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Carlos Slim Helu Mexico

$ 73 Billion

Carlos Slim Helu, is a early 20th century style American capitalist who believes in monopoly, old factory system and economies of scale more than innovation and technology. This telecom tycoon is compared to the likes of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Sta...

Bill Gates United States

$ 67 Billion

Regarded as one of the most influential persons of the 20th century, Bill Gates born on Oct 28 1955 is an American business magnet, futurist and philanthropist and the founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp Ltd. With his early interest in software...

Amancio Ortega Spain

$ 57 Billion

Amancio Ortega a mystery for press and public alike and a publicist's nightmare, is Spain's richest man and one of world's top 10. Ortega is so notoriously publicity shy that before his public appearance in 2001, hardly anyone outside his close ci...

Warren Buffett United States

$ 53.5 Billion

Buffett was born to Leila and Howard Buffett and was the second of three children. Starting from the career of a salesman in 1951 he became world's richest person in 2008. Warren Buffet is also known as "Sage of Omaha" for his austere lifestyle an...

Larry Ellison United States

$ 43 Billion

Founder and CEO of the world’s largest business software company Mr. Larry Ellison is not only one of the world’s richest persons alive but is also one of the most flamboyant and outspoken of the lot. A cavalier business personality, h...

Vladimir Putin Russia

$ 40 Billion

Vladimir Putin is the current Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. He has served as the President of Russia twice before. He emerged victorious in the 2012 Russian Presidential elections & is the current President elect. He will soon regain t...

Charles Koch United States

$ 34 Billion

Co-owner and CEO of the biggest private firm “Koch Industries Inc” in the US; Charles Koch is an eminent business magnate, who made his fortune by transforming his father’s moderately successful oil company into a diversified pet...

David Koch United States

$ 34 Billion

Born in 1940, David Koch, son of Late Fred Koch, is the Executive Vice President of “Koch Industries” and the fourth wealthiest personality in the US. The billionaire’s appetite for expanding the family’s business, acquirin...

Li Ka-shing Hong Kong

$ 31 Billion

Li Ka Shing The richest person of East Asian descent and the eleventh richest person in the world with an estimated wealth of US$21.3 billion. He is one of the most powerful men in China and is based in Honk Kong. Being a Chairman...

Eike Batista Brazil

$ 30 Billion

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Liliane Bettencourt France

$ 30 Billion

Liliane Bettencourt is perhaps one of most talked about billionaire socialite in France. A proportion of that fame comes from her position as biggest shareholder in L'Or

Bernard Arnault France

$ 29 Billion

Bernard Arnault is richest person of Europe and among top five richest persons in world with a personal wealth that exceeds US $ 40 billion. He owns world's biggest luxury brands and played a big role in their rise to prominence. He is a man of ta...

Stefan Persson Sweden

$ 28 Billion

Stefan Persson, chairman and former CEO of Hennes & Mauritz, is majorly responsible for turning the Swedish fashion company into an international retail giant. Erling Persson, his father, founded the first Hennes store in V

Michael Bloomberg United States

$ 27 Billion

From a tech-savvy kid to a media mogul and finally becoming the mayor of New York City, Michael Rubens Bloomberg’s epic journey is a truly inspirational and galvanizing one. Born in a middle-class family, Bloomberg displayed a keen d...

Jim Walton United States

$ 26.7 Billion

The youngest son of the “Wal-Mart” founder Sam Walton, Jim Walton is the Chairman and CEO of “Arvest Bank” and the 20th richest person in the world. Born in 1948 in Arkansas, Jim acquired a bachelor’s degree from the ...

Alice Walton United States

$ 23.3 Billion

A woman with endless amount of fortune to spend, Alice Walton is the youngest of the 4 children of Sam Walton and Helen Walton and one of the three surviving heirs to the world’s biggest retail chain and business, Wal-Mart. Her life has been...

Jeff Bezos United States

$ 23.2 Billion

Jefferey Preston Jorgensen, popularly known as Jeff Bezos is known for his contributions as a world leading dot-com entrepreneur. He is the founding president and CEO of the e-commerce giant Amazon.com. Conceived as an idea on a cross-country driv...

S. Robson Walton

$ 23.1 Billion

Chairman of the world’s largest retail chain Wal-Mart, S. Robson Walton is the United States 4th wealthiest citizen and stands 22nd on the Forbes billionaires list with a total worth of $19.2 billion. Born in 1945, as the first son to Sam Wa...

Lakshmi Mittal India

$ 20.7 Billion

Born on 15th June, 1950, Lakshmi Mittal is the protagonist of a typical rags-to-richest story. From a youth, who spent his life sleeping on thin mattresses, he has turned into the owner and CEO of world’s largest steel production company Arc...

Larry Page United States

$ 20.3 Billion

Larry Page is one of the co-founders of the search engine, Google and is currently serving as its Chief Executive Officer. Born on March 26, 1973, Page had computer scientists for his parents. His father Carl Vincent Page was a computer science pr...

Sergey Brin United States

$ 20.3 Billion

A native of Russia, Sergey Brin was born in Moscow to Jewish parents, Michael Brin and Eugenia Brin. When he was six he and his family had to escape Russia to save themselves from Jewish persecutions. His father was a mathematician, which explains...

Sultan of Brunei Malaysia

$ 19.5 Billion

There are many rich and famous people in the world, but not everyone knows the art to splurge it. However, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, better known as the Sultan of Brunei is one such person who is well versed with this art of spending the riche...

George Soros United States

$ 19 Billion

From a young boy who traded currencies in the Hungarian black market during World War II to becoming a multibillion dollar enterprise that he is today, George Soros’ rise has been phenomenal to say the least. Soros was born in Hungary in 193...

Alisher Usmanov Russia

$ 18.1 Billion

Alisher Usmanov, son of a former state prosecutor in Tashkent was born in 1953 in Chust Namangan region of Uzbekistan. Usmanov graduated with a degree in international law from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in 1976, and...

Al-Waleed bin Talal Saudi Arabia

$ 18 Billion

An internationally prominent businessman and investor, Saudi Prince Al-Walid bin Talal is perhaps the largest single foreign investor in the United States economy. With a net financial worth of approximately $20 billion, he is also one of the worl...

Gina Rinehart

$ 18 Billion

Gina Rinehart is an Australian business tycoon who has made her fortune in the mining industry. She heads Hancock Prospecting, a company she inherited from her father. She is considered to be the richest person in Australia & the richest woman in ...

Lee Shau Kee China

$ 18 Billion

Born in Guangdong in 1928, and settled in Hong Kong in his early years, Dr Lee Shau Kee is a self made man, who has been engaged in property development and other commercial business for 40 years. His wealth is incredibly substantial, especially w...

Forrest Mars Jr United States

$ 17 Billion

Founder of the American candy company “Mars, Incorporated” and son of Forrest Mars Sr., Forrest Mars Jr was born in Illinois and is one of the wealthiest man in US. Success from his inherited business of chocolates and pet food and oth...

Oleg Deripaska Russia

$ 16.7 Billion

Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska was born on January 2, 1968 in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. This Russian business tycoon is known for his reclusive lifestyle and lives a pretty anonymous life with his wife and two kids in Moscow.His ne...

Rinat Akhmetov Ukraine

$ 16 Billion

Son of a coal miner, Rinat Leonidovych Akhmetov is now Ukraine’s top notch business man standing at 39th position on the Forbes list with net worth of $16 billion. This multi billionaire made his first million trading coal and coke, and late...

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