Richest Billionaire in 54 Countries

Richest Billionaire in 54 Countries
Richest Billionaire in each Country... (11 March 2009) ... Wealth in USD$ ...

Citizenship Name Wealth Source Residence Personal
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