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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Top 10 Richest Men in the World

1. William Henry (Bill) Gates III - (born October 28, 1955) is the co-founder, chairman, and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the world's largest computer software company. According to Forbes magazine, Gates is the world's wealthiest person, with a net worth of approximately US$40 billion, as of 2009, losing $18 billion from the $58 billion he held in 2008 but still enough to regain him the top spot (he had slipped to third richest in 2008).

2. Warren Edward Buffett - (born August 30, 1930) is a wealthy American investor and businessman. Nicknamed the "Oracle of Omaha", Buffett has amassed an enormous fortune from astute investments, particularly through his company Berkshire Hathaway, in which he holds a greater than 31% stake.

3. Carlos Slim Helú - (born January 28, 1940 in Mexico City) is Latin America's richest man (and #3 in the world in 2009) according to Forbes, losing $25 billion from his $60 billion fortune during 2008.

4. Lawrence Ellison - (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software firm. In 2008, Lawrence Ellison lost $2.5 billion, dropping from a $25 billion fortune to $22.5 billion but still enough to push him from fourteenth richest man in 2008 to fourth richest man in 2009.

5. Ingvar Kamprad - (born March 30, 1926) is an industrialist from Sweden. He founded IKEA, the home furnishing retail chain, in 1943.


6. Karl Hans Albrecht - (born 1920 in Essen, Germany) is a German entrepreneur who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi with his brother Theo.

7. Mukesh Ambani - is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector company and a Fortune 500 Company.

8. Lakshmi Narayan Mittal - is a billionaire industrialist, born on 15 June 1950 in Sadulpur, in Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and currently residing in Kensington Palace Gardens, London, UK.

9. Theo Albrecht - (born March 28, 1922), is a German entrepreneur, who in 2008 was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 16th richest person in the world, with a net worth of $23 billion. Despite losing over $4 billion during 2008, Theo Albrecht has jumped seven places in the rich list to ninth spot in 2009.

10. Amancio Ortega Gaona - (born March 28, 1936, Spain) is a fashion entrepreneur, Spain's richest man and the founder, with his then-wife Rosalia Mera, and chairman of the Inditex Group. He currently lives with his second wife in a discreet apartment building in the centre of A Coruña (Corunna).

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