Forbes list of billionaires (2006)
The following is a list of billionaires, in United States dollars, worldwide for 2006 compiled by Forbes, not including heads of state whose wealth is tied to their position (see list of heads of government and state by net worth). In 2006, there are 793 billionaires from 49 countries, with more than half being in the United States and Germany. 2006 saw an increase in billionaires from Russia, India, and Brazil mainly due to economic growth in those countries.
Top two hundred billionaires (reported by Forbes)
- Bill Gates ($53 billion) USA
- Daryl Ashby ($51 billion) UK
- Warren Buffett ($46 billion) USA
- Brett Shepherd ($45 billion) UK
- Carlos Slim Helú ($37.6 billion) Mexico
- Ingvar Kamprad ($28 billion) Sweden
- Lakshmi Mittal ($27.7 billion) India
- Paul Allen ($22 billion) USA
- Bernard Arnault ($21.5 billion) France
- Prince Al-Waleed ($20 billion) Saudi Arabia
- The Lord Thomson of Fleet ($19.6 billion) Canada
- Note: Kenneth Thomson died on June 12th, 2006. His son, David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet is expected to inherit the entirety of his father's estate. Due to changes in the value of the Canadian Dollar he may have been richer than shown at the time of his death.
- Li Ka-shing ($18.8 billion) China (Hong Kong)
- Roman Abramovich ($18.2 billion) Russia
- Michael Dell ($17.1 billion) USA
- Karl Albrecht ($17 billion) Germany
- Sheldon Adelson ($16.1 billion)
- Liliane Bettencourt ($16 billion)
- Larry Ellison ($16 billion) USA
- Christy Walton ($15.9 billion)
- Jim Walton ($15.9 billion) USA
- S. Robson Walton ($15.8 billion) USA
- Alice Walton ($15.7 billion) USA
- Helen Walton ($15.6 billion) USA
- Theo Albrecht ($15.2 billion) Germany
- Amancio Ortega ($14.8 billion) Spain
- Steven Ballmer ($13.6 billion) USA
- Azim Premji ($13.3 billion) India
- Sergey Brin ($12.9 billion) USA
- Larry Page ($12.8 billion) USA
- Abigail Johnson ($12.5 billion)
- Nasser Al-Kharafi & family ($12.4 billion)
- Barbara Cox Anthony ($12.4 billion)
- Anne Cox Chambers ($12.4 billion)
- Stefan Persson ($12.3 billion)
- Charles Koch ($12 billion)
- David H. Koch ($12 billion)
- Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok ($11.6 billion)
- Adolf Merckle ($11.5 billion)
- Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi ($11 billion)
- Vagit Alekperov ($11 billion)
- Silvio Berlusconi ($11 billion)
- Lee Shau Kee ($11 billion)
- Vladimir Lisin ($10.7 billion)
- Michael Otto & family ($10.4 billion)
- Pierre Omidyar ($10.1 billion)
- Leonardo Del Vecchio ($10 billion)
- Michele Ferrero & family ($10 billion)
- Forrest Mars Jr. ($10 billion)
- Jacqueline Mars ($10 billion)
- John Mars ($10 billion)
- Viktor Vekselberg ($10 billion)
- Mikhail Fridman ($9.7 billion)
- Spiro Latsis & family ($9.1 billion)
- John Kluge ($9 billion)
- Carl Icahn ($8.7 billion)
- Kirk Kerkorian ($8.7 billion)
- Birgit Rausing & family ($8.6 billion)
- Mukesh Ambani ($8.5 billion) India
- Serge Dassault & family ($8.5 billion)
- Hans Rausing ($8.5 billion)
- Galen Weston & family ($8.4 billion)
- Susanne Klatten ($8.1 billion)
- Rudolf August Oetker & family ($8 billion)
- Oleg Deripaska ($7.8 billion)
- Sumner Redstone ($7.7 billion)
- Alexei Mordashov ($7.6 billion)
- Donald Newhouse ($7.5 billion)
- Samuel Newhouse Jr ($7.5 billion)
- Alain & Gerard Wertheimer ($7.5 billion)
- Reinhold Würth ($7.5 billion)
- Joseph & Moise Safra ($7.4 billion)
- Philip Knight ($7.3 billion)
- George Soros ($7.2 billion)
- Ernesto Bertarelli ($7.1 billion)
- Suleiman Kerimov ($7.1 billion)
- Philip & Cristina Green ($7 billion)
- Francois Pinault ($7 billion)
- August von Finck ($7 billion)
- Mohammed Al Amoudi ($6.9 billion)
- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family ($6.9 billion)
- Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler ($6.8 billion)
- Charles Ergen ($6.7 billion)
- Edward Johnson, III ($6.7 billion)
- Lee Kun-hee & family ($6.6 billion)
- Stefan Quandt ($6.6 billion)
- Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi ($6.5 billion)
- Rafael del Pino & family ($6.5 billion)
- Stanley Ho ($6.5 billion)
- Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller ($6.5 billion)
- Rupert Murdoch ($6.5 billion)
- Philip Anschutz ($6.4 billion)
- Hasso Plattner ($6.4 billion)
- Vladimir Potanin ($6.4 billion)
- Mikhail Prokhorov ($6.4 billion)
- Vladimir Yevtushenkov ($6.3 billion)
- Micky Arison ($6.1 billion)
- Curt Engelhorn ($6.1 billion)
- Friedrich Karl Flick ($6.1 billion)
- German Khan ($6.1 billion)
- Ronald Perelman ($6.1 billion)
- Johanna Quandt ($6.1 billion)
- Dan Duncan ($6 billion)
- Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family ($6 billion)
- Jack C. Taylor ($6 billion)
- Eli Broad ($5.9 billion)
- Anil Ambani ($5.7 billion) India
- Donald Bren ($5.7 billion)
- James, Arthur and John E. Irving (5.5 billion)
- Yasuo Takei & family ($5.4 billion)
- YC Wang ($5.4 bilion)
- Shari Arison ($5.2 billion)
- Kunio Busujima & family ($5.2 billion)
- Nikolai Tsvetkov ($5.2 billion)
- Michael Bloomberg ($5.1 billion)
- Cheung Yu-tung ($5.1 billion)
- Leonard Blavatnik ($5 billion)
- Gustavo Cisneros & family ($5 billion)
- Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken ($5 billion)
- John Fredriksen ($5 billion)
- Saleh Kamel ($5 billion)
- Karl-Heinz Kipp ($5 billion)
- Robert Kuok ($5 billion)
- John Menard, Jr. ($5 billion)
- James Packer ($5 billion)
- Kusahl Pal Singh ($5 billion)
- Jeffrey Skoll ($5 billion)
- Alexander Abramov ($4.9 billion)
- Erivan Haub & family ($4.9 billion)
- Lorenzo Mendoza & family ($4.9 billion)
- Sunil Mittal ($4.9 billion) India
- Alexei Kuzmichov ($4.8 billion)
- Robert Rowling ($4.8 billion)
- Onsi Sawiris ($4.8 billion)
- Eric Schmidt ($4.8 billion)
- Nobutada Saji & family ($4.7 billion)
- Jeronimo Arango ($4.6 billion)
- Nicky Oppenheimer & family ($4.6 billion)
- Iskander Makhmudov ($4.5 billion)
- Akira Mori & family ($4.5 billion)
- Julio Mario Santo Domingo ($4.5 billion)
- Shin Kyuk-Ho & family ($4.5 billion)
- Kumar Birla ($4.4 billion) India
- David Geffen ($4.4 billion)
- Steve Jobs ($4.4 billion)
- George Kaiser ($4.4 billion)
- Luis Carlos Sarmiento ($4.4 billion)
- Thomas Schmidheiny ($4.4 billion)
- Ty Warner ($4.4 billion)
- Jeff Bezos ($4.3 billion)
- Terry Gou ($4.3 billion)
- Walter Haefner ($4.3 billion)
- Charles Johnson ($4.3 billion)
- Ananda Krishnan ($4.3 billion) Malaysia
- Reinhard Mohn & family ($4.3 billion)
- Ross Perot ($4.3 billion)
- Jean-Claude Decaux ($4.2 billion)
- Eitaro Itoyama ($4.2 billion)
- Nina Wang ($4.2 billion)
- Tadashi Yanai ($4.2 billion)
- Giorgio Armani ($4.1 billion)
- Vladimir Bagdanov ($4.1 billion)
- Lester Crown & family ($4.1 billion)
- James Goodnight ($4.1 billion)
- Bahha Hariri ($4.1 billion)
- Saad Hariri ($4.1 billion)
- Antonia Johnson ($4.1 billion)
- Klaus-Michael Kühne ($4.1 billion)
- Eliodoro Matte & family ($4.1 billion)
- Richard M. Schulze ($4.1 billion)
- Leonid Fedun ($4 billion)
- David Murdock ($4 billion)
- Shiv Nadar ($4 billion) India
- Madeleine Schickedanz ($4 billion)
- Charles R. Schwab ($4 billion)
- Boris Ivanishvili ($3.9 billion)
- Abdullah Al Rajhi ($3.8 billion)
- Paul Desmarais ($3.8 billion)
- Aloysio de Andrade Faria ($3.8 billion)
- Michael Kadoorie & family ($3.8 billion)
- Frank Lowy & family ($3.8 billion)
- Ng Teng Fong ($3.8 billion) Singapore
- James Sorenson ($3.8 billion)
- Anacleto Angelini ($3.7 billion)
- Henry Fok ($3.7 billion)
- Gordon Moore ($3.7 billion)
- Bernard Sherman ($3.7 billion)
- Masatoshi Ito ($3.6 billion)
- Rupert Johnson, Jr. ($3.6 billion)
- Kwek Leng Beng & family ($3.6 billion)
- Ralph Lauren ($3.6 billion)
- Pallonji Mistry ($3.6 billion) India
- Viktor Rashnikov ($3.6 billion)
- David & Simon Reuben ($3.6 billion)
- Andreas Strüngmann ($3.6 billion)
- Thomas Strüngmann ($3.6 billion)
- William Davidson ($3.5 billion)
- Bradley Hughes ($3.5 billion)
- Edward Lampert ($3.5 billion)
- Alexander Lebedev ($3.5 billion)
- George Lucas ($3.5 billion)
- Jim Pattison ($3.5 billion)
- Robert Bass ($3.4 billion)
- Note: all amounts are in United States dollars.
See also
References
- Forbes.com (2006) Forbes.com's list of the 25 richest people. Retrieved March 13, 2006.
- Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited (2006). Billionaires are dime a dozen on Forbes rich list. Retrieved March 13, 2006.