Search
 
Write
 
Forums
 
Login
"Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong; they are the ones to attain felicity".
(surah Al-Imran,ayat-104)
Image Not found for user
User Name: webmaster
Full Name: webmaster
User since: 1/Jan/2007
No Of voices: 154
 
 Views: 1967   
 Replies: 1   
 Share with Friend  
 Post Comment  
The World
(Men)
 TOP 10 - World's Richest Men ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. William Gates III (world's richest person - for 12 years in a row!)
$50.0 billion
Microsoft
USA
50yo - Married, 3 children  
2. Warren Buffett
$42.0 billion
Berkshire Hathaway
USA
75yo - Widowed, 3 children  
3. Carlos Slim Helu
$30.0 billion
Telecom
Mexico
66yo - Widowed, 6 children
4. Ingvar Kamprad
$28.0 billion
Ikea (retail)
Sweden
79yo - Married, 4 children
5. Lakshmi Mittal
$23.5 billion
Mittal Steel (manufacturing steel)
India
55yo - Married, 2 children
6. Paul Allen
$22.0 billion
Microsoft, investments  
USA
53yo - Single, 0 children  
7. Bernard Arnault
$21.5 billion
LVMH
France
57yo - Married, 5 children
8. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud
$20.0 billion
investments
Saudi Arabia
49yo - Divorced, 2 children
9. Kenneth Thomson & family
$19.6 billion
publishing
Canada
82yo - Married, 3 children
1. Li Ka-shing
$18.8 billion
diversified
Hong Kong
77yo - Widowed, 2 children
The World
(women)
TOP 10 - World's Richest Women ... (9 March 2006) . Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Liliane Bettencourt
$16.0 billion
L'Oreal
France
83yo - Married, 1 child
1. Christy Walton
$15.9 billion
Wal-Mart
USA
51yo - Widowed, 1 child
2. Alice Walton
$15.7 billion
(inheritance) Wal-Mart
USA
56yo - Divorced
3. Helen Walton
$15.6 billion
Wal-Mart
USA
86yo - Widowed, 4 children
4. Abigail Johnson
$12.5 billion
Fidelity investments
USA
44yo - Married, 2 children
5. Barbara Cox Anthony
$12.4 billion
media/entertainment
USA
82yo - Married, 2 children
6. Anne Cox Chambers
$12.4 billion
media/entertainment
USA
86yo - Divorced, 3 children
7. Jacqueline Mars
$10.0 billion
candy (incl. Mars bar)
USA
66yo - Divorced, 3 children
3. Birgit Rausing & family
$8.6 billion
Tetra Laval (packaging manufacture)
Sweden
82yo - Widowed, 3 children
5. Susanne Klatten
$8.1 billion
BMW
Germany
43yo - Married, 3 children
China
TOP 10 - China's Richest People ... (25 January 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Head Office
Personal
1. Larry Rong Zhijian
$1.64 billion
CITIC Pacific Group (steel, property, power)
Hong Kong
63yo
2. Zhu Mengyi & family
$1.43 billion
Hopson Development (real estate & investment)
Guangdong
46yo
3. William Ding Lei
$1.27billion
Netease.com (internet portal & online games)
Beijing
34yo
4. Wong Kwong Yu
$1.25 billion
Gome Appliances (& real estate)
Beijing
36yo
5. Liu Yongxing
$1.16 billion
East Hope Group (animal feed, finance, aluminium)
Shanghai
57yo
6. Liu Yonghao
$1.12 billion
New Hope Group (animal feed, finance, real estate)
Chengdu
54yo
7. Guo Guangchang
$1.09 billion
Fosun High-Tech Group (retail, media, real estate)
Shanghai
38yo
8. Xu Ming
$1.05 billion
Shide Group (insurance & banking)
Dalian
34yo
9. Hui Wing Mau
$1.00 billion
Shimao Group (real estate)
Shanghai/H.K.
55yo
10. Chen Tianqiao
$1.00 billion
Shanda Interactive Entertainment (online games)
Shanghai
32yo
 
Hong Kong
TOP 10 - Hong Kong's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Li Ka-shing
$18.8 billion
diversified
Hong Kong
77yo - Widowed, 2 children
2. Raymond, Thomas & Walter Kwok
$11.6 billion
real estate
Hong Kong
n/a - n/a
3. Lee Shau Kee
$11.0 billion
real estate
Hong Kong
78yo - Married, 5 children
4. Stanley Ho
$6.5 billion
Macau Casino
Hong Kong
84yo - Married, 17 children!!!
5. Cheng Yu-tung
$5.1 billion
New World Development (real estate)
Hong Kong  
80yo - Married, 2 children
6. Nina Wang (Notoriously frugal and paranoid, spends $650 a month and travels with a platoon of 50 bodyguards.)
$4.2 billion
real estate
Hong Kong
n/a - Widowed?, 0 children (husband kidnapped in 1990)
7. Michael Kadoorie & family
$3.8 billion
diversified
Hong Kong
65yo - married
8. Henry Fok
$3.7 billion
Macao casino
Hong Kong
82yo - Married
9. Michael Ying
$2.7 billion
Esprit (apparel)
Hong Kong
56yo - Married
10. Chen Din Hwa
$2.6 billion
real estate
Hong Kong
83yo - n/a, 0 children
India
TOP 10 - India's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) . Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Lakshmi Mittal
$23.5 billion
Mittal Steel (manufacturing steel)
UK, London
55yo - Married, 2 children
2. Azim Premji
$13.3 billion
Wipro (software)  
Bangalore
60yo - Married, 2 children
3. Mukesh Ambani
$8.5 billion
diversified (manufacturing)  
Mumbai
48yo - Married, 3 children
4. Anil Ambani
$5.7 billion
diversified (manufacturing)  
Mumbai
46yo - Married, 2 children
5. Kushal Pal Singh
$5.0 billion
real estate
Delhi
74yo - Married, 3 children
6. Sunil Mittal
$4.9 billion
Telecom
Delhi
48yo - Married, 3 children
7. Kumar Birla
$4.4 billion
commodities (copper & aluminium)
Mumbai  
38yo - Married, 2 children
8. Shiv Nadar
$4.0 billion
technology
New Delhi
60yo - Married, 1 child
9. Pallonji Mistry
$3.6 billion
construction
Mumbai
76yo - Married, 4 children
10. Anurag Dikshit (is this for real?)
$3.3 billion
online gambling
Gibraltar
34yo - Married, 1 child
 
Malaysia
TOP 8 - Malaysia's Billionaires... (9 March 2006) . Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Robert Kuok
$5.0 billion
diversified (including Shangri-la hotels)
Hong Kong
82yo - Married, 8 children
2. Ananda Krishnan
$4.3 billion
diversified
Kuala Lumpur
67yo - Married, 3 children
3. Lim Goh Tong (high school drop out)
$2.8 billion
gaming
Kuala Lumpur
88yo - Married, 6 children
4. Teh Hong Piow
$2.1 billion
banking (Public Bank's Islamic banking is interest-free because Islam prohibits taking or giving interest)
Kuala Lumpur
76yo - Married, 4 children
5. Quek Leng Chan
$2.0 billion
banking
Wee
65yo - Married, 3 children
6. Lee Shin Cheng
$1.6 billion
agriculture
Jeram
66yo - Married, 6 children
7. Yeoh Tiong Lay & family
$1.1 billion
construction
Malaysia
76yo - Married, 0 children
8. Tiong Hiew King
$1.0 billion
timber
Sibu
70yo - Married, 3 children
Russia
TOP 10 - Russia's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) . Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Roman Abramovich
$18.2 billion
oil (fled Russia in 2000 to escape fraud charges)
UK, London
39yo - Married, 5 children
2. Vagit Alekperov
$11.0 billion
Lukoil (oil)
Moscow
55yo - Married, 1 child
3. Vladimir Lisin
$10.7 billion
Novolipetsk steel mill
Moscow
49yo - Married, 3 children
4. Viktor Vekselberg
$10.0 billion
oil / metals (laying low to avoid Kremlin scrutiny)
Moscow
48yo - Married, 2 children
5. Mikhail Fridman
$9.7 billion
oil / banking
Moscow
41yo - Married, 2 children
6. Oleg Deripaska
$7.8 billion
Russian Aluminum (Married into family of former President Yeltsin)
Moscow
37yo - Married
7. Alexei Mordashov
$7.6 billion
Severstal (steel)
Moscow
40yo - Married, 3 children
8. Suleiman Kerimov
$7.1 billion
stocks
Moscow
40yo - Married, 3 children
9. Vladimir Potanin
$6.4 billion
metals
Moscow
45yo - Married, 3 children
10. Mikhail Prokhorov
$6.4 billion
metals (often featured in gossip pages for his parties)
Moscow
40yo - Single
 Reply:   Remaining List of richest pers
Replied by(webmaster) Replied on (30/Sep/2006)
As whole article was too long to be post in ne go
Saudi Arabia
TOP 10 - Saudi Arabia's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) . Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud (nephew of the Saudi king )
$20.0 billion
investments
Riyadh
49yo - Divorced, 2 children
2. Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi
$11.0 billion
banking
Jeddah
86yo - Married, 23 children
(yes ... 23!!!!)
3. Mohammed Al Amoudi (Born in Ethiopia)
$6.9 billion
oil
Jeddah
60yo - Married, 0 children
4. Saleh Bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
$6.5 billion
banking
Jeddah
94yo - Married, 61 children (yes, 61!!!! - 22 sons, 39 daughters, from 7 wives)
5. Saleh Kamel (denies allegations of ties to Osama bin Laden brought in two Sept. 11th related lawsuits)
$5.0 billion
diversified (banking/media)
Makkah Al-Minkarramah
64yo - Married, 0 children
6. Saad Hariri (second son of Rafik Hariri, slain prime minister of Lebanon )
$4.1 billion
inherited, construction, investments
Riyadh
35yo - Married, 2 children
7. Abdullah Al Rajhi
$3.8 billion
banking
Saudi Arabia
n/a - Married, 0 children
8. Khalid Bin Mahfouz & family
$3.2 billion
banking
Jeddah
59yo - Married, 3 children
9. Ayman Hariri (One of five children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik )
$2.7 billion
inheritance
Riyadh
27yo - Married, 1 child
10. Mohammed Al Issa
$2.3 billion
food
Saudi Arabia
n/a - 0 children
 
 
Switzerland
TOP 8- Switzerland' s Billionaires... (9 March 2006) . Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Ernesto Bertarelli
$5.8 billion
Sereno (biotech) - yachtsman who won the America's Cup in 2003
Geneva
39yo - Married, 2 children
2. Thomas Schmidheiny
$3.8 billion
Holcim (cement)
Balgach
59yo - Married, 4 children
3. Walter Haefner
$4.3 billion
Computer Associates (software)
Zurich
94yo - Married, 2 children
4. Bahaa Hariri (Eldest son of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik)
$4.1 billion
inheritance
Geneva
39yo - Married, 0 children
5. Stephan Schmidheiny
$2.8 billion
investments
Zurich
57yo - Married, 2 children
6. Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte
$2.5 billion
Mediterranean Shipping Company
Geneva
n/a - Married, 2 children
7. Nicolas Hayek
$2.5 billion
Swatch (world's largest manufacturer of finished watches with 156 factories)
Biel
77yo - Married, 2 children
8. Sergio Mantegazza
$3.0 billion
Globus & Cosmos (travel)
Lugano
77yo - Married, 1 child
Turkey
United Kingdom
TOP 10 - United Kingdom's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) . Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Philip & Cristina Green
$7.0 billion
retail (Acadia Group)
Monaco
n/a - Married, 2 children
2. Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family
(6th Duke of Westminister)
$6.0 billion
real estate (incl. Mayfair)
Chester
54yo - Married, 4 children
3. David & Simon Reuben (two brothers born in Bombay )
$3.6 billion
investments, real estate
London
n/a - 3 children
4. Bernard Ecclestone & family
$3.4 billion
Formula One (car racing)
London
75yo - Married, 2 children
5. David & Frederick Barclay (twins)
$2.8 billion
media, retail (manage their businesses from the island tax haven of Jersey)
Island of Brecquou
n/a - n/a
6. Richard Branson (high school dropout)
$2.8 billion
Virgin (airlines, etc)
London
55yo - Married, 2 children
7. Charles Cadogan & family
$2.8 billion
real estate
London
69yo - Married, 3 children
8. Bruno Schroder & family
$2.5 billion
Schroders Plc. (banking)
London
73yo - Separated, 1 child
9. Clive Calder
$2.4 billion
Zomba Recordings (incl. Britney Spears, 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys )
Cayman Islands
59yo - Married, 2 children
10. Nadhmi Auchi
$2.0 billion
diversified
London
68yo - Married, 4 children
United States
(men)
TOP 10 - USA's Richest Men ... (9 March 2006) . Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. William Gates III
$50.0 billion
Microsoft
WA, Medina
50yo - Married, 3 children  
2. Warren Buffett
$42.0 billion
Berkshire Hathaway
NE, Omaha
75yo - Widowed, 3 children  
3. Paul Allen
$22.0 billion
Microsoft, investments  
WA, Seattle
53yo - Single, 0 children  
4. Michael Dell
$17.1 billion
Dell (world's biggest PC maker)
TX, Austin
41yo - Married, 4 children
5. Sheldon Adelson
$16.1 billion
casinos, hotels
NV, Las Vegas
72yo - Married, 5 children
6. Lawrence Ellison
$16.0 billion
Oracle (database s'ware)
CA, Silicon Valley
61yo - Married, 2 children
7. Jim Walton
$15.9 billion
Wal-Mart
AR, Bentonville
58yo - Married, 4 children
8. S Robson Walton
$15.8 billion
Wal-Mart
AR, Bentonville
62yo - Divorced, 3 children
9. Steven Ballmer
$13.6 billion
Microsoft
WA, Redmond
50yo - Married, 2 children
10. Sergey Brin
$12.9 billion
Google
CA, San Francisco
32yo - Single, 0 children  
United States
(women)
TOP 10 - USA's Richest Women ... (9 March 2006) . Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Christy Walton
$15.9 billion
Wal-Mart (husband, John Walton, died in an ultra-light aircraft crash 5th June 2005)
WY, Jackson
51yo - Widowed, 1 child
2. Alice Walton
$15.7 billion
(inheritance) Wal-Mart
TX , Fort Worth
56yo - Divorced
3. Helen Walton
$15.6 billion
Wal-Mart
AR, Bentonville
86yo - Widowed, 4 children
4. Abigail Johnson
$12.5 billion
Fidelity investments
MA, Boston
44yo - Married, 2 children
5. Barbara Cox Anthony
$12.4 billion
media/entertainment
HI, Honolulu
82yo - Married, 2 children
6. Anne Cox Chambers
$12.4 billion
media/entertainment
GA, Atlanta
86yo - Divorced, 3 children
7. Jacqueline Mars
$10.0 billion
candy (incl. Mars bar)
NJ, Bedminster
66yo - Divorced, 3 children
8. Martha Ingram & family
$2.7 billion
Ingram Industries
TN, Nashville
70yo - Widowed, 4 children
9. Barbara Piasecka Johnson
$2.6 billion
Johnson & Johnson
Monaco, Monte Carlo
69yo - Widowed
10. Barbara Davis & family
$2.5 billion
inheritance (oil)
CA, Beverly Hills
76yo - Widowed, 5 children
Under 35
TOP 11 - Billionaires Under 35yo ... (9 March 2006) . Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. Sergey Brin
$12.9 billion
Google (internet gateway)
USA
32yo - Single, 0 children  
2. Larry Page
$12.8 billion
Google (internet gateway)
USA
33yo - Single, 0 children
3. Anurag Dikshit
$3.3 billion
online gambling
India
34yo - Married, 1 child
4. Fahd Hariri (youngest son of Rafik Hariri)
$2.7 billion
inheritance
Lebanon
25yo - Single, 0 children
9. Ayman Hariri (one of five children of slain Lebanese prime minister Rafik )
$2.7 billion
inheritance
Riyadh
27yo - Married, 1 child
6. Andrei Melnichenko (uni dropout)
$2.7 billion
banking, energy
Russia
34yo - Married, 0 children
7. Sergei Popov
$2.7 billion
banking, energy
Russia
34yo - Married, 0 children
8. Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (lives in one of the family castles)
$1.9 billion
inherited, diversified
Germany
22yo - Single, 0 children
9. Daniel Ziff
$1.5 billion
inheritance, hedge funds
USA
34yo - Single, 0 children
10. Hind Hariri (Youngest child of Rafik Hariri and YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE)
$1.4 billion
inheritance
Lebanon
22yo - Single, 0 children
11. Henrique Constantino
$1.1 billion
GOL airlines
Brazil
34yo - n/a, 0 children
Celebrity Billionaires
TOP Celebrity Billionaires... (9 March 2006) . Wealth in USD$
Name
Wealth
Source
Citizenship
Personal
1. George Lucas
$3.5 billion
Star Wars (director/producer)
USA
61yo - Divorced, 3 children
2. Steven Spielberg
$2.8 billion
movies (director/producer) - incl. War of the Worlds, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Men in Black, etc
USA
59yo - Married, 7 children
3. Oprah Winfrey
$1.4 billion
The Oprah Winfrey Show (Miss Black Tennessee age 19)
USA
52yo - Single
4. Joanne (JK) Rowling
$1.0 billion
Harry Potter (6 Harry Potter books have sold 310 million copies; grossed over $3 billion in movie/DVD sales)
UK/Scotland
40yo - Married, 2 children

 
Please send your suggestion/submission to webmaster@makePakistanBetter.com
Long Live Islam and Pakistan
Site is best viewed at 1280*800 resolution