World's 50 Richest Men & Women for 2007

It takes 17 billion dollars to make the top ten wealthiest men list this year. This list ranks the top 50 of the World's Billionaires by net worth.

The three richest women are Wal-Mart heirs Christy and Alice Walton at $16.3 billion and $16.1 billion respectively with Abigail Johnson from Fidelity at $15.0 billion for third place.

The top 10 richest men are

• 1 William Gates III $59.0B 51 Medina, WA
  2 Warren Buffett $52.0B 77 Omaha, NE
  3 Sheldon Adelson $28.0B 74 Las Vegas, NV
  4 Lawrence Ellison $26.0B 63 Redwood City, CA
  5 Sergey Brin $18.5B 34 Palo Alto, CA
  5 Larry Page $18.5B 34 San Francisco, CA
  7 Kirk Kerkorian $18.0B 90 Los Angeles, CA
  8 Michael Dell $17.2B 42 Austin, TX
  9 Charles Koch $17.0B 71 Wichita, KS
  9 David Koch $17.0B 67 New York, NY

Full Lists:

• The World's 50 Richest Men(& women) for 2007
  and
• The World's 50 Richest Men(& women) for 2006

Notable:

• Tied for #5 this year at $18.5B, Sergey Brin and Larry Page were tied for number 26 last year at $16.6B.
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