $2.9 billion construction Cairo  81yo - Married, 3 children
4. Mohamed Mansour (the 3 Mansour brothers are the biggest sellers of GM vehicles worldwide ... Mohammed was the country's Minister of Transportation from 2005 until 2009) $2.0 billion diversified, cotton trading Cairo  63yo - Married, 2 children
5. Yasseen Mansour (the 3 Mansour brothers are the biggest sellers of GM vehicles worldwide) $1.8 billion diversified Cairo  49yo - Married, 4 children
5. Youssef Mansour (the 3 Mansour brothers are the biggest sellers of GM vehicles worldwide ... with wife, enjoys collecting Louis XIV furniture and Renaissance paintings.) $1.8 billion diversified Cairo  65yo - Married, 5 children
7. Samih Sawiris (middle son of Orascom founder and billionaire Onsi Sawiris) $1.4 billion inherited (hotels) Cairo  54yo - Married
8. Mohamed Al Fayed & family (flamboyant Egyptian businessman, father of Dodi Al Fayed who died in a car crash along with Princess Diana in Paris in August 1997 ... a natural born salesman, began flogging homemade lemonade to his classmates during recess) $1.2 billion retail UK, London?  78yo - Married, 5 children

France

TOP 10 - French Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Bernard Arnault (up $13.5 billion from last year! ... richest European ... skilled pianist)

$41 billion

LVMH (world's largest luxury goods empire)  

Paris

62yo - Married, 5 children

2. Liliane Bettencourt (2009 world's richest woman ... in Dec 2010 she reconciled with her daughter who was taking her to court for giving $1.4 billion to a well-known photographer) $23.5 billion L'Oreal (daughter of L'Oréal founder Eugene Schueller) Paris 88yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband, Andre Bettencourt - thought to have wartime ties with the Nazis - died Nov 2007 at age 88)
3. Francois Pinault & familly (high school drop out ... was awarded the French Legion d'honneur in 2009 ... son, Francois-Henri, married actress Salma Hayek on Valentine's Day 2009)
$11.5 billion retail (incl. Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Puma) ... art lover also owns auction house Christie's (his personal art collection, worth an estimated $1.7 billion, encompasses 2,000-plus works by over 80 artists including Pablo Picasso) Paris 74yo - Married, 3 children
4. Serge Dassault & family (French senator) $9.3 billion aviation (makers of Mirage and Rafale jets) Paris 85yo - Married, 4 children
5. Jean-Claude Decaux & family (started out putting ads on public toilets and bus shelters) $6.0 billion advertising (largest outdoor advertising company in the world ... places ads in 55 countries)   Paris 73yo - Married, 3 children
5. Alain & Gerard Wertheimer (extremely discreet, press-shy brothers) $6.0 billion inherited (Chanel) (apparel, perfume) (Chanel No. 5 perfume is one of the world's top selling scents) USA, New York; Switzerland, Cologny n/a - Married / Married
7. Alain Merieux & family $4.3 billion biotech (specializes in the diagnosis of bacteria in the human body and infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis) Lyon

73yo - Married, 3 children (eldest son killed in plane crash in 1996, age 27. 2nd- eldest son died of cardiac failure in 2006, age 39)

8. Xavier Niel (in 1984, while still in high school, he established Minitel, France's forerunner to the internet. He launched the country's first internet provider, WorldNet, in 1993 and sold it for $50 million just before the internet bubble burst) $3.7 billion internet, telecom Paris  43yo - Single, 2 children
9. Martin & Olivier Bouygues (brothers ... Martin is a close confident of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and godfather of the president's son ... was awarded the Legion d'honneur in July 2010) $3.6 billion telecom, media, construction Paris 58/60yo -n/a
10. Pierre Bellon & family (penned autobiography, "I've Had a Great Time") $2.9 billion inherited (food services) Paris 81yo - Married, 4 children

Germany

TOP 10 - German Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Karl Albrecht (fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf)

$25.5 billion

supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores)

Muehlheim an der Ruhr

91yo - Married, 2 children 

2. Michael Otto & family (practices tai chi ... collects modern art) $16.6 billion retail (world's largest mail-order company ... now world's second biggest internet retailer after Amazon) Hamburg  67yo - Married, 2 children
3. 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.) $14.6 billion BMW, pharmaceuticals (Inherited stake in automaker BMW from late father Herbert Quandt) Bad Homburg 48yo - Married, 3 children
4. Berthold & Theo Jr. Albrecht & family (brothers inherited leading discount supermarket chain Aldi Nord when their father, Theo Albrecht, died in July 2010 at age 88) $14.4 billion Aldi, Trader Joes n/a  n/a -
5. Stefan Quandt (brother of Susanne Klatten) $10.7 billion BMW Frankfurt 44yo - Married, 1child
6. Klaus-Michael Kuhne $10.0 billion shipping Switzerland, Schindellegi 73yo - Married
7. Johanna Quandt (3rd wife of Herbert Quandt) $9.8 billion BMW Bad Homburg   84yo - Widowed, 2 children
7. Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler (mother and son) $9.8 billion ball bearings Herzogenaurach  n/a -
9. August von Finck $7.3 billion investments Switzerland, Thurgau 81yo - Married, 4 children
10. Hasso Plattner (Germany's largest philanthropist ... sports enthusiast sails his Morning Glory yacht competitively; skis, snowboards, plays golf and tennis) $5.0 billion SAP (software) Heidelberg 67yo - Married, 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 2010.

Hong Kong

TOP 10 - Hong Kong Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal

1. Li Ka-shing (high school drop out ... Asia's most generous individual, has given out $1.56 billion to education and medical research)

$26.0 billion

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

Hong Kong

82yo - Widowed, 2 children

2. Kwok Thomas & Raymond & family (deeply religious brothers, opened replica of Noah's Ark in Hong Kong in May 2009 ... (clan restructured its trusts to eliminate eldest brother Walter Kwok as a beneficiary, shifting his shares to his children) $20.0 billion inherited (real estate) (Sun Hung Kai Properties) Hong Kong n/a - n/a
3. Lee Shau Kee (nicknamed "Asia's Warren Buffett" ) $19.0 billion real estate Hong Kong 83yo - Divorced, 5 children 
4. Cheng Yu-tung $9.0 billion New World Development (real estate) Hong Kong  85yo - 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) $6.3 billion real estate Hong Kong 59yo - Divorced, 5 children
6. Sir Michael Kadoorie & family (Kadoorie is the scion of a family of Iraqi Jews who made an early fortune in Shanghai a century ago and later settled in Hong Kong ... was knighted in the U.K. for his extensive charitable and philanthropic activities.) $6.1 billion diversified Hong Kong 70yo - Married, 3 children
7. Zhang Zhirong (his first real estate development project was Sunshine Greenland in Shanghai in 1996) $5.4 billion shipbuilding Hong Kong 42yo - Married
8. Peter Woo & family (inherited fortune from father-in-law, Sir Y.K.Pao) $5.1 billion real estate (recently finished building one of Shanghai's tallest office structures, located in the city's pricey Jing'An district) Hong Kong 65yo - Married
9. William Fung $4.4 billion apparel Hong Kong 63yo - Married, 3 children
10. Chee Chen Tung & family $4.2 billion transportation (has 280 offices in 55 countries) Hong Kong 69yo - Married, 2 children

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

India

TOP 11 - Indian Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's richest resident)

$31.1 billion

Mittal Steel (world's largest steelmaker)

UK, London

60yo - Married, 2 children

2. Mukesh Ambani (Asia's richest resident and older brother of Anil Ambani ... built a 27-story home in Mumbai.) $27.0 billion petrochemicals, oil, gas Mumbai 53yo - Married, 3 children
3. Azim Premji $16.8 billion Wipro (software)   Bangalore  65yo - Married, 2 children
4. Shashi & Ravi Ruia (brothers) $15.8 billion diversified Mumbai   67yo - Married, 2 children
5. Savitri Jindal (husband, Om Prakash Jindal, died in helicopter crash in 2005) $13.2 billion inherited (steel) New Delhi & Hisar 60yo - Widowed, 9 children
6. Gautam Adani $10.0 billion commodities, infrastructure Ahmedabad  48yo - Married, 2 children
7. Kumar Birla $9.2 billion commodities (cement, copper & aluminium) Mumbai   43yo - Married, 3 children
8. Anil Ambani (marathon runner ... younger brother of Mukesh Ambani.) $8.8 billion diversified Mumbai 51yo - Married, 2 children
9. Sunil Mittal & family(son of a politician) $8.3 billion Telecom (has 60 million customers) New Delhi  53yo - Married, 3 children
10. Adi Godrej & family $7.3 billion diversified Mumbai  68yo - Married, 3 children
10. 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) $7.3 billion real estate New Delhi 79yo - Married, 3 children

Indonesia

TOP 10 - Indonesian Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Michael Hartono (brother of R. Budi Hartono) $5.0 billion tobacco, banking Kudus   71yo - Married, 4 children
1. R. Budi Hartono (brother of Michael Hartono) $5.0 billion tobacco, banking Kudus  70yo - Married, 3 children
3. Low Tuck Kwong (born in Singapore ... animal lover has a zoo in Borneo with dozens of animals including gibbons, sun bears, peacocks and orangutans.) $3.6 billion coal Indonesia?  62yo - Married, 2 children
4. Martua Sitorus (former economics student traded shrimp as a teenager, then switched to palm oil ... bought his first plantation in 1994) $2.7 billion palm oil Singapore  51yo - Married, 4 children
5. Peter Sondakh $2.4 billion investments Surabaya  59yo - Married, 3 children
6. Sri Prakash Lohia (one of three billionaire brothers - with Aloke, Om Prakash - whose fortune spans India, Thailand and Indonesia ... his wife's brother is Indian steel billionaire, Lakshmi Mittal) $2.1 billion polyester UK, London   58yo - Married, 2 children
7. Kiki Barki (visits China often) $2.0 billion coal Indonesia?  71yo - Married
8. Sukanto Tanoto (eldest of 7 boys dropped out of school at age 17 to help support his family ... taught himself English by translating Readers' Digest, Life and Newsweek) $1.9 billion diversified Singapore  61yo - Married, 4 children
9. Edwin Soeryadjaya (US-educated son of a former billionaire who founded automotive group Astra but eventually lost control and much of his wealth ... he began working to restore family's fortune in 1998) $1.6 billion coal Indonesia?  62yo - Married, 3 children
10. Garibaldi Thohir $1.5 billion coal Indonesia?  45yo - Married, 3 children

Israel

TOP 10 - Israeli Billionaires... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Sir Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born Israeli ... famously press-shy ... In May 2006, paid $40 million for Van Gogh's "Madame Ginoux" ... awarded an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth for his services to U.K. maritime heritage)

$6.5 billion

diversified (shipping, banking, real estate)

Monaco, Monte Carlo

89yo - Married, 2 children

2. Beny Steinmetz $2.0 billion diamonds (largest customer of De Beers) Netanya 54yo - Married, 4 children
3. Shari Arison (eccentric heiress published book outlining philosophy of connecting business with spirituality) $3.4 billion inherited (banking, housing & construction) Tel Aviv 53yo - Married, 4 children
4. Arnon Milchan (former soccer player ... has extensive art collection) $3.6 billion New Regency Productions (include Pretty Woman, The War of the Roses, Fight Club and Mr. and Mrs. Smith) Tel Aviv 66yo - Married, 4 children
5. Stef Wertheimer & family (high school dropout) $3.5 billion tools Tefen 85yo - Married, 4 children
6. Alexander Machkevich (native of Kyrgyzstan ... has been very active in Jewish causes) $3.3 billion mining, metals Kazakhstan, Almaty 57yo - Married, 2 children
7. 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 62yo - Married, 5 children
8. Gil Shwed (in spare time, avid photographer and passionate about cooking) $1.6 billion software Tel Aviv  43yo - Single
9. 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 55yo - Married, 9 children
10. Michael Federmann & family $1.4 billion defense, hotels Tel Aviv 67yo - Married, 3 children

Italy

TOP 11 - Italian Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Michele Ferrero & family (real life Willie Wonka is one of Europe's richest and most secretive tycoons)

$18.0 billion

Ferrero chocolates (also Nutella and Tic Tac ... 18 factories, more than 21,000 employees worldwide)

Monaco, Monte Carlo

84yo - Married, 2 children

2. Leonardo Del Vecchio (sent to an orphanage at age 7) $11 billion eyewear (Ray-Ban) (owns over 6,000 retail stores) Milan 75yo - 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 ) $7.8 billion media North of Milan 74yo - Divorced, 5 children
4. Giorgio Armani (goes to the gym for at least an hour a day ... received France's Legion of Honor in summer 2008) $7.0 billion Armani fashion / apparel Milan 76yo - Single
5. Carlo Benetton $2.4 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)  Treviso 67yo - Single, 4 children
5. Gilberto Benetton $2.4 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) 
Treviso 69yo - Married, 2 children
5. Giuliana Benetton $2.4 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)  Treviso 73yo - Married, 4 children
5. Luciano Benetton $2.4 billion Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries) Treviso 75yo - Married, 4 children
9. Mario Moretti Polegato (owns two Lamborghinis, a Ferrari 360 Modena Spider, five Arabian horses and six antique Moto Guzzi motorcycles.) $2.3 billion Geox shoes (second largest casual shoe maker in world) Crocetta del Montello 58yo - Married, 1 child
10. Ennio Doris & family (good buddies with billionaire Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi) $1.5 billion insurance Tombolo 70yo - Married, 2 children

Japan

TOP 10 - Japanese Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Masayoshi Son $8.1 billion Softbank (software) Tokyo 53yo - Married, 2 children
2. 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 ... sticking to plan of opening approximately 300 stores a year to gain on larger competitors)

Tokyo

62yo - Married, 2 children

3. Akira Mori & family

$6.8 billion

Mori Trust (real estate)

Tokyo

74yo - Married, 3 children

4. Kunio Busujima & family $5.9 billion pinball machines (manufacturing) Gunma 85yo - Married, 4 children
5. Hiroshi Mikitani $5.6 billion e-commerce (Rakuten, Internet shopping mall, hosts more than 30,000 virtual stores selling 40,000 products) Tokyo 46yo - Married, 1 child
6. Hiroshi Yamauchi $4.6 billion Nintendo Kyoto 83yo - Married, 2 children
7. Takemitsu Takizaki $3.8 billion sensors (manufacturing) Osaka 65yo - Married
8. Eitaro Itoyama (circumnavigated the world 3 times in a 150-foot-yacht) $3.0 billion golf courses Tokyo 68yo - Married, 2 children
9. Katsumi Tada $2.9 billion real estate Tokyo  65yo - Married
10. Masahiro Miki (former amateur boxer) $2.7 billion retail (ABC Mart), (discount shoe retailer, opens an average of 50 new stores a year) Tokyo 55yo - Married

Taikichiro Mori (d. 1993, age 88) was the World's Richest Person from 1991-1992. When he died he was worth $13 billion.

Malaysia

TOP 9 - Malaysian Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Robert Kuok (once known as the Sugar King of Asia) $12.5 billion diversified (shipping, real estate, media...) Hong Kong 87yo - Married, 8 children
2. Ananda Krishnan (notable philanthropist ... has son who is a monk and lives in a forest) $9.5 billion telecom Kuala Lumpur 72yo - Married, 3 children
3. Lee Shin Cheng (left school at 11 to help support his family, selling ice cream on a bicycle for 4 years before returning to finish high school) $5.0 billion palm oil (IOI Group is one of the biggest property developers in Malaysia) Jeram 72yo - Married, 6 children
4. Quek Leng Chan $4.8 billion diversified (incl. banking) Wee 70yo - Married, 3 children
5. Teh Hong Piow $4.7 billion banking Kuala Lumpur 80yo - Married, 4 children
6. Yeoh Tiong Lay & family $2.7 billion diversified (construction, utilities, hotels ...) Kuala Lumpur 81yo - Married, 7 children
7. Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary $2.5 billion diversified (rice, mining ...) Kuala Lumpur 59yo - Married, 5 children
8. Vincent Tan (exercise buff, loves scuba diving) $1.2 billion diversified (hotels, lotteries, real estate, finance, fast food franchises) (owns social networking website Friendster.com and bought shares of Facebook through his Internet company, MOL.com. Operates Wendy's, Starbucks, Papa Johns Pizza, Kenny Rogers Roasters, Krispy Kreme and Borders bookstores in Malaysia) Kuala Lumpur na - Married, 11 children
8. Tiong Hiew King (some call him Asia's Rupert Murdoch) $1.2 billion timber, palm oil, media Sibu 76yo - Married, 4 children

Mexico

TOP 11 - Mexican Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Carlos Slim Helu & family (2010 and 2011 World's richest man ... $20.5 billion richer this year! ... son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector)

$74.0 billion

telecom

Mexico City

71yo - Widowed, 6 children

2. German Larrea Mota-Velasco & family (press shy ... never gives media interviews or holds press conferences) $16 billion mining Mexico City 57yo - Married
3. Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez & family (has a 300-foot-yacht) $11.9 billion mining silver (one of the world's largest silver miners) Mexico City 79yo - Married, 4 children
4. Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family (in Sep 2006, paid $7.5 million to settle accusations about a business scandal) $8.2 billion retail, media , financing Mexico City 55yo - Married, 6 children (3 with first wife, 3 with second wife ... including twins born Feb 2009)
5. Jeronimo Arango & family $4.0 billion supermarkets (was a Wal-Mart partner) USA, LA 85yo - n/a
6. Daniel Servitje Montull & family $3.5 billion inherited (bakeries) (world's largest bread maker)  Mexico City  51yo - n/a
7. Emilio Azcárraga Jean $2.3 billion media (inherited empire in 1997) Mexico City 43yo - Married, 1 child
8. Roberto Gonzalez Barrera & family $2.0 billion banking, tortillas   Monterrey  79yo - n/a
9. Roberto Hernandez Ramirez $1.2 billion Banamex (banking) Mexico City 68yo - Married, 3 children
10. Alfredo Harp Helu & family (kidnapped in 1994 for 3 months ... owns the Red Devils baseball team ... cousin of Carlos Slim Helu) $1.0 billion Banamex (banking) Mexico City 67yo - Married, 4 children
10. 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 56yo - na

Russia

TOP 10 - Russian Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Vladimir Lisin (in 1992 he joined up with tough group of traders called Trans-World Group; they came to dominate Russia's aluminum and steel exports) $24 billion Novolipetsk steel mill Moscow 54yo - Married, 3 children
2. Alexei Mordashov (up $8.6 billion! ... son of mill worker parents became finance director of a steel mill. When the plant's elderly general director instructed him to buy up company shares so it would not fall into the hands of an outsider, Mordashov bought most of them himself) $18.5 billion Severstal (steel) Moscow 45yo - Divorced, 3 children
3. Mikhail Prokhorov (six-foot-eight bachelor and martial arts buff ... often featured in gossip pages for his parties ... bought New Jersey Nets in 2009 ... awarded the French Legion of Honor in recognition of his efforts at Franco-Russian cultural exchange) $18.0 billion metals Moscow 45yo - Single
4. Vladmir Potanin (in Jan 2010 announced he will transfer his fortune to charity and not his children) $17.8 billion Norilsk Nickel Moscow 50yo - Married, 3 children
5. Alisher Usmanov (up $10.5 billion!) $17.7 billion steel, telecom, stocks Moscow  57yo - Married
6. 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)

$16.8 billion

Russian Aluminum (world's largest aluminum producer)

Moscow

43yo - Married, 2 children

7. Mikhail Fridman (strong Kremlin connections) $15.1 billion oil, banking, telecom Moscow 46yo - Divorced, 2 children
8. Vagit Alekperov (has good relationship with Vladimir Putin) $13.9 billion Lukoil (in December 2006 he acquired nearly 400 gas stations from ConocoPhillips) Moscow 60yo - Married, 1 child
9. Roman Abramovich (Russia's richest man 2005-2007 ... college drop out; orphaned as a child ... owns U.K. soccer club, Chelsea ... took delivery of the world's largest yacht this year, the 533-foot Eclipse, reported to have cost over $250 million) $13.4 billion steel, investments Moscow 44yo - Divorced, 6 children (last child in 2009 with g'f)
10. Viktor Vekselberg (owns collection of Faberge eggs) $13.0 billion oil, metals Moscow  53yo - Married, 2 children

Saudi Arabia

TOP 8 - Saudi Arabian Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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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)

$19.6 billion

investments (incl. Citicorp) (has been pushing women's advancement ... in his offices and his palace his female employees do not wear the abaya, the black body-shielding robe and head scarf that Saudi women must don in public)

Riyadh

56yo - Married, 2 children

2. Mohammed Al Amoudi (born in Ethiopia ... is close to the Saudi royal family, which sees him as a can-do guy) $12.3 billion oil (owns a gold mine in Ethiopia, oil refineries in Morocco and Sweden, oil fields off west Africa) Jeddah 66yo - Married, 8 children
3. Sulaiman Al Rajhi (one of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) $7.7 billion banking (Al Rajhi Bank is one of the largest Islamic banks in the world) Riyadh 91yo - Married, 23 children
(yes ... 23!!!!)
4. Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber $7.0 billion real estate, hotels (owns and manages 62 hotels and resorts in the UK, France, Austria, Portugal and Egypt) Jeddah 52yo - Married, 3 children
5. Abdullah Al Rajhi (one of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) $2.5 billion banking (Al Rajhi Bank is one of the largest Islamic banks in the world) Riyadh na - Married
6. Mohammed Al Issa (fined $26,667 in June 2009 for insider trading) $2.3 billion investments  Riyadh 86yo - na
7. Mohammed Al Rajhi (one of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) $1.7 billion banking (Al Rajhi Bank is one of the largest Islamic banks in the world) Riyadh na - Married
7. Saleh Kamel (plans to establish a global Islamic megabank) $1.7 billion  diversified (media, banking, tourism, real estate...) Jeddah 69yo - Married

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.
Saleh Al Rajhi, died Feb, 2011, age 99. He was worth $5.8 billion. Also famous for having 61 children (22 sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)

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

South Korea

TOP 10 - South Korean Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
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 ... father of Jay Y. Lee) $8.6 billion Samsung (second largest mobile phone manufacturer after Nokia) Seoul 69yo - Married, 3 children
2. Chung Mong-Koo (brother of Chung Mong-Joon) $6.0 billion inherited (Hyundai) (Hyundai Motor became the world's fourth-largest automaker beating out Ford in early 2009) Seoul 72yo - Married, 4 children
3. Chung Mong-Joon (brother of Chung Mong-Koo ... Korean politician ... has close ties to the current Korean president, a former Hyundai executive ... vice president of FIFA, world governing body for soccer) $3.2 billion inherited (Hyundai, ship-building) (Hyundai Motor became the world's fourth-largest automaker beating out Ford in early 2009) Seoul 59yo - Married, 3 children
4. Jay Y. Lee (only son of Lee Kun-Hee) $2.4 billion inherited (Samsung - second largest mobile phone manufacturer after Nokia) Seoul 42yo - Divorced, 2 children
5. Chung Eui-Sun (oldest son of Chung Mong-Koo) $2.1 billion inherited (Hyundai) (Hyundai Motor became the world's fourth-largest automaker beating out Ford in early 2009) Seoul 40yo - Married, 2 children
5. Shin Chang-Jae $2.1 billion inherited (insurance) Seoul 57yo - Married, 2 children
7. Chey Tae-Won (pardoned in 2008 for accounting fraud) $2.0 billion inherited (diversified) Seoul 50yo - Married, 3 children (wife is daughter of South Korea's former president, Roh Tae Woo)
7. Kim Jung-Ju $2.0 billion online gaming Seoul  43yo - Married, 2 children
7. Shin Dong-Bin $2.0 billion inherited (retail, food) Seoul 56yo - Married, 3 children
10. Shin Dong-Joo $1.9 billion inherited (retail, food) Japan, Tokyo 57yo - Married, 1 child

Spain

TOP 10 - Spanish Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Amancio Ortega (high school drop out ... shuns neckties)

$31.0 billion

Zara (apparel) (5,000 stores in 77 countries)

La Coruna

74yo - Married, 3 children

2. Isak Andic & family (enthusiastic sailor ... his family came to Spain from Turkey) $6.1 billion Mango (apparel) (known for producing reasonably priced, trendy women's apparel ... has more than 1,200 stores in 92 countries) Barcelona 56yo - Divorced, 3 children
3. Rosalia Mera (ex-wife of Amancio Ortega) $4.2 billion Zara (apparel) (4,500 stores in 73 countries) La Coruna 67yo - Divorced, 2 children
4. Manuel Jove (carpenter by trade ... collects art from Spanish province of Galicia) $3.0 billion real estate La Coruna 69yo - Married, 2 children
5. Juan Roig $2.9 billion supermarkets (Mercadona, the third largest chain of supermarkets in Spain with 1,270 stores) Spain?  61yo - Married, 4 children
6. Alicia Koplowitz (rumored to be romantically involved with the Duque de Huescar, heir to the Spanish aristocratic house of Alba ... sister of Esther Koplowitz) $2.3 billion investments Madrid 56yo - Divorced, 3 children
7. Esther Koplowitz (Spanish nobility, holds the title of Marquesa de Casa Penalver. She is married to Fernando Falco, Marques de Cubas, scion of an old Spanish family) $1.9 billion Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (construction) Barcelona 57yo - Married, 3 children
7. Florentino Perez (president of Real Madrid soccer club from 2000 to 2006. Resigned in February 2006 after string of defeats. Re-elected president in 2009) $1.9 billion construction Madrid 64yo - Married, 3 children
9. 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 ... raises bulls for bullfighting) $1.7 billion steel Madrid 48yo - Married, 1 child
10. Emilio Botin (Botin's great-grandfather discovered the famous Altamira caves in northern Spain in 1879) $1.5 billion banking Santander 76yo - Married, 6 children

Sweden

TOP 10 - Swedish Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Stefan Persson (acquired the village of Linkenholt in Hampshire, England in 2009) $24.5 billion Hennes & Mauritz (retail) (brought on big names like Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney to design affordable collections for it's 2,200 stores in over 32 countries) Stockholm 63yo - Married, 3 children
2. 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) $14.0 billion Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture) Switzerland, Vaud 87yo - Widowed, 3 children
3. 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 ... stands 6'8" tall; speaks fluent Russian) $10.0 billion Tetra Laval (packaging) (Moved to England in 1980 to avoid punitive Swedish taxes) UK, Wadhurst 84yo - Married, 3 children
4. Antonia Johnson (avid horsewoman ) $6.5 billion A. Johnson & Co. (diversified) Stockholm 67yo - Married, 4 children
5. Ingvar Kamprad & family (down $17 billion ... proved the foundation he created and heads, in tax haven Lichtenstein - valued at $12 billion - owns Ikea, and its bylaws bar him and his family from benefiting from its funds)

$6.0 billion

Ikea (retail) (stores in 37 countries)

Switzerland, Lausanne

84yo - Married, 4 children

6. Liselott (Lottie) Persson
(sister of
Stefan Persson )
$3.4 billion Hennes & Mauritz (retail) (brought on big names like Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney to design affordable collections for it's 2,200 stores in over 32 countries) Stockholm 61yo - n/a
7. Fredrik Lundberg (once a junior world champion of curling) $2.9 billion real estate / investments (has about 150 properties in its portfolio) Stockholm 59yo - Married, 2 children
7. Melker Schorling $2.9 billion investments Stockholm 63yo - Married, 2 children
9. Count Gustaf Douglas (his familly is of Scottish origin) $2.6 billion Assa Abloy (locks) / security (worlds largest producer of locks) Stockholm 73yo - Married, 2 children
10. Thomas Sandell (badminton prodigy) $1.1 billion hedge funds USA, NY, New York 50yo - Married, 1child

Switzerland

TOP 9 - Swiss Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Ernesto Bertarelli & family (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

45yo - Married (to British beauty queen/singer ... released her debut album 'Elusive' in early 2010), 3 children

2. Hansjorg Wyss (wine connoisseur owns a 900-acre ranch and vineyard in California) $6.4 billion Synthes (medical-implants and biomaterials ) USA, Penn, West Chester 76yo - divorced, 1 child
3. Thomas Schmidheiny (one of the Schmidheiny brothers ... wine aficionado owns vineyards in Argentina, Australia, California and Switzerland ... honorary Consul-General of the Republic of Cyprus in Switzerland) $4.8 billion Holcim (cement) (world's second-largest supplier of cement and concrete) Balgach 65yo - Married, 4 children
4. Walter Haefner (OLDEST BILLIONAIRE ... his Moyglare Stud Farm in Ireland - now transferred to his dau. - has approx. 100 horses and has bred such winners as Simple Exchange and Media Puzzle) $4.0 billion Computer Associates (software) Zurich 100yo - Married, 2 children
5. Sergio Mantegazza (loves expensive toys, has a helicopter, a yacht (Lady Marina) and a $600,000 Mercedes Maybach) $2.9 billion Globus & Cosmos (travel) Lugano 83yo - Married, 2 children
5. Stephan Schmidheiny (one of the Schmidheiny brothers ... facing lawsuits in Switzerland and Italy surrounding the asbestos-related deaths of former plant workers ... art collector favors contemporary painters) $2.9 billion investments Zurich 63yo - Married, 2 children
7. Jean-Claude Gandur (his collection of Egyptian antiquities is among the best in the world) $2.0 billion oil trading and exploration UK, London 62yo - na
7. Esther Grether & family (her 20th century art collection includes over 600 pieces by Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon) $2.0 billion Swatch, art collection Basel 75yo - Widowed, 2 children
9. Thomas Straumann (also owns luxury hotels in Switzerland) $1.3 billion dental implants Basel  47yo - n/a

Taiwan

TOP 10 - Taiwanese Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Cher Wang & Wenchi Chen (daughter of the late Taiwan billionaire Y.C. Wang) $6.8 billion inherited (technology) Taipei 53yo - Married, 2 children
2. Tsai Wan-tsai & family (uncle of 3 billionaire brothers - Tsai Hong-tu, T.Y. Tsai, Chen-da Tsai) $6.3 billion banking Taipei 81yo - Married, 4 children
3. Terry Gou (started company with $7,500 in 1974) $5.7 billion electronics Taipei 60yo - Married, 4 children (remarried in 2008 after first wife passed away)
4. Tsai Eng-Meng $5.2 billion food (Want Want China) China, Shanghai 54yo - Married
5. Wang Yung-tsai (brother of deceased Taiwan entrepreneurial legend Y.C. Wang) $3.5 billion plastics  Taipei  n/a -
6. Barry Lam $3.0 billion electronics (Quanta Computer is one of the world's largest manufacturers of notebook computers) Taipei 61yo - Married, 2 children
6. Lin Yu-lin (one of the 3 Lin brothers) $3.0 billion real estate Taipei 75yo - Married, 7 children
8. Lin Rong San (one of the 3 Lin brothers) $2.8 billion real estate Taipei na - Married, 4 children
9. Luo Jye & family $2.2 billion tires (customers include GM, Ford) Taiwan?  85yo - Married, 4 children
9. T.Y. Tsai (one of 3 Tsai brothers ... collects cars) $2.2 billion inherited (Cathay Financial ) ... father, Tsai Wan-lin, died 2004. Taipei na - Married, 1 child

Tsai Wan-lin, died of heart disease on September 27, 2004, age 81. He was Taiwan's richest person, worth $4.6 billion.
Y.C. Wang
died in his sleep on October 15, 2008, age 91. He was Taiwan's 2nd richest person, worth $5.5 billion.

Turkey

TOP 10 - Turkish Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. 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)

$4.0 billion

Turkcell mobile phone company

Istanbul

66yo - Married, 1 child

2. Semahat Sevim Arsel (one of 3 Koc children ... because of parasite in her blood spent years fighting illness in hospital ... fluent in English and German ... brother Rahmi Koc, sister Suna Kirac and nephews Mustafa, Omer and Ali Koc are also billionaires) $3.0 billion diversified Istanbul 82yo - Married (husband is a doctor)
2. 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 66yo - Married, 2 children
4. Mustafa Rahmi Koc (one of 3 Koc children ... spent two years traveling the world on his yacht after he retired ... his sisters Semahat Arsel and Suna Kirac and his sons Mustafa Vehbi, Mehmet Omer and Yildirim Ali Koc are also billionaires) $2.9 billion diversified Istanbul 80yo -Divorced, 3 children
5. Murat Ulker (fluent in English and German ... enjoys sailing, hunting and travel) $2.8 billion food manufacturing Istanbul 50yo - Married, 3 children
6. Ferit Faik Sahenk (brother of Filiz Sahenk ... bankrolled "Gallipoli" movie) $2.7 billion bank and media Istanbul 46yo - Married (to Diana Sahenk, an American), 2 children
6. Sarik Tara (born in Macedonia ... son Mehmet Sinan Tara is also a billionaire) $2.7 billion Enka (Turkey's largest construction company) Istanbul  80yo - Married, 3 children
8. Suna Kirac (youngest sister of magnate Rahmi Koc ... fluent in French and English ... she can only communicate using her eyes; she has ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), also known as Lou Gherig's disease) $2.5 billion inherited (diversified Istanbul   69yo - Married, 1 child
8. Filiz Sahenk (sister of Ferit Sahenk ... has large antique collection) $2.5 billion bank and media Istanbul 44yo - Single
10. Ali Ibrahim Agaoglu (passionate about luxury cars, has Lambourghini, 2 Bentleys and a Ferrari California) $2.1 billion construction Istanbul 57yo - Married, 3 children

Ukraine

TOP 8 - Ukranian Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Rinat Akhmetov (up $10.8 billion! ... son of a coal miner, made his first million trading coal and coke ... serves as parliamentary member representing Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's party) $16.0 billion steel, coal mines Donetsk  44yo - Married, 2 children
2. Victor Pin chuk (son-in-law of ex-president Leonid Kuchma ... spent $5 million on himself and his wife for a joint birthday party in Courchevel, France that featured acrobats from Cirque de Soleil and celebrities including Steven Spielberg) $3.3 billion steel pipes Kiev  50yo - Married, 2 children
3. Henadiy Boholyubov (partner of Ihor Kolomoyskyy ... his Bogolyubov Foundation focuses on promoting Jewish education and religion) $2.5 billion banking, investments Dneptopetrovsk  49yo - Married, 2 children
3. Ihor Kolomoyskyy (partner of Henadiy Boholyubov ... appointed president of the European Council of Jewish Communities ) $2.5 billion banking, investments Kiev  48yo - Married, 2 children
5. Kostyantin Zhevago (parliamentary deputy; his party is in opposition to President Yanukovich's Party of Regions ... soccer fan owns FC Vorskla football) $2.4 billion banking, mining Kiev   37yo - Married, 2 children
6. Yuriy Kosiuk (son of teachers) $1.5 billion agriculture Kiev  42yo - Married, 1 child
7. Andrey Verevskiy (parliamentary deputy adroitly switched parties from Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc to new president Victor Yanukovich's bloc when the political winds shifted) $1.1 billion agriculture Kiev  36yo - Married, 3 children
8. Oleg Bakhmatyuk $1.0 billion eggs Kiev 36yo - Married, 3 children

United Kingdom

TOP 10 - United Kingdom Billionaires ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th Duke of Westminister ... supports more than 150 charities)

$13.0 billion

real estate (incl. Mayfair)

Chester

59yo - Married, 4 children

2. David & Simon Reuben (two brothers born in Mumbai ... David lives in London in same house he has owned for past 20 years; Simon resides in Monaco) $8.0 billion investments, real estate London / Monaco 68 - 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 ... was named International Retailer of the Year by the U.S. National Retail Federation in Jan. 2011) $7.2 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) $4.2 billion Virgin (airlines, etc) (the daredevil entrepreneur won't just be taking tourists to space when Virgin Galactic launches next year. Branson announced that he'll make room on his rocket plane for scientists, who will carry out research and experiments) London 60yo - Married, 2 children
4. Charles Cadogan & family (the 8th Earl Cadogan heads the 300-year-old real estate trust, which owns 90 acres in London's Chelsea ... involved in animal welfare and cancer-research charities) $4.2 billion real estate London 73yo - Married, 3 children
4. Bernard Ecclestone & family (acquired Queens Park Rangers soccer club in September 2007 ... in Dec 2010 was mugged with his girlfriend outside his Hyde Park offices. Thieves took a watch engraved with his name and left him with a black eye) $4.2 billion Formula One (car racing) London 80yo - Divorced, 2 children (got divorced in 2009 from former model and his wife of 24 years, Slavica)
7. Bruno Schroder & family (in spare time flies planes and breeds Middle White pigs at his estate in Islay, Scotland) $3.7 billion banking London 78yo - Separated, 1 child
8. David & Frederick Barclay (identical twins ... own private isle of Breqhou) $3.2 billion media, retail Island of Brecquou 77yo - n/a
8. Joseph Lewis (nicknamed "the boxer" on Wall Street ... owns British soccer team Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) ... spends a couple of months a year working from his yacht ... art collection includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.) $3.2 billion finance (currency speculator) UK, Bahamas, Lyford Cay 74yo - Married, 2 children
10. Richard Elman & family (started career as a "coolie in a scrap yard" after quitting school at age 15) $2.8 billion finance (employs 11,000 people at offices and plants in 38 countries) Hong Kong 71yo - Married, 3 children

United States
(men)

TOP 10 - USA Billionaire Men ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. William Gates III (was world's richest person for 14 of the past 17 years ... Harvard Uni drop out ... he's given away $30 billion to his Gates Foundation), $56.0 billion Microsoft  WA, Medina 55yo - 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!)

$50.0 billion

Berkshire Hathaway 

NE, Omaha

80yo - 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 ... Intends to give 95% of wealth to charity.) $39.5 billion Oracle (purchased 75 companies over the years worth $40 billion) CA, Redwood City 66yo - Divorced, 2 children 
4. Sheldon Adelson (up $14 billion! ... shares of Adelson's Las Vegas Sands surged more than 2,000% since their credit crisis nadir) $23.3 billion casinos  NV, Las Vegas  77yo - Married, 5 children 
5. Charles Koch (recently published self-help business book The Science of Success; claimed company would go public "over my dead body.") $22.0 billion Koch Industries (nation's largest privately held company) KA, Wichita 75yo - Married, 2 children 
5. David Koch (ran as vice presidential candidate on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1980) $22.0 billion Koch Industries (nation's 2nd-largest privately held company) NY, New York 70yo - Married, 3 children 
7. Jim Walton (child of Sam Walton - d. 1992) $21.3 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) AR, Bentonville 63yo - Married, 4 children 
8. S Robson Walton (child of Sam Walton - d. 1992) $21.0 billion  Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) AR, Bentonville 67yo - Married, 3 children 
9. Sergey Brin (school drop out ... Son and grandson of mathematicians on his father's side, mother was a research scientist at NASA ... emigrated from Russia at age 6 ... shares a 767 jet with Google co-founder, Larry Page) $19.8 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 37yo - Married, 1 child
9. Larry Page (school drop out ... shares a 767 jet with Google co-founder, Sergey Brin) $19.8 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, 1 child

United States
(women)

TOP 10 - USA Billionaire Women ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Rich-Bastards.com ... Top 10 Rich List
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) $26.5 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) WY, Jackson 56yo - Widowed, 1 child
2. Alice Walton (Daughter of retail pioneer Sam Walton) $21.2 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) TX , Fort Worth 61yo - Divorced
3. Anne Cox Chambers (OLDEST FEMALE BILLIONAIRE!) $13.4 billion media/entertainment - Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers, 15 TV stations, 86 radio stations) GA, Atlanta 91yo - Divorced, 3 children
4. Abigail Johnson $11.3 billion Fidelity investments MA, Boston 49yo - Married, 2 children
5. Jacqueline Mars (third generation inherited company when dad died in 1999) $10.0 billion candy, pet food (incl. Mars bar, Snickers, M&Ms) world's largest confectioner ... acquired gum maker Wrigley in 2008 for $23 billion ... pet food division (includes Whiskas, Pedigree) now larger than candy by sales. NJ, Bedminster 71yo - Divorced, 3 children
6. Pauline MacMillan Keinath $4.7 billion agriculture (Cargill Inc. has more than 900 subsidiaries in 66 countries) MO, St Louis 77yo - Married, 4 children
7. Ann Walton Kroenke (neice of retail pioneer Sam Walton ... married to E. Stanley Kroenke, owner of pro basketball's Denver Nuggets, hockey's Colorado Avalanche, plus stakes in football's St. Louis Rams and English soccer titan Arsenal. He has a separate billion-dollar fortune.) $3.4 billion Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 8,400 stores and 2 million employees) MO, Columbia 62yo - Married, 2 children
8. Danine Avara (father, Dan Duncan, died March 2010, age 77) $3.1 billion inherited (pipelines) (owns more than 49,000 miles of pipelines) TX, Houston   47yo - Married
8. Milane Frantz (father, Dan Duncan, died March 2010, age 77) $3.1 billion inherited (pipelines) (owns more than 49,000 miles of pipelines) TX, Houston  41yo - n/a
8. Randa Williams (father, Dan Duncan, died March 2010, age 77) $3.1 billion inherited (pipelines) (owns more than 49,000 miles of pipelines) TX, Houston   49yo - Married, 1 child

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 35

TOP 10 - Billionaires Under 35yo ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Mark Zuckerberg (up $9.5 billion! ... Harvard Uni dropout ... Facebook founder) $13.5 billion Facebook USA 26yo - Single
1. Dustin Moskovitz (Harvard Uni dropout ... YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE!...just 8 days younger than his uni roommate, Mark Zuckerberg ... Facebook's third employee) $2.7 billion Facebook USA 26yo - Single
3. 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) $2.0 billion inherited, diversified (his 30,000 hectares of woodland in Germany is considered one of the largest forest holdings in Europe) Germany 27yo - Single
4. Scott Duncan (father, Dan Duncan, died March 2010, age 77) $3.1 billion inherited (pipelines) (owns more than 49,000 miles of pipelines) USA 28yo - Single
4. Eduardo Saverin (Facebook's co-founder) $1.6 billion Facebook USA 28yo - Single

6. Yang Huiyan ... (YOUNGEST FEMALE BILLIONAIRE! ... rarely seen in public)

$4.1 billion inherited (real estate) (received 58% stake in real estate developer Country Garden from its main founder, her father, Yeung Kwok Keung) China 29yo - Married
7. Fahd Hariri (youngest son of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik) $1.5 billion inherited (construction, investments) Lebanon 30yo - Single
8. Sean Parker (former Facebook president, joined Facebook in 2004 ... at 19, the serial entrepreneur co-founded Napster in 1999, the peer-to-peer music sharing service that brought free music to the masses, but quickly collapsed under piracy allegations) $1.6 billion Facebook USA 31yo - Single
9. Aymin Hariri (one of five children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik ) $1.5 billion inherited (construction, investments) Lebanon 32yo - Married, 1 child
10. Yoshikazu Tanaka $2.2 billion social networking (Gree) (attracting about a million new subscribers a month) Japan 34yo - Single

Billionaires Over 90

TOP 12 - Billionaires Over 90yo ... (9 March 2011) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Walter Haefner (OLDEST BILLIONAIRE ... his Moyglare Stud Farm in Ireland - now transferred to his dau. - has approx. 100 horses and has bred such winners as Simple Exchange and Media Puzzle) $4.0 billion Computer Associates (software) Switzerland 100yo - Married, 2 children
2. 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) $2.4 billion Standard Oil, banking USA 95yo - Widowed, 6 children
3. Karl Wlaschek (former jazz pianist ... authorized biography: Karl Wlaschek: A Success Story.) $4.5 billion department stores (Billa) Austria 93yo - Widowed, 2 children
3. Kirk Kerkorian (8th grade dropout ... trained fighter pilots during WWII ... bought and sold MGM Studios three times) $3.5 billion investments, casinos USA 93yo - Divorced, 2 children
3. John Anderson (son of a barber, sold popcorn as a kid to earn extra cash ... says he'll never retire) $2.4 billion investments (emphasizes saving; has called compound interest the "eighth world wonder.") USA 93yo - Married, 5 children
3. Albert Ueltschi (Uni of Kentucky dropout ... flew Pan Am planes for 26 years) $2.0 billion FlightSafety USA 93yo - Widowed, 4 children
7. Henry Hillman (philanthropist ... shuns publicity: "A whale is harpooned only when it spouts.") $2.1 billion investments USA 92yo - Married, 4 children
8. Karl Albrecht (fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf) $25.5 billion

supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores)

Germany

91yo - Married, 2 children 

8. Anne Cox Chambers (OLDEST FEMALE BILLIONAIRE!) $13.4 billion media/entertainment - Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers, 15 TV stations, 86 radio stations) USA 91yo - Divorced, 3 children
8. Sulaiman Al Rajhi (one of 4 Al Rajhi brothers) $7.7 billion banking (Al Rajhi Bank is one of the largest Islamic banks in the world) Saudi Arabia 91yo - Married, 23 children
(yes ... 23!!!!)
8. Freederik G.H. Meijer (pioneered 'superstore' one-stop shopping) $4.7 billion supermarkets (190 Meijer stores in 5 states) USA 91yo - Married, 3 children
8. George Mitchell (son of Greek immigrants ... has created at least 200,000 jobs in recent years, made millionaires out of poor landowners and given America 100 years worth of clean(er) energy) $2.7 billion Mitchell Energy    USA 91yo - Married, 10 children 

Ernest Gallo (USA) died 6 Mar 2007, age 97. 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.
Walter Shorenstein, (USA) died 24 June, 2010, age 95. He was worth $1.1 billion.
John Kluge, (richest man in USA from 1989-1991) died September 7, 2010, age 95. He was worth $6.5 billion.
Saleh Al Rajhi (Saudi Arabia) died Feb, 2011, age 99. He was worth $5.8 billion. Had 61 children (22 sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)




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