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| 1. Argentina | Gregorio Perez Companc & family (High school drop out) |
$1.8 billion | oil & gas | Argentina | 74yo - Married, 7 children | |
| 2. Australia | Frank Lowy & family (Czech-born) | $2.7 billion | retail property (shopping centres) (biggest shopping mall chains, Westfield, with 119 malls in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and Britain) | Australia | 78yo – Married, 3 children | |
| 3. Austria | Karl Wlaschek (former jazz pianist) | $4.2 billion | department stores | Austria | 91yo - Widowed, 2 children | |
| 4. Belgium | Albert Frere (High school drop out) | $2.4 billion | investments | Belgium | 83yo - Married, 3 children | |
| 5. Brazil | Eike Batista (college dropout … one-time champion offshore powerboat racer … his father was former mining minister of Brazil) | $7.5 billion | iron-ore mining | Brazil | 52yo – Divorced, 2 children (formerly married to Playboy cover girl) | |
| 6. Canada | David Thomson & family (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006) | $13.0 billion | inherited | Canada | 51yo - Divorced, 3 children (split from Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C., last April when she gave birth to a daughter) | |
| 7. Chile | Iris Fontbona & family (Second wife of billionaire Andronico Luksic, who died of cancer in 2005) | $6.0 billion | mining/lumber | Chile | na - Widowed, 3 children | |
| 8. China | Liu Yongxing | $3.0 billion | agriculture/aluminium (Hope Group became one of China’s largest makers of animal feed) | China | 60yo – Married 1 child | |
| 9. Colombia | Julio Mario Santo Domingo | $4.0 billion | beverages | Colombia | 85yo - Married, 3 children | |
| 10. Cyprus | John Fredriksen (Born in Norway … World’s leading oil tanker tycoon ) | $4.0 billion | shipping | UK | 64yo - Widowed, 2 children | |
| 11. Czech Republic | Petr Kellner (in 1992, used a $1 million loan he got through his small office-supplies business to start an investment fund) | $6.0 billion | insurance | Czech Republic | 44yo - Married, 4 children | |
| 12. Denmark | Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (Grandson of the founder of Danish toymaker Lego; sole owner) | $2.1 billion | manufacturing | Denmark | 61yo - Married, 3 children | |
| 13. Egypt | Nassef Sawiris(Youngest son of Orascom conglomerate founder and fellow billionaire, Onsi Sawiris) | $3.1 billion | construction | Egypt | 47yo - na | |
| 14. France | Bernard Arnault (skilled pianist) | $16.5 billion | LVMH (world’s largest luxury goods empire) | France | 60yo - Married, 5 children | |
| 15. Germany | Karl Albrecht (Fiercely private … raises orchids and plays golf) | $21.5 billion | supermarkets (over 8,000 Aldi stores) | Germany | 89yo - Married, 2 children | |
| 16. Greece | Spiro Latsis & family | $3.8 billion | banking/diversified | Switzerland | 62yo - Married, 2 children | |
| 17. Hong Kong | Li Ka-shing (High School drop out) | $16.2 billion | diversified (world’s largest operator of container terminals, world’s largest health and beauty retailer) | Hong Kong | 80yo - Widowed, 2 children | |
| 18. Iceland | Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson | $1.0 billion | diversified | UK | 42yo - Engaged, 1 child (long-time girlfriend is a movie producer) | |
| 19. India | Mukesh Ambani (Asia’s richest resident … is using some of his money to build a 27-story home.) | $19.5 billion | petrochemicals | India | 51yo – Married, 3 children | |
| 20. Indonesia | Michael Hartono | $1.7 billion | tobacco | Indonesia | 69yo - Married, 4 children | |
| R Budi Hartono | $1.7 billion | 68yo | ||||
| 21. Ireland | Pallonji Mistry (rarely ever seen in public; became Irish citizen in recent years but maintains a residence in Mumbai) | $2.5 billion | construction | India | 79yo - Married, 4 children | |
| 22. Israel | Sammy Ofer & family (Romanian-born Israeli … famously press-shy) | $4.0 billion | diversified (shipping, banking, real estate) | Monaco | 87yo - Married, 2 children | |
| 23. Italy | Michele Ferrero & family (Tied up in legal battle that pits Ferrero against a Chinese chocolate maker that also makes a gold-wrapped candy. ) | $9.5 billion | Ferrero chocolates (also Nutella and Tic Tac) | Monaco | 82yo - Married, 2 children | |
| 24. Japan | Tadashi Yanai & family (His discount clothing chain Fast Retailing has thrived amid the downturn; shifting production away from China to lower-wage Cambodia to keep prices low) | $6.0 billion | retail | Japan | 60yo - Married, 2 children | |
| 25. Kazakhstan | Alijan Ibragimov | $1.2 billion | mining | Kazakhstan | 55yo - Married, 6 children | |
| 26. Kuwait | Nasser Al-Kharafi & family (has exclusive franchise rights in Middle East for brands like Pizza Hut, TGI Fridays, KFC and Wimpy) | $8.1 billion | construction | Kuwait | 65yo - Married, 5 children | |
| 27. Lebanon | Najib Mikati (Former Lebanese Prime Minister – briefly in 2005) | $2.0 billion | telecom | Lebanon | 53yo - Married, 3 children | |
| Taha Mikati | $2.0 billion | Lebanon | 60yo | |||
| 28. Malaysia | Ananda Krishnan (Malaysia’s largest cell phone service provider, with more than 10 million subscribers) | $7.0 billion | Telecom | Malaysia | 70yo - Married, 3 children | |
| Robert Kuok (Onetime rice and sugar trader) | $7.0 billion | diversified (shipping, real estate, media) | Hong Kong | 85yo - Married, 8 children | ||
| 29. Mexico | Carlos Slim Helu & family (son of a Lebanese immigrant … just call him Midas … baseball fan and art collector) | $35.0 billion | telecom | Mexico | 69yo - Widowed, 6 children | |
| 30. 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 | 71yo - Widowed, 2 children | |
| 31. Netherlands | Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken | $4.6 billion | inheritance (Inherited 25% stake in Dutch brewer Heineken 6 years ago from her late father, Freddy Heineken) | UK | 54yo - Married, 5 children | |
| 32. New Zealand | Graeme Hart (Former tow truck driver now known for astute leveraged purchases … owner of 190-foot yacht, Ulysses) | $4.5 billion | investments | New Zealand | 53yo - Married, 2 children | |
| 33. Nigeria | Aliko Dangote (Closely linked to Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo) | $2.5 billion | inheritance (sugar, flour, cement manufacturing) | Nigeria | 51 - na | |
| 34. Norway | Stein Erik Hagen & family (owns island in the Caribbean and one of the biggest sailboats in Europe) | $3.1 billion | supermarkets | Norway | 52yo - Married, 4 children | |
| 35. Philippines | Henry Sy & family | $2.7 billion | Philippines | 84yo | ||
| 36. Poland | Zygmunt Solorz-Zak | $1.0 billion | leasing, banking | Poland | 52yo | |
| 37. Portugal | Americo Amorim (King of cork) | $3.3 billion | cork, investments (world’s largest producer of cork) | Portugal | 74yo - Married, 3 children | |
| 38. Romania | Dinu Patriciu (Onetime architect and former parliamentarian) | $1.8 billion | oil & gas refineries | Romania | 58yo - Married, 2 children | |
| 39. Russia | Mikhail Prokhorov | $9.5 billion | metals (often featured in gossip pages for his parties) | Russia | 43yo – Single | |
| 40. Saudi Arabia | Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of the Saudi king ) | $13.3 billion | investments (incl. Citicorp) | Saudi Arabia | 54yo - Married, 2 children | |
| 41. Singapore | Ng Teng Fong (developed more than 700 hotels, malls and condos in Singapore) | $5.5 billion | real estate | Singapore | 80yo - Married, 6 children | |
| 42. South Africa | Nicky Oppenheimer & family | $5.0 billion | De Beers (diamond mining) | South Africa | 63yo - Married, 1 child | |
| 43. South Korea | Lee Kun-Hee | $3.0 billion | South Korea | 67yo | ||
| 44. Spain | Amancio Ortega (High School drop out … shuns neckties) | $18.3 billion | Zara (apparel) (3,245 stores in 66 countries) | Spain | 73yo - Married, 3 children | |
| 45. Sweden | Ingvar Kamprad & family (flies economy class and frequents cheap restaurants) | $22.0 billion | Ikea (retail) (stores in 40 countries) | Switzerland, Lausanne | 83yo - Married, 4 children | |
| 46. Switzerland | Ernesto Bertarelli (inherited the business after father’s death in 1998 … yachtsman who won the America’s Cup in 2003 and 2007) | $8.2 billion | Sereno (biotech) | Switzerland | 43yo - Married (to British beauty queen) | |
| 47. Taiwan | Tsai Wan-Tsai & family | $3.3 billion | Taiwan | 79yo | ||
| 48. Thailand | Chaleo Yoovidhya | $3.7 billion | Red Bull (beverages) | Thailand | 77yo - Married, 5 children | |
| 49. Turkey | Husnu Ozyegin (gives away 2% of net income every month for the construction of primary schools and girls’ dormitories in poor Turkish neighborhoods) | $2.9 billion | banking | Turkey | 64yo – Married, 2 children | |
| 50. Ukraine | Victor Pinchuk | $2.6 billion | Ukraine | 48yo | ||
| 51. United Arab Emirates | Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family (Paragliding enthusiast ) | $7.8 billion | banking | United Arab Emirates | 55yo - Married, 5 children | |
| 52. United Kingdom | Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family (6th Duke of Westminister … supports more than 150 charities) | $11.0 billion | real estate (incl. Mayfair) | UK | 57yo - Married, 4 children | |
| 53. United States | William Gates III (world’s richest person – for 13 years in a row!) Harvard Uni drop out. |
$40.0 billion | Microsoft | USA | 53yo – Married, 3 children | |
| 54. Venezuela | Gustavo Cisneros & family | $3.8 billion | Venezuela | 63yo | ||
source: rich-bastrads.com
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