Carl Icahn
$19 billion
Profession: Businessperson | Financier | Investor
Date of Birth: 1936-02-16
Nicknames: Carl C Icahn, ICAHN CARL C ET AL, ICAHN CARL C
Ethnicity: Jewish people, Caucasian race
Country: Brooklyn
ABOUT Carl Icahn is a businessman, financier and company chairman who has a net worth of $19 billion. Carl Icahn earned his net worth through the many companies where he serves as chairman, his ownership of Adventrix Pharmaceuticals and Vector Group, plus his many shares in various companies. He was born in Queens, New York City, New York
Gina Rinehart
Gina Rinehart
Net worth of $18.9 billion
Profession: Businessperson
Date of Birth: 1954-02-09
Nicknames: Georgina Rinehart, Georgina Hope Hancock
Country: Perth
ABOUT
Gina Rinehart is an billionaire Australian mining heiress who has a net worth of $18.9 billion. Gina Rinehart inherited the Hancock Prospecting company from her father Lang Hancock. Many recent evaluations of her wealth claim her net worth tops that of Carlos Slim (~$74 Billion), as she owns her company outright with no shareholders. Her operations of coal and iron production are estimated to produce $10 billion in annual profits. When you put her privately held mining operations at a comparable 11-1 price to earnings ratio (as compared to similar publicly traded companies), her net worth could approach $100 billion making her not only the richest woman in the world, but the richest person in the world!
Leonardo Del Vecchio
$18.9 billion
Profession: Businessperson
Date of Birth: 1935-05-22
Country: Milan
ABOUT
Leonardo Del Vecchio is an Italian businessman who has a net worth of $18.9 billion. Leonardo Del Vecchio is the founder and chairman of Luxottica, the world's largest producer and retailer of sunglasses and prescription glasses. Luxottica's US chains include Sunglass Hut and LensCrafters, as well as brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley. With the growth of the middle class in emerging markets like China, Luxottica's customer base grew as well. This made company's share price go up along with Del Vecchio's net worth. Before becoming the 2nd richest person in Italy, Del Vecchio had a pretty tough life, being sent to orphanage at a young age of 7 after his father died. He made his career beginnings as an apprentice at a Milan-based factory, which was a tool and dye maker. In 1961 he moved to Agordo, where he started selling complete eyeglass frames under the Luxottica brand. Doing good in his business, he eventually created the Luxottica company, which now has 65,000 employees, owns 7,100 optical and sun-glass retail stores. Leonardo Del Vecchio is married with six children and his son Claudio owns US men's retailer Brooks Brothers, which licenses glasses from Luxottica.
Theo Albrecht
$18.8 billion
Profession: Entrepreneur | Businessperson
Date of Birth: 1922-03-28
Nicknames: Theodor Paul Albrecht
Ethnicity: Germans
Country: Essen
ABOUT
Theo Albrecht was a German entrepreneur who had a net worth of $18.8 billion. Theo Albrecht ran Aldi with his brother Karl, with Theo running Aldi Nord (Aldi North) and its American counterpart, Trader Joe's, and his brother running Aldi Sur. He passed away in July 2010 at the age of 88.
Born Theodor Paul Albrecht (28 March 1922, Essen, Rhine Province – 24 July 2010) in Essen, Rhine Province, Germany, he was the owner and CEO of the German discount supermarket chain Aldi Nord. In the US, he also owned the Trader Joe's specialty grocery store chain. Now the two private chains, which originally were a single family enterprise, together have more than 5,000 stores in 9 European countries and the US. Ever since the friendly division of assets in 1960, Aldi and Trader Joe's have separate and distinct ownership and operations, Theo getting the northern German stores and the rest of Europe and Theo's brother Karl Albrecht taking the stores in southern Germany and the rights to open stores in the US, the UK and Australia. Karl still owns the Aldi Süd discount supermarket chain, which operates the Aldi groceries in the United States. While all of Theo's property is now operated by his son Theo Albrecht Jr. and grandchildren of his deceased son, Berthold. Albrecht became a victim to kidnappers in 1971, being abducted for 17 days. Seven million German marks (approximately $2 million at the time) was paid for his release. Apart from this unfortunate event, little is known about the Albrecht brothers' personal lives. They both have been reportedly reclusive.
Mukesh Ambani
$18.5 billion.
Profession
: Businessperson
Date of Birth
: 1957-04-19
Nicknames
: Mukesh D. Ambani, Shri Mukesh D. Ambani, Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani
Height
: 1.69 m
Ethnicity
: Vaishya, Gujarati people, Bania
Country
: Aden
ABOUT
Mukesh Ambani is an Indian billionaire businessman chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, who has a net worth of $18.5 billion. Mukesh Ambani has earned his net worth through his career at Reliance Industries, which is a Fortune 500 company. He has been ranked as one of the richest people in the world and the second richest man in Asia. He was once ranked as the richest person in the world and it is predicted by Forbes that he will be again, possibly by 2014. Ambani took Reliance from textiles to polyester fibres, and into exploring the production of oil and gas, as well as, petroleum refining and petrochemicals. He also created Reliance Infocomm Limited, which is now called Reliance Communications Limited. Mukesh Ambani is also the creator and director of the world's largest petroleum refinery in Jamnagar, India. They produced 660,000 barrels of petro a day.
Ambani was born in Aden, Colony of Aden, which is now known as Yemen. He has a younger brother, Anil, who is also a billionaire and Ambani's competitor. Anil is the owner of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. Mukesh also has two sisters. He attended Abaay Morisha School in Mumbai and earned a bachelor's degree, from UDCT, in chemical engineering. He began working on his MBA at Stanford University, but could only stay for one year. His father pulled him out to help him with the building of the PYF plant, and Mukesh helped his father initiate the backward integration from textiles to polyester fibres and petrochemicals.
Mukesh Ambani has won several awards and honors, such as, the "School of Engineering and Applied Science, Dean's Medal," "United States-India Business Council Leadership Award," "Chitrale Person of the Year Award," and "World Communication Award." He is also on the board of directors of the Bank of America Corporation and on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ambani is married to Nita Ambani and they have three children together, Isha, Akash, and Anant. Mukesh and his family own the most expensive family home in history, with a valued at over $1 billion. It's called Antilia and is twenty seven stories high. Ambani is also the owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team, the Mumbai Indians.
Alberto Baillères
$18.2 billion
Profession: Businessperson
Date of Birth: 1951-08-22
Nicknames: Alberto Bailleres González
Country: Mexico
ABOUT
Alberto Bailleres is a Mexican multi-billionaire who has a net worth of $18.2 billion. Alberto Bailleres accumulated his net worth through his controlling interest in many companies in a diverse range of industries. His many umbrella entity is called Grupo Bal and his interests range from department stores, to mining to insurance companies. Alberto Bailleres is also the head member of the board of ITAM, a higher education thinktank. As of December 2012, Alberto Bailleres is the second richest person in Mexico. The richest person in Mexico is Carlos Slim Helu, whose $67 billion net worth gives him a very healthy lead ahead of his fellow Mexican billionaires. Alberto Bailleres's main business is a chain of Mexican department stores located throughout Mexico City. His mining company El Palacio de Hierro is one of the largest operations on the globe and frequently the highest producer of silver in the world.
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
$23 billion
Profession: Politician | Monarchy
Date of Birth: 1948-01-25
Nicknames: Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahayan, Sheikh Khalifa
Ethnicity: Arab people
Country: Al Ain
ABOUT
Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahayan (known also as Sheikh Khalifa) was born in Abu Dhabi and has an estimated net worth of $23 billion dollars. Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahayan is the oldest son of former President Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. He was appointed president of Abu Dhabi, the day after his father passed away in 2004. He is considered a pro-Western President and has given heavily to British and American educational and research institutions
Tadashi Yanai
$18 billion
Profession: Businessperson
Date of Birth: 1949-02-07
Country: Yamaguchi Prefecture
ABOUT
Tadashi Yanai is a Japanese entrepreneur who has a net worth of $18 billion. A businessman and CEO, Tadashi Yanai is the President and founder of the Japanese company, Fast Retailing, which is the umbrella company for Uniqlo retail stores. The first Uniqlo store was opened in 1984 in Hiroshima and the company has since gone global with annual revenues topping $11 billion 2012. Tadashi Yanai is currently the richest man in Japan.
Born on February 7, 1949, in Japan, Tadashi Yanai is the founder and president of Fast Retailing, Asia's largest apparel company. Fast Retailing is the umbrella company for Uniqlo retail stores. Once Yanai opened the first Uniqlo store in Hiroshima, the company has acquired global dimensions. The most recent addition to the fast-growing company happened in Indonesia with the opening of its first Uniqlo store there. Fast Retailing also owns such brand names as Theory and Helmut Lang. Building a whole empire out of one shop for Tadashi Yanai meant making many mistakes and even more attempts to do it better the next time. At one point, he even said: "I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time." Most recently he announced he would retire in 2014, as succession is already in the works. According to speculations, Yanai's two sons are likely to take the helm. To date, Tadashi Yanai has earned numerous honors and recognitions for his work including the 2010 International Retailer of Year award from the National Retail Federation in US, as well as he was chosen as best company president in a survey of Japanese corporate executives by Sanno Institute of Management in 2008 and 2009.
Cheng Yu-tung
$17.7 billion.
Date of Birth: 1925
Country: Shunde District
ABOUT
Cheng Yu-tung net worth: Cheng Yu-tung is an Asian businessman who has a net worth of $17.7 billion. That net worth makes him one of the richest people in Hong Kong. Born in Shunde, Guangdong, Republic of China, Cheng Yu-tung is now based in Hong Kong. Until just recently, he was the CEO of New World Development, a family-owned real estate development firm. He began his professional career with a jewelry business called, Chow Tai Fook. Chow Tai Fook grew to become Chai Tai Fook Enterprises and expanded into multiple business ventures, including serving as the umbrella corporation for New World Development. Chow Tai Fook/New World Development now own multiple properties in Hong Kong, Macau, and abroad, including five high-end hotels. Most recently, the company purchased the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. The company also runs the Sheraton Marina hotels. In addition to his work with Chow Tai Fook, he also serves as honorary consul for Bhutan, and on the board of Hong Kong's third largest bank, Hang Seng. He announced his retirement in early 2012, and passed leadership to his son.
Iris Fontbona
$17.4 billion
Profession: Businessperson
ABOUT
Iris Fontbona is a Chilean businesswoman with a net worth of $17.4 billion. Iris Fontbona acquired that wealth by marrying Andronico Luksic, who built one of the biggest copper mining companies in the world, Antofagasta. Fontbona had three children with Luksic, some of whom are involved in the company; she runs Antofagasta in Chile.
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