List of billionaires (2004)

What follows is the list of billionaires (in US dollars) worldwide, for 2004 by "Forbes", not including heads of state whose wealth is tied to their position. See the link to the list ranking heads of government and state at the bottom of this article.

Top billionaires by estimated net worth

# $46.8 billion Bill Gates
# $42.9 billion Warren Buffett
# $23.0 billion Karl Albrecht
# $21.5 billion Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Alsaud
# $21.0 billion Paul Allen
# $20.0 billion Alice Walton*
# $20.0 billion Helen Walton*
# $20.0 billion Jim Walton*
# $20.0 billion John T. Walton*
# $20.0 billion S. Robson Walton*
# $18.8 billion Liliane Bettencourt
# $18.7 billion Larry Ellison
# $18.5 billion Ingvar Kamprad
# $18.1 billion Theo Albrecht
# $17.2 billion The Lord Thomson of Fleet and family
# $15.0 billion Mikhail Khodorkovsky
# $13.8 billion Carlos Slim Helu
# $13.0 billion Michael Dell
# $12.4 billion Steven Ballmer
# $12.4 billion Li Ka-shing
# $12.2 billion Bernard Arnault
# $11.4 billion Walter, Thomas and Raymond Kwok
# $11.2 billion Barbara Cox Anthony
# $11.2 billion Anne Cox Chambers
# $10.6 billion Roman Abramovich
# $10.5 billion John Kluge
# $10.4 billion Forrest Mars, Jr.
# $10.4 billion Jacqueline Mars
# $10.4 billion John Mars
# $10.0 billion Silvio Berlusconi
# $9.8 billion Abigail Johnson
# $9.3 billion Birgit Rausing and family
# $9.2 billion Amancio Ortega
# $9.1 billion Charles Ergen
# $8.9 billion Sumner Redstone
# $8.7 billion The Duke of Westminster
# $8.6 billion Stefan Persson
# $8.5 billion Pierre Omidyar
# $8.4 billion Nasser Al-Kharafi and family
# $8.1 billion Susanne Klatten
# $8.0 billion Michael Otto and family
# $8.0 billion Hans Rausing
# $7.8 billion Rupert Murdoch
# $7.7 billion Donald Newhouse
# $7.7 billion Samuel Newhouse, Jr.
# $7.7 billion Galen Weston and family
# $7.6 billion Carl Icahn
# $7.6 billion Robert Pritzker
# $7.6 billion Thomas Pritzker
# $7.5 billion Rudolf August Oetker
# $7.4 billion Ernesto Bertarelli
# $7.4 billion Samuel C. Johnson
# $7.1 billion Philip Knight - $7.1 billion
# George Soros - $7.0 billion
# Leonardo Del Vecchio - $6.9 billion
# Nobutada Saji and family - $6.9 billion
# August von Finck - $6.8 billion
# $6.7 billion Azim Premji
# Serge Dassault and family - $6.4 billion
# $6.3 billion Lee Shau Kee
# $6.2 billion Lakshmi Mittal
# Yasuo Takei and family - $6.2 billion
# Maria-Elisabeth and Georg Schaeffler - $6.1 billion
# $6.0 billion Mukesh and Anil Ambani
# Kirk Kerkorian - $6.0 billion
# Ty Warner - $6.0 billion
# Micky Arison - $5.9 billion
# Curt Engelhorn - $5.9 billion
# Eli Broad - $5.8 billion
# Friedrich Flick, Jr. - $5.8 billion
# Fukuzo Iwasaki - $5.7 billion
# Mikhail Fridman - $5.6 billion
# Alain Wertheimer and Gerard Wertheimer - $5.6 billion
# Gordon Moore - $5.5 billion
# John Abele - $5.4 billion
# Hasso Plattner - $5.4 billion
# Adolf Merckle - $5.3 billion
# Johanna Quandt - $5.3 billion
# Philip Anschutz - $5.2 billion
# Antonia Johnson - $5.2 billion
# Jeffrey Bezos - $5.1 billion
# Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller - $5.1 billion
# Philip Green - $5.0 billion
# Michael Bloomberg - $4.9 billion
# Marvin Davis - $4.9 billion
# Eitaro Itoyama - $4.9 billion
# Edward Johnson, III - $4.9 billion
# Vladimir Potanin - $4.9 billion
# Mikhail Prokhorov - $4.8 billion
# Peter Nicholas - $4.7 billion
# Francois Pinault - $4.7 billion
# Joseph Safra & Moise Safra - $4.7 billion
# Shari Arison - $4.6 billion
# Gustavo Cisneros and family - $4.6 billion
# Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken - $4.6 billion
# Karl-Heinz Kipp - $4.6 billion
# Jim Pattison - $4.6 billion
# Tsai Wan Lin and family - $4.6 billion
# Luciano Benetton and family - $4.5 billion
# Walter Haefner - $4.5 billion
# Erivan Haub & family - $4.5 billion
# Yoshitaka Fukuda and family - $4.4 billion
# Spiro Latsis and family - $4.4 billion
# Nicky Oppenheimer and family - $4.4 billion
# Jeffrey Skoll - $4.4 billion
# Reinhold Würth - $4.4 billion
# Rafik Al-Hariri and family - $4.3 billion
# Khoo Teck Puat - $4.3 billion
# Kyosuke Kinoshita and family - $4.3 billion
# Kunio Busujima and family - $4.2 billion
# Robert Kuok - $4.2 billion
# Reinhard Mohn and family - $4.2 billion
# Kerry Packer - $4.2 billion
# Lorenzo Mendoza and family - $4.1 billion
# Jeronimo Arango - $4.0 billion
# Donald Bren - $4.0 billion
# David Geffen - $4.0 billion
# Charles Koch - $4.0 billion
# David Koch - $4.0 billion
# The Lord Sainsbury of Turville and family - $4.0 billion
# Michael Kadoorie and family - $3.9 billion
# James Sorenson - $3.9 billion
# James, Arthur and John Irving - $3.8 billion
# Vladimir Lisin - $3.8 billion
# Ronald Perelman - $3.8 billion
# Ross Perot - $3.8 billion
# Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair and family - $3.7 billion
# Robert Bosch, Jr. and family - $3.7 billion
# Jean-Claude Decaux and family - $3.7 billion
# Michele Ferrero - $3.7 billion
# Kwek Leng Beng and family Singapore - $3.6 billion
# Lester Crown and family - $3.6 billion
# Maurice Greenberg - $3.6 billion
# Charles R. Schwab - $3.6 billion
# William Wrigley, Jr. - $3.6 billion
# Jørgen Mads Clausen and family - $3.5 billion
# Bernie Ecclestone and family - $3.5 billion
# John Menard, Jr. - $3.5 billion
# Alexei Mordashov - $3.5 billion
# Kun-Hee Lee & family - $3.4 billion
# Andrónico Luksic and family - $3.4 billion
# Klaus Tschira - $3.4 billion
# Oleg Deripaska - $3.3 billion
# Ann Walton Kroenke - $3.3 billion
# Anton Schlecker - $3.3 billion
# Viktor Vekselberg - $3.3 billion
# Riley Bechtel - $3.2 billion
# Stephen Bechtel, Jr. - $3.2 billion
# $3.2 billion Kumar Birla
# William Cook - $3.2 billion
# Ananda Krishnan - $3.2 billion
# Sakip Sabanci and family - $3.2 billion
# Sulaiman Bin Abdul Al Rajhi - $3.1 billion
# Saud Abdul Aziz Algosaibi - $3.1 billion
# Susan Thompson Buffett - $3.1 billion
# Antonio Champalimaud - $3.1 billion
# Leonard Lauder - $3.1 billion
# Lorenzo Zambrano and family - $3.1 billion
# David and Frederick Barclay - $3.0 billion
# Khalid bin Mahfouz and family - $3.0 billion
# Rafael del Pino and family - $3.0 billion
# Heidi Horten - $3.0 billion
# Mohammed Jameel and family - $3.0 billion
# George Kaiser - $3.0 billion
# George Lucas - $3.0 billion
# Sergio Mantegazza - $3.0 billion
# Bernard Sherman - $3.0 billion
# Jack Taylor - $3.0 billion
# Yoshiaki Tsutsumi - $3.0 billion
# Aloysio de Andrade Faria - $2.9 billion
# James Goodnight - $2.9 billion
# Gérard Louis-Dreyfus - $2.9 billion
# Thomas Schmidheiny - $2.9 billion
# Stefan Schörghuber - $2.9 billion
# Leslie Wexner - $2.9 billion
# Terry Gou - $2.8 billion
# Michael Herz - $2.8 billion
# Henry Hillman - $2.8 billion
# Nancy Walton Laurie - $2.8 billion
# Eliodoro Matte and family - $2.8 billion
# Craig McCaw - $2.8 billion
# Richard M. Schulze - $2.8 billion
# Patrick Wang and family - $2.8 billion
# Y.C. Wang - $2.8 billion
# Vagit Alekperov - $2.7 billion
# Otto Beisheim - $2.7 billion
# Edgar Bronfman, Sr. - $2.7 billion
# Otto Happel - $2.7 billion
# Sunil Mittal - $2.7 billion
# Sammy & Yuli Ofer - $2.7 billion
# A. Jerrold Perenchio - $2.7 billion
# Robert Rowling - $2.7 billion
# Ferit Sahenk and family - $2.7 billion
# Rainer and Michael Schmidt-Ruthenbeck - $2.7 billion
# Preston Tisch - $2.7 billion
# Karl Wlaschek - $2.7 billion
# Robert Bass - $2.6 billion
# Rachman Halim and family - $2.6 billion
# Wolfgang Herz - $2.6 billion
# Charles B. Johnson - $2.6 billion
# Jeffrey Koo Sr - $2.6 billion
# Willi and Isolde Liebherr and family - $2.6 billion
# Stephan Schmidheiny - $2.6 billion
# Anacleto Angelini - $2.5 billion
# Charles Bronfman - $2.5 billion
# Eugenio Garza Laguera and family - $2.5 billion
# Jon Huntsman - $2.5 billion
# Martha Rivers Ingram and family - $2.5 billion
# Masatoshi Ito - $2.5 billion
# Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen - $2.5 billion
# David Rockefeller - $2.5 billion
# J. R. Simplot and family - $2.5 billion
# Steven Spielberg - $2.5 billion
# Donald Trump - $2.5 billion
# Hubert Burda - $2.4 billion
# The Earl Cadogan - $2.4 billion
# Paul Desmarais - $2.4 billion
# Richard DeVos - $2.4 billion
# John Dorrance, III - $2.4 billion
# Ryoichi Jinnai and family - $2.4 billion
# Barbara Piasecka Johnson - $2.4 billion
# Michael Lee-Chin - $2.4 billion
# Frank Lowy & family - $2.4 billion
# Hugo Mann & family - $2.4 billion
# Juan & Carlos March - $2.4 billion
# Akira Mori - $2.4 billion
# Masayoshi Son - $2.4 billion
# Ted Turner - $2.4 billion
# Steven F. Udvar-Hazy - $2.4 billion
# Alberto Bailleres - $2.3 billion
# Ronald Burkle - $2.3 billion
# Charles Butt - $2.3 billion
# Clive Calder - $2.3 billion
# Cheng Yu-tung - $2.3 billion
# Michael Hilti and family - $2.3 billion
# Bradley Wayne Hughes - $2.3 billion
# Ray Lee Hunt - $2.3 billion
# Peter Kellogg - $2.3 billion
# Ralph Lauren - $2.3 billion
# Pallonji Mistry - $2.3 billion
# Ng Teng Fong and family - $2.3 billion
# Madeleine Schickedanz - $2.3 billion
# Tsai Wan Tsai and family - $2.3 billion
# Jay Van Andel - $2.3 billion
# Nina Wang - $2.3 billion
# Giorgio Armani - $2.2 billion
# Heinz Bauer - $2.2 billion
# Sir Richard Branson - $2.2 billion
# David Filo - $2.2 billion
# Tetsuro Funai - $2.2 billion
# Nicolas Hayek - $2.2 billion
# Leona Helmsley - $2.2 billion
# Amos Hostetter, Jr. - $2.2 billion
# Rupert Johnson, Jr. - $2.2 billion
# Bernard Marcus - $2.2 billion
# Carl Pohlad - $2.2 billion
# Leonard Stern - $2.2 billion
# Takemitsu Takizaki - $2.2 billion
# Wee Cho Yaw - $2.2 billion
# Samuel Zell - $2.2 billion
# Umberto Agnelli and family - $2.1 billion
# Jean-Louis Dumas and family - $2.1 billion
# Donald Fisher - $2.1 billion
# Doris Feigenbaum Fisher - $2.1 billion
# Philippe Foriel-Destezet - $2.1 billion
# Rolf Gerling - $2.1 billion
# Gordon Getty - $2.1 billion
# Steve Jobs - $2.1 billion
# Randolph Lerner - $2.1 billion
# Lim Goh Tong - $2.1 billion
# Achille Maramotti - $2.1 billion
# Quek Leng Chan and family - $2.1 billion
# J. Joseph Ricketts & family - $2.1 billion
# Clemmie Spangler, Jr. - $2.1 billion
# Albert II, Prince of Thurn and Taxis - $2.1 billion
# Leonore Annenberg - $2.0 billion
# Martin Bouygues and family - $2.0 billion
# Ennio Doris - $2.0 billion
# Adi Godrej & family - $2.0 billion
# Roberto Hernandez - $2.0 billion
# Klaus-Michael Kühne - $2.0 billion
# Ronald Lauder - $2.0 billion
# Lev Leviev - $2.0 billion
# Patrick McGovern - $2.0 billion
# John Morgridge - $2.0 billion
# Leonid Nevzlin - $2.0 billion
# Henry Nicholas, III - $2.0 billion
# Augusto and Giorgio Perfetti - $2.0 billion
# Richard Rainwater - $2.0 billion
# Steven Rales - $2.0 billion
# Friede Springer - $2.0 billion
# Leonard Blavatnik - $1.9 billion
# William Davidson - $1.9 billion
# John Fredriksen - $1.9 billion
# Louis Gonda - $1.9 billion
# Donald J. Hall - $1.9 billion
# Daniela Herz - $1.9 billion
# Günter Herz - $1.9 billion
# Michael Krasny - $1.9 billion
# Mitchell Rales - $1.9 billion
# Robert Rich Sr - $1.9 billion
# Bruno Schroder and family - $1.9 billion
# Evgeny Shvidler - $1.9 billion
# Ernest Stempel - $1.9 billion
# Glen Taylor - $1.9 billion
# Eugen Viehof and family - $1.9 billion
# Tadashi Yanai - $1.9 billion
# Jerry Yang - $1.9 billion
# S. Daniel Abraham - $1.8 billion
# Sheldon Adelson - $1.8 billion
# Herbert Allen, Jr. - $1.8 billion
# Franklin Booth, Jr. - $1.8 billion
# Emilio Botin - $1.8 billion
# Mikhail Brudno - $1.8 billion
# John de Mol - $1.8 billion
# Charles Dolan - $1.8 billion
# Vladimir Dubov - $1.8 billion
# Stein Erik Hagen - $1.8 billion
# Alfredo Harp Helu - $1.8 billion
# H. Wayne Huizenga - $1.8 billion
# Jess Jackson - $1.8 billion
# John Jahr & family - $1.8 billion
# James Kim & family - $1.8 billion
# Bruce Kovner - $1.8 billion
# Platon Lebedev - $1.8 billion
# Lee Seng Wee and family - $1.8 billion
# John Malone - $1.8 billion
# Sir Ken Morrison and family - $1.8 billion
# Shiv Nadar - $1.8 billion
# $1.8 billion Ricardo Salinas Pliego and family
# Henry Samueli - $1.8 billion
# Vasily Shakhnovsky - $1.8 billion
# Shin Kyuk-ho and family - $1.8 billion
# John Sperling - $1.8 billion
# Peter Sperling - $1.8 billion
# Jon Stryker - $1.8 billion
# Ronda Stryker - $1.8 billion
# Dennis Washington - $1.8 billion
# Arne Wilhelmsen and family - $1.8 billion
# Michael Ying - $1.8 billion
# Vladimir Bogdanov - $1.7 billion
# Dhanin Chearavanont and family - $1.7 billion
# Richard T. Farmer - $1.7 billion
# Thomas Frist, Jr. and family - $1.7 billion
# Hans-Werner Hector - $1.7 billion
# Esther Koplowitz - $1.7 billion
# Mary Alice Dorrance Malone - $1.7 billion
# Clayton Mathile - $1.7 billion
# David Murdock - $1.7 billion
# Edward Samuel Rogers - $1.7 billion
# Johann Rupert and family - $1.7 billion
# Haim Saban - $1.7 billion
# Emanuele Saputo and family- $1.7 billion
# Wen Long Shi and family - $1.7 billion
# Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi - $1.6 billion
# Isak Andic - $1.6 billion
# Nancy Lerner Beck - $1.6 billion
# Stanley Druckenmiller - $1.6 billion
# Tom Golisano - $1.6 billion
# Alec Gores - $1.6 billion
# Tom Gores - $1.6 billion
# Richard Kinder - $1.6 billion
# Norma Lerner - $1.6 billion
# Joseph Lewis - $1.6 billion
# Peter Lewis - $1.6 billion
# Carl Lindner, Jr. - $1.6 billion
# Rosalia Mera - $1.6 billion
# George P. Mitchell - $1.6 billion
# Charles Munger - $1.6 billion
# Kazuo Okada - $1.6 billion
# Gregorio Perez Companc and family - $1.6 billion
# Richard Pratt - $1.6 billion
# John A. Fentener van Vlissingen - $1.6 billion
# Peter Woo & family - $1.6 billion
# Chaleo Yoovidhya - $1.6 billion
# Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala and family - $1.5 billion
# Lee Bass - $1.5 billion
# Frank Batten Sr - $1.5 billion
# Julio Bozano - $1.5 billion
# James Cargill - $1.5 billion
# Margaret Cargill - $1.5 billion
# Bennett Dorrance - $1.5 billion
# Gerald J. Ford - $1.5 billion
# Leslie Gonda - $1.5 billion
# Daryl Katz - $1.5 billion
# Herbert Kohler and family - $1.5 billion
# Edward Lampert - $1.5 billion
# L. Lowry Mays - $1.5 billion
# Wallace McCain - $1.5 billion
# Carlos Peralta and family - $1.5 billion
# Miuccia Prada and family - $1.5 billion
# Fayez Sarofim - $1.5 billion
# Harold Simmons - $1.5 billion
# Jackson Stephens - $1.5 billion
# Pat Stryker - $1.5 billion
# Adrian Swire and family - $1.5 billion
# Lucio Tan - $1.5 billion
# Kemal Uzan & family - $1.5 billion
# Sanford Weill - $1.5 billion
# Arthur Williams, Jr. - $1.5 billion
# Hiroshi Yamauchi - $1.5 billion
# Vladimir Yevtushenkov - $1.5 billion
# Tadahiro Yoshida - $1.5 billion
# Mohammad Al Amoudi - $1.4 billion
# Gerd Brachmann - $1.4 billion
# John Caudwell - $1.4 billion
# Chen Din Hwa - $1.4 billion
# Jean Coutu - $1.4 billion
# Heinz-Horst Deichmann - $1.4 billion
# Barry Diller - $1.4 billion
# David Duffield - $1.4 billion
# Henry Fok - $1.4 billion
# Barbara Carlson Gage and family - $1.4 billion
# Stanley Ho - $1.4 billion
# Irwin Jacobs - $1.4 billion
# German Khan - $1.4 billion
# Rahmi Koc & family - $1.4 billion
# Alicia Koplowitz - $1.4 billion
# E. Kroenke - $1.4 billion
# Fredrik Lundberg - $1.4 billion
# Dietrich Mateschitz - $1.4 billion
# James Moran - $1.4 billion
# Hideo Morita and family - $1.4 billion
# Robert Naify - $1.4 billion
# Marilyn Carlson Nelson and family - $1.4 billion
# Didier Primat - $1.4 billion
# John Sall - $1.4 billion
# Julio Mario Santo Domingo - $1.4 billion
# Luis Carlos Sarmiento - $1.4 billion
# Frederick Smith - $1.4 billion
# Patrick Soon-Shiong - $1.4 billion
# Sylvia Ströher - $1.4 billion
# Henry Sy & family - $1.4 billion
# Albert Ueltschi - $1.4 billion
# Carl Berg - $1.3 billion
# Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone and family - $1.3 billion
# Mark Cuban - $1.3 billion
# Abílio dos Santos Diniz and family - $1.3 billion
# Gustaf Douglas - $1.3 billion
# Richard Egan - $1.3 billion
# Leonid Fedun - $1.3 billion
# Den Fujita & family - $1.3 billion
# Victor Fung - $1.3 billion
# William Fung - $1.3 billion
# Charles Gates, Jr. - $1.3 billion
# William Randolph Hearst III - $1.3 billion
# Stanley Stub Hubbard - $1.3 billion
# Saleh Kamel - $1.3 billion
# Min Kao - $1.3 billion
# Henry Kravis - $1.3 billion
# Barry Lam - $1.3 billion
# Kenichi Mabuchi and family - $1.3 billion
# Steno Marcegaglia and family - $1.3 billion
# Richard Marriott - $1.3 billion
# E. Marshall - $1.3 billion
# Robert C. McNair - $1.3 billion
# William Morean - $1.3 billion
# Hans Riegel - $1.3 billion
# Paul Riegel - $1.3 billion
# George R. Roberts - $1.3 billion
# Walter Scott, Jr. - $1.3 billion
# Thomas Siebel - $1.3 billion
# John Sobrato - $1.3 billion
# Harry Triguboff - $1.3 billion
# Nikolai Tsvetkov - $1.3 billion
# Joop van den Ende - $1.3 billion
# Theodore Waitt - $1.3 billion
# Margaret Whitman - $1.3 billion
# Mortimer Zuckerman - $1.3 billion
# Mohammed A. Al Bahar - $1.2 billion
# Belmiro de Azevedo - $1.2 billion
# Pierre Bellon and family - $1.2 billion
# Arthur Blank - $1.2 billion
# Anneliese Brost - $1.2 billion
# Chang Yung Fa - $1.2 billion
# Phoebe Hearst Cooke - $1.2 billion
# Edward DeBartolo, Jr. - $1.2 billion
# Archie Aldis Emmerson - $1.2 billion
# Migdalia Rodriguez - $1.2 billion
# Thomas Flatley - $1.2 billion
# James France - $1.2 billion
# William France, Jr. - $1.2 billion
# Albert Frere - $1.2 billion
# Soichiro Fukutake and family - $1.2 billion
# Christopher Goldsbury - $1.2 billion
# The Viscount Rothermere - $1.2 billion
# Austin Hearst - $1.2 billion
# David Hearst, Jr. - $1.2 billion
# George Randolph Hearst Jr. - $1.2 billion
# Ingeburg Herz - $1.2 billion
# Joachim Herz - $1.2 billion
# Robert Holding - $1.2 billion
# Joseph Jamail, Jr. - $1.2 billion
# James Jannard - $1.2 billion
# Leon Levine & family - $1.2 billion
# George Lindemann and family - $1.2 billion
# John Marriott, Jr. - $1.2 billion
# Terence Matthews - $1.2 billion
# Harrison McCain - $1.2 billion
# John McCaw, Jr. - $1.2 billion
# Robert McLane, Jr. - $1.2 billion
# Winthrop Rockefeller - $1.2 billion
# Hermann Schnabel - $1.2 billion
# Vyacheslav Sheremet - $1.2 billion
# Melvin Simon - $1.2 billion
# Ollen Smith - $1.2 billion
# Rem Vyakhirev - $1.2 billion
# Elizabeth S. Wiskemann - $1.2 billion
# Daniel Ziff - $1.2 billion
# Dirk Ziff - $1.2 billion
# Robert Ziff - $1.2 billion
# John Arrillaga - $1.1 billion, Jr.
# Sid Bass - $1.1 billion
# Scott Cook - $1.1 billion
# Robert Friedland - $1.1 billion
# John Gandel & family - $1.1 billion
# Alan Gerry - $1.1 billion
# Malcolm Glazer - $1.1 billion
# David Green - $1.1 billion
# Pincus Green - $1.1 billion
# Marguerite Harbert - $1.1 billion
# Marvin Herb - $1.1 billion
# Stephen A. Jarislowsky - $1.1 billion
# William Kellogg - $1.1 billion
# John Krehbiel, Jr. - $1.1 billion
# Guy Laliberte - $1.1 billion
# Jorge Paulo Lemann - $1.1 billion
# Richard Li - $1.1 billion
# Gary Magness - $1.1 billion
# Billy Joe McCombs - $1.1 billion
# Andrei Melnichenko - $1.1 billion
# Arnon Milchan - $1.1 billion
# Anthony O'Reilly - $1.1 billion
# Richard Peery - $1.1 billion
# Marc Rich - $1.1 billion
# Arthur Rock - $1.1 billion
# Isaac Saba Raffoul and family - $1.1 billion
# Richard Scaife - $1.1 billion
# Monika Schoeller - $1.1 billion
# Herbert Siegel - $1.1 billion
# Kenny Troutt - $1.1 billion
# Dieter von Holtzbrinck - $1.1 billion
# Stefan von Holtzbrinck - $1.1 billion
# Charlotte Colket Weber - $1.1 billion
# Oprah Winfrey - $1.1 billion
# Vivian Wu - $1.1 billion
# Stephen Wynn - $1.1 billion
# Larry Yung - $1.1 billion
# Henry Zachry, Jr. - $1.1 billion
# Alexander Abramov - $1.0 billion
# Anil Agarwal and family - $1.0 billion
# Khalaf Al Habtoor - $1.0 billion
# John Anderson - $1.0 billion
# George Argyros - $1.0 billion
# Neil Bluhm - $1.0 billion
# Sergey Brin - $1.0 billion
# Gary Burrell - $1.0 billion
# Jason Chang & family - $1.0 billion
# Turgay Ciner - $1.0 billion
# Steven A. Cohen - $1.0 billion
# Gary Comer - $1.0 billion
# Roy Edward Disney - $1.0 billion
# Bulent Eczacibasi - $1.0 billion
# William Ford, Sr. - $1.0 billion
# Emilio Gnutti - $1.0 billion
# John Hargreaves and family - $1.0 billion
# Dietmar Hopp - $1.0 billion
# Jerry Jones - $1.0 billion
# Morris Kahn - $1.0 billion
# Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. - $1.0 billion
# Alfred Mann - $1.0 billion
# Bruce McCaw - $1.0 billion
# Roger Milliken - $1.0 billion
# Larry Page - $1.0 billion
# Liselott Persson - $1.0 billion
# Stefano Pessina - $1.0 billion
# Sergei Popov - $1.0 billion
# J.K. Rowling - $1.0 billion
# Lily Safra - $1.0 billion
# Charles Simonyi - $1.0 billion
# A. Alfred Taubman - $1.0 billion
# Olav Thon - $1.0 billion
# Tiong Hiew King - $1.0 billion
# Hope Hill Van Beuren - $1.0 billion
# sumant mishra - $1.0 billion

* Each hold an essentially equal share in Wal-Mart.

Notes

*According to Veckans Affärer, Ingvar Kamprad is the wealthiest person in the world. However, this assertion is denied by IKEA Corp, which notes that Kamprad no longer owns the company, which should therefore not be included in reports of his wealth. As of April 2005, the sliding value of the U.S. dollar reportedly put Kamprad ahead as the richest.
*If alive as of 2004, Sam Walton would have been the world's wealthiest person, twice as rich as Bill Gates with a fortune of US$100 billion dollars.

Other lists

* Sunday Times Rich List
* List of Canadians by net worth
* List of Danes by net worth
* 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

See also

* Forbes 400
* Overclass
* Billionaires for Bush