Someone's doing something right.
your top 10 list
Rank Name Country Net worth
1. William Gates III United States $46.6 billion
2. Warren Buffett United States $42.9 billion
3. Karl Albrecht Germany $23 billion
4. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud Saudi Arabia $21.5 billion
5. Paul Allen United States $21 billion
6. Alice Walton United States $20 billion
7. Helen Walton United States $20 billion
8. Jim Walton United States $20 billion
9. John Walton United States $20 billion
10. S Robson Walton United States $20 billion
I guess it was a good year for Walmart.
Among this year's billionaires are some real surprises. In a fairy tale as fantastic as her popular Harry Potter series, former welfare mother J.K. Rowling makes her debut on the Forbes list. So do two geeks who have barely turned 30: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who created the ultrapopular Google search engine and are expected to take their company public this year.
Now everytime you use Google you can think to yourself - hey, I just made a billionaire richer.
Biggest jump this year was Buffet. And I don't see Oprah.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4388536/
