MILLIARDAIRES 2009 - The World's Billionaires : TOP 250 FORBES - LES HOMMES LES PLUS RICHES DU MONDE
| Rank | Name | Citizenship | Age | Net Worth ($bil) | Residence |
| 1 | William Gates III | United States | 53 | 40.0 | United States |
| 2 | Warren Buffett | United States | 78 | 37.0 | United States |
| 3 | Carlos Slim Helu & family | Mexico | 69 | 35.0 | Mexico |
| 4 | Lawrence Ellison | United States | 64 | 22.5 | United States |
| 5 | Ingvar Kamprad & family | Sweden | 83 | 22.0 | Switzerland |
| 6 | Karl Albrecht | Germany | 89 | 21.5 | Germany |
| 7 | Mukesh Ambani | India | 51 | 19.5 | India |
| 8 | Lakshmi Mittal | India | 58 | 19.3 | United Kingdom |
| 9 | Theo Albrecht | Germany | 87 | 18.8 | Germany |
| 10 | Amancio Ortega | Spain | 73 | 18.3 | Spain |
| 11 | Jim Walton | United States | 61 | 17.8 | United States |
| 12 | Alice Walton | United States | 59 | 17.6 | United States |
| 12 | Christy Walton & family | United States | 54 | 17.6 | United States |
| 12 | S Robson Walton | United States | 65 | 17.6 | United States |
| 15 | Bernard Arnault | France | 60 | 16.5 | France |
| 16 | Li Ka-shing | Hong Kong | 80 | 16.2 | Hong Kong |
| 17 | Michael Bloomberg | United States | 67 | 16.0 | United States |
| 18 | Stefan Persson | Sweden | 61 | 14.5 | Sweden |
| 19 | Charles Koch | United States | 73 | 14.0 | United States |
| 19 | David Koch | United States | 68 | 14.0 | United States |
| 21 | Liliane Bettencourt | France | 86 | 13.4 | France |
| 22 | Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud | Saudi Arabia | 54 | 13.3 | Saudi Arabia |
| 23 | Michael Otto & family | Germany | 65 | 13.2 | Germany |
| 24 | David Thomson & family | Canada | 51 | 13.0 | Canada |
| 25 | Michael Dell | United States | 44 | 12.3 | United States |
| 26 | Donald Bren | United States | 76 | 12.0 | United States |
| 26 | Sergey Brin | United States | 35 | 12.0 | United States |
| 26 | Larry Page | United States | 36 | 12.0 | United States |
| 29 | Steven Ballmer | United States | 53 | 11.0 | United States |
| 29 | Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family | United Kingdom | 57 | 11.0 | United Kingdom |
| 29 | George Soros | United States | 78 | 11.0 | United States |
| 32 | Paul Allen | United States | 56 | 10.5 | United States |
| 32 | Kwok family | Hong Kong | NA | 10.5 | Hong Kong |
| 34 | Anil Ambani | India | 49 | 10.1 | India |
| 35 | Abigail Johnson | United States | 47 | 10.0 | United States |
| 35 | Susanne Klatten | Germany | 46 | 10.0 | Germany |
| 35 | Ronald Perelman | United States | 66 | 10.0 | United States |
| 35 | Hans Rausing | Sweden | 83 | 10.0 | United Kingdom |
| 39 | Birgit Rausing & family | Sweden | 85 | 9.9 | Switzerland |
| 40 | Michele Ferrero & family | Italy | 82 | 9.5 | Monaco |
| 40 | Mikhail Prokhorov | Russia | 43 | 9.5 | Russia |
| 40 | Jack Taylor & family | United States | 86 | 9.5 | United States |
| 43 | Mohammed Al Amoudi | Saudi Arabia | 63 | 9.0 | Saudi Arabia |
| 43 | Anne Cox Chambers | United States | 89 | 9.0 | United States |
| 43 | Carl Icahn | United States | 73 | 9.0 | United States |
| 43 | George Kaiser | United States | 66 | 9.0 | United States |
| 43 | Lee Shau Kee | Hong Kong | 81 | 9.0 | Hong Kong |
| 43 | Forrest Mars Jr | United States | 77 | 9.0 | United States |
| 43 | Jacqueline Mars | United States | 69 | 9.0 | United States |
| 43 | John Mars | United States | 72 | 9.0 | United States |
| 51 | Roman Abramovich | Russia | 42 | 8.5 | Russia |
| 52 | Ernesto Bertarelli | Switzerland | 43 | 8.2 | Switzerland |
| 52 | Philip Knight | United States | 71 | 8.2 | United States |
| 54 | Nasser Al-Kharafi & family | Kuwait | 65 | 8.1 | Kuwait |
| 55 | James Simons | United States | 70 | 8.0 | United States |
| 55 | Alain & Gerard Wertheimer | France | NA | 8.0 | NA |
| 57 | Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair & family | United Arab Emirates | 55 | 7.8 | United Arab Emirates |
| 57 | Vagit Alekperov | Russia | 58 | 7.8 | Russia |
| 59 | Sunil Mittal & family | India | 51 | 7.7 | India |
| 60 | Francois Pinault & family | France | 72 | 7.6 | France |
| 61 | Eike Batista | Brazil | 52 | 7.5 | Brazil |
| 62 | Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber | Saudi Arabia | 50 | 7.0 | Saudi Arabia |
| 62 | Maan Al-Sanea | Saudi Arabia | 54 | 7.0 | Saudi Arabia |
| 62 | Edward Johnson III | United States | 78 | 7.0 | United States |
| 62 | Ananda Krishnan | Malaysia | 70 | 7.0 | Malaysia |
| 62 | Robert Kuok | Malaysia | 85 | 7.0 | Hong Kong |
| 62 | Joseph Safra | Brazil | 70 | 7.0 | Brazil |
| 68 | Jeffrey Bezos | United States | 45 | 6.8 | United States |
| 69 | August von Finck | Germany | 79 | 6.7 | Switzerland |
| 70 | Silvio Berlusconi & family | Italy | 72 | 6.5 | Italy |
| 71 | Leonardo Del Vecchio | Italy | 73 | 6.3 | Italy |
| 71 | Curt Engelhorn | Germany | 82 | 6.3 | Switzerland |
| 71 | Mikhail Fridman | Russia | 44 | 6.3 | Russia |
| 74 | Sulaiman Al Rajhi | Saudi Arabia | 89 | 6.2 | Saudi Arabia |
| 75 | James Goodnight | United States | 66 | 6.1 | United States |
| 76 | Iris Fontbona & family | Chile | NA | 6.0 | Chile |
| 76 | Petr Kellner | Czech Republic | 44 | 6.0 | Czech Republic |
| 76 | John Kluge | United States | 94 | 6.0 | United States |
| 76 | John Paulson | United States | 53 | 6.0 | United States |
| 76 | Tadashi Yanai & family | Japan | 60 | 6.0 | Japan |
| 81 | Dan Duncan | United States | 76 | 5.9 | United States |
| 81 | Eliodoro Matte & family | Chile | 63 | 5.9 | Chile |
| 83 | Alberto Bailleres & family | Mexico | 76 | 5.7 | Mexico |
| 83 | Azim Premji | India | 63 | 5.7 | India |
| 83 | Hansjorg Wyss | Switzerland | 74 | 5.7 | United States |
| 86 | Shashi & Ravi Ruia | India | 65 | 5.6 | India |
| 87 | Steven Cohen | United States | 53 | 5.5 | United States |
| 87 | Ng Teng Fong & family | Singapore | 80 | 5.5 | Singapore |
| 87 | Patrick Soon-Shiong | United States | 57 | 5.5 | United States |
| 90 | Serge Dassault & family | France | 83 | 5.4 | France |
| 90 | Erivan Haub & family | Germany | 76 | 5.4 | Germany |
| 92 | Jorge Paulo Lemann | Brazil | 69 | 5.3 | Brazil |
| 93 | Eli Broad | United States | 75 | 5.2 | United States |
| 93 | Kunio Busujima & family | Japan | 83 | 5.2 | Japan |
| 93 | Karl-Heinz Kipp | Germany | 85 | 5.2 | Switzerland |
| 93 | Vladimir Lisin | Russia | 52 | 5.2 | Russia |
| 93 | Reinhold Wurth | Germany | 73 | 5.2 | Germany |
| 98 | Philip Anschutz | United States | 69 | 5.0 | United States |
| 98 | Kirk Kerkorian | United States | 91 | 5.0 | United States |
| 98 | Nicky Oppenheimer & family | South Africa | 63 | 5.0 | South Africa |
| 98 | David & Simon Reuben | United Kingdom | NA | 5.0 | United Kingdom |
| 98 | Kushal Pal Singh | India | 77 | 5.0 | India |
| 98 | Galen Weston & family | Canada | 68 | 5.0 | Canada |
| 104 | Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahayan | United Arab Emirates | 39 | 4.9 | United Arab Emirates |
| 105 | Philip & Cristina Green | United Kingdom | 57 | 4.8 | United Kingdom |
| 105 | Antonia Johnson | Sweden | 65 | 4.8 | Sweden |
| 107 | Klaus-Michael Kuhne | Germany | 71 | 4.7 | Switzerland |
| 108 | Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken | Netherlands | 54 | 4.6 | United Kingdom |
| 108 | Stefan Quandt | Germany | 42 | 4.6 | Germany |
| 110 | Robert Bass | United States | 61 | 4.5 | United States |
| 110 | David Geffen | United States | 66 | 4.5 | United States |
| 110 | Graeme Hart | New Zealand | 53 | 4.5 | New Zealand |
| 110 | James Kennedy | United States | 61 | 4.5 | United States |
| 110 | Paul Milstein & family | United States | 86 | 4.5 | United States |
| 110 | Blair Parry-Okeden | United States | 58 | 4.5 | Australia |
| 110 | Henry Ross Perot Sr | United States | 78 | 4.5 | United States |
| 110 | Hasso Plattner | Germany | 65 | 4.5 | Germany |
| 110 | Hiroshi Yamauchi | Japan | 81 | 4.5 | Japan |
| 119 | Alexander Abramov | Russia | 50 | 4.4 | Russia |
| 119 | Richard DeVos | United States | 83 | 4.4 | United States |
| 119 | Eric Schmidt | United States | 53 | 4.4 | United States |
| 122 | Leonid Fedun | Russia | 52 | 4.3 | Russia |
| 122 | Alexei Mordashov | Russia | 43 | 4.3 | Russia |
| 124 | Kumar Birla | India | 41 | 4.2 | India |
| 124 | Michael Kadoorie & family | Hong Kong | 68 | 4.2 | Hong Kong |
| 124 | Akira Mori & family | Japan | 72 | 4.2 | Japan |
| 124 | Robert Rowling | United States | 55 | 4.2 | United States |
| 124 | Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family | Mexico | 53 | 4.2 | Mexico |
| 124 | Dennis Washington | United States | 74 | 4.2 | United States |
| 124 | Karl Wlaschek | Austria | 91 | 4.2 | Austria |
| 131 | Johanna Quandt | Germany | 82 | 4.1 | Germany |
| 132 | Leonard Blavatnik | United States | 51 | 4.0 | United Kingdom |
| 132 | Cheng Yu-tung | Hong Kong | 83 | 4.0 | Hong Kong |
| 132 | John Fredriksen | Cyprus | 64 | 4.0 | United Kingdom |
| 132 | German Khan | Russia | 47 | 4.0 | Russia |
| 132 | Joseph Lau | Hong Kong | 57 | 4.0 | Hong Kong |
| 132 | Richard LeFrak & family | United States | 63 | 4.0 | United States |
| 132 | John Menard Jr | United States | 69 | 4.0 | United States |
| 132 | Rupert Murdoch | United States | 78 | 4.0 | United States |
| 132 | Donald Newhouse | United States | 79 | 4.0 | United States |
| 132 | Samuel Newhouse Jr | United States | 81 | 4.0 | United States |
| 132 | Sammy Ofer & family | Israel | 87 | 4.0 | Monaco |
| 132 | Ira Rennert | United States | 75 | 4.0 | United States |
| 132 | Julio Mario Santo Domingo | Colombia | 85 | 4.0 | Colombia |
| 132 | Leonard Stern | United States | 71 | 4.0 | United States |
| 146 | Charles Ergen | United States | 56 | 3.9 | United States |
| 146 | James, Arthur & John Irving | Canada | NA | 3.9 | Canada |
| 146 | Harold Simmons | United States | 77 | 3.9 | United States |
| 149 | Gustavo Cisneros & family | Venezuela | 63 | 3.8 | Venezuela |
| 149 | Spiro Latsis & family | Greece | 62 | 3.8 | Switzerland |
| 151 | Bernard Ecclestone & family | United Kingdom | 78 | 3.7 | United Kingdom |
| 151 | Eitaro Itoyama | Japan | 66 | 3.7 | Japan |
| 151 | Dietrich Mateschitz | Austria | 64 | 3.7 | Austria |
| 151 | Masayoshi Son | Japan | 51 | 3.7 | Japan |
| 151 | Chaleo Yoovidhya | Thailand | 77 | 3.7 | Thailand |
| 156 | Pauline MacMillan Keinath | United States | 75 | 3.6 | United States |
| 156 | Cargill MacMillan Jr | United States | 82 | 3.6 | United States |
| 156 | Whitney MacMillan | United States | 80 | 3.6 | United States |
| 156 | Pierre Omidyar | United States | 41 | 3.6 | United States |
| 156 | Marion MacMillan Pictet | United States | 76 | 3.6 | Bermuda |
| 156 | Anton Schlecker | Germany | 64 | 3.6 | Germany |
| 156 | Andreas Strungmann | Germany | 59 | 3.6 | Germany |
| 156 | Thomas Strungmann | Germany | 59 | 3.6 | Germany |
| 164 | William Cook | United States | 77 | 3.5 | United States |
| 164 | Oleg Deripaska | Russia | 41 | 3.5 | Russia |
| 164 | Stanley Druckenmiller | United States | 55 | 3.5 | United States |
| 164 | Harold Hamm | United States | 63 | 3.5 | United States |
| 164 | Saleh Kamel | Saudi Arabia | 67 | 3.5 | Saudi Arabia |
| 164 | Bruce Kovner | United States | 64 | 3.5 | United States |
| 164 | Nobutada Saji & family | Japan | 63 | 3.5 | Japan |
| 164 | Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler | Germany | NA | 3.5 | Germany |
| 164 | Charles Schwab | United States | 71 | 3.5 | United States |
| 164 | Stef Wertheimer & family | Israel | 83 | 3.5 | Israel |
| 164 | Aloys Wobben | Germany | 57 | 3.5 | Germany |
| 164 | Daniel Ziff | United States | 37 | 3.5 | United States |
| 164 | Dirk Ziff | United States | 44 | 3.5 | United States |
| 164 | Robert Ziff | United States | 42 | 3.5 | United States |
| 178 | Sheldon Adelson | United States | 75 | 3.4 | United States |
| 178 | Jeronimo Arango & family | Mexico | 83 | 3.4 | Mexico |
| 178 | Heinz-Horst Deichmann | Germany | 82 | 3.4 | Germany |
| 178 | Steven Jobs | United States | 54 | 3.4 | United States |
| 178 | Hiroshi Mikitani | Japan | 44 | 3.4 | Japan |
| 183 | Saleh Al Rajhi | Saudi Arabia | 97 | 3.3 | Saudi Arabia |
| 183 | Americo Amorim | Portugal | 74 | 3.3 | Portugal |
| 183 | Charles Cadogan & family | United Kingdom | 72 | 3.3 | United Kingdom |
| 183 | Adi Godrej & family | India | 66 | 3.3 | India |
| 183 | Iskander Makhmudov | Russia | 45 | 3.3 | Russia |
| 183 | David Murdock | United States | 85 | 3.3 | United States |
| 183 | Tsai Wan-Tsai & family | Taiwan | 79 | 3.3 | Taiwan |
| 183 | Ty Warner | United States | 65 | 3.3 | United States |
| 191 | Jean-Claude Decaux & family | France | 71 | 3.2 | France |
| 191 | Boris Ivanishvili | Russia | 53 | 3.2 | Georgia |
| 191 | Richard Kinder | United States | 65 | 3.2 | United States |
| 191 | Theodore Lerner | United States | 83 | 3.2 | United States |
| 191 | Stephen Ross | United States | 68 | 3.2 | United States |
| 196 | Lester Crown & family | United States | 83 | 3.1 | United States |
| 196 | Aloysio de Andrade Faria | Brazil | 88 | 3.1 | Brazil |
| 196 | Stein Erik Hagen & family | Norway | 52 | 3.1 | Norway |
| 196 | Bradley Hughes | United States | 75 | 3.1 | United States |
| 196 | Suleiman Kerimov | Russia | 43 | 3.1 | Russia |
| 196 | Alexei Kuzmichev | Russia | 46 | 3.1 | Russia |
| 196 | Dmitry Rybolovlev | Russia | 42 | 3.1 | Russia |
| 196 | John Sall | United States | 60 | 3.1 | United States |
| 196 | Nassef Sawiris | Egypt | 47 | 3.1 | Egypt |
| 205 | Majid Al Futtaim | United Arab Emirates | NA | 3.0 | United Arab Emirates |
| 205 | Ronald Burkle | United States | 56 | 3.0 | United States |
| 205 | Robert Holding | United States | 82 | 3.0 | United States |
| 205 | Heidi Horten | Austria | 68 | 3.0 | Austria |
| 205 | Henry Kravis | United States | 65 | 3.0 | United States |
| 205 | E Stanley Kroenke | United States | 61 | 3.0 | United States |
| 205 | Lee Kun-Hee | South Korea | 67 | 3.0 | South Korea |
| 205 | Liu Yongxing | China | 60 | 3.0 | China |
| 205 | George Lucas | United States | 64 | 3.0 | United States |
| 205 | Naguib Sawiris | Egypt | 54 | 3.0 | Egypt |
| 205 | Dilip Shanghvi | India | 53 | 3.0 | India |
| 205 | John Sobrato & family | United States | 69 | 3.0 | United States |
| 205 | Steven Spielberg | United States | 62 | 3.0 | United States |
| 205 | Dorothea Steinbruch & family | Brazil | NA | 3.0 | Brazil |
| 205 | Heinz Hermann Thiele & family | Germany | 67 | 3.0 | Germany |
| 205 | Samuel Zell | United States | 67 | 3.0 | United States |
| 221 | Micky Arison | United States | 59 | 2.9 | United States |
| 221 | Bahaa Hariri | Switzerland | 42 | 2.9 | Switzerland |
| 221 | Husnu Ozyegin | Turkey | 64 | 2.9 | Turkey |
| 224 | Saif Al Ghurair & family | United Arab Emirates | NA | 2.8 | United Arab Emirates |
| 224 | Giorgio Armani | Italy | 74 | 2.8 | Italy |
| 224 | Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family | Brazil | 80 | 2.8 | Brazil |
| 224 | Simon Halabi | United Kingdom | 59 | 2.8 | United Kingdom |
| 224 | Michael Herz | Germany | 63 | 2.8 | Germany |
| 224 | Wolfgang Herz | Germany | 58 | 2.8 | Germany |
| 224 | Paul Tudor Jones II | United States | 54 | 2.8 | United States |
| 224 | Mehmet Emin Karamehmet | Turkey | 64 | 2.8 | Turkey |
| 224 | Ralph Lauren | United States | 69 | 2.8 | United States |
| 224 | Hermann Schnabel | Germany | 88 | 2.8 | Germany |
| 234 | Shari Arison | Israel | 51 | 2.7 | Israel |
| 234 | John Arnold | United States | 35 | 2.7 | United States |
| 234 | Martin & Olivier Bouygues | France | 56/58 | 2.7 | France |
| 234 | Walter Haefner | Switzerland | 98 | 2.7 | Switzerland |
| 234 | Otto Happel | Germany | 61 | 2.7 | Switzerland |
| 234 | Savitri Jindal | India | 59 | 2.7 | India |
| 234 | Lee Shin Cheng | Malaysia | 69 | 2.7 | Malaysia |
| 234 | Frank Lowy & family | Australia | 78 | 2.7 | Australia |
| 234 | Thomas Schmidheiny | Switzerland | 63 | 2.7 | Switzerland |
| 234 | Henry Sy & family | Philippines | 84 | 2.7 | Philippines |
| 234 | Oprah Winfrey | United States | 55 | 2.7 | United States |
| 234 | Zhang Jindong | China | 46 | 2.7 | China |
| 246 | Otto Beisheim | Germany | 85 | 2.6 | Switzerland |
| 246 | Paul Desmarais | Canada | 82 | 2.6 | Canada |
| 246 | Barbara Piasecka Johnson | United States | 72 | 2.6 | Monaco |
| 246 | Ann Walton Kroenke | United States | 60 | 2.6 | United States |
| 246 | German Larrea Mota Velasco & family | Mexico | 55 | 2.6 | Mexico |
| 246 | Sergio Mantegazza | Switzerland | 81 | 2.6 | Switzerland |
| 246 | Rosalia Mera | Spain | 65 | 2.6 | Spain |
| 246 | Gordon Moore | United States | 80 | 2.6 | United States |
| 246 | Victor Pinchuk | Ukraine | 48 | 2.6 | Ukraine |
| 246 | George Roberts | United States | 65 | 2.6 | United States |
| 246 | Michael & Rainer Schmidt-Ruthenbeck | Germany | NA | 2.6 | Germany |
| 246 | Malvinder & Shivinder Singh | India | 33 | 2.6 | India |
| 246 | Tsai Eng Meng | Taiwan | 52 | 2.6 | Taiwan |
| 246 | Peter Woo & family | Hong Kong | 63 | 2.6 | Hong Kong |
| 246 | Zhou Chengjian & family | China | 44 | 2.6 | China |
MILLIARDAIRES 2009 - The World's Billionaires : TOP 250 FORBES
LES HOMMES LES PLUS RICHES DU MONDE
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