Billionaire list 2000 | |||||
Rank | Name | Net Worth | Citizenship | ||
| 1 | Gates, William H. III | 60 | United States | ||
| 2 | Ellison, Lawrence Joseph | 47 | United States | ||
| 3 | Allen, Paul Gardner | 28 | United States | ||
| 4 | Buffett, Warren Edward | 25.6 | United States | ||
| 5 | Albrecht, Theo & Karl and family | 20 | Germany | ||
| 6 | Alsaud, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal | 20 | Saudi Arabia | ||
| 7 | Walton, S. Robson | 20 | United States | ||
| 8 | Son, Masayoshi | 19.4 | Japan | ||
| 9 | Dell, Michael | 19.1 | United States | ||
| 10 | Thomson, Kenneth | 16.1 | Canada | ||
| 11 | Anschutz, Philip F. | 15.5 | United States | ||
| 12 | Ballmer, Steven Anthony | 15.5 | United States | ||
| 13 | Bettencourt, Liliane | 15.2 | France | ||
| 14 | Berlusconi, Silvio | 12.8 | Italy | ||
| 15 | Quandt, Johanna and family | 12.8 | Germany | ||
| 16 | Arnault, Bernard | 12.6 | France | ||
| 17 | Redstone, Sumner M. | 12.1 | United States | ||
| 18 | Kluge, John Werner | 11.9 | United States | ||
| 19 | Kirch, Leo | 11.5 | Germany | ||
| 20 | Li Ka-shing | 11.3 | Hong Kong | ||
| 21 | Ergen, Charles | 11.2 | United States | ||
| 22 | Pritzker, Thomas J. | 10.7 | United States | ||
| 23 | Murdoch, Keith Rupert | 9.4 | United States | ||
| 24 | Takei, Yasuo | 9.3 | Japan | ||
| 25 | Bertarelli, Ernesto | 9.1 | Switzerland | ||
| 26 | Kwok brothers, Walter, Thomas, Raymond | 9 | Hong Kong | ||
| 27 | Rausing, Gad and family | 9 | Sweden | ||
| 28 | Lee Shau Kee | 8.6 | Hong Kong | ||
| 29 | Haefner, Walter | 8.3 | Switzerland | ||
| 30 | Turner, Robert E. (Ted) | 8.3 | United States | ||
| 31 | Karamehmet, Mehmet and family | 8 | Turkey | ||
| 32 | Olayan, Suliman | 8 | Saudi Arabia | ||
| 33 | Slim Helu, Carlos | 7.9 | Mexico | ||
| 34 | Pinault, Francois | 7.8 | France | ||
| 35 | Persson, Stefan | 7.7 | Sweden | ||
| 36 | Schwab, Charles R. | 7.5 | United States | ||
| 37 | Johnson, Abigail | 7.4 | United States | ||
| 38 | Rausing, Hans | 7.4 | Sweden | ||
| 39 | Saji, Nobutada and family | 7.1 | Japan | ||
| 40 | Mars, Forrest Edward Jr. | 7 | United States | ||
| 41 | Mars, Jacqueline Badger | 7 | United States | ||
| 42 | Mars, John Franklyn | 7 | United States | ||
| 43 | Premji, Azim and family | 6.9 | India | ||
| 44 | Tsai Wan-lin and family | 6.7 | Taiwan | ||
| 45 | Ambani, Dhirubhai and family | 6.6 | India | ||
| 46 | Filo, David | 6.6 | United States | ||
| 47 | Huntsman, Jon Meade | 6.6 | United States | ||
| 48 | Sidhu, Sanjiv | 6.5 | United States | ||
| 49 | Marinho, Roberto and family | 6.4 | Brazil | ||
| 50 | Yang, Jerry | 6.4 | United States | ||
| 51 | Halley, Paul-Louis and family | 6.3 | France | ||
| 52 | Landolt, Pierre and family | 6.3 | Switzerland | ||
| 53 | Otto, Michael and family | 6.3 | Germany | ||
| 54 | Ito, Masatoshi | 6.2 | Japan | ||
| 55 | Bezos, Jeffrey P. | 6.1 | United States | ||
| 56 | Mccaw, Craig O. | 6.1 | United States | ||
| 57 | Kerkorian, Kirk | 5.9 | United States | ||
| 58 | von Siemens family | 5.9 | Germany | ||
| 59 | Yanai, Tadashi | 5.8 | Japan | ||
| 60 | Al-Kharafi, Nasser and family | 5.7 | Kuwait | ||
| 61 | Mohn, Reinhard and family | 5.7 | Germany | ||
| 62 | Sabanci, Sakip and family | 5.7 | Turkey | ||
| 63 | Del Vecchio, Leonardo | 5.5 | Italy | ||
| 64 | Grosvenor, Gerald Cavendish and family | 5.5 | U.K. | ||
| 65 | Pritzker, Robert Alan | 5.5 | United States | ||
| 66 | Waitt, Theodore W. | 5.5 | United States | ||
| 67 | Nicholas, Henry T. | 5.4 | United States | ||
| 68 | Engelhorn, Curt | 5.2 | Germany | ||
| 69 | von Finck, August and family | 5.2 | Germany | ||
| 70 | Dassault, Serge and family | 5.1 | France | ||
| 71 | Goodnight, James | 5.1 | United States | ||
| 72 | Samueli, Henry | 5.1 | United States | ||
| 73 | Agnelli, Giovanni and family | 5 | Italy | ||
| 74 | Kinoshita, Kyosuke | 5 | Japan | ||
| 75 | Omidyar, Pierre M. | 5 | United States | ||
| 76 | von Holtzbrinck, Dieter and family | 5 | Germany | ||
| 77 | Plattner, Hasso | 4.9 | Germany | ||
| 78 | Benetton, Luciano and family | 4.8 | Italy | ||
| 79 | Wurth, Reinhold | 4.8 | Germany | ||
| 80 | Bass, Lee Marshall | 4.7 | United States | ||
| 81 | Fukuda, Yoshitake | 4.7 | Japan | ||
| 82 | Herz, G|nter and family | 4.7 | Germany | ||
| 83 | Okada, Kazuo | 4.7 | Japan | ||
| 84 | Kuok, Robert | 4.6 | Malaysia | ||
| 85 | Newhouse, Donald Edward | 4.5 | United States | ||
| 86 | Newhouse, Samuel Irving Jr. | 4.5 | United States | ||
| 87 | Simplot, John R. | 4.5 | United States | ||
| 88 | Wang, Patrick | 4.5 | Hong Kong | ||
| 89 | Woeste, Albrecht and Henkel family | 4.5 | Germany | ||
| 90 | Iwasaki, Fukuzo | 4.4 | Japan | ||
| 91 | Johnson, Samuel Curtis | 4.4 | United States | ||
| 92 | Koc, Rahmi and family | 4.4 | Turkey | ||
| 93 | Doris, Ennio | 4.3 | Italy | ||
| 94 | Gerling, Rolf | 4.3 | Germany | ||
| 95 | Heineken, Alfred | 4.3 | Netherlands | ||
| 96 | Latsis, Spiro | 4.3 | Greece | ||
| 97 | Li, Richard | 4.3 | Hong Kong | ||
| 98 | Schmidheiny, Stephan | 4.3 | Switzerland | ||
| 99 | Soru, Renato | 4.3 | Italy | ||
| 100 | Wang, Y.C. | 4.3 | Taiwan | ||
| 101 | Bass, Sid Richardson | 4.2 | United States | ||
| 102 | Broad, Eli | 4.2 | United States | ||
| 103 | Haub, Erivan and family | 4.2 | Germany | ||
| 104 | Reimann family | 4.2 | Germany | ||
| 105 | Siebel, Thomas M | 4.2 | United States | ||
| 106 | Beisheim, Otto | 4.1 | Germany | ||
| 107 | Irving, James, Arthur and John | 4.1 | Canada | ||
| 108 | Malone, John C. | 4.1 | United States | ||
| 109 | Sainsbury, David and family | 4.1 | UK | ||
| 110 | Schmidt-Ruthenbeck family | 4.1 | Germany | ||
| 111 | Greenberg, Maurice Raymond | 4 | United States | ||
| 112 | Haffa, Thomas | 4 | Germany | ||
| 113 | Kamel, Saleh | 4 | Saudi Arabia | ||
| 114 | Merck family | 4 | Germany | ||
| 115 | Bronfman, Edgar M. Sr. | 3.9 | United States | ||
| 116 | Deshpande, Gururaj, E. | 3.9 | United States | ||
| 117 | Hostetter, Amos Barr Jr. | 3.9 | United States | ||
| 118 | Lauder, Leonard Alan | 3.9 | United States | ||
| 119 | Lauder, Ronald Steven | 3.9 | United States | ||
| 120 | Mori, Akira | 3.9 | Japan | ||
| 121 | Bombardier family | 3.8 | Canada | ||
| 122 | Jacobs, Klaus | 3.8 | Switzerland | ||
| 123 | Knight, Philip H. | 3.8 | United States | ||
| 124 | Lerner, Alfred | 3.8 | United States | ||
| 125 | Packer, Kerry | 3.8 | Australia | ||
| 126 | Takizaki, Takemitsu | 3.8 | Japan | ||
| 127 | Dumas, Jean-Louis and family | 3.7 | France | ||
| 128 | Icahn, Carl Celian | 3.7 | United States | ||
| 129 | Johnson, Edward Crosby III | 3.7 | United States | ||
| 130 | Nadar, Shiv | 3.7 | India | ||
| 131 | Schmidheiny, Thomas | 3.7 | Switzerland | ||
| 132 | Wang, Nina | 3.7 | Hong Kong | ||
| 133 | Al Rajhi, Saleh bin Abdul Aziz | 3.6 | Saudi Arabia | ||
| 134 | Lim Goh Tong | 3.6 | Malaysia | ||
| 135 | Otsuka, Akihiko and family | 3.6 | Japan | ||
| 136 | Sahenk, Ayhan and family | 3.6 | Turkey | ||
| 137 | Al-Hariri, Rafik and family | 3.5 | Lebanon | ||
| 138 | Bass, Robert Muse | 3.5 | United States | ||
| 139 | Cisneros, Gustavo and family | 3.5 | Venezuela | ||
| 140 | Jameel, Mohammed and family | 3.5 | Saudi Arabia | ||
| 141 | Schickedanz family | 3.5 | Germany | ||
| 142 | Tsutsumi, Yoshiaki | 3.5 | Japan | ||
| 143 | Ng Teng Fong and Robert | 3.4 | Singapore | ||
| 144 | Tschira, Klaus | 3.4 | Germany | ||
| 145 | Branson, Richard | 3.3 | UK | ||
| 146 | Bronfman, Charles R. | 3.3 | Canada | ||
| 147 | Moller, Maersk Mc-Kinney | 3.3 | Denmark | ||
| 148 | Kipp, Karl-Heinz | 3.2 | Germany | ||
| 149 | Koo, Jeffrey and family | 3.2 | Taiwan | ||
| 150 | Oetker, Rudolf and family | 3.2 | Germany | ||
| 151 | Widjaja, Eka Tjipta | 3.2 | Indonesia | ||
| 152 | Foriel-Destezet, Philippe | 3.1 | France | ||
| 153 | Jinnai, Ryoichi | 3.1 | Japan | ||
| 154 | Kristiansen, Kjeld Kirk | 3.1 | Denmark | ||
| 155 | Chandra, Subhash | 3 | India | ||
| 156 | Kamprad, Ingvar | 3 | Sweden | ||
| 157 | Safra, Joseph and Moise | 3 | Brazil | ||
| 158 | Cheng Yu-tung | 2.9 | Hong Kong | ||
| 159 | Hayek, Nicolas | 2.9 | Switzerland | ||
| 160 | Schmid, Gerhard | 2.9 | Germany | ||
| 161 | Skoll, Jeff | 2.9 | Canada | ||
| 162 | van Vlissingen family | 2.9 | Netherlands | ||
| 163 | Vik, Alexander | 2.9 | Norway | ||
| 164 | Bouygues, Martin | 2.8 | France | ||
| 165 | Faria, Aloysio de Andrade | 2.8 | Brazil | ||
| 166 | Funai, Tetsuro | 2.8 | Japan | ||
| 167 | Itoyama, Eitaro | 2.8 | Japan | ||
| 168 | Kuo, Terry | 2.8 | Taiwan | ||
| 169 | Lee Kun-hee and family | 2.8 | South Korea | ||
| 170 | Oppenheimer, Nicky and family | 2.8 | South Africa | ||
| 171 | Khoo Teck Puat | 2.7 | Singapore | ||
| 172 | Kokkalis, Socrates | 2.7 | Greece | ||
| 173 | Yoshida, Tadahiro | 2.7 | Japan | ||
| 174 | Kadoorie, Michael and family | 2.6 | Hong Kong | ||
| 175 | Louis-Dreyfus, Gerard and family | 2.6 | France | ||
| 176 | Jahr, John and family | 2.5 | Germany | ||
| 177 | Mantegazza, Sergio | 2.5 | Switzerland | ||
| 178 | Wertheimer, Alain | 2.5 | France | ||
| 179 | Yamauchi, Hiroshi | 2.5 | Japan | ||
| 180 | Al-Ghurair, Abdul-Aziz | 2.4 | UAE | ||
| 181 | Fukutake, Soichiro | 2.4 | Japan | ||
| 182 | Mann, Hugo and family | 2.4 | Germany | ||
| 183 | Weston, Galen | 2.4 | Canada | ||
| 184 | Fung, Victor & William | 2.3 | Hong Kong | ||
| 185 | Schroder, Bruno | 2.3 | UK | ||
| 186 | David-Weill, Michel | 2.2 | France | ||
| 187 | Ecclestone, Bernard | 2.2 | UK | ||
| 188 | Hopp, Dietmar and family | 2.2 | Germany | ||
| 189 | Mikitani, Hiroshi | 2.2 | Japan | ||
| 190 | O'Reilly, Anthony | 2.2 | Ireland | ||
| 191 | Arison Dorsman, Shari | 2.1 | Israel | ||
| 192 | John T. Dorrance 3rd | 2.1 | Ireland | ||
| 193 | Kampf, Serge | 2.1 | France | ||
| 194 | Lede, David and Cliff | 2.1 | Canada | ||
| 195 | Lowy, Frank | 2.1 | Australia | ||
| 196 | Mendoza, Lorenzo and family | 2.1 | Venezuela | ||
| 197 | Mittal, Lakshmi | 2.1 | India | ||
| 198 | Ofer, Yuli and Sammy | 2.1 | Israel | ||
| 199 | Perez Companc, Gregorio | 2.1 | Argentina | ||
| 200 | Sawiris, Onsi and family | 2.1 | Egypt | ||
| 201 | Tan, Lucio | 2.1 | Philippines | ||
| 202 | Zambrano, Lorenzo | 2.1 | Mexico | ||
| 203 | Al Jeraisy, Abdul Al Rahman | 2 | Saudia Arabia | ||
| 204 | Ermirio de Moraes, Jose and Antonio | 2 | Brazil | ||
| 205 | Garza Laguera, Eugenio and family | 2 | Mexico | ||
| 206 | Goldschmeding, Frits | 2 | Netherlands | ||
| 207 | Kwek Leng Beng | 2 | Singapore | ||
| 208 | Miyamoto, Masafumi | 2 | Japan | ||
| 209 | Morita, Masao | 2 | Japan | ||
| 210 | Rai, Vinay and family | 2 | India | ||
| 211 | Schoerghuber, Stefan | 2 | Germany | ||
| 212 | Thurn und Taxis family | 2 | Germany | ||
| 213 | Verspieren family | 2 | France | ||
| 214 | Ebner, Martin | 1.9 | Switzerland | ||
| 215 | Matthews, Terry | 1.9 | U.K. | ||
| 216 | Oppenheim, Alfred von | 1.9 | Germany | ||
| 217 | Pattison, Jim | 1.9 | Canada | ||
| 218 | Sherman, Bernard (Barry) | 1.9 | Canada | ||
| 219 | Bamford, Sir Anthony and family | 1.8 | UK | ||
| 220 | Fok, Henry | 1.8 | Hong Kong | ||
| 221 | Hargreaves, John and family | 1.8 | U.K. | ||
| 222 | Ho, Stanley | 1.8 | Hong Kong | ||
| 223 | Moores family | 1.8 | U.K. | ||
| 224 | Quek Leng Chan | 1.8 | Malaysia | ||
| 225 | Sekiya, Kenichi | 1.8 | Japan | ||
| 226 | Birla, Kumar Mangalam | 1.7 | India | ||
| 227 | Blocher, Christoph | 1.7 | Switzerland | ||
| 228 | Busujima, Kunio | 1.7 | Japan | ||
| 229 | Chang Yung-fa | 1.7 | Taiwan | ||
| 230 | Lam, Barry | 1.7 | Taiwan | ||
| 231 | Nambu, Yasuyuki | 1.7 | Japan | ||
| 232 | Rogers, Edward S. (Ted) | 1.7 | Canada | ||
| 233 | Rothschild family | 1.7 | France/UK | ||
| 234 | Shigeta, Yasumitsu | 1.7 | Japan | ||
| 235 | Brost family | 1.6 | Germany | ||
| 236 | Champalimaud, Antonio and family | 1.6 | Portugal | ||
| 237 | Chen Din Hwa | 1.6 | Hong Kong | ||
| 238 | Fortabat, Amalia Lacroze de | 1.6 | Argentina | ||
| 239 | Funke family | 1.6 | Germany | ||
| 240 | Mabuchi, Kenichi family | 1.6 | Japan | ||
| 241 | March, Juan and Carlos | 1.6 | Spain | ||
| 242 | Pratt, Richard | 1.6 | Australia | ||
| 243 | Robert, Jr. Bosch | 1.6 | Germany | ||
| 244 | Uehara, Shoji | 1.6 | Japan | ||
| 245 | Weston, Garry | 1.6 | UK | ||
| 246 | Zobel de Ayala, Jaime Augusto | 1.6 | Philippines | ||
| 247 | Arango, Jeronimo | 1.5 | Mexico | ||
| 248 | Azcarraga Jean, Emilio | 1.5 | Mexico | ||
| 249 | Camargo, Dirce Navarro and family | 1.5 | Brazil | ||
| 250 | de Azevedo, Belmiro | 1.5 | Portugal | ||
| 251 | Harmsworth, Jonathan | 1.5 | UK | ||
| 252 | Kudelski, Andre | 1.5 | Switzerland | ||
| 253 | Liebherr family | 1.5 | Switzerland | ||
| 254 | Martin Bringas, Ricardo and family | 1.5 | Mexico | ||
| 255 | Swire, Sir Adrian and family | 1.5 | United Kingdom | ||
| 256 | Ty, George | 1.5 | Philippines | ||
| 257 | Botin, Emilio and family | 1.4 | Spain | ||
| 258 | Diniz, Abilio dos Santos and family | 1.4 | Brazil | ||
| 259 | Fujita, Den | 1.4 | Japan | ||
| 260 | Hilti, Michael | 1.4 | Liechtenstein | ||
| 261 | Matte, Eliodoro | 1.4 | Chile | ||
| 262 | Nakajima, Kenkichi | 1.4 | Japan | ||
| 263 | Ogiwara, Ikuo | 1.4 | Japan | ||
| 264 | Saba Raffoul, Isaac and family | 1.4 | Mexico | ||
| 265 | Salinas Pliego, Ricardo and family | 1.4 | Mexico | ||
| 266 | Tane, Hiroshi | 1.4 | Japan | ||
| 267 | Tiong Hiew King | 1.4 | Malaysia | ||
| 268 | Wada, Shigefumi | 1.4 | Japan | ||
| 269 | Del Pino, Rafael and family | 1.3 | Spain | ||
| 270 | Escarrer, Gabriel | 1.3 | Spain | ||
| 271 | Hector, Hans Werner | 1.3 | Germany | ||
| 272 | Ikemori, Kenji | 1.3 | Japan | ||
| 273 | Mannix, Ron | 1.3 | Canada | ||
| 274 | McCain, Wallace | 1.3 | Canada | ||
| 275 | Raju, B.Ramalinga | 1.3 | India | ||
| 276 | Schmidt, Karl Gerhard | 1.3 | Germany | ||
| 277 | Sy, Henry | 1.3 | Philippines | ||
| 278 | Andre, Henri and Eric | 1.2 | Switzerland | ||
| 279 | Bailleres, Alberto and family | 1.2 | Mexico | ||
| 280 | Bozano, Julio | 1.2 | Brazil | ||
| 281 | Chearavanont, Dhanin | 1.2 | Thailand | ||
| 282 | de Noble, Ernestina Herrera | 1.2 | Argentina | ||
| 283 | Fukushima, Yasuhiro | 1.2 | Japan | ||
| 284 | Haindl family | 1.2 | Germany | ||
| 285 | Kozuki, Kagemasa | 1.2 | Japan | ||
| 286 | Luksic And Family, Andronico | 1.2 | Chile | ||
| 287 | Noda, Masahiro | 1.2 | Japan | ||
| 288 | Romo Garza, Alfonso | 1.2 | Mexico | ||
| 289 | Sato, Kenichiro | 1.2 | Japan | ||
| 290 | Sirois, Charles | 1.2 | Canada | ||
| 291 | Stroeher family | 1.2 | Germany | ||
| 292 | Takenaka, Toichi | 1.2 | Japan | ||
| 293 | Yeoh, Francis | 1.2 | Malaysia | ||
| 294 | Angelini, Anacleto | 1.1 | Chile | ||
| 295 | Asper, Israel | 1.1 | Canada | ||
| 296 | Freudenberg family | 1.1 | Germany | ||
| 297 | Kimura, Kenji | 1.1 | Japan | ||
| 298 | Larrea Mota-Velasco, German | 1.1 | Mexico | ||
| 299 | Lee family | 1.1 | Singapore | ||
| 300 | Liselott Tham | 1.1 | Sweden | ||
| 301 | McCain, Harrison | 1.1 | Canada | ||
| 302 | Peralta, Carlos | 1.1 | Mexico | ||
| 303 | Santo Domingo, Julio Mario | 1.1 | Colombia | ||
| 304 | Wee Cho Yaw | 1.1 | Singapore | ||
| 305 | Aramburuzabala, Maria Asuncion and family | 1 | Mexico | ||
| 306 | Cutrale, Jose and family | 1 | Brazil | ||
| 307 | Hinduja family | 1 | India | ||
| 308 | Katayama, Takao | 1 | Japan | ||
| 309 | Knauf, Baldwin and Nikolaus | 1 | Germany | ||
| 310 | Koplowitz, Alicia | 1 | Spain | ||
| 311 | Lewis, Joseph | 1 | UK | ||
| 312 | Liem Sioe Liong | 1 | Indonesia | ||
| 313 | Merckle, Adolf and family | 1 | Germany | ||
| 314 | Miller, Robert | 1 | UK | ||
| 315 | Oshima, Kenshin | 1 | Japan | ||
| 316 | Rocca, Roberto and family | 1 | Argentina | ||
| 317 | Simon family | 1 | Germany | ||
| 318 | Tan Yu | 1 | Philippines | ||
| 319 | Thyssen-Bornemisza, Georg ("Heini Jr.") | 1 | Switzerland | ||
| 320 | Vidigal, Gaston | 1 | Brazil | ||
| 321 | Yamaguchi, Hisakazu | 1 | Japan | ||
| 322 | Yung, Larry | 1 | Hong Kong | ||
Sources: see Forbes List of billionaires
