The World’s Wealthiest
The oil-rich Sultan of Brunei and the Walton family of Wal-Mart fame led the list of Fortune magazine’s annual ranking of the world’s wealthiest people. Americans dominate the domain of billionaires with 26 individuals or families on the list of the richest 101.
Wealth* Rank Name (billions) 1 Sultan of Brunei $37.0 2 Walton family $23.5 3 Mars family $14.0 4 Minoru Mori, $13.0 Akira Mori 5 Samuel I. Newhouse Jr., $10.0 Donald Newhouse, & family Publications 6 King Fahd $10.0 7 John Werner Kluge $ 8.8 8 Gad Rausing, $ 8.5 Hans Rausing 9 Queen Elizabeth II $ 7.8 10 Toichi Takenaka, $ 7.1 and family 11 Sheikh Jaber Ahmed $ 7.0 al-Sabah 12 Bill Gates $ 6.7 13 Warren Buffett $ 6.4 14 Ronald Perelman $ 5.9 15 Anne Cox Chambers, $ 5.8 Barbara Cox Anthony
Rank Source 1 investments, real estate, oil, gas 2 Wal-Mart Stores 3 Mars Inc. 4 Mori building, real estate 5 Advance 6 Saudi Arabian oil 7 Metromedia Co. 8 Tetra-Laval 9 real estate, stocks 10 Takenaka Komuten, construction 11 foreign investments, real estate 12 Microsoft 13 Berkshire Hathaway 14 MacAndrews & Forbes, Revlon, Marvel Enterpises 15 Cox Enterprises
* Estimates of net worth are based on published information or on appraisals of asset values on April 26, 1993. Currency conversions into dollars were based on exchange rates of the same date.
Source: Fortune magazine, Reuters
