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2006
TOP 10 Rich Lists you'll find below ...

TOP 10 - World's Richest Men
TOP 10 - World's Richest Women
TOP 10 - Australia's Richest People
TOP 10 - Brazil'sRichest People
TOP 10 - Canada's Richest People
TOP 10 - China's Richest People
TOP 10 - France's Richest People
TOP 10 - Germany's Richest People
TOP 10 - Hong Kong's Richest People
TOP 10 - India's Richest People
TOP 8 - Israel's Billionaires
TOP 10 - Italy's Richest People
TOP 10 - Japan's Richest People
TOP 8 -Malaysia's Billionaires
TOP 10 - Mexico's Richest People
TOP 10 - Russia's Richest People
TOP 10 - Saudi Arabia's Richest People
TOP 10 - Spain's Richest People
TOP 8 - Sweden's Billionaires
TOP 8- Switzerland's Billionaires
TOP 10- Turkey's Richest People
TOP 10 - United Kingdom's Richest People
TOP 10 - USA's Richest Men
TOP 10 - USA's Richest Women
TOP 11 - World's Billionaires Under 35y.o.
TOP 4 - Celebrity Billionaires




Top 10 Rich Lists 2006

The World
(men)

TOP 10 - World's Richest Men ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. William Gates III (world's richest person - for 12 years in a row!) $50.0 billion Microsoft  USA 50yo - Married, 3 children  
2. Warren Buffett $42.0 billion Berkshire Hathaway  USA 75yo - Widowed, 3 children  
3. Carlos Slim Helu $30.0 billion Telecom Mexico 66yo - Widowed, 6 children
4. Ingvar Kamprad $28.0 billion Ikea (retail) Sweden 79yo - Married, 4 children
5. Lakshmi Mittal $23.5 billion Mittal Steel (manufacturing steel) India 55yo - Married, 2 children
6. Paul Allen $22.0 billion Microsoft, investments   USA 53yo - Single, 0 children 
7. Bernard Arnault $21.5 billion LVMH France 57yo - Married, 5 children
8. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud $20.0 billion investments Saudi Arabia 49yo - Divorced, 2 children
9. Kenneth Thomson & family $19.6 billion publishing Canada 82yo - Married, 3 children
1. Li Ka-shing $18.8 billion diversified Hong Kong 77yo - Widowed, 2 children

The World
(women)

TOP 10 - World's Richest Women ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Liliane Bettencourt $16.0 billion L'Oreal France 83yo - Married, 1 child
1. Christy Walton $15.9 billion Wal-Mart USA 51yo - Widowed, 1 child
2. Alice Walton $15.7 billion (inheritance) Wal-Mart  USA 56yo - Divorced
3. Helen Walton $15.6 billion Wal-Mart  USA 86yo - Widowed, 4 children
4. Abigail Johnson $12.5 billion Fidelity investments USA 44yo - Married, 2 children
5. Barbara Cox Anthony $12.4 billion media/entertainment USA 82yo - Married, 2 children
6. Anne Cox Chambers $12.4 billion media/entertainment USA 86yo - Divorced, 3 children
7. Jacqueline Mars $10.0 billion candy (incl. Mars bar) USA 66yo - Divorced, 3 children
3. Birgit Rausing & family $8.6 billion Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture) Sweden 82yo - Widowed, 3 children
5. Susanne Klatten $8.1 billion BMW Germany 43yo - Married, 3 children

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

TOP 10 - Australia's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth US$
Source
Residence
Personal
1. James Packer $5.0 billion inherited (media/Entertainment) (his father, Kerry, died Dec 26, 2005) NSW, Sydney 38yo -Divorced, 0 children
2. Frank Lowy $3.8 billion retail property (shopping centres) NSW, Sydney 75yo - Married, 3 children
3. Richard Pratt $2.3 billion paper (manufacturing, recycling) Vic, Melbourne 71yo - Married, 3 children
4. Zhengrong Shi $2.2 billion solar energy Wuxi, China 43yo - Married, 2 children
5. John Gandel $1.4 billion retail property (shopping centres) Vic, Melbourne 71yo - Married, 4 children
6. Kerry Stokes $1.1 billion media WA, Perth 65yo - Married, 4 children
7. Harry Triguboff $1.0 billion residential property development NSW, Sydney 73yo - Married, 2 children
8. Bob Oatley $900 million wine, property NSW, Denman 76yo - Married, 3 children
9. Bruce Gordon $895 million media (was a magician in WWII) Bermuda 76yo - Married, 2 children
10. Stanley Perron $880 million  property (high school drop out) (WA, Perth)? 82yo - Married, 3 children

Brazil

TOP 10 - Brazil's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Joseph & Moise Safra (brothers could split soon) $7.4 billion banking Sao Paulo -- n/a, 0 children
2. Aloysio de Andrade Faria $3.8 billion banking Sao Paulo 85yo - Married, 5 children
3. Jorge Paulo Lemann (onetime tennis champion - he played at Wimbledon) $3.4 billion banking Rio de Janeiro 66yo - Married, 5 children
4. Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family $3.2 billion diversified Sao Paulo 77yo - n/a, 9 children
5. Julio Bozano $1.6 billion banking Rio de Janeiro 70yo - n/a, 1 child
6. Abilio dos Santos Diniz & family $1.6 billion supermarkets Sao Paulo 69yo - Married, 4 children
7. Marcel Herman Telles $1.5 billion beer Sao Paulo 56yo - Married, 2 children
8. Guilherme Peirao Leal $1.4 billion Natura Cosmetics Sao Paulo 55yo - n/a, 5 children
9. Antonio Luiz Seabra $1.4 billion Natura Cosmetics (has 519,000 "consultants" peddling cosmetics door-to-door in South America.) London, UK; and Brazil 63yo - n/a, 0 children
10. Elie Horn (gives 20% of his earnings to charity) $1.3 billion real estate Sao Paulo 60yo - married, 2 children

Canada

TOP 10 - Canada's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Kenneth Thomson & family (has amassed an internationally famous art collection of some 3,000 pieces) $19.6 billion publishing Toronto 82yo - Married, 3 children
2. Galen Weston & family $8.4 billion retail Toronto 65yo - Married, 2 children
3. James, Arthur & John Irving $5.5 billion oil (600 gas stations) Saint John n/a - 0 children
4. Jeffrey S Skoll $5.0 billion Ebay USA, CA, Los Angeles 41yo - Single, 0 children
5. Paul Desmarais (bought his father's one-route Ontario bus company for $1- in 1951) $3.8 billion finance Montreal 79yo - Married, 4 children
6. Bernard (Barry) Sherman $3.7 billion Apotex pharmaceuticals (seeking over-the-counter-sales approval of its controversial "morning-after" pill ) Toronto 64yo - Married, 4 children
7. Jim Pattison $3.5 billion diversified (incl. Ripley's Believe It or Not) Vancouver 77yo - Married, 3 children
8. Robert Miller $3.0 billion Future Electronics (supports cryonics, the science of freezing bodies with the intent to restore life) Montreal 60yo - Married, 2 children
9. Edward Rogers $3.0 billion media Toronto 72yo - Married, 4 children
10. Charles R Bronfman $2.7 billion liquor Montreal  74yo - Widowed, 2 children (his wife, Andrea, was tragically killed in January; a taxi hit her while she was walking the dog)

China

TOP 10 - China's Richest People ... (25 January 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Head Office
Personal
1. Larry Rong Zhijian $1.64 billion CITIC Pacific Group (steel, property, power) Hong Kong 63yo
2. Zhu Mengyi & family $1.43 billion Hopson Development (real estate & investment) Guangdong 46yo
3. William Ding Lei $1.27billion Netease.com (internet portal & online games) Beijing 34yo
4. Wong Kwong Yu $1.25 billion Gome Appliances (& real estate) Beijing 36yo
5. Liu Yongxing $1.16 billion East Hope Group (animal feed, finance, aluminium) Shanghai 57yo
6. Liu Yonghao $1.12 billion New Hope Group (animal feed, finance, real estate) Chengdu 54yo
7. Guo Guangchang $1.09 billion Fosun High-Tech Group (retail, media, real estate)
Shanghai 38yo
8. Xu Ming $1.05 billion Shide Group (insurance & banking)
Dalian
34yo
9. Hui Wing Mau $1.00 billion Shimao Group (real estate)
Shanghai/H.K. 55yo
10. Chen Tianqiao $1.00 billion Shanda Interactive Entertainment (online games)
Shanghai 32yo

France

TOP 10 - France's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Bernard Arnault $21.5 billion LVMH Paris 57yo - Married, 5 children
2. Liliane Bettencourt $16.0 billion L'Oreal Paris 83yo - Married, 1 child
3. Serge Dassault & family $8.5 billion aviation (manufacturing) Paris 80yo - n/a
4. Alain & Gerard Wertheimer $7.5 billion Chanel (apparel) Paris n/a - n/a
5. Francois Pinault $7.0 billion retail (incl. Gucci) Paris 69yo - Married, 3 children
6. Jean-Claude Decaux & family $4.2 billion advertising Paris 68yo - Married, 3 children
7. Gerard Louis-Dreyfus & family $3.4 billion commodities (inl. natural gas) USA, NY, New York 73yo - Married, 3 children
8. Martin Bouygues & family $3.2 billion Telecom Paris 53yo - Married
9. Jean-Louis Dumas & family $2.5 billion Hermes (luxury-goods/apparel ) Paris  67yo - Married, 2 children
10. Didier Primat $2.4 billion Oil Paris 61yo - n/a, 0 children

Germany

TOP 10 - Germany's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Karl Albrecht $17.0 billion supermarkets Muehlheim an der Ruhr 86yo - Married, 2 children 
2. Theo Albrecht $15.2 billion supermarkets Foehr  83yo - Married, 2 children
3. Adolf Merckle $11.5 billion pharmaceuticals  Manheim  71yo - Married, 4 children
4. Michael Otto & family $10.4 billion retail (mail order) Hamburg  62yo - Married, 2 children
5. Susanne Klatten $8.1 billion BMW Bad Homburg 43yo - Married, 3 children
6. Rudolf August Oetker & family $8.0 billion food Bielefeld  89yo - Married, 8 children
7. Reinhold Würth $7.5 billion manufacturing (screws) Kuenzelsau  70yo - Married, 3 children
8. August von Finck $7.0 billion investments Switzerland, Thurgau   76yo - Married, 4 children
9. Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler $6.8 billion Manufacturing (ball bearings) Herzogenaurach  -- n/a
10. Stefan Quandt (one of the world's most eligible bachelors) $6.6 billion BMW Bad Homburg  40yo - Single, 0 children

Hong Kong

TOP 10 - Hong Kong's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Li Ka-shing $18.8 billion diversified Hong Kong 77yo - Widowed, 2 children
2. Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok $11.6 billion real estate Hong Kong n/a - n/a
3. Lee Shau Kee $11.0 billion real estate Hong Kong 78yo - Married, 5 children
4. Stanley Ho $6.5 billion Macau Casino Hong Kong  84yo - Married, 17 children!!!
5. Cheng Yu-tung $5.1 billion New World Development (real estate) Hong Kong   80yo - Married, 2 children
6. Nina Wang (Notoriously frugal and paranoid, spends $650 a month and travels with a platoon of 50 bodyguards.) $4.2 billion real estate Hong Kong n/a - Widowed?, 0 children (husband kidnapped in 1990)
7. Michael Kadoorie & family $3.8 billion diversified Hong Kong  65yo - married
8. Henry Fok $3.7 billion Macao casino Hong Kong 82yo - Married
9. Michael Ying $2.7 billion Esprit (apparel) Hong Kong  56yo - Married
10. Chen Din Hwa $2.6 billion real estate Hong Kong 83yo - n/a, 0 children

India

TOP 10 - India's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Lakshmi Mittal $23.5 billion Mittal Steel (manufacturing steel) UK, London 55yo - Married, 2 children
2. Azim Premji $13.3 billion Wipro (software)   Bangalore  60yo - Married, 2 children
3. Mukesh Ambani $8.5 billion diversified (manufacturing)   Mumbai  48yo - Married, 3 children
4. Anil Ambani $5.7 billion diversified (manufacturing)   Mumbai  46yo - Married, 2 children
5. Kushal Pal Singh $5.0 billion real estate Delhi 74yo - Married, 3 children
6. Sunil Mittal $4.9 billion Telecom  Delhi  48yo - Married, 3 children
7. Kumar Birla $4.4 billion commodities (copper & aluminium) Mumbai   38yo - Married, 2 children
8. Shiv Nadar $4.0 billion technology New Delhi 60yo - Married, 1 child
9. Pallonji Mistry $3.6 billion construction Mumbai  76yo - Married, 4 children
10. Anurag Dikshit (is this for real?) $3.3 billion online gambling Gibraltar 34yo - Married, 1 child

Israel

TOP 8 - Israel's Billionaires... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Shari Arison $5.2 billion inheritance, cruise ships Tel Aviv 48yo - Married, 4 children
2. Sammy Ofer & family $3.0 billion shipping Tel Aviv; Monaco 84yo - Married, 2 children
3. Arnon Milchan $2.9 billion media/entertainment Tel Aviv 61yo - Divorced, 4 children
4. Lev Leviev $2.6 billion diamonds (cuts and polishes more diamonds than anyone else in the world) B'nei Brak 50yo - Married, 9 children
5. Stef Wertheimer & family (grade school dropout) $2.4 billion tools Tefen 80yo - Married, 4 children
6. Alexander Machkevich $2.0 billion mining, metals
Almaty, Kazakhstan 52yo - Married, 2 children
7. Yitzhak Tshuva (his Cinderella story began in Netanya in a single room where his penniless family of 11 lived briefly) $2.0 billion real estate Netanya 57yo - Married, 5 children
8. Morris Kahn $1.0 billion software Israel 76yo - Married, 0 children

Italy

TOP 10 - Italy's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Silvio Berlusconi - Italy's Prime Minister since 2001 $11.0 billion media North of Milan 69yo - Married, 5 children
2. Leonardo Del Vecchio $10.0 billion eyewear (Ray-Ban) Milan 70yo - Married, 4 children
3. Michele Ferrero & family $10.0 billion chocolates Belgium, Brussels 79yo - Married, 2 children
4. Giorgio Armani $4.1 billion fashion / apparel Milan 71yo - n/a
5. Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone $2.7 billion diversified Italy 63yo - Married
6. Carlo Benetton $2.5 billion Benneton (apparel)
Treviso 62yo - Single, 4 children
7. Giuliana Benetton $2.5 billion Benneton (apparel)
Treviso 68yo - Married, 4 children
8. Gilberto Benetton $2.5 billion Benneton
Treviso 64yo - Married, 2 children
9. Luciano Benetton $2.5 billion Benneton (apparel) Treviso 70yo - Married, 4 children
10. Miuccia Prada & family $2.5 billion Prada (apparel) Rome 56yo - Married

Japan

TOP 10 - Japan's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Yasuo Takei & family $5.4 billion Takefuji (consumer finance) Tokyo 76yo - Married, 3 children
2. Kunio Busujima & family $5.2 billion pinball machines (manufacturing) Kiryu 80yo - Married, 4 children
3. Nobutada Saji & family $4.7 billion Suntory (beverages) - recently engineered the world's first blue rose! Hyogo 60yo - Married
4. Akira Mori $4.5 billion Mori Trust (real estate) Tokyo 68yo - Married, 3 children
5. Eitaro Itoyama $4.2 billion golf courses Tokyo 63yo - Married, 2 children
6. Tadashi Yanai & family $4.2 billion retail Yamaguchi 57yo - Married, 2 children
7. Masatoshi Ito $3.6 billion retail Tokyo 81yo - Married, 3 children
8. Yoshitaka Fukuda & family $3.2 billion Aiful (consumer finance) Kyoto 58yo - Married, 3 children
9. Masayoshi Son $3.1 billion Softbank (software) Tokyo 48yo - Married, 2 children
10. Hiroshi Mikitani $3.0 billion e-commerce (Rakuten Internet shopping mall) Japan 41yo - n/a, 0 children
* world's richest person from 1991-1992 was Taikichiro Mori. (d. 1993)

Malaysia

TOP 8 - Malaysia's Billionaires... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Robert Kuok $5.0 billion diversified (including Shangri-la hotels) Hong Kong 82yo - Married, 8 children
2. Ananda Krishnan $4.3 billion diversified Kuala Lumpur 67yo - Married, 3 children
3. Lim Goh Tong (high school drop out) $2.8 billion gaming Kuala Lumpur 88yo - Married, 6 children
4. Teh Hong Piow $2.1 billion banking (Public Bank's Islamic banking is interest-free because Islam prohibits taking or giving interest) Kuala Lumpur 76yo - Married, 4 children
5. Quek Leng Chan $2.0 billion banking Wee 65yo - Married, 3 children
6. Lee Shin Cheng $1.6 billion agriculture Jeram 66yo - Married, 6 children
7. Yeoh Tiong Lay & family $1.1 billion construction Malaysia 76yo - Married, 0 children
8. Tiong Hiew King $1.0 billion timber Sibu 70yo - Married, 3 children

Mexico

TOP 10 - Mexico's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Carlos Slim Helu (just call him Midas) $30.0 billion Telecom Mexico City 66yo - Widowed, 6 children
2. Jeronimo Arango $4.6 billion retail (was a Wal-Mart partner) Mexico 80yo - n/a
3. Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family $3.1 billion retail/media (facing business scandal) Mexico City 50yo - Married, 3 children
4. Alberto Bailleres $2.8 billion mining silver Mexico City 73yo - n/a
5. Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala & family $2.0 billion beer (Corona) Mexico City 42yo - Married, 2 children
6. Roberto Hernandez Ramirez $2.0 billion Banamex (banking) Mexico City 64yo - n/a
7. Lorenzo Zambrano & family $1.8 billion cement Monterrey 62yo - Single
8. Emilio Azcárraga Jean $1.7 billion media Mexico City 38yo - Married, 1 child
9. Alfredo Harp Helu $1.4 billion Banamex (banking) Mexico City 62yo - Married, 4 children
10. Isaac Saba Raffoul & family $1.4 billion diversified (incl. Marriott hotels) Mexico City 82yo - n/a

Russia

TOP 10 - Russia's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Roman Abramovich $18.2 billion oil (fled Russia in 2000 to escape fraud charges) UK, London 39yo - Married, 5 children
2. Vagit Alekperov $11.0 billion Lukoil (oil) Moscow 55yo - Married, 1 child
3. Vladimir Lisin $10.7 billion Novolipetsk steel mill Moscow 49yo - Married, 3 children
4. Viktor Vekselberg $10.0 billion oil / metals (laying low to avoid Kremlin scrutiny) Moscow 48yo - Married, 2 children
5. Mikhail Fridman $9.7 billion oil / banking Moscow 41yo - Married, 2 children
6. Oleg Deripaska $7.8 billion Russian Aluminum (Married into family of former President Yeltsin) Moscow 37yo - Married
7. Alexei Mordashov $7.6 billion Severstal (steel) Moscow 40yo - Married, 3 children
8. Suleiman Kerimov $7.1 billion stocks Moscow 40yo - Married, 3 children
9. Vladimir Potanin $6.4 billion metals Moscow 45yo - Married, 3 children
10. Mikhail Prokhorov $6.4 billion metals (often featured in gossip pages for his parties) Moscow 40yo - Single

Saudi Arabia

TOP 10 - Saudi Arabia's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of the Saudi king ) $20.0 billion investments Riyadh 49yo - Divorced, 2 children
2. Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi $11.0 billion banking Jeddah

86yo - Married, 23 children
(yes ... 23!!!!)

3. Mohammed Al Amoudi (Born in Ethiopia) $6.9 billion oil Jeddah 60yo - Married, 0 children
4. Saleh Bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi $6.5 billion banking Jeddah

94yo - Married, 61 children (yes, 61!!!! - 22 sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)

5. Saleh Kamel (denies allegations of ties to Osama bin Laden brought in two Sept. 11th related lawsuits) $5.0 billion diversified (banking/media) Makkah Al-Minkarramah 64yo - Married, 0 children
6. Saad Hariri (second son of Rafik Hariri, slain prime minister of Lebanon ) $4.1 billion inherited, construction, investments Riyadh 35yo - Married, 2 children
7. Abdullah Al Rajhi $3.8 billion banking Saudi Arabia n/a - Married, 0 children
8. Khalid Bin Mahfouz & family $3.2 billion banking Jeddah 59yo - Married, 3 children
9. Ayman Hariri (One of five children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik ) $2.7 billion inheritance Riyadh 27yo - Married, 1 child
10. Mohammed Al Issa $2.3 billion food Saudi Arabia
n/a - 0 children

Spain

TOP 10 - Spain's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Amancio Ortega $14.8 billion Zara (apparel) La Coruna 70yo - Married, 3 children
2. Rafael del Pino & family $6.50 billion Ferrovial (construction) Madrid 85yo - Married, 5 children
3. Esther Koplowitz $3.4 billion construction Barcelona 55yo - Married, 3 children
4. Jesus de Polanco $2.7 billion Grupo Prisa (media) Madrid 76yo - Married, 4 children
5. Manuel Jove $2.7 billion FADESA Immobiliaria (real estate) La Coruna 64yo - Married, 2 children
6. Rosalia Mera $2.2 billion Zara (apparel) La Coruna 62yo - Divorced, 2 children
7. Isak Andic $1.8 billion Mango (apparel) Barcelona 51yo - Married, 3 children
8. Emilio Botin $1.7 billion banking Santander 71yo - Married, 6 children
9. Gabriel Escarrer $1.7 billion Sol Melia (hotels) Palma de Majorca 71yo - Married, 6 children
10. Alicia Koplowitz $1.5 billion investments Madrid 53yo - Divorced, 3 children

Sweden

TOP 8- Sweden's Billionaires... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Ingvar Kamprad $28.0 billion Ikea (retail) Switzerland, Lausanne 79yo - Married, 4 children
2. Stefan Persson $12.3 billion Hennes & Mauritz (retail) Stockholm 58yo - Married, 3 children
3. Birgit Rausing & family $8.6 billion Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture) Switzerland, Vaud 82yo - Widowed, 3 children
4. Hans Rausing $8.5 billion Tetra Laval (packaging) - Moved to England in 1980 to avoid punitive Swedish taxes. UK, Wadhurst 80yo - Married, 3 children
5. Antonia Johnson $4.1 billion A. Johnson & Co. (diversified) Stockholm 62yo - Married, 4 children
6. Fredrik Lundberg $2.1 billion real estate / investments Stockholm 54yo - Married, 2 children
7. Gustaf Douglas $1.7 billion Assa Abloy (locks) / security Stockholm 68yo - Married, 2 children
8. Liselott (Lottie) Persson $1.5 billion Hennes & Mauritz (clothing retail chain) Stockholm n/a - 0 children

Switzerland

TOP 8- Switzerland's Billionaires... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Ernesto Bertarelli $5.8 billion Sereno (biotech) - yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 2003 Geneva 39yo - Married, 2 children
2. Thomas Schmidheiny $3.8 billion Holcim (cement) Balgach 59yo - Married, 4 children
3. Walter Haefner $4.3 billion Computer Associates (software) Zurich 94yo - Married, 2 children
4. Bahaa Hariri (Eldest son of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik) $4.1 billion inheritance Geneva 39yo - Married, 0 children
5. Stephan Schmidheiny $2.8 billion investments Zurich 57yo - Married, 2 children
6. Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte $2.5 billion Mediterranean Shipping Company Geneva n/a - Married, 2 children
7. Nicolas Hayek $2.5 billion Swatch (world's largest manufacturer of finished watches with 156 factories) Biel 77yo - Married, 2 children
8. Sergio Mantegazza $3.0 billion Globus & Cosmos (travel) Lugano 77yo - Married, 1 child

Turkey

TOP 10 - Turkey's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Rahmi Koc $1.7 billion inherited (diversified) Istanbul 75yo - Divorced, 3 children
2. Omer Sabanci $1.7 billion inherited (diversified) Istanbul 47yo - Married, 3 children
3. Sevket Sabanci $1.7 billion diversified Istanbul 70yo - Married, 3 children
4. Aydin Dogan $1.6 billion media Istanbul 70yo - Married, 4 children
5. Turgay Ciner (Personally pays for much school construction throughout Turkey) $1.5 billion diversified Istanbul 50yo - Married, 1 child
6. Hasan Colakoglu $1.5 billion diversified Turkey
50yo - Married, 2 children
7. Ferit Sahenk $1.5 billion inherited (diversified) (bankrolled "Gallipoli" movie) Istanbul 42yo - Married, 1 child
8. Husnu Ozyegin $1.5 billion banking Izmir 61yo - Married, 2 children
9. Semahat Arsel $1.3 billion inherited (diversified) Istanbul 78yo - Married, 0 children
10. Erol Sabanci $1.3 billion

inherited (diversified) (incl. Akbank, second largest bank in Turkey)

Istanbul 68yo - Married, 2 children

United Kingdom

TOP 10 - United Kingdom's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Philip & Cristina Green $7.0 billion retail (Acadia Group) Monaco n/a - Married, 2 children
2. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family
(6th Duke of Westminister)
$6.0 billion real estate (incl. Mayfair) Chester 54yo - Married, 4 children
3. David & Simon Reuben (two brothers born in Bombay ) $3.6 billion investments, real estate London n/a - 3 children
4. Bernard Ecclestone & family $3.4 billion Formula One (car racing)
London 75yo - Married, 2 children
5. David & Frederick Barclay (twins) $2.8 billion media, retail (manage their businesses from the island tax haven of Jersey) Island of Brecquou n/a - n/a
6. Richard Branson (high school dropout) $2.8 billion Virgin (airlines, etc) London 55yo - Married, 2 children
7. Charles Cadogan & family $2.8 billion real estate London 69yo - Married, 3 children
8. Bruno Schroder & family $2.5 billion Schroders Plc. (banking) London 73yo - Separated, 1 child
9. Clive Calder $2.4 billion Zomba Recordings (incl. Britney Spears, 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys ) Cayman Islands 59yo - Married, 2 children
10. Nadhmi Auchi $2.0 billion diversified London 68yo - Married, 4 children

United States
(men)

TOP 10 - USA's Richest Men ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. William Gates III $50.0 billion Microsoft  WA, Medina 50yo - Married, 3 children  
2. Warren Buffett $42.0 billion Berkshire Hathaway  NE, Omaha 75yo - Widowed, 3 children  
3. Paul Allen $22.0 billion Microsoft, investments   WA, Seattle 53yo - Single, 0 children 
4. Michael Dell $17.1 billion Dell (world's biggest PC maker) TX, Austin 41yo - Married, 4 children 
5. Sheldon Adelson $16.1 billion casinos, hotels NV, Las Vegas 72yo - Married, 5 children 
6. Lawrence Ellison $16.0 billion Oracle (database s'ware) CA, Silicon Valley 61yo - Married, 2 children 
7. Jim Walton $15.9 billion Wal-Mart  AR, Bentonville 58yo - Married, 4 children 
8. S Robson Walton $15.8 billion  Wal-Mart AR, Bentonville 62yo - Divorced, 3 children 
9. Steven Ballmer $13.6 billion Microsoft WA, Redmond 50yo - Married, 2 children
10. Sergey Brin $12.9 billion Google
CA, San Francisco 32yo - Single, 0 children   

United States
(women)

TOP 10 - USA's Richest Women ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Christy Walton $15.9 billion Wal-Mart (husband, John Walton, died in an ultra-light aircraft crash 5th June 2005) WY, Jackson 51yo - Widowed, 1 child
2. Alice Walton $15.7 billion (inheritance) Wal-Mart  TX , Fort Worth 56yo - Divorced
3. Helen Walton $15.6 billion Wal-Mart  AR, Bentonville 86yo - Widowed, 4 children
4. Abigail Johnson $12.5 billion Fidelity investments MA, Boston 44yo - Married, 2 children
5. Barbara Cox Anthony $12.4 billion media/entertainment HI, Honolulu 82yo - Married, 2 children
6. Anne Cox Chambers $12.4 billion media/entertainment GA, Atlanta 86yo - Divorced, 3 children
7. Jacqueline Mars $10.0 billion candy (incl. Mars bar) NJ, Bedminster 66yo - Divorced, 3 children
8. Martha Ingram & family $2.7 billion Ingram Industries TN, Nashville 70yo - Widowed, 4 children
9. Barbara Piasecka Johnson $2.6 billion Johnson & Johnson Monaco, Monte Carlo 69yo - Widowed
10. Barbara Davis & family $2.5 billion inheritance (oil) CA, Beverly Hills 76yo - Widowed, 5 children

Under 35

TOP 11 - Billionaires Under 35yo ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Sergey Brin $12.9 billion Google (internet gateway)
USA 32yo - Single, 0 children   
2. Larry Page $12.8 billion Google (internet gateway) USA 33yo - Single, 0 children 
3. Anurag Dikshit $3.3 billion online gambling India 34yo - Married, 1 child
4. Fahd Hariri (youngest son of Rafik Hariri) $2.7 billion inheritance Lebanon 25yo - Single, 0 children 
9. Ayman Hariri (one of five children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik ) $2.7 billion inheritance Riyadh 27yo - Married, 1 child
6. Andrei Melnichenko (uni dropout) $2.7 billion banking, energy Russia 34yo - Married, 0 children
7. Sergei Popov $2.7 billion banking, energy Russia 34yo - Married, 0 children
8. Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (lives in one of the family castles) $1.9 billion inherited, diversified Germany 22yo - Single, 0 children 
9. Daniel Ziff $1.5 billion inheritance, hedge funds
USA 34yo - Single, 0 children 
10. Hind Hariri (Youngest child of Rafik Hariri and YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE) $1.4 billion inheritance Lebanon 22yo - Single, 0 children 
11. Henrique Constantino $1.1 billion GOL airlines Brazil 34yo - n/a, 0 children 

Celebrity Billionaires

TOP Celebrity Billionaires... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. George Lucas $3.5 billion Star Wars (director/producer) USA 61yo - Divorced, 3 children
2. Steven Spielberg $2.8 billion movies (director/producer) - incl. War of the Worlds, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Men in Black, etc USA 59yo - Married, 7 children
3. Oprah Winfrey $1.4 billion The Oprah Winfrey Show (Miss Black Tennessee age 19) USA 52yo - Single
4. Joanne (JK) Rowling $1.0 billion Harry Potter (6 Harry Potter books have sold 310 million copies; grossed over $3 billion in movie/DVD sales) UK/Scotland 40yo - Married, 2 children




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