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

Billionaires 2008

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#503 Eugen Viehof & family

Age: 91

Fortune: self made

Source: retail

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: Germany

Residence: Moenchengladbach , Germany, Europe & Russia

Industry: Retailing

Marital Status: married, 4 children

Education: NA

Founder of the Allkauf supermarket chain, which he sold to Metro in 1998 for $1 billion. Retired these days. Sons Eugen Jr., Michael, Klaus and Bernd dabble in various businesses, among them a winter sports complex, a chain of outdoor-gear shops and a regional commuter airline.

#503 Friede Springer

Age: 65

Fortune: inherited and growing

Source: publishing

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: Germany

Residence: Berlin , Germany, Europe & Russia

Industry: Media/Entertainment

Marital Status: widowed,

Education: NA

Fifth wife and widow of Axel Springer, founder of $3.5 billion (sales) Axel Springer Verlag, one of Germany's leading publishing groups. Now owns over 51% of company, which publishes more than 170 papers in 33 countries, including leading German conservative daily Die Welt and Germany's largest daily tabloid, Bild Zeitung. Axel Springer publishes foreign language editions of Forbes in Poland and Russia. She remains the majority holder of Axel Springer after a German court rejected a claim to more shares made by her dead husband's grandson, Axel Sven Springer. He is apparently appealing. Active in various philanthropic organizations; has received numerous awards for her efforts to rebuild German-Jewish relations.

#503 Gina Rinehart

Age: 54

Fortune: inherited and growing

Source: mining

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: Australia

Residence: Perth , Australia, Asia & Australia

Industry: Mining/Lumber

Marital Status: widowed, 4 children

Education: NA

Sole heir to once deeply troubled estate left by late father. Battled for 14 years to win control of his assets from her stepmother. Legal hurdles cleared in 2003 in time to catch boom in iron ore demand. Has potential to become much richer. In late 2007, after decades of promise, Rinehart's family company, Hancock Prospecting, shipped its first ton of iron ore as part of a joint venture with mining giant Rio Tinto; royalties from Rio Tinto expected to jump in the next year. Rinehart is now working on multiple mine developments on her vast expanse of undeveloped land to feed Chinese demand.

#503 Linda Pritzker

Age: 54

Fortune: inherited

Source: hotels, investments

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: St Ignatius, Montana , United States, North America

Industry: Investments

Marital Status: divorced, 3 children

Education: NA

Grandchild of A.N. Pritzker (d. 1986), who, with sons Jay (d. 1999) and Robert, created industrial conglomerate Marmon and hotel chain Hyatt. Plan to pass control of empire to Jay's son Tom, cousin Nick and niece Penny collapsed in 2001; family agreed to split empire 11 ways, drawing lawsuit by Robert's 2 youngest children, Matthew and Liesel. Settled for $1 billion. Dynastic carve-up has begun. Sold minority stake in Hyatt to private equity firm Madrone Capital (owned by the Walton heirs) and Goldman Sachs for $1 billion last August. Then sold 60% stake in Marmon to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for $4.5 billion in December; Berkshire will buy the remainder of the company over the next few years.

#503 Karen Pritzker

Age: 50

Fortune: inherited

Source: hotels, investments

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: New Haven, Connecticut , United States, North America

Industry: Investments

Marital Status: married, 4 children

Education: University of Chicago, Bachelor of Arts / Science

Grandchild of A.N. Pritzker (d. 1986), who, with sons Jay (d. 1999) and Robert, created industrial conglomerate Marmon and hotel chain Hyatt. Plan to pass control of empire to Jay's son Tom, cousin Nick and niece Penny collapsed in 2001; family agreed to split empire 11 ways, drawing lawsuit by Robert's 2 youngest children, Matthew and Liesel. Settled for $1 billion. Dynastic carve-up has begun. Sold minority stake in Hyatt to private equity firm Madrone Capital (owned by the Walton heirs) and Goldman Sachs for $1 billion last August. Then sold 60% stake in Marmon to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for $4.5 billion in December; Berkshire will buy the remainder of the company over the next few years.

#503 Jean (Gigi) Pritzker

MJ Kim/Getty Images Age: 46

Fortune: inherited

Source: hotels, investments

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Chicago, Illinois , United States, North America

Industry: Investments

Marital Status: married, 3 children

Education: Stanford University, Bachelor of Arts / Science

Grandchild of A.N. Pritzker (d. 1986), who, with sons Jay (d. 1999) and Robert, created industrial conglomerate Marmon and hotel chain Hyatt. Plan to pass control of empire to Jay's son Tom, cousin Nick and niece Penny collapsed in 2001; family agreed to split empire 11 ways, drawing lawsuit by Robert's 2 youngest children, Matthew and Liesel. Settled for $1 billion. Dynastic carve-up has begun. Sold minority stake in Hyatt to private equity firm Madrone Capital (owned by the Walton heirs) and Goldman Sachs for $1 billion last August. Then sold 60% stake in Marmon to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for $4.5 billion in December; Berkshire will buy the remainder of the company over the next few years.

#503 Jay Robert (JB) Pritzker

Courtesy of New World Ventures Age: 43

Fortune: inherited

Source: hotels, investments

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Evanston, Illinois , United States, North America

Industry: Investments

Marital Status: married, 2 children

Education: Duke University, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Northwestern University, Doctor of Jurisprudence
Grandchild of A.N. Pritzker (d. 1986), who, with sons Jay (d. 1999) and Robert, created industrial conglomerate Marmon and hotel chain Hyatt. Plan to pass control of empire to Jay's son Tom, cousin Nick and niece Penny collapsed in 2001; family agreed to split empire 11 ways, drawing lawsuit by Robert's 2 youngest children, Matthew and Liesel. Settled for $1 billion. Dynastic carve-up has begun. Sold minority stake in Hyatt to private equity firm Madrone Capital (owned by the Walton heirs) and Goldman Sachs for $1 billion last August. Then sold 60% stake in Marmon to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for $4.5 billion in December; Berkshire will buy the remainder of the company over the next few years.

#503 James Pritzker

Age: 56

Fortune: inherited

Source: hotels, investments

Net Worth: $2.4 bil

Country Of Citizenship: United States

Residence: Chicago, Illinois , United States, North America

Industry: Investments

Marital Status: divorced, 3 children

Education: Loyola University Illinois, Bachelor of Arts / Science

Grandchild of A.N. Pritzker (d. 1986), who, with sons Jay (d. 1999) and Robert, created industrial conglomerate Marmon and hotel chain Hyatt. Plan to pass control of empire to Jay's son Tom, cousin Nick and niece Penny collapsed in 2001; family agreed to split empire 11 ways, drawing lawsuit by Robert's 2 youngest children, Matthew and Liesel. Settled for $1 billion. Dynastic carve-up has begun. Sold minority stake in Hyatt to private equity firm Madrone Capital (owned by the Walton heirs) and Goldman Sachs for $1 billion last August. Then sold 60% stake in Marmon to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for $4.5 billion in December; Berkshire will buy the remainder of the company over the next few years.