According to Forbes for 2006:
Rank Name Net Worth ($bil) Age Residence Source
1 William Henry Gates III 53.0 50 Medina, WA Microsoft
2 Warren Edward Buffett 46.0 76 Omaha, NE Berkshire Hathaway
3 Sheldon Adelson 20.5 73 Las Vegas, NV casinos, hotels
4 Lawrence Joseph Ellison 19.5 62 Redwood City, CA Oracle
5 Paul Gardner Allen 16.0 53 Seattle, WA Microsoft, investments
6 Jim C Walton 15.7 58 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
7 Christy Walton & family 15.6 51 Jackson, WY Wal-Mart inheritance
7 S Robson Walton 15.6 62 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
9 Michael Dell 15.5 41 Austin, TX Dell
9 Alice L Walton 15.5 57 Fort Worth, TX Wal-Mart
11 Helen R Walton 15.3 86 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
12 Sergey Brin 14.1 33 Palo Alto, CA Google
13 Larry E Page 14.0 33 San Francisco, CA Google
14 Jack Crawford Taylor & family 13.9 84 St Louis, MO Enterprise Rent-A-Car
15 Steven Anthony Ballmer 13.6 50 Bellevue, WA Microsoft
16 Abigail Johnson 13.0 44 Boston, MA Fidelity
17 Barbara Cox Anthony 12.6 83 Honolulu, HI Cox Enterprises
17 Anne Cox Chambers 12.6 86 Atlanta, GA Cox Enterprises
19 Charles De Ganahl Koch 12.0 70 Wichita, KS oil, commodities
19 David Hamilton Koch 12.0 66 New York, NY oil, commodities
21 Forrest Edward Mars Jr 10.5 75 McLean, VA candy
21 Jacqueline Mars 10.5 67 Bedminster, NJ candy
21 John Franklyn Mars 10.5 70 Arlington, VA candy
24 Carl Icahn 9.7 70 New York, NY leveraged buyouts
25 John Werner Kluge 9.1 92 Palm Beach, FL Metromedia
26 Kirk Kerkorian 9.0 89 Los Angeles, CA investments, casinos
27 Donald L Bren 8.5 74 Newport Beach, CA real estate
27 George B Kaiser 8.5 64 Tulsa, OK oil & gas, banking
27 George Soros 8.5 76 Westchester, NY hedge funds
30 Philip H Knight 7.9 68 Beaverton, OR Nike
31 Philip F Anschutz 7.8 66 Denver, CO investments
32 Keith Rupert Murdoch 7.7 75 New York, NY News Corp
32 Pierre M Omidyar 7.7 39 Henderson, NV Ebay
34 Charles Ergen 7.6 53 Denver, CO EchoStar
35 Dan L Duncan 7.5 73 Houston, TX energy
35 Edward Crosby Johnson III 7.5 76 Boston, MA Fidelity
35 Sumner M Redstone 7.5 83 Beverly Hills, CA Viacom
38 Donald Edward Newhouse 7.3 76 Somerset County, NJ publishing
38 Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr 7.3 78 New York, NY publishing
40 Leonard Blavatnik 7.0 49 New York, NY Access Industries
40 Ronald Owen Perelman 7.0 63 New York, NY leveraged buyouts
42 Eli Broad 5.8 73 Los Angeles, CA investments
43 Robert Muse Bass 5.5 58 Fort Worth, TX oil, investments
44 Michael Rubens Bloomberg 5.3 64 New York, NY Bloomberg L.P.
45 John R Menard Jr 5.2 66 Eau Claire, WI home improvement stores
45 Robert Rowling 5.2 53 Dallas, TX oil & gas, investments
45 Eric Schmidt 5.2 51 Atherton, CA Google
48 Micky Arison 5.0 57 Bal Harbour, FL Carnival Cruises
49 Steven Paul Jobs 4.9 51 Palo Alto, CA Apple Computer, Pixar
50 David Geffen 4.6 63 Malibu, CA movies, music
50 Charles R Schwab 4.6 69 Atherton, CA discount stock brokerage
52 James Goodnight 4.5 63 Cary, NC SAS Institute
52 Charles Bartlett Johnson 4.5 73 San Mateo, CA Franklin Resources
52 Herbert V Kohler & family 4.5 67 Kohler, WI plumbing fixtures
52 H Ty Warner 4.5 62 Chicago, IL Beanie Babies
52 Samuel Zell 4.5 65 Chicago, IL real estate, private equity
57 Henry Ross Perot 4.3 76 Dallas, TX computer services, real estate
57 James L Sorenson 4.3 85 Salt Lake City, UT medical devices, real estate
59 Robert Earl Holding 4.2 79 Sun Valley, ID energy, resorts, ranching
59 David Howard Murdock 4.2 83 Los Angeles, CA investments
61 Lester Crown & family 4.1 81 Wilmette, IL investments
61 Bradley Wayne Hughes 4.1 73 Malibu, CA Public Storage
61 Harold Clark Simmons 4.1 75 Dallas, TX investments
64 William Morse Davidson 4.0 83 Bloomfield Hills, MI glass
64 James H Simons 4.0 68 East Setauket, NY hedge funds
66 Ralph Lauren 3.9 66 New York, NY fashion
67 Edward S Lampert 3.8 44 Greenwich, CT investments
68 Rupert Harris Johnson Jr 3.7 65 San Mateo, CA Franklin Resources
68 Leonard Norman Stern 3.7 68 New York, NY real estate
70 Jeffrey P Bezos 3.6 42 Seattle, WA Amazon
70 George Lucas 3.6 62 Marin County, CA Star Wars
70 Richard M Schulze 3.6 65 Edina, MN Best Buy
73 Richard M DeVos 3.5 80 Ada, MI Alticor
73 Ray Lee Hunt 3.5 63 Dallas, TX oil, real estate
73 Paul Milstein & family 3.5 84 New York, NY Emigrant, real estate
73 Stephen A Schwarzman 3.5 59 New York, NY investments
77 Gordon Earle Moore 3.4 77 Woodside, CA Intel
77 Patrick Soon-Shiong 3.4 54 Los Angeles, CA generic drugs
77 Joan H Tisch 3.4 80 New York, NY Loews
80 Edgar M Bronfman Sr 3.2 77 New York, NY liquor
80 William Alfred Cook 3.2 75 Bloomington, IN medical devices
80 John Richard Simplot & family 3.2 97 Boise, ID potatoes, microchips
83 Steven Udvar-Hazy 3.1 60 Beverly Hills, CA International Lease Finance
83 Leslie Herbert Wexner 3.1 69 Columbus, OH Limited Brands
85 Roland Arnall 3.0 67 Holmby Hills, CA mortgage banking
85 Lee Marshall Bass 3.0 50 Fort Worth, TX oil, investments
85 Sid Richardson Bass 3.0 63 Fort Worth, TX oil, investments
85 Matthew Bucksbaum & family 3.0 80 Chicago, IL real estate
85 Steven A Cohen 3.0 50 Greenwich, CT hedge funds
85 Henry Lea Hillman 3.0 87 Pittsburgh, PA industrialist
85 Bruce Kovner 3.0 61 New York, NY hedge funds
85 Patrick Joseph McGovern 3.0 69 Hollis, NH IDG
85 A Jerrold Perenchio 3.0 75 Bel Air, CA Univision
94 Martha R Ingram & family 2.9 71 Nashville, TN Ingram Industries
94 Leonard Alan Lauder 2.9 73 New York, NY Estee Lauder
94 Steven Allen Spielberg 2.9 59 Pacific Palisades, CA movies
94 Donald John Trump 2.9 60 New York, NY real estate
98 Maurice Raymond Greenberg 2.8 81 Ocean Reef, FL American International Group
98 Barbara Piasecka Johnson 2.8 69 Monte Carlo, Monaco inheritance
98 Richard Kinder 2.8 62 Houston, TX pipelines
98 Haim Saban 2.8 61 Beverly Hills, CA television
98 Dennis Washington 2.8 72 Missoula, MT construction, mining, transportation
103 Riley P Bechtel 2.7 54 San Francisco, CA engineering, construction
103 Stephen Davison Bechtel Jr 2.7 81 San Francisco, CA engineering, construction
103 Ronald Steven Lauder 2.7 62 New York, NY Estee Lauder
103 T Boone Pickens 2.7 78 Dallas, TX oil & gas, investments
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