List: American billionaires

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•  Bill Gates

  William Henry "Bill" Gates III(born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2010, excluding 2007. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock.

  

  26.8%
  

  26.8%
  

  46.3%
  
•  George Lucas

  George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an Academy Award-nominated American film producer, screenwriter, director and founder/chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the epic science fiction franchise Star Wars and joint creator of the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones. Today, Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful independent directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.0 billion as of 2009.

  

  33.3%
  

  31.4%
  

  35.3%
  
•  Howard Hughes

  Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained prominence from the late 1920s as a maverick film producer, making big-budget and often controversial films like Hell's Angels, Scarface and The Outlaw.

  

  31.3%
  

  25.0%
  

  43.8%
  
•  Michael Milken

  Michael Robert Milken (born July 4, 1946) is an American financier and philanthropist noted for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds during the 1970s and 1980s, for his 1990 guilty plea to multiple felony charges that he violated US securities laws, and for his funding of medical research. Milken was indicted on 98 counts of racketeering and securities fraud in 1989 as the result of an insider trading investigation.

  

  58.3%
  

  16.7%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Paul Allen

  Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world. He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. , which is his private asset management company, and is chairman of Charter Communications.

  

  14.3%
  

  50.0%
  

  35.7%
  
•  Rupert Murdoch

  Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC (born 11 March 1931) is the leading foreign-born executive controlling American media. He is the founder, a major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation (News Corp). Beginning with one newspaper in Adelaide, Murdoch acquired and started other publications in his native Australia before expanding News Corp into the United Kingdom, United States and Asian media markets.

  

  27.3%
  

  45.5%
  

  27.3%
  
•  Steven Spielberg

  Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In a career spanning over four decades, Spielberg's films have taken up many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an archetype of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism.

  

  46.2%
  

  23.1%
  

  30.8%
  
•  Steve Ballmer

  Steven Anthony Ballmer (born Detroit, Michigan March 24, 1956) is an American businessman who has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000.

  

  34.4%
  

  31.3%
  

  34.4%
  
•  Michael Bloomberg

  Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is the current Mayor of New York City. He is the founder and 88% owner of Bloomberg L.P. , a financial news and information services media company. A lifelong Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his registration in 2001 and ran for mayor as a Republican, winning the election that year and a second term in 2005.

  

  18.2%
  

  36.4%
  

  45.5%
  
•  Ross Perot

  Henry Ross Perot (born June 27, 1930) is an American businessman from Texas best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988. Perot Systems was bought by Dell for $3.9 billion in 2009. He was born in Texarkana, Texas. With an estimated net worth of about US$3.5 billion in 2009, he is ranked by Forbes as the 85th-richest person in America.

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Larry Page

  Lawrence "Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist best known as co-founder of Google Inc.

  

  32.0%
  

  36.0%
  

  32.0%
  
•  Sergey Brin

  Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973) is a Soviet-born American computer scientist best known as the co-founder of Google, Inc. , the world’s largest Internet company, based on its search engine and online advertising technology. Brin immigrated to the United States at the age of six. Earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, he followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, double-majoring in computer science.

  

  37.5%
  

  35.4%
  

  27.1%
  
•  Walter Annenberg

  Walter ubert Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat.

  

  50.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Jeff Bezos

  Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon. com. Bezos, a Tau Beta Pi graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994.

  

  80.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  20.0%
  
•  Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)

  Jerry Yang is a Chinese American entrepreneur and the co-founder, former CEO (Chief Yahoo) of Yahoo! Inc.

  

  50.0%
  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Michael Dell

  Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965, in Houston, Texas) is an American businessman and the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc.

  

  50.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Sam Walton

  Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was an American businessman and entrepreneur born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the American retailer Wal-Mart.

  

  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Jerry Jones

  Jerral "Jerry" Wayne Jones (born October 13, 1942, in Los Angeles, California) is the owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys NFL franchise and owner of the Dallas Desperados Arena Football League franchise.

  

  0.0%
  

  33.3%
  

  66.7%
  
•  Larry Ellison

  Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company.

  

  50.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  25.0%
  
•  J. Paul Getty

  Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist who lived his last 24 years in the United Kingdom. He founded the Getty Oil Company, and in 1957 Fortune magazine named him the richest living American. At his death, he was worth more than $2 billion. A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th richest American who ever lived, based on his wealth as a percentage of the gross national product.

  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Sumner Redstone

  Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein; May 27, 1923) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, Sumner Redstone and his family are majority owners of CBS Corporation, Viacom, and MTV Networks, BET, and movie production and distribution Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks movie studios, and are equal partners in MovieTickets. com.

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  John D. Rockefeller

  John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897. Standard Oil began as an Ohio partnership formed by John D. Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, Jabez Bostwick, chemist Samuel Andrews, and a silent partner, Stephen V. Harkness.

  

  50.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  30.0%
  
•  Gordon Moore

  Gordon Earle Moore (born 3 January 1929) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in Electronics Magazine).

  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Carl Icahn

  Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor.

  

  33.3%
  

  0.0%
  

  66.7%
  
•  Warren Buffett

  Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in the world, the primary shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett is called the "Oracle of Omaha" or the "Sage of Omaha" and is noted for his adherence to the value investing philosophy and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth.

  

  33.3%
  

  16.7%
  

  50.0%