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3 of World's Top 7 Billionaires are Latinos
The Forbes World's Billionaires.
It is the definitive list of the world's wealthiest people, profiling and ranking billionaires from 58 countries by their estimated net worths.
* net worth was calculated on March 2012
* source: Forbes
| Rank | Name | Net Worth | Age | Source | Country of Citizenship |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Carlos Slim Helu & family |
$69 B | 72 | telecom | Mexico |
| 2 |  Bill Gates |
$61 B | 56 | Microsoft | United States |
| 3 |  Warren Buffett |
$44 B | 81 | Berkshire Hathaway | United States |
| 4 |  Bernard Arnault |
$41 B | 63 | LVMH | France |
| 5 |  Amancio Ortega |
$37.5 B | 75 | Zara | Spain |
| 6 |  Larry Ellison |
$36 B | 67 | Oracle | United States |
| 7 |  Eike Batista |
$30 B | 55 | mining, oil | Brazil |
| 8 |  Stefan Persson |
$26 B | 64 | H&M | Sweden |
| 9 |  Li Ka-shing |
$25.5 B | 83 | diversified | Hong Kong |
| 10 |  Karl Albrecht |
$25.4 B | 92 | Aldi | Germany |
| 11 |  Christy Walton & family |
$25.3 B | 57 | Wal-Mart | United States |
| 12 |  Charles Koch |
$25 B | 76 | diversified | United States |
| 12 |  David Koch |
$25 B | 71 | diversified | United States |
| 14 |  Sheldon Adelson |
$24.9 B | 78 | casinos | United States |
| 15 |  Liliane Bettencourt |
$24 B | 89 | L'Oreal | France |
| 16 |  Jim Walton |
$23.7 B | 64 | Wal-Mart | United States |
| 17 |  Alice Walton |
$23.3 B | 62 | Wal-Mart | United States |
| 18 |  S. Robson Walton |
$23.1 B | 68 | Wal-Mart | United States |
| 19 |  Mukesh Ambani |
$22.3 B | 54 | petrochemicals, oil & gas | India |
| 20 |  Michael Bloomberg |
$22 B | 70 | Bloomberg LP | United States |
| 21 |  Lakshmi Mittal |
$20.7 B | 61 | steel | India |
| 22 |  George Soros |
$20 B | 81 | hedge funds | United States |
| 23 |  Michele Ferrero & family |
$19 B | 85 | chocolates | Italy |
| 24 |  Sergey Brin |
$18.7 B | 38 | United States | |
| 24 |  Larry Page |
$18.7 B | 39 | United States | |
| 26 |  Jeff Bezos |
$18.4 B | 48 | Amazon.com | United States |
| 27 |  Kwok Thomas & Raymond & family |
$18.3 B | 0 | real estate | Hong Kong |
| 28 |  Alisher Usmanov |
$18.1 B | 58 | steel, telecom, stocks | Russia |
| 29 |  Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud |
$18 B | 57 | investments | Saudi Arabia |
| 29 |  Lee Shau Kee |
$18 B | 84 | diversified | Hong Kong |
| 29 |  Georgina Rinehart |
$18 B | 58 | Mining | Australia |
| 32 | Berthold & Theo Jr. Albrecht & family |
$17.8 B | 0 | Aldi, Trader Joes | Germany |
| 32 | Iris Fontbona & family |
$17.8 B | 0 | mining | Chile |
| 34 |  Michael Otto & family |
$17.6 B | 68 | retail | Germany |
| 35 |  David Thomson & family |
$17.5 B | 54 | media | Canada |
| 35 |  Mark Zuckerberg |
$17.5 B | 27 | United States | |
| 37 |  Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family |
$17.4 B | 56 | retail, media, financing | Mexico |
| 38 |  Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez & family |
$16.5 B | 80 | mining | Mexico |
| 39 |  Rinat Akhmetov |
$16 B | 45 | steel, coal mines | Ukraine |
| 39 |  Cheng Yu-tung |
$16 B | 86 | diversified | Hong Kong |
| 41 |  Michael Dell |
$15.9 B | 47 | Dell | United States |
| 41 |  Vladimir Lisin |
$15.9 B | 55 | steel, transport | Russia |
| 41 |  Azim Premji |
$15.9 B | 66 | software | India |
| 44 |  Steve Ballmer |
$15.7 B | 56 | Microsoft | United States |
| 45 |  Alexei Mordashov |
$15.3 B | 46 | steel, stocks | Russia |
| 46 |  Vladimir Potanin |
$14.5 B | 51 | nonferrous metals | Russia |
| 47 |  Phil Knight |
$14.4 B | 74 | Nike | United States |
| 48 |  Paul Allen |
$14.2 B | 59 | Microsoft, investments | United States |
| 48 | German Larrea Mota Velasco & family |
$14.2 B | 58 | mining | Mexico |
| 50 |  Carl Icahn |
$14 B | 76 | leveraged buyouts | United States |
| 50 |  Birgit Rausing & family |
$14 B | 88 | packaging | Sweden |
| 52 |  Forrest Mars Jr |
$13.8 B | 80 | candy | United States |
| 52 |  Jacqueline Mars |
$13.8 B | 72 | candy | United States |
| 52 | John Mars |
$13.8 B | 75 | candy, pet food | United States |
| 52 |  Joseph Safra |
$13.8 B | 73 | banking | Brazil |
| 56 |  Vagit Alekperov |
$13.5 B | 61 | Lukoil | Russia |
| 57 |  Mikhail Fridman |
$13.4 B | 47 | oil, banking, telecom | Russia |
| 58 |  Mikhail Prokhorov |
$13.2 B | 46 | investments | Russia |
| 59 |  Susanne Klatten |
$13 B | 49 | BMW, pharmaceuticals | Germany |
| 59 |  Francois Pinault & family |
$13 B | 75 | retail | France |
| 61 |  Mohammed Al Amoudi |
$12.5 B | 67 | oil | Saudi Arabia |
| 61 |  Anne Cox Chambers |
$12.5 B | 92 | media | United States |
| 61 |  John Paulson |
$12.5 B | 56 | hedge funds | United States |
| 64 |  Robert Kuok |
$12.4 B | 88 | diversified | Malaysia |
| 64 |  Luis Carlos Sarmiento |
$12.4 B | 79 | banking | Colombia |
| 64 |  Viktor Vekselberg |
$12.4 B | 54 | oil, metals | Russia |
| 67 |  Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family |
$12.2 B | 83 | diversified | Brazil |
| 68 |  Roman Abramovich |
$12.1 B | 45 | steel, investments | Russia |
| 69 |  Donald Bren |
$12 B | 79 | real estate | United States |
| 69 |  Jorge Paulo Lemann |
$12 B | 72 | beer | Brazil |
| 69 |  Ronald Perelman |
$12 B | 69 | leveraged buyouts | United States |
| 72 |  Len Blavatnik |
$11.9 B | 54 | diversified | United States |
| 72 |  Leonid Mikhelson |
$11.9 B | 56 | gas, chemicals | Russia |
| 74 |  Leonardo Del Vecchio |
$11.5 B | 76 | eyewear | Italy |
| 75 |  John Fredriksen |
$11.3 B | 67 | shipping | Cyprus |
| 76 |  Aliko Dangote |
$11.2 B | 54 | sugar, flour, cement | Nigeria |
| 76 |  Stefan Quandt |
$11.2 B | 45 | BMW | Germany |
| 78 |  Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family |
$11 B | 60 | real estate | United Kingdom |
| 78 |  Harold Hamm |
$11 B | 66 | oil & natural gas | United States |
| 80 |  Savitri Jindal & family |
$10.9 B | 62 | steel | India |
| 81 |  Andrey Melnichenko |
$10.8 B | 40 | coal, fertilizers | Russia |
| 82 |  James Simons |
$10.7 B | 73 | hedge funds | United States |
| 83 |  Ernesto Bertarelli & family |
$10.6 B | 46 | biotech | Switzerland |
| 84 |  Jack Taylor & family |
$10.4 B | 89 | Enterprise Rent-A-Car | United States |
| 85 |  Abigail Johnson |
$10.3 B | 50 | Fidelity | United States |
| 86 |  Robin Li |
$10.2 B | 43 | Baidu | China |
| 86 | Eliodoro, Bernardo & Patricia Matte |
$10.2 B | 0 | paper | Chile |
| 88 |  Ray Dalio |
$10 B | 62 | hedge funds | United States |
| 88 |  George Kaiser |
$10 B | 69 | oil & gas, banking | United States |
| 88 |  Johanna Quandt |
$10 B | 85 | BMW | Germany |
| 88 |  Hans Rausing |
$10 B | 86 | packaging | Sweden |
| 88 |  Tadashi Yanai & family |
$10 B | 63 | retail | Japan |
| 93 |  Serge Dassault & family |
$9.9 B | 86 | aviation | France |
| 93 |  Ananda Krishnan |
$9.9 B | 73 | telecoms | Malaysia |
| 95 |  Klaus-Michael Kuhne |
$9.8 B | 74 | shipping | Germany |
| 96 | Pallonji Mistry |
$9.7 B | 82 | construction | Ireland |
| 97 |  Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila |
$9.5 B | 35 | beer | Colombia |
| 98 |  Horst Paulmann & family |
$9.3 B | 77 | retail | Chile |
| 99 |  Gennady Timchenko |
$9.1 B | 59 | oil trading, gas | Russia |
| 100 |  Laurene Powell Jobs & family |
$9 B | 48 | inheritance | United States |
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