The People Who Run The World
America's Richest Families:
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Woodside, California
Wichita, Kansas
New York, New York
Jackson, Wyoming
Katonah, New York
Las Vegas, Nevada
Bentonville, Arkansas
Fort Worth, Texas
Bentonville, Arkansas
New York, New York
Seattle, Washington
Palo Alto, California
Los Altos, California
Palo Alto, California
New York, New York
Austin, Texas
Hunts Point, Washington
Big Horn, Wyoming
The Plains, Virginia
Jackson, Wyoming
Mercer Island, Washington
Hillsboro, Oregon
New York, New York
Newport Beach, California
Atlanta, Georgia
New York, New York
Milton, Massachusetts
East Setauket, New York
Tulsa, Oklahoma
London, N/A
Dallas, Texas
St. Louis, Missouri
Greenwich, Connecticut
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
New York, New York
Cary, North Carolina
Denver, Colorado
Dallas, Texas
Palo Alto, California
Los Angeles, California
New York, New York
Greenwich, Connecticut
Boston, Massachusetts
Denver, Colorado
Houston, Texas
Los Angeles, California
New York, New York
Honolulu, Hawaii
Atherton, California
New York, New York
Atlanta, Georgia
Scone, N/A
Somerset County, New Jersey
Sagaponack, New York
San Antonio, Texas
Malibu, California
Houston, Texas
Holland, Michigan
New York, New York
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Greenwich, Connecticut
Livingston, New Jersey
Missoula, Montana
Dallas, Texas
New York, New York
Chicago, Illinois
Burlingame, California
Elizabeth, Colorado
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Hillsborough, California
Dallas, Texas
New York, New York
Bal Harbour, Florida
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North Palm Beach, Florida
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Beverly Hills, California
Austin, Texas
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Palm Beach, Florida
Nanjing, Jiangsu
New Albany, Ohio
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Woodside, California
Fort Worth, Texas
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Dallas, Texas
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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.
Walton 6 relatives. Combined net worth: $93 billion. Source: Wal-Mart, founded by Sam Walton in 1962, with revenues of $405 billion in 2010.
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John Paulson
Michael Dell
Steve Ballmer
Forrest Mars
Jacqueline Mars
John Mars
Mark Zuckerberg
Sergey Brin
Larry Page
Christy Walton
George Soros
Sheldon Adelson
Jim Walton
Alice Walton
S. Robson Walton
Michael Bloomberg
Jeff Bezos
Berkshire Hathaway
Oracle
diversified
diversified
Wal-Mart
hedge funds
casinos
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart
Bloomberg LP
Amazon.com
hedge funds
Dell
Microsoft
candy
candy
candy, pet food
Microsoft, investments
Nike
leveraged buyouts
real estate
media
leveraged buyouts
Fidelity
hedge funds
oil & gas, banking
diversified
investments
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
hedge funds
oil & natural gas
News Corp
SAS Institute
investments
banks, real estate
Apple, Pixar
generic drugs
Conde Nast
hedge funds
Fidelity
EchoStar
pipelines
investments
Estee Lauder
Ebay
Ralph Lauren
media
media
Conde Nast
investments
supermarkets
movies, music
Oil
Amway
real estate
supermarkets
discount brokerage
hedge funds
construction, mining
investments
investments
real estate, private equity
Franklin Resources
cable television
Retail
financial services
oil, real estate
hedge funds
Carnival Cruises
real estate
investments
investments
investments
Viacom
hair products, tequila
Hobby Lobby
oil, investments
retail
retail
leveraged buyouts
Intel
oil, investments
retail
Oil & Gas
hedge funds
computer services, real estate
SAS Institute
discount brokerage
pipelines
medical devices
Pipelines
Pipelines
Discount Tire
Paul Allen
Donald Bren
Anne Cox Chambers
Ronald Perelman
Abigail Johnson
James Simons
George Kaiser
Len Blavatnik
Harold Simmons
Jack Taylor
Steve Cohen
Phil Knight
Carl Icahn
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.
Harold Hamm
Rupert Murdoch
James Goodnight
Philip Anschutz
Andrew Beal
Steve Jobs
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Samuel Newhouse
Ray Dalio
Edward Johnson
Charles Ergen
Richard Kinder
Eli Broad
Leonard Lauder
Pierre Omidyar
Eric Schmidt
Ralph Lauren
Jim Kennedy
Blair Parry-Okeden
Donald Newhouse
Ira Rennert
Charles Butt
David Geffen
Jeffrey Hildebrand
Richard DeVos
Richard LeFrak
Frederik G.H. Meijer
Thomas Peterffy
David Tepper
Dennis Washington
Robert Rowling
Stephen Schwarzman
Sam Zell
Rupert Johnson
John Malone
John Menard
Charles Johnson
Ray Lee Hunt
Bruce Kovner
Micky Arison
Leonard Stern
Daniel Ziff
Dirk Ziff
Robert Ziff
Sumner Redstone
John Paul DeJoria
David Green
William Koch
Roger Wang
Leslie Wexner
Henry Kravis
Gordon Moore
Robert Bass
Jin Sook & Do Won Chang
Trevor Rees-Jones
John Arnold
Dustin Moskovitz
Henry Ross Perot
John Sall
Charles Schwab
Dannine Avara
Gayle Cook
