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Look: Some people have so much money that they just can't possibly live normal lives or even behave like regular human people. These are their stories.

Money

From low-profile investors to confectionery heirs, we present a list of highly secretive rich people. Some of them aren't even on the Forbes List—probably because they paid the magazine not to include them.&nbsp;Each and every one of these folks is a multi-billionaire, one of whom makes it a point not to let the world know of his real net worth. This same man holds significant stakes in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street. But he's just one in a slew of many under-the-radar monetary titans.&nbsp;If you've ever wanted to know what the richest of the rich are like in person, maybe this will clue you in to the fact that they're not so different, at least&nbsp;not the little-known rich people mentioned here. If you feel like we missed any important financial kingpins or mysterious rich people, let us know in the comments.

Wealthy

Have you ever wondered about the celebrities born into wealthy families? These people had money and inheritances before they even became famous. Most actors struggle to pay the rent while they are pursuing their Hollywood dreams, but some lucky celebrities have been born into wealthy families. Some famous people have even been born into acting families, which has helped open doors for them throughout their careers.

Who are some of the celebs who were born rich? Paris Hilton is an heiress to the Hilton family fortune. Her great-grandfather, Conrad Hilton, founded the very successful Hilton Hotels. Seinfeld actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus&#39;s father is the billionaire Gerard Louis-Dreyfus. She has an estimated net-worth of over $3 billion.

Paul Giamatti&#39;s father was the President of Yale University, and the commissioner of Major League Baseball, so he&#39;s likely never had an embarrassing side&nbsp;job. This list certainly features some of the heavy hitters when it comes to highest net worth. Miley Cyrus, for example, was probably one of the richest child actors of all time. Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine&#39;s family has money, and the Mara sisters are practically football royalty.&nbsp;

Parks and Recreation star Rashida Jones was also born to wealthy parents. Her mother is the Twin Peaks actress Peggy Lipton and her father is the legendary music producer Quincy Jones. A few more of the richest, wealthiest stars who were born into successful families include Kim Kardashian, Giada de Laurentiis, Andersen&nbsp;Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kyra Sedgwick, and Brooke Shields.&nbsp;

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It&#39;s a real mystery&nbsp;how you get to be one of the ultra-wealthy elite of the world. Investments, probably? An inheritance? Even then, how does an inheritance turn into an Everest-sized pile of money that one rolls around in naked? Even if you don&rsquo;t have what it takes (such&nbsp;as rich parents) to become a fat cat, you can probably spot a fat cat with aspirations to become something more nefarious -&nbsp;a supervillain. It might sound far-fetched, but follow along. Like Rome, supervillains aren&rsquo;t built in a day. It takes time, effort, usually a large <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/what-happens-when-you-fall-into-acid/jacob-shelton?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">vat of acid</a>, and definitely&nbsp;A LOT of money to make a full-fledged, real-life supervillain. This list is filled with some of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/rich-people-you-havent-heard-of/noah-henry?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">wealthiest people in the world</a> who might just be aching to build a death ray.

From internet billionaires to old money, they&rsquo;ve all made this list of wealthy folks who maybe, just maybe, want&nbsp;to become supervillains.&nbsp;Some of them might want&nbsp;to turn the world into their own Wild West theme park, while others probably wish&nbsp;they could force us to wear those skinny sweatpants that are also somehow baggy -&nbsp;you never know what you&rsquo;re going to get with supervillains.

Vote up the gazillionaire you think is closest to becoming a supervillain!

Private Jets. Cases of Dom. Designer Duds. Yachts and mansions. Rich kids really are different from you and me, and they LOVE to brag about it on social media. We&#39;ve all seen <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-very-best-of-the-rich-kids-of-instagram-tumblr/robert-wabash">their exploits on Instagram</a>. Their latest outlet? Snapchat. This collection of annoying rich kid photos will make you red in the face and green with jealousy. (As green as the contents of their wallets? Probably not.)

See the 1% drive luxury cars we can only dream of; watch them vacation in places we&rsquo;ll likely never see. We hope most of these images are tongue-in-cheek commentary on the current state of things, but if they&rsquo;re not, the Rich Kids Of Snapchat could use a little lesson in humility.

Are the Rich Kids Of Snapchat obvious trolls or the real deal? Scroll through the list and judge for yourself.&nbsp;

Companies

When you buy something at the store, turn on the television, or eat a meal, you interact with numerous family businesses and contribute to countless family fortunes - perhaps without even realizing it.Some of the most well-known, wealthiest names in goods and services are established entities that have been around for decades.&nbsp;The <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/historical-descendants-in-the-family-business/stephanroget" target="_blank">historical descendants</a>&nbsp;who inherited those&nbsp;company fortunes may have picked up the reigns of their ancestors'&nbsp;business, or perhaps they just sit back and&nbsp;reap the rewards of their families' success.Either way, the descendants of billionaires often get to be magnates in their own time. The <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/what-descendants-of-rockstars-look-like/nicky-benson" target="_blank">children of the rich</a> may not be instantly recognizable, but their families pull in some of the biggest&nbsp;paydays around.&nbsp;

Explainer

During the Gilded Age, the mass accumulation of money by families like the Vanderbilts changed the economic,&nbsp;social, and physical&nbsp;landscape&nbsp;of the United States. The <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/members-of-the-vanderbilt-family/reference" target="_blank">Vanderbilt family&#39;s</a>&nbsp;wealth grew out of the shipping and railroad industries, both of which were largely monopolized by the the family patriarch, Cornelius &quot;Commodore&quot; Vanderbilt, in the late 19th century. His hard work set the foundation for his sons and&nbsp;grandsons to continue making money, but their&nbsp;descendants became less&nbsp;inclined to earn and more likely to spend.

As it goes in&nbsp;many wealthy families&mdash;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/dark-rockefeller-family-facts/harrison-tenpas" target="_blank">such as the Rockefellers</a>,&nbsp;for instance&mdash;the Vanderbilts were prone to excess. <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/over-the-top-homes/erin-cody" target="_blank">The houses</a>, the luxury, and the spectacle that defined&nbsp;the Vanderbilt family eventually brought about their decline from atop the&nbsp;financial and social ladders they once dominated.

Whether they are about gambling, business, or planning a good heist, movies about making money and getting rich&nbsp;have made millions for Hollywood. The top making money movies have even won Academy Awards for the actors who played characters that known how to work the system. This is a list of movies about doing business, featuring everything from The Wolf of Wall Street to Citizen Kane to American Hustle.

What films will you find on this list of the best making money movies? You won&#39;t be surprised to see Glengarry Glen Ross here. Alec Baldwin&#39;s opening monologue in the 1992 film epitomized corporate greed and showed the plight of struggling salesmen as they try to make the deal and get the leads. Wall Street is another great movie about making money.&nbsp;The Big Short followed the story of a few smart money men who spotted &ndash; and profited from &ndash; the 2008 recession before anyone. Other great films featured on this top money making movies list include 21, The Secret of My Success, and Moneyball.

Which film about making money is your favorite? Vote them up so the rest&nbsp; of the world will know.

The Toy

The best rich people movies are generally about Billionaires who can usually buy whatever they want, whenever they want. While that dream might not be attainable in real life, it&#39;s certainly&nbsp;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-movies-to-watch-while-drinking/anncasano?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">fun to watch</a> in the movies. The best movies with rich people, spending big, feature characters having a great time with their rich lifestyle&nbsp;&ndash; and often paying the price for shady dealings. This is a list of the top movies about rich people including everything from Goodfellas to The Aviator to Cruel Intentions.

What films will you find on this list of the best rich people movies?&nbsp;In Martin Scorsese&#39;s The Wolf of Wall Street,&nbsp;Leonardo DiCaprio portraying a gluttonous stock broker with an affinity for sex, drugs, and questionable business moves. Boiler Room is another good movie about rich people spending lots of money.&nbsp;Citizen Kane was one of the first movies with a rich and powerful protagonist that showed that money can&#39;t buy you happiness. Other top films found on this list include American Psycho, Scarface, and Indecent Proposal.

It&#39;s up to you to decide which movies about wealthy people balling out are the best of the best. Take a look at this list and give your personal picks a thumbs up to vote them up to the top.

Pets

They’re cute, they’re cuddly and they’re rolling in cash. Meet the <a href="https://instagram.com/richdogsofig/" target="_blank">rich dogs of Instagram</a>: adorable canines that live a life larger than most people do and are feeling okay about it. They drip in diamonds, travel to exotic locales, and enjoy <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-luxury-fashion-brands/ranker-shopping?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">top designer brands</a>, they suppose. These dogs are living the good life, lounging all day, flying private, choosing which Lamborghini to ride in, and traveling the world in style.The account (<a href="https://instagram.com/richdogsofig/" target="_blank">@richdogsofig</a>) is the brainchild of Kaylin Pound who says there’s a method behind this cash-crazy canine madness: “Seeing all of that frivolously spent money made me feel like I needed to do something to make the world a better place. Therefore, I did the most logical thing I could think of: I set out to find the most badass dogs on the planet and put them all on one hilarious Instagram account for your viewing pleasure.”So which dogs wear their net worth best? Upvote the cutest and most ridiculous pictures of rich dogs, puppies, and all around canine cash cows below.

Not everyone is capable of handling near boundless wealth and power. Throughout history, there have been many very eccentric British aristocrats that have used their status and fortune in... unique ways. These strange aristocrats, nobles,&nbsp;and heirs to fortunes squandered their money on everything from $10,000 shoes they couldn&#39;t walk in, to a giant personal theater that existed just for their own dance recitals. Some of these crazy aristocrats made well-meaning, if offbeat, attempts to help others, be kind to animals, and protect the environment. Others abused their privilege to bully commoners, terrorize their servants, and just generally cause trouble.

From the lord who wore a beard that reached down to his knees, to the aristocratic who tried (and failed) to ride a bear, the sanity of some of these rich eccentrics is highly questionable.&nbsp;

&quot;Rich kid syndrome&quot; or &quot;affluenza&quot; is an ailment on society that affects people who have yet to learn about the harsh, cold realities of life. Either because of overprotective parents or just an excess of material goods, these are people who are unaware of their privilege and act accordingly, often treating others as inferior or taking material goods for granted.&nbsp; 
The <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/c6cq6r/whats_the_worst_case_of_rich_kid_syndrome_youve/" target="_blank">good folks of Reddit </a>shared their stories of people they met who &quot;suffer&quot; from rich kid syndrome. Here are a few of the worst.&nbsp;

Being rich means you have a lot of money. Sure - we get it. But, what does being rich&nbsp;practically&nbsp;mean in your day-to-day? r/<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/dl4xce/what_do_the_rich_buy_that_the_poor_dont_even_know/" target="_blank">MuadDib-</a> asked the question &quot;What do the rich buy that the poor don&#39;t even know is available for purchase?&quot;, and the Internet did not disappoint. Vote up the most interesting rich things you read down below!

Money can be a sticky topic - no one has enough and everybody wants more. But what about the people who actually have tons of money? Sometimes this affluence&nbsp;can be jarring&nbsp;or even infuritating. Being around someone with a fundamentally different&nbsp;understanding of the dollar&nbsp;can be difficult. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/c6cq6r/whats_the_worst_case_of_rich_kid_syndrome_youve/" target="_blank">These Reddit users</a> describe the times &quot;Rich Kid Syndrome&quot; made their jaws drop.

Some <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/fictional-characters-whose-heights-you-were-wrong-about/stephanroget" target="_blank">fictional&nbsp;character's height</a> might be different than you imagine,&nbsp;or they might be&nbsp;a <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/fictional-characters-who-are-a-different-age-than-you-think/liam-ross" target="_blank">different age than one&nbsp;would assume</a>, but the wealth of TV, film, and book&nbsp;characters are often baffling.&nbsp;Some of your favorite characters who&nbsp;are much&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/poor-tv-characters-living-too-well/alexandra-plesa" target="_blank">too poor to afford their luxury apartments</a>&nbsp;must have <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/greatest-fictional-characters-leading-double-lives/ranker-characters" target="_blank">led&nbsp;double lives</a> to pay their bills, while other fictional characters that were richer than you think managed to stay grounded.The salaries of fictional characters can vary greatly; while&nbsp;many&nbsp;were&nbsp;grossly overpaid – like Peter Griffin, for example –&nbsp;others were just struggling to get by. Then there are a few like Eric Cartman's mom who did whatever she had to do to provide for her son. So check out the list below to get a better sense of&nbsp;the fortune (or misfortunes) of your favorite fictional characters.

People Trivia

Everybody seems to love to hate on Walmart, though most Americans love their low, low prices and massive selection. The mega-chain is the subject of any number of <a href="/list/best-walmart-memes/meme-dude" target="_blank">memes</a> and <a href="/list/worst-things-to-happen-at-walmart/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">terrible stories</a>&nbsp;- not surprising given how many people shop and work there. It seems like a giant, faceless entity - but the store is actually the brainchild of the Waltons, the richest family in America.

Just who are the Waltons, and how did they grow their eye-popping fortune? The family&#39;s legacy started small, with one five-and-dime store opened by Sam Walton in Bentonville, AR. But it didn&#39;t take long for that one little shop to become a sprawling chain of stores, which owed their massive success to their competitively low prices.

Today, the Waltons still collectively own more than half of their family company. As for the breathtaking sums Walmart has brought them, they&#39;ve spent them in some fascinating ways. From building an art museum in rural Arkansas to sinking untold funds into a doomsday bunker, stories about the Walton family&nbsp;show they definitely do spend some of their fortunte. And scandalous facts about the Walton family show that, in some ways, they&#39;re just like everyone else - just a lot wealthier. The Waltons are about so much more than just rock-bottom prices.

Fashion

The world of real-life personal shopping is anything but glamorous. Perhaps you&#39;ve wondered what it&#39;s really like being a personal shopper.&nbsp;Though far from a&nbsp;highly&nbsp;coveted <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/dream-jobs-in-fashion/fashionbaby" target="_blank">fashion industry job</a>, personal shopping&nbsp;takes a lot of patience, especially when you&#39;re dealing with wealthy clients who have no qualms about dropping a cool $1 million on a rare handbag but refuse to drink coffee unless it&#39;s heated to their preferred temperature.

Personal shopping isn&#39;t only for the rich and famous -&nbsp;plenty of affordable options are available, including free personal shopping services at department stores, including Nordstrom&nbsp;or Topshop.&nbsp;The wealthiest 1%, however, make for the best personal shopper stories - like the kind seen in the movie&nbsp;Personal Shopper,&nbsp;starring Kristen Stewart, and other <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-fashion-movies-list/all-genre-movies-lists" target="_blank">fashion-focused films</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;

True tales of shopping&nbsp;for the elite&nbsp;will enlighten and perhaps disturb you. Personal shoppers may not lead the privileged life, but they&#39;re certainly well acquainted with it. &nbsp;

History

Rich families of the Gilded Age lived lives nearly unimaginable today. How so? One need only look around one&#39;s hometown and see where the enormous, glorious mansions of the late&nbsp;19th century have either been turned into private or public museums &ndash;&nbsp;or are peeling and rotting away &ndash; to get a glimpse. In most cases, it&nbsp;is simply too costly to maintain them as private residences&nbsp;anymore. So, imagine just how incredibly rich the handful of mid- to late 19th-century families had to be to keep up such lavish appearances. The Gilded Age wealth disparity was so extreme that people today often compare them to what modern society&nbsp;terms the &quot;one-percent&quot; class.&nbsp;

Excess touched every&nbsp;single aspect of daily life in the Gilded Age, from the responsibility&nbsp;of servants to change bed linen multiple times per day,&nbsp;to designer clothing and jewels, to the horrendously elaborate gastronomical events that were conducted everyday in the dining rooms of the super rich, to the over-the-top <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/biggest-feuds-in-science/rylee_en" target="_blank">feuds between scientists</a>. If you were among the elite of the Gilded Age, you didn&#39;t do anything half way.

Weird

Somebody Undresses Prince Charles For Him

With riches inevitably comes power - especially for celebrities. While there are plenty of down-to-earth stars&nbsp;who simply live their life as any other ordinary person, many are high-maintenance celebrities who require small armies of entourages to cater to their every whim. Most of us have to make do carrying out our own tasks and chores, but celebrities with too much money can simply hire personal assistants to do the jobs that they do not want to.The trouble is some people have taken this to the extreme. Rather than hire assistants to help them out with their normal, everyday tasks, these famous faces have employed workers to do all sorts of bizarre and downright incredible jobs that most people would find completely incredulous. These are some of the weird jobs celebrities hire people to do - hopefully these assistants have had a better go of it than those on this list of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/stories-of-celebrities-who-are-awful-to-their-assistants/jessica-lawshe">celebrity personal assistant horror stories</a>.

They say money is the root of all evil and that may be why TV shows about rich people are so fascinating to those of us without it. For those who don&#39;t have it and for the lucky ones who do, money can create some serious problems. When TV shows feature the rich, one of the clearest aspects of their lives is that they have many of the same problems the rest of the world does. Whether it&#39;s their relationships, legal troubles, or simply not being able to afford the 75 foot yacht, rich people have their problems too.

Looking back through the years, there have been plenty of TV shows about rich people with some topping the charts of critical and audience acclaim. Shows like&nbsp;Arrested Development&nbsp;hilariously examine the lives of rich people who are seeming up to no good while other series like&nbsp;Downton Abbey&nbsp;are less about the money and more about the role of money in society. Whatever genre interests you, there&#39;s bound to be a recommendation or two on this list that are certain to entertain.&nbsp;For more recommendations, browse this list and feel free to add any similar shows and movies you think are missing!

Famous Families

<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-with-problem-children/celebrity-lists" target="_blank">Celebrity kids</a>&nbsp;have lavish tastes. And because&nbsp;cash is no obstacle for them, they can buy pretty much anything they want.&nbsp;From the expected indulgences like&nbsp;fancy clothes and luxury cars to more surprising purchases, there is seemingly no end to the ways <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/rich-kids-of-snapchat/michelle-nati" target="_blank">famous kids</a> spend money.When a child grows up surrounded by&nbsp;privilege, at least a little splurging is normal. But some young people purchase&nbsp;ridiculous things with their parents' money; it can be mind-boggling. The dumb things <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/kids-describe-realizing-their-parents-are-famous/donn-saylor" target="_blank">A-lister children</a> buy will leave you shocked and maybe a little jealous.

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The Richest People in America according to Forbes magazine. The 400 wealthiest Americans are listed here for you to sort through. Some of these people here may also be in the running for the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/forbes_-world_s-top-20-billionaires-_2009_/web-infoguy">wealthiest people in the world</a>. Feel free to use this list as a starting point for your own list of America's wealthiest people.So who are the richest Americans? Who sits atop the socioeconomic heap as the wealthiest person in America? This list of Forbes' 400 wealthiest individuals should provide all the answers you seek. You'll see a number of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/celebrities-with-stage-names/celebrity-lists?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">famous names</a>&nbsp;(<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/movies-and-films-directed-by-george-lucas/reference">George Lucas</a>, Donald Trump, and Steven Spielberg) and people you haven't heard of before. But, the one common link between them is that they're the richest people in the US.Check out the list and just image that someday, you too might rank among the wealthiest people in America. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/54/biz_06rich400_The-400-Richest-Americans_Rank.html

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Donald Hall

Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse. Hall was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard, and Oxford. Early in his career, he became the first poetry editor of The Paris Review (1953–1961), the quarterly literary journal, and was noted for interviewing poets and other authors on their craft.
On June 14, 2006, Hall was appointed as the Library of Congress's 14th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (commonly known as "Poet Laureate of the United States"). He is regarded as a "plainspoken, rural poet," and it has been said that, in his work, he "explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects [an] abiding reverence for nature."Hall was respected for his work as an academic, having taught at Stanford University, Bennington College and the University of Michigan, and having made significant contributions to the study and craft of writing.

Min Kao

Min H. Kao (traditional Chinese: 高民環; simplified Chinese: 高民环; pinyin: Gāo Mínhuán) is a Taiwanese-born American electrical engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Garmin Corporation with Gary Burrell. As of August 2017, his personal wealth was estimated at $3 billion.

Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and one of the most popular directors and producers in film history. Spielberg started in Hollywood directing television and several minor theatrical releases. He became a household name as the director of Jaws (1975), which was critically and commercially successful and is considered the first summer blockbuster. His subsequent releases focused typically on science fiction/adventure films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993), which became archetypes of modern Hollywood escapist filmmaking.Spielberg transitioned into addressing serious issues in his later work with The Color Purple (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), Schindler's List (1993), Amistad (1997), and Saving Private Ryan (1998). He has largely adhered to this practice during the 21st century, with Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), Bridge of Spies (2015), and The Post (2017).
He co-founded Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Studios, where he has also served as a producer or executive producer for several successful film trilogies, tetralogies and more including the Gremlins, Back to the Future, Men in Black, and the Transformers series. He later transitioned into producing several games within the video game industry.
Spielberg is one of the American film industry's most critically successful filmmakers, with praise for his directing talent and versatility, and he has won the Academy Award for Best Director twice. Some of his movies are also among the highest-grossing movies of all-time, while his total work makes him the highest-grossing film director in history. His net worth is estimated to be more than $3 billion.

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Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Edgar Miles Bronfman (June 20, 1929 – December 21, 2013) was a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist. He worked for his family distilled beverage firm, Seagram, eventually becoming president, treasurer and CEO. As President of the World Jewish Congress, Bronfman is especially remembered for initiating diplomacy with the Soviet Union, which resulted in legitimizing the Hebrew language in Russia, and contributed to Soviet Jews being legally able to practice their own religion, as well as emigrate to Israel.

Joan Tisch

Joan Tisch (née Hyman; July 14, 1927 – November 2, 2017) was an American philanthropist. She was a graduate of the University of Michigan and billionaire heir to the Tisch family fortune (through the Loews Corporation, which remains under family control).

Ty Warner

H. Ty Warner (born September 3, 1944) is an American billionaire toy manufacturer, businessman, and former actor. He is the CEO, sole owner and founder of Ty Inc. which manufactures and distributes stuffed toys, including Beanie Babies and other lines. He is also a property owner, notably Four Seasons Hotel New York, which he bought with profits earned selling Beanie Babies during a fad in the late 1990s. On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.

Herbert Kohler, Jr.

Herbert Vollrath Kohler Jr. (born February 20, 1939) is a member of the Kohler family of Wisconsin, and is the executive chairman of the Kohler Company, a manufacturing company in Kohler, Wisconsin, best known for its plumbing products.

Eric Schmidt

Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and software engineer. He is known for being the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, Executive Chairman of Google from 2011 to 2015 and executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017. In 2017, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 119th-richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of US$11.1 billion.As an intern at Bell Labs, Schmidt did a complete re-write of Lex, a software program to generate lexical analysers for the UNIX computer operating system. From 1997 to 2001, he was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Novell. From 2001 to 2011, Schmidt served as the CEO of Google. He has served on various other boards in academia and industry, including the Boards of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University, Apple, Princeton University, and Mayo Clinic.

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg KBE (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, politician, author, and philanthropist. As of April 2019, his net worth was estimated at $62.1 billion, making him the sixth-richest person in the United States and the ninth richest person in the world. He has joined The Giving Pledge, whereby billionaires pledge to give away at least half of their wealth. To date, Bloomberg has given away $8.2 billion, including his November 2018 $1.8 billion gift to Johns Hopkins University for student aid—the largest private donation ever made to a higher education institution.Bloomberg is one of the founders, CEO, and owner of Bloomberg L.P., a global financial services, software and mass media company that bears his name, and is notable for its Bloomberg Terminal, a computer software system providing financial data widely used in the global financial services industry. He began his career at the securities brokerage Salomon Brothers, before forming his own company in 1981 and spending the next twenty years as its chairman and CEO. Bloomberg also served as chair of the board of trustees at his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, from 1996 to 2002.
Bloomberg served as the 108th Mayor of New York City, holding office for three consecutive terms, beginning his first in 2001. A Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his party registration in 2001 to run for mayor as a Republican. He defeated opponent Mark Green in a close election held just weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks. He won a second term in 2005, and left the Republican Party two years later. Bloomberg campaigned to change the city's term limits law, and was elected to his third term in 2009 as an Independent on the Republican ballot line.
Bloomberg was frequently mentioned as a possible centrist candidate for the U.S. Presidential elections in 2008, and 2012, as well as for Governor of New York in 2010. He declined to seek either office, opting to continue serving as the mayor of New York City. His final term as mayor ended on December 31, 2013.
After a brief stint as a full-time philanthropist, Bloomberg re-assumed the position of CEO at Bloomberg L.P. by the end of 2014. On March 7, 2016, Bloomberg announced that he would not run as a third party candidate in the 2016 U.S. presidential election despite widespread speculation that he would, and later endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president. In October 2018, Bloomberg announced that he had changed his political party affiliation to Democratic, which he had previously been registered as prior to 2001.

Robert Bass

Robert Muse Bass (born 1948) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He was the chairman of Aerion Corporation, an American aerospace firm in Reno, Nevada, which seeks to build the first supersonic business jets. He is worth $5 billion in 2018, thanks to oil and private investments. Bass has served on the Texas Highway & Public Transportation Commission.

Ronald Perelman

Ronald Owen Perelman (; born January 1, 1943) is an American banker, businessman, investor, and philanthropist. MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated, his company, has invested in companies with interests in groceries, cigars, Liquorice, makeup, cars, photography, television, camping supplies, security, gaming, jewelry, banks, and comic book publishing. Perelman holds significant shares in companies such as AM General, Deluxe Entertainment, Revlon, SIGA Technologies RetailMeNot, Merisant, Scantron, Scientific Games Corporation, Valassis, vTv Therapeutics and Harland Clarke.Perelman is annually one of the world's largest philanthropic donors. As of January 2019, Perelman is the 49th-richest American, and 152nd-richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $9.4 billion. In September 2017, Forbes magazine named Perelman as one of the "100 Greatest Living Business Minds."

Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr.

Samuel Irving "S.I." Newhouse Jr. (November 8, 1927 – October 1, 2017) was an American heir to a substantial magazine and media business. Together with his brother Donald, he owned Advance Publications, founded by their late father in 1922, whose properties include Condé Nast (publisher of such magazines as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker), dozens of newspapers across the United States (including The Star-Ledger, The Plain Dealer, and The Oregonian), former cable company Bright House Networks, and a controlling stake in Discovery Communications.

Donald Newhouse

Donald Edward Newhouse (born 1929) is an American billionaire heir and business magnate. He owns Advance Publications, founded by his late father in 1922, whose properties include Condé Nast (publisher of such magazines as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker), dozens of newspapers across the US (including The Star-Ledger, The Plain Dealer, and The Oregonian), cable company Bright House Networks and a controlling stake in Discovery Communications. According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of $11.8 billion. He resides in New York City.

Sumner Redstone

Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein; May 27, 1923) is an American businessman and media magnate. He is the majority owner and chairman of the board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, Redstone and his family are majority voting shareholders of CBS Corporation and Viacom (itself the parent company of Viacom Media Networks, BET Networks, and the film studio Paramount Pictures). According to Forbes, as of September 2015, he was worth US$5 billion.Redstone was formerly the executive chairman of both CBS and Viacom. In February 2016, at age 92, Redstone resigned both chairmanships following a court-ordered examination by a geriatric psychiatrist. He was ultimately succeeded by Les Moonves at CBS and Philippe Dauman at Viacom, where he currently serves as chairman emeritus.

Edward Johnson, III

Edward Crosby "Ned" Johnson III (born June 29, 1930) is an American billionaire investor and businessman who, along with daughter Abigail Johnson, owns and runs Fidelity Investments and Fidelity International.

Dan L. Duncan

Dan L. Duncan (January 2, 1933 – March 29, 2010) was an American born in Center, Texas. He was the co-founder, chairman and majority shareholder of Enterprise Products.

Charlie Ergen

Charles William Ergen (born March 1, 1953) is an American businessman. He is co-founder and current Chairman of Dish Network and EchoStar.  He stepped down as CEO of Dish in May 2011 in favor of Joseph Clayton. Ergen resumed as CEO upon Clayton's March 31, 2015 retirement and served as CEO until December 5, 2017 when he promoted President and COO Erik Carlson to CEO. Ergen owns 48 percent of Dish and 46 percent of Echostar shares. He holds 78 percent of DISH's and 72 percent of EchoStar's total voting power.

Pierre Omidyar

Pierre Morad Omidyar (Persian: پیر مراد امیدیار‎, Persian pronunciation: [piːjeɾ moɾɑːd omiːdjɑːɾ] born June 21, 1967) is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder of eBay where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay's 1998 initial public offering (IPO). Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to include for-profits and public policy.
Since 2010, Omidyar has been involved in online journalism as the head of investigative reporting and public affairs news service Honolulu Civil Beat. In 2013, he announced that he would create and finance First Look Media, a journalism venture to include Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill.

Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch,  (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American media mogul who founded News Corp.Murdoch's father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a reporter and editor who became a senior executive of The Herald and Weekly Times publishing company, covering all Australian states except New South Wales. After his father's death in 1952, Murdoch declined to join his late father's registered public company and created his own private company, News Limited.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Murdoch acquired a number of newspapers in Australia and New Zealand before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World, followed closely by The Sun. In 1974, Murdoch moved to New York City, to expand into the U.S. market; however, he retained interests in Australia and Britain. In 1981, Murdoch bought The Times, his first British broadsheet and, in 1985, became a naturalized U.S. citizen, giving up his Australian citizenship, to satisfy the legal requirement for U.S. television network ownership.In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, Murdoch consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His holding company News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989), and The Wall Street Journal (2007). Murdoch formed the British broadcaster BSkyB in 1990 and, during the 1990s, expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000, Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries, with a net worth of over $5 billion.
In July 2011, Murdoch faced allegations that his companies, including the News of the World, owned by News Corporation, had been regularly hacking the phones of celebrities, royalty, and public citizens. Murdoch faced police and government investigations into bribery and corruption by the British government and FBI investigations in the U.S. On 21 July 2012, Murdoch resigned as a director of News International. On 1 July 2015, Murdoch left his post as CEO of 21st Century Fox. However, Murdoch and his family would continue to own both 21st Century Fox (until 2019) and News Corp through the Murdoch Family Trust.In July 2016, after the resignation of Roger Ailes due to accusations of sexual harassment, Murdoch was named the acting CEO of Fox News.

Philip Anschutz

Philip Frederick Anschutz ( AN-shoots; born December 28, 1939) is an American billionaire businessman who owns or controls many companies in a variety of businesses, including energy, railroads, real estate, sports, newspapers, movies, theaters, arenas and music. He is a philanthropist whose name appears on medical and educational institutions to which he has donated millions. Anschutz has been described as a Christian conservative.
In 1961, he bought out his father's oil drilling company, Circle A Drilling, and earned large returns in Wyoming. He invested in stocks, real estate and railroads. He expanded his investments to sports and entertainment companies, co-founding Major League Soccer as well as multiple teams, including the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chicago Fire, Houston Dynamo, San Jose Earthquakes, and the New York/New Jersey MetroStars. Anschutz owns stakes in the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings, and venues including the Staples Center, The O2, London, and the Dignity Health Sports Park. Through his ownership of Walden Media, he has invested in films such as The Chronicles of Narnia, Ray, and Joshua. Through AEG Live, he owns the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
As of April 2019, Forbes ranked him the 38th richest person in the U.S., with an estimated net worth of $11.1 billion.

George B. Kaiser

George B. Kaiser (born July 29, 1942) is an American businessman. He is the chairman of BOK Financial Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is among the 100 richest people in the world and was, in 2012, one of the top 50 American philanthropists.

Donald Bren

Donald Leroy Bren (born May 11, 1932) is an American businessman who is chairman and sole owner of the Irvine Company, a US real estate investment company. Bren's net worth is approximately $16.3 billion, making him number 30 on the 2018 Forbes 400 list.

Kirk Kerkorian

Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian (Armenian: Քըրք Քըրքորեան; June 6, 1917 – June 15, 2015) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the president and CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Beverly Hills, California. Kerkorian is known for having been one of the important figures in the shaping of Las Vegas and, with architect Martin Stern, Jr. described as the "father of the mega-resort". He built the world's largest hotel in Las Vegas three times: the International Hotel (opened in 1969), the MGM Grand Hotel (1973) and the MGM Grand (1993). He purchased the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio in 1969.
Of Armenian American origin, Kerkorian provided over $1 billion for charity in Armenia through his Lincy Foundation, which was established in 1989 and particularly focused on helping to rebuild northern Armenia after the 1988 earthquake. Kerkorian also provided money to ensure that a film based on the history of the Armenian Genocide would be made. The resulting film, called "The Promise," premiered in April 2017 in the United States. In 2000 Time magazine named him the 10th largest donor in the US. Kerkorian was declared an honorary citizen of Armenia by President Robert Kocharyan in September 1998. He was bestowed the title of National Hero of Armenia, the highest state award, by Kocharyan in May 2004.

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