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Top 10 Rich Lists 2008

Richest Billionaire in 56 Countries

Richest Billionaire in each Country... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Citizenship	Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Argentina	Gregorio Perez Companc & family (High school drop out)	$2.1 billion	oil & gas	Argentina	73yo - Married, 7 children
2. Australia	Andrew Forrest (nicknamed Twiggy)	$6.5 billion	mining, metals	Australia	46yo - Married, 3 children
3. Austria	Karl Wlaschek (former jazz pianist)	$4.9 billion	department stores	Austria	90yo - Widowed, 2 children
4. Belgium	Patokh Chodiev (native of Uzbekistan)	$3.3 billion	mining, metals	Kazakhstan	55yo - Married, 3 children
5. Belize	Huang Maoru	$1.4 billion	retailing	China	na - Married
6. Brazil	Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family	$10.0 billion	diversified	Brazil	79yo - na, 9 children
7. Canada	David Thomson & family (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006)	$18.9 billion	inherited	Canada	50yo - Divorced, 3 children (Engaged to Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C.)
8. Chile	Iris Fontbona & family (Second wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005)	$10.0 billion	mining/lumber	Chile	na - Widowed, 3 children
9. China	Yang Huiyan (Her father, Yeung Kwok Keung, gave her 58% stake in his company)	$7.4 billion	real estate	China	26yo - Married
10. Colombia	Luis Carlos Sarmiento (Once Colombia's top builder)	$5.5 billion	banking	Colombia	75yo - Married, 5 children
11. Cyprus	John Fredriksen (Born in Norway ... World's leading oil tanker tycoon )	$8.0 billion	shipping	UK	63yo - Widowed, 2 children
12. Czech Republic	Petr Kellner (in 1992, used a $1 million loan he got through his small office-supplies business to start an investment fund)	$9.3 billion	insurance	Czech Republic	43yo - Married, 4 children
13. Denmark	Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (founder of Danish toymaker Lego)	$6.5 billion	manufacturing	Denmark	60yo - Married, 3 children
14. Egypt	Naguib Sawiris (Swiss-educated, loves to tango.)	$12.7 billion	telecom	Egypt	53yo - Married, 4 children
15. France	Bernard Arnault (skilled pianist)	$25.5 billion	LVMH (world's largest luxury goods empire)	France	59yo - Married, 5 children
16. Germany	Karl Albrecht (Fiercely private ... raises orchids and plays golf)	$27.0 billion	supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores)	Germany	88yo - Married, 2 children
17. Greece	Spiro Latsis & family	$11.0 billion	banking	Switzerland	61yo - Married, 2 children
18. Hong Kong	Li Ka-shing (High School drop out)	$26.5 billion	diversified (world's largest operator of container terminals, world's largest health and beauty retailer)	Hong Kong	79yo - Widowed, 2 children
19. Iceland	Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson	$3.5 billion	diversified	UK	41yo - Engaged, 1 child (long-time girlfriend is a movie producer)
20. India	Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's richest resident)	$45.0 billion	Mittal Steel (world's largest steelmaker)	UK	57yo - Married, 2 children
21. Indonesia	Sukanto Tanoto	$3.8 billion	paper, palm oil	Singapore	58yo - Married, 4 children
22. Ireland	Sean Quinn & family (High school educ. ... doesn't use a cell phone!)	$6.0 billion	real estate, insurance, cement, glassmaking, hotel	Ireland	61yo - Married, 5 children
23. Israel	Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born Israeli ... famously press-shy)	$6.7 billion	diversified (shipping, banking, real estate)	Monaco	86yo - Married, 2 children
24. Italy	Michele Ferrero & family (Tied up in legal battle that pits Ferrero against a Chinese chocolate maker that also makes a gold-wrapped candy. )	$11.0 billion	Ferrero chocolates (also Nutella and Tic Tac)	Monaco	81yo - Married, 2 children
25. Japan	Akira Mori & family (Hobbies: golf, Japanese chess, and reading)	$7.5 billion	Mori Trust (real estate)	Japan	70yo - Married, 3 children
26. Kazakhstan	Vladimir Kim	$4.7 billion	mining	Kazakhstan	47yo - Married, 3 children
27. Kuwait	Nasser Al-Kharafi & family (has exclusive franchise rights in Middle East for brands like Pizza Hut, TGI Fridays, KFC and Wimpy)	$14.0 billion	construction	Kuwait	64yo - Married, 5 children
28. Lebanon	Najib Mikati (Former Lebanese Prime Minister - briefly in 2005)	$2.6 billion	telecom	Lebanon	52yo - Married, 3 children
	*Taha Mikati*	$2.6 billion		Lebanon	na
29. Malaysia	Robert Kuok (Onetime rice and sugar trader)	$9.0 billion	diversified (shipping, real estate, media)	Hong Kong	84yo - Married, 8 children
30. Mexico	Carlos Slim Helu & family (son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector)	$60.0 billion	telecom	Mexico	68yo - Widowed, 6 children
31. Monaco	Lily Safra (Widow of Brazilian billionaire banker Edmond Safra, who died in a fire in his Monaco apartment 1999)	$1.0 billion	inheritance	UK	70yo - Widowed, 2 children
32. Netherlands	Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken	$7.3 billion	inheritance (Inherited 25% stake in Dutch brewer Heineken 6 years ago from her late father, Freddy Heineken)	UK	53yo - Married, 5 children
33. New Zealand	Graeme Hart (Former tow truck driver now known for astute leveraged purchases ... owner of 190-foot yacht, Ulysses)	$5.1 billion	investments	New Zealand	52yo - Married, 2 children
34. Nigeria	Aliko Dangote (Closely linked to Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo)	$3.3 billion	inheritance (sugar, flour, cement manufacturing)	Nigeria	na - na
35. Norway	Stein Erik Hagen & family (owns island in the Caribbean and one of the biggest sailboats in Europe)	$4.3 billion	supermarkets	Norway	51yo - Married, 4 children
36. Oman	PNC Menon (drop out ... Born in India and migrated to Oman in 1976)	$1.3 billion	real estate (Recently won bid with fellow billionaire Anil Ambani to construct India's tallest building, a 100-story twin tower in Hyderabad)	India	59yo - Married, 3 children
37. Philippines	Lucio Tan & family (Hobbies include flying helicopters)	$1.5 billion	diversified (aviation, real estate, mining, liquor and tobacco)	Philippines	73yo - Married, 6 children
38. Poland	Leszek Czarnecki	$2.6 billion	leasing, banking	Poland	46yo - Divorced, 2 children
39. Portugal	Americo Amorim (King of cork)	$7.0 billion	cork, investments (world's largest producer of cork)	Portugal	73yo - Married, 3 children
40. Romania	Dinu Patriciu (Onetime architect and former parliamentarian)	$2.5 billion	oil & gas refineries	Romania	57yo - Married, 2 children
41. Russia	Oleg Deripaska (Married into family of former President Yeltsin)	$28.0 billion	Russian Aluminum (world's largest aluminum producer)	Russia	40yo - Married, 2 children
42. Saudi Arabia	Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of the Saudi king )	$21.0 billion	investments (incl. Citicorp)	Saudi Arabia	51yo - Married, 2 children
43. Singapore	Ng Teng Fong (developed more than 700 hotels, malls and condos in Singapore)	$7.0 billion	real estate	Singapore	79yo - Married, 6 children
44. South Africa	Nicky Oppenheimer & family	$5.7 billion	De Beers (diamond mining)	South Africa	62yo - Married, 1 child
45. South Korea	Chung Mong-Joon (6th son of late Hyundai founder)	$2.8 billion	shipbuilding	South Korea	56yo - Married
	*Chung Mong-Koo* (Last year had 3-year jail sentence - for embezzling $100 million of company money - reduced to only a few months after agreeing to donate $1 billion over several years to Korean society)	$2.8 billion	Hyundai	South Korea	70yo - Married, 4 children
46. Spain	Amancio Ortega (High School drop out; shuns neckties)	$20.2 billion	Zara (apparel) (3,245 stores in 66 countries)	Spain	72yo - Married, 3 children
47. Sweden	Ingvar Kamprad & family (flies economy class and frequents cheap restaurants)	$31.0 billion	Ikea (retail) (stores in 40 countries)	Switzerland	81yo - Married, 4 children
48. Switzerland	Ernesto Bertarelli (inherited the business after father's death in 1998 ... yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007)	$10.3 billion	Sereno (biotech)	Switzerland	42yo - Married (to British beauty queen)
49. Taiwan	Tsai Hong-tu & family	$7.7 billion	finance	Taiwan	55yo - na, 3 children
50. Thailand	Chaleo Yoovidhya	$4.0 billion	Red Bull (beverages)	Thailand	76yo - Married, 5 children
51. Turkey	Mehmet Emin Karamehmet	$4.3 billion	Turkcell mobile phone company	Turkey	63yo - Married, 1 child
52. Ukraine	Rinat Akhmetov	$7.3 billion	steel, coal mines	Ukraine	41yo - Married, 2 children
53. United Arab Emirates	Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family (Paragliding enthusiast )	$8.9 billion	banking	United Arab Emirates	54yo - Married, 5 children
54. United Kingdom	Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th Duke of Westminister ... supports more than 150 charities)	$14.0 billion	real estate (incl. Mayfair)	UK	56yo - Married, 4 children
55. United States	Warren Buffett (America's most beloved investor ... married longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday in Aug. 2006 ... will donate $31 billion to charity!)	$62.0 billion	Berkshire Hathaway	USA	77yo - Widowed, re-married, 3 children
56. Venezuela	Lorenzo Mendoza & family	$5.0 billion	beverages	Venezuela	42yo - Married, 4 children

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Brazil

TOP 10 - Brazil's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family	$10.0 billion	diversified	Sao Paulo	79yo - na, 9 children
2. Joseph Safra (cut financial ties with his older brother Moise in mid-2006. )	$8.8 billion	banking	Sao Paulo	69yo - Married, 4 children
*3. Eike Batista* (college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father was former mining minister of Brazil)	$6.6 billion	iron-ore mining	Rio de Janeiro	51yo - Divorced, 2 children (formerly married to Playboy cover girl)
*4. Dorothea Steinbruch & family* (sister-in-law of Eliezer* Steinbruch)*	$6.1 billion	Inheritence (steel)	Sao Paulo	na - Widowed, 3 children
5. Jorge Paulo Lemann (onetime tennis champion - he played at Wimbledon)	$5.8 billion	banking, beer	Sao Paulo	68yo - Married, 5 children
*6. Eliezer Steinbruch & family* (brother-in-law of Dorothea Steinbruch)	$4.0 billion	Inheritance (steel)	Sao Paulo	na - Married, 3 children
7. Aloysio de Andrade Faria	$3.7 billion	banking	Sao Paulo	87yo - Married, 5 children
8. Moise Safra (cut financial ties with his younger brother Joseph in mid-2006. )	$2.8 billion	banking	Sao Paulo	73yo - Married
9. Marcel Herman Telles (keen spearfisher)	$2.5 billion	banking, beer	Sao Paulo	58yo - Married, 2 children
10. Carlos Alberto Sicupira	$2.3 billion	banking, beer	Sao Paulo	60yo - Married, 3 children

Canada

TOP 10 - Canada's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. David Thomson & family (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006)	$18.9 billion	inherited	Toronto	50yo - Divorced, 3 children (Engaged to Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C.)
2. Galen Weston & family (Plays polo with Prince Charles ... Avid collector of avant-garde artist Christo)	$7.0 billion	retail (owns controlling stake in Canada's largest supermarket chain)	Toronto	67yo - Married, 2 children
3. James, Arthur & John Irving (brothers)	$6.7 billion	oil / gas (own 600 gas stations)	Saint John	n/a - n/a
4. Edward Rogers (Son of the man who invented the world's first alternating-current radio tube, which made radios mainstream)	$5.7 billion	media (46 radio stations, 70 consumer and trade magazines, and television stations like Rogers Sportsnet and the Shopping Channel)	Toronto	74yo - Married, 4 children
*5. Jim Pattison*	$5.5 billion	diversified (incl. Ripley's Believe It or Not ... Bought Guinness World Records in February)	Vancouver	79yo - Married, 3 children
6. Paul Desmarais (bought his father's one-route Ontario bus company for $1- in 1951)	$4.6 billion	finance	Montreal	80yo - Married, 4 children
*7. Mike Lazaridis* (building a $13.2 million house just outside Waterloo on 76-acre property with private lake)	$3.6 billion	technology (founded BlackBerry maker Research In Motion while student at University of Waterloo)	Waterloo	47yo - Married
7. Jeffrey S Skoll	$3.6 billion	Ebay	USA, CA, Los Angeles	43yo - Single
9. James Balsillie (competes in men's long-course triathlons)	$3.4 billion	technology (founded BlackBerry maker Research In Motion)	Waterloo	47yo - na
10. Bernard (Barry) Sherman	$3.3 billion	Apotex pharmaceuticals (seeking over-the-counter-sales approval of its controversial "morning-after" pill )	Toronto	66yo - Married, 4 children

China

TOP 10 - China's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Head Office	Personal
*1. Yang Huiyan*	$7.4 billion	real estate (received 58% stake in real estate developer Country Garden from its main founder, her father, Yeung Kwok Keung)	Shunde	26yo - Married
2. Zhang Jindong	$4.5 billion	Sunning Appliances (China's second-biggest electrical appliance chain - has 600 retail stores and plans to open another 400 by 2010)	Nanjing	45yo - Married
3. Lu Zhiqiang (Beijing's richest resident)	$3.9 billion	real estate	Beijing	55yo - Married
4. Wong Kwong Yu	$3.5 billion	Gome Appliances (& real estate)	Beijing	38yo - Married, 2 children
5. Huang Wei & family (runs Chinese chess club)	$3.4 billion	real estate, gem trader	Hangzhou	48yo - Married
6. Zhang Li	$3.1 billion	real estate	Guangzhou	55yo - n/a
7. Liang Wengen	$3.0 billion	Sany Heavy Industry (makers of construction equipment)	Changsha	51yo - Married, 1 child
7. Zhang Xin & family (husband, Pan Shiyi, transferred shares to Zhang, prior to listing)	$3.0 billion	real estate	Beijing	43yo - Married
9. Shi Yuzhu (Shanghai's richest resident)	$2.8 billion	online gaming	Shanghai	46yo - Single
10. Liu Yonghao	$2.7 billion	Hope Group (agriculture, investments) (with three brothers, Liu started Hope Group 1982 with about $120; eventually became China's second-largest animal feed maker)	Chengdu	56yo - Married, 2 children

France

TOP 10 - France's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Bernard Arnault (skilled pianist)	$25.5 billion	LVMH (world's largest luxury goods empire)	Paris	59yo - Married, 5 children
2. Liliane Bettencourt (world's richest woman)	$22.9 billion	L'Oreal (daughter of L'Oréal founder Eugene Schueller)	Paris	85yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband, Andre Bettencourt , died Nov 2007 at age 88)
3. Francois Pinault (High School drop out ... was awarded the French Legion d'honneur last year)	$16.9 billion	retail (incl. Gucci)	Paris	71yo - Married, 3 children
4. Alain & Gerard Wertheimer (brothers)	$12.9 billion	Chanel (apparel, perfume) (Chanel No. 5 perfume is the world's top selling scent)	USA, New York	n/a - n/a
5. Serge Dassault & family (French senator)	$9.9 billion	aviation (makers of Mirage and Rafale jets)	Paris	82yo - Married, 4 children
6. Jean-Claude Decaux & family (Started out putting ads on public toilets and bus shelters)	$5.9 billion	advertising (number one outdoor advertiser in China)	Paris	70yo - Married, 3 children
7. Martin & Olivier Bouygues (brothers)	$4.5 billion	telecom, media, construction	Paris	55/57yo -n/a
*8. Didier Primat*	$2.9 billion	Oil / gas (employs over 66,000 people in 80 countries)	Switzerland, Geneva	63yo - Married
9. Alain Merieux & family	$2.8 billion	biotech (specializes in the diagnosis of bacteria in the human body and infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis)	Lyon	70yo - Married, 3 children (eldest son killed in plane crash in 1996, age 28. 2nd- eldest son died of cardiac failure in 2006, age 32)
10. Romain Zaleski (Onetime bureaucrat)	$2.7 billion	investments	Italy, Milan	75yo - Married, 3 children

Germany

India

TOP 10 - India's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Lakshmi Mittal (Europe's richest resident)	$45.0 billion	Mittal Steel (world's largest steelmaker)	UK, London	57yo - Married, 2 children
*2. Mukesh Ambani* (Asia's richest resident ... is using some of his money to build a 27-story home.)	$43.0 billion	petrochemicals	Mumbai	50yo - Married, 3 children
*3. Anil Ambani*	$42.0 billion	diversified	Mumbai	48yo - Married, 2 children
*4. KP Singh* (world's richest real estate baron)	$30.0 billion	real estate	Delhi	76yo - Married, 3 children
*5. Shashi & Ravi Ruia* (brothers)	$15.0 billion	diversified	Mumbai	n/a - n/a
6. Azim Premji	$12.7 billion	Wipro (software)	Bangalore	62yo - Married, 2 children
7. Sunil Mittal (son of a politician)	$11.8 billion	Telecom (has 60 million customers)	Delhi	50yo - Married, 3 children
8. Kumar Birla	$10.2 billion	commodities (copper & aluminium)	Mumbai	40yo - Married, 2 children
*9. Ramesh Chandra* (banker's son)	$9.6 billion	real estate	New Delhi	68yo - Married, 2 children
*10. Gautam Adani* (college drop out ... Yoga fanatic)	$9.3 billion	commodities, infrastructure	Ahmedabad	45yo - Married, 2 children

Israel

TOP 9 - Israel's Billionaires... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born Israeli ... famously press-shy ... In May 2006, paid $40 million for Van Gogh's "Madame Ginoux")	$6.7 billion	diversified (shipping, banking, real estate)	Tel Aviv; Monaco	86yo - Married, 2 children
2. Stef Wertheimer & family (grade school dropout)	$4.6 billion	tools	Tefen	82yo - Married, 4 children
3. Lev Leviev (Leviev's new home is the $65 million Palladio, a seven-bedroom bulletproof estate replete with in-house nightclub and gold-plated indoor pool—the most expensive new home in Britain)	$4.5 billion	diamonds (cuts and polishes more diamonds than anyone else in the world)	UK, London	52yo - Married, 9 children
4. Shari Arison (In June Arison's husband was released from prison following a three-month stint for a sexual harassment conviction)	$4.1 billion	inheritance, cruise ships	Tel Aviv	50yo - Married, 4 children
5. Benny Steinmetz	$3.6 billion	diamonds (largest customer of De Beers)	Netanya	51yo - Married, 4 children
6. Yitzhak Tshuva (his Cinderella story began in Netanya in a single room where his penniless family of 11 lived briefly)	$3.5 billion	real estate (also operates 232 gas stations in Israel)	Netanya	59yo - Married, 5 children
7. Alexander Machkevich (native of Kyrgyzstan ... has been very active in Jewish causes)	$3.3 billion	mining, metals	Kazakhstan, Almaty	54yo - Married, 2 children
8. Arnon Milchan (former soccer player)	$3.1 billion	New Regency Productions (include Pretty Woman, The War of the Roses, Fight Club and Mr. and Mrs. Smith)	Tel Aviv	63yo - Divorced, 4 children
9. Morris Kahn (a former diver)	$1.1 billion	software	Beit Yanay	78yo - Married

Italy

TOP 10 - Italy's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Michele Ferrero & family (Tied up in legal battle that pits Ferrero against a Chinese chocolate maker that also makes a gold-wrapped candy. )	$11.0 billion	Ferrero chocolates (also Nutella and Tic Tac)	Monaco, Montecarlo	81yo - Married, 2 children
2. Leonardo Del Vecchio (sent to an orphanage at age 7)	$10.0 billion	eyewear (Ray-Ban) (owns over 6,000 retail stores)	Milan	72yo - Married, 6 children
3. Silvio Berlusconi (Italy's Prime Minister from 2001-2006. Started out singing on cruise ships.)	$9.4 billion	media	North of Milan	71yo - Married, 5 children
4. Giorgio Armani (goes to the gym for at least an hour a day)	$5.0 billion	Armani fashion / apparel	Milan	73yo - n/a
5. Carlo Benetton	$2.9 billion	Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)	Treviso	64yo - Single, 4 children
5. Gilberto Benetton	$2.9 billion	Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)	Treviso	66yo - Married, 2 children
5. Giuliana Benetton	$2.9 billion	Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)	Treviso	70yo - Married, 4 children
5. Luciano Benetton	$2.9 billion	Benetton (apparel) (5,000 stores in 120 countries)	Treviso	72yo - Married, 4 children
*5. Mario Moretti Polegato* (owns two Lamborghinis, a Ferrari 360 Modena Spider, five Arabian horses and six antique Moto Guzzi motorcycles.)	$2.9 billion	Geox shoes	Crocetta del Montello	55yo - Married, 1 child
10. Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone	$2.6 billion	diversified	Rome	65yo - Married

Japan

TOP 10 - Japan's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Akira Mori & family (Hobbies: golf, Japanese chess, and reading)	$7.5 billion	Mori Trust (real estate)	Tokyo	71yo - Married, 3 children
2. Hiroshi Yamauchi	$6.4 billion	Nintendo	Kyoto	80yo - Married, 2 children
3. Kunio Busujima & family	$5.3 billion	pinball machines (manufacturing)	Gunma	82yo - Married, 4 children
4. Masayoshi Son	$5.1 billion	Softbank (software)	Tokyo	50yo - Married, 2 children
5. Nobutada Saji & family (Avid swimmer, opening chain of gyms through Suntory)	$4.5 billion	Suntory (beverages) - recently engineered the world's first blue rose!	Tokyo	62yo - Married
6. Eitaro Itoyama (Likes to collect expensive wines)	$4.4 billion	golf courses	Tokyo	65yo - Married, 2 children
7. Tadashi Yanai & family	$3.6 billion	retail (Uniqlo discount clothing) (Fast Retailing, last business year posted record sales of $3.9 billion from its sales of Chinese-made jackets, shirts and other clothing that retail for as little as $5)	Yamaguchi	59yo - Married, 2 children
8. Takemitsu Takizaki	$2.7 billion	sensors (manufacturing)	Osaka	62yo - Married
9. Hiroshi Mikitani	$2.6 billion	e-commerce (Rakuten, Internet shopping mall, hosts more than 18,000 virtual stores)	Tokyo	43yo - n/a
*10. Masatoshi Ito*	$2.2 billion	retail (Has 12,000 7-Eleven stores and 160 Denny's restaurants in Japan. Has expanded 7-Eleven to China )	Tokyo	83yo - Married, 3 children

Taikichiro Mori (d. 1993) was the World's Richest Person from 1991-1992.

Mexico

TOP 10 - Mexico's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Carlos Slim Helu & family (son of a Lebanese immigrant ... just call him Midas ... baseball fan and art collector)	$60.0 billion	telecom	Mexico City	68yo - Widowed, 6 children
2. Alberto Bailleres	$9.8 billion	mining silver (world's top producer of silver)	Mexico City	75yo - Married
*3. German Larrea Mota-Velasco & family*	$7.3 billion	mining	Mexico City	54yo - na
4. Ricardo Salinas Pliego (in Sep 2006, paid $7.5 million to settle accusations about a business scandal)	$6.3 billion	retail/media	Mexico City	52yo - Married, 3 children
5. Jeronimo Arango	$4.3 billion	supermarkets (was a Wal-Mart partner)	Mexico City	82yo - n/a
6. Isaac Saba Raffoul & family	$2.1 billion	diversified (incl. Marriott hotels)	Mexico City	84yo - n/a
7. Roberto Hernandez Ramirez	$1.7 billion	Banamex (banking)	Mexico City	66yo - Married, 3 children
8. Emilio Azcárraga Jean	$1.6 billion	media (inherited empire in 1997)	Mexico City	40yo - Married, 1 child
8. Alfredo Harp Helu (owns the Red Devils baseball team) cousin of Carlos Slim Helu.	$1.6 billion	Banamex (banking)	Mexico City	64yo - Married, 4 children
10. Lorenzo Zambrano & family	$1.5 billion	cement	Monterrey	63yo - Single

Russia

TOP 10 - Russia's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Oleg Deripaska (Married into family of former President Yeltsin)	$28.0 billion	Russian Aluminum (world's largest aluminum producer)	Moscow	40yo - Married, 2 children
2. Roman Abramovich (college drop out; orphaned as a child ... owns U.K. soccer club, Chelsea)	$23.5 billion	oil	UK, London	41yo - Divorced, 5 children
3. Alexei Mordashov	$21.2 billion	Severstal (steel)	Moscow	42yo - Married, 3 children
4. Mikhail Fridman (strong Kremlin connections)	$20.8 billion	oil / banking	Moscow	43yo - Divorced, 2 children
5. Vladimir Lisin	$20.3 billion	Novolipetsk steel mill	Moscow	51yo - Married, 3 children
6. Mikhail Prokhorov	$19.5 billion	metals (often featured in gossip pages for his parties)	Moscow	42yo - Single
7. Vladimir Potanin	$19.3 billion	metals (Norilsk Nickel)	Moscow	47yo - Married, 3 children
8. Suleiman Kerimov (seriously injured when he lost control of his Ferrari Enzo in autumn 2006 ... Re-elected to upper house of Russian parliament in early 2008)	$17.5 billion	stocks	Moscow	42yo - Married, 3 children
*9. German Khan*	$13.9 billion	oil	Moscow	46yo - Married, 2 children
10. Vagit Alekperov (Has good relationship with Vladimir Putin)	$13.0 billion	Lukoil (in December 2006 he acquired nearly 400 stations from ConocoPhillips)	Moscow	57yo - Married, 1 child

Saudi Arabia

TOP 10 - Saudi Arabia's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of the Saudi king )	$21.0 billion	investments (incl. Citicorp)	Riyadh	51yo - Married, 2 children
2. Mohammed Al Amoudi (Born in Ethiopia)	$9.0 billion	oil	Jeddah	62yo - Married, 8 children
3. Sulaiman Al Rajhi (brother of Saleh and Abdullah Al Rajhi)	$8.4 billion	banking	Riyadh	88yo - Married, 23 children (yes ... 23!!!!)
4. Maan Al-Sanea	$8.1 billion	construction / finance	Al Khobar	53yo - Married, 5 children
*5. Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber*	$5.3 billion	real estate, hotels	Jeddah	49yo - Married, 3 children
6. Saleh Kamel	$5.0 billion	diversified (banking/media) (invented the modern concept of Islamic banking, which among other things forbids interest payments)	Jeddah	66yo - Married
7. Saleh Al Rajhi (brother of Sulaiman and Abdullah Al Rajhi)	$4.7 billion	banking	Riyadh	96yo - Married, 61 children (yes, 61!!!! - 22 sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)
8. Saad Hariri (second son of Rafik Hariri, slain prime minister of Lebanon ... likes to scuba dive; smokes Cuban cigars)	$3.3 billion	inherited (construction, investments)	Riyadh	37yo - Married, 2 children
9. Abdullah Al Rajhi (brother of Saleh and Sulaiman Al Rajhi)	$3.2 billion	banking	Riyadh	n/a - Married
*10. Sulaiman Algosaibi*	$3.0 billion	diversified	Al Khobar	na - Married

NOTE: Two of the three Al Rajhi brothers have 84 children between them!

South Korea

TOP 10 - South Korea's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Chung Mong-Joon (6th son of late Hyundai founder)	$2.8 billion	shipbuilding	Ulsan	56yo - Married
*1. Chung Mong-Koo* (Last year had 3-year jail sentence - for embezzling $100 million of company money - reduced to only a few months after agreeing to donate $1 billion over several years to Korean society)	$2.8 billion	Hyundai	Seoul	70yo - Married, 4 children
3. Lee Kun-Hee	$2.0 billion	Samsung Electronics (accounts for close to a fifth of the nation's exports!)	Seoul	66yo - Married, 3 children
3. Lee Myung-Hee (younger sister of Lee Kun-Hee)	$2.0 billion	E-Mart	Seoul	64yo - Married, 2 children
5. Shin Dong-Bin (younger son of Shin Kyuk-Ho)	$1.9 billion	inherited, Lotte Group (retail, food)	Seoul	53yo - Married, 3 children
6. Shin Dong-Joo (eldest son of Shin Kyuk-Ho)	$1.8 billion	inherited, Lotte Group (retail, food)	Japan, Tokyo	54yo - Married, 1 child
7. Jay Y Lee (only son of Lee Kun-Hee)	$1.7 billion	Samsung Electronics	Seoul	39yo - Married, 2 children
8. Cha Yong-Keu (former Samsung executive ... nicknamed "myth of a salaryman" for his seemingly impossible feat of going from company executive to billionaire)	$1.4 billion	Kazakhmys	Seoul	51yo - Married, 2 children
9. Huh Chang-Soo	$1.2 billion	energy, construction, retail	Seoul	59yo - Married
10. Koo Bon-Moo	$1.1 billion	diversified (LG Group) (has 36 affiliate companies in electronics, home appliances, chemicals and telecom)	South Korea	63yo - na

Spain

TOP 10 - Spain's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Amancio Ortega (High School drop out ... shuns neckties)	$20.2 billion	Zara (apparel) (3,245 stores in 66 countries)	La Coruna	72yo - Married, 3 children
2. Rafael del Pino & family	$5.3 billion	Ferrovial (construction)	Madrid	87yo - Married, 5 children
3. Alicia Koplowitz (sisiter of Esther Koplowitz ... rumored to be romantically involved with the Duque de Huescar )	$5.2 billion	investments	Madrid	55yo - Divorced, 3 children
4. Manuel Jove (carpenter by trade)	$3.5 billion	FADESA Immobiliaria (real estate)	La Coruna	66yo - Married, 2 children
5. Esther Koplowitz (married to Fernando Falcó, Marqués de Cubas)	$3.3 billion	Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (construction)	Barcelona	57yo - Married, 3 children
6. Isak Andic (enthusiastic sailor ... his family came to Spain from Turkey)	$3.0 billion	Mango (apparel) (over 900 stores in 89 countries )	Barcelona	53yo - Married, 3 children
6. Rosalia Mera (ex-wife of Amancio Ortega)	$3.0 billion	Zara (apparel) (3,245 stores in 66 countries)	La Coruna	64yo - Divorced, 2 children
8. Jose Maria Aristrain (Press shy, reportedly never goes out in public without a bodyguard to safeguard him and his family from kidnapping and assassination attempts by Basque separatists)	$2.6 billion	steel	Madrid	45yo - Married, 1 child
9. Emilio Botin (enjoys golf, hunting and fishing)	$2.1 billion	banking	Santander	73yo - Married, 6 children
10. Florentino Perez	$1.8 billion	construction	Madrid	61yo - Married, 3 children

Sweden

TOP 10- Sweden's Richest People... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Ingvar Kamprad & family (flies economy class and frequents cheap restaurants)	$31.0 billion	Ikea (retail) (stores in 40 countries)	Switzerland, Lausanne	81yo - Married, 4 children
2. Stefan Persson (enjoys downhill skiing, tennis and golf)	$17.7 billion	Hennes & Mauritz (retail) (has 1,400 stores in 28 countries)	Stockholm	60yo - Married, 3 children
3. Birgit Rausing & family (husband Gad Rausing died in 2000 ... family keeps low profile due to kidnapping attempt on son, Jorn, in 1989)	$14.0 billion	Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture)	Switzerland, Vaud	84yo - Widowed, 3 children
4. Sir Hans Rausing (knighted last year for his services to charity ... resides on a 900-acre estate in the village of Wadhurst in East Sussex where he collects vintage cars)	$10.0 billion	Tetra Laval (packaging) (Moved to England in 1980 to avoid punitive Swedish taxes)	UK, Wadhurst	82yo - Married, 3 children
5. Antonia Johnson (avid horsewoman )	$7.0 billion	A. Johnson & Co. (diversified)	Stockholm	64yo - Married, 4 children
6. Fredrik Lundberg (once a junior world champion of curling)	$2.4 billion	real estate / investments	Stockholm	56yo - Married, 2 children
7. Count Gustaf Douglas	$2.3 billion	Assa Abloy (locks) / security (worlds largest producer of locks)	Stockholm	70yo - Married, 2 children
8. Liselott (Lottie) Persson (sister of Stefan Persson )	$2.0 billion	Hennes & Mauritz (clothing retail chain) (has 1,400 stores in 28 countries)	Stockholm	58yo - n/a
9. Melker Schorling	$1.6 billion	investments	Stockholm	60yo - Married, 2 children
10. Jorgen Philip-Sorensen (enthusiastic sailor, enjoys photography, travel and collecting books)	$1.0 billion	security	UK, Broadway	69yo - Married, 4 children

Switzerland

TOP 10- Switzerland's Richest People... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Ernesto Bertarelli (inherited the business after father's death in 1998 ... yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 2003 and 2007)	$10.3 billion	Sereno (biotech)	Geneva	42yo - Married (to British beauty queen)
2. Hansjorg Wyss (Wine connoisseur owns a 900-acre ranch and vineyard in California)	$6.0 billion	Synthes (medical-implants and biomaterials )	USA, NY, Westchester	72yo - na
3. Thomas Schmidheiny	$5.2 billion	Holcim (cement) (world's second-largest supplier of cement and concrete)	Balgach	62yo - Married, 4 children
4. Stephan Schmidheiny (facing lawsuits in Switzerland and Italy surrounding the asbestos-related deaths of former plant workers)	$3.7 billion	investments	Zurich	60yo - Married, 2 children
5. Walter Haefner (his Moyglare Stud Farm in Ireland has approx. 100 horses and has bred such winners as Simple Exchange and Media Puzzle)	$3.6 billion	Computer Associates (software)	Zurich	97yo - Married, 2 children
5. Nicolas Hayek (known as Mr. Swatch ... creating an eco-friendly auto with Mercedes-Benz to be called Swatchmobil smart car )	$3.6 billion	Swatch (world's largest manufacturer of finished watches with 156 factories)	Biel	79yo - Married, 2 children
7. Bahaa Hariri (Eldest son of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik)	$3.2 billion	inheritance	Geneva	41yo - Married
8. Sergio Mantegazza (Loves expensive toys, has a helicopter, a yacht (Lady Marina) and a $600,000 Mercedes Maybach. )	$3.1 billion	Globus & Cosmos (travel)	Lugano	80yo - Married, 1 child
9. Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte (husband and wife)	$2.8 billion	Mediterranean Shipping Company (world's second-largest container shipper with 362 container vessels)	Geneva	n/a - Married
10. Jean-Claude Gandur (His collection of Egyptian antiquities is among the best in the world)	$1.9 billion	oil trading and exploration	Geneva	59yo - na

Turkey

TOP 10 - Turkey's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Mehmet Emin Karamehmet	$4.3 billion	Turkcell mobile phone company	Istanbul	63yo - Married, 1 child
2. Sarik Tara (born in Macedonia)	$4.1 billion	Enka (Turkey's largest construction company)	Istanbul	77yo - Married, 3 children
3. Husnu Ozyegin (gives away 2% of net income every month for the construction of primary schools and girls' dormitories in poor Turkish neighborhoods)	$4.0 billion	banking	Istanbul	63yo - Married, 2 children
4. Ahmet Nazif Zorlu (High School drop out; shuttles around Europe in custom-designed helicopter)	$2.3 billion	electronics, finance (Turkey's largest exporter)	Istanbul	63yo - Married, 1 child
4. Semahat Arsel (Due to parasite in her blood, spent years fighting illness in hospitals around the world; sister of Rahmi Koc )	$2.3 billion	inherited (diversified)	Istanbul	79yo - Married (to a doctor due to her ill health eperience)
6. Rahmi Koc (avid sailor, spends months calling on ports around the world aboard his luxury yacht)	$2.1 billion	inherited (diversified)	Istanbul	77yo - Divorced, 3 children
6. Ferit Sahenk	$2.1 billion	diversified	Istanbul	44yo - Married, 2 children
8. Aydin Dogan (avid walker and swimmer in his spare time)	$2.0 billion	media	Istanbul	71yo - Married, 4 children
8. Suna Kirac	$2.0 billion	diversified	Istanbul	66yo - Married, 1 child
10. Tuncay Ozilhan (ex-basketball player ... has a 3,000-piece pen collection)	$1.9 billion	beverages	Istanbul	60yo - Married, 3 children

United Kingdom

TOP 10 - United Kingdom's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th Duke of Westminister ... supports more than 150 charities)	$14.0 billion	real estate (incl. Mayfair)	Chester	56yo - Married, 4 children
2. Sir Philip & Cristina Green (Knighted in 2006 for his services to the retail industry ... known for circulating with celebrities)	$8.4 billion	retail (British Home Stores and Arcadia)	London	56yo - Married, 2 children
3. David & Simon Reuben (two brothers born in Mumbai )	$5.5 billion	investments, real estate	London / Monaco	n/a - 3 children
4. Charles Cadogan & family (involved in animal welfare and cancer-research charities)	$4.7 billion	real estate	London	71yo - Married, 3 children
5. Richard Branson (high school dropout ... in February 2006, offered $25 million prize to anyone who can find a way to remove a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the Earth's atmosphere)	$4.4 billion	Virgin (airlines, etc) (Virgin Galactic space flights inched closer to takeoff: recently unveiled models of aircraft meant to carry civilian space travelers)	London	57yo - Married, 2 children
6. Simon Halabi (born in Syria)	$4.0 billion	real estate	London	58yo - Married
7. Bernard Ecclestone & family (acquired Queens Park Rangers soccer club in September 2007)	$3.7 billion	Formula One (car racing)	London	77yo - Married, 2 children
8. Clive Calder (started out playing in a band at age 18 to support his mother and sister after his father's death)	$3.3 billion	Zomba Recordings (incl. Britney Spears, 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys ... sold Zomba Recordings to BMG for $2.7 billion in 2002)	Cayman Islands	61yo - Married, 2 children
9. David & Frederick Barclay (identical twins)	$3.1 billion	media, retail (manage their businesses from the island tax haven of Jersey)	Island of Brecquou	n/a - n/a
*10. Joseph Lewis* (nicknamed "the boxer" on Wall Street )	$3.0 billion	finance (currency speculator)	Bahamas, Lyford Cay	71yo - Married, 2 children

United States
(men)

TOP 10 - USA's Richest Men ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Warren Buffett (America's most beloved investor ... married longtime girlfriend on his 76th birthday in Aug. 2006 ... will donate $31 billion to charity!)	$62.0 billion	Berkshire Hathaway	NE, Omaha	77yo - Widowed, re-married, 3 children
2. William Gates III (world's richest person - for 13 years in a row!) Harvard Uni drop out.	$58.0 billion	Microsoft	WA, Medina	52yo - Married, 3 children
3. Sheldon Adelson (City College of NY drop out ... cabdriver's son borrowed $200 from uncle to sell newspapers at age 12)	$26.0 billion	casinos, hotels (won coveted Singapore gaming license last year)	NV, Las Vegas	74yo - Married, 5 children
4. Lawrence Ellison (University of Illinois, drop out ... still yearning to win yachting's most prestigious trophy, the America's Cup. Lost in 2007 to Luna Rossi)	$25.0 billion	Oracle (purchased 21 firms for more than $19 billion since the beginning of 2006)	CA, Redwood City	63yo - Married, 2 children
5. Jim Walton (child of Sam Walton - d. 1992)	$19.2 billion	Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees)	AR, Bentonville	60yo - Married, 4 children
5. S Robson Walton (child of Sam Walton - d. 1992)	$19.2 billion	Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees)	AR, Bentonville	64yo - Married, 3 children
7. Sergey Brin (school drop out ... son of a professor ... emigrated from Russia)	$18.7 billion	Google (bought Web video portal YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006 ... hit all-time high of $740 a share in early Nov 2007)	CA, Palo Alto	34yo - Married
8. Larry Page (school drop out ... son of a professor)	$18.6 billion	Google (bought Web video portal YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006 ... hit all-time high of $740 a share in early Nov 2007)	CA, San Francisco	35yo - Married
9. Charles Koch (Recently published self-help business book The Science of Success; claimed company would go public "over my dead body.")	$17.0 billion	Koch Industries (nation's largest privately held company)	KA, Wichita	72yo - Married, 2 children
9. David Koch (ran as vice presidential candidate on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1980)	$17.0 billion	Koch Industries (nation's largest privately held company)	NY, New York	67yo - Married, 3 children

United States
(women)

TOP 11 - USA's Richest Women ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Christy Walton & family (widow of John Walton - son of retail pioneer Sam Walton - who died when his ultralight aircraft crashed in 2005)	$19.2 billion	Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees)	WY, Jackson	52yo - Widowed, 1 child
2. Alice Walton (Daughter of retail pioneer Sam Walton)	$19.0 billion	Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees)	TX , Fort Worth	58yo - Divorced
3. Abigail Johnson	$15.0 billion	Fidelity investments	MA, Boston	46yo - Married, 2 children
4. Jacqueline Mars	$14.0 billion	candy, pet food (incl. Mars bar, Snickers, M&Ms) world's largest confectioner ... pet food division (includes Whiskas, Pedigree) now larger than candy by sales.	NJ, Bedminster	68yo - Divorced, 3 children
5. Anne Cox Chambers	$12.6 billion	media/entertainment - Cox Enterprises (owns 17 newspapers, 15 TV stations, 80 radio stations)	GA, Atlanta	88yo - Divorced, 3 children
6. Pauline MacMillan Keinath	$4.4 billion	agriculture (Cargill Inc. has more than 900 subsidiaries in 66 countries)	MO, St Louis	76yo - Married, 4 children
*6. Marion MacMillan Pictet*	$4.4 billion	agriculture (Cargill Inc. has more than 900 subsidiaries in 66 countries)	Bermuda, Hamilton	76yo - Divorced, 1 child
*8. Joan Tisch* (Widow of Brooklyn - born Preston Tisch - d. 2005 ... family contributions to NYU exceed $100 million)	$4.0 billion	Loews	NY, New York	82yo - Widowed, 3 children
*9. Ann Walton Kroenke* (neice of retail pioneer Sam Walton)	$2.8 billion	Wal-Mart (world's largest retailer, with over 6,800 stores in 14 countries and 1.9 million employees)	MO, Columbia	58yo - Married, 2 children
10. Barbara Piasecka Johnson (Polish immigrant ... married Johnson & Johnson heir John Seward Johnson - d. 1983. Inherited 36 million J&J shares)	$2.7 billion	Johnson & Johnson	Monaco, Monte Carlo	71yo - Widowed
*11. Oprah Winfrey*	$2.5 billion	TV (The Oprah Winfrey Show launched nationally 1986; currently airs in 135 countries, drawing 46 million viewers a week in the U.S)	IL, Chicago	54yo - Single

Helen Walton - widow of Sam Walton (d.1992) - died 19 Apr 2007 at age 87. She was the world's 4th richest woman at the time - worth $16.4 billion.
Barbara Cox Anthony - sister of Anne Cox Chambers - died 28 May 2007 at age 83. She was the world's 6th richest woman - worth $12.6 billion.

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