Bill Gates No Longer World’s Richest Person

Posted by Michael on Thursday 11th March, 2010

Forbes released the latest “World’s Richest People” and MR Bill Gates has moved down the ranks to number 2. He is a mere $0.5 Billion behind new number 1 Carlos Slim Helu & familyfrom Mexico. Havent heard of em? No, neither have i! But he/his family are invloved in the telecommunications industry, basically owning everything to do with telecoms in South America. He is worth $53.5 Billion

World’s Richest person residing in Britain is still Indian Lakshmi Mittal, worth $28.7 Billion and ranked 5th overall.

World’s Richest European is Bernard Arnaultwho is 7th overall with $27.5 Billion. Hes French, and chairman of LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey) which has a huge amount of luxury brands in fashion, alcohol and more.

Youngest in the top 30 is Sergey Brin aka one of the Google Guys. He has $17.5 Billion is ranked joint 24th.

Highest ranked Brit, behind lots of Europeans is Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family, overall rank of 45, and worth $12 Billion. He is the Duke Of Westminster.

The List

1 Carlos Slim Helu & family Mexico 70 53.5 Mexico
2 William Gates III United States 54 53.0 United States
3 Warren Buffett United States 79 47.0 United States
4 Mukesh Ambani India 52 29.0 India
5 Lakshmi Mittal India 59 28.7 United Kingdom
6 Lawrence Ellison United States 65 28.0 United States
7 Bernard Arnault France 61 27.5 France
8 Eike Batista Brazil 53 27.0 Brazil
9 Amancio Ortega Spain 74 25.0 Spain
10 Karl Albrecht Germany 90 23.5 Germany
11 Ingvar Kamprad & family Sweden 83 23.0 Switzerland
12 Christy Walton & family United States 55 22.5 United States
13 Stefan Persson Sweden 62 22.4 Sweden
14 Li Ka-shing Hong Kong 81 21.0 Hong Kong
15 Jim Walton United States 62 20.7 United States
16 Alice Walton United States 60 20.6 United States
17 Liliane Bettencourt France 87 20.0 France
18 S. Robson Walton United States 66 19.8 United States
19 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud Saudi Arabia 55 19.4 Saudi Arabia
20 David Thomson & family Canada 52 19.0 Canada
21 Michael Otto & family Germany 66 18.7 Germany
22 Lee Shau Kee Hong Kong 82 18.5 Hong Kong
23 Michael Bloomberg United States 68 18.0 United States
24 Sergey Brin United States 36 17.5 United States
24 Charles Koch United States 74 17.5 United States

 

Key: Rank>Name>Citizenship>Age>Worth>Residence

All Amounts are in US Dollars.

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