Top 10 Rich Lists 2007

Top 10 Rich Lists 2007

The World
(men)

TOP 10 – World’s Richest Men … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. William Gates III (world’s richest person – for 13 years in a row!)
Harvard Uni drop out.		 $56.0 billion Microsoft  USA 51yo – Married, 3 children  
2. Warren Buffett (married longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday last Aug.) Will donate $31 billion to charity! $52.0 billion Berkshire Hathaway  USA 76yo - Married, 3 children  
3. Carlos Slim Helu
$19 billion richer this year!		 $49.0 billion Telecom Mexico 67yo – Widowed, 6 children
4. Ingvar Kamprad & family
Started selling furniture in 1947.		 $33.0 billion Ikea (retail) Has stores in 34 countries. Sweden 80yo – Married, 4 children
5. Lakshmi Mittal $32.0 billion Mittal Steel (manufacturing steel) India 56yo – Married, 2 children
6. Sheldon Adelson
City College of NY drop out.		 $26.5 billion  casinos, hotels USA 73yo – Married, 5 children
7. Bernard Arnault $26.0 billion LVMH (world’s largest luxury goods empire) France 58yo - Married, 5 children
8. Amancio Ortega
High School drop out.
 $24.0 billion  Zara (apparel manufacturer) owns 3,000 Zara retail stores in 64 countries Spain 71yo – Married, 3 children
9. Li Ka-shing
High School drop out. 		$23.0 billion diversified Hong Kong 78yo - Widowed, 2 children
10. David Thomson & family $22.0 billion inherited (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died last June) Canada 49yo - Divorced, 3 children

The World
(women)

TOP 10 – World’s Richest Women … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Liliane Bettencourt $20.7 billion L’Oreal (daughter of L’Oréal founder Eugene Schueller) France 84yo – Married, 1 child
2. Christy Walton & family $16.7 billion Wal-Mart (widow of John Walton, who died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) USA 52yo – Widowed, 1 child
3. Alice Walton $16.6 billion Wal-Mart USA 57yo – Divorced
4. Helen Walton
Died 19 Apr 2007		 $16.4 billion Wal-Mart  (widow of Sam Walton – d.1992) USA 87yo - Widowed, 4 children
5. Abigail Johnson $13.0 billion Fidelity investments USA 45yo - Married, 2 children
6. Barbara Cox Anthony
Died 28 May 2007		 $12.6 billion media/entertainment USA 83yo - Married, 2 children
6. Anne Cox Chambers $12.6 billion media/entertainment USA 87yo - Divorced, 3 children
8. Jacqueline Mars $10.5 billion candy (incl. Mars bar) world’s largest confectioner USA 67yo - Divorced, 3 children
9. Susanne Klatten $9.6 billion BMW, pharmaceuticals Germany 44yo – Married, 3 children
10. Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler (mother and son) $8.7 billion ball bearings (inherited) Germany n/a – n/a

Australia
Kerry Packer, Australia’s long-time richest person, died in his sleep on 26th December 2005, aged 68.

TOP 10 – Australia’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
 Wealth US$

Source
Residence
Personal
1. James Packer (father, Kerry, died Dec 26, 2005) $5.5 billion inherited (media/Entertainment)   Sydney 39yo -Divorced, 0 children
2. Frank Lowy & family $4.6 billion retail property (shopping centres) Sydney 76yo – Married, 3 children
3. Richard Pratt (onetime actor) $2.5 billion packaging (manufacturing, recycling) Melbourne 72yo – Married, 4 children
4. Harry Triguboff (born in China to Russian parents ) $2.3 billion residential property development Sydney 74yo – Married, 2 children
5. Shi Zhengrong $2.2 billion solar energy China 44yo – Married, 2 children
6. Stanley Perron (quit school at 14) $1.8 billion  property, cars Perth 84yo – Married, 3 children
6. John Gandel (Medical Doctor ) $1.8 billion retail property (shopping centres) Melbourne 72yo – Married, 4 children
8. Kerry Stokes $1.4 billion media, Caterpillar Perth 65yo – Divorced, 4 children
9. Andrew Forrest $1.3 billion mining, metals
 Perth 45yo – Married, 3 children
10. Gerald Harvey $1.2 billion retail (Harvey Norman electronics ) Australia  67yo – Married, 4 children
Brazil

TOP 10 – Brazil’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Joseph Safra (cut financial ties with his older brother Moise in mid-2006. ) $6.0 billion banking Sao Paulo 68yo – Married, 4 children
2. Jorge Paulo Lemann (onetime tennis champion – he played at Wimbledon) $4.9 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 67yo – Married, 5 children
3. Aloysio de Andrade Faria $4.0 billion banking Sao Paulo 86yo – Married, 5 children
4. Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family $3.9 billion diversified Sao Paulo 78yo – n/a, 9 children
5. Moise Safra (cut financial ties with his younger brother Joseph in mid-2006. ) $2.9 billion banking Sao Paulo 72yo – Married
6. Liu Ming Chung $2.4 billion paper manufacturing Hong Kong 44yo – Married
7. Marcel Herman Telles $2.2 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 57yo – Married, 2 children
8. Carlos Alberto Sicupira $2.0 billion banking, beer Sao Paulo 59yo – Married, 3 children
8. Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello $2.0 billion sugar, ethanol Sao Paulo n/a – Married
10. Julio Bozano $1.9 billion banking Rio de Janeiro 71yo – n/a, 1 child

Canada

TOP 10 – Canada’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. David Thomson & family $22.0 billion inherited (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died last June) Toronto 49yo - Divorced, 3 children
2. Galen Weston & family (Avid collector of avant-garde artist Christo) $7.9 billion retail Toronto 66yo - Married, 2 children
3. James, Arthur & John Irving (brothers) $5.8 billion oil / gas (own 600 gas stations) Saint John n/a – n/a
9. Edward Rogers $4.9 billion media Toronto 73yo – Married, 4 children
6. Bernard (Barry) Sherman $4.4 billion Apotex pharmaceuticals (seeking over-the-counter-sales approval of its controversial “morning-after” pill ) Toronto 65yo - Married, 4 children
4. Jeffrey S Skoll $4.2 billion Ebay USA, CA, Los Angeles 42yo - Single
5. Paul Desmarais (bought his father’s one-route Ontario bus company for $1- in 1951) $4.0 billion finance Montreal 80yo – Married, 4 children
7. Jim Pattison $3.8 billion diversified (incl. Ripley’s Believe It or Not) Vancouver 78yo - Married, 3 children
8. Robert Miller $2.9 billion Future Electronics (supports cryonics, the science of freezing bodies with the intent to restore life) Montreal 61yo – Married, 2 children
10. Wallace McCain $2.6 billion food (McCain’s – world’s largest producer of frozen french fries) Toronto 77yo - Married, 3 children

China

TOP 10 – China’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Head Office
Personal
1. Yan Cheung (In 1985, with $4,000 in savings, set up a company importing waste paper) $2.4 billion paper manufacturing (Nine Dragons) Hong Kong 49yo – Married
2. Wong Kwong Yu $2.3 billion Gome Appliances (& real estate) Beijing 37yo – Married, 2 children
3. Larry Yung $2.2 billion diversified Hong Kong 65yo – Married, 3 children
4. Zhang Li $2.1 billion real estate Guangzhou 53yo – n/a
5. Zhang Jindong $2.0 billion Sunning Appliances (China’s second-biggest electrical appliance chain – has 400 retail stores and plans to open another 600 by 2010) Nanjing 44yo –
6. Chu Mang Yee (Former government bureaucrat) $1.7 billion real estate Guangzhou 48yo – n/a
7. Zhang Cheng Fei (younger brother of Yan Cheung) $1.6 billion paper manufacturing (Nine Dragons) Dongguan 39yo – n/a
8. Guo Guangchang $1.5 billion Fosun High-Tech Group (retail, media, real estate) Shanghai 40yo – Married, 1 child
8. Liu Yongxing $1.5 billion East Hope Group (animal feed, finance, aluminium) Chengdu 58yo – Married, 1 child
10. Xu Jiayin $1.3 billion real estate Guangzhou 49yo – n/a

France

TOP 10 – France’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Bernard Arnault $26.0 billion LVMH (world’s largest luxury goods empire)   Paris 58yo - Married, 5 children
2. Liliane Bettencourt
(world’s richest woman)		 $20.7 billion L’Oreal Paris 84yo – Married, 1 child
3. Francois Pinault
High School drop out
$14.5 billion retail (incl. Gucci) Paris 70yo - Married, 3 children
4. Serge Dassault & family $10.0 billion aviation (manufacturing) Paris 81yo – Married, 4 children
4. Alain & Gerard Wertheimer (brothers) $10.0 billion Chanel (apparel, perfume) Paris n/a – n/a
6. Jean-Claude Decaux & family (Started out putting ads on public toilets and bus shelters. ) $5.0 billion advertising Paris 69yo - Married, 3 children
7. Martin & Olivier Bouygues (brothers) $4.5 billion telecom, media, construction Paris 54/56yo -n/a
8. Gérard Louis-Dreyfus & family $3.4 billion Oil / gas USA, NY, NY 74yo - Married, 3 children
9. Pierre Bellon & family $2.8 billion food services Paris 77yo – Married, 4 children
10. Didier Primat $2.3 billion Oil / gas Switzerland, Geneva 62yo – Married

Germany

TOP 10 – Germany’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Karl Albrecht (Fiercely private) $20.0 billion supermarkets (over 7,000 Aldi stores) Muehlheim an der Ruhr 87yo - Married, 2 children 
2. Theo Albrecht (was kidnapped for 17 days in 1971 ) $17.5 billion supermarkets (over 7,000 Aldi stores) Foehr  84yo – Married, 2 children
3. Michael Otto & family $13.3 billion retail (world’s largest mail-order company) Hamburg  63yo - Married, 2 children
4. Adolf Merckle $12.8 billion pharmaceuticals  Manheim  72yo – Married, 4 children
5. Susanne Klatten $9.6 billion BMW, pharmaceuticals   Bad Homburg 44yo – Married, 3 children
6. Reinhold Würth $9.0 billion manufacturing (screws) Kuenzelsau  71yo – Married, 3 children
7. Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler
(mother and son) 		$8.7 billion Manufacturing (ball bearings) Herzogenaurach  n/a – n/a
8. August von Finck $8.4 billion investments Switzerland, Thurgau 77yo – Married, 4 children
9. Stefan Quandt (recently married) $7.6 billion BMW Frankfurt 41yo – Married, 1 child
10. Johanna Quandt $6.7 billion BMW Bad Homburg 80yo – Widowed, 2 children

Hong Kong

TOP 10 – Hong Kong’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Li Ka-shing (High School drop out) $23.0 billion diversified Hong Kong 78yo - Widowed, 2 children
2. Lee Shau Kee $17.0 billion real estate Hong Kong 79yo - Divorced, 5 children 
3. Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok (brothers) $15.0 billion real estate Hong Kong n/a - n/a
4. Stanley Ho (uni drop out) $7.0 billion Macau Casino (The King of Macau held city’s only gambling license for decades.) Hong Kong  85yo – Married, 17 children!!!
5. Cheng Yu-tung $6.5 billion New World Development (real estate) Hong Kong  81yo - Married, 2 children
6. Sir Michael Kadoorie & family (was knighted in the U.K. for his extensive charitable and philanthropic activities.) $5.3 billion diversified Hong Kong 66yo – married
7. Ronald McAulay (brother-in-law of Sir Michael Kadoorie) $4.2 billion diversified Hong Kong 70yo – n/a
7. Nina Wang (Notoriously frugal and paranoid, spends $650 a month and travels with a platoon of 50 bodyguards.) DIED 5th April 2007, aged 69. $4.2 billion real estate (inherited) Hong Kong 69 - Widowed, 0 children (husband kidnapped in 1990)
9. Hui Wing Mau $3.5 billion real estate Hong Kong 56yo – Married, 2 children
10. Michael Ying $3.1 billion Esprit (apparel) Hong Kong  57yo – Married
India

TOP 10 – India’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Lakshmi Mittal $32.0 billion Mittal Steel (manufacturing steel) UK, London 56yo – Married, 2 children
2. Mukesh Ambani $20.1 billion petrochemicals (manufacturing) Mumbai  49yo – Married, 3 children
3. Anil Ambani (a marathon runner; wife Tina is a former Bollywood actress) $18.2 billion diversified (manufacturing)   Mumbai  47yo – Married, 2 children
4. Azim Premji $17.1 billion Wipro (software)   Bangalore  61yo – Married, 2 children
5. Kushal Pal Singh (former army officer) $10.0 billion real estate Delhi 75yo – Married, 3 children
6. Sunil Mittal (son of a politician) $9.5 billion Telecom  Delhi  49yo – Married, 3 children
7. Kumar Birla $8.0 billion commodities (copper & aluminium) Mumbai   39yo – Married, 2 children
7. Shashi & Ravi Ruia (brothers) $8.0 billion diversified Mumbai   n/a – n/a
9. Ramesh Chandra (banker’s son) $6.4 billion real estate New Delhi  67yo – Married, 2 children
10. Pallonji Mistry $5.6 billion construction Mumbai  77yo – Married, 4 children
Israel
TOP 9 – Israel’s Billionaires… (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Stef Wertheimer & family (grade school dropout) $4.4 billion tools Tefen 81yo – Married, 4 children
2. Shari Arison $4.3 billion inheritance, cruise ships Tel Aviv 49yo – Married, 4 children
3. Lev Leviev $4.1 billion diamonds (cuts and polishes more diamonds than anyone else in the world) B’nei Brak 51yo – Married, 9 children
4. Yitzhak Tshuva (his Cinderella story began in Netanya in a single room where his penniless family of 11 lived briefly) $4.0 billion real estate Netanya 58yo – Married, 5 children
5. Sammy Ofer & family (In May 2006, paid $40 million for Van Gogh’s “Madame Ginoux”.) $3.9 billion shipping Tel Aviv; Monaco 85yo – n/a
6. Arnon Milchan (former soccer player) $3.0 billion New Regency Productions (include Pretty Woman, The War of the Roses and Fight Club) Tel Aviv 62yo – Divorced, 4 children
7. Alexander Machkevich $1.9 billion mining, metals Kazakhstan, Almaty 53yo – Married, 2 children
8. Benny Steinmetz $1.7 billion diamonds (largest customer of De Beers) Belgium; Israel 50yo – Married, 4 children
9. Morris Kahn (a former diver) $1.1 billion software Beit Yanay 77yo – Married

Italy

TOP 10 – Italy’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Silvio Berlusconi (Italy’s Prime Minister from 2001-2006. Started out singing on cruise ships.) $11.8 billion media North of Milan 70yo – Married, 5 children
2. Leonardo Del Vecchio (sent to an orphanage at age 7) $11.5 billion eyewear (Ray-Ban) Milan 71yo – Married, 6 children
3. Michele Ferrero & family $10.0 billion Ferrero chocolates (also Nutella and Tic Tac) Monaco, Montecarlo 80yo – Married, 2 children
4. Giorgio Armani (goes to the gym for at least an hour a day) $4.5 billion Armani fashion / apparel Milan 72yo – n/a
5. Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone $3.0 billion diversified Rome 64yo – Married
5. Mario Moretti Polegato $3.0 billion Geox shoes Crocetta del Montello 54yo – Married, 1 child
7. Carlo Benetton $2.8 billion Benetton (apparel)   Treviso 63yo – Single, 4 children
7. Luciano Benetton $2.8 billion Benetton (apparel) Treviso 71yo – Married, 4 children
7. Giuliana Benetton $2.8 billion Benetton (apparel) Treviso 69yo – Married, 4 children
7. Gilberto Benetton $2.8 billion Benetton (apparel)
Treviso 65yo – Married, 2 children
Japan
TOP 10 – Japan’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Masayoshi Son $5.8 billion Softbank (software) Tokyo 49yo – Married, 2 children
2. Akira Mori & family $5.7 billion Mori Trust (real estate) Tokyo 69yo – Married, 3 children
3. Nobutada Saji & family $4.7 billion Suntory (beverages) – recently engineered the world’s first blue rose! Hyogo 61yo – Married
4. Kunio Busujima & family $4.4 billion pinball machines (manufacturing) Kiryu 81yo – Married, 4 children
5. Hiroko Takei & family (husband, Yasuo Takei, died last year) $4.3 billion inherited (credit) Tokyo n/a – widowed, 3 children
6. Hiroshi Yamauchi $3.9 billion Nintendo Kyoto 79yo – Married, 1 child
7. Eitaro Itoyama $3.8 billion golf courses Tokyo 64yo – Married, 2 children
8. Tadashi Yanai & family $3.7 billion retail (Uniqlo discount clothing) Yamaguchi 58yo – Married, 2 children
9. Hiroshi Mikitani $2.9 billion e-commerce (Rakuten Internet shopping mall hosts more than 18,000 virtual stores) Japan 42yo – n/a
10. Takemitsu Takizaki $2.8 billion sensors Osaka 61yo – Married
* world’s richest person from 1991-1992 was Taikichiro Mori. (d. 1993)
Malaysia
TOP 9 – Malaysia’s Billionaires… (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Robert Kuok $7.0 billion diversified (including Shangri-la hotels) Hong Kong 83yo – Married, 8 children
2. Ananda Krishnan $6.0 billion diversified (Astro satellite TV) Kuala Lumpur 68yo – Married, 3 children
3. Lim Goh Tong
(high school drop out)		 $4.2 billion gaming (his First World Hotel has 6,200 rooms, which earned it the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest hotel ) Kuala Lumpur 89yo – Married, 6 children
4. Teh Hong Piow $3.0 billion banking (Public Bank’s Islamic banking is interest-free because Islam prohibits taking or giving interest) Kuala Lumpur 77yo – Married, 4 children
5. Quek Leng Chan $2.9 billion banking Wee 66yo – Married, 3 children
6. Lee Shin Cheng $2.6 billion agriculture Jeram 67yo – Married, 6 children
7. Yeoh Tiong Lay & family $1.7 billion construction Malaysia 77yo – Widowed, 7 children
8. Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary $1.3 billion rice and sugar trader Kuala Lumpur 55yo – Married, 5 children
9. Tiong Hiew King $1.1 billion timber Sibu 71yo – Married, 3 children

Mexico

TOP 10 – Mexico’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Carlos Slim Helu (just call him Midas) $49.0 billion Telecom Mexico City 67yo – Widowed, 6 children
2. Alberto Bailleres $5.0 billion mining silver Mexico City 74yo – Married
3. Ricardo Salinas Pliego (in September, paid $7.5 million to settle accusations about a business scandal) $4.6 billion retail/media Mexico City 51yo – Married, 3 children
4. Jeronimo Arango $4.3 billion supermarkets (was a Wal-Mart partner) Mexico 81yo – n/a
5. Emilio Azcárraga Jean $2.1 billion media (inherited empire in 1997) Mexico City 39yo – Married, 1 child
6. Roberto Hernandez Ramirez $2.0 billion Banamex (banking) Mexico City 65yo – Married, 3 children
6. Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala & family $2.0 billion beer (Corona) Mexico City 43yo – Married, 2 children
8. Isaac Saba Raffoul & family $1.8 billion diversified (incl. Marriott hotels) Mexico City 83yo – n/a
9. Lorenzo Zambrano & family $1.7 billion cement Monterrey 62yo – Single
10. Alfredo Harp Helu (owns the Red Devils baseball team) cousin of Carlos Slim Helu. $1.6 billion Banamex (banking) Mexico City 63yo – Married, 4 children

Russia

TOP 10 – Russia’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Roman Abramovich college drop out; orphaned as a child $18.7 billion oil (fled Russia in 2000 to escape fraud charges) UK, London 40yo – Married, 5 children
2. Suleiman Kerimov (seriously injured when he lost control of his Ferrari Enzo in autumn 2006) $14.4 billion stocks Moscow 41yo – Married, 3 children
3. Vladimir Lisin $14.3 billion Novolipetsk steel mill Moscow 50yo – Married, 3 children
4. Vladimir Potanin $13.5 billion metals Moscow 46yo – Married, 3 children
4. Mikhail Prokhorov $13.5 billion metals (often featured in gossip pages for his parties) Moscow 41yo – Single
6. Oleg Deripaska $13.3 billion Russian Aluminum (Married into family of former President Yeltsin) Moscow 39yo – Married
7. Mikhail Fridman (strong Kremlin connections) $12.6 billion oil / banking Moscow 42yo – Married, 2 children
8. Vagit Alekperov $12.4 billion Lukoil (in December 2006 he acquired nearly 400 stations from ConocoPhillips) Moscow 56yo – Married, 1 child
9. Alexei Mordashov $11.2 billion Severstal (steel) Moscow 41yo – Married, 3 children
10. Viktor Vekselberg $10.4 billion oil / metals (laying low to avoid Kremlin scrutiny) Moscow 49yo – Married, 2 children
Saudi Arabia
TOP 10 – Saudi Arabia’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of the Saudi king ) $20.3 billion investments (incl. Citicorp) Riyadh 50yo – Married, 2 children
2. Mohammed Al Amoudi (Born in Ethiopia) $8.0 billion oil Jeddah 61yo – Married, 8 children
3. Maan Al-Sanea $7.5 billion construction / finance Al Khobar 52yo – Married, 5 children
4. Sulaiman Al Rajhi $7.4 billion banking Riyadh 87yo – Married, 23 children
(yes … 23!!!!)
5. Saleh Al Rajhi $4.4 billion banking Riyadh 95yo – Married, 61 children (yes, 61!!!! – 22 sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)
6. Saleh Kamel $3.5 billion diversified (banking/media)
invented the modern concept of Islamic banking, which among other things forbids interest payments. 		Makkah Al-Minkarramah 65yo – Married
7. Khalid Bin Mahfouz & family (successfully sued journalists 3 times for libel over accusations that he helped fund the Sept. 11 attacks) $3.1 billion banking Jeddah 60yo – Married, 3 children
8. Abdullah Al Rajhi $2.6 billion banking Saudi Arabia n/a – Married
9. Saad Hariri (second son of Rafik Hariri, slain prime minister of Lebanon ) $2.3 billion inherited (construction, investments) Riyadh 36yo – Married, 2 children
10. Ayman Hariri (One of five children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik ) $1.6 billion inherited (construction, investments) Riyadh 28yo – Married, 1 child
South Korea
TOP 10 – South Korea’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Lee Kun-Hee $2.9 billion Samsung Electronics (accounts for close to a fifth of the nation’s exports!) Seoul 65yo – Married, 3 children
2. Chung Mong-Koo (sentenced in February to 3 years in prison for embezzling corporate funds. ) $2.2 billion Hyundai Seoul 69yo – Married, 4 children
3. Shin Dong-Bin
(younger son of Shin Kyuk-Ho)		 $1.8 billion inherited, Lotte Group trying to build the world’s tallest tower in Seoul) Seoul 52yo – Married, 3 children
3. Lee Myung-Hee
(younger sister of Lee Kun-Hee)		 $1.8 billion E-Mart Seoul 63yo – Married, 2 children
5. Lee Jay-Yong
(only son of Lee Kun-Hee)		 $1.7 billion Samsung Electronics Seoul 38yo – Married, 2 children
5. Shin Dong-Joo
(eldest son of Shin Kyuk-Ho)		 $1.7 billion inherited, Lotte Group Japan 53yo – Married, 1 child
7. Yong Keu Cha $1.3 billion Kazakhmys (mining, lumber) UK, London 50yo – Married, 2 children
7. Chung Mong-Joon
(6th son of late Hyundai founder)		 $1.3 billion shipbuilding Ulsan 55yo – Married
9. Suh Kyung-Bae $1.1 billion Amorepacific cosmetics Seoul 44yo – Married, 2 children
9. Chung Yong-Jin (best known for his marriage to a well-known TV star in 1995 – divorced 8 years later; nephew of Lee Kun-Hee) $1.1 billion Samsung Electronics Seoul 38yo – Divorced, 2 children

Spain

TOP 10 – Spain’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Amancio Ortega (High School drop out; shuns neckties) $24.0 billion Zara (apparel) La Coruna 71yo – Married, 3 children
2. Rafael del Pino & family $8.6 billion Ferrovial (construction) Madrid 86yo – Married, 5 children
3. Enrique Bañuelos $7.7 billion Astroc (real estate) Valencia 41yo – Married, 2 children
4. Esther Koplowitz (married to Fernando Falcó, Marqués de Cubas) $5.6 billion Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (construction) Barcelona 56yo – Married, 3 children
5. Alicia Koplowitz (rumored to be romantically involved with the Duque de Huescar; sisiter of Esther Koplowitz) $5.0 billion investments Madrid 54yo – Divorced, 3 children
6. Luis Portillo $3.7 billion Inmocaral / Inmobiliaria Colonial (real estate) Sevilla 45yo – Married, 2 children
7. Manuel Jove (carpenter by trade) $3.5 billion FADESA Immobiliaria (real estate) La Coruna 65yo – Married, 2 children
8. Isak Andic $3.4 billion Mango (apparel) (over 800 stores in 81 countries ) Barcelona 52yo – Married, 3 children
8. Rosalia Mera (ex-wife of Amancio Ortega) $3.4 billion Zara (apparel) La Coruna 63yo – Divorced, 2 children
10. Jesus de Polanco $3.0 billion Grupo Prisa (media) Madrid 77yo – Married, 4 children
Sweden
TOP 8- Sweden’s Billionaires… (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Ingvar Kamprad (flies economy class and frequents cheap restaurants) $33.0 billion Ikea (retail) Switzerland, Lausanne 80yo – Married, 4 children
2. Stefan Persson $18.4 billion Hennes & Mauritz (retail) (has 1,300 stores in 24 countries) Stockholm 59yo – Married, 3 children
3. Birgit Rausing & family
(husband Gad Rausing died in 2000 ) 		$11.0 billion Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture) Switzerland, Vaud 83yo – Widowed, 3 children
4. Sir Hans Rausing (knighted last year for his services to charity) $9.0 billion Tetra Laval (packaging) (Moved to England in 1980 to avoid punitive Swedish taxes) UK, Wadhurst 81yo – Married, 3 children
5. Antonia Johnson $6.6 billion A. Johnson & Co. (diversified) Stockholm 63yo – Married, 4 children
6. Fredrik Lundberg
(once a junior world champion of curling)		 $3.0 billion real estate / investments Stockholm 55yo – Married, 2 children
8. Liselott (Lottie) Persson
(sister of Stefan Persson )		 $2.0 billion Hennes & Mauritz (clothing retail chain) Stockholm 57yo – n/a
7. Count Gustaf Douglas $1.9 billion Assa Abloy (locks) / security Stockholm 69yo – Married, 2 children

Switzerland

TOP 8- Switzerland’s Billionaires… (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Ernesto Bertarelli (yachtsman who won the America’s Cup in 2003 ) $8.8 billion Sereno (biotech) Geneva 41yo – Married
2. Thomas Schmidheiny $5.5 billion Holcim (cement) (world’s second-largest supplier of cement and concrete) Balgach 61yo – Married, 4 children
3. Walter Haefner $4.3 billion Computer Associates (software) Zurich 96yo – Married, 2 children
4. Stephan Schmidheiny (facing lawsuits in Switzerland and Italy surrounding the asbestos-related deaths of former plant workers) $3.6 billion investments Zurich 59yo – Married, 2 children
5. Nicolas Hayek (known as Mr. Swatch) $3.2 billion Swatch (world’s largest manufacturer of finished watches with 156 factories) Biel 78yo – Married, 2 children
6. Sergio Mantegazza (Loves expensive toys, has a helicopter, a yacht (Lady Marina) and a $600,000 Mercedes Maybach. ) $2.7 billion Globus & Cosmos (travel) Lugano 79yo – Married, 1 child
7. Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte
(husband and wife)		 $2.4 billion Mediterranean Shipping Company (world’s second-largest container shipper with 310 container vessels) Geneva n/a – Married
8. Bahaa Hariri (Eldest son of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik) $2.2 billion inheritance Geneva 40yo – Married
Taiwan
TOP 8- Taiwan’s Billionaires… (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Tsai Hong-tu & family $7.0 billion Cathay Financial Holdings Taiwan 54yo – n/a, 3 children
2. Terry Gou (filed lawsuit, later dropped, against journalists saying he ran sweatshops) $5.5 billion Hon Hai Precision (world’s largest contract manufacturer) Taipei 56yo – Widowed, 2 children
3. YC Wang & family
(only elementary school education)		 $5.1 billion Formosa Plastics (chemicals) Taipei 90yo – n/a, 10 children
4. Tsai Wan-Tsai & family $3.0 billion Fubon Group (banking) Taipei 77yo – Married, 4 children
5. Barry Lam $2.1 billion Quanta Computer (world’s no. 1 maker of notebook computers) Taiwan 57yo – Married, 2 children
6. Douglas Hsu (Charged with forgery and breach of trust last fall but denies any wrongdoing) $1.5 billion diversified Taiwan 65yo – Married, 3 children
7. Tsai Eng Meng $1.0 billion Want Want (junk food) Taiwan 50yo – n/a
7. Gary Wang $1.0 billion media (world’s largest privately run Chinese-language media organization) Taipei 52yo – Married, 3 children

Turkey

TOP 10 – Turkey’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Husnu Ozyegin $3.5 billion banking Istanbul 62yo – Married, 2 children
2. Mehmet Karamehmet $2.4 billion Turkcell mobile phone company Istanbul 62yo – Married, 1 child
3. Erol Sabanci $2.1 billion inherited (diversified) (incl. Akbank, second largest bank in Turkey) Istanbul 69yo – Married, 2 children
3. Sevket Sabanci (brother of Erol Sabanci) $2.1 billion Sabanci Group (diversified) Istanbul 71yo – Married, 3 children
5. Sarik Tara $2.0 billion Enka (construction) Istanbul  76yo – Married, 2 children
6. Ahmet Zorlu (High School drop out; shuttles around Europe in custom-designed helicopter) $1.8 billion electronics, finance (Turkey’s largest exporter) Istanbul   62yo – Married, 1 child
7. Aydin Dogan $1.6 billion media Istanbul 70yo – Married, 4 children
8. Turgay Ciner (Personally pays for much school construction throughout Turkey) $1.5 billion diversified Istanbul 51yo – Married, 1 child
9. Rahmi Koc (avid sailor, spends months calling on ports around the world aboard his luxury yacht) $1.4 billion inherited (diversified) Istanbul 76yo – Divorced, 3 children
9. Semahat Arsel (Due to parasite in her blood, spent years fighting illness in hospitals around the world; sister of Rahmi Koc ) $1.4 billion inherited (diversified) Istanbul 78yo – Married

United Kingdom

TOP 10 – United Kingdom’s Richest People … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family
(6th Duke of Westminister)		 $11.0 billion real estate (incl. Mayfair) Chester 55yo – Married, 4 children
2. Sir Philip & Cristina Green (Knighted last year for his services to the retail industry) $7.0 billion retail (British Home Stores and Arcadia) London; Monaco 55yo – Married, 2 children
3. David & Simon Reuben (two brothers born in Mumbai ) $4.5 billion investments, real estate London / Monaco n/a – 3 children
4. Simon Halabi (born in Syria) $4.3 billion real estate London 57yo – Married
5. Richard Branson (high school dropout) In February, offered $25 million prize to anyone who can find a way to remove a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the Earth’s atmosphere $3.8 billion Virgin (airlines, etc) London 56yo – Married, 2 children
6. Charles Cadogan & family $3.6 billion real estate London 70yo – Married, 3 children
6. Bernard Ecclestone & family $3.6 billion Formula One (car racing) London 76yo – Married, 2 children
8. Nadhmi Auchi (gives money to grassroots organizations that repatriate young boys forced to race camels outside Pakistan) $3.1 billion diversified London 69yo – Married, 4 children
9. David & Frederick Barclay (identical twins) $3.0 billion media, retail (manage their businesses from the island tax haven of Jersey) Island of Brecquou n/a – n/a
9. Clive Calder $3.0 billion Zomba Recordings (incl. Britney Spears, ‘N Sync and the Backstreet Boys ) Cayman Islands 60yo – Married, 2 children

United States
(men)

TOP 10 – USA’s Richest Men … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. William Gates III (world’s richest person – for 13 years in a row!)
Harvard Uni drop out.
 $56.0 billion Microsoft  WA, Medina 51yo – Married, 3 children  
2. Warren Buffett (married longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday last Aug.)
Will donate $31 billion to charity!		 $52.0 billion Berkshire Hathaway  NE, Omaha 76yo - Married, 3 children  
3. Sheldon Adelson (City College of NY drop out) $26.5 billion casinos, hotels NV, Las Vegas 73yo – Married, 5 children 
4. Lawrence Ellison (University of Illinois, drop out) Plans to sail in 2007 America’s Cup in Spain. $21.5 billion Oracle (database s’ware) CA, Redwood City 62yo - Married, 2 children 
5. Paul Allen (Washington State University, drop out) Teamed up with high school friend Bill Gates 1975 to start computer company. $18.0 billion Microsoft, investments   WA, Mercer Is. 54yo - Single
6. Jim Walton (child of Sam Walton – d. 1992) $16.8 billion Wal-Mart  AR, Bentonville 59yo – Married, 4 children 
7. S Robson Walton (child of Sam Walton – d. 1992) $16.7 billion  Wal-Mart AR, Bentonville 63yo – Married, 3 children 
7. Sergey Brin $16.7 billion Google CA, Palo Alto 33yo – Single
9. Larry Page $16.6 billion Google CA, San Francisco 34yo – Single
9. Michael Dell $16.6 billion Dell (world’s 2nd biggest PC maker) TX, Austin 42yo – Married, 4 children 

United States
(women)

TOP 10 – USA’s Richest Women … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Christy Walton & family $16.7 billion Wal-Mart (widow of John Walton, who died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005) WY, Jackson 52yo – Widowed, 1 child
2. Alice Walton $16.6 billion Wal-Mart TX , Fort Worth 57yo – Divorced
3. Helen Walton
Died 19 Apr 2007		 $16.4 billion Wal-Mart  (widow of Sam Walton – d.1992) AR, Bentonville 87yo - Widowed, 4 children
4. Abigail Johnson $13.0 billion Fidelity investments MA, Boston 45yo - Married, 2 children
5. Barbara Cox Anthony
Died 28 May 2007		 $12.6 billion media/entertainment HI, Honolulu 83yo - Married, 2 children
5. Anne Cox Chambers $12.6 billion media/entertainment GA, Atlanta 87yo - Divorced, 3 children
7. Jacqueline Mars $10.5 billion candy (incl. Mars bar) world’s largest confectioner NJ, Bedminster 67yo - Divorced, 3 children
8. Joan Tisch (Widow of Brooklyn – born Preston Tisch – d. 2005) $3.7 billion Loews NY, New York 81yo - Widowed, 3 children 
8. Martha Ingram & family $2.9 billion Ingram Industries TN, Nashville 71yo – Widowed, 4 children
9. Barbara Piasecka Johnson $2.8 billion Johnson & Johnson Monaco, Monte Carlo 70yo – Widowed

Under 36

TOP 11 – Billionaires Under 36yo … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Sergey Brin $16.6 billion Google
 USA 33yo – Single   
1. Larry Page $16.6 billion Google USA 34yo – Single
3. Andrei Melnichenko (uni dropout) Son of a respected Soviet physicist. $4.6 billion banking, energy Russia 35yo – Married
3. Sergei Popov $4.6 billion banking, energy Russia 35yo – Married
5. Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (lives in one of the family castles) YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE! $2.0 billion inherited, diversified Germany 23yo – Single
6. Fahd Hariri (youngest son of Rafik Hariri) $1.6 billion inheritance Lebanon 26yo – Single
6. Ayman Hariri (one of five children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik ) $1.6 billion inheritance Saudi Arabia 28yo – Married, 1 child
6. Anurag Dikshit (is this for real?) $1.6 billion online gambling India 35yo – Married, 1 child
9. Daniel Ziff $1.5 billion inheritance, hedge funds USA 35yo – Single
10. Henrique Constantino $1.1 billion GOL airlines Brazil 35yo – n/a
11. Kostyantin Zhevago $1.0 billion banking, mining Ukraine 33yo – Married, 2 children
Over 90

TOP 11 – Billionaires Over 90yo … (8 March 2007) … Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. John Kluge (onetime richest man in America) $9.1 billion Metromedia USA 92yo – Married, 3 children
2. Anacleto Angelini (Chile’s richest man, remains as vigorous as ever) $6.0 billion energy Chile 93yo – Married
3. Saleh Al Rajhi $4.4 billion banking Saudi Arabia 95yo – Married, 61 children (yes, 61!!!! – 22 sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)
4. Walter Haefner $4.3 billion Haefner software Switzerland 96yo – Married, 2 children
5. John Simplot & family (OLDEST BILLIONAIRE!) $3.2 billion potatoes, microchips (supplier of more than half of McDonald’s french fries) USA 98yo – Married, 4 children
6. Hugo Mann & family $2.7 billion retail Germany 93yo – Married, 3 children
7. Carl Pohlad (owner of pro baseball’s Minnesota Twins) $2.6 billion banking USA 91yo – Widowed, 3 children
7. David Rockefeller Sr (Grandson of visionary oil baron John D. Rockefeller now working to give away his fortune) $2.6 billion Standard Oil, banking USA 91yo – Widowed, 6 children
9. Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller (donated an opera house to the Danish state) $1.8 billion shipping Denmark 93yo – Married, 3 children
10. Ernest Gallo & family (DIED on March 6, 2007, 12 days short of his 98th birthday) $1.3 billion wine USA 97yo – Widowed, 2 children
11. Leonard Litwin $1.0 billion real estate USA 92yo – Married, 2 children
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