Forbes Billionaires List 2006

It's been a good year for being a billionaire according to the Forbes business magazine's annual billionaires list.
Bill Gates is still at the top of the list, with fellow American Warren Buffett just behind in position two. This year there was 793 billionaires around the world, with 40 of them living in New York, 25 in Moscow, and 23 in London.
The Top 25 Billionaires include..

1 William Gates III - 50.0 billion - United States
2 Warren Buffett - 42.0 billion - United States
3 Carlos Slim Helu - 30.0 billion - Mexico
4 Ingvar Kamprad - 28.0 billion - Switzerland
5 Lakshmi Mittal - 23.5 billion - United Kingdom
6 Paul Allen - 22.0 billion - United States
7 Bernard Arnault France 57 21.5 France
8 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud 20.0 billion - Saudi Arabia
9 Kenneth Thomson - 19.6 billion - Canada
10 Li Ka-shing - 18.8 billion - Hong Kong
11 Roman Abramovich 18.2 billion - United Kingdom
12 Michael Dell - 17.1 billion - United States
13 Karl Albrecht - 17.0 billion - Germany
14 Sheldon Adelson - 16.1 billion - United States
15 Liliane Bettencourt - 16.0 billion - France
15 Lawrence Ellison - 16.0 billion - United States
17 Christy Walton - 15.9 billion - United States
17 Jim Walton - 15.9 billion - United States
19 S Robson Walton - 15.8 billion - United States
20 Alice Walton - 15.7 billion - United States
21 Helen Walton - 15.6 billion - United States
22 Theo Albrecht - 15.2 billion - Germany
23 Amancio Ortega - 14.8 billion - Spain
24 Steven Ballmer - 13.6 billion - United States
25 Azim Premji - 13.3 billion - India

See the full list of the worlds richest people at the Forbes website.
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