Forbes' list of US top 50 richest people

Rich List Index by Worth - 0-50

Top 50
Rank Name Worth ($ mil) Age Residence Source

1 Gates, William H. III 63,000 44 Seattle Microsoft Corp.
2 Ellison, Lawrence Joseph 58,000 56 Atherton Oracle Corp.
3 Allen, Paul Gardner 36,000 47 Mercer Island Microsoft
4 Buffett, Warren Edward 28,000 70 Omaha Stock market
5 Moore, Gordon Earle 26,000 71 Woodside Intel Corp.
6 Anschutz, Philip F. 18,000 60 Denver Qwest Communications
7 Ballmer, Steven Anthony 17,000 44 Redmond Microsoft
7 Walton, Alice L. 17,000 51 Fort Worth Inheritance (Wal-Mart Stores)
7 Walton, Helen R. 17,000 81 Bentonville Inheritance (Wal-Mart Stores
7 Walton, Jim C. 17,000 52 Bentonville Inheritance (Wal-Mart Stores)
7 Walton, John T. 17,000 54 Durango Inheritance (Wal-Mart Stores)
7 Walton, S. Robson 17,000 56 Bentonville Wal-Mart stores
13 Dell, Michael 16,000 35 Austin Dell Computers
14 Redstone, Sumner M. 14,000 77 Newton Centre Viacom
15 Kluge, John Werner 13,000 86 Charlottesville Metromedia
16 Ergen, Charles 11,000 47 Denver Satellite television
16 Murdoch, Keith Rupert 11,000 69 New York Publishing
18 Anthony, Barbara Cox 10,000 77 Honolulu Inheritance (Cox Enterprises)
18 Chambers, Anne Cox 10,000 80 Atlanta Inheritance (Cox Enterprises)
18 Nicholas, Henry T. 10,000 41 Laguna Hills Broadcom
18 Samueli, Henry 10,000 46 Newport Beach Broadcom
18 Johnson, Abigail 10,000 38 Boston Fidelity Investments
18 Schwab, Charles R. 10,000 63 Atherton Charles Schwab Corp.
24 Sidhu, Sanjiv 9,800 43 Irving Software
25 Turner, Robert E. (Ted) 9,100 61 Atlanta Turner Broadcasting
26 Hewlett, William Redington 9,000 87 Portola Valley Hewlett-Packard
27 Waitt, Theodore W. 8,400 37 San Diego Gateway 2000
28 Huber, David R. 8,200 49 Columbia Fiber optics
29 Goodnight, James 8,000 57 Cary Software
30 Kerkorian, Kirk 7,800 83 Las Vegas Investments
31 McCaw, Craig O. 7,700 51 Bellevue McCaw Cellular
32 Deshpande, Gururaj, E. 7,600 49 Chelmsford Fiber optics
33 Mars, Forrest Edward Jr. 7,000 69 McLean Candy (Mars, Inc.)
33 Mars, Jacqueline Badger 7,000 60 Bedminster Inheritance (Mars, Inc.)
33 Mars, John Franklyn 7,000 64 Arlington Candy
33 Smith, Daniel E. 7,000 51 Chelmsford Fiber optics
37 Filo, David 6,500 34 Santa Clara Yahoo!
38 Siebel, Thomas M. 6,400 47 San Mateo Siebel Systems Inc.
38 Yang, Jerry 6,400 31 Santa Clara Yahoo!
40 Morgridge, John P. 5,600 67 San Jose Cisco Systems
41 Pritzker, Robert Alan 5,500 74 Chicago Financier
41 Pritzker, Thomas J. 5,500 50 Chicago Inheritance
43 Broad, Eli 5,200 67 Brentwood Real estate, financial services
44 Johnson, Edward Crosby III 5,000 70 Boston Fidelity Investments
44 Newhouse, Donald Edward 5,000 70 Somerset County Media
44 Newhouse, Samuel Irving Jr. 5,000 72 New York Media
44 Soros, George 5,000 70 Bedford Money manager
48 Bass, Lee Marshall 4,700 44 Fort Worth Oil, investments
48 Bezos, Jeffrey P. 4,700 36 Seattle Amazon.com
48 Simplot, John R. 4,700 91 Boise Potatoes



[This message has been edited by MJ (edited September 23, 2000).]

Does this mean that investing in any of the above would be a good move?

Just wondering (lol, i'm always curious, that's what lands me in trouble half the time)

Gayane

It doesn't