WORLD RICHEST PEOPLE

1 Carlos Slim Helu & family $69 B 72 telecom Mexico 2 Bill Gates $61 B 56 Microsoft United States 3 Warren Buffett $44 B 81 Berkshire Hathaway United States 4 Bernard Arnault $41 B 63 LVMH France 5 Amancio Ortega $37.5 B 75 Zara Spain 6 Larry Ellison $36 B 67 Oracle United States 7 Eike Batista $30 B 55 mining, oil Brazil 8 Stefan Persson $26 B 64 H&M Sweden 9 Li Ka-shing $25.5 B 83 diversified Hong Kong 10 Karl Albrecht $25.4 B 92 Aldi Germany 11 Christy Walton & family $25.3 B 57 Wal-Mart United States 12 Charles Koch $25 B 76 diversified United States 12 David Koch $25 B 71 diversified United States 14 Sheldon Adelson $24.9 B 78 casinos United States 15 Liliane Bettencourt $24 B 89 L'Oreal France 16 Jim Walton $23.7 B 64 Wal-Mart United States 17 Alice Walton $23.3 B 62 Wal-Mart United States 18 S. Robson Walton $23.1 B 68 Wal-Mart United States 19 Mukesh Ambani $22.3 B 54 petrochemicals, oil & gas India 20 Michael Bloomberg $22 B 70 Bloomberg LP United States 21 Lakshmi Mittal $20.7 B 61 steel India 22 George Soros $20 B 81 hedge funds United States 23 Michele Ferrero & family $19 B 85 chocolates Italy 24 Sergey Brin $18.7 B 38 Google United States 24 Larry Page $18.7 B 39 Google United States 26 Jeff Bezos $18.4 B 48 Amazon.com United States 27 Thomas & Raymond Kwok & family $18.3 B 0 real estate Hong Kong 28 Alisher Usmanov $18.1 B 58 steel, telecom, investments Russia 29 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud $18 B 57 investments Saudi Arabia 29 Lee Shau Kee $18 B 84 diversified Hong Kong 29 Georgina Rinehart $18 B 58 Mining Australia 32 Berthold & Theo Jr. Albrecht $17.8 B 0 Aldi, Trader Joe's Germany 32 Iris Fontbona & family $17.8 B 69 mining Chile 34 Michael Otto & family $17.6 B 68 retail, real estate Germany 35 David Thomson & family $17.5 B 54 media Canada 35 Mark Zuckerberg $17.5 B 27 Facebook United States 37 Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family $17.4 B 56 retail, media Mexico 38 Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez & family $16.5 B 80 mining Mexico 39 Rinat Akhmetov $16 B 45 steel, coal Ukraine 39 Cheng Yu-tung $16 B 86 diversified Hong Kong 41 Michael Dell $15.9 B 47 Dell United States 41 Vladimir Lisin $15.9 B 55 steel, transport Russia 41 Azim Premji $15.9 B 66 software India 44 Steve Ballmer $15.7 B 56 Microsoft United States 45 Alexey Mordashov $15.3 B 46 steel, investments Russia 46 Vladimir Potanin $14.5 B 51 metals Russia 47 Phil Knight $14.4 B 74 Nike United States 48 Paul Allen $14.2 B 59 Microsoft, investments United States 48 German Larrea Mota Velasco & family $14.2 B 58 mining Mexico 50 Carl Icahn $14 B 76 leveraged buyouts United States 50 Birgit Rausing & family $14 B 88 packaging Sweden 52 Forrest Mars Jr $13.8 B 80 candy United States 52 Jacqueline Mars $13.8 B 72 candy United States 52 John Mars $13.8 B 75 candy United States 52 Joseph Safra $13.8 B 73 banking Brazil 56 Vagit Alekperov $13.5 B 61 Lukoil Russia 57 Mikhail Fridman $13.4 B 47 oil, banking, telecom Russia 58 Mikhail Prokhorov $13.2 B 46 investments Russia 59 Susanne Klatten $13 B 49 BMW, pharmaceuticals Germany 59 Francois Pinault & family $13 B 75 retail France 61 Mohammed Al Amoudi $12.5 B 67 oil, diversified Saudi Arabia 61 Anne Cox Chambers $12.5 B 92 media United States 61 John Paulson $12.5 B 56 hedge funds United States 64 Robert Kuok $12.4 B 88 diversified Malaysia 64 Luis Carlos Sarmiento $12.4 B 79 banking Colombia 64 Viktor Vekselberg $12.4 B 54 oil, metals Russia 67 Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family $12.2 B 83 diversified Brazil 68 Roman Abramovich $12.1 B 45 steel, investments Russia 69 Donald Bren $12 B 79 real estate United States 69 Jorge Paulo Lemann $12 B 72 beer Brazil 69 Ronald Perelman $12 B 69 leveraged buyouts United States 72 Len Blavatnik $11.9 B 54 diversified United States 72 Leonid Mikhelson $11.9 B 56 gas, chemicals Russia 74 Leonardo Del Vecchio $11.5 B 76 eyewear Italy 75 John Fredriksen $11.3 B 67 shipping Cyprus 76 Aliko Dangote $11.2 B 54 sugar, flour, cement Nigeria 76 Stefan Quandt $11.2 B 45 BMW Germany 78 Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family $11 B 60 real estate United Kingdom 78 Harold Hamm $11 B 66 oil & gas United States 80 Savitri Jindal & family $10.9 B 62 steel India 81 Andrey Melnichenko $10.8 B 40 coal, fertilizers Russia 82 James Simons $10.7 B 73 hedge funds United States 83 Ernesto Bertarelli & family $10.6 B 46 biotech, investments Switzerland 84 Jack Taylor & family $10.4 B 89 Enterprise Rent-A-Car United States 85 Abigail Johnson $10.3 B 50 Fidelity United States 86 Robin Li $10.2 B 43 Technology China 86 Eliodoro, Bernardo & Patricia Matte $10.2 B 0 paper Chile 88 Ray Dalio $10 B 62 hedge funds United States 88 George Kaiser $10 B 69 oil & gas, banking United States 88 Johanna Quandt $10 B 85 BMW Germany 88 Hans Rausing $10 B 86 packaging Sweden 88 Tadashi Yanai & family $10 B 63 retail Japan 93 Serge Dassault & family $9.9 B 86 aviation France 93 Ananda Krishnan $9.9 B 73 telecoms Malaysia 95 Klaus-Michael Kuhne $9.8 B 74 shipping Germany 96 Pallonji Mistry $9.7 B 82 construction Ireland 97 Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila $9.5 B 35 beer Colombia 98 Horst Paulmann & family $9.3 B 77 retail Chile 99 Gennady Timchenko $9.1 B 59 oil & gas Russia 100 Laurene Powell Jobs & family $9 B 48 Apple, Disney United States