Top 10 Richest People in The World

Rich and money are two co-related terms in the English language. To make your place in the top list of the richest, you have to have at least $1.3 billion dollars. A recent list prepared by Forbes magazine, reveals the top 400 richest Americans according to their net worth. Here are the top 10 from the list.

The list actually have 12 top richest Americans because i did not counted 2 major shareholders of the same company as separate individual.

1. William Bill Gates (C0-founder of Microsoft Corporation) : $59 billion dollar



2. Warren Buffet (Major investor in companies like Geico, Dairy Queen & Coca-Cola) : $52 billion dollar



3. Sheldon Adelson (Chief of Las Vegas Sands) : $28 billion dollar



4. Lawrence Ellison (CEO of Oracle Software) : $26 billion dollar



5. Sergey Brin & Larry Page (Co-founders of Google Inc.) : $18.5 billion dollar each




6. Kirk Kerkorian (Owner of MGM Mirage): $18 billion dollar



7. Michael Dell (CEO of Dell Computers) : $17.2 billion dollar



8. Charles Koch & David Koch (Sons of Fred C. Koch): $17 billion dollar each




9. Paul Allen (C0-founder of Microsoft Corporation): $16.8 billion dollar



10. Christy Walton & family (Founder of the biggest retail store Wal-Mart) : $16.3 billion dollar


To read the full report by Forbes and view the rest of the list visit following link.