2007 Top 25 Richest Americans

The Forbes Magazine 2007 List of 400 Richest Americans has been released. I have pasted the top twenty-five here for you.

Rank, Name, Worth (in billions), Age, Home, Affiliation

01 William Gates III $59.0 51 Medina, WA Microsoft
02 Warren Buffett $52.0 77 Omaha, NE Berkshire Hathaway
03 Sheldon Adelson $28.0 74 Las Vegas, NV casinos, hotels
04 Lawrence Ellison $26.0 63 Redwood City, CA Oracle
05 Sergey Brin $18.5 34 Palo Alto, CA Google
05 Larry Page $18.5 34 San Francisco, CA Google
07 Kirk Kerkorian $18.0 90 Los Angeles, CA investments, casinos
08 Michael Dell $17.2 42 Austin, TX Dell
09 Charles Koch $17.0 71 Wichita, KS oil, commodities
09 David Koch $17.0 67 New York, NY oil, commodities
11 Paul Allen $16.8 54 Mercer Island, WA Microsoft, investments
12 Christy Walton & family $16.3 52 Jackson, WY Wal-Mart
12 Jim Walton $16.3 59 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
12 S Robson Walton $16.3 63 Bentonville, AR Wal-Mart
15 Alice Walton $16.1 58 Fort Worth, TX Wal-Mart
16 Steven Ballmer $15.2 51 Hunts Point, WA Microsoft
17 Abigail Johnson $15.0 45 Boston, MA Fidelity
18 Carl Icahn $14.5 71 New York, NY leveraged buyouts
19 Forrest Mars Jr $14.0 76 McLean, VA candy, pet food
19 Jacqueline Mars $14.0 67 Bedminster, NJ candy, pet food
19 John Mars $14.0 71 Arlington, VA candy, pet food
19 Jack Taylor & family $14.0 85 St Louis, MO Car rental
23 Donald Bren $13.0 75 Newport Beach, CA real estate
24 Anne Cox Chambers $12.6 87 Atlanta, GA Cox Enterprises
25 Michael Bloomberg $11.5 65 New York, NY Bloomberg

A billion dollars just doesn't go as far as it used to. For the first time, it takes more than $1 billion to earn a spot on Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans. The minimum net worth for inclusion in this year's rankings released Thursday was $1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year.

See the entire list here.



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