List of billionaires (2005)

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What follows is the list of billionaires, in US dollars, worldwide for 2005 by Forbes, not including heads of state whose wealth is tied to their position (see list of heads of government and state by net worth).

1st - Bill Gates - U.S.

2nd - Warren Buffett - U.S.

3rd - Lakshmi Mittal - India

6th - Ingvar Kamprad - Sweden

[edit] List of billionaires

#	Name	Nationality	Net Worth
1	Bill Gates	United States	$46.5 billion
2	Warren Buffett	United States	$44.0 billion
3	Lakshmi Mittal	India	$25.0 billion
4	Carlos Slim Helú	Mexico	$23.8 billion
5	Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud	Saudi Arabia	$23.7 billion
6	Ingvar Kamprad	Sweden	$23.0 billion
7	Paul Allen	United States	$21.0 billion
8	Karl Albrecht	Germany	$18.5 billion
9	Nosmo King	United States	$18.4 billion
10	S. Robson Walton	United States	$18.3 billion
11	Jim Walton	United States	$18.2 billion
12	Alice Walton	United States	$18.0 billion
13	Helen Walton	United States	$18.0 billion
14	Lord Thomson of Fleet and family	Canada	$17.9 billion
15	Liliane Bettencourt	France	$17.2 billion
16	Bernard Arnault	France	$17.0 billion
17	Michael Dell	United States	$16.0 billion
18	Sheldon Adelson	United States	$15.6 billion
19	Theo Albrecht	Germany	$15.5 billion
20	Roman Abramovich	Russia	$13.3 billion
21	Li Ka-shing	Hong Kong	$13.0 billion
22	Amancio Ortega Gaona	Spain	$12.6 billion
23	Steve Ballmer	United States	$12.1 billion
24	Silvio Berlusconi	Italy	$12.0 billion
25	Abigail Johnson	United States	$12.0 billion
26	Barbara Cox Anthony	United States	$11.7 billion
27	Anne Cox Chambers	United States	$11.7 billion
28	Stefan Persson	Sweden	$11.2 billion
29	John Kluge	United States	$11.0 billion
30	Walter, Thomas and Raymond Kwok	Hong Kong	$10.9 billion
31	Forrest Mars, Jr.	United States	$10.4 billion
32	Jacqueline Mars	United States	$10.4 billion
33	John Mars	United States	$10.4 billion
34	Luciano Benetton and family	Italy	$9.9 billion
35	Pierre Omidyar	United States	$9.9 billion
36	Galen Weston and family	Canada	$9.9 billion
37	Lee Shau Kee	Hong Kong	$9.3 billion
38	Azim Premji	India	$9.3 billion
39	Nasser Al-Kharafi and family	Kuwait	$9.0 billion
40	Kirk Kerkorian	United States	$8.9 billion
41	Sumner Redstone	United States	$8.8 billion
42	Leonardo Del Vecchio	Italy	$8.5 billion
43	Michele Ferrero and family	Belgium	$8.5 billion
44	Michael Otto and family	Germany	$8.3 billion
45	Susanne Klatten	Germany	$8.2 billion
46	Philip Knight	United States	$8.2 billion
47	Hans Rausing	Sweden	$8.0 billion
48	Serge Dassault and family	France	$7.8 billion
49	Carl Icahn	United States	$7.8 billion
50	Rupert Murdoch	United States	$7.8 billion
51	Rudolf August Oetker and family	Germany	$7.7 billion
52	Birgit Rausing and family	Sweden	$7.6 billion
53	Spiro Latsis and family	Greece	$7.5 billion
54	Sergey Brin	United States	$7.2 billion
55	Charles Ergen	United States	$7.2 billion
56	Larry Page	United States	$7.2 billion
57	George Soros	United States	$7.2 billion
58	Reinhold Würth	Germany	$7.2 billion
59	Mukesh & Anil Ambani	India	$7.0 billion
60	Mikhail Fridman	Russia	$7.0 billion
61	Vladimir Lisin	Russia	$7.0 billion
62	Donald Newhouse	United States	$7.0 billion
63	Samuel Newhouse, Jr.	United States	$7.0 billion
64	Adolf Merckle	Germany	$6.9 billion
65	Stefan Quandt	Germany	$6.7 billion
66	Micky Arison	United States	$6.5 billion
67	Philip Green	United Kingdom	$6.3 billion
68	Maria-Elisabeth and Georg Schaeffler	Germany	$6.3 billion
69	August von Finck	Germany	$6.3 billion
70	Eli Broad	United States	$6.1 billion
71	Curt Engelhorn	Germany	$6.0 billion
72	Friedrich Flick, Jr.	Germany	$6.0 billion
73	Edward Johnson, III	United States	$6.0 billion
74	Nicky Oppenheimer and family	South Africa	$6.0 billion
75	Francois Pinault	France	$5.9 billion
76	Philip Anschutz	United States	$5.8 billion
77	Ernesto Bertarelli	Switzerland	$5.8 billion
78	Nobutada Saji and family	Japan	$5.8 billion
79	Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi	Saudi Arabia	$5.6 billion
80	Yoshitaka Fukuda and family	Japan	$5.6 billion
81	The Duke of Westminster	United Kingdom	$5.6 billion
82	Reinhard Mohn and family	Germany	$5.6 billion
83	Shari Arison	Israel	$5.5 billion
84	Oleg Deripaska	Russia	$5.5 billion
85	Yasuo Takei and family	Japan	$5.5 billion
86	Jean-Claude Decaux and family	France	$5.4 billion
87	Antonia Johnson	Sweden	$5.4 billion
88	Johanna Quandt	Germany	$5.4 billion
89	Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller	Denmark	$5.3 billion
90	Joseph & Moise Safra	Brazil	$5.2 billion
91	Onsi Sawiris and family	Egypt	$5.2 billion
92	Dan Duncan	United States	$5.1 billion
93	Michael Bloomberg	United States	$5.0 billion
94	Gustavo Cisneros and family	Venezuela	$5.0 billion
95	Rafael del Pino and family	Spain	$5.0 billion
96	Robert Kuok	Malaysia	$5.0 billion
97	Hasso Plattner	Germany	$5.0 billion
98	James Packer	Australia	$5.0 billion
99	Jeffrey Skoll	Canada	$5.0 billion
100	Viktor Vekselberg	Russia	$5.0 billion
101	Ty Warner	United States	$5.0 billion
102	Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken	Netherlands	$4.9 billion
103	Eitaro Itoyama	Japan	$4.9 billion
104	Rahmi Koç and family	Turkey	$4.9 billion
105	Ronald Perelman	United States	$4.9 billion
106	Karl-Heinz Kipp	Germany	$4.8 billion
107	Alexei Mordashov	Russia	$4.8 billion
108	Jim Pattison	Canada	$4.8 billion
109	Alain and Gerard Wertheimer	France	$4.8 billion
110	Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and family	Netherlands	$4.7 billion
111	Kunio Busujima and family	Japan	$4.7 billion
112	Michael Kadoorie and family	Hong Kong	$4.7 billion
113	Kyosuke Kinoshita and family	Japan	$4.7 billion
114	Ferit Sahenk and family	Turkey	$4.7 billion
115	Robert Bosch, Jr. and family	Germany	$4.6 billion
116	Giorgio Armani	Italy	$4.5 billion
117	David Geffen	United States	$4.4 billion
118	James, Arthur and John Irving	Canada	$4.4 billion
119	Fukuzo Iwasaki	Japan	$4.4 billion
120	Vladimir Potanin	Russia	$4.4 billion
121	Mikhail Prokhorov	Russia	$4.4 billion
122	Vagit Alekperov	Russia	$4.3 billion
123	Donald Bren	United States	$4.3 billion
124	Walter Haefner	Switzerland	$4.3 billion
125	Erivan Haub & family	Germany	$4.3 billion
126	Kun-Hee Lee & family	South Korea	$4.3 billion
127	Gordon Moore	United States	$4.3 billion
128	Ross Perot and family	United States	$4.3 billion
129	The Lord Sainsbury of Turville and family	United Kingdom	$4.3 billion
130	Masayoshi Son	Japan	$4.3 billion
131	William Wrigley, Jr.	United States	$4.3 billion
132	John Abele	United States	$4.2 billion
133	Cheng Yu-tung	Hong Kong	$4.2 billion
134	Andrónico Luksic and family	Chile	$4.2 billion
135	George Kaiser	United States	$4.2 billion
136	Jeffrey Bezos	United States	$4.1 billion
137	Lorenzo Mendoza and family	Venezuela	$4.1 billion
138	Charles Koch	United States	$4.0 billion
139	David Koch	United States	$4.0 billion
140	Ananda Krishnan	Malaysia	$4.0 billion
141	Kwek Leng Beng and family	Singapore	$4.0 billion
142	James Sorenson	United States	$4.0 billion
143	Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair and family	United Arab Emirates	$3.9 billion
144	Lester Crown and family	United States	$3.8 billion
145	John Menard, Jr.	United States	$3.8 billion
146	Thomas Schmidheiny	Switzerland	$3.8 billion
147	Andreas Strüngmann	Germany	$3.8 billion
148	Thomas Strüngmann	Germany	$3.8 billion
149	Kumar Birla	India	$3.7 billion
150	Yoshiaki Tsutsumi	Japan	$3.7 billion
151	Jerónimo Arango	Mexico	$3.6 billion
152	Bernie Ecclestone and family	United Kingdom	$3.6 billion
153	Stanley Ho	Hong Kong	$3.6 billion
154	Frank Lowy and family	Australia	$3.6 billion
155	Victor Rashnikov	Russia	$3.6 billion
156	Jørgen Mads Clausen and family	Denmark	$3.5 billion
157	Willi and Isolde Liebherr and family	Switzerland	$3.5 billion
158	Peter Nicholas	United States	$3.5 billion
159	Julio Mario Santo Domingo	Colombia	$3.5 billion
160	Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay	United Kingdom	$3.4 billion
161	Otto Beisheim	Germany	$3.4 billion
162	John Fredriksen	Norway	$3.4 billion
163	Preston Robert Tisch	United States	$3.4 billion
164	Robert Bass	United States	$3.3 billion
165	Paul Desmarais	Canada	$3.3 billion
166	Charles B. Johnson	United States	$3.3 billion
167	Sunil Mittal	India	$3.3 billion
168	Robert Rowling	United States	$3.3 billion
169	Rainer and Michael Schmidt-Ruthenbeck	Germany	$3.3 billion
170	Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi	Saudi Arabia	$3.2 billion
171	Sir Richard Branson	United Kingdom	$3.2 billion
172	William Cook	United States	$3.2 billion
173	Aloysio de Andrade Faria	Brazil	$3.2 billion
174	Rolf Gerling	Germany	$3.2 billion
175	James Goodnight	United States	$3.2 billion
176	Terry Gou	Taiwan	$3.2 billion
177	Maurice Greenberg	United States	$3.2 billion
178	Klaus-Michael Kühne	Germany	$3.2 billion
179	Leonard Lauder	United States	$3.2 billion
180	Gérard Louis-Dreyfus and family	France	$3.2 billion
181	Pallonji Mistry	India	$3.2 billion
182	Akira Mori	Japan	$3.2 billion
183	Madeleine Schickedanz	Germany	$3.2 billion
184	Charles R. Schwab	United States	$3.2 billion
185	Jack C. Taylor	United States	$3.2 billion
186	Klaus Tschira	Germany	$3.2 billion
187	Tadashi Yanai	Japan	$3.2 billion
188	David Filo	United States	$3.1 billion
189	Heidi Horten	Austria	$3.1 billion
190	Sammy Ofer & Yuli Ofer	Israel	$3.1 billion
191	Nina Wang	Hong Kong	$3.1 billion
192	Y.C. Wang	Taiwan	$3.1 billion
193	Leslie Wexner	United States	$3.1 billion
194	Richard DeVos	United States	$3.0 billion
195	Henry Fok	Hong Kong	$3.0 billion
196	Steve Jobs	United States	$3.0 billion
197	Ann Walton Kroenke	United States	$3.0 billion
198	George Lucas	United States	$3.0 billion
199	Sergio Mantegazza	Switzerland	$3.0 billion
200	Miuccia Prada and family	Italy	$3.0 billion
201	Anton Schlecker	Germany	$3.0 billion
202	Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi	Thailand	$3.0 billion
203	Anacleto Angelini	Chile	$2.9 billion
204	Masatoshi Ito	Japan	$2.9 billion
205	Barbara Piasecka Johnson	United States	$2.9 billion
206	Richard Schulze	United States	$2.9 billion
207	Stefan Schörghuber	Germany	$2.9 billion
208	Tsai Wan Tsai and family	Taiwan	$2.9 billion
209	Karl Wlaschek	Austria	$2.9 billion
210	Khalid bin Mahfouz and family	Saudi Arabia	$2.8 billion
211	Charles Bronfman	Canada	$2.8 billion
212	William Davidson	United States	$2.8 billion
213	Jesús de Polanco	Spain	$2.8 billion
214	Rachman Halim and family	Indonesia	$2.8 billion
215	Henry Hillman	United States	$2.8 billion
216	Ralph Lauren	United States	$2.8 billion
217	Stephan Schmidheiny	Switzerland	$2.8 billion
218	Eric Schmidt	United States	$2.8 billion
219	Alberto Baillères	Mexico	$2.7 billion
220	Edgar Bronfman, Sr.	United States	$2.7 billion
221	The Earl Cadogan and family	United Kingdom	$2.7 billion
222	Otto Happel	Germany	$2.7 billion
223	Bradley Hughes	United States	$2.7 billion
224	Ronald Lauder	United States	$2.7 billion
225	Eliodoro Matte and family	Chile	$2.7 billion
226	Luis Carlos Sarmiento	Colombia	$2.7 billion
227	Steven Spielberg	United States	$2.7 billion
228	Hubert Burda	Germany	$2.6 billion
229	Michael Hilti and family	Liechtenstein	$2.6 billion
230	Martha Rivers Ingram and family	United States	$2.6 billion
231	Boris Ivanishvili	Russia	$2.6 billion
232	Rupert Johnson, Jr.	United States	$2.6 billion
233	Saleh Kamel	Saudi Arabia	$2.6 billion
234	Jorge Paulo Lemann	Brazil	$2.6 billion
235	Lev Leviev	Israel	$2.6 billion
236	Hugo Mann and family	Germany	$2.6 billion
237	Ng Teng Fong and family	Singapore	$2.6 billion
238	Ricardo Salinas Pliego and family	Mexico	$2.6 billion
239	Yasumitsu Shigeta	Japan	$2.6 billion
240	Takemitsu Takizaki	Japan	$2.6 billion
241	Donald Trump	United States	$2.6 billion
242	Jerry Yang	United States	$2.6 billion
243	Mohammad Al Amoudi	Saudi Arabia	$2.5 billion
244	Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte	Switzerland	$2.5 billion
245	John Dorrance III	Ireland	$2.5 billion
246	Antônio Ermírio de Moraes	Brazil	$2.5 billion
247	Jeffrey Koo, Jr.	Taiwan	$2.5 billion
248	Esther Koplowitz	Spain	$2.5 billion
249	Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen	Denmark	$2.5 billion
250	Edward Lampert	United States	$2.5 billion
251	Nancy Walton Laurie	United States	$2.5 billion
252	Michael Lee-Chin	Canada	$2.5 billion
253	David Rockefeller	United States	$2.5 billion
254	Nicola Brambilla and Family	Canada	$2.5 billion
255	James Simons	United States	$2.5 billion
256	Leonard N. Stern	United States	$2.5 billion
257	Michael Ying	Hong Kong	$2.5 billion
258	Rinat Akhmetov	Ukraine	$2.4 billion
259	Riley Bechtel	United States	$2.4 billion
260	Stephen Bechtel, Jr.	United States	$2.4 billion
261	Leonard Blavatnik	United States	$2.4 billion
262	Martin Bouygues and family	France	$2.4 billion
263	Michael Herz	Germany	$2.4 billion
264	Lee Seng Wee and family	Singapore	$2.4 billion
265	Lim Goh Tong	Malaysia	$2.4 billion
266	Bernard Marcus	United States	$2.4 billion
267	A. Jerrold Perenchio	United States	$2.4 billion
268	Edward Rogers	Canada	$2.4 billion
269	Teh Hong Piow	Malaysia	$2.4 billion
270	Steven F. Udvar-Hazy	United States	$2.4 billion
271	Vladimir Yevtushenkov	Russia	$2.4 billion
272	Alexander Abramov	Russia	$2.3 billion
273	Vladimir Bogdanov	Russia	$2.3 billion
274	Ronald Burkle	United States	$2.3 billion
275	Clive Calder	United Kingdom	$2.3 billion
276	Jean-Louis Dumas and family	France	$2.3 billion
277	Melinda Esterhazy	Austria	$2.3 billion
278	Tetsuro Funai	Japan	$2.3 billion
279	Frits Goldschmeding	Netherlands	$2.3 billion
280	Stein Erik Hagen	Norway	$2.3 billion
281	Ray Hunt	United States	$2.3 billion
282	Shiv Nadar	India	$2.3 billion
283	Carl Pohlad	United States	$2.3 billion
284	Quek Leng Chan and family	Malaysia	$2.3 billion
285	Johann Rupert and family	South Africa	$2.3 billion
286	Haim Saban	United States	$2.3 billion
287	J. R. Simplot and family	United States	$2.3 billion
288	Clemmie Spangler, Jr.	United States	$2.3 billion
289	Friede Springer	Germany	$2.3 billion
290	Wee Cho Yaw	Singapore	$2.3 billion
291	Tadahiro Yoshida	Japan	$2.3 billion
292	Vincent Bolloré	France	$2.2 billion
293	Charles Butt	United States	$2.2 billion
294	John Calamos	United States	$2.2 billion
295	Wolfgang Herz	Germany	$2.2 billion
296	Leona Helmsley	United States	$2.2 billion
297	Amos Hostetter, Jr.	United States	$2.2 billion
298	Ryoichi Jinnai and family	Japan	$2.2 billion
299	Peter Kellogg	United States	$2.2 billion
300	Mikhail Khodorkovsky	Russia	$2.0 billion

[edit] Other lists

• Sunday Times Rich List
• List of Canadians by net worth
• List of Danes by net worth
• List of Dutch by net worth
• French Rich List
• Korean rich list
• List of heads of government and state by net worth
• List of Singaporeans by net worth
• List of Swedes by net worth
• List of Turks by net worth
• Business oligarch, for New Russian billionaries

[edit] External links

• Forbes: The World's Billionaires

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