
List of billionaires (in US dollars) worldwide, based upon ''Forbes'' magazine's annual listing of "[http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ The World's Richest People]" (2005). Note that this list does ''not'' include heads of state. See the list ranking heads of government and state at the bottom of this article. Names in bold face are new to the list. Names in ''italics'' have returned to the list after having dropped out in the past. # Bill Gates - USA - $46.5 billion # Warren Buffett - USA - $44.0 billion # Lakshmi Mittal - UK - $25.0 billion (was No. 62 in 2004) # Carlos Slim Helú - Mexico - $23.8 billion # Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud - Saudi Arabia - $23.7 billion # Ingvar Kamprad - Sweden - $23.0 billion (living in Switzerland) # Paul Allen - USA - $21.0 billion # Karl Albrecht - Germany - $18.5 billion # Larry Ellison - USA - $18.4 billion # S. Robson Walton - USA - $18.3 billion # Jim Walton - USA - $18.2 billion # John T. Walton - USA - $18.2 billion # Alice Walton - USA - $18.0 billion # Helen Walton - USA - $18.0 billion # Kenneth Thomson and family - Canada - $17.9 billion # Liliane Bettencourt - France - $17.2 billion # Bernard Arnault - France - $17.0 billion # Michael Dell - USA - $16.0 billion # Sheldon Adelson - USA - $15.6 billion (was 311 in 2004) # Theo Albrecht - Germany - $15.5 billion # Roman Abramovich - Russia - $13.3 billion (lives both in Russia and United Kingdom) # Li Ka-shing - China (Hong Kong) - $13.0 billion # Amancio Ortega Gaona - Spain - $12.6 billion # Steven Ballmer - USA - $12.1 billion # Silvio Berlusconi - Italy - $12.0 billion # Abigail Johnson - USA - $12.0 billion # Barbara Cox Anthony - USA - $11.7 billion # Anne Cox Chambers - USA - $11.7 billion # Stefan Persson (fashion magnate) - Sweden - $11.2 billion # John Kluge - USA - $11.0 billion # Walter Kwok, Thomas Kwok and Raymond Kwok - China (Hong Kong) - $10.9 billion # Forrest Mars, Jr. - USA - $10.4 billion # Jacqueline Mars - USA - $10.4 billion # John Mars - USA - $10.4 billion # Luciano Benetton and family - Italy - $9.9 billion # Pierre Omidyar - USA - $9.9 billion # Galen Weston and family - Canada - $9.9 billion # Lee Shau Kee - China (Hong Kong) - $9.3 billion # Azim Premji - India - $9.3 billion # Nasser Al-Kharafi and family - Kuwait - $9.0 billion # Kirk Kerkorian - USA - $8.9 billion # Sumner Redstone - USA - $8.8 billion # Leonardo Del Vecchio - Italy - $8.5 billion # Michele Ferrero and family - Italy - $8.5 billion (living in Belgium) # Michael Otto and family - Germany - $8.3 billion # Susanne Klatten - Germany - $8.2 billion # Philip Knight - USA - $8.2 billion # Hans Rausing - Sweden - $8.0 billion (living in United Kingdom) # Serge Dassault and family - France - $7.8 billion # Carl Icahn - USA - $7.8 billion # Rupert Murdoch - USA - $7.8 billion # Rudolf August Oetker and family - Germany - $7.7 billion # Birgit Rausing and family - Sweden - $7.6 billion (living in Switzerland) # Spiro Latsis and family - Greece - $7.5 billion (living in Switzerland) # Sergey Brin - USA - $7.2 billion (was 552 in 2004) # Charles Ergen - USA - $7.2 billion # Lawrence E. Page - USA - $7.2 billion (was 552 in 2004) # George Soros - USA - $7.2 billion # Reinhold Würth - Germany - $7.2 billion # Mukesh Ambani & Anil Ambani - India - $7.0 billion # Mikhail Fridman - Russia - $7.0 billion # Vladimir Lisin - Russia - $7.0 billion # Donald Newhouse - USA - $7.0 billion # Samuel Newhouse, Jr. - USA - $7.0 billion # Adolf Merckle - Germany - $6.9 billion # Stefan Quandt - Germany - $6.7 billion # Micky Arison - USA - $6.5 billion # Philip Green - United Kingdom - $6.3 billion (living in Monaco) # Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler and Georg Schaeffler - Germany - $6.3 billion # August von Finck - Germany - $6.3 billion (living in Switzerland) # Eli Broad - USA - $6.1 billion # Curt Engelhorn - Germany - $6.0 billion (living in Switzerland) # Friedrich Flick, Jr. - Germany - $6.0 billion (living in Austria) # Edward Johnson, III - USA - $6.0 billion # Nicky Oppenheimer and family - South Africa - $6.0 billion # Francois Pinault - France - $5.9 billion # Philip Anschutz - USA - $5.8 billion # Ernesto Bertarelli - Switzerland - $5.8 billion # Nobutada Saji and family - Japan - $5.8 billion # Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi - Saudi Arabia - $5.6 billion # Yoshitaka Fukuda and family - Japan - $5.6 billion # Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster - United Kingdom - $5.6 billion # Reinhard Mohn and family - Germany - $5.6 billion # Shari Arison - Israel - $5.5 billion # Oleg Deripaska - Russia - $5.5 billion # Yasuo Takei and family - Japan - $5.5 billion # Jean-Claude Decaux and family - France - $5.4 billion # Antonia Johnson - Sweden - $5.4 billion # Johanna Quandt - Germany - $5.4 billion # Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller - Denmark - $5.3 billion # Joseph Safra & Moise Safra - Brazil - $5.2 billion # Onsi Sawiris and family - Egypt - $5.2 billion # Dan Duncan - USA - $5.1 billion # Michael Bloomberg - USA - $5.0 billion # Gustavo Cisneros and family - Venezuela - $5.0 billion # Rafael del Pino and family - Spain - $5.0 billion # Robert Kuok - Malaysia - $5.0 billion (living in Hong Kong, China) # Hasso Plattner - Germany - $5.0 billion # Kerry Packer - Australia - $5.0 billion # Jeffrey Skoll - Canada - $5.0 billion (living in USA) # Viktor Vekselberg - Russia - $5.0 billion # Ty Warner - USA - $5.0 billion # Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken - Netherlands - $4.9 billion (living in United Kingdom) # Eitaro Itoyama - Japan - $4.9 billion # Rahmi Koc and family - Turkey - $4.9 billion # Ronald Perelman - USA - $4.9 billion # Karl-Heinz Kipp - Germany - $4.8 billion (living in Switzerland) # Alexei Mordashov - Russia - $4.8 billion # Jimmy Pattison - Canada - $4.8 billion # Alain Wertheimer and Gerard Wertheimer - France - $4.8 billion # Kunio Busujima and family - Japan - $4.7 billion # Michael Kadoorie and family - China (Hong Kong) - $4.7 billion # Kyosuke Kinoshita and family - Japan - $4.7 billion # Ferit Sahenk and family - Turkey - $4.7 billion # Robert Bosch, Jr. and family - Germany - $4.6 billion # Giorgio Armani - Italy - $4.5 billion # David Geffen - USA - $4.4 billion # James Irving, Arthur Irving and John E. Irving - Canada - $4.4 billion # Fukuzo Iwasaki - Japan - $4.4 billion # Vladimir Potanin - Russia - $4.4 billion # Mikhail Prokhorov - Russia - $4.4 billion # Vagit Alekperov - Russia - $4.3 billion # Donald Bren - USA - $4.3 billion # Walter Haefner - Switzerland - $4.3 billion # Erivan Haub & family - Germany - $4.3 billion # Kun-Hee Lee & family - South Korea - $4.3 billion # Gordon Moore - USA - $4.3 billion # Ross Perot and family - USA - $4.3 billion # David Sainsbury and family - United Kingdom - $4.3 billion # Masayoshi Son - Japan - $4.3 billion # William Wrigley, Jr. - USA - $4.3 billion # John Abele - USA - $4.2 billion # Cheng Yu-tung - China (Hong Kong) - $4.2 billion # Andrónico Luksic and family - Chile - $4.2 billion # George Kaiser - USA - $4.2 billion # Jeffrey Bezos - USA - $4.1 billion # Lorenzo Mendoza and family - Venezuela - $4.1 billion # Charles Koch - USA - $4.0 billion # David Koch (politician) - USA - $4.0 billion # Ananda Krishnan - Malaysia - $4.0 billion # Kwek Leng Beng and family - Singapore - $4.0 billion # James Sorenson - USA - $4.0 billion # Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair and family - United Arab Emirates - $3.9 billion # Lester Crown and family - USA - $3.8 billion # John Menard, Jr. - USA - $3.8 billion # Thomas Schmidheiny - Switzerland - $3.8 billion # Andreas Strüngmann - Germany - $3.8 billion # Thomas Strüngmann - Germany - $3.8 billion # Kumar Birla - India - $3.7 billion # Yoshiaki Tsutsumi - Japan - $3.7 billion # Jeronimo Arango - Mexico - $3.6 billion # Bernie Ecclestone and family - United Kingdom - $3.6 billion # Stanley Ho - China (Hong Kong) - $3.6 billion # Frank Lowy and family - Australia - $3.6 billion # Victor Rashnikov - Russia - $3.6 billion # Jorgen Clausen and family - Denmark - $3.5 billion # Willi Liebherr and Isolde Liebherr and family - Switzerland - $3.5 billion # Peter Nicholas - USA - $3.5 billion # Julio Mario Santo Domingo - Colombia - $3.5 billion # David and Frederick Barclay - United Kingdom - $3.4 billion (living in Guernsey) # Otto Beisheim - Germany - $3.4 billion (living in Switzerland) # John Fredriksen - Norway - $3.4 billion # Preston Tisch - USA - $3.4 billion # Robert Bass - USA - $3.3 billion # Paul Desmarais - Canada - $3.3 billion # Charles B. Johnson - USA - $3.3 billion # Sunil Mittal - India - $3.3 billion # Robert Rowling - USA - $3.3 billion # Rainer Schmidt-Ruthenbeck and Michael Schmidt-Ruthenbeck - Germany - $3.3 billion # Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi - Saudi Arabia - $3.2 billion # Richard Branson - United Kingdom - $3.2 billion # William Cook - USA - $3.2 billion # Aloysio de Andrade Faria - Brazil - $3.2 billion # Rolf Gerling - Germany - $3.2 billion (living in Switzerland) # James Goodnight - USA - $3.2 billion # Terry Gou - Taiwan - $3.2 billion # Maurice Greenberg - USA - $3.2 billion # Klaus-Michael Kühne - Germany - $3.2 billion (living in Switzerland) # Leonard Lauder - USA - $3.2 billion # Gérard Louis-Dreyfus and family - France - $3.2 billion (living in USA) # Pallonji Mistry - India - $3.2 billion # Akira Mori - Japan - $3.2 billion # Madeleine Schickedanz - Germany - $3.2 billion (living in Switzerland) # Charles R. Schwab - USA - $3.2 billion # Jack C. Taylor - USA - $3.2 billion # Klaus Tschira - Germany - $3.2 billion # Tadashi Yanai - Japan - $3.2 billion # David Filo - USA - $3.1 billion # Heidi Horten - Austria - $3.1 billion # Sammy Ofer & Yuli Ofer - Israel - $3.1 billion # Nina Wang - China (Hong Kong) - $3.1 billion # Y.C. Wang - Taiwan - $3.1 billion # Leslie Wexner - USA - $3.1 billion # Richard DeVos - USA - $3.0 billion # Henry Fok - China (Hong Kong) - $3.0 billion # Steven Jobs - USA - $3.0 billion # Ann Walton Kroenke - USA - $3.0 billion # George Lucas - USA - $3.0 billion # Sergio Mantegazza - Switzerland - $3.0 billion # Miuccia Prada and family - Italy - $3.0 billion # Anton Schlecker - Germany - $3.0 billion # Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi - Thailand - $3.0 billion # Anacleto Angelini - Chile - $2.9 billion # Masatoshi Ito - Japan - $2.9 billion # Barbara Piasecka Johnson - USA - $2.9 billion (living in Monaco) # Richard Schulze (billonaire) - USA - $2.9 billion # Stefan Schörghuber - Germany - $2.9 billion # Tsai Wan Tsai and family - Taiwan - $2.9 billion # Karl Wlaschek - Austria - $2.9 billion # Khalid bin Mahfouz and family - Saudi Arabia - $2.8 billion # Charles Bronfman - Canada - $2.8 billion # William Davidson - USA - $2.8 billion # Jesús de Polanco - Spain - $2.8 billion # Rachman Halim and family - Indonesia - $2.8 billion # Henry Hillman - USA - $2.8 billion # Ralph Lauren - USA - $2.8 billion # Stephan Schmidheiny - Switzerland - $2.8 billion # Eric E. Schmidt - USA - $2.8 billion # Alberto Bailleres - Mexico - $2.7 billion # Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - USA - $2.7 billion # Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan and family - United Kingdom - $2.7 billion # Otto Happel - Germany - $2.7 billion (living in Switzerland) # Bradley Hughes - USA - $2.7 billion # Ronald Lauder - USA - $2.7 billion # Eliodoro Matte and family - Chile - $2.7 billion # Luis Carlos Sarmiento - Colombia - $2.7 billion # Steven Spielberg - USA - $2.7 billion # Hubert Burda - Germany - $2.6 billion # Michael Hilti and family - Liechtenstein - $2.6 billion # Martha Ingram and family - USA - $2.6 billion # Boris Ivanishvili - Russia - $2.6 billion (living in France) # Rupert Johnson, Jr. - USA - $2.6 billion # Saleh Kamel - Saudi Arabia - $2.6 billion # Jorge Paulo Lemann - Brazil - $2.6 billion # Lev Leviev - Israel - $2.6 billion # Hugo Mann and family - Germany - $2.6 billion # Ng Teng Fong and family - Singapore - $2.6 billion # Ricardo Salinas Pliego and family - Mexico - $2.6 billion # ''Yasumitsu Shigeta'' - Japan - $2.6 billion # Takemitsu Takizaki - Japan - $2.6 billion # Donald Trump - USA - $2.6 billion # Jerry Yang - USA - $2.6 billion # Mohammad Al Amoudi - Saudi Arabia - $2.5 billion # Gianluigi Aponte & Rafaela Aponte - Switzerland - $2.5 billion # John Dorrance III - Republic of Ireland - $2.5 billion # ''Antonio Ermirio de Moraes'' - Brazil - $2.5 billion # Jeffrey Koo, Jr. - Taiwan - $2.5 billion # Esther Koplowitz - Spain - $2.5 billion # Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen - Denmark - $2.5 billion # Edward Lampert - United States - $2.5 billion # Nancy Walton Laurie - United States - $2.5 billion # Michael Lee-Chin - Canada - $2.5 billion # David Rockefeller - United States - $2.5 billion # Bernard Sherman - Canada - $2.5 billion # James Simons - United States - $2.5 billion # Leonard Stern (billionaire) - United States - $2.5 billion # Michael Ying - China (Hong Kong) - $2.5 billion # Rinat Akhmetov - Ukraine - $2.4 billion # Riley Bechtel - United States - $2.4 billion # Stephen Bechtel, Jr. - United States - $2.4 billion # Leonard Blavatnik - United States - $2.4 billion # Martin Bouygues and family - France - $2.4 billion # Michael Herz - Germany - $2.4 billion # Lee Seng Wee and family - Singapore - $2.4 billion # Lim Goh Tong - Malaysia - $2.4 billion # Bernard Marcus - United States - $2.4 billion # Jerry Perenchio - USA - $2.4 billion # Edward Rogers - Canada - $2.4 billion # ''Teh Hong Piow'' - Malaysia - $2.4 billion # Steven F. Udvar-Hazy - United States - $2.4 billion # Vladimir Yevtushenkov - Russia - $2.4 billion # Alexander Abramov - Russia - $2.3 billion # Vladimir Bogdanov - Russia - $2.3 billion # Ronald Burkle - United States - $2.3 billion # Clive Calder - United Kingdom - $2.3 billion (living in Cayman Islands) # Jean-Louis Dumas and family - France - $2.3 billion # Melinda Esterhazy - Austria - $2.3 billion (living in Switzerland) # Tetsuro Funai - Japan - $2.3 billion # ''Frits Goldschmeding'' - Netherlands - $2.3 billion # Stein Erik Hagen - Norway - $2.3 billion # Ray Hunt - United States - $2.3 billion # Shiv Nadar - India - $2.3 billion # Carl Pohlad - United States - $2.3 billion # Quek Leng Chan and family - Malaysia - $2.3 billion # Johann Rupert and family - South Africa - $2.3 billion # Haim Saban - United States - $2.3 billion # J.R. Simplot and family - United States - $2.3 billion # Clemmie Spangler, Jr. - United States - $2.3 billion # Friede Springer - Germany - $2.3 billion # Wee Cho Yaw - Singapore - $2.3 billion # Tadahiro Yoshida - Japan - $2.3 billion # Vincent Bollore - France - $2.2 billion # Charles Butt - United States - $2.2 billion # John Calamos - United States - $2.2 billion # Wolfgang Herz - Germany - $2.2 billion # Leona Helmsley - United States - $2.2 billion # Amos Hostetter, Jr. - United States - $2.2 billion # Ryoichi Jinnai and family - Japan - $2.2 billion # Peter Kellogg - United States - $2.2 billion # Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Russia - $2.2 billion (down from #16 and $15.0 billion in 2004) ---- (Needs to be arranged according to new ranks for 2005) # Robert Pritzker - $7.6 billion # Thomas Pritzker - $7.6 billion # Samuel C. Johnson - $7.4 billion # Marvin Davis - $4.9 billion # Tsai Wan Lin and family - $4.6 billion # Rafik Al-Hariri and family - $4.3 billion # Khoo Teck Puat - $4.3 billion # Sakip Sabanci and family - $3.2 billion # Saud Abdul Aziz Algosaibi - $3.1 billion # Antonio Champalimaud - $3.1 billion # Lorenzo Zambrano and family - $3.1 billion # Mohammed Jameel and family - $3.0 billion # Craig McCaw - United States - $2.8 billion # Patrick Wang and family - $2.8 billion # Eugenio Garza Laguera and family - $2.5 billion # Jon Huntsman, Sr. - United States - $2.5 billion # Juan & Carlos March - $2.4 billion # Ted Turner - United States - $2.4 billion # Jay Van Andel - United States - $2.3 billion # Heinz Bauer - $2.2 billion # Nicolas Hayek - $2.2 billion # Samuel Zell - $2.2 billion # Umberto Agnelli and family - $2.1 billion # Donald Fisher - $2.1 billion # Doris Feigenbaum Fisher - $2.1 billion # Philippe Foriel-Destezet - $2.1 billion # Gordon Getty - United States - $2.1 billion # Randolph Lerner - $2.1 billion # Achille Maramotti - $2.1 billion # J. Ricketts & family - $2.1 billion # Albert von Thurn und Taxis - $2.1 billion # Leonore Annenberg - $2.0 billion # Ennio Doris - $2.0 billion # Adi Godrej & family - $2.0 billion # Roberto Hernandez (billionaire) - $2.0 billion # Patrick McGovern - $2.0 billion # John Morgridge - $2.0 billion # Leonid Nevzlin - $2.0 billion # Henry Nicholas, III - $2.0 billion # Augusto Perfetti and Giorgio Perfetti - $2.0 billion # Richard Rainwater - $2.0 billion # Steven Rales - $2.0 billion # Louis Gonda - $1.9 billion # Donald Hall - $1.9 billion # Daniela Herz - $1.9 billion # Günter Herz - $1.9 billion # Michael Krasny - $1.9 billion # Mitchell Rales - $1.9 billion # Robert Rich Sr - $1.9 billion # Bruno Schroder and family - $1.9 billion # Evgeny Shvidler - $1.9 billion # Ernest Stempel - $1.9 billion # Glen Taylor - $1.9 billion # Eugen Viehof and family - $1.9 billion # S. Daniel Abraham - $1.8 billion # Herbert Allen, Jr. - $1.8 billion # Franklin Booth, Jr. - $1.8 billion # Emilio Botin - $1.8 billion # Mikhail Brudno - $1.8 billion # John de Mol - $1.8 billion # Charles Dolan - $1.8 billion # Vladimir Dubov - $1.8 billion # Alfredo Harp Helu - $1.8 billion # Wayne Huizenga - United States - $1.8 billion # Jess Jackson - $1.8 billion # John Jahr & family - $1.8 billion # James Kim & family - $1.8 billion # Bruce Kovner - $1.8 billion # Platon Lebedev - $1.8 billion # John Malone - $1.8 billion # Kenneth Morrison - $1.8 billion # Henry Samueli - $1.8 billion # Vasily Shakhnovsky - $1.8 billion # Shin Kyuk-ho and family - $1.8 billion # John Sperling - $1.8 billion # Peter Sperling - $1.8 billion # Jon Stryker - $1.8 billion # Ronda Stryker - $1.8 billion # Dennis Washington - $1.8 billion # Arne Wilhelmsen and family - $1.8 billion # Dhanin Chearavanont and family - $1.7 billion # Richard Farmer - $1.7 billion # Thomas Frist, Jr. and family - United States - $1.7 billion # Hans-Werner Hector - $1.7 billion # Mary Alice Dorrance Malone - $1.7 billion # Clayton Mathile - $1.7 billion # David Murdock - $1.7 billion # Emanuele Saputo and family- $1.7 billion # Wen Long Shi and family - $1.7 billion # Isak Andic - $1.6 billion # Nancy Lerner Beck - $1.6 billion # Stanley Druckenmiller - $1.6 billion # Tom Golisano - $1.6 billion # Alec Gores - $1.6 billion # Tom Gores - $1.6 billion # Richard Kinder - $1.6 billion # Norma Lerner - $1.6 billion # Joseph Lewis - $1.6 billion # Peter Lewis - $1.6 billion # Carl Lindner, Jr. - United States - $1.6 billion # Rosalia Mera - $1.6 billion # George P. Mitchell - $1.6 billion # Charlie Munger - United States - $1.6 billion # Kazuo Okada - $1.6 billion # Gregorio Perez Companc and family - $1.6 billion # Richard Pratt - $1.6 billion # John A. Fentener van Vlissingen - $1.6 billion # Peter Woo & family - $1.6 billion # Chaleo Yoovidhya - $1.6 billion # Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala and family - $1.5 billion # Lee Bass - $1.5 billion # Frank Batten Sr - $1.5 billion # Julio Bozano - $1.5 billion # James Cargill - $1.5 billion # Margaret Cargill - $1.5 billion # Bennett Dorrance - $1.5 billion # Gerald J. Ford - United States - $1.5 billion # Leslie Gonda - $1.5 billion # Daryl Katz - $1.5 billion # Herbert Kohler and family - $1.5 billion # L. Lowry Mays - $1.5 billion # Wallace McCain - $1.5 billion # Carlos Peralta and family - $1.5 billion # Fayez Sarofim - $1.5 billion # Harold Simmons - $1.5 billion # Jackson Stephens - $1.5 billion # Pat Stryker - $1.5 billion # Adrian Swire and family - $1.5 billion # Lucio Tan - $1.5 billion # Kemal Uzan & family - $1.5 billion # Sanford Weill - United States - $1.5 billion # Arthur Williams, Jr. - $1.5 billion # Hiroshi Yamauchi - $1.5 billion # Gerd Brachmann - $1.4 billion # John Caudwell - $1.4 billion # Chen Din Hwa - $1.4 billion # Jean Coutu - $1.4 billion # Heinz-Horst Deichmann - $1.4 billion # Barry Diller - United States - $1.4 billion # David Duffield - $1.4 billion # Barbara Carlson Gage and family - $1.4 billion # Irwin Jacobs - $1.4 billion # German Khan - $1.4 billion # Alicia Koplowitz - $1.4 billion # Stan Kroenke - $1.4 billion # Fredrik Lundberg - $1.4 billion # Dietrich Mateschitz - Austria - $1.4 billion # James Moran - $1.4 billion # Hideo Morita and family - $1.4 billion # Robert Naify - $1.4 billion # Marilyn Carlson Nelson and family - $1.4 billion # Didier Primat - $1.4 billion # John Sall - $1.4 billion # Frederick W. Smith - United States - $1.4 billion # Patrick Soon-Shiong - $1.4 billion # Sylvia Ströher - $1.4 billion # Henry Sy & family - $1.4 billion # Albert Ueltschi - $1.4 billion # Carl Berg - $1.3 billion # Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone and family - $1.3 billion # Mark Cuban - USA - $1.3 billion # Abilio dos Santos Diniz and family - $1.3 billion # Gustaf Douglas - $1.3 billion # Richard Egan - $1.3 billion # Leonid Fedun - $1.3 billion # Den Fujita & family - $1.3 billion # Victor Fung - $1.3 billion # William Fung - $1.3 billion # Charles Gates, Jr. - $1.3 billion # William Randolph Hearst III - $1.3 billion # Stanley Stub Hubbard - $1.3 billion # Min Kao - $1.3 billion # Henry Kravis - $1.3 billion # Barry Lam - $1.3 billion # Kenichi Mabuchi and family - $1.3 billion # Steno Marcegaglia and family - $1.3 billion # Richard Marriott - $1.3 billion # E. Marshall - $1.3 billion # Robert McNair - $1.3 billion # William Morean - $1.3 billion # Hans Riegel - $1.3 billion # Paul Riegel - $1.3 billion # George R. Roberts - $1.3 billion # Walter Scott, Jr. - $1.3 billion # Thomas Siebel - $1.3 billion # John Sobrato - $1.3 billion # Harry Triguboff - $1.3 billion # Nikolai Tsvetkov - $1.3 billion # Joop van den Ende - $1.3 billion # Ted Waitt - United States - $1.3 billion # Margaret Whitman - $1.3 billion # Mortimer Zuckerman - $1.3 billion # Mohammed A. Al Bahar - $1.2 billion # Belmiro de Azevedo - $1.2 billion # Pierre Bellon and family - $1.2 billion # Arthur Blank - United States - $1.2 billion # Anneliese Brost - $1.2 billion # Chang Yung Fa - $1.2 billion # Phoebe Hearst Cooke - $1.2 billion # Edward DeBartolo, Jr. - United States - $1.2 billion # Archie Aldis Emmerson - $1.2 billion # Frederick Field - $1.2 billion # Thomas Flatley - $1.2 billion # James France - United States - $1.2 billion # William France, Jr. - United States - $1.2 billion # Albert Frere - $1.2 billion # Soichiro Fukutake and family - $1.2 billion # Christopher Goldsbury - $1.2 billion # Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere - $1.2 billion # Austin Hearst - $1.2 billion # David Hearst, Jr. - $1.2 billion # George Randolph Hearst Jr. - $1.2 billion # Ingeburg Herz - $1.2 billion # Joachim Herz - $1.2 billion # Robert Holding - $1.2 billion # Joseph Jamail, Jr. - United States - $1.2 billion # James Jannard - $1.2 billion # Leon Levine & family - $1.2 billion # George Lindemann and family - $1.2 billion # John Marriott, Jr. - $1.2 billion # Terence Matthews - $1.2 billion # Harrison McCain - $1.2 billion # John McCaw, Jr. - $1.2 billion # Robert McLane, Jr. - $1.2 billion # Winthrop Paul Rockefeller - United States - $1.2 billion # Hermann Schnabel - $1.2 billion # Vyacheslav Sheremet - $1.2 billion # Melvin Simon - $1.2 billion # Ollen Smith - $1.2 billion # Rem Vyakhirev - $1.2 billion # Elizabeth Wiskemann - $1.2 billion # Daniel Ziff - $1.2 billion # Dirk Ziff - $1.2 billion # Robert Ziff - $1.2 billion # John Arrillaga - $1.1 billion, Jr. # Sid Bass - $1.1 billion # Scott Cook - $1.1 billion # Robert Friedland - $1.1 billion # John Gandel & family - $1.1 billion # Alan Gerry - $1.1 billion # Malcolm Glazer - United States - $1.1 billion # David Green - $1.1 billion # Pincus Green - $1.1 billion # Marguerite Harbert - $1.1 billion # Marvin Herb - $1.1 billion # Stephen Jarislowsky - $1.1 billion # William Kellogg - $1.1 billion # John Krehbiel, Jr. - $1.1 billion # Guy Laliberte - $1.1 billion # Richard Li - $1.1 billion # Gary Magness - $1.1 billion # Billy Joe McCombs - $1.1 billion # Andrei Melnichenko - $1.1 billion # Arnon Milchan - $1.1 billion # Anthony O'Reilly - $1.1 billion # Richard Peery - $1.1 billion # Marc Rich - $1.1 billion # Arthur Rock - $1.1 billion # Isaac Saba Raffoul and family - $1.1 billion # Richard Scaife - United States - $1.1 billion # Monika Schoeller - $1.1 billion # Herbert Siegel - $1.1 billion # Kenny Troutt - $1.1 billion # Dieter von Holtzbrinck - $1.1 billion # Stefan von Holtzbrinck - $1.1 billion # Charlotte Colket Weber - $1.1 billion # Oprah Winfrey - United States - $1.1 billion # Vivian Wu - $1.1 billion # Steve Wynn (developer) - United States - $1.1 billion # Larry Yung - $1.1 billion # Henry Zachry, Jr. - $1.1 billion # Anil Agarwal - $1.0 billion # Khalaf Al Habtoor - $1.0 billion # John Anderson - $1.0 billion # George Argyros - $1.0 billion # Neil Bluhm - $1.0 billion # Gary Burrell - $1.0 billion # Jason Chang & family - $1.0 billion # Turgay Ciner - $1.0 billion # Steven Cohen - $1.0 billion # Gary Comer - $1.0 billion # Roy Edward Disney - United States - $1.0 billion # Bulent Eczacibasi - $1.0 billion # William Ford, Sr. - $1.0 billion # Emilio Gnutti - $1.0 billion # John Hargreaves and family - $1.0 billion # Dietmar Hopp - $1.0 billion # Jerry Jones - $1.0 billion # Morris Kahn - $1.0 billion # Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. - $1.0 billion # Alfred Mann - $1.0 billion # Bruce McCaw - $1.0 billion # Roger Milliken - $1.0 billion # Liselott Persson - $1.0 billion # Stefano Pessina - $1.0 billion # Sergei Popov - $1.0 billion # J. K. Rowling - United Kingdom - $1.0 billion # Lily Safra - $1.0 billion # Charles Simonyi - $1.0 billion # A. Alfred Taubman - $1.0 billion # Olav Thon - $1.0 billion # Tiong Hiew King - $1.0 billion # Hope Hill Van Beuren - $1.0 billion # Dean White - $1.0 billion ==See also== * aristocracy * Forbes 400 * overclass * Sunday Times Rich List Sunday Times Rich List 2005 * superculture ===Lists=== *List of Canadians by net worth *List of Danes by net worth *List of European citizens by net worth *Korean rich list * List of heads of government and state by net worth *List of Mexicans by net worth *List of Swedes by net worth ==External links== *[http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ Forbes - The World's Richest People] *[http://www.forbes.com/2000/06/22/feat.html Forbes - The richest dictators, and where they invest their billions] Lists of people Forbes World's Richest People
== Article title == I suggest renaming this page to List of US-dollar billionaires. Comments? --User:Trainspotter 12:54, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC) :No response to the above. I'll move it, assuming that if there were objections somebody would have spoken. --User:Trainspotter 14:04, 6 May 2004 (UTC) I have moved this article to list of billionaires because the phrasing list of US-dollar billionaires is very awkward. It took me a couple of seconds to figure out what was meant by that; even list of billionaires (in US dollars) would be a clearer phrasing. Anyway, the article already makes it clear in the introductory sentence that the billionaires are billionaires in US dollars, so I think the simple title list of billionaires can stand. --User:Lowellian 22:52, May 15, 2004 (UTC) === "Billion" - clarify this word's meaning === How come this word has no ambiguity in its meaning even though billion does?? User:66.245.1.229 20:20, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I think that billion is taken as 1,000,000,000 in this article. The numbers given are very confusing without this. User:Tim Ivorson 11:54, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC) My main problem with this page is that it should be List of U.S. dollar billionaires. Billionaire ''certainly'' doesn't mean "has more than one billion US dollars" in United Kingdom, and I doubt it has that meaning in many others. User:Proteus User_talk:Proteus 12:53, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I'd tend to agree, unless we doubt the accuracy of the net worths given, in which case the list should be at Forbes 400. User:Tim Ivorson 14:41, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC) :What are the alternate meanings of billion or billionaire? --User:Rj 17:22, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC) ::Well, in the UK, "billionaire" means "person with more than one billion pounds". Presumably in most of Europe it means "person with more than one billion euros". User:Proteus User_talk:Proteus 12:45, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC) :Right, sorry. But unless those articles exist, there is no need to change the name of this one as long as there is clarification in the article... unless it's changed to Forbes List... --User:Rj 00:41, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC) == Suspicion of copyright infringement == As I understand it, copyright does not cover ideas, but the way that they are expressed. I believe that all that is needed is to reword the Forbes list, if it is desired to display here who Forbes claims the richest people are. With something as simple as a list, is there any need even to reword it?User:Tim Ivorson 12:12, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC) === Copyvio discussion moved from WP:CP === *List of billionaires from [http://www.forbes.com/maserati/billionaires2004/rank.html?passListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&searchParameter1=unset&searchParameter2=unset&resultsStart=1&resultsHowMany=25&resultsSortProperties=%252Bnumberfield1%252C%252Bstringfield2&resultsSortCategoryName=Rank&passKeyword=&category1=category&category2=category] - contrary to an often-heard opinion, lists and compilations ''can'' be copyrighted, especially if it's a list like that that has to be compiled from so many sources (no milliardaire will publish his net worth). I fear that Forbes may sue the Wikipedia if it reprints this list without permission; what's worse, by placing it under GNU license, Wikipedia also offers a license to resell the list. I think in the worst case, this can lead to a lawsuit that ends in the complete liquidation of the Wikipedia. --User:Dingo 07:38, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC) **Keep. See Feist v. Rural. User:GuanacoUser talk:Guanaco 15:42, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC) **Keep. Agree with Guan after reading Feist v. Rural. This article just contains some of the info that Forbes compiled, and that raw info isn't copyrightable, even if they spent a lot of time compiling it. Copying any expressive choices that Forbes made in their manner of presenting the info would be infringement, but this article doesn't... in fact, it doesn't even take most of the data, such as age, residence, etc, so it can't be said to copy any of Forbes' expressive decisions about which data to display and in what order. - User:Eisnel 08:03, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC) ***I'm not sure about this. Firstly, a telephone directory is raw, published data. The ''compilation'' I see is that Forbes compiled data into one net worth figure; so the compilation is not the list, but the claim that Citizen Kane has a net worth of 4.567 billion. Eg, as Forbes compiled Ingvar Kamprads net worth to about 50+ billion, IKEA repudiated that in that Kamprad does not earn the firm fully, and so IKEAs net worth is not to be added to Kamprad. Secondly, is only US-law to be considered, or also laws of other english-speaking countries like GB, AU or NZ? To sum it up, you ''may'' be right - but is the Wikipedia willing to risk you're ''not''? --User:Dingo 11:51, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC) **** Non-US law is irrelevant if the source of the information was on a web server in the United States. The Wikipedia servers are in the United States and thus subject to American law. Since Forbes.com is also in the United States, it is also governed by American law. User:David Newton 15:38, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC) ****If Forbes, after much research, says that Kane is worth 4.567 billion, it's not copyvio for other news organizations to report that "Forbes says Citizen Kane makes 4.567 bil". It doesn't matter whether that number is a fact or not, Forbes could lie and it still wouldn't be illegal to report Forbes' figure. If Forbes discovered a new planet, would it be copyright infringement for other news sources to report about this planet, since it was Forbes' hard work that led to its discovery? If Forbes compiles a list of the moons that are around this planet, do they now own that list, and can they sue anybody that lists the new planet's moons? This really isn't what copyright is about, from what I understand. You're right that anytime we non-lawyers try to interpret copyright law we walk on shaky ground. You're also right that other countries might interpret this differently. But that applies to most of the images and a good number of the articles on Wikipedia. Think of all the images we use under fair use: that's US fair use law, they all might be illegal in NZ or elsewhere. We just have to do our best to interpret the most relevant and prevalent copyright laws in good faith, and strive onward. So there's my two cents. I don't want to sound harsh, I am happy that you're out there scrutinizing possible copyvio articles and trying to protect Wikipedia against unscrupulous lawyers. And your post here led to some very interesting info that I never knew before. I'm interested to hear how others interpret this situation. - User:Eisnel 15:54, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC) ''End of moved discussion'' User:Lupo 07:13, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC) == #1 == I think Bill Gates is now the second richest man. Does anybody know the name of the first? I believe its a man from sweden or something similar. : See the note attached to Ingvar Kamprad (#13). - User:Plutor 13:40, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) == Abigail Johnson == Who is Abigail Johnson? She's listed on ''Time'' magazine's 100 most influential people. User:RickKUser talk:RickK 03:16, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC) : Forbes says she's president of Fidelity Management & Research Co., which is a subcompany of Fidelity Investments, the biggest US mutual fund manager. She's expected to replace her father as CEO of the company as a whole when her father retires. [http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/21/0521fidelity.html] [http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/10/2003/LIR.jhtml?passListId=10&passYear=2003&passListType=Person&uniqueId=WTEB&datatype=Person] -- User:Cyrius|User talk:Cyrius 10:25, Apr 21, 2004 (UTC) == Douglas B. Jordan? == Number 59 Stefan Quandt (Germany - $6.5 billion) replaced with Douglas B. Jordan? - User:Jerryseinfeld 14:26, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC) :In lack of response I put Mr. Quandt back. - User:Jerryseinfeld 00:33, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Titles == About [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=List_of_billionaires&diff=8540574&oldid=8539532]. I'm not explaining this one more time, NO titles, understand? - User:Jerryseinfeld 02:18, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC) :Sir, Gerald Grosvenor is the Duke of Westminster. It is not merely a title, but part of his name. Wikipedia policy is to ignore a peerage ONLY in cases where the peerage was gained on retirement (Harold Macmillan, Margaret Thatcher) or ignored throughout one's life (Bertrand Russell). I'm afraid that you are in the wrong on this matter. User:Mackensen User_talk:Mackensen 03:02, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::I don't care if he got 100 names, I'm not going to write all of them. It sounds like the kind of nonsense that made us leave europe in the first place. - User:Jerryseinfeld 04:12, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC) :::Be that as it may, that's your POV and when it conflicts with established fact and policy the latter must and does take precedence. His name is Gerald Cavendish, 6th Duke of Wellington. Further removal of his full name may constitute vandalism. User:Mackensen User_talk:Mackensen 04:42, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::::Well my full name is Jerry The Great, so you better start addressing me properly or I'll send my vassals at you. - User:Jerryseinfeld 10:23, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Helping to Complete the Article== I have created articles for two of the people on this list recently (George Argyros and Arnon Milchan) and see that there is much work needed to be done in helping to complete this article. I think this is a very important list considering the role of money in society and I am hoping some other users would want to get organized to complete the article. I propose the work of creating articles for the remaining people on the list be divided among interested users ranging from 5-20 pending on how many users are interested. I doubt alone I will have the time or patience to complete each person promptly. Anyone interested? User:Arminius 09:08, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC) :I'll definately help out during the holidays. - User:Jerryseinfeld 10:14, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC) Ok pick 5, mine are Adolf Merckle John Abele Jeffrey Skoll Reinhold Wurth Khoo Teck Puat I'll have them done ASAP. Please complete a different 5. thanksUser:Arminius 19:20, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Liliane Bettencourt's nationality== According to the information in the linked article, she appears to be French. Why is she listed as an American here? User:MK2 07:06, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==2005== Someone should update the list for 2005 [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050310.wforbz0311/BNStory/Business/?pageRequested=2] --User:Madchester 07:45, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC) ==People waiting to be sorted== There's a lot of people at the bottom of the list waiting to be sorted. Question - when breaking a tie is necessaery (which it often is near the bottom of the list) how should we do so? User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 12:56, 2 May 2005 (UTC) *I've had to break quite a few ties; I recompiled most of the top 300 for 2005. I did it alphabetically by family name. User:Dale Arnett 05:28, 21 May 2005 (UTC) ==Proposed changes== *the list is made in to a html table
*That for anyone listed that is not from the USA their estimated valus is shown in their native currency and in US$.
--User:Clawed 07:02, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
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List of billionaires (in US dollars) worldwide, based upon ''Forbes'' magazine's annual listing of "[http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ The World's Richest People]" (2005). Note that this list does ''not'' include heads of state. See the list ranking heads of government and state at the bottom of this article. Names in bold face are new to the list. Names in ''italics'' have returned to the list after having dropped out in the past. # Bill Gates - USA - $46.5 billion # Warren Buffett - USA - $44.0 billion # Lakshmi Mittal - UK - $25.0 billion (was No. 62 in 2004) # Carlos Slim Helú - Mexico - $23.8 billion # Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud - Saudi Arabia - $23.7 billion # Ingvar Kamprad - Sweden - $23.0 billion (living in Switzerland) # Paul Allen - USA - $21.0 billion # Karl Albrecht - Germany - $18.5 billion # Larry Ellison - USA - $18.4 billion # S. Robson Walton - USA - $18.3 billion # Jim Walton - USA - $18.2 billion # John T. Walton - USA - $18.2 billion # Alice Walton - USA - $18.0 billion # Helen Walton - USA - $18.0 billion # Kenneth Thomson and family - Canada - $17.9 billion # Liliane Bettencourt - France - $17.2 billion # Bernard Arnault - France - $17.0 billion # Michael Dell - USA - $16.0 billion # Sheldon Adelson - USA - $15.6 billion (was 311 in 2004) # Theo Albrecht - Germany - $15.5 billion # Roman Abramovich - Russia - $13.3 billion (lives both in Russia and United Kingdom) # Li Ka-shing - China (Hong Kong) - $13.0 billion # Amancio Ortega Gaona - Spain - $12.6 billion # Steven Ballmer - USA - $12.1 billion # Silvio Berlusconi - Italy - $12.0 billion # Abigail Johnson - USA - $12.0 billion # Barbara Cox Anthony - USA - $11.7 billion # Anne Cox Chambers - USA - $11.7 billion # Stefan Persson (fashion magnate) - Sweden - $11.2 billion # John Kluge - USA - $11.0 billion # Walter Kwok, Thomas Kwok and Raymond Kwok - China (Hong Kong) - $10.9 billion # Forrest Mars, Jr. - USA - $10.4 billion # Jacqueline Mars - USA - $10.4 billion # John Mars - USA - $10.4 billion # Luciano Benetton and family - Italy - $9.9 billion # Pierre Omidyar - USA - $9.9 billion # Galen Weston and family - Canada - $9.9 billion # Lee Shau Kee - China (Hong Kong) - $9.3 billion # Azim Premji - India - $9.3 billion # Nasser Al-Kharafi and family - Kuwait - $9.0 billion # Kirk Kerkorian - USA - $8.9 billion # Sumner Redstone - USA - $8.8 billion # Leonardo Del Vecchio - Italy - $8.5 billion # Michele Ferrero and family - Italy - $8.5 billion (living in Belgium) # Michael Otto and family - Germany - $8.3 billion # Susanne Klatten - Germany - $8.2 billion # Philip Knight - USA - $8.2 billion # Hans Rausing - Sweden - $8.0 billion (living in United Kingdom) # Serge Dassault and family - France - $7.8 billion # Carl Icahn - USA - $7.8 billion # Rupert Murdoch - USA - $7.8 billion # Rudolf August Oetker and family - Germany - $7.7 billion # Birgit Rausing and family - Sweden - $7.6 billion (living in Switzerland) # Spiro Latsis and family - Greece - $7.5 billion (living in Switzerland) # Sergey Brin - USA - $7.2 billion (was 552 in 2004) # Charles Ergen - USA - $7.2 billion # Lawrence E. Page - USA - $7.2 billion (was 552 in 2004) # George Soros - USA - $7.2 billion # Reinhold Würth - Germany - $7.2 billion # Mukesh Ambani & Anil Ambani - India - $7.0 billion # Mikhail Fridman - Russia - $7.0 billion # Vladimir Lisin - Russia - $7.0 billion # Donald Newhouse - USA - $7.0 billion # Samuel Newhouse, Jr. - USA - $7.0 billion # Adolf Merckle - Germany - $6.9 billion # Stefan Quandt - Germany - $6.7 billion # Micky Arison - USA - $6.5 billion # Philip Green - United Kingdom - $6.3 billion (living in Monaco) # Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler and Georg Schaeffler - Germany - $6.3 billion # August von Finck - Germany - $6.3 billion (living in Switzerland) # Eli Broad - USA - $6.1 billion # Curt Engelhorn - Germany - $6.0 billion (living in Switzerland) # Friedrich Flick, Jr. - Germany - $6.0 billion (living in Austria) # Edward Johnson, III - USA - $6.0 billion # Nicky Oppenheimer and family - South Africa - $6.0 billion # Francois Pinault - France - $5.9 billion # Philip Anschutz - USA - $5.8 billion # Ernesto Bertarelli - Switzerland - $5.8 billion # Nobutada Saji and family - Japan - $5.8 billion # Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi - Saudi Arabia - $5.6 billion # Yoshitaka Fukuda and family - Japan - $5.6 billion # Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster - United Kingdom - $5.6 billion # Reinhard Mohn and family - Germany - $5.6 billion # Shari Arison - Israel - $5.5 billion # Oleg Deripaska - Russia - $5.5 billion # Yasuo Takei and family - Japan - $5.5 billion # Jean-Claude Decaux and family - France - $5.4 billion # Antonia Johnson - Sweden - $5.4 billion # Johanna Quandt - Germany - $5.4 billion # Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller - Denmark - $5.3 billion # Joseph Safra & Moise Safra - Brazil - $5.2 billion # Onsi Sawiris and family - Egypt - $5.2 billion # Dan Duncan - USA - $5.1 billion # Michael Bloomberg - USA - $5.0 billion # Gustavo Cisneros and family - Venezuela - $5.0 billion # Rafael del Pino and family - Spain - $5.0 billion # Robert Kuok - Malaysia - $5.0 billion (living in Hong Kong, China) # Hasso Plattner - Germany - $5.0 billion # Kerry Packer - Australia - $5.0 billion # Jeffrey Skoll - Canada - $5.0 billion (living in USA) # Viktor Vekselberg - Russia - $5.0 billion # Ty Warner - USA - $5.0 billion # Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken - Netherlands - $4.9 billion (living in United Kingdom) # Eitaro Itoyama - Japan - $4.9 billion # Rahmi Koc and family - Turkey - $4.9 billion # Ronald Perelman - USA - $4.9 billion # Karl-Heinz Kipp - Germany - $4.8 billion (living in Switzerland) # Alexei Mordashov - Russia - $4.8 billion # Jimmy Pattison - Canada - $4.8 billion # Alain Wertheimer and Gerard Wertheimer - France - $4.8 billion # Kunio Busujima and family - Japan - $4.7 billion # Michael Kadoorie and family - China (Hong Kong) - $4.7 billion # Kyosuke Kinoshita and family - Japan - $4.7 billion # Ferit Sahenk and family - Turkey - $4.7 billion # Robert Bosch, Jr. and family - Germany - $4.6 billion # Giorgio Armani - Italy - $4.5 billion # David Geffen - USA - $4.4 billion # James Irving, Arthur Irving and John E. Irving - Canada - $4.4 billion # Fukuzo Iwasaki - Japan - $4.4 billion # Vladimir Potanin - Russia - $4.4 billion # Mikhail Prokhorov - Russia - $4.4 billion # Vagit Alekperov - Russia - $4.3 billion # Donald Bren - USA - $4.3 billion # Walter Haefner - Switzerland - $4.3 billion # Erivan Haub & family - Germany - $4.3 billion # Kun-Hee Lee & family - South Korea - $4.3 billion # Gordon Moore - USA - $4.3 billion # Ross Perot and family - USA - $4.3 billion # David Sainsbury and family - United Kingdom - $4.3 billion # Masayoshi Son - Japan - $4.3 billion # William Wrigley, Jr. - USA - $4.3 billion # John Abele - USA - $4.2 billion # Cheng Yu-tung - China (Hong Kong) - $4.2 billion # Andrónico Luksic and family - Chile - $4.2 billion # George Kaiser - USA - $4.2 billion # Jeffrey Bezos - USA - $4.1 billion # Lorenzo Mendoza and family - Venezuela - $4.1 billion # Charles Koch - USA - $4.0 billion # David Koch (politician) - USA - $4.0 billion # Ananda Krishnan - Malaysia - $4.0 billion # Kwek Leng Beng and family - Singapore - $4.0 billion # James Sorenson - USA - $4.0 billion # Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair and family - United Arab Emirates - $3.9 billion # Lester Crown and family - USA - $3.8 billion # John Menard, Jr. - USA - $3.8 billion # Thomas Schmidheiny - Switzerland - $3.8 billion # Andreas Strüngmann - Germany - $3.8 billion # Thomas Strüngmann - Germany - $3.8 billion # Kumar Birla - India - $3.7 billion # Yoshiaki Tsutsumi - Japan - $3.7 billion # Jeronimo Arango - Mexico - $3.6 billion # Bernie Ecclestone and family - United Kingdom - $3.6 billion # Stanley Ho - China (Hong Kong) - $3.6 billion # Frank Lowy and family - Australia - $3.6 billion # Victor Rashnikov - Russia - $3.6 billion # Jorgen Clausen and family - Denmark - $3.5 billion # Willi Liebherr and Isolde Liebherr and family - Switzerland - $3.5 billion # Peter Nicholas - USA - $3.5 billion # Julio Mario Santo Domingo - Colombia - $3.5 billion # David and Frederick Barclay - United Kingdom - $3.4 billion (living in Guernsey) # Otto Beisheim - Germany - $3.4 billion (living in Switzerland) # John Fredriksen - Norway - $3.4 billion # Preston Tisch - USA - $3.4 billion # Robert Bass - USA - $3.3 billion # Paul Desmarais - Canada - $3.3 billion # Charles B. Johnson - USA - $3.3 billion # Sunil Mittal - India - $3.3 billion # Robert Rowling - USA - $3.3 billion # Rainer Schmidt-Ruthenbeck and Michael Schmidt-Ruthenbeck - Germany - $3.3 billion # Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi - Saudi Arabia - $3.2 billion # Richard Branson - United Kingdom - $3.2 billion # William Cook - USA - $3.2 billion # Aloysio de Andrade Faria - Brazil - $3.2 billion # Rolf Gerling - Germany - $3.2 billion (living in Switzerland) # James Goodnight - USA - $3.2 billion # Terry Gou - Taiwan - $3.2 billion # Maurice Greenberg - USA - $3.2 billion # Klaus-Michael Kühne - Germany - $3.2 billion (living in Switzerland) # Leonard Lauder - USA - $3.2 billion # Gérard Louis-Dreyfus and family - France - $3.2 billion (living in USA) # Pallonji Mistry - India - $3.2 billion # Akira Mori - Japan - $3.2 billion # Madeleine Schickedanz - Germany - $3.2 billion (living in Switzerland) # Charles R. Schwab - USA - $3.2 billion # Jack C. Taylor - USA - $3.2 billion # Klaus Tschira - Germany - $3.2 billion # Tadashi Yanai - Japan - $3.2 billion # David Filo - USA - $3.1 billion # Heidi Horten - Austria - $3.1 billion # Sammy Ofer & Yuli Ofer - Israel - $3.1 billion # Nina Wang - China (Hong Kong) - $3.1 billion # Y.C. Wang - Taiwan - $3.1 billion # Leslie Wexner - USA - $3.1 billion # Richard DeVos - USA - $3.0 billion # Henry Fok - China (Hong Kong) - $3.0 billion # Steven Jobs - USA - $3.0 billion # Ann Walton Kroenke - USA - $3.0 billion # George Lucas - USA - $3.0 billion # Sergio Mantegazza - Switzerland - $3.0 billion # Miuccia Prada and family - Italy - $3.0 billion # Anton Schlecker - Germany - $3.0 billion # Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi - Thailand - $3.0 billion # Anacleto Angelini - Chile - $2.9 billion # Masatoshi Ito - Japan - $2.9 billion # Barbara Piasecka Johnson - USA - $2.9 billion (living in Monaco) # Richard Schulze (billonaire) - USA - $2.9 billion # Stefan Schörghuber - Germany - $2.9 billion # Tsai Wan Tsai and family - Taiwan - $2.9 billion # Karl Wlaschek - Austria - $2.9 billion # Khalid bin Mahfouz and family - Saudi Arabia - $2.8 billion # Charles Bronfman - Canada - $2.8 billion # William Davidson - USA - $2.8 billion # Jesús de Polanco - Spain - $2.8 billion # Rachman Halim and family - Indonesia - $2.8 billion # Henry Hillman - USA - $2.8 billion # Ralph Lauren - USA - $2.8 billion # Stephan Schmidheiny - Switzerland - $2.8 billion # Eric E. Schmidt - USA - $2.8 billion # Alberto Bailleres - Mexico - $2.7 billion # Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - USA - $2.7 billion # Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan and family - United Kingdom - $2.7 billion # Otto Happel - Germany - $2.7 billion (living in Switzerland) # Bradley Hughes - USA - $2.7 billion # Ronald Lauder - USA - $2.7 billion # Eliodoro Matte and family - Chile - $2.7 billion # Luis Carlos Sarmiento - Colombia - $2.7 billion # Steven Spielberg - USA - $2.7 billion # Hubert Burda - Germany - $2.6 billion # Michael Hilti and family - Liechtenstein - $2.6 billion # Martha Ingram and family - USA - $2.6 billion # Boris Ivanishvili - Russia - $2.6 billion (living in France) # Rupert Johnson, Jr. - USA - $2.6 billion # Saleh Kamel - Saudi Arabia - $2.6 billion # Jorge Paulo Lemann - Brazil - $2.6 billion # Lev Leviev - Israel - $2.6 billion # Hugo Mann and family - Germany - $2.6 billion # Ng Teng Fong and family - Singapore - $2.6 billion # Ricardo Salinas Pliego and family - Mexico - $2.6 billion # ''Yasumitsu Shigeta'' - Japan - $2.6 billion # Takemitsu Takizaki - Japan - $2.6 billion # Donald Trump - USA - $2.6 billion # Jerry Yang - USA - $2.6 billion # Mohammad Al Amoudi - Saudi Arabia - $2.5 billion # Gianluigi Aponte & Rafaela Aponte - Switzerland - $2.5 billion # John Dorrance III - Republic of Ireland - $2.5 billion # ''Antonio Ermirio de Moraes'' - Brazil - $2.5 billion # Jeffrey Koo, Jr. - Taiwan - $2.5 billion # Esther Koplowitz - Spain - $2.5 billion # Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen - Denmark - $2.5 billion # Edward Lampert - United States - $2.5 billion # Nancy Walton Laurie - United States - $2.5 billion # Michael Lee-Chin - Canada - $2.5 billion # David Rockefeller - United States - $2.5 billion # Bernard Sherman - Canada - $2.5 billion # James Simons - United States - $2.5 billion # Leonard Stern (billionaire) - United States - $2.5 billion # Michael Ying - China (Hong Kong) - $2.5 billion # Rinat Akhmetov - Ukraine - $2.4 billion # Riley Bechtel - United States - $2.4 billion # Stephen Bechtel, Jr. - United States - $2.4 billion # Leonard Blavatnik - United States - $2.4 billion # Martin Bouygues and family - France - $2.4 billion # Michael Herz - Germany - $2.4 billion # Lee Seng Wee and family - Singapore - $2.4 billion # Lim Goh Tong - Malaysia - $2.4 billion # Bernard Marcus - United States - $2.4 billion # Jerry Perenchio - USA - $2.4 billion # Edward Rogers - Canada - $2.4 billion # ''Teh Hong Piow'' - Malaysia - $2.4 billion # Steven F. Udvar-Hazy - United States - $2.4 billion # Vladimir Yevtushenkov - Russia - $2.4 billion # Alexander Abramov - Russia - $2.3 billion # Vladimir Bogdanov - Russia - $2.3 billion # Ronald Burkle - United States - $2.3 billion # Clive Calder - United Kingdom - $2.3 billion (living in Cayman Islands) # Jean-Louis Dumas and family - France - $2.3 billion # Melinda Esterhazy - Austria - $2.3 billion (living in Switzerland) # Tetsuro Funai - Japan - $2.3 billion # ''Frits Goldschmeding'' - Netherlands - $2.3 billion # Stein Erik Hagen - Norway - $2.3 billion # Ray Hunt - United States - $2.3 billion # Shiv Nadar - India - $2.3 billion # Carl Pohlad - United States - $2.3 billion # Quek Leng Chan and family - Malaysia - $2.3 billion # Johann Rupert and family - South Africa - $2.3 billion # Haim Saban - United States - $2.3 billion # J.R. Simplot and family - United States - $2.3 billion # Clemmie Spangler, Jr. - United States - $2.3 billion # Friede Springer - Germany - $2.3 billion # Wee Cho Yaw - Singapore - $2.3 billion # Tadahiro Yoshida - Japan - $2.3 billion # Vincent Bollore - France - $2.2 billion # Charles Butt - United States - $2.2 billion # John Calamos - United States - $2.2 billion # Wolfgang Herz - Germany - $2.2 billion # Leona Helmsley - United States - $2.2 billion # Amos Hostetter, Jr. - United States - $2.2 billion # Ryoichi Jinnai and family - Japan - $2.2 billion # Peter Kellogg - United States - $2.2 billion # Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Russia - $2.2 billion (down from #16 and $15.0 billion in 2004) ---- (Needs to be arranged according to new ranks for 2005) # Robert Pritzker - $7.6 billion # Thomas Pritzker - $7.6 billion # Samuel C. Johnson - $7.4 billion # Marvin Davis - $4.9 billion # Tsai Wan Lin and family - $4.6 billion # Rafik Al-Hariri and family - $4.3 billion # Khoo Teck Puat - $4.3 billion # Sakip Sabanci and family - $3.2 billion # Saud Abdul Aziz Algosaibi - $3.1 billion # Antonio Champalimaud - $3.1 billion # Lorenzo Zambrano and family - $3.1 billion # Mohammed Jameel and family - $3.0 billion # Craig McCaw - United States - $2.8 billion # Patrick Wang and family - $2.8 billion # Eugenio Garza Laguera and family - $2.5 billion # Jon Huntsman, Sr. - United States - $2.5 billion # Juan & Carlos March - $2.4 billion # Ted Turner - United States - $2.4 billion # Jay Van Andel - United States - $2.3 billion # Heinz Bauer - $2.2 billion # Nicolas Hayek - $2.2 billion # Samuel Zell - $2.2 billion # Umberto Agnelli and family - $2.1 billion # Donald Fisher - $2.1 billion # Doris Feigenbaum Fisher - $2.1 billion # Philippe Foriel-Destezet - $2.1 billion # Gordon Getty - United States - $2.1 billion # Randolph Lerner - $2.1 billion # Achille Maramotti - $2.1 billion # J. Ricketts & family - $2.1 billion # Albert von Thurn und Taxis - $2.1 billion # Leonore Annenberg - $2.0 billion # Ennio Doris - $2.0 billion # Adi Godrej & family - $2.0 billion # Roberto Hernandez (billionaire) - $2.0 billion # Patrick McGovern - $2.0 billion # John Morgridge - $2.0 billion # Leonid Nevzlin - $2.0 billion # Henry Nicholas, III - $2.0 billion # Augusto Perfetti and Giorgio Perfetti - $2.0 billion # Richard Rainwater - $2.0 billion # Steven Rales - $2.0 billion # Louis Gonda - $1.9 billion # Donald Hall - $1.9 billion # Daniela Herz - $1.9 billion # Günter Herz - $1.9 billion # Michael Krasny - $1.9 billion # Mitchell Rales - $1.9 billion # Robert Rich Sr - $1.9 billion # Bruno Schroder and family - $1.9 billion # Evgeny Shvidler - $1.9 billion # Ernest Stempel - $1.9 billion # Glen Taylor - $1.9 billion # Eugen Viehof and family - $1.9 billion # S. Daniel Abraham - $1.8 billion # Herbert Allen, Jr. - $1.8 billion # Franklin Booth, Jr. - $1.8 billion # Emilio Botin - $1.8 billion # Mikhail Brudno - $1.8 billion # John de Mol - $1.8 billion # Charles Dolan - $1.8 billion # Vladimir Dubov - $1.8 billion # Alfredo Harp Helu - $1.8 billion # Wayne Huizenga - United States - $1.8 billion # Jess Jackson - $1.8 billion # John Jahr & family - $1.8 billion # James Kim & family - $1.8 billion # Bruce Kovner - $1.8 billion # Platon Lebedev - $1.8 billion # John Malone - $1.8 billion # Kenneth Morrison - $1.8 billion # Henry Samueli - $1.8 billion # Vasily Shakhnovsky - $1.8 billion # Shin Kyuk-ho and family - $1.8 billion # John Sperling - $1.8 billion # Peter Sperling - $1.8 billion # Jon Stryker - $1.8 billion # Ronda Stryker - $1.8 billion # Dennis Washington - $1.8 billion # Arne Wilhelmsen and family - $1.8 billion # Dhanin Chearavanont and family - $1.7 billion # Richard Farmer - $1.7 billion # Thomas Frist, Jr. and family - United States - $1.7 billion # Hans-Werner Hector - $1.7 billion # Mary Alice Dorrance Malone - $1.7 billion # Clayton Mathile - $1.7 billion # David Murdock - $1.7 billion # Emanuele Saputo and family- $1.7 billion # Wen Long Shi and family - $1.7 billion # Isak Andic - $1.6 billion # Nancy Lerner Beck - $1.6 billion # Stanley Druckenmiller - $1.6 billion # Tom Golisano - $1.6 billion # Alec Gores - $1.6 billion # Tom Gores - $1.6 billion # Richard Kinder - $1.6 billion # Norma Lerner - $1.6 billion # Joseph Lewis - $1.6 billion # Peter Lewis - $1.6 billion # Carl Lindner, Jr. - United States - $1.6 billion # Rosalia Mera - $1.6 billion # George P. Mitchell - $1.6 billion # Charlie Munger - United States - $1.6 billion # Kazuo Okada - $1.6 billion # Gregorio Perez Companc and family - $1.6 billion # Richard Pratt - $1.6 billion # John A. Fentener van Vlissingen - $1.6 billion # Peter Woo & family - $1.6 billion # Chaleo Yoovidhya - $1.6 billion # Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala and family - $1.5 billion # Lee Bass - $1.5 billion # Frank Batten Sr - $1.5 billion # Julio Bozano - $1.5 billion # James Cargill - $1.5 billion # Margaret Cargill - $1.5 billion # Bennett Dorrance - $1.5 billion # Gerald J. Ford - United States - $1.5 billion # Leslie Gonda - $1.5 billion # Daryl Katz - $1.5 billion # Herbert Kohler and family - $1.5 billion # L. Lowry Mays - $1.5 billion # Wallace McCain - $1.5 billion # Carlos Peralta and family - $1.5 billion # Fayez Sarofim - $1.5 billion # Harold Simmons - $1.5 billion # Jackson Stephens - $1.5 billion # Pat Stryker - $1.5 billion # Adrian Swire and family - $1.5 billion # Lucio Tan - $1.5 billion # Kemal Uzan & family - $1.5 billion # Sanford Weill - United States - $1.5 billion # Arthur Williams, Jr. - $1.5 billion # Hiroshi Yamauchi - $1.5 billion # Gerd Brachmann - $1.4 billion # John Caudwell - $1.4 billion # Chen Din Hwa - $1.4 billion # Jean Coutu - $1.4 billion # Heinz-Horst Deichmann - $1.4 billion # Barry Diller - United States - $1.4 billion # David Duffield - $1.4 billion # Barbara Carlson Gage and family - $1.4 billion # Irwin Jacobs - $1.4 billion # German Khan - $1.4 billion # Alicia Koplowitz - $1.4 billion # Stan Kroenke - $1.4 billion # Fredrik Lundberg - $1.4 billion # Dietrich Mateschitz - Austria - $1.4 billion # James Moran - $1.4 billion # Hideo Morita and family - $1.4 billion # Robert Naify - $1.4 billion # Marilyn Carlson Nelson and family - $1.4 billion # Didier Primat - $1.4 billion # John Sall - $1.4 billion # Frederick W. Smith - United States - $1.4 billion # Patrick Soon-Shiong - $1.4 billion # Sylvia Ströher - $1.4 billion # Henry Sy & family - $1.4 billion # Albert Ueltschi - $1.4 billion # Carl Berg - $1.3 billion # Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone and family - $1.3 billion # Mark Cuban - USA - $1.3 billion # Abilio dos Santos Diniz and family - $1.3 billion # Gustaf Douglas - $1.3 billion # Richard Egan - $1.3 billion # Leonid Fedun - $1.3 billion # Den Fujita & family - $1.3 billion # Victor Fung - $1.3 billion # William Fung - $1.3 billion # Charles Gates, Jr. - $1.3 billion # William Randolph Hearst III - $1.3 billion # Stanley Stub Hubbard - $1.3 billion # Min Kao - $1.3 billion # Henry Kravis - $1.3 billion # Barry Lam - $1.3 billion # Kenichi Mabuchi and family - $1.3 billion # Steno Marcegaglia and family - $1.3 billion # Richard Marriott - $1.3 billion # E. Marshall - $1.3 billion # Robert McNair - $1.3 billion # William Morean - $1.3 billion # Hans Riegel - $1.3 billion # Paul Riegel - $1.3 billion # George R. Roberts - $1.3 billion # Walter Scott, Jr. - $1.3 billion # Thomas Siebel - $1.3 billion # John Sobrato - $1.3 billion # Harry Triguboff - $1.3 billion # Nikolai Tsvetkov - $1.3 billion # Joop van den Ende - $1.3 billion # Ted Waitt - United States - $1.3 billion # Margaret Whitman - $1.3 billion # Mortimer Zuckerman - $1.3 billion # Mohammed A. Al Bahar - $1.2 billion # Belmiro de Azevedo - $1.2 billion # Pierre Bellon and family - $1.2 billion # Arthur Blank - United States - $1.2 billion # Anneliese Brost - $1.2 billion # Chang Yung Fa - $1.2 billion # Phoebe Hearst Cooke - $1.2 billion # Edward DeBartolo, Jr. - United States - $1.2 billion # Archie Aldis Emmerson - $1.2 billion # Frederick Field - $1.2 billion # Thomas Flatley - $1.2 billion # James France - United States - $1.2 billion # William France, Jr. - United States - $1.2 billion # Albert Frere - $1.2 billion # Soichiro Fukutake and family - $1.2 billion # Christopher Goldsbury - $1.2 billion # Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere - $1.2 billion # Austin Hearst - $1.2 billion # David Hearst, Jr. - $1.2 billion # George Randolph Hearst Jr. - $1.2 billion # Ingeburg Herz - $1.2 billion # Joachim Herz - $1.2 billion # Robert Holding - $1.2 billion # Joseph Jamail, Jr. - United States - $1.2 billion # James Jannard - $1.2 billion # Leon Levine & family - $1.2 billion # George Lindemann and family - $1.2 billion # John Marriott, Jr. - $1.2 billion # Terence Matthews - $1.2 billion # Harrison McCain - $1.2 billion # John McCaw, Jr. - $1.2 billion # Robert McLane, Jr. - $1.2 billion # Winthrop Paul Rockefeller - United States - $1.2 billion # Hermann Schnabel - $1.2 billion # Vyacheslav Sheremet - $1.2 billion # Melvin Simon - $1.2 billion # Ollen Smith - $1.2 billion # Rem Vyakhirev - $1.2 billion # Elizabeth Wiskemann - $1.2 billion # Daniel Ziff - $1.2 billion # Dirk Ziff - $1.2 billion # Robert Ziff - $1.2 billion # John Arrillaga - $1.1 billion, Jr. # Sid Bass - $1.1 billion # Scott Cook - $1.1 billion # Robert Friedland - $1.1 billion # John Gandel & family - $1.1 billion # Alan Gerry - $1.1 billion # Malcolm Glazer - United States - $1.1 billion # David Green - $1.1 billion # Pincus Green - $1.1 billion # Marguerite Harbert - $1.1 billion # Marvin Herb - $1.1 billion # Stephen Jarislowsky - $1.1 billion # William Kellogg - $1.1 billion # John Krehbiel, Jr. - $1.1 billion # Guy Laliberte - $1.1 billion # Richard Li - $1.1 billion # Gary Magness - $1.1 billion # Billy Joe McCombs - $1.1 billion # Andrei Melnichenko - $1.1 billion # Arnon Milchan - $1.1 billion # Anthony O'Reilly - $1.1 billion # Richard Peery - $1.1 billion # Marc Rich - $1.1 billion # Arthur Rock - $1.1 billion # Isaac Saba Raffoul and family - $1.1 billion # Richard Scaife - United States - $1.1 billion # Monika Schoeller - $1.1 billion # Herbert Siegel - $1.1 billion # Kenny Troutt - $1.1 billion # Dieter von Holtzbrinck - $1.1 billion # Stefan von Holtzbrinck - $1.1 billion # Charlotte Colket Weber - $1.1 billion # Oprah Winfrey - United States - $1.1 billion # Vivian Wu - $1.1 billion # Steve Wynn (developer) - United States - $1.1 billion # Larry Yung - $1.1 billion # Henry Zachry, Jr. - $1.1 billion # Anil Agarwal - $1.0 billion # Khalaf Al Habtoor - $1.0 billion # John Anderson - $1.0 billion # George Argyros - $1.0 billion # Neil Bluhm - $1.0 billion # Gary Burrell - $1.0 billion # Jason Chang & family - $1.0 billion # Turgay Ciner - $1.0 billion # Steven Cohen - $1.0 billion # Gary Comer - $1.0 billion # Roy Edward Disney - United States - $1.0 billion # Bulent Eczacibasi - $1.0 billion # William Ford, Sr. - $1.0 billion # Emilio Gnutti - $1.0 billion # John Hargreaves and family - $1.0 billion # Dietmar Hopp - $1.0 billion # Jerry Jones - $1.0 billion # Morris Kahn - $1.0 billion # Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. - $1.0 billion # Alfred Mann - $1.0 billion # Bruce McCaw - $1.0 billion # Roger Milliken - $1.0 billion # Liselott Persson - $1.0 billion # Stefano Pessina - $1.0 billion # Sergei Popov - $1.0 billion # J. K. Rowling - United Kingdom - $1.0 billion # Lily Safra - $1.0 billion # Charles Simonyi - $1.0 billion # A. Alfred Taubman - $1.0 billion # Olav Thon - $1.0 billion # Tiong Hiew King - $1.0 billion # Hope Hill Van Beuren - $1.0 billion # Dean White - $1.0 billion ==See also== * aristocracy * Forbes 400 * overclass * Sunday Times Rich List Sunday Times Rich List 2005 * superculture ===Lists=== *List of Canadians by net worth *List of Danes by net worth *List of European citizens by net worth *Korean rich list * List of heads of government and state by net worth *List of Mexicans by net worth *List of Swedes by net worth ==External links== *[http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ Forbes - The World's Richest People] *[http://www.forbes.com/2000/06/22/feat.html Forbes - The richest dictators, and where they invest their billions] Lists of people Forbes World's Richest People
List of billionaires
== Article title == I suggest renaming this page to List of US-dollar billionaires. Comments? --User:Trainspotter 12:54, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC) :No response to the above. I'll move it, assuming that if there were objections somebody would have spoken. --User:Trainspotter 14:04, 6 May 2004 (UTC) I have moved this article to list of billionaires because the phrasing list of US-dollar billionaires is very awkward. It took me a couple of seconds to figure out what was meant by that; even list of billionaires (in US dollars) would be a clearer phrasing. Anyway, the article already makes it clear in the introductory sentence that the billionaires are billionaires in US dollars, so I think the simple title list of billionaires can stand. --User:Lowellian 22:52, May 15, 2004 (UTC) === "Billion" - clarify this word's meaning === How come this word has no ambiguity in its meaning even though billion does?? User:66.245.1.229 20:20, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I think that billion is taken as 1,000,000,000 in this article. The numbers given are very confusing without this. User:Tim Ivorson 11:54, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC) My main problem with this page is that it should be List of U.S. dollar billionaires. Billionaire ''certainly'' doesn't mean "has more than one billion US dollars" in United Kingdom, and I doubt it has that meaning in many others. User:Proteus User_talk:Proteus 12:53, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I'd tend to agree, unless we doubt the accuracy of the net worths given, in which case the list should be at Forbes 400. User:Tim Ivorson 14:41, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC) :What are the alternate meanings of billion or billionaire? --User:Rj 17:22, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC) ::Well, in the UK, "billionaire" means "person with more than one billion pounds". Presumably in most of Europe it means "person with more than one billion euros". User:Proteus User_talk:Proteus 12:45, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC) :Right, sorry. But unless those articles exist, there is no need to change the name of this one as long as there is clarification in the article... unless it's changed to Forbes List... --User:Rj 00:41, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC) == Suspicion of copyright infringement == As I understand it, copyright does not cover ideas, but the way that they are expressed. I believe that all that is needed is to reword the Forbes list, if it is desired to display here who Forbes claims the richest people are. With something as simple as a list, is there any need even to reword it?User:Tim Ivorson 12:12, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC) === Copyvio discussion moved from WP:CP === *List of billionaires from [http://www.forbes.com/maserati/billionaires2004/rank.html?passListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&searchParameter1=unset&searchParameter2=unset&resultsStart=1&resultsHowMany=25&resultsSortProperties=%252Bnumberfield1%252C%252Bstringfield2&resultsSortCategoryName=Rank&passKeyword=&category1=category&category2=category] - contrary to an often-heard opinion, lists and compilations ''can'' be copyrighted, especially if it's a list like that that has to be compiled from so many sources (no milliardaire will publish his net worth). I fear that Forbes may sue the Wikipedia if it reprints this list without permission; what's worse, by placing it under GNU license, Wikipedia also offers a license to resell the list. I think in the worst case, this can lead to a lawsuit that ends in the complete liquidation of the Wikipedia. --User:Dingo 07:38, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC) **Keep. See Feist v. Rural. User:GuanacoUser talk:Guanaco 15:42, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC) **Keep. Agree with Guan after reading Feist v. Rural. This article just contains some of the info that Forbes compiled, and that raw info isn't copyrightable, even if they spent a lot of time compiling it. Copying any expressive choices that Forbes made in their manner of presenting the info would be infringement, but this article doesn't... in fact, it doesn't even take most of the data, such as age, residence, etc, so it can't be said to copy any of Forbes' expressive decisions about which data to display and in what order. - User:Eisnel 08:03, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC) ***I'm not sure about this. Firstly, a telephone directory is raw, published data. The ''compilation'' I see is that Forbes compiled data into one net worth figure; so the compilation is not the list, but the claim that Citizen Kane has a net worth of 4.567 billion. Eg, as Forbes compiled Ingvar Kamprads net worth to about 50+ billion, IKEA repudiated that in that Kamprad does not earn the firm fully, and so IKEAs net worth is not to be added to Kamprad. Secondly, is only US-law to be considered, or also laws of other english-speaking countries like GB, AU or NZ? To sum it up, you ''may'' be right - but is the Wikipedia willing to risk you're ''not''? --User:Dingo 11:51, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC) **** Non-US law is irrelevant if the source of the information was on a web server in the United States. The Wikipedia servers are in the United States and thus subject to American law. Since Forbes.com is also in the United States, it is also governed by American law. User:David Newton 15:38, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC) ****If Forbes, after much research, says that Kane is worth 4.567 billion, it's not copyvio for other news organizations to report that "Forbes says Citizen Kane makes 4.567 bil". It doesn't matter whether that number is a fact or not, Forbes could lie and it still wouldn't be illegal to report Forbes' figure. If Forbes discovered a new planet, would it be copyright infringement for other news sources to report about this planet, since it was Forbes' hard work that led to its discovery? If Forbes compiles a list of the moons that are around this planet, do they now own that list, and can they sue anybody that lists the new planet's moons? This really isn't what copyright is about, from what I understand. You're right that anytime we non-lawyers try to interpret copyright law we walk on shaky ground. You're also right that other countries might interpret this differently. But that applies to most of the images and a good number of the articles on Wikipedia. Think of all the images we use under fair use: that's US fair use law, they all might be illegal in NZ or elsewhere. We just have to do our best to interpret the most relevant and prevalent copyright laws in good faith, and strive onward. So there's my two cents. I don't want to sound harsh, I am happy that you're out there scrutinizing possible copyvio articles and trying to protect Wikipedia against unscrupulous lawyers. And your post here led to some very interesting info that I never knew before. I'm interested to hear how others interpret this situation. - User:Eisnel 15:54, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC) ''End of moved discussion'' User:Lupo 07:13, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC) == #1 == I think Bill Gates is now the second richest man. Does anybody know the name of the first? I believe its a man from sweden or something similar. : See the note attached to Ingvar Kamprad (#13). - User:Plutor 13:40, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) == Abigail Johnson == Who is Abigail Johnson? She's listed on ''Time'' magazine's 100 most influential people. User:RickKUser talk:RickK 03:16, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC) : Forbes says she's president of Fidelity Management & Research Co., which is a subcompany of Fidelity Investments, the biggest US mutual fund manager. She's expected to replace her father as CEO of the company as a whole when her father retires. [http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/21/0521fidelity.html] [http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/10/2003/LIR.jhtml?passListId=10&passYear=2003&passListType=Person&uniqueId=WTEB&datatype=Person] -- User:Cyrius|User talk:Cyrius 10:25, Apr 21, 2004 (UTC) == Douglas B. Jordan? == Number 59 Stefan Quandt (Germany - $6.5 billion) replaced with Douglas B. Jordan? - User:Jerryseinfeld 14:26, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC) :In lack of response I put Mr. Quandt back. - User:Jerryseinfeld 00:33, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Titles == About [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=List_of_billionaires&diff=8540574&oldid=8539532]. I'm not explaining this one more time, NO titles, understand? - User:Jerryseinfeld 02:18, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC) :Sir, Gerald Grosvenor is the Duke of Westminster. It is not merely a title, but part of his name. Wikipedia policy is to ignore a peerage ONLY in cases where the peerage was gained on retirement (Harold Macmillan, Margaret Thatcher) or ignored throughout one's life (Bertrand Russell). I'm afraid that you are in the wrong on this matter. User:Mackensen User_talk:Mackensen 03:02, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::I don't care if he got 100 names, I'm not going to write all of them. It sounds like the kind of nonsense that made us leave europe in the first place. - User:Jerryseinfeld 04:12, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC) :::Be that as it may, that's your POV and when it conflicts with established fact and policy the latter must and does take precedence. His name is Gerald Cavendish, 6th Duke of Wellington. Further removal of his full name may constitute vandalism. User:Mackensen User_talk:Mackensen 04:42, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::::Well my full name is Jerry The Great, so you better start addressing me properly or I'll send my vassals at you. - User:Jerryseinfeld 10:23, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Helping to Complete the Article== I have created articles for two of the people on this list recently (George Argyros and Arnon Milchan) and see that there is much work needed to be done in helping to complete this article. I think this is a very important list considering the role of money in society and I am hoping some other users would want to get organized to complete the article. I propose the work of creating articles for the remaining people on the list be divided among interested users ranging from 5-20 pending on how many users are interested. I doubt alone I will have the time or patience to complete each person promptly. Anyone interested? User:Arminius 09:08, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC) :I'll definately help out during the holidays. - User:Jerryseinfeld 10:14, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC) Ok pick 5, mine are Adolf Merckle John Abele Jeffrey Skoll Reinhold Wurth Khoo Teck Puat I'll have them done ASAP. Please complete a different 5. thanksUser:Arminius 19:20, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Liliane Bettencourt's nationality== According to the information in the linked article, she appears to be French. Why is she listed as an American here? User:MK2 07:06, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==2005== Someone should update the list for 2005 [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050310.wforbz0311/BNStory/Business/?pageRequested=2] --User:Madchester 07:45, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC) ==People waiting to be sorted== There's a lot of people at the bottom of the list waiting to be sorted. Question - when breaking a tie is necessaery (which it often is near the bottom of the list) how should we do so? User:PakaranUser talk:Pakaran 12:56, 2 May 2005 (UTC) *I've had to break quite a few ties; I recompiled most of the top 300 for 2005. I did it alphabetically by family name. User:Dale Arnett 05:28, 21 May 2005 (UTC) ==Proposed changes== *the list is made in to a html table
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