Billionaires 2008

Billionaires
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complete list of billionaires 2008

rank-----name-----net worth billion
1-----Warren Buffett-----62.0
2-----Carlos Slim Helu & family-----60.0
3-----William Gates III-----58.0
4-----Lakshmi Mittal-----45.0
5-----Mukesh Ambani-----43.0
6-----Anil Ambani-----42.0
7-----Ingvar Kamprad & family-----31.0
8-----KP Singh-----30.0
9-----Oleg Deripaska-----28.0
10-----Karl Albrecht-----27.0
11-----Li Ka-shing-----26.5
12-----Sheldon Adelson-----26.0
13-----Bernard Arnault-----25.5
14-----Lawrence Ellison-----25.0
15-----Roman Abramovich-----23.5
16-----Theo Albrecht-----23.0
17-----Liliane Bettencourt-----22.9
18-----Alexei Mordashov-----21.2
19-----Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud-----21.0
20-----Mikhail Fridman-----20.8
21-----Vladimir Lisin-----20.3
22-----Amancio Ortega-----20.2
23-----Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok-----19.9
24-----Mikhail Prokhorov-----19.5
25-----Vladimir Potanin-----19.3
26-----Christy Walton & family-----19.2
26-----Jim Walton-----19.2
26-----S Robson Walton-----19.2
29-----Lee Shau Kee-----19.0
29-----Alice Walton-----19.0
31-----David Thomson & family-----18.9
32-----Sergey Brin-----18.7
33-----Larry Page-----18.6
34-----Michael Otto & family-----18.2
35-----Stefan Persson-----17.7
36-----Suleiman Kerimov-----17.5
37-----Charles Koch-----17.0
37-----David Koch-----17.0
39-----Francois Pinault & family-----16.9
40-----Michael Dell-----16.4
41-----Paul Allen-----16.0
41-----Kirk Kerkorian-----16.0
43-----Steven Ballmer-----15.0
43-----Abigail Johnson-----15.0
43-----Shashi & Ravi Ruia-----15.0
46-----Nasser Al-Kharafi & family-----14.0
46-----Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family-----14.0
46-----Carl Icahn-----14.0
46-----Forrest Mars Jr-----14.0
46-----Jacqueline Mars-----14.0
46-----John Mars-----14.0
46-----Birgit Rausing & family-----14.0
46-----Jack Taylor & family-----14.0
54-----German Khan-----13.9
55-----Susanne Klatten-----13.2
56-----Vagit Alekperov-----13.0
56-----Donald Bren-----13.0
58-----Alain & Gerard Wertheimer-----12.9
59-----Dmitry Rybolovlev-----12.8
60-----Azim Premji-----12.7
60-----Naguib Sawiris-----12.7
62-----Anne Cox Chambers-----12.6
63-----Iskander Makhmudov-----11.9
64-----Sunil Mittal & family-----11.8
65-----Alexander Abramov-----11.5
65-----Michael Bloomberg-----11.5
67-----Viktor Vekselberg-----11.2
68-----Michele Ferrero & family-----11.0
68-----George Kaiser-----11.0
68-----Spiro Latsis & family-----11.0
68-----Nassef Sawiris-----11.0
72-----Alexei Kuzmichev-----10.8
73-----Philip Knight-----10.4
73-----Viktor Rashnikov-----10.4
75-----Ernesto Bertarelli-----10.3
76-----Kumar Birla-----10.2
77-----Leonardo Del Vecchio-----10.0
77-----Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family-----10.0
77-----Iris Fontbona & family-----10.0
77-----Edward Johnson III-----10.0
77-----Hans Rausing-----10.0
77-----Vladimir Yevtushenkov-----10.0
77-----Igor Zyuzin-----10.0
84-----Serge Dassault & family-----9.9
85-----Alberto Bailleres & family-----9.8
86-----Ramesh Chandra-----9.6
87-----Charles Ergen-----9.5
87-----John Kluge-----9.5
87-----Ronald Perelman-----9.5
90-----Silvio Berlusconi & family-----9.4
91-----Gautam Adani-----9.3
91-----Petr Kellner-----9.3
91-----Alisher Usmanov-----9.3
94-----Adolf Merckle-----9.2
94-----August von Finck-----9.2
96-----Onsi Sawiris-----9.1
97-----Mohammed Al Amoudi-----9.0
97-----Robert Kuok-----9.0
97-----George Soros-----9.0
100-----Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family-----8.9
101-----Joseph Safra-----8.8
102-----James Goodnight-----8.7
102-----Reinhard Mohn & family-----8.7
104-----Donald Newhouse-----8.5
104-----Samuel Newhouse Jr-----8.5
104-----Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler-----8.5
107-----Sulaiman Al Rajhi-----8.4
107-----Philip & Cristina Green-----8.4
109-----Rupert Murdoch-----8.3
110-----Jeffrey Bezos-----8.2
110-----Savitri Jindal & family-----8.2
112-----Maan Al-Sanea-----8.1
113-----Leonard Blavatnik-----8.0
113-----John Fredriksen-----8.0
113-----Stanley Ho-----8.0
113-----Nikolai Tsvetkov-----8.0
117-----Dan Duncan-----7.9
117-----Eliodoro Matte & family-----7.9
119-----Erivan Haub & family-----7.8
120-----Cheng Yu-tung-----7.7
120-----Pierre Omidyar-----7.7
120-----Tsai Hong-tu & family-----7.7
120-----Reinhold Wurth-----7.7
124-----Akira Mori & family-----7.5
125-----Philip Anschutz-----7.4
125-----Yang Huiyan-----7.4
127-----Rinat Akhmetov-----7.3
127-----Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken-----7.3
127-----German Larrea Mota-Velasco & family-----7.3
127-----John Menard Jr-----7.3
131-----Ananda Krishnan-----7.2
132-----Americo Amorim-----7.0
132-----Antonia Johnson-----7.0
132-----Ng Teng Fong-----7.0
132-----Galen Weston & family-----7.0
136-----Harold Simmons-----6.9
137-----Steven Cohen-----6.8
137-----Stefan Quandt-----6.8
137-----Sumner Redstone-----6.8
140-----James, Arthur & John Irving-----6.7
140-----Sammy Ofer & family-----6.7
142-----Eike Batista-----6.6
142-----Curt Engelhorn-----6.6
142-----Eric Schmidt-----6.6
145-----Eli Broad-----6.5
145-----Andrew Forrest-----6.5
145-----Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen-----6.5
145-----Stephen Schwarzman-----6.5
149-----Leonid Fedun-----6.4
149-----Boris Ivanishvili-----6.4
149-----Klaus-Michael Kuhne-----6.4
149-----Sergei Popov-----6.4
149-----Hiroshi Yamauchi-----6.4
154-----James Kennedy-----6.3
154-----Karl-Heinz Kipp-----6.3
154-----Blair Parry-Okedon-----6.3
154-----Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family-----6.3
158-----Andrey Melnichenko-----6.2
158-----Robert Rowling-----6.2
160-----Terry Gou-----6.1
160-----Kirill Pisarev-----6.1
160-----Dorothea Steinbruch & family-----6.1
160-----Yuri Zhukov-----6.1
164-----Anil Agarwal-----6.0
164-----David Geffen-----6.0
164-----Dmitry Pumpyansky-----6.0
164-----Johanna Quandt-----6.0
164-----Sean Quinn & family-----6.0
164-----Hansjorg Wyss-----6.0
164-----Samuel Zell-----6.0
171-----Jean-Claude Decaux & family-----5.9
172-----Jorge Paulo Lemann-----5.8
173-----Lee Shin Cheng-----5.7
173-----Nicky Oppenheimer & family-----5.7
173-----James Packer-----5.7
173-----Edward Rogers-----5.7
177-----Charles Schwab-----5.6
178-----Pyotr Aven-----5.5
178-----Robert Bass-----5.5
178-----Alexander Frolov-----5.5
178-----Adi Godrej & family-----5.5
178-----Henry Kravis-----5.5
178-----Jim Pattison-----5.5
178-----David & Simon Reuben-----5.5
178-----George Roberts-----5.5
178-----Luis Carlos Sarmiento-----5.5
178-----James Simons-----5.5
178-----YC Wang & family-----5.5
189-----Micky Arison-----5.4
189-----Steven Jobs-----5.4
189-----Michael Kadoorie & family-----5.4
189-----Hasso Plattner-----5.4
189-----Julio Mario Santo Domingo-----5.4
194-----Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber-----5.3
194-----Hubert Burda-----5.3
194-----Kunio Busujima & family-----5.3
194-----Rafael del Pino & family-----5.3
198-----Alicia Koplowitz-----5.2
198-----G M Rao-----5.2
198-----Thomas Schmidheiny-----5.2
201-----Graeme Hart-----5.1
201-----Masayoshi Son-----5.1
203-----Giorgio Armani-----5.0
203-----Otto Beisheim-----5.0
203-----Michael Herz-----5.0
203-----Robert Holding-----5.0
203-----Saleh Kamel-----5.0
203-----Lorenzo Mendoza & family-----5.0
203-----Pallonji Mistry-----5.0
203-----Victor Pinchuk-----5.0
211-----Wolfgang Herz-----4.9
211-----Karl Wlaschek-----4.9
213-----Michael & Rainer Schmidt-Ruthenbeck-----4.8
214-----Saleh Al Rajhi-----4.7
214-----Charles Cadogan & family-----4.7
214-----Vladimir Kim-----4.7
214-----Patrick McGovern-----4.7
214-----Leonid Mikhelson-----4.7
214-----David Murdock-----4.7
214-----Andreas Strungmann-----4.7
214-----Thomas Strungmann-----4.7
222-----Gustavo Cisneros & family-----4.6
222-----Lester Crown & family-----4.6
222-----Paul Desmarais-----4.6
222-----Frank Lowy & family-----4.6
222-----Stef Wertheimer & family-----4.6
227-----Martin & Olivier Bouygues-----4.5
227-----William Cook-----4.5
227-----William Davidson-----4.5
227-----Charles Johnson-----4.5
227-----Lev Leviev-----4.5
227-----Paul Milstein & family-----4.5
227-----Stephen Ross-----4.5
227-----Nobutada Saji & family-----4.5
227-----Zhang Jindong-----4.5
236-----Richard Branson-----4.4
236-----Harold Hamm-----4.4
236-----Eitaro Itoyama-----4.4
236-----Indu Jain-----4.4
236-----Pauline MacMillan Keinath-----4.4
236-----Cargill MacMillan Jr-----4.4
236-----John MacMillan III-----4.4
236-----Whitney MacMillan-----4.4
236-----Marion MacMillan Pictet-----4.4
236-----John Sall-----4.4
236-----Peter Woo & family-----4.4
247-----Jeronimo Arango-----4.3
247-----Stein Erik Hagen & family-----4.3
247-----Mehmet Emin Karamehmet-----4.3
247-----Joseph Lau-----4.3
247-----Henry Ross Perot-----4.3
247-----Tsai Wan-Tsai & family-----4.3
253-----Elena Baturina-----4.2
253-----Ihor Kolomoyskyy-----4.2
253-----Ralph Lauren-----4.2
256-----Shari Arison-----4.1
256-----Leonard Stern-----4.1
256-----Sarik Tara-----4.1
256-----Ty Warner-----4.1
260-----Vasily Anisimov-----4.0
260-----Mikhail Balakin-----4.0
260-----Leon Black-----4.0
260-----Henadiy Boholyubov-----4.0
260-----Ray Dalio-----4.0
260-----Simon Halabi-----4.0
260-----Hui Wing Mau-----4.0
260-----Ray Hunt-----4.0
260-----Herbert Kohler & family-----4.0
260-----Dietrich Mateschitz-----4.0
260-----Andrei Molchanov-----4.0
260-----Husnu Ozyegin-----4.0
260-----Anton Schlecker-----4.0
260-----Dilip Shanghvi-----4.0
260-----Eliezer Steinbruch & family-----4.0
260-----Joan Tisch-----4.0
260-----Chaleo Yoovidhya-----4.0
277-----Gleb Fetisov-----3.9
277-----Jaiprakash Gaur-----3.9
277-----Lu Zhiqiang-----3.9
277-----George Lucas-----3.9
277-----Shiv Nadar-----3.9
277-----Madeleine Schickedanz-----3.9
277-----Stephen Wynn-----3.9
284-----Rupert Johnson Jr-----3.8
284-----Johann Rupert & family-----3.8
284-----John Simplot & family-----3.8
284-----Sukanto Tanoto-----3.8
288-----Richard DeVos-----3.7
288-----Bernard Ecclestone & family-----3.7
288-----Aloysio de Andrade Faria-----3.7
288-----Heidi Horten-----3.7
288-----Uday Kotak-----3.7
288-----Gordon Moore-----3.7
288-----Stephan Schmidheiny-----3.7
288-----Steven Udvar-Hazy-----3.7
296-----Walter Haefner-----3.6
296-----Otto Happel-----3.6
296-----Nicolas Hayek-----3.6
296-----Bradley Hughes-----3.6
296-----Mike Lazaridis-----3.6
296-----Daniel Och-----3.6
296-----Richard Schulze-----3.6
296-----Jeffrey Skoll-----3.6
296-----John Sobrato & family-----3.6
296-----Beny Steinmetz-----3.6
296-----Tadashi Yanai & family-----3.6
307-----Riley Bechtel-----3.5
307-----Stephen Bechtel Jr-----3.5
307-----Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson-----3.5
307-----Ronald Burkle-----3.5
307-----Ray Dolby-----3.5
307-----Stanley Druckenmiller-----3.5
307-----Manuel Jove-----3.5
307-----Bruce Kovner-----3.5
307-----Edward Lampert-----3.5
307-----Cyrus Poonawalla-----3.5
307-----Ira Rennert-----3.5
307-----Stefan Schorghuber-----3.5
307-----Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi-----3.5
307-----Patrick Soon-Shiong-----3.5
307-----Roustam Tariko-----3.5
307-----Yitzhak Tshuva-----3.5
307-----Wong Kwong Yu-----3.5
307-----Daniel Ziff-----3.5
307-----Dirk Ziff-----3.5
307-----Robert Ziff-----3.5
327-----James Balsillie-----3.4
327-----Chen Din Hwa-----3.4
327-----Huang Wei & family-----3.4
327-----Anand Jain-----3.4
327-----Haim Saban-----3.4
327-----Dennis Washington-----3.4
327-----Kostyantin Zhevago-----3.4
334-----David Bonderman-----3.3
334-----Clive Calder-----3.3
334-----Patokh Chodiev-----3.3
334-----Aliko Dangote-----3.3
334-----Saad Hariri-----3.3
334-----Alijan Ibragimov-----3.3
334-----Paul Tudor Jones II-----3.3
334-----Peter Kellogg-----3.3
334-----Esther Koplowitz-----3.3
334-----Leonard Lauder-----3.3
334-----Alexander Machkevich-----3.3
334-----Bernard (Barry) Sherman-----3.3
334-----Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler-----3.3
334-----Andrei Skoch-----3.3
334-----Teh Hong Piow-----3.3
349-----Abdullah Al Rajhi-----3.2
349-----Edgar Bronfman Sr-----3.2
349-----Albert Frere-----3.2
349-----Bahaa Hariri-----3.2
349-----Ronald Lauder-----3.2
349-----Robert Miller-----3.2
349-----George Mitchell-----3.2
349-----Klaus Tschira-----3.2
349-----Michael Ying-----3.2
358-----David & Frederick Barclay-----3.1
358-----Filaret Galchev-----3.1
358-----Min Kao-----3.1
358-----Alexander Lebedev-----3.1
358-----Sergio Mantegazza-----3.1
358-----Wallace McCain-----3.1
358-----Arnon Milchan-----3.1
358-----A Jerrold Perenchio-----3.1
358-----Carl Pohlad-----3.1
358-----Zhang Li-----3.1
368-----Majid Al Futtaim-----3.0
368-----Sulaiman Algosaibi-----3.0
368-----Isak Andic-----3.0
368-----Lee Bass-----3.0
368-----Sid Bass-----3.0
368-----Heinz-Horst Deichmann-----3.0
368-----Kenneth Griffin-----3.0
368-----Diane Hendricks-----3.0
368-----Gunter Herz-----3.0
368-----Joachim Herz-----3.0
368-----Henry Hillman-----3.0
368-----Richard LeFrak & family-----3.0
368-----Joseph Lewis-----3.0
368-----Liang Wengen-----3.0
368-----Hugo Mann & family-----3.0
368-----Rosalia Mera-----3.0
368-----John Paulson-----3.0
368-----T Boone Pickens-----3.0
368-----Chandru Raheja-----3.0
368-----Richard Rainwater-----3.0
368-----Donald Schneider-----3.0
368-----Steven Spielberg-----3.0
368-----Ronda Stryker-----3.0
368-----Tulsi Tanti-----3.0
368-----Olav Thon-----3.0
368-----Donald Trump-----3.0
368-----Larry Yung-----3.0
368-----Zhang Xin & family-----3.0
396-----Nadhmi Auchi-----2.9
396-----Heinz Bauer-----2.9
396-----Carlo Benetton-----2.9
396-----Gilberto Benetton-----2.9
396-----Giuliana Benetton-----2.9
396-----Luciano Benetton-----2.9
396-----Daniela Herz-----2.9
396-----Richard Kinder-----2.9
396-----Li Sze Lim-----2.9
396-----Mario Moretti Polegato-----2.9
396-----Axel Oberwelland-----2.9
396-----Didier Primat-----2.9
396-----Kjell Inge Rokke-----2.9
396-----Samih Sawiris-----2.9
396-----Shi Zhengrong-----2.9
396-----Wee Cho Yaw & family-----2.9
412-----Saif Al Ghurair & family-----2.8
412-----Bassam Alghanim-----2.8
412-----Kutayba Alghanim-----2.8
412-----Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte-----2.8
412-----Khalid Bin Mahfouz & family-----2.8
412-----Chung Mong-Joon-----2.8
412-----Chung Mong-Koo-----2.8
412-----James Coulter-----2.8
412-----Ann Walton Kroenke-----2.8
412-----Aubrey McClendon-----2.8
412-----Alain Merieux & family-----2.8
412-----Mitchell Rales-----2.8
412-----Moise Safra-----2.8
412-----T Denny Sanford-----2.8
412-----Shi Yuzhu-----2.8
412-----Tom Ward-----2.8
428-----John Dorrance III-----2.7
428-----William Fung-----2.7
428-----David Gottesman-----2.7
428-----Vitaliy Hayduk-----2.7
428-----Barbara Piasecka Johnson-----2.7
428-----E Stanley Kroenke-----2.7
428-----Timur Kulibaev-----2.7
428-----Dinara Kulibaeva-----2.7
428-----Liu Yonghao-----2.7
428-----Roger Penske-----2.7
428-----Thomas Pritzker-----2.7
428-----David Rockefeller Sr-----2.7
428-----Takemitsu Takizaki-----2.7
428-----Serhiy Taruta-----2.7
428-----Glen Taylor-----2.7
428-----Harry Triguboff-----2.7
428-----Rakesh Wadhawan & family-----2.7
428-----Romain Zaleski-----2.7
446-----Jose Maria Aristrain-----2.6
446-----Vladimir Bogdanov-----2.6
446-----Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone-----2.6
446-----Mark Cuban-----2.6
446-----Leszek Czarnecki-----2.6
446-----Mikhail Gutseriev-----2.6
446-----Amos Hostetter Jr-----2.6
446-----Vyacheslav Kantor-----2.6
446-----Kalanithi Maran-----2.6
446-----Najib Mikati-----2.6
446-----Taha Mikati-----2.6
446-----Hiroshi Mikitani-----2.6
446-----Steven Rales-----2.6
446-----Melvin Simon-----2.6
446-----Clemmie Spangler Jr-----2.6
446-----Leslie Wexner-----2.6
462-----Khalaf Al Habtoor-----2.5
462-----Leonore Annenberg-----2.5
462-----Michael Ashley-----2.5
462-----Edward Bass-----2.5
462-----Franklin Booth Jr-----2.5
462-----Charles Brandes-----2.5
462-----Cho Tak Wong-----2.5
462-----William Conway Jr-----2.5
462-----Daniel D'Aniello-----2.5
462-----Jim Davis & family-----2.5
462-----Dermot Desmond-----2.5
462-----Charles Dolan & family-----2.5
462-----David Filo-----2.5
462-----Victor Fung-----2.5
462-----Malcolm Glazer & family-----2.5
462-----Laurence Graff-----2.5
462-----Mohammed Ibrahim-----2.5
462-----Micky Jagtiani-----2.5
462-----Stephen Jarislowsky-----2.5
462-----Theodore Lerner-----2.5
462-----Vincent Lo-----2.5
462-----Craig McCaw-----2.5
462-----Michael Milken-----2.5
462-----Dinu Patriciu-----2.5
462-----Xiaofeng Peng-----2.5
462-----Penny Pritzker-----2.5
462-----Robert Rich Jr-----2.5
462-----David Rubenstein-----2.5
462-----Hermann Schnabel-----2.5
462-----Bruno Schroder & family-----2.5
462-----Lynn Schusterman-----2.5
462-----David Shaw-----2.5
462-----Malvinder & Shivinder Singh-----2.5
462-----David Sun-----2.5
462-----Tang Yiu & family-----2.5
462-----Marcel Herrmann Telles-----2.5
462-----Gennady Timchenko-----2.5
462-----Wilma Tisch-----2.5
462-----John Tu-----2.5
462-----John Whittaker-----2.5
462-----Oprah Winfrey-----2.5
503-----Frank Batten Sr-----2.4
503-----Charles Bronfman-----2.4
503-----Matthew Bucksbaum & family-----2.4
503-----John de Mol-----2.4
503-----Gordon Getty-----2.4
503-----William Randolph Hearst III-----2.4
503-----H Wayne Huizenga-----2.4
503-----Nancy Walton Laurie-----2.4
503-----Fredrik Lundberg-----2.4
503-----Patrice Motsepe-----2.4
503-----Charles Munger-----2.4
503-----Anthony Pritzker-----2.4
503-----Daniel Pritzker-----2.4
503-----James Pritzker-----2.4
503-----Jay Robert (JB) Pritzker-----2.4
503-----Jean (Gigi) Pritzker-----2.4
503-----Karen Pritzker-----2.4
503-----Linda Pritzker-----2.4
503-----Gina Rinehart-----2.4
503-----Friede Springer-----2.4
503-----Eugen Viehof & family-----2.4
524-----Alexei Ananyev-----2.3
524-----Dmitry Ananyev-----2.3
524-----Semahat Arsel-----2.3
524-----Thomas Barrack-----2.3
524-----Charles Butt & family-----2.3
524-----John Caudwell-----2.3
524-----Subhash Chandra-----2.3
524-----Shalva Chigirinsky-----2.3
524-----Venugopal Dhoot-----2.3
524-----Gustaf Douglas-----2.3
524-----Philippe Foriel-Destezet-----2.3
524-----Aymin Hariri-----2.3
524-----Fahd Hariri-----2.3
524-----William Hilton-----2.3
524-----Martha Ingram & family-----2.3
524-----Carl Lindner Jr & family-----2.3
524-----Stefano Pessina-----2.3
524-----John Pritzker-----2.3
524-----Quek Leng Chan-----2.3
524-----Edward Roski Jr-----2.3
524-----Carlos Alberto Sicupira-----2.3
524-----Sylvia Stroher-----2.3
524-----Robert E "Ted" Turner-----2.3
524-----Albert Ueltschi-----2.3
524-----Albert von Thurn und Taxis-----2.3
524-----Jerry Yang-----2.3
524-----Zhong Sheng Jian-----2.3
524-----Ahmet Nazif Zorlu-----2.3
524-----Mortimer Zuckerman-----2.3
553-----John Anderson-----2.2
553-----Pierre Bellon & family-----2.2
553-----Phillip Frost-----2.2
553-----Barbara Carlson Gage & family-----2.2
553-----Tom Gores-----2.2
553-----Masatoshi Ito-----2.2
553-----Jess Jackson-----2.2
553-----H Fisk Johnson-----2.2
553-----Imogene Powers Johnson-----2.2
553-----S Curtis Johnson-----2.2
553-----Helen Johnson-Leipold-----2.2
553-----Winnie Johnson-Marquart-----2.2
553-----Omid Kordestani-----2.2
553-----John Malone-----2.2
553-----Mary Alice Dorrance Malone-----2.2
553-----Alfred Mann-----2.2
553-----Marilyn Carlson Nelson & family-----2.2
553-----Denis O'Brien-----2.2
553-----Eduard Shifrin-----2.2
553-----Alexander Shnaider-----2.2
573-----S Daniel Abraham-----2.1
573-----Mohamed Al-Bahar-----2.1
573-----David Azrieli & family-----2.1
573-----Neil Bluhm-----2.1
573-----Emilio Botin-----2.1
573-----John Catsimatidis-----2.1
573-----Phoebe Hearst Cooke-----2.1
573-----Ennio Doris & family-----2.1
573-----Bennett Dorrance-----2.1
573-----Archie Aldis "Red" Emmerson-----2.1
573-----Austin Hearst-----2.1
573-----David Hearst Jr-----2.1
573-----George Hearst Jr-----2.1
573-----Niranjan Hiranandani-----2.1
573-----Elie Horn-----2.1
573-----Daryl Katz-----2.1
573-----Rahmi Koc-----2.1
573-----James Leprino-----2.1
573-----Lui Che Woo-----2.1
573-----Clayton Mathile-----2.1
573-----Kazuo Okada & family-----2.1
573-----Gregorio Perez Companc & family-----2.1
573-----Richard Pratt-----2.1
573-----Nicholas Pritzker II-----2.1
573-----Rajan Raheja-----2.1
573-----Phillip Ruffin-----2.1
573-----Isaac Saba Raffoul & family-----2.1
573-----Ferit Sahenk-----2.1
573-----Helmut Sohmen-----2.1
573-----Jon Stryker-----2.1
573-----Toichi Takenaka-----2.1
573-----Yeoh Tiong Lay & family-----2.1
605-----Reji Abraham-----2.0
605-----Abdulla Al Futtaim-----2.0
605-----Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary-----2.0
605-----Herbert Allen Jr & family-----2.0
605-----Gary Burrell-----2.0
605-----Alan Casden-----2.0
605-----Chen Fashu-----2.0
605-----Belmiro de Azevedo-----2.0
605-----Richard Desmond-----2.0
605-----Abilio dos Santos Diniz-----2.0
605-----Aydin Dogan-----2.0
605-----J Christopher Flowers-----2.0
605-----John Gandel-----2.0
605-----Rolf Gerling-----2.0
605-----Frits Goldschmeding-----2.0
605-----Donald Gordon-----2.0
605-----Guo Guangchang-----2.0
605-----Joshua Harris-----2.0
605-----Michael Hartono-----2.0
605-----R Budi Hartono-----2.0
605-----Hans-Werner Hector-----2.0
605-----Ingeburg Herz-----2.0
605-----Huang Rulun-----2.0
605-----James Jannard-----2.0
605-----Danil Khachaturov-----2.0
605-----Suna Kirac-----2.0
605-----William Koch-----2.0
605-----Leslie Lampton-----2.0
605-----Lee Kun-Hee-----2.0
605-----Lee Myung-Hee-----2.0
605-----Thomas Lee-----2.0
605-----Lu Guanqiu-----2.0
605-----Margaret Magerko-----2.0
605-----Frederik GH Meijer & family-----2.0
605-----Kerr Neilson-----2.0
605-----Or Wai Sheun-----2.0
605-----Liselott Persson-----2.0
605-----Peter Peterson-----2.0
605-----Sergei Pugachev-----2.0
605-----Frederick Smith-----2.0
605-----Sheldon Solow-----2.0
605-----Jerry Speyer-----2.0
605-----R Allen Stanford-----2.0
605-----David Tepper-----2.0
605-----Martin Viessmann-----2.0
605-----Andreas von Bechtolsheim-----2.0
605-----William Wrigley Jr-----2.0
652-----Igor Altushkin-----1.9
652-----Yan Cheung-----1.9
652-----Chu Lam Yiu-----1.9
652-----Mark Coombs-----1.9
652-----Thomas Frist Jr & family-----1.9
652-----Sergei Galitsky-----1.9
652-----Jean-Claude Gandur-----1.9
652-----Maurice Greenberg-----1.9
652-----Donald Hall-----1.9
652-----He Xiangjian & family-----1.9
652-----Michael Jaharis-----1.9
652-----Yuri Kovalchuk-----1.9
652-----Liu Ming Chung-----1.9
652-----Liu Yongxing-----1.9
652-----Joseph Mansueto-----1.9
652-----Tuncay Ozilhan-----1.9
652-----Hans Riegel-----1.9
652-----Paul Riegel-----1.9
652-----Henry Samueli-----1.9
652-----Shin Dong-Bin-----1.9
652-----Thomas Siebel-----1.9
652-----Martua Sitorus-----1.9
652-----Michal Solowow-----1.9
652-----Pat Stryker-----1.9
652-----Mehmet Sinan Tara-----1.9
677-----Jose Berardo-----1.8
677-----Amar Bose-----1.8
677-----William Connor II-----1.8
677-----Charles Dunstone-----1.8
677-----Kenneth Fisher-----1.8
677-----Yoshitaka Fukuda-----1.8
677-----David Green-----1.8
677-----Jon Huntsman-----1.8
677-----Fukuzo Iwasaki-----1.8
677-----Baba Kalyani-----1.8
677-----Alexander Knaster-----1.8
677-----Pyotr Kondrashev-----1.8
677-----Michael Lee-Chin-----1.8
677-----George Lindemann & family-----1.8
677-----Masahiro Miki-----1.8
677-----Henry Nicholas III-----1.8
677-----Anthony O'Reilly-----1.8
677-----Florentino Perez-----1.8
677-----Stanley Perron-----1.8
677-----Stewart Rahr-----1.8
677-----Filiz Sahenk-----1.8
677-----Anatoly Sedykh-----1.8
677-----Shin Dong-Joo-----1.8
677-----Kavitark Ram Shriram-----1.8
677-----Ralph Sonnenberg-----1.8
677-----Nurzhan Subkhanberdin-----1.8
677-----Katsumi Tada-----1.8
677-----Dean White-----1.8
677-----Igor Yakovlev-----1.8
677-----Kamil Yazici-----1.8
707-----Juan Abello-----1.7
707-----Edmund Ansin-----1.7
707-----George Argyros-----1.7
707-----Louis Bacon-----1.7
707-----Julio Bozano-----1.7
707-----Christopher Chandler-----1.7
707-----Richard Chandler-----1.7
707-----Edward Debartolo Jr-----1.7
707-----L John Doerr-----1.7
707-----Alexander Dzhaparidze-----1.7
707-----George Economou-----1.7
707-----Philip Falcone-----1.7
707-----Lindsay Fox-----1.7
707-----Han Chang-Woo & family-----1.7
707-----Timothy Headington-----1.7
707-----Roberto Hernandez Ramirez-----1.7
707-----Douglas Hsu-----1.7
707-----Erman Ilicak-----1.7
707-----James Kim & family-----1.7
707-----Andrei Kosogov-----1.7
707-----Michael Krasny-----1.7
707-----Guy Laliberte-----1.7
707-----Jay Y Lee-----1.7
707-----John Marriott Jr-----1.7
707-----Richard Marriott-----1.7
707-----Robert McNair-----1.7
707-----Vikas Oberoi-----1.7
707-----Sergei Petrov-----1.7
707-----Michael Price-----1.7
707-----Wilbur Ross Jr-----1.7
707-----David Sainsbury-----1.7
707-----Dieter Schnabel-----1.7
707-----John Sperling-----1.7
707-----Peter Sperling-----1.7
707-----A Alfred Taubman-----1.7
707-----Faruk Yalcin-----1.7
743-----Mohammed Al Rajhi-----1.6
743-----Emilio Azcarraga Jean-----1.6
743-----Peter Buck-----1.6
743-----John Calamos & family-----1.6
743-----Chen Yihong-----1.6
743-----David Cheriton-----1.6
743-----Fred DeLuca-----1.6
743-----Anurag Dikshit-----1.6
743-----Ralph Dommermuth-----1.6
743-----James Dyson-----1.6
743-----John J Fisher-----1.6
743-----Thomas Friedkin-----1.6
743-----Alan Gerry-----1.6
743-----B Thomas Golisano-----1.6
743-----Marguerite Harbert-----1.6
743-----Alfredo Harp Helu & family-----1.6
743-----Richard Hayne-----1.6
743-----Stanley Stub Hubbard-----1.6
743-----Michael Ilitch-----1.6
743-----Irwin Jacobs-----1.6
743-----Brad Kelley-----1.6
743-----Randal Kirk-----1.6
743-----Andrei Kozitsyn-----1.6
743-----Patrick Lee-----1.6
743-----Bernard Marcus-----1.6
743-----John Morgridge-----1.6
743-----Kenneth Morrison-----1.6
743-----Igor Olenicoff-----1.6
743-----Richard Peery-----1.6
743-----Ernest Rady-----1.6
743-----Bernard Saul II-----1.6
743-----Melker Schorling-----1.6
743-----Walter Scott Jr-----1.6
743-----Shen Wenrong-----1.6
743-----Phyllis Taylor-----1.6
743-----Tsai Eng Meng-----1.6
743-----Peter Unger-----1.6
743-----Murat Vargi-----1.6
743-----Roger Wang-----1.6
743-----Arne Wilhelmsen & family-----1.6
743-----Xian Yang-----1.6
743-----Zhang Guiping & family-----1.6
785-----John Abele-----1.5
785-----Dennis Albaugh-----1.5
785-----Roland Arnall-----1.5
785-----John Arnold-----1.5
785-----John Arrillaga-----1.5
785-----Ronald Baron-----1.5
785-----Andrew Beal-----1.5
785-----Oleg Boyko-----1.5
785-----John Brown-----1.5
785-----Thomas Bruch-----1.5
785-----Ahmet Calik-----1.5
785-----Chu Mang Yee-----1.5
785-----Bharat Desai & family-----1.5
785-----Dou Zhenggang-----1.5
785-----Israel Englander-----1.5
785-----Gabriel Escarrer-----1.5
785-----Christopher Goldsbury-----1.5
785-----Alec Gores-----1.5
785-----Jeffrey Hildebrand-----1.5
785-----Jeremy Jacobs Sr-----1.5
785-----Joseph Jamail Jr-----1.5
785-----Hamilton James-----1.5
785-----Ryoichi Jinnai-----1.5
785-----Vinod Khosla-----1.5
785-----Jerome Kohlberg Jr-----1.5
785-----Lev Kvetnoi-----1.5
785-----Marc Lasry-----1.5
785-----Nancy Lerner-----1.5
785-----Norma Lerner-----1.5
785-----Randolph Lerner-----1.5
785-----Thomas Marsico-----1.5
785-----Billy Joe "Red" McCombs-----1.5
785-----Gary Michelson-----1.5
785-----William Moncrief Jr-----1.5
785-----Jorge Perez-----1.5
785-----James Ratcliffe-----1.5
785-----GV Krishna Reddy-----1.5
785-----Trevor Rees-Jones-----1.5
785-----David Rich-----1.5
785-----Marc Rich-----1.5
785-----Andrei Rogachev-----1.5
785-----Marc Rowan-----1.5
785-----Gracias Saldanha-----1.5
785-----Tamir Sapir-----1.5
785-----Emanuele (Lino) Saputo-----1.5
785-----Nikolai Sarkisov-----1.5
785-----Sergei Sarkisov-----1.5
785-----Fayez Sarofim-----1.5
785-----Joseph Steinberg-----1.5
785-----Kerry Stokes-----1.5
785-----Alexander Svetakov-----1.5
785-----Lucio Tan & family-----1.5
785-----Murat Ulker-----1.5
785-----Todd Wagner-----1.5
785-----Theodore Waitt-----1.5
785-----Lorenzo Zambrano & family-----1.5
785-----Zhang Keqiang-----1.5
785-----Mark Zuckerberg-----1.5
843-----Ali Ibrahim Agaoglu-----1.4
843-----Farkhad Akhmedov-----1.4
843-----Carl Berg-----1.4
843-----Maxim Blazhko-----1.4
843-----Vincent Bollore-----1.4
843-----Cha Yong-Keu-----1.4
843-----Cheung Chung Kiu-----1.4
843-----James Clark-----1.4
843-----Jean Coutu-----1.4
843-----Horacio da Silva Roque-----1.4
843-----Robert Day-----1.4
843-----James Dinan-----1.4
843-----Lloyd Dorfman-----1.4
843-----N Murray Edwards-----1.4
843-----Richard Egan-----1.4
843-----Robert Fisher-----1.4
843-----William Fisher-----1.4
843-----James France-----1.4
843-----Douglas Fregin-----1.4
843-----Robert Friedland-----1.4
843-----Soichiro Fukutake-----1.4
843-----Jayme Garfinkel-----1.4
843-----Louis Gonda-----1.4
843-----Naresh Goyal-----1.4
843-----Nazek Hariri-----1.4
843-----Gerald Harvey-----1.4
843-----Huang Maoru-----1.4
843-----Vladimir Iorikh-----1.4
843-----Jerral Jones-----1.4
843-----Bruce Karsh-----1.4
843-----Robert Kraft-----1.4
843-----Tracy Krohn-----1.4
843-----Richard Li-----1.4
843-----Robin Li-----1.4
843-----Ma Huateng-----1.4
843-----Anne Windfohr Marion-----1.4
843-----Howard Marks-----1.4
843-----Robert McLane Jr-----1.4
843-----NR Narayana Murthy-----1.4
843-----Shigenobu Nagamori-----1.4
843-----Alexander Ponomarenko-----1.4
843-----Leandro Rizzuto-----1.4
843-----David Ross-----1.4
843-----Patrick Ryan-----1.4
843-----Richard Scaife-----1.4
843-----Alexander Skorobogatko-----1.4
843-----Thomas Straumann-----1.4
843-----Henry Sy & family-----1.4
843-----Gautam Thapar-----1.4
843-----Joop van den Ende-----1.4
843-----Sergei Veremeenko-----1.4
843-----Sanford Weill-----1.4
843-----Arthur Williams Jr-----1.4
843-----Dmitry Zelenov-----1.4
897-----Thomas Bailey-----1.3
897-----Enrique Banuelos-----1.3
897-----Boris Berezovsky-----1.3
897-----Stephen Bisciotti-----1.3
897-----Arthur Blank-----1.3
897-----Timothy Blixseth-----1.3
897-----Anneliese Brost-----1.3
897-----S Truett Cathy-----1.3
897-----Dhanin Chearavanont-----1.3
897-----Francis Choi-----1.3
897-----Scott Cook-----1.3
897-----Ian M Cumming-----1.3
897-----David Davidovich-----1.3
897-----Barry Diller-----1.3
897-----Glenn Dubin-----1.3
897-----David Duffield-----1.3
897-----Bulent Eczacibasi-----1.3
897-----Faruk Eczacibasi-----1.3
897-----Frank Fertitta III-----1.3
897-----Lorenzo Fertitta-----1.3
897-----Mario Gabelli-----1.3
897-----William Gross-----1.3
897-----Mubariz Gurbanoglu-----1.3
897-----Michael Heisley Sr-----1.3
897-----Thomas Hicks-----1.3
897-----Thomas Hunter-----1.3
897-----Nimesh Kampani-----1.3
897-----Nasser Khalili-----1.3
897-----Andrei Komarov-----1.3
897-----Kong Jian Min-----1.3
897-----Ryszard Krauze-----1.3
897-----Kuok Khoon Hong-----1.3
897-----Barry Lam-----1.3
897-----PNC Menon-----1.3
897-----Michael Moritz-----1.3
897-----Robert Naify-----1.3
897-----Gabriel Panayotides & family-----1.3
897-----Nelson Peltz-----1.3
897-----Sebastian Pinera-----1.3
897-----Clayton Riddell-----1.3
897-----Julian Robertson Jr-----1.3
897-----Barry Rosenstein-----1.3
897-----Steven Roth-----1.3
897-----Monika Schoeller-----1.3
897-----Walter Shorenstein & family-----1.3
897-----Herbert Siegel-----1.3
897-----Herbert Simon-----1.3
897-----Daniel Snyder-----1.3
897-----George Steinbrenner III-----1.3
897-----Ernest Stempel-----1.3
897-----Henry Swieca-----1.3
897-----Girish Tanti-----1.3
897-----Jitendra Tanti-----1.3
897-----Kenny Troutt-----1.3
897-----Hope Hill van Beuren-----1.3
897-----Ruben Vardanian-----1.3
897-----Dieter von Holtzbrinck-----1.3
897-----Stefan von Holtzbrinck-----1.3
897-----Charlotte Colket Weber-----1.3
897-----Jan Wejchert-----1.3
897-----Margaret Whitman-----1.3
897-----Yang Erzhu-----1.3
897-----Tadahiro Yoshida & family-----1.3
897-----Zhang Cheng Fei-----1.3
897-----Olgun Zorlu-----1.3
962-----Aras Agalarov-----1.2
962-----Alberto Alcocer-----1.2
962-----Marc Benioff-----1.2
962-----Peter Briger Jr-----1.2
962-----Stephen Case-----1.2
962-----Richard Chilton-----1.2
962-----Hasan Colakoglu-----1.2
962-----Leon G Cooperman-----1.2
962-----Alberto Cortina-----1.2
962-----John Coustas-----1.2
962-----Wesley Edens-----1.2
962-----John Edson-----1.2
962-----Thomas Flatley-----1.2
962-----Gao Dekang-----1.2
962-----Sameer Gehlaut-----1.2
962-----Pincus Green-----1.2
962-----Suat Gunsel-----1.2
962-----Marvin Herb-----1.2
962-----Huh Chang-Soo-----1.2
962-----Johnelle Hunt-----1.2
962-----George Joseph-----1.2
962-----William Kellogg-----1.2
962-----Igor Kesaev-----1.2
962-----Said Khoury-----1.2
962-----Jimmy Lai-----1.2
962-----Guilherme Peirao Leal-----1.2
962-----Lin Li-----1.2
962-----Vijay Mallya-----1.2
962-----Alexander Mamut-----1.2
962-----Miao Liansheng-----1.2
962-----Arturo Moreno-----1.2
962-----Michael Novogratz-----1.2
962-----Ahsen Ozokur-----1.2
962-----Richard Perry-----1.2
962-----Sergei Polonsky-----1.2
962-----Luis Portillo-----1.2
962-----J Joseph Ricketts-----1.2
962-----Sevket Sabanci-----1.2
962-----Silvio Scaglia-----1.2
962-----Antonio Luiz Seabra-----1.2
962-----Yasumitsu Shigeta-----1.2
962-----Rajendra Singh-----1.2
962-----O Bruton Smith-----1.2
962-----Peter Sondakh-----1.2
962-----Thomas Steyer-----1.2
962-----Vinod Tanti-----1.2
962-----Joyce Raley Teel-----1.2
962-----Peter Thiel-----1.2
962-----Ion Tiriac-----1.2
962-----Samuel Wyly-----1.2
962-----Xu Jiayin-----1.2
962-----Jerry Zucker-----1.2
1014-----Anu Aga-----1.1
1014-----Mary Anselmo-----1.1
1014-----Turgay Ciner-----1.1
1014-----Luis del Rivero-----1.1
1014-----Michael Eisner-----1.1
1014-----Richard Elman & family-----1.1
1014-----Paul Fireman-----1.1
1014-----Leslie Gonda-----1.1
1014-----John Grill-----1.1
1014-----Albert Gubay-----1.1
1014-----Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson-----1.1
1014-----Dorrance Hamilton-----1.1
1014-----Hind Hariri-----1.1
1014-----Jonathan Harmsworth-----1.1
1014-----Stephen Jennings-----1.1
1014-----Morris Kahn-----1.1
1014-----Roman Karkosik-----1.1
1014-----Viktor Kharitonin-----1.1
1014-----Habil Khorakiwala-----1.1
1014-----Sidney Kimmel-----1.1
1014-----Koo Bon-Moo-----1.1
1014-----Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere-----1.1
1014-----Peter Lewis-----1.1
1014-----Li San Yim-----1.1
1014-----Leonard Litwin-----1.1
1014-----Jose Manuel Loureda-----1.1
1014-----Jack Ma-----1.1
1014-----Gary Magness-----1.1
1014-----Marc Nathanson-----1.1
1014-----Peter Nicholas-----1.1
1014-----Nandan Nilekani-----1.1
1014-----Dwight Opperman-----1.1
1014-----Megdet Rahimkulov & family-----1.1
1014-----Paul Raymond-----1.1
1014-----Arthur Rock-----1.1
1014-----Serra Sabanci-----1.1
1014-----Jignesh Shah-----1.1
1014-----Charles Simonyi-----1.1
1014-----Alexander Spanos & family-----1.1
1014-----Michael Spencer-----1.1
1014-----Oakleigh Thorne-----1.1
1014-----Tiong Hiew King-----1.1
1014-----Norman Waitt Jr-----1.1
1014-----Alfred West Jr-----1.1
1014-----Gary West-----1.1
1014-----Mary West-----1.1
1014-----Gavril Yushvaev-----1.1
1014-----Zhang Zhixiang-----1.1
1062-----Lee Ainslie III-----1.0
1062-----Mahdi Al-Tajir-----1.0
1062-----Rahul Bajaj-----1.0
1062-----Carol Jenkins Barnett-----1.0
1062-----Joseph Benvenuti-----1.0
1062-----Gerd Brachmann-----1.0
1062-----Chung Yong-Jin-----1.0
1062-----Boguslaw Cupial-----1.0
1062-----William Ding-----1.0
1062-----Hanzade Dogan Boyner-----1.0
1062-----Begumhan Dogan Faralyali-----1.0
1062-----Vuslat Dogan Sabanci-----1.0
1062-----Sema Isil Dogan-----1.0
1062-----Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag-----1.0
1062-----Richard Farmer-----1.0
1062-----Stephen Feinberg-----1.0
1062-----Theodore Forstmann-----1.0
1062-----Paul Foster-----1.0
1062-----Jurgen Friedrich-----1.0
1062-----Yasuhiro Fukushima-----1.0
1062-----Jeffrey Gendell-----1.0
1062-----Sergei Generalov-----1.0
1062-----Geng Jianming-----1.0
1062-----Daniel Gilbert-----1.0
1062-----Senapathy Gopalakrishnan-----1.0
1062-----Dietmar Hopp-----1.0
1062-----Rakesh Jhunjhunwala-----1.0
1062-----Robert Johnson-----1.0
1062-----Stephen Karp-----1.0
1062-----Teresa F Heinz Kerry-----1.0
1062-----Igor Kim-----1.0
1062-----Georgy Krasnyansky-----1.0
1062-----Peter Lim-----1.0
1062-----Liu Hanyuan-----1.0
1062-----Friedhelm Loh-----1.0
1062-----Vitaly Malkin-----1.0
1062-----Stephen Mandel-----1.0
1062-----John P Manning-----1.0
1062-----Richard Manoogian-----1.0
1062-----Donald Marron-----1.0
1062-----Barbara Hall Marshall-----1.0
1062-----L Lowry Mays-----1.0
1062-----Lowell Milken-----1.0
1062-----Roger Milliken-----1.0
1062-----Minoru Mori-----1.0
1062-----Vadim Moshkovich-----1.0
1062-----Maria Noseda Zambra-----1.0
1062-----Marvin L "Buzz" Oates & family-----1.0
1062-----Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello-----1.0
1062-----Lynne Pasculano & family-----1.0
1062-----Jorgen Philip-Sorensen-----1.0
1062-----Elizabeth Ann Hall Reid-----1.0
1062-----Joanne (JK) Rowling-----1.0
1062-----Yalcin Sabanci-----1.0
1062-----Hasib Sabbagh-----1.0
1062-----Lily Safra-----1.0
1062-----Deniz Sahenk-----1.0
1062-----Suh Kyung-Bae-----1.0
1062-----Sun Guangxin-----1.0
1062-----Jim Thompson-----1.0
1062-----Bulat Utemuratov-----1.0
1062-----Edward Watkins Jr-----1.0
1062-----Gordon Wu-----1.0
1062-----Zong Qinghou-----1.0

#503 Nancy Walton Laurie

Age: 56

Fortune: inherited

Source: Wal-Mart

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Columbia, Missouri , United States, North America

Industry: Retailing

Marital Status: married, 1 child

Education: University of Memphis, Bachelor of Arts / Science

Father, James (Bud) Walton, and his brother Sam ran handful of small 5-and-10 stores in Arkansas and Missouri. Brothers built first Wal-Mart 1962. Nancy inherited large stake after Bud's death 1995. Sold pro hockey's St. Louis Blues 2006. Recently purchased a Missouri bank. Founder of New York City's Cedar Lake Ensemble ballet troupe.

#503 H Wayne Huizenga

Age: 70

Fortune: self made

Source: investments

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Fort Lauderdale, Florida , United States, North America

Industry: Service

Marital Status: married, 4 children

Education: Calvin College, Drop Out

Grew up in Illinois and Florida; father a residential housing contractor. Skipped college to join Army. Bought used garbage truck in 1962; discovered the power of repeat customers. Turned small trash-hauling operation into waste-management titan WMX. Quit 1984. Bought stake in 19-store video rental chain Blockbuster 1987; expanded, sold to Viacom 7 years later for $8.4 billion. Invested some of the proceeds in resorts; sold stake in Extended Stay America to Stephen Schwarzman's Blackstone Group 2004 for $185 million. Owner of pro football's lowly Miami Dolphins hired famed coach Bill Parcels as head of football operations to hopefully return the team to glory.

#503 William Randolph Hearst III

Age: 58

Fortune: inherited

Source: Hearst Corp

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: San Francisco, California , United States, North America

Industry: Media/Entertainment

Marital Status: married, 3 children

Education: Harvard University, Bachelor of Arts / Science

Grandchild of publishing legend William Randolph Hearst. William's father, George, was a prospector, land baron, U.S. senator who "won" failing San Francisco Examiner newspaper as payment for gambling debt in 1880. Only child, William (d. 1951), assumed control in 1887, built nation's largest newspaper chain via sensational "yellow" journalism. Used papers to champion Spanish-American War; infamously portrayed by actor Orson Welles in Citizen Kane. Today Hearst Corp. controls newspapers (San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle), magazines (Cosmopolitan, Esquire), cable networks (stakes in ESPN, Lifetime, A&E), TV, radio stations. Company relocated to $700 million, 46-story "green" tower last year. William III a partner at VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, invests in companies focused on Web video, fiber optics.

#503 Gordon Getty

Age: 74

Fortune: inherited

Source: inheritance, oil

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: San Francisco, California , United States, North America

Industry: Oil/Gas

Marital Status: married, 7 children

Education: San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Bachelor of Arts / Science

With siblings inherited Getty Oil from father, J. Paul Getty Sr. (d. 1976). Spent 4 years in business; sold to Texaco in 1986 for $10 billion. Started Forward Management in 1998, investment firm manages $1.5 billion today; Getty the majority shareholder. San Francisco socialite composes operas; latest, PlumpJack, was inspired by Falstaff, the spirited knight in Shakespeare's Henry IV plays. Loves the vino: founded Napa Valley winery, also dubbed PlumpJack, in 1992.

#503 John de Mol

Age: 53

Fortune: self made

Source: TV

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: Netherlands

Residence: Blaricum , Netherlands, Europe & Russia

Industry: Media/Entertainment

Marital Status: single, 1 child

Education: NA

After selling TV-production giant Endemol in 2000, the brain behind global hit Big Brother returned in full creative force. In 2005 launched a new television channel, Talpa TV, to stunning success in the Netherlands, largely off the back of programming like Dutch soccer and popular reality fare. Talpa TV, now called Tien, was taken over by RTL Group in 2007. De Mol has a 25% stake in RTL's Netherlands subsidiary. Also bought a 5% stake in Endemol 2007, sparking rumors that he wanted it all back.

#503 Matthew Bucksbaum & family

Age: 82

Fortune: self made

Source: real estate

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Chicago, Illinois , United States, North America

Industry: Real Estate

Marital Status: married, 2 children

Education: University of Iowa, Bachelor of Arts / Science

Grocer's son developed first shopping center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1954 with his 2 brothers. Took General Management public in 1970; real estate investment trust liquidated 15 years later for 100% profit. Relocated to Chicago after brother Martin died 1995, renamed company General Growth Properties. Remains chairman; son, John, took reins 1999. Today nation's second-largest REIT owns 200 million square feet across more than 200 malls and planned communities in 44 states. Company recently gave health insurance, higher wages to shopping center janitors.

#503 Charles Bronfman

Age: 76

Fortune: inherited and growing

Source: liquor

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: Canada

Residence: Montreal , Canada, North America

Industry: Beverages

Marital Status: married, 2 children

Education: McGill University, Bachelor of Arts / Science

Along with brother, Edgar Sr., inherited Seagram spirits empire that was built up by their father, Sam, and sold to Vivendi in 2000. Charles is focusing on Jewish charities. Helped found Birthright Israel, which sends Jewish youths from North America on educational tours of Israel. Through his foundation underwrites New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival. Started the Andy Prize in memory of his late wife, Andrea, who was killed by a taxi while walking their dog near their Manhattan apartment in January 2006. The prize is awarded annually to an Israeli decorative artist for excellence in ceramics, jewelry, textile or glass. The Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies annually give $15 million to a host of causes.

#503 Frank Batten Sr

Age: 81

Fortune: inherited and growing

Source: Landmark

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Virginia Beach, Virginia , United States, North America

Industry: Media/Entertainment

Marital Status: married, 3 children

Education: University of Virginia, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Harvard University, Master of Business Administration
Uncle Samuel Slover arrived in Virginia 1900. Offered 50% stake of Newport News newspaper if he halted broadsheet's losses within a year; succeeded. Batten studied at U. of Virginia, then Harvard M.B.A.; became publisher at age 27. Built Landmark Communications: newspapers (8 dailies), cable (Weather Channel), TV stations. Son Frank Jr. runs family media empire. Donated $100 million to alma mater to create the Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy. Reportedly looking to sell the Weather Channel for $5 billion.

#462 Oprah Winfrey

Age: 54

Fortune: self made

Source: television

Net Worth: $2.5 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Chicago, Illinois , United States, North America

Industry: Media/Entertainment

Marital Status: single,

Education: Tennessee State University, Bachelor of Arts / Science

The queen of daytime television continues to expand her empire. Announced plans to create OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. Launched XM Radio channel Oprah and Friends September 2006. Born in rural Mississippi, became TV newscaster in Nashville, Baltimore. Joined Chicago TV station, turned 3rd-rated morning show into nation's No. 1 talk show. The Oprah Winfrey Show launched nationally 1986; currently airs in 135 countries, drawing 46 million viewers a week in the U.S. Also launched showboating shrink Dr. Phil; a producer of the musical version of The Color Purple on Broadway. Donated $40 million to create the Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. Previous net worth estimates failed to account for value of Oprah's powerful brand.

#462 John Whittaker

Age: 66

Fortune: self made

Source: real estate

Net Worth: $2.5 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United Kingdom

Residence: Isle of Man , United Kingdom, Europe & Russia

Industry: Real Estate

Marital Status: married, 4 children

Education: High School, Diploma

Turned textile company into a real estate empire, Peel Holdings, which includes the 1.4-million-square-foot shopping mall the Trafford Center. Took company private in 2004. A year later led the group's $1.3 billion takeover of Mersey Docks & Harbour Co. in a bid to revitalize the Liverpool waterfront. In 2006 Deutsche Bank's property arm paid $600 million for 49% stake. Group's other holdings include investment properties, airports and ports. Added a stake in the James Bond's film studio, Pinewood Shepperton. Owns Billown Mansion on the Isle of Man.

#462 John Tu

Age: 68

Fortune: self made

Source: computer memory

Net Worth: $2.5 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Fountain Valley, California , United States, North America

Industry: Technology

Marital Status: married, 2 children

Education: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Bachelor of Arts / Science

Cofounded Kingston Technology 1987; now nation's largest privately held computer memory outfit. Today its USB flash drives and flash cards grace digital cameras, MP3 players. Its DataTraveler Mini-Migo holds 2 gigabytes on a data key less than 1 inch long. John Tu: family fled China for Taiwan 1949, later moved to Germany where he studied electrical engineering. Came to U.S. 1972. Partner David Sun: moved to U.S. from Taiwan 1977, worked as chief engineer at Alpha Micro. Pair started first memory-chip shop Camintonn 1982, sold 4 years later for $6 million, then formed Kingston. Nifty turnabout: sold 80% stake to Softbank for $1.5 billion in 1996, then bought it back for only $450 million 3 years later.

#462 Wilma Tisch

Age: 80

Fortune: inherited

Source: Loews

Net Worth: $2.5 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: New York, New York , United States, North America

Industry: Investments

Marital Status: widowed, 4 children

Education: Skidmore College, Bachelor of Arts / Science

Widow of Brooklyn-born investor duo Laurence Tisch. "Larry" with brother Preston bought New Jersey hotel in 1946, leased hotels in once posh Atlantic City. Later managed NYC's Drake, Belmont Plaza, Regency. Took control of Loews Theatres 1959; varied interests now include watches (Bulova), tobacco (Lorillard), oil drilling (Diamond Offshore), natural gas pipelines (Boardwalk). Contrarian investor Larry known for his bearish pessimism. Wilma transferred large chunks of stock to sons soon after his death in 2003. Company remains under family control. Family contributions to NYU exceed $100 million.

#462 Gennady Timchenko

Age: 55

Fortune: self made

Source: oil trading

Net Worth: $2.5 bil

Country Of Citizenship: Russia

Residence: Geneva , Switzerland, Europe & Russia

Industry: Oil/Gas

Marital Status: NA,

Education: NA

A longtime associate of Vladimir Putin and studied judo with the same trainer as him. In the late 1980s ran Kinex, a state-owned oil exporter. Became one of its main shareholders when it was later privatized. In the 1990s sold Russian oil. Business apparently improved after Putin came to power. Today is one of the co-owners of the Gunvor Group, through which state-controlled Rosneft and Gazpromneft oil firms export their products.

#462 Marcel Herrmann Telles

Age: 58

Fortune: self made

Source: beer

Net Worth: $2.5 bil

Country Of Citizenship: Brazil

Residence: Sao Paulo , Brazil, Latin America

Industry: Beverages

Marital Status: married, 2 children

Education: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor of Arts / Science

One of a trio of Brazilian billionaire beer barons. With former investment banking partners, Jorge Paulo Lemann and Carlos Alberto Sicupira (both billionaires), Telles built Brazilian brewer AmBev. In 2004 merged with Interbrew of Belgium to form InBev, world's largest brewer by volume. The trio also controls Brazilian retailer Lojas Americanas. Telles is reportedly a keen spearfisher and likes to spend time in Monaco.

#462 Tang Yiu & family

Age: NA

Fortune: self made

Source: shoes

Net Worth: $2.5 bil

Country Of Citizenship: Hong Kong

Residence: Hong Kong , Hong Kong, Asia & Australia

Industry: Retailing

Marital Status: NA,

Education: NA

Cofounder of Belle International, one of China's biggest shoe retailers. Claims to be nation's largest retailer of Nike, Adidas brands. Its 2007 listing attracted such international investors as luxury goods purveyor LVMH. Hong Kong native chairs the Federation of Hong Kong Footwear. Shares fortune with 37-year-old daughter, Tang Ming Wai, group's executive director.

#462 David Sun

Age: 57

Fortune: self made

Source: computer memory

Net Worth: $2.5 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Fountain Valley, California , United States, North America

Industry: Technology

Marital Status: married, 2 children

Education: Tatung University, Bachelor of Arts / Science

Cofounded Kingston Technology 1987; now nation's largest privately held computer memory outfit. Today its USB flash drives and flash cards grace digital cameras, MP3 players. Its DataTraveler Mini-Migo holds 2 gigabytes on a data key less than 1 inch long. Partner John Tu: family fled China for Taiwan 1949, later moved to Germany where he studied electrical engineering. Came to U.S. 1972. David Sun: moved to U.S. from Taiwan 1977, worked as chief engineer at Alpha Micro. Pair started first memory-chip shop Camintonn 1982, sold 4 years later for $6 million, then formed Kingston. Nifty turnabout: sold 80% stake to Softbank for $1.5 billion in 1996, then bought it back for only $450 million 3 years later.

#462 Malvinder & Shivinder Singh

Age: 35/32

Fortune: inherited

Source: pharmaceuticals

Net Worth: $2.5 bil

Country Of Citizenship: India

Residence: Dehli , India, Asia & Australia

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Marital Status: married, 3 children

Education: St Stephen's College (India), Bachelor of Arts / Science
Duke University, Master of Business Administration
Brothers, both Duke University grads, control generic drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories, founded by their grandfather. Malvinder is chief executive of Ranbaxy, which recently settled lawsuit with GlaxoSmithkline over marketing rights to generic version of herpes drug Valtrex. In February 2008 Ranbaxy's board approved spinoff of research arm into Ranbaxy Life Science Research. Shivinder runs Indian hospital chain Fortis Healthcare, which went public in 2007. Brothers also recently listed financial services arm, Religare Enterprises.

#462 David Shaw

Age: 56

Fortune: self made

Source: hedge funds

Net Worth: $2.5 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: New York, New York , United States, North America

Industry: Finance

Marital Status: married,

Education: University of California, San Diego, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Stanford University, Doctorate
Investment geek uses complex algorithms to capitalize on tiny anomalies in the stock market. Became a professor of computer science at Columbia U., worked at Morgan Stanley before launching hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co. from an office above a bookstore. Recruits heavily, hires selectively; only one in 500 applicants makes the cut. Company sold 20% stake to Lehman Brothers last March. Delegated day-to-day operations to others to focus on medical research; D.E. Shaw Research hires scientists in hopes of making groundbreaking discoveries while reaping financial rewards.