America's Richest Families:
Walton 6 relatives. Combined net worth: $93 billion. Source: Wal-Mart, founded by Sam Walton in 1962, with revenues of $405 billion in 2010. Koch 3 brothers. Combined net worth: $54 billion. Brothers David and Charles own large stakes in $100 billion (revenues) Koch Industries, which operates pipelines, produces fertilizer, chemicals, polymers and owns forestry company Georgia Pacific. Mars 3 siblings. Combined net worth: $41.4 billion. Siblings share ownership of Mars, the world’s largest confectioner, maker of M&Ms, Milky Way and 3 Musketeers and a long list of others. Revenue: nearly $32 billion. Cox 3 relatives Combined net worth: $24 billion. Family members share ownership of Cox Enterprises, whose assets include cable company Cox Communications and newspaper, TV and radio group Cox Media. Jim Kennedy, grandson of the founder, is the chairman of Cox Enterprises. Pritzker 11 relatives. Combined net worth: $19.6 billion. The family inherited pieces of a diversified fortune that includes Hyatt Hotels and host of industrial assets that were built up A.N. Pritzker and his sons Jay (d. 1999) and Robert. Cargill 7 relatives. Combined net worth: $14.3 billion. Seven members of the Cargill and MacMillan families inherited stakes agribusiness giant Cargill Inc., which had revenues of $119.5 billion in the fiscal year through May 2011. Duncan 4 siblings. Combined net worth: $13.6 billion. Siblings inherited their wealth from their father Dan Duncan, who built Enterprise Products into an energy company that owns 49,000 miles of pipelines. Ziff 3 brothers. Combined net worth: $12.6 billion. Brothers share ownership of Ziff Brothers Investments, a diversified portfolio of hedge funds, real estate, equities and commodities. Their father built the Ziff-Davis publishing empire. Newhouse 2 brothers. Combined net worth: $12.5 billion. Brothers S.I. and Donald run newspaper and media company Advance Publications (owner of magazine publisher Conde Nast) and own stock in Discovery Communications. S. C. Johnson 5 relatives. Combined net worth: $11.5 billion. H. Fisk Johnson is CEO of household products company S.C. Johnson, with $9 billion in revenues. Hearst 5 relatives. Combined net worth: $9.8 billion. Five grandchildren of the late media baron William Randolph Hearst own stakes in Hearst Corp., which has newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, and stakes in cable networks ESPN, Lifetime, and A&E. The family’s stake in ESPN is worth more than $6 billion. Bass 4 brothers. Combined net worth: $9.5 billion. Brothers share an oil fortune originally created by their uncle, Sid Richardson. Lauder 2 brothers. Combined net worth: $9.6 billion. Brothers Leonard and Ronald inherited stakes in cosmetics empire Estee Lauder from their mother, who died in 2004. They each own vast art collections. Bechtel 2 relatives. Combined net worth: $6 billion. Father Stephen and son Riley own stakes in San Francisco-based engineering giant Bechtel Corp., the firm that built the Hoover Dam and the Chunnel. Stryker 3 siblings. Combined net worth: $4.7 billion. Siblings inherited stake in medical device company Stryker, founded by their grandfather Homer H. Stryker. Reyes 2 brothers. Combined net worth: $4 billion. Brothers Christopher and Jude oversee food and beer distribution conglomerate Reyes Holdings, with $14 billion in revenues. Fisher 2 relatives Combined net worth: $3.5 billion. Doris Fisher and deceased husband Don founded retailer Gap.
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 Bill Gates | $59 B | 55 | Medina, Washington | Microsoft | | 2 |  Warren Buffett | $39 B | 81 | Omaha, Nebraska | Berkshire Hathaway | | 3 |  Larry Ellison | $33 B | 67 | Woodside, California | Oracle | | 4 |  Charles Koch | $25 B | 75 | Wichita, Kansas | diversified | | 4 |  David Koch | $25 B | 71 | New York, New York | diversified | | 6 |  Christy Walton | $24.5 B | 56 | Jackson, Wyoming | Wal-Mart | | 7 |  George Soros | $22 B | 81 | Katonah, New York | hedge funds | 8Sheldon Adelson on CNN Money |  Sheldon Adelson | $21.5 B | 78 | Las Vegas, Nevada | casinos | | 9 |  Jim Walton | $21.1 B | 63 | Bentonville, Arkansas | Wal-Mart | | 10 |  Alice Walton | $20.9 B | 61 | Fort Worth, Texas | Wal-Mart | | 11 |  S. Robson Walton | $20.5 B | 67 | Bentonville, Arkansas | Wal-Mart | | 12 |  Michael Bloomberg | $19.5 B | 69 | New York, New York | Bloomberg LP | | 13 |  Jeff Bezos | $19.1 B | 47 | Seattle, Washington | Amazon.com | | 14 |  Mark Zuckerberg | $17.5 B | 27 | Palo Alto, California | Facebook | | 15 |  Sergey Brin | $16.7 B | 38 | Los Altos, California | Google | | 15 |  Larry Page | $16.7 B | 38 | Palo Alto, California | Google | | 17 |  John Paulson | $15.5 B | 55 | New York, New York | hedge funds | | 18 |  Michael Dell | $15 B | 46 | Austin, Texas | Dell | | 19 |  Steve Ballmer | $13.9 B | 55 | Hunts Point, Washington | Microsoft | | 20 |  Forrest Mars | $13.8 B | 80 | Big Horn, Wyoming | candy | | 20 |  Jacqueline Mars | $13.8 B | 71 | The Plains, Virginia | candy | | 20 |  John Mars | $13.8 B | 75 | Jackson, Wyoming | candy, pet food | | 23 |  Paul Allen | $13.2 B | 58 | Mercer Island, Washington | Microsoft, investments | | 24 |  Phil Knight | $13.1 B | 73 | Hillsboro, Oregon | Nike | | 25 |  Carl Icahn | $13 B | 75 | New York, New York | leveraged buyouts | | 26 |  Donald Bren | $12 B | 79 | Newport Beach, California | real estate | | 26 |  Anne Cox Chambers | $12 B | 91 | Atlanta, Georgia | media | | 26 |  Ronald Perelman | $12 B | 68 | New York, New York | leveraged buyouts | | 29 |  Abigail Johnson | $11.7 B | 49 | Milton, Massachusetts | Fidelity | | 30 |  James Simons | $10.6 B | 73 | East Setauket, New York | hedge funds | | 31 |  George Kaiser | $10 B | 69 | Tulsa, Oklahoma | oil & gas, banking | | 32 |  Len Blavatnik | $9.5 B | 54 | London, N/A | diversified | | 33 |  Harold Simmons | $9.3 B | 80 | Dallas, Texas | investments | | 34 |  Jack Taylor | $9 B | 89 | St. Louis, Missouri | Enterprise Rent-A-Car | | 35 |  Steve Cohen | $8.3 B | 55 | Greenwich, Connecticut | hedge funds | | 36 |  Harold Hamm | $7.5 B | 65 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | oil & natural gas | | 37 |  Rupert Murdoch | $7.4 B | 80 | New York, New York | News Corp | | 38 |  James Goodnight | $7.1 B | 68 | Cary, North Carolina | SAS Institute | | 39 |  Philip Anschutz | $7 B | 71 | Denver, Colorado | investments | | 39 |  Andrew Beal | $7 B | 58 | Dallas, Texas | banks, real estate | | 39 |  Steve Jobs | $7 B | 56 | Palo Alto, California | Apple, Pixar | | 39 |  Patrick Soon-Shiong | $7 B | 59 | Los Angeles, California | generic drugs | | 43 |  Samuel Newhouse | $6.6 B | 83 | New York, New York | Conde Nast | | 44 |  Ray Dalio | $6.5 B | 62 | Greenwich, Connecticut | hedge funds | | 44 |  Edward Johnson | $6.5 B | 81 | Boston, Massachusetts | Fidelity | | 46 |  Charles Ergen | $6.4 B | 58 | Denver, Colorado | EchoStar | | 46 |  Richard Kinder | $6.4 B | 66 | Houston, Texas | pipelines | | 48 |  Eli Broad | $6.3 B | 78 | Los Angeles, California | investments | | 48 |  Leonard Lauder | $6.3 B | 78 | New York, New York | Estee Lauder | | 50 |  Pierre Omidyar | $6.2 B | 44 | Honolulu, Hawaii | Ebay | | 50 |  Eric Schmidt | $6.2 B | 56 | Atherton, California | Google | | 52 |  Ralph Lauren | $6.1 B | 71 | New York, New York | Ralph Lauren | | 53 |  Jim Kennedy | $6 B | 63 | Atlanta, Georgia | media | | 53 | Blair Parry-Okeden | $6 B | 60 | Scone, N/A | media | | 55 |  Donald Newhouse | $5.9 B | 81 | Somerset County, New Jersey | Conde Nast | | 55 |  Ira Rennert | $5.9 B | 77 | Sagaponack, New York | investments | | 57 |  Charles Butt | $5.7 B | 73 | San Antonio, Texas | supermarkets | | 58 |  David Geffen | $5.5 B | 68 | Malibu, California | movies, music | | 59 |  Jeffrey Hildebrand | $5.3 B | 52 | Houston, Texas | Oil | | 60 |  Richard DeVos | $5 B | 85 | Holland, Michigan | Amway | | 60 |  Richard LeFrak | $5 B | 66 | New York, New York | real estate | | 60 |  Frederik G.H. Meijer | $5 B | 91 | Grand Rapids, Michigan | supermarkets | | 60 |  Thomas Peterffy | $5 B | 67 | Greenwich, Connecticut | discount brokerage | | 60 |  David Tepper | $5 B | 54 | Livingston, New Jersey | hedge funds | | 60 |  Dennis Washington | $5 B | 77 | Missoula, Montana | construction, mining | | 66 |  Robert Rowling | $4.7 B | 57 | Dallas, Texas | investments | | 66 |  Stephen Schwarzman | $4.7 B | 64 | New York, New York | investments | | 66 |  Sam Zell | $4.7 B | 69 | Chicago, Illinois | real estate, private equity | | 69 | Rupert Johnson | $4.5 B | 70 | Burlingame, California | Franklin Resources | | 69 |  John Malone | $4.5 B | 70 | Elizabeth, Colorado | cable television | | 69 |  John Menard | $4.5 B | 71 | Eau Claire, Wisconsin | Retail | | 72 |  Charles Johnson | $4.4 B | 78 | Hillsborough, California | financial services | | 73 |  Ray Lee Hunt | $4.3 B | 68 | Dallas, Texas | oil, real estate | | 73 |  Bruce Kovner | $4.3 B | 66 | New York, New York | hedge funds | | 75 |  Micky Arison | $4.2 B | 62 | Bal Harbour, Florida | Carnival Cruises | | 75 |  Leonard Stern | $4.2 B | 73 | New York, New York | real estate | | 75 |  Daniel Ziff | $4.2 B | 39 | New York, New York | investments | | 75 |  Dirk Ziff | $4.2 B | 47 | North Palm Beach, Florida | investments | | 75 |  Robert Ziff | $4.2 B | 45 | New York, New York | investments | | 80 |  Sumner Redstone | $4.1 B | 88 | Beverly Hills, California | Viacom | | 81 |  John Paul DeJoria | $4 B | 67 | Austin, Texas | hair products, tequila | | 81 |  David Green | $4 B | 69 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | Hobby Lobby | | 81 |  William Koch | $4 B | 71 | Palm Beach, Florida | oil, investments | | 81 |  Roger Wang | $4 B | 62 | Nanjing, Jiangsu | retail | | 85 |  Leslie Wexner | $3.8 B | 74 | New Albany, Ohio | retail | | 86 |  Henry Kravis | $3.7 B | 67 | New York, New York | leveraged buyouts | | 86 |  Gordon Moore | $3.7 B |
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