THE 100 RICHEST IN THE WORLD

*denotes family wealth 2008 2007 2008 2007

wealth wealth wealth wealth
1 Mukesh and Anil Ambani India Petrochemicals £43bn £19.6bn 51= Nasser al-Kharafi* Kuwait Construction £7bn £5.9bn
2 The Walton family America Retailing (Wal-Mart) £38.4bn £42.6bn 51= Bass family America Oil £7bn £7.2bn
3 Warren Buffett America Investments £31bn £26.7bn 51= Carl Icahn America Finance £7bn £6.7bn
4 Carlos Slim Helu Mexico Telecoms £30bn £27.2bn 51= German Khan Russia Oil, banking £7bn £4.1bn
5 Bill Gates America Software (Microsoft) £29bn £28.7bn 51= Birgit Rausing* Switzerland Industry £7bn £5.6bn
6 Lakshmi Mittal* UK Steel £27.7bn £19.2bn 51= Jack Taylor America Car rental £7bn £7.1bn
7 Karl & Theo Albrecht* Germany Supermarkets £25bn £19.1bn 51= Duke of Westminster UK Property £7bn £7bn
8 Forrest & John Mars* America Confectionery £21bn £16.1bn 58 Spiro Latsis* Greece Shipping £6.7bn £5.6bn
9 King Abdullah Saudi Arabia Oil £20bn £13.5bn 59= Vagit Alekperov Russia Oil £6.5bn £6.3bn
10 Sultan of Brunei Brunei Oil £18bn £12.4bn 59= Donald Bren America Property £6.5bn £4.3bn
11 The Sawiris family Egypt Telecoms 59= Alain & Gerard Wertheimer France Fashion (Chanel) £6.5bn £5.1bn
and construction £17.9bn £10.4bn 62= Azim Premji India Software £6.4bn £8.8bn
12 Charles and David Koch America Oil services £17bn £12.3bn 62= Dmitry Rybolovlev Russia Chemicals £6.4bn £1.6bn
13 Ingvar Kamprad Sweden Retailing (Ikea) £15.5bn £16.9bn 64 Anne Cox Chambers America Media £6.3bn £6.5bn
14 Kushal Pal Singh India Property £15bn new 65 Gopi and Sri Hinduja UK Oil, industry, finance £6.2bn £6.2bn
15 The Brenninkmeyer family Holland Retailing £14.6bn £10.2bn 66= Iskander Makhmudov Russia Mining, metals £6bn £4.1bn
16 Oleg Deripaska Russia Industry £14bn £6.8bn 66= Thomas and Stephan
17 Li Ka-shing Hong Kong Industry £13.3bn £11.8bn Schmidheiny Switzerland Construction £6bn £4.7bn
18 The Pritzker family America Hotels, investments £13.2bn £11.3bn 66= Fentener Van
19= Sheldon Adelson America Casinos £13bn £13.6bn Vlissingen family Holland Energy, retail £6bn £4.8bn
19= Johanna Quandt* Germany Cars (BMW) £13bn £12.2bn 69 Sunil Mittal* India Telecoms £5.9bn £4.9bn
21 Bernard Arnault France Luxury goods £12.8bn £13.3bn 70= Alexander Abramov Russia Steel, mining £5.8bn £2.9bn
22= Larry Ellison America Computers (Oracle) £12.5bn £11bn 70= Michael Bloomberg America Bloomberg Media £5.8bn £2.8bn
22= Abigail and 70= Joseph and Moise Safra Brazil Finance £5.8bn £4.6bn
Edward Johnson America Investments £12.5bn £10.5bn 73= Jean-Louis Dumas France Fashion (Hermès) £5.7bn £3.2bn
24 Roman Abramovich UK Oil, industry £11.7bn £10.8bn 73= Alisher Usmanov UK Steel £5.7bn £2.8bn
25 Liliane Bettencourt France Cosmetics £11.5bn £10.6bn 75= Ernesto & Kirsty Bertarelli UK Pharmaceuticals £5.6bn £4.5bn
26 Alexei Mordashov Russia Industry £10.6bn £5.7bn 75= Gérard Louis-Dreyfus* France Commodities £5.6bn £3.2bn
27 Prince Alwaleed Saudi Arabia Investments £10.5bn £10.4bn 75= Viktor Vekselberg Russia Oil, metals £5.6bn £5.3bn
28= Mikhail Fridman Russia Oil, banking £10.4bn £6.5bn 78= Michele Ferrero* Italy Chocolates £5.5bn £5.1bn
28= The Herz family Germany Coffee £10.4bn £8.6bn 78= George Kaiser America Oil, banking £5.5bn £4.3bn
30 Vladimir Lisin Russia Steel £10.2bn £7.3bn 80= Alexei Kuzmichev Russia Oil, banking £5.4bn £3.1bn
31 Amancio Ortega Spain Fashion £10.1bn £12.3bn 80= Hans Rausing* UK Packaging £5.4bn £5.4bn
32= The Kwok brothers Hong Kong Property £10bn £7.7bn 82= Philip Knight America Footwear (Nike) £5.2bn £4.9bn
32= The Mulliez family France Retailing £10bn £9bn 82= Victor Rashnikov Russia Iron, steel £5.2bn £3.6bn
34 Stefan and 84 Kumar Birla India Commodities £5.1bn £4.1bn
Liselott Persson Sweden Retailing £9.9bn £10.4bn 85= Leonardo Del Vecchio Italy Eyewear £5bn £5.9bn
35 Mikhail Prokhorov Russia Metals £9.8bn £6.9bn 85= Iris Fontbona* Chile Mining, metals £5bn new
36 Vladimir Potanin Russia Metals £9.7bn £6.9bn 85= Antonio Ermirio de Moraes*Brazil Industry, finance £5bn £1.9bn
37= Lee Shau Kee Hong Kong Property £9.5bn £8.8bn 88= Vladimir Yevtushenkov Russia Telecoms £5bn £4.7bn
37= David Thomson Canada Media, oil £9.5bn £11.3bn 88= Igor Zyuzin Russia Mining, steel £5bn £1bn
39 Sergey Brin America Internet (Google) £9.4bn £8.5bn 90 Alberto Bailleres* Mexico Mining, retail £4.9bn £2.5bn
40 Larry Page America Internet (Google) £9.3bn £8.5bn 91= Ramesh Chandra India Property £4.8bn £3,2bn
41 The Oeri/Hoffmann 91= Charles Ergen America Satellite TV £4.8bn £5.1bn
family Switzerland Pharmaceuticals £9.2bn £8.5bn
91= John Kluge America Media, phones £4.8bn £4.7bn
42 Michael Otto Germany Mail order £9.1bn £6.8bn
91= Ronald Perelman America Finance £4.8bn £3.5bn
43 Suleiman Kerimov Russia Finance £8.8bn £7.4bn
95= Gautam Adani India Commodities £4.7bn new
44= Samuel and
Donald Newhouse America Publishing £8.5bn £7.3bn 95= Silvio Berlusconi Italy Media £4.7bn £6.2bn
44= François Pinault France Luxury goods £8.5bn £7.4bn 95= Petr Kellner Czech Rep Insurance £4.7bn £3.1bn
46 Michael Dell America Computers (Dell) £8.4bn £8.1bn 95= Serge Dassault* France Aerospace £4.7bn £5.1bn
47= Paul Allen America Software (Microsoft) £8bn £9.2bn 95= Andreas and Thomas
Strungmann Germany Pharmaceuticals £4.7bn £4.1bn
47= Kirk Kerkorian America Investments £8bn £7.7bn
100 John Fredriksen UK Shipping £4.6bn £3.5bn
49= Steve Ballmer America Software (Microsoft) £7.5bn £7.7bn
Source: The Sunday Times Rich List 2008, Forbes World Billionaires March 2008,
49= Shashi & Ravi Ruia India Steel, oil, telecoms £7.5bn new Finans February 2008, Bilan December 2007, Challenges July 2007, Quote 500 May 2007