Related Research Articles
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, CEO, and president of Amazon.
A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person with a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency, usually major currencies such as the United States dollar, the euro or the pound sterling. Additionally, a centibillionaire has been deemed applicable to a billionaire worth one hundred billion dollars (100,000,000,000), a mark first achieved in 2017 by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, with a net worth of $112 billion in a report issued in early 2018. The American business magazine Forbes produces a global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year and updates an Internet version of this list in real time. The American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed U.S. dollar billionaire in 1916, and still holds the title of history's wealthiest individual.
Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by the Forbes business magazine. He derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso. As of April 2019, he is the fifth-richest person in the world according to Forbes' listing of The World's Billionaires, with him and his family having a net worth estimated at $63.1 billion. He is the richest person in Latin America.
Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe is a South African mining businessman and billionaire. He is the founder and executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals, which has interests in gold, ferrous metals, base metals, and platinum. He sits on several company boards, including being the non-executive chairman of Harmony Gold, the world's 12th largest gold mining company, and the deputy chairman of Sanlam. In 2012, Motsepe was named South Africa's richest man, topping the Sunday Times' annual Rich List with an estimated fortune of R20.07 billion.
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian businessman, the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India's most valuable company by its market value. According to Forbes magazine, he is the richest man in Asia and the 13th richest person in the world as of March 2019.
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken is a Dutch-English businesswoman and the owner of a 25% controlling interest in the world's second-largest brewer, Heineken International. She is the richest woman in the UK, with a net worth of £12 billion as of May 2019, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
Georgina Hope "Gina" Rinehart is an Australian mining magnate and heiress who is chairman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately owned mineral exploration and extraction company founded by her father Lang Hancock. She is one of Australia's richest people with net worth of $14.8B for 2019, ranked the first in the list "Australia’s 50 Richest People" by Forbes and one of the world's richest women.
The Walton family is an American family whose collective fortune makes them the richest family in the United States of America and the richest in the world. The majority of their wealth derives from the heritage of Bud and Sam Walton, who were the co-founders of the world's largest retailer, Walmart. The three most prominent living members have consistently been in the top twenty of the Forbes 400 since 2001, as were John and Helen prior to their deaths. Christy Walton took her husband John's place in that ranking after his death.
Ma Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, is a Chinese business magnate, investor, politician, philanthropist, engineer, internet and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Tencent, Asia's most valuable company, one of the largest Internet and technology companies, and the biggest investment, gaming and entertainment conglomerates in the world. The company controls China's biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, payment systems, smartphones, internet-related services, value-added services and online advertising services, both in China and globally.
Harry Oskar Triguboff, is a Chinese-born Australian billionaire real estate developer, and one of Australia's richest people. He is the founder and managing director of Meriton and is known as "high-rise Harry". In May 2016, he was declared the wealthiest person in Australia by net worth in the annual Financial Review Rich 200 list, yet held the mantle for only one year.
Eike Fuhrken Batista da Silva is a Brazilian serial entrepreneur who made and lost a fortune in mining and oil and gas industries. He engaged in a quest to promote Brazil's infrastructure with large-scale projects, such as the Porto do Açu, which eventually bankrupted his companies.
Nathan Kirsh is a South African/Swazi billionaire businessman. He heads the Kirsh Group, which holds a majority stake in New York cash and carry operation Jetro Holdings, owner of Restaurant Depot and Jetro Cash & Carry. The Group also holds equity and investments in Australia, Swaziland, the UK, the US, and Israel. Bloomberg estimated his wealth at $6.09 billion in March 2019, ranking him at #267 on its "Billionaires Index". He was also listed on the UK’s Sunday Times Rich List 2018, and was named as the wealthiest person in Swaziland by Forbes.
The World's Billionaires is an annual ranking by documented net worth of the wealthiest billionaires in the world, compiled and published in March annually by the American business magazine Forbes. The list was first published in March 1987. The total net worth of each individual on the list is estimated and is cited in United States dollars, based on their documented assets and accounting for debt. Royalty and dictators whose wealth comes from their positions are excluded from these lists. This ranking is an index of the wealthiest documented individuals, excluding and ranking against those with wealth that is not able to be completely ascertained.
The World's Billionaires 2010 edition was 24th annual ranking of The World's Billionaires by Forbes magazine. The list estimated the net worth of the world's richest people, excluding royalty and dictators, as of February 12, 2010. It was released online on March 10, 2010. Forty reporters across 13 countries contributed to the list. Carlos Slim and Bill Gates were featured on the cover.
Arun Pudur is an Indian businessman, entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and group president of Celframe, a company which produces office productivity suite software. The company is privately held and majority owned by Pudur, with its headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world's richest people. The index debuted in March 2012 and tracks the net worth of the 500 wealthiest people on the planet. It draws information from "action in the stock market, economic indicators and news reports," features a profile of each billionaire, and includes a tool that allows users to compare the fortunes of multiple billionaires. The index is updated every day at the close of trading in New York.
References
- 1 2 "Wealth-X offers digital 'who's who' of the rich and not necessarily famous". Fortune . Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ↑ "Company Overview of Wealth-X Pte. Ltd". Bloomberg . Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ↑ "Wealth-X Pte. Ltd.: Private Company Information". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- 1 2 Sullivan, Paul (19 February 2017). "Who Are the Richest of the Rich?". The New York Times . Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ↑ "The 17 cities where the world's richest people want to live". The Independent . 8 December 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ↑ Insight Venture Partners 2017 (11 October 2016). "Wealth-X - Companies - Insight Venture Partners". insightpartners.com. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ↑ Teachout, Terry (16 July 2015). "Hollywood's First Great Art Collector". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ↑ "Wealth-X Reveals: The World's 50 Wealthiest People - Wealth-X". wealthx.com. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
- ↑ "Bill Gates Is Once Again the Richest Person in the World". Time . Retrieved 12 December 2017.
 | This corporation or company article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |