List of Richest Billionaires
Dennis Washington
Dennis R. Washington is an American billionaire industrialist who owns, or co-owns controlling interests in, a large consortium of privately held companies collectively known as the Washington Companies and, in Canada, another collection of companies known as the Seaspan Marine Corporation.
Pauline MacMillan Keinath
Pauline MacMillan Keinath is an American billionaire heiress.
Murat Ülker
Murat Ülker is a Turkish billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Yıldız Holding, the largest food company in the CEEMEA Region. Yıldız owns businesses including Godiva Chocolatier, pladis, and Sok.
Tsai Eng-meng
Tsai Eng-meng is a Taiwanese businessman, chairman of the snack food company Want Want China. In 2017 he was the richest person in Taiwan.
Axel Oberwelland
Axel Oberwelland is a German billionaire heir and businessman, the owner of the confectionery manufacturer August Storck, founded by his eponymous great-grandfather in 1903. The company is best known for its brands Werther's Original, Riesen and Toffifee.
Ole Andreas Halvorsen
Ole Andreas Halvorsen is a Norwegian-born billionaire hedge fund manager. He is the CEO and a co-founder of the Connecticut-based hedge fund, Viking Global Investors. Viking had $24 billion under management as of October, 2017. Halvorsen has consistently ranked among the top earning hedge fund managers, placing 11th in Forbes' 2012 rankings and 9th in 2015, according to Institutional Investor's Alpha.
Rahul Bajaj
Rahul Bajaj is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of the Indian conglomerate Bajaj Group and a member of parliament. Bajaj comes from the business house started by Jamnalal Bajaj. He was awarded the third-highest civilian award Padma Bhushan in 2001. In a recent interview for the Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School, Bajaj provides a devastating critique of Indian industrial policies before the liberalisation in the 1990s. In 2008, he split Bajaj Auto into three units - Bajaj Auto, finance company Bajaj Finserv and a holding company. His sons are now managing the day to day affairs of the company.
Shi Yuzhu
Shi Yuzhu is a Chinese entrepreneur and software engineer.
Mitchell Rales
Mitchell Rales is an American billionaire businessman, and a collector of modern and contemporary art. He co-founded Danaher Corporation in 1983 and is the chairman of its executive committee. Rales is one of the Washington, D.C. region's eleven billionaires. In collaboration with his wife Emily Wei Rales, an art historian and curator, he has established Glenstone, a private museum in Potomac, Maryland, which presents exhibitions of their collection of art.
Jason Jiang
Jiang Nanchun, also known as Jason Jiang, is a Chinese businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Focus Media, "a multi-platform digital media company that operates out-of-home advertising network using audiovisual digital displays". In 2005 his company went public on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, and achieved a market capitalization of US$3.6 billion as of 2011. He delisted the company from Nasdaq in 2013, and used a reverse takeover to list the company in China in 2016. In 2018, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$5.4 billion.