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United States. (cover story)Navigation: Main page Author: von Zeppelin, CristinaSerafin, TatianaHoppough, SuzanneMinami, KiyoeCoster, HelenDolan, Kerry A.Flan Section: Billionaires
The U.S. produced 371 billionaires this year, 30 more than in 2005. Among the 44 new faces are a few hedge fund managers and real estate moguls, two online gambling entrepreneurs, an offshore oil wildcatter and the king of pizza cheese. Their collective net worth: $1.1 trillion. Legend for Chart:
A: Rank
B: Name
C: Source
D: AGE
E: NET WORTH ($BIL)
F: Residence
A B C D E
F
1 William Gates III Microsoft 50 $50.0
Washington Up
2 Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway 75 42.0
Nebraska Down
6 Paul Allen Microsoft, investments 53 22.0
Washington Up
12 Michael Dell Dell 41 17.1
Texas Up
14 Sheldon Adelson casinos, hotels 72 16.1
Nevada Up
15 Lawrence Ellison Oracle 61 16.0
California Down
17 Christy Walton Wal-Mart inheritance 51 15.9
Wyoming New
17 Jim Walton Wal-Mart 58 15.9
Arkansas Down
19 S Robson Walton Wal-Mart 62 15.8
Arkansas Down
20 Alice Walton Wal-Mart 56 15.7
Texas Down
21 Helen Walton Wal-Mart 86 15.6
Arkansas Down
24 Steven Ballmer Microsoft 50 13.6
Washington Up
26 Sergey Brin Google 32 12.9
California Up
27 Larry Page Google 33 12.8
California Up
28 Abigail Johnson Fidelity 44 12.5
Massachusetts Up
29 Barbara Cox Anthony Cox Enterprises 82 12.4
Hawaii Up
29 Anne Cox Chambers Cox Enterprises 86 12.4
Georgia Up
33 Charles Koch oil, commodities 70 12.0
Kansas Up
33 David Koch oil, commodities 65 12.0
Kansas Up
43 Pierre Omidyar Ebay 38 10.1
Nevada Up
44 Forrest Mars Jr candy 74 10.0
Virginia Down
44 Jacqueline Mars candy 66 10.0
New Jersey Down
44 John Mars candy 69 10.0
Virginia Down
52 John Kluge Metromedia 91 9.0
Florida Down
53 Carl Icahn leveraged buyouts 70 8.7
New York Up
53 Kirk Kerkorian investments, casinos 88 8.7
California Down
63 Sumner Redstone Viacom 82 7.7
California Down
65 Donald Newhouse publishing 76 7.5
New Jersey Up
65 Samuel Newhouse Jr publishing 78 7.5
New York Up
70 Philip Knight Nike 68 7.3
Oregon Down
71 George Soros hedge funds 75 7.2
New York Same
80 Charles Ergen EchoStar 53 6.7
Colorado Down
80 Edward Johnson Ill Fidelity 75 6.7
Massachusetts Up
84 Rupert Murdoch News Corp 75 6.5
New York Down
89 Philip Anschutz investments 66 6.4
Colorado Up
94 Micky Arison Carnival Cruises 56 6.1
Florida Down
94 Ronald Perelman leveraged buyouts 63 6.1
New York Up
100 Dan Duncan energy 73 6.0
Texas Up
100 Jack Taylor Enterprise Rent-A-Car 83 6.0
Missouri Up
103 Eli Broad investments 72 5.9
California Down
104 Donald Bren real estate 73 5.7
California Up
112 Michael Bloomberg Bloomberg IP 63 5.1
New York Up
114 Leonard Blavatnik Access Industries 48 5.0
United Kingdom Up
114 John Menard Jr home improvement 66 5.0
Wisconsin Up
129 Robert Rowling oil & gas, investments 52 4.8
Texas Up
129 Eric Schmidt Google 50 4.8
California Up
140 David Geffen DreamWorks 63 4.4
California Same
140 Steven Jobs Apple Computer, Pixar 51 4.4
California Up
140 George Kaiser oil & gas, banking 63 4.4
Oklahoma Up
140 H Ty Warner Beanie Babies 62 4.4
Illinois Down
147 Jeffrey Bezos Amazon 42 4.3
Washington Up
147 Charles Johnson Franklin Resources 73 4.3
California Up
147 Henry Perot investments 75 4.3
Texas Same
158 Lester Crown & family investments 80 4.1
Illinois Up
158 James Goodnight SAS Institute 63 4.1
North Carolina Up
158 Richard Schulze Best Buy 65 4.1
Minnesota Up
168 David Murdock investments 82 4.0
California Up
168 Charles Schwab discount stock brokerage 68 4.0
California Up
174 James Sorenson med devices, real estate 84 3.8
Utah Down
181 Gordon Moore Intel 77 3.7
California Down
185 Rupert Johnson Jr Franklin Resources 64 3.6
California Up
185 Ralph Lauren fashion 66 3.6
New York Up
194 William Davidson glass 83 3.5
Michigan Up
194 Bradley Hughes Public Storage 72 3.5
California Up
194 Edward Lampert investments 43 3.5
Connecticut Up
194 George Lucas Star Wars 61 3.5
California Up
200 Robert Bass oil, investments 58 3.4
Texas Up
200 Richard DeVos Alticor 80 3.4
Michigan Up
214 William Cook medical devices 74 3.2
Indiana Up
214 Maurice Greenberg insurance 80 3.2
New York Same
224 Roland Arnall mortgage banking 67 3.0
California Same
224 Edgar Bronfman Sr liquor 76 3.0
New York Up
224 William Wrigley Jr chewing gum 42 3.0
Illinois Down
240 David Filo Yahoo 39 2.9
California Down
240 Leonard Lauder Estee Lauder 73 2.9
New York Down
240 A Jerrold Perenchio Univision 75 2.9
California Up
245 Carl Pohlad banking 90 2.8
Minnesota Up
245 Haim Saban television 61 2.8
California Up
245 Steven Spielberg movies 59 2.8
California Up
258 John Abele Boston Scientific 69 2.7
Massachusetts Down
258 M Bucksbaum & family real estate 80 2.7
Illinois Up
258 John Calamos mutual funds 65 2.7
Illinois Up
258 Henry Hillman industrialist 87 2.7
Pennsylvania Down
258 Martha Ingram & family Ingrain Industries 70 2.7
Tennessee Down
258 Ronald Louder Estée Louder 62 2.7
New York Same
258 Henry Nicholas III Broadcom 46 2.7
California Up
258 Leonard Stern real estate 67 2.7
New York Up
258 Leslie Wexner Limited Brands 70 2.7
Ohio Down
278 Barbara Piasecka Johnson inheritance 69 2.6
Monaco Down
278 Peter Kellogg investments 64 2.6
New Jersey Up
278 Ann Walton Kroenke Wal-Mart 56 2.6
Missouri Down
278 Harold Simmons investments 74 2.6
Texas Up
278 Melvin Simon real estate 79 2.6
Indiana Up
278 James Simons hedge funds 68 2.6
New York Up
278 John Simplot & family potatoes, microchips 97 2.6
Idaho Up
278 Donald Trump real estate 60 2.6
New York Same
292 Riley Bechtel engineering 54 2.5
California Up
292 Stephen Bechtel Jr engineering 80 2.5
California Up
292 Steven Cohen hedge funds 50 2.5
Connecticut Up
292 Barbara Davis & family inheritance, oil 76 2.5
California New
292 Ray Hunt oil, real estate 63 2.5
Texas Up
292 Bruce Kovner hedge funds 60 2.5
New York Up
292 Henry Kravis leveraged buyouts 62 2.5
New York Up
292 Joe Ricketts & family Ameritrade 64 2.5
Nebraska Up
292 George Roberts leveraged buyouts 61 2.5
California Up
292 David Rockefeller Sr Standard Oil, banking 90 2.5
New York Dame
292 Stephen Schwarzman investments 59 2.5
New York New
292 Dennis Washington construction, mining 71 2.5
Montana Up
317 Richard Kinder pipelines 62 2.4
Texas Up
317 George Mitchell Mitchell Energy 86 2.4
Texas Up
317 Henry Samueli Broadcom 51 2.4
California Up
317 Steven Udvar-Hazy leasing 60 2.4
California Same
317 Jerry Yang Yahoo 37 2.4
California Down
317 Samuel Zell real estate 64 2.4
Illinois Up
335 Ronald Burkle investments 53 2.3
California Same
335 Peter Nicholas Boston Scientific 64 2.3
Massachusetts Down
335 Richard Rainwater investments 61 2.3
Texas Up
335 Clemmie Spangler Jr investments 73 2.3
North Carolina Same
350 Charles Butt supermarkets 67 2.2
Texas Same
350 Gordon Getty inheritance, oil 73 2.2
California Up
350 Leona Helmsley real estate 85 2.2
New York Same
350 Amos Hostetter Jr cable television 69 2.2
Massachusetts Same
350 Nancy Walton Laurie Wal-Mart 54 2.2
Missouri Down
350 Carl Lindner Jr & family investments 86 2.2
Ohio Up
350 Bernard Marcus Home Depot 76 2.2
Georgia Down
350 Mitchell Rales Danaher Corp 49 2.2
District of Columbia Up
365 Wayne Huizenga investments 68 2.1
Florida Up
365 Herbert Kohler & family plumbing fixtures 67 2.1
Wisconsin Same
365 Alfred Mann inventor, entrepreneur 80 2.1
California Up
365 Craig McCaw McCaw Cellular 56 2.1
Washington Same
365 Ernest Rady banking, insurance 68 2.1
California Up
365 Steven Rales Danaher Corp 54 2.1
District of Columbia Up
365 Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler oil 41 2.1
Russia Up
365 Frederick Smith FedEx 61 2.1
Tennessee Same
365 Glen Taylor printing 64 2.1
Minnesota Up
365 Stephen Wynn casinos, hotels 64 2.1
Nevada Same
382 Leonore Annenberg inheritance 88 2.0
Pennsylvania Same
382 Charles Brandes money management 63 2.0
California New
382 David Green Hobby Lobby 64 2.0
Oklahoma Up
382 William Hearst III Hearst Corp 56 2.0
California Up
382 Paul Tudor Jones II hedge funds 52 2.0
Connecticut Up
382 Peter Lewis Progressive Corp 72 2.0
Florida Up
382 Margaret Magerko 84 Lumber 40 2.0
Pennsylvania Up
382 Patrick McGovern IDG 68 2.0
New Hampshire Same
382 Michael Milken investments 59 2.0
California Up
382 Roger Penske cars 69 2.0
Michigan Up
382 John Sail North SAS Institute 56 2.0
Carolina Up
382 John Sobrato real estate 66 2.0
California Up
382 Robert E (Ted) Turner cable television 67 2.0
Florida Same
382 Mortimer Zuckerman media, real estate 68 2.0
New York Up
410 Herbert Allen Jr investment banking 66 1.9
New York Down
410 Phoebe Hearst Cooke Hearst Corp 79 1.9
California Up
Louis Gonda leasing 57 1.9
California Down
410 Austin Hearst Hearst Corp 53 1.9
New York Up
410 David Hearst Jr Hearst Corp 60 1.9
California Up
410 George Hearst Jr Hearst Corp 78 1.9
California Up
410 Irwin Jacobs Qualcomm 72 1.9
California Up
410 S Curtis Johnson SC Johnsone & Sons 50 1.9
Wisconsin Up
410 Clayton Mathile Iams 65 1.9
Ohio Up
410 Thomas Pritzker hotels, investments 55 1.9
Illinois Up
410 Tamir Sapir real estate 58 1.9
New York New
410 Ronda Stryker Stryker Corp 51 1.9
Michigan Down
410 S Daniel Abraham Slim-Fast 81 1.8
Florida Same
428 Lee Bass oil, investments 49 1.8
Texas Down
428 Franklin Booth Jr Berkshire Hathaway 83 1.8
California Same
428 James Cargill inheritance 81 1.8
Minnesota Up
428 Margaret Cargill inheritance 86 1.8
California Up
428 Mark Cuban Broadcast.com 48 1.8
Texas Up
428 J Russell DeLeon online gaming 40 1.8
Gibraltar New
428 Stanley Druckenmiller hedge funds 53 1.8
New York Up
428 Donald Hall Hallmark 77 1.8
Kansas Up
428 Jess Jackson Kendall-Jackson 76 1.8
California Same
428 Ruth Parasol online gaming 39 1.8
Gibraltar New
428 Penny Pritzker hotels, investments 46 1.8
Illinois Up
428 Fayez Sarofim money management 77 1.8
Texas Same
428 Ernest Stempel insurance 89 1.8
Bermuda Down
428 Jon Stryker Stryker Corp 47 1.8
Michigan Down
428 Charles Dolan Cablevision Systems 79 1.7
New York Down
451 Bennett Dorrance inheritance 57 1.7
Arizona Up
451 Thomas Frist Jr & family HCA Healthcare 67 1.7
Tennessee Up
451 Tom Gores leveraged buyouts 41 1.7
California Same
451 Stanley Kroenke sports, real estate 58 1.7
Missouri Same
451 Mary Malone inheritance 56 1.7
Pennsylvania Same
451 Anthony Pritzker hotels, investments 45 1.7
California Up
451 Daniel Pritzker hotels, investments 47 1.7
California Up
451 James Pritzker hotels, investments 54 1.7
Illinois Up
451 Jay Robert (JB) Pritzker hotels, investments 41 1.7
Illinois Up
451 Jean (Gigi) Pritzker hotels, investments 44 1.7
Illinois Up
451 John Pritzker hotels, investments 53 1.7
California Up
451 Karen Pritzker hotels, investments 48 1.7
Connecticut Up
451 Linda Pritzker hotels, investments 52 1.7
Montana Up
451 Walter Scott Jr construction, telecom 74 1.7
Nebraska Up
451 Jim Davis & family New Balance 62 1.6
Massachusetts New
486 Ray Dolby Dolby Laboratories 73 1.6
California Up
486 Jon Huntsman chemicals 68 1.6
Utah Down
486 Min Kao navigation equipment 57 1.6
Kansas Up
486 John Malone cable television 65 1.6
Colorado Down
486 John Marriott Jr hotels 74 1.6
Maryland Same
486 E Pierce Marshall investments 67 1.6
Texas Same
486 William PuRe home building 73 1.6
Michigan Up
486 Thomas Siebel Siebel Systems 53 1.6
California Up
486 Patrick Soon-Shiong generic drugs 54 1.6
California Down
486 Elizabeth Wiskemann mutual funds 1.6
California Up
486 Peter Buck Subway 75 1.5
Connecticut Same
512 Fred DeLuca Subway 58 1.5
Florida Same
512 Archie (Red) Emmerson timberland, lumber mills 76 1.5
California Same
512 Gerald Ford banking 61 1.5
Texas Same
512 James France auto racing 62 1.5
Florida Up
512 William France Jr auto racing 74 1.5
Florida Up
512 Victor Fung distribution 61 1.5
Hong Kong Up
512 Kenneth Griffin hedge funds 37 1.5
Illinois New
512 Marguerite Harbert inheritance 82 1.5
Alabama Up
512 Kenneth Hendricks building supplies 64 1.5
Wisconsin New
512 H Fisk Johnson SC Johnson & Sons 47 1.5
Wisconsin Same
512 Imogene Powers Johnson SC Johnson & Sons 76 1.5
Wisconsin Same
512 Helen Johnson-Leipold SC Johnson & Sons 49 1.5
Wisconsin Same
512 Winnie Johnson-Marquart SC Johnson & Sons 46 1.5
Virginia Same
512 James Kim & family microchips 70 1.5
Pennsylvania Up
512 Michael Krasny CDW Corp 52 1.5
Illinois Down
512 Tracy Krohn W&T Offshore 51 1.5
Texas New
512 George Lindemann & family investments 70 1.5
Florida Up
512 Richard Marriott hotels 67 1.5
Maryland Down
512 Charles Munger Berkshire Hathaway 82 1.5
California Down
512 T Boone Pickens oil & gas, investments 77 1.5
Texas New
512 Stewart Rahr Kinray 60 1.5
New York Up
512 Marc Rich commodities 71 1.5
Switzerland Up
512 Bernard Saul II banking, real estate 73 1.5
Maryland New
512 Ram Shriram Google 50 1.5
California New
512 John Sperling Apollo Group 85 1.5
Arizona Down
512 Pat Stryker Stryker Corp 49 1.5
Colorado Down
512 Margaret Whitman Ebay 49 1.5
California Same
512 Arthur Williams Jr insurance 63 1.5
Florida Down
512 Daniel Ziff inheritance, hedge funds 34 1.5
New York Same
512 Dirk Ziff inheritance, hedge funds 41 1.5
New York Same
512 Robert Ziff inheritance, hedge funds 39 1.5
New York Same
512 John Anderson investments 88 1.4
California Up
562 George Argyros investments 69 1.4
California Up
562 Sid Bass oil, investments 63 1.4
Texas Down
562 Frank Batten Sr Landmark 79 1.4
Virginia Same
562 Neil Bluhm real estate 68 1.4
Illinois Up
562 William Royd casinos, banking 74 1.4
Nevada Up
562 Robert Day money management 61 1.4
California Up
562 Edward Debartolo Jr shopping centers 59 1.4
Florida Same
562 Barbara Carlson Gage Carlson Cos 64 1.4
Minnesota Same
562 Leslie Gonda leasing 85 1.4
California Down
562 Richard Hayne Urban Outfitters 58 1.4
Pennsylvania New
562 Ming Hsieh Cogent Systems 50 1.4
California Down
562 Joseph Jamail Jr lawsuits 80 1.4
Texas Up
562 Nancy Lerner inheritance 45 1.4
Ohio Same
562 Norma Lerner inheritance 69 1.4
Ohio Same
562 Randolph Lerner inheritance 43 1.4
Ohio Same
562 Robert McNair energy, sports 69 1.4
Texas Down
562 James Moran auto dealerships 87 1.4
Florida Same
562 Marilyn Carlson Nelson Carlson Cos 67 1.4
Minnesota Same
562 Michael Price investments 53 1.4
New Jersey Up
562 O Bruton Smith Speedway Motorsports 79 1.4
North Carolina Down
562 Peter Sperling Apollo Group 46 1.4
Arizona Down
562 Albert Ueltschi FlightSafety 88 1.4
New York Down
562 Sanford Weill Citigroup 73 1.4
New York Down
562 Oprah Winfrey television 52 1.4
Illinois Up
562 Arthur Blank Home Depot 63 1.3
Georgia Down
606 Barry Diller InterActiveCorp 64 1.3
New York Same
606 Richard Egan EMC Corp 70 1.3
Massachusetts Up
606 Richard Farmer Cintas Corp 71 1.3
Ohio Down
606 John J Fisher Gap 44 1.3
California Down
606 Robert Fisher Gap 52 1.3
California Down
606 William Fisher Gap 48 1.3
California Up
606 Thomas Flatley real estate 73 1.3
Massachusetts Up
606 Alan Gerry cable television 76 1.3
New York Up
606 Malcolm Glazer investments 77 1.3
Florida Up
606 Christopher Goldsbury salsa 63 1.3
Texas Same
606 Tom Golisano Paychex 64 1.3
New York Up
606 Alec Gores leveraged buyouts 53 1.3
California Same
606 Robert Holding energy, resorts, ranching 79 1.3
Idaho Same
606 Donald Horton DR Horton 56 1.3
Texas New
606 James Jannard Oakley 56 1.3
Washington Same
606 Brad Kelley tobacco 49 1.3
Tennessee New
606 Thomas Lee leveraged buyouts 61 1.3
New York Up
606 James Leprino cheese 69 1.3
Colorado New
606 Gary Michelson medical patents 57 1.3
California New
606 John Morgridge Cisco 72 1.3
California Same
606 Nicholas Pritzker II hotels, investments 62 1.3
Illinois Up
606 Phillip Ruffin casinos, real estate 70 1.3
Kansas Same
606 Alexander Spanos real estate 82 1.3
California Up
606 Dean White billboards, hotels 82 1.3
Indiana Same
606 Thomas Bailey mutual funds 69 1.2
Colorado Up
645 Edward Bass oil, investments 61 1.2
Texas Same
645 Carl Berg real estate 68 1.2
California Same
645 Timothy Blixseth timber, real estate 55 1.2
California New
645 Amar Bose Bose 77 1.2
Massachusetts Up
645 Alan Casden real estate 60 1.2
California New
645 Harvey Chaplin & family liquor, wine distribution 77 1.2
Florida Up
645 William Connor II exports 56 1.2
Hong Kong Same
645 Scott Cook Intuit 53 1.2
California Up
645 David Copley newspapers 54 1.2
California Same
645 Roy Disney Walt Disney 76 1.2
California Up
645 J Christopher Flowers investments 48 1.2
New York Up
645 Robert Friedland mining 55 1.2
Hong Kong Up
645 Phillip Frost Ivax 69 1.2
Florida New
645 Ernest Gallo wine 97 1.2
California New
645 Pincus Green commodities 70 1.2
Switzerland Up
645 Stanley Stub Hubbard DirecTV 72 1.2
Minnesota Same
645 Pauline MacMillan Keinath inheritance 74 1.2
Missouri New
645 Jerome Kohlberg Jr leveraged buyouts 80 1.2
New York Up
645 Cargill MacMillan Jr inheritance 79 1.2
Minnesota New
645 John MacMillan III inheritance 78 1.2
Florida New
645 W Duncan MacMillan inheritance 76 1.2
Minnesota New
645 Whitney MacMillan inheritance 77 1.2
Minnesota New
645 Billy Joe (Red) McCombs radio, oil, real estate 78 1.2
Texas Same
645 Robert McLane Jr Wal-Mart, logistics 69 1.2
Texas Down
645 William Morean Jabil Circuit 50 1.2
Florida Up
645 Arturo Moreno billboards 59 1.2
Arizona Returnee
645 Jorge Perez home building 57 1.2
Florida New
645 Marion MacMillan Pictet inheritance 74 1.2
Bermuda New
645 Winthrop Rockefeller Standard Oil, banking 57 1.2
Arkansas Same
645 Steven Roth real estate 64 1.2
New York New
645 Herbert Sandier banking 74 1.2
California Up
645 Richard Scaife inheritance 74 1.2
Pennsylvania Same
645 Donald Schneider trucking 70 1.2
Wisconsin Returnee
645 A Alfred Taubman real estate 82 1.2
Michigan Up
645 Phyllis Taylor Taylor Energy 64 1.2
Louisiana New
645 David Tepper hedge funds 48 1.2
New Jersey New
645 Wilma Tisch & family Loews 78 1.2
New York Down
645 Theodore Waitt Gateway 43 1.2
California Down
645 Edmund Ansin Sunbeam Broadcasting 70 1.1
Florida Up
698 John Arrillaga real estate 68 1.1
California Up
698 Gary Burrell navigation equipment 68 1.1
Kansas Returnee
698 James Cayne Bear Stearns 72 1.1
New York New
698 David Duffield PeopleSoft 65 1.1
Nevada Down
698 Paul Fireman Reebok 62 1.1
Massachusetts Up
698 Kenneth Fisher money management 55 1.1
California New
698 William Ford Sr Ford Motor Co 81 1.1
Michigan Up
698 Mario Gabelii money management 63 1.1
New York New
698 Robert Galvin Motorola 83 1.1
Wisconsin New
698 David Gottesman investments 79 1.1
New York Same
698 William Gross bonds 61 1.1
California Up
698 Jerral Jones Dallas Cowboys 63 1.1
Texas Up
698 George Joseph insurance 84 1.1
California Same
698 Robert Kraft paper, packaging 64 1.1
Massachusetts New
698 Kenneth Langone investments 70 1.1
New York Down
698 Robert Naify movie theaters 84 1.1
California Down
698 Richard Peery real estate 65 1.1
California Up
698 Nelson Peltz leveraged buyouts 63 1.1
New York Same
698 Jesse Robinson banking, insurance 82 1.1
Georgia Same
698 Edward Roski Jr real estate 67 1.1
California Same
698 Marion Sandier banking 75 1.1
California Same
698 Herbert Siegel television 77 1.1
New York Same
698 Herbert Simon real estate 71 1.1
Indiana New
698 Joyce Raley Teel supermarkets 76 1.1
California Same
698 Kenny Troutt Excel Communications 58 1.1
Texas Same
698 Charlotte Colket Weber inheritance 63 1.1
Florida Same
698 Louis Bacon hedge funds 50 1.0
U.K. New
746 Perry Bass oil, investments 91 1.0
Texas Same
746 Gary Comer Lands' End 78 1.0
Illinois Same
746 John L Doerr venture capital 55 1.0
California Returnee
746 John Edson leisure craft 73 1.0
Washington Same
746 Marvin Herb soft-drink bottling 69 1.0
Illinois Down
746 William Hilton hotels, casinos 78 1.0
California Same
746 Jeremy Jacobs Sr sports concessions 66 1.0
New York Same
746 Michael Jaharis pharmaceuticals 78 1.0
New York New
746 William Kellogg Kohl's 62 1.0
Wisconsin Down
746 Anne Windfohr Marion inheritance, oil 66 1.0
Texas Same
746 Bernard Osher banking, investments 78 1.0
California Down
746 Wilbur Ross Jr leveraged buyouts 68 1.0
New York Same
746 Charles Simonyi Microsoft 58 1.0
Washington Same
746 Sheldon Solow 9 West 57th St 77 1.0
New York New
746 John Stanton wireless 50 1.0
Washington New
746 Hope Hill Van Beuren inheritance 72 1.0
Rhode Island Same
746 Todd Wagner Broadcast.com 45 1.0
Texas Same
746 Samuel Wyly investments 70 1.0
Texas Same
746 Jerry Zucker industrialist 56 1.0
South Carolina New
MethodologyIn this, FORBES' 20th annual ranking of the world's richest people, a team of more than 30 reporters in seven countries spent the better part of a year valuing the assets held by 793 billionaires, from shares of publicly traded companies and real estate to yachts and planes and art collections. Stock prices were calculated using market prices and exchange rates as of Feb. 13. Privately held companies were valued by coupling estimates of revenues or profits (or, in some cases, company-provided numbers) to prevailing price/revenue and price/earnings ratios for similar publicly traded companies. Generally we list individual fortunes only, rather than those shared among extended families such as the Rothschilds. In some cases we divvy up a fortune. For instance, last year Luciano Benetton & family had a net worth of $9.9 billion. This year, based on new information, we divided the fortune among Luciano and his three siblings, each of whom appear with individual net worths of $2.5 billion. We denote these splits in our rankings to distinguish them from newly discovered fortunes. When such a split isn't clear, we list together the names of those who share the fortune, as in the case of New Zealand first-timers Richard and Christopher Chandler. AcknowledgmentsMarina Amoroso, Analyst, Wireless/Mobile US, Yankee Group; Munir Barakat, Wafra Investment Advisory Group; Ernesto Canales, Canales y Socios Abogados, S.C.; Drewry Shipping Consultants; Peter Forbes, Alan Stratford & Associates; Louis B. Gagliardi; John S. Herold; Alexander A. Ignatov, President, Ignatov & Company; Finn Øystein Bergh, Kapital; C.N. Krishnakumar; Susan Mainzer; John Mason, Stephen Mason Associates; Medias Equitables; Stuart Morley, Head of Research, GVA Grimley; Colm Murphy, Sunday Times, London; Scott Rankin, Davy Stockbrokers; Henry Seggerman, International Investment Advisers; Thai Rating and Information Services; Zawya.com; Khaled Zitouni, Corporate Ratings-Leverage Finance, Standard & Poor's. Former LivesWho did what? Guess the match.Previous Path Billionaire ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Jazz pianist A Giorgio Armani 2 Butcher's apprentice B Calvin Ayre 3 Attended med school for two years C Subhash Chandra 4 Taxi driver D Heinz-Horst Deichmann 5 Badminton champion E Graeme Hart 6 Nanny F Guy Laliberte 7 Tow truck driver G Jorge Paulo Lemann 8 Orthopedist H Alexander Machkevich 9 Sold fruit on roadside I Hans Riegel 10 Gas station attendant J JK Rowling 11 University professor K Tamir Sapir 12 Rice trader L Anton Schlecker 13 Wimbledon player M Jeffrey Skoll 14 Street performer N Friede Springer 15 Welfare mother O Karl Wlaschek ANSWERS: 1)0 2)L 3)A 4)K 5)1 6)N 7)E 8)D 9)B 10)M 11)H 12)C 13)G 14)F 15)J Global MarketsThe U.S. stock market languished in the past year, but many world markets thrived--good news for billionaires living in those regions. Saudi Arabia 131% Colombia 121% Russia 108% India 54% Brazil 38% Israel 25% United Kingdom 14% Hong Kong 10% China 3% United States 1% Reflects gains February 2005-06. Source: Bloomberg World Markets. GRAPH: Global Markets PHOTO (COLOR): Google guy Sergey Brin tries to keep cool while his stock goes on a rocky ride. PHOTO (COLOR): With the acquisition of Georgia-Pacific, Charles Koch commands the nation's largest private company. PHOTO (COLOR): David Geffen unloaded his DreamWorks studio for $1.6 billion. PHOTO (COLOR): Basketball rabble-rouser Mark Cuban. PHOTO (COLOR): Now that he stepped down from Time Warner's board, Ted Turner will have more time to watch his Atlanta Braves. PHOTO (COLOR): What, me worry? Not Oprah Winfrey. After promoting James Frey's faux memoir, the daytime talk queen took her revenge. PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) ~~~~~~~~ Reported By Cristina von Zeppelin; Tatiana Serafin; Suzanne Hoppough; Kiyoe Minami; Helen Coster; Kerry A. Dolan; Russell Flannery; Evan Hessel; Megan Johnston; Matthew Miller and Matthew Swibel; Additional Reporting By Kiri Blakeley; Justin Doebele; Chandrani Ghosh; Lea Goldman; Naazneen Karmali; Maxim Kashulinsky; Josephine Lee; Nathan Vardi; Kirill Vishnepolsky and Chaniga Vorasarun; Additional Reporting By Forbes Russia; Edited by Luisa Kroll and Allison Fass; Research By Phyllis Berman; Heidi Brown; Tomas Kellner; Ritu Kalra; Susan Kitchens; Deborah Orr; Forbes Poland and Forbes Turkey; Database by Mitchel Rand in the Fair Use guidelines of the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act. info [at] singlearticles.com Powered by CommonSense |
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