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| x Bill Gates |
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US$ | 40,000,000,000 | 2009 |
William Henry Gates is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.
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| x Warren Buffett |
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US$ | 37,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in history, the primary shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and in 2008 was ranked by Forbes as...
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| x Larry Ellison |
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US$ | 22,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company. He is currently listed on the Forbes list of billionaires as the fourth richest...
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| x Ingvar Kamprad |
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US$ | 22,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Ingvar Feodor Kamprad ( pronunciation (help·info)) (born March 30, 1926) is a Swedish entrepreneur who is the founder of the home furnishing retail chain IKEA. As of 2009 he is the richest person in Europe and the 5th wealthiest person in the world...
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| x Karl Albrecht |
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US$ | 21,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Karl Hans Albrecht (born 20 February 1920) is a German entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo. He is among the richest men in the world, with an estimated net worth in 2009 of $21.5 billion according to...
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| x Mukesh Ambani |
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US$ | 19,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Mukesh Ambani (born on April 19, 1957 in Aden,Yemen) is a Indian engineer and businessman. He is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector enterprise and a Fortune 500 company,...
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| x Lakshmi Mittal |
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US$ | 51,300,000,000 | 2009 |
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal (Hindi: लक्ष्मि मित्तल; born 15 June 1950), is an Indian born industrialist based in the United Kingdom. He was born in Sadulpur village, in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India. He is the CEO and founder of and has been the...
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| x Theo Albrecht |
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US$ | 18,800,000,000 | 2009 |
Theodor Paul Albrecht (born 28 March 1922), generally known as Theo Albrecht, is a German entrepreneur, who in 2009 was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 9th richest person in the world, with a net worth of $18.8 billion. He owns and was the CEO of...
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| x Amancio Ortega Gaona |
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US$ | 18,300,000,000 | 2009 |
Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936, Busdongo de Arbas, León) is a Spanish fashion entrepreneur. Ranked by Forbes as Spain's richest man and the 10th richest man in the World in 2009. He is the founder, with his then-wife Rosalía Mera, and...
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| x Jim C. Walton |
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US$ | 17,800,000,000 | 2009 |
Jim Carr Walton (born 1948 in Newport, Arkansas) is the youngest son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and the Chairman of Arvest Bank.
With an estimated 2008 net worth of around US$17.8 Billion, Walton is ranked by Forbes as the 11th-richest person in...
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| x Alice Walton |
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US$ | 17,600,000,000 | 2009 |
Alice Louise Walton (born October 7, 1949 in Newport, Arkansas) is an American heiress to the Wal-mart fortune. She is the daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and Helen Walton, and sister of S. Robson Walton, and Jim Walton. Another brother,...
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| x Christy Walton |
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US$ | 17,600,000,000 | 2009 |
Christy Ruth Walton is the wife of late John T. Walton. After his death in June 2005, she inherited his fortune of $15.7 billion . As of March 2009, she is the 12th richest person in the Forbes World's Billionaires , with an estimated net worth of...
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| x S. Robson Walton |
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US$ | 17,600,000,000 | 2008 |
Samuel Robson (Rob) Walton (born 1945, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is the eldest son of Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer. He is currently chairman of the worldwide company. According to Forbes, his net worth is $19.2 billion as...
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| x Bernard Arnault |
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US$ | 16,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Bernard Arnault (born 5 March 1949 in Roubaix) is a French businessman. He is the 14th richest person in the world, the 3rd in the European Union and France's richest person with an estimated net worth of $16.5 billion US dollars, according to a...
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| x Li Ka Shing |
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US$ | 16,200,000,000 | 2009 |
Sir Ka-shing LI, GBM, KBE, JP (simplified Chinese: 李嘉诚; traditional Chinese: 李嘉誠; pinyin: Lǐ Jiāchéng, Jyutping: Lei Gaa-sing, Li Gia-sêng , born June 13, 1928), is a wealthy businessman from Hong Kong. He is the richest person of East Asian descent...
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| x Michael Bloomberg |
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US$ | 16,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is the current Mayor of New York City. He was listed as the eighth-richest American, with a net worth of US $16 billion, in the Forbes 400 on September 17, 2008, making him the richest resident of...
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| x Stefan Persson |
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US$ | 14,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Stefan Persson (born October 4, 1947(1947-10-04)) is the son of Erling Persson who founded the Swedish fashion company Hennes & Mauritz (H&M;). Since 1982 Stefan has been the main owner of H&M.; According to Forbes Magazine, Persson was worth $18.4...
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| x Charles G. Koch |
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US$ | 14,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Charles de Ganahl Koch (pronounced "coke") (born 1 November 1935 (1935-11-01) (age 73)) is an engineer and chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries, Inc., the second largest privately held company (after Cargill) by...
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| x David H. Koch |
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US$ | 14,000,000,000 | 2009 |
David Hamilton Koch (pronounced /ˈkoʊk/ "coke", born March 5, 1940) is an American engineer, billionaire and businessman. He is one of the co-owners (with older brother Charles) and an executive vice president of Koch Industries, a conglomerate with...
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| x Liliane Bettencourt |
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US$ | 13,400,000,000 | 2009 |
Liliane Bettencourt (born 21 October 1922(1922-10-21) in Paris, France) is a French heiress, socialite, and businesswoman. She is the principal shareholder of L'Oréal and the wealthiest woman in Europe. She is the second richest person in France,...
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| x Al-Waleed bin Talal |
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US$ | 13,300,000,000 | 2009 |
Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (Arabic: الوليد بن طلال بن عبد العزيز آل سعود) (born 7 March 1955) is a member of the Saudi Royal Family. He is the nephew of the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah . An entrepreneur and international...
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| x Michael Otto |
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US$ | 13,200,000,000 | 2009 |
Michael Otto (born 12 April 1943, in Chełmno (Kulm) in the Nazi occupied Poland), is the head of German Otto Group, the world's largest mail order company, with $24 billion in sales in fiscal year 2003. Thanks to a 30% rise in Internet sales last...
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| x David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet |
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US$ | 13,000,000,000 | 2009 |
David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12 June 1957) is a Canadian businessman. He is the son of the late Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet and his siblings are actress Taylor Thomson and Peter Thomson. David Thomson...
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| x Michael S. Dell |
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US$ | 12,300,000,000 | 2009 |
Michael Saul Dell is an American businessman and entrepreneur. Michael, founder and CEO of Dell, Inc. is listed as one of 2009 Forbes Billionaires.
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| x Donald Bren |
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US$ | 12,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Donald Leroy Bren is a US real estate mogul and was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1932. He is the son of Hollywood producer Milton Bren and the stepson of actress Claire Trevor. He attended the University of Washington, and holds a degree in...
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| x Sergey Brin |
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US$ | 12,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a
bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematics and computer
science from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is
currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in computer science at
Stanford...
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| x Larry Page |
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US$ | 12,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the
company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into
his role as president of products in April 2001. He continues to share
responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations with...
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| x Steve Ballmer |
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US$ | 11,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Steven Anthony Ballmer (born Detroit, Michigan March 24, 1956) is an American businessman who has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. Ballmer is the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a...
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| x George Soros |
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US$ | 11,000,000,000 | 2009 |
George Soros (Hungarian: [ˈʃoroʃ]) (born August 12, 1930, as György Schwartz) is an American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist.
Forbes lists Soros as the 29th-richest person in the world, with a...
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| x Paul Allen |
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US$ | 10,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world.
He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., which is his private...
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| x Raymond Kwok |
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US$ | 10,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Raymond Kwok Ping Luen (Traditional Chinese:郭炳聯 pinyin;Guo Bing Lian), JP (born in 1952 in Hong Kong with family roots in Zhongshan, Guangdong, China) is the vice-chairman and managing director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property...
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| x Thomas Kwok |
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US$ | 10,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong SBS, JP (born 1951, Hong Kong) is the vice-chairman and managing director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property developer in Hong Kong. He is the second son of Kwok Tak Seng, the founder of SHK Properties and the...
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| x Walter Kwok |
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US$ | 10,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Kwok Ping-sheung, Walter JP born in Hong Kong with family roots in Zhongshan, Guangdong), is the eldest son of Kwok Tak Seng. Together with brothers Thomas and Raymond, they inherited Sun Hung Kai Properties, Hong Kong's largest real estate...
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| x Anil Ambani |
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US$ | 10,100,000,000 | 2009 |
Anil Ambani (born June 4, 1959) is an Indian billionaire and a major shareholder in Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Anil's elder brother, Mukesh Ambani, is also a billionaire, and owns another company called Reliance Industries.
He is a member...
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| x Abigail Johnson |
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US$ | 10,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Abigail Pierrepont Johnson (born December 19, 1961) is an American businesswoman. Johnson is President of Fidelity Investments Personal and Workplace Investing. Fidelity is led by her father, Edward Johnson.
In September 2008, her net worth was...
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| x Susanne Klatten |
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US$ | 10,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Susanne Klatten (born Susanne Hanna Ursula Quandt on 28 April 1962 in Bad Homburg, Germany) is the daughter of Herbert and Johanna Quandt. As of 2009, she is the richest woman in Germany and the 35th richest person in the world.
After gaining a...
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| x Ronald Perelman |
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US$ | 10,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Mr. Perelman is the founder of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. and its sole owner. He began his career as an investor and financier in 1978 with the purchase of a stake in retail jewelry store chain Cohen-Hatfield Industries....
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| x Hans Rausing |
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US$ | 10,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Hans Rausing KBE (born 1926), a British based Swedish born businessman, is among the world's wealthiest people with a reported net worth, in 2007, of 5.4 billion UK pounds (approx. 11 billion US dollars). He made his wealth from his co-inheritance...
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| x Birgit Rausing |
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US$ | 9,900,000,000 | 2009 |
Dr Birgit Rausing is a Swedish art historian. Together with her three children, she inherited packaging giant Tetra Laval in January 2000 after her husband Gad Rausing's death. As of 2007, her net worth is about $14 billion. (Forbes)
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| x Michele Ferrero |
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US$ | 9,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Michele Ferrero was born in 1927. An inheritance from his father and Uncle, he is now the owner of Ferrero SpA, one of Europe's largest chocolate maker’s with an estimated 2002 sales of $4 billion. Ferrero’s brands include Nutella, Mon...
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| x Mikhail Prokhorov |
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US$ | 9,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Mikhail Prokhorov (Russian: Михаил Прохоров; born May 3, 1965) is a Russian self-made billionaire. After graduation from Moscow Finance Institute he made his name in the financial sector and went on to become one of Russia's leading industrialists...
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| x Jack C. Taylor |
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US$ | 9,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Jack Crawford Taylor (born 1923) is an American businessman and the founder of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company. With an estimated current net worth of around $9.5 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 18th-richest American and the 40th-richest...
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| x Mohammed Al Amoudi |
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US$ | 9,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi (Ge'ez: ሞሓመድ አልአሙዲ, Arabic: محمد حسين العمودي; born 1946 in Dessie, Ethiopia but grew up in Weldiya) is a Saudi Arabian/Ethiopian business magnate who lives in Ethiopia and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Mohammed Al...
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| x Anne Cox Chambers |
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US$ | 9,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Anne Cox Chambers was born on December 1, 1919. She is a billionaire media proprietor. Anne is the daughter of James M. Cox, and his second wife, Margaretta Parler Blair. She owns and controls equity interest in Cox Enterprises,...
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| x Carl Icahn |
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US$ | 9,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor. In 2008 his net worth was US$14 billion, putting him in an eight way tie for the 46th richest man in the world. In 2009...
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| x George Kaiser |
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US$ | 9,000,000,000 | 2009 |
George B. Kaiser (born 1942) is an American self-made billionaire businessman and chairman of BOK Financial Corporation.
Born in 1942, he attended Tulsa public schools, and went on to earn a bachelor's degree and MBA from Harvard University. He...
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| x Lee Shau Kee |
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US$ | 9,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Lee Shau-kee GBM (Chinese: 李兆基; pinyin: Lǐ Zhàojī; Yale: Lee5 Siu6 Gei1; born January 29, 1928 in Shunde, Guangdong, China) is a property developer and majority owner of Henderson Land Development (HKSE:0012), a property conglomerate with interests...
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| x Forrest Mars Jr. |
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US$ | 9,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Forrest Edward Mars, Jr. is the son of Forrest Mars Sr. and grandson of Frank C. Mars, founders of the giant American candy company Mars, Incorporated. With his share of the company, he is worth US$14.0 billion as of 2007, making him the 46th...
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| x Jacqueline Mars |
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US$ | 9,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Jacqueline Badger Mars is the daughter of Forrest Edward Mars, Sr., and granddaughter of Frank C. Mars, founders of the giant American candy company Mars, Incorporated. With her share of the company, she is worth US$14.0 billion as of September 2007...
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| x John Mars |
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US$ | 9,000,000,000 | 2009 |
John Franklyn Mars is the son of Forrest Mars, Sr., and grandson of Frank C. Mars, founders of the giant American candy company Mars, Incorporated. With his share of the company, he is worth $14.0 billion as of 2007 and is the 19th richest person in...
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| x Roman Abramovich |
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US$ | 8,500,000,000 | 2009 |
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (Russian: Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич, pronounced [rʌˈman ʌrˈkadʲɪvʲɪtʃ ʌbrɐˈmovʲɪtʃ]; born on 24 October 1966 in Saratov, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian billionaire and the main owner of the private investment...
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| x Ernesto Bertarelli |
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US$ | 8,200,000,000 | 2009 |
Ernesto Bertarelli (born 22 September 1965) is a Swiss-Italian entrepreneur.
Ranked 52 in an annual ranking of the world's wealthiest people compiled and published by Forbes magazine, his personal wealth is estimated at US$8.2 billion.
Born in Rome,...
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| x Phil Knight |
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US$ | 8,200,000,000 | 2009 |
Philip H. Knight was born on February 24, 1938 in Portland, Oregon. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Nike, Inc... Knight attended the University of Oregon, where he received his bachelor's degree in accounting in 1959. In college, Knight...
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| x Nasser Al-Kharafi |
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US$ | 8,100,000,000 | 2009 |
Nasser Al-Kharafi (Arabic: ناصر الخرافي) (born 1944) is a Kuwaiti businessman of M.A. Kharafi & Sons. His company has performed $4.3 billion in sales. His net worth increased because of rising share prices of several holdings including Mobile...
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| x James Harris Simons |
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US$ | 8,000,000,000 | 2009 |
James Harris "Jim" Simons (born 1938) is an American mathematician, academic, trader, and philanthropist.
In 1982, Simons founded Renaissance Technologies Corporation, a private investment firm based in New York with over $15 billion under...
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| x Alain Wertheimer |
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US$ | 8,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Alain Wertheimer (1949) is a French businessman based in France who, with his brother Gerard own the controlling interest in the House of Chanel.
The son of Jacques Wertheimer and Eliane Fischer, it was his grandfather Pierre who co-founded the...
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| x Gerard Wertheimer |
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US$ | 8,000,000,000 | 2009 |
Gerard Wertheimer (b.c.1950) is a French businessman based in France who owns and controls the House of Chanel perfume company in partnership with his brother, Alain.
The son of Jacques Wertheimer and Eliane Fischer, it was his grandfather Pierre...
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| x Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair |
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US$ | 7,800,000,000 | 2009 |
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, born 1954 (age 54–55), of the United Arab Emirates, is the Chief Executive Officer of the publicly traded Mashreq Bank, the family's most valuable holding, worth an estimated $8 billion. His son, Saood, Graduated from the...
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| x Vagit Alekperov |
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US$ | 7,800,000,000 | 2009 |
Vagit Alekperov, 52, was born in 1950 in Baku, Azerbaijan, one of the earliest centers of the international petroleum industry. His father worked in the oil fields all his life and inspired ...
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| x Sunil Bharti Mittal |
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US$ | 7,700,000,000 | 2009 |
Sunil Bharti Mittal is the Founder Chairman and Group CEO of Bharti Enterprises headquartered at New Delhi, India . Bharti Enterprises is one of India 's leading business groups with interests in telecom, financial services, retail, manufacturing,...
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