Billionaires - Top 200 Big Shots - INFORMATIONAL

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Top two hundred billionaires (reported by Forbes)


# Name Net Worth Country Corporation
1 Bill Gates $50 billion USA Microsoft
2 Warren Buffett $42 billion USA Berkshire Hathaway
3 Carlos Slim Helú $37.6 billion Mexico Telmex
4 Ingvar Kamprad $28 billion Sweden IKEA
5 Lakshmi Mittal $27.7 billion India Mittal Steel Company
6 Paul Allen $22 billion USA Microsoft
7 Bernard Arnault $21.5 billion France LVMH & Christian Dior SA
8 Prince Al-Waleed $20 billion Saudi Arabia Kingdom Holding Company
9 David Thomson $19.6 billion Canada Thomson Corporation
10 Li Ka-shing $18.8 billion China (Hong Kong) Hutchison Whampoa, Husky Energy & Cheung Kong Group
11 Roman Abramovich $18.2 billion Russia Sibneft, Rusal & Chelsea F.C.
12 Michael Dell $17.1 billion USA Dell Inc.
13 Karl Albrecht $17 billion Germany ALDI
14 Sheldon Adelson $16.1 billion USA Las Vegas Sands
15 Liliane Bettencourt $16 billion France L'Oréal
16 Larry Ellison $16 billion USA Oracle Corporation
17 Christy Walton $15.9 billion USA Walmart
18 Jim Walton $15.9 billion USA Walmart
19 S. Robson Walton $15.8 billion USA Walmart
20 Alice Walton $15.7 billion USA Walmart
21 Helen Walton $15.6 billion USA Walmart
22 Theo Albrecht $15.2 billion Germany ALDI
23 Amancio Ortega $14.8 billion Spain Inditex
24 Steven Ballmer $13.6 billion USA Microsoft
25 Azim Premji $13.3 billion India Wipro
26 Sergey Brin $12.9 billion USA Google
27 Larry Page $12.8 billion USA Google
28 Abigail Johnson $12.5 billion USA Fidelity Investments
29 Nasser Al-Kharafi & family $12.4 billion Kuwait M. A. Kharafi & Sons
30 Barbara Cox Anthony $12.4 billion USA Cox Enterprises
31 Anne Cox Chambers $12.4 billion USA Cox Enterprises
32 Stefan Persson $12.3 billion Sweden, H&M
33 Charles Koch $12 billion USA Koch Industries
34 David H. Koch $12 billion USA Koch Industries
35 Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok $11.6 billion China (Hong Kong) Sun Hung Kai Properties, SmarTone & Kowloon Motor Bus Company
36 Adolf Merckle $11.5 billion Germany Phoenix Pharmahandel
37 Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi $11 billion Saudi Arabia
38 Vagit Alekperov $11 billion
39 Silvio Berlusconi $11 billion Italy
40 Lee Shau Kee $11 billion China (Hong Kong) Henderson Land, & Hong Kong and China Gas Company
41 Vladimir Lisin $10.7 billion
42 Michael Otto & family $10.4 billion
43 Pierre Omidyar $10.1 billion Iran/France/USA eBay
44 Leonardo Del Vecchio $10 billion
45 Michele Ferrero & family $10 billion
46 Forrest Mars Jr. $10 billion Mars, Incorporated
47 Jacqueline Mars $10 billion Mars, Incorporated
48 John Mars $10 billion Mars, Incorporated
49 Viktor Vekselberg $10 billion
50 Mikhail Fridman $9.7 billion
51 Spiro Latsis & family $9.1 billion
52 John Kluge $9 billion
53 Carl Icahn $8.7 billion
54 Kirk Kerkorian $8.7 billion
55 Birgit Rausing & family $8.6 billion
56 Mukesh Ambani $8.5 billion India
57 Serge Dassault & family $8.5 billion
58 Hans Rausing $8.5 billion
59 Galen Weston & family $8.4 billion
60 Susanne Klatten $8.1 billion
61 Rudolf August Oetker & family $8 billion
62 Oleg Deripaska $7.8 billion
63 Sumner Redstone $7.7 billion
64 Alexei Mordashov $7.6 billion
65 Donald Newhouse $7.5 billion
66 Samuel Newhouse Jr $7.5 billion
67 Alain & Gerard Wertheimer $7.5 billion
68 Reinhold Würth $7.5 billion
69 Joseph & Moise Safra $7.4 billion Brazil/Syria
70 Philip Knight $7.3 billion
71 George Soros $7.2 billion USA/Hungary
72 Ernesto Bertarelli $7.1 billion Russia
73 Suleiman Kerimov $7.1 billion
74 Philip & Cristina Green $7 billion
75 Francois Pinault $7 billion France
76 August von Finck $7 billion
77 Mohammed Al Amoudi $6.9 billion
78 Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family $6.9 billion
79 Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler $6.8 billion
80 Charles Ergen $6.7 billion
81 Edward Johnson, III $6.7 billion Fidelity Investments
82 Lee Kun-hee & family $6.6 billion
83 Stefan Quandt $6.6 billion
84 Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi $6.5 billion Saudi Arabia
85 Rafael del Pino & family $6.5 billion
86 Stanley Ho $6.5 billion
87 Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller $6.5 billion
88 Rupert Murdoch $6.5 billion
89 Philip Anschutz $6.4 billion
90 Hasso Plattner $6.4 billion
91 Vladimir Potanin $6.4 billion
92 Mikhail Prokhorov $6.4 billion
93 Vladimir Yevtushenkov $6.3 billion
94 Micky Arison $6.1 billion
95 Curt Engelhorn $6.1 billion
96 Friedrich Karl Flick $6.1 billion
97 German Khan $6.1 billion
98 Ronald Perelman $6.1 billion
99 Johanna Quandt $6.1 billion
100 Dan Duncan $6 billion
101 Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family $6 billion
102 Jack C. Taylor $6 billion
103 Eli Broad $5.9 billion
104 Anil Ambani $5.7 billion India
105 Donald Bren $5.7 billion
106 James, Arthur and John E. Irving 5.5 billion
107 Yasuo Takei & family $5.4 billion
108 YC Wang $5.4 bilion
109 Shari Arison $5.2 billion
110 Kunio Busujima & family $5.2 billion
111 Nikolai Tsvetkov $5.2 billion
112 Michael Bloomberg $5.1 billion
113 Cheung Yu-tung $5.1 billion
114 Leonard Blavatnik $5 billion
115 Gustavo Cisneros & family $5 billion
116 Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken $5 billion
117 John Fredriksen $5 billion
118 Saleh Kamel $5 billion
119 Karl-Heinz Kipp $5 billion
120 Robert Kuok $5 billion
121 John Menard, Jr. $5 billion
122 James Packer $5 billion
123 Kushal Pal Singh $5 billion
124 Jeffrey Skoll $5 billion
125 Alexander Abramov $4.9 billion
126 Erivan Haub & family $4.9 billion
127 Lorenzo Mendoza & family $4.9 billion
128 Sunil Mittal $4.9 billion India
129 Alexei Kuzmichov $4.8 billion
130 Robert Rowling $4.8 billion
131 Onsi Sawiris $4.8 billion
132 Eric Schmidt $4.8 billion
133 Kerry Packer $4.7 billion AUS
134 Nobutada Saji & family $4.7 billion
135 Jeronimo Arango $4.6 billion
136 Nicky Oppenheimer & family $4.6 billion
137 Iskander Makhmudov $4.5 billion
138 Akira Mori & family $4.5 billion
139 Julio Mario Santo Domingo $4.5 billion
140 Shin Kyuk-Ho & family $4.5 billion
141 Kumar Birla $4.4 billion India
142 David Geffen $4.4 billion
143 Steve Jobs $4.4 billion USA Apple Computer
144 George Kaiser $4.4 billion
145 Luis Carlos Sarmiento $4.4 billion
146 Thomas Schmidheiny $4.4 billion
147 Ty Warner $4.4 billion
148 Jeff Bezos $4.3 billion
149 Terry Gou $4.3 billion
150 Walter Haefner $4.3 billion
151 Charles Johnson $4.3 billion
152 Ananda Krishnan $4.3 billion Malaysia
153 Reinhard Mohn & family $4.3 billion
154 Ross Perot $4.3 billion
155 Jean-Claude Decaux $4.2 billion
156 Eitaro Itoyama $4.2 billion
157 Nina Wang $4.2 billion
158 Tadashi Yanai $4.2 billion
159 Giorgio Armani $4.1 billion
160 Vladimir Bagdanov $4.1 billion
161 Lester Crown & family $4.1 billion
162 James Goodnight $4.1 billion
163 Bahaa Hariri $4.1 billion Lebanon
164 Saad Hariri $4.1 billion Lebanon
165 Antonia Johnson $4.1 billion
166 Klaus-Michael Kühne $4.1 billion
167 Eliodoro Matte & family $4.1 billion
168 Richard M. Schulze $4.1 billion
169 Leonid Fedun $4 billion
170 David Murdock $4 billion
171 Shiv Nadar $4 billion India
172 Madeleine Schickedanz $4 billion
173 Charles R. Schwab $4 billion
174 Boris Ivanishvili $3.9 billion
175 Abdullah Al Rajhi $3.8 billion
176 Paul Desmarais $3.8 billion
177 Aloysio de Andrade Faria $3.8 billion
178 Michael Kadoorie & family $3.8 billion
179 Frank Lowy & family $3.8 billion
180 Ng Teng Fong $3.8 billion Singapore
181 James Sorenson $3.8 billion
182 Anacleto Angelini $3.7 billion
183 Henry Fok $3.7 billion
184 Gordon Moore $3.7 billion
185 Bernard Sherman $3.7 billion
186 Masatoshi Ito $3.6 billion
187 Rupert Johnson, Jr. $3.6 billion
188 Kwek Leng Beng & family $3.6 billion
189 Ralph Lauren $3.6 billion
190 Pallonji Mistry $3.6 billion India
191 Viktor Rashnikov $3.6 billion
192 David & Simon Reuben $3.6 billion
193 Andreas Strüngmann $3.6 billion
194 Thomas Strüngmann $3.6 billion
195 William Davidson $3.5 billion
196 Bradley Hughes $3.5 billion
197 Edward Lampert $3.5 billion
198 Alexander Lebedev $3.5 billion
199 George Lucas $3.5 billion
200 Jim Pattison $3.5 billion
201 Otto Beisheim $3.4 billion
202 Richard DeVos $3.4 billion
203 Bernard Ecclestone & family $3.4 billion
204 Esther Koplowitz $3.4 billion
205 Jorge Paulo Lemann $3.4 billion
206 Gérard Louis-Dreyfus & family $3.4 billion
207 Chung Mong-Koo & family $3.3 billion
208 Anurag Dikshit $3.3 billion
209 Johann Rupert & family $3.3 billion
210 Rainier & Michael Schmidt-Ruthenbeck $3.3 billion
211 Tsai Wan Tsai & family $3.3 billion
212 Klaus Tschira $3.3 billion
213 Karl Wlaschek $3.3 billion Austria
214 Khalid Bin Mahfouz & family $3.2 billion
215 Martin Bouygues & family $3.2 billion
216 William Cook $3.2 billion
217 Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family $3.2 billion
218 Yoshitaka Fukuda & family $3.2 billion
219 Maurice Greenberg $3.2 billion
220 Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi $3.2 billion
221 Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family $3.1 billion
222 Stephan Schmidheiny $3.1 billion
223 Masayoshi Son $3.1 billion
224 Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte $3 billion
225 Roland Arnall $3 billion
226 Pyotr Aven $3 billion
227 Edgar Bronfman, Sr. $3 billion
228 Albert Frere $3 billion
229 Frits Goldschmeding $3 billion
230 Heidi Horten $3 billion
231 Petr Kellner $3 billion Czech Republic PPF
232 Lee Seng Wee & family $3 billion
233 Hiroshi Mikitani $3 billion
234 Robert Miller $3 billion
235 Sammy Ofer & family $3 billion
236 Edward Rogers $3 billion
237 Anton Schlecker $3 billion
238 Takemitsu Takizaki $3 billion
239 William Wrigley, Jr. $3 billion
240 David Filo $2.9 billion
241 Michael Herz $2.9 billion
242 Leonard Lauder $2.9 billion
243 Arnon Milchan $2.9 billion
244 A Jerrold Perenchio $2.9 billion
245 Anil Agarwal $2.8 billion
246 Alberto Bailleres $2.8 billion
247 David and Frederick Barclay $2.8 billion
248 Richard Branson $2.8 billion
249 Charles Cadogan & family $2.8 billion
250 Wolfgang Herz $2.8 billion
251 Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen $2.8 billion
252 Lim Goh Tong $2.8 billion
253 Carl Pohlad $2.8 billion
254 Ravi & Shashi Ruia $2.8 billion
255 Haim Saban $2.8 billion
256 Stefan Schörghuber $2.8 billion
257 Steven Spielberg $2.8 billion
258 John Abele $2.7 billion
259 Charles Bronfman $2.7 billion
260 Matthew Bucksbaum & family $2.7 billion
261 John Calamos $2.7 billion
262 Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone $2.7 billion
263 Jesus de Polanco $2.7 billion
264 Otto Happel $2.7 billion
265 Ayman Hariri $2.7 billion Lebanon
266 Fahd Hariri $2.7 billion Lebanon
267 Henry Hillman $2.7 billion
268 Martha Ingram & family $2.7 billion
269 Manuel Jove $2.7 billion
270 Vladimir Kim $2.7 billion
271 Ronald Lauder $2.7 billion
272 Andrei Melnichenko $2.7 billion
273 Henry Nicholas III $2.7 billion
274 Sergei Popov $2.7 billion
275 Leonard N. Stern $2.7 billion

Note: all amounts are in United States dollars.

 

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List of billionaires by nationality

The following is a list of billionaires in 2006, listed by nationality, and grouped by continent.


Africa
Total = 5

Egypt - 2
South Africa - 3

Asia
Total = 190

China - 8
Hong Kong - 17
India - 23
Indonesia - 2
Israel - 8
Japan - 27
Kazakhstan - 2
Kuwait - 3
Lebanon - 3
Malaysia - 8
Philippines - 3
Russia - 33
Saudi Arabia - 11
Singapore - 4
South Korea - 4
Taiwan - 5
Thailand - 3
Turkey - 21
United Arab Emirates - 5

Europe
Total = 163

Austria - 3
Belgium - 2
Czech Republic - 1
Denmark - 2
France - 14
Germany - 55
Greece - 1
Iceland - 1
Ireland - 4
Italy - 14
Monaco - 1
Netherlands - 4
Norway - 4
Poland - 3
Portugal - 1
Spain - 10
Sweden - 8
Switzerland - 8
Ukraine - 3
United Kingdom - 24

North America
Total = 403

Canada - 22
Mexico - 10
United States - 371

Oceania
Total = 9

Australia - 7
New Zealand - 2

South America
Total - 23

Argentina - 1
Brazil - 16
Chile - 2
Colombia - 2
Venezuela - 2

 

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Forbes

The following is a list of billionaires, in United States dollars, worldwide for 2006 compiled by Forbes, not including heads of state whose wealth is tied to their position (see list of heads of government and state by net worth). In 2006, there are 793 billionaires from 49 countries, with more than half being in the United States and Germany. 2006 saw an increase in billionaires from Russia, India, and Brazil mainly due to economic growth in those countries.

 

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Robert Kuok Hock Nien 郭鶴年

born October 6, 1923, in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, is a Chinese (Fuzhounese) businessman, and reputedly the richest man in Malaysia. He has married twice and has eight children. He was educated at Raffles College, Singapore. He is currently residing in Hong Kong.

After graduation, he helped out at his father’s company, and later founded the Kuok Brothers Sdn Bhd in 1949. He began investing in the sugar refinery business and became known as the "Sugar King" of Malaysia.

Robert Kuok is a shrewd, business savvy and well connected businessman. He has formed many strategic alliances with various parties. With governments, he formed joint ventures to establish shipping businesses, and hotels, office buildings and convention centres. With business partners, he created banks and financial services. Thus, through business acumens, creativity and his valuable political connections, he has diversified into many important sectors of the economy. Apart from a multitude of enterprises in Malaysia, his companies have investments in many countries like Singapore, Thailand, Mainland China, Indonesia, Fiji and Australia. His business interests range from sugarcane plantations, sugar refinery, four milling, animal feed, oil and mining to finance, hotels, properties, trading and freight.

Kuok controls the Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Chain, Kerry Group, Perlis Plantations Bhd, South China Morning Post and dozens of other companies. Nowadays, Kuok Khoon Ean one of Robert's sons, handles most of the day-to-day operations of his businesses.



He's now at 120th place in 2006 - FORBES
As of 2006, He's now 83 yrs old

 

[sakuraguy]

Ananda Krishnan

Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan, or TAK, is currently Malaysia's as well as Southeast Asia's second (and the world's 147th) richest person, having a net worth estimated at US$4 billion. He is a regular feature in Forbes' Billionaire list.

Ananda Krishnan hates public exposure and is known to maintain a very low profile for a person of his stature. However, his hugely successful business activities always thrust him into the limelight and his name represents a huge business empire.

He was born in 1938 in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur's "Little India" to a Tamil immigrant family from Sri Lanka and is of Sri Lankan Tamil descent (Ceylonese/Jaffnese).

Ananda Krishnan studied at Vivekananda Tamil School in Kuala Lumpur and furthered his studies at Victoria Instituition, Kuala Lumpur. Later, he attended University of Melbourne, Australia for his B.A. (Honours) degree. Following that, Krishnan obtained a Masters in Business Administration at Harvard University, graduating in 1964.

Ananda Krishnan is married with three children. He is the older brother to fellow businessmen, Maya Krishnan and Gopal Krishnan.

After obtaining his Masters, Ananda Krishnan’s first entrepreneurial venture was in oil trading, setting up Exoil Trading, which went on to purchase oil drilling concessions in various countries. Later he moved into gambling (in Malaysia), stud farming (in Australia) and running a Hollywood cartoon studio. Soon, he diversified into a host of other business opportunities. In the early part of the 1990s, he started diversifying, in a big way, into the multimedia arena.

Currently, he has business interests in entertainment, space, oil, power, shipping, telecommunications, property and gaming. His companies operate in a most parts of the South East Asia. A quarter of his wealth comes from the gambling business (lottery, horse-racing wagering).

Said to have an extraordinary entrepreneurial flair and inventiveness, it was Ananda who sold former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on the idea of the 88-storey Petronas Twin Towers, the world's second tallest building, which he now part-owns.

Fortune magazine, in a 2001 article, called him "Kuala Lumpur's Mr Big".

He first came to prominence by helping to organize the Live Aid concert with Bob Geldof in the mid-1980s. In the early 1990s, he began building a multimedia empire that now includes two telecommunication companies - Maxis Communications and MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems - and has two communication satellites circumnavigating the earth.

He also effected the purchase of 46% of Maxis Communications, the country's largest cellular phone company, from British Telecom and AT&T for $680 million - raising his stake to 70%. Maxis has more than eight million subscribers, with more than 40% market share in Malaysia. Recently, Maxis has acquired Tamil Nadu's largest cellular phone company and has plans to expand to rest of India. Maxis is also under negotiation to buy over and expand an Indonesian cellular phone company.

He is also the head of Astro All Asia Networks Plc, the only company currently providing a DIRECT to HOME TV satellite service in Malaysia. http://www.astroplc.com/05/ (accessed 18th August 2006).It currently broadcasts to Malaysia and Brunei, and is under negotiation to broadcast to Indonesia.

In an agreement between Astro and SunTV Networks, Ananda plans to produce TV channels which cater to the Indian market, especially Tamil diaspora in countries such as US and Europe. Ananda also plans to offer TV services featuring Web-based interactivity.

Ananda Krishnan owns stakes in TVB.com (the interactive arm of Hong Kong's main broadcaster) and the Shaw Brothers' movie archives, which holds more than 800 movie titles. He also operates a chain of multiplex theatres.




He's now at 151st place in 2006 - FORBES

 

[sakuraguy]

Another 2 more Malaysian i cant find lar, gimme the names .. and just billionaires .. dont gimme millionaire ok? , i seek the info's .. im very sleepy , its 0230hrs edi....

Tomorrow i add .. thnx


mmmuuuaahhh! g.nite..

 

[mysupra]

Donald Trump not even in the list? he is what? a millionaire only?

 

[sakuraguy]

Sorry buddie, its the actual source from FORBES.com :) .. and he's not in the list :)

 

[links]

Robert Kuok can consider migrated to HK oledi. His HQ now here oledi..thanks to our gomen policy to chase real entrepreneur away to keep their contractors....

I also born in JB educated in SG and now in hk....hope to have a achievement like him

The walmart family fall outside top ten oledi? the used to take the 5th to 10th place last time.....

 

[Legend Speedy]

vincet tan dun hav mehh???
i tot vincent tan oso damn rich to de max de....

 

[jaydee123]

Warren Buffet is no more No.2 by end of this yr.


85% going out to charity with most of it going to Bill & Melinda Foundation.:_:

 

[links]

But i read from magazines saying that the real "richest" person in the world is probly a drug and fire arms smuggler.....somewhere in columbia

but i think it might be one of those currupted political leader.....like the ex president Marcos in phillipines..his wife still duno how much he left behind after he passed away until today.....

and reports said suharto, the ex-indo president family are estimated to have USD$5billion dollars worth of asset but ppl guess that they could be having not less than USD$50billion in real figure.....


There are guesses on our Dr.M....but somehow i forgotten whats the figure oledi...

 

[b00n]

I still believe there's alot to be added into the list.
But they're either low profile or there's something to hide...that's why not listed....
Anyway, Sultan of Brunei was taken out of the list and previously was ranked no1 (not including heads of state whose wealth is tied to their position. I guessed all the oil rich countries would also gives u billionaires.
Terrorist (further example) racks in millions if not billions. Look at how Osama is spending....... *sigh*
kekekeke

Anyway, they're billionaire because of the mass assets that they own. Mainly their business which is worth millions. 1 day when their business gets into trouble and have to sell 10 cents per share; than most probably their status as billionaire would dropped to nil.........
Assets are volatile and sometimes can be over-exaggerate
Wonder would they be able to look only at cash.........hahahahaha

 

[links]

Sultan of Brunei are not that rich anymore because his brother evaporated billion of dollars of his wealth in a financial scandal few years ago.....they were even in debt previously...not sure whether the debts have been settled or not.

 

[sakuraguy]

"But i read from magazines saying that the real "richest" person in the world is probly a drug and fire arms smuggler.....somewhere in columbia" - He's not richest, he's criminal terrorist and will be shot dead anytime :)


- Vincent Tan is out of the list .. he's not billionaire but millionaire
- Sultan of Brunei is also out of the list

 

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wers Hugh Hefner

 

[b00n]

If i'm not wrong, Vincent Tan is not even in the top 10 in malaysia....
not sure....just speculating

feel free to correct me

 

[sakuraguy]

I have not gone thru' the Malaysian list yet, because Malaysian lists are changing often, new millionaires are rising.

So, i just woke up Billionaires thread ;)

 

[RERider]

Vincent Tan already a Billionair (in MYR) back to 80s.

 

[b00n]

but he was made bankrupt...
I forgot which year though.....