Real and Fake Billionaires
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are routinely at the head of the class when Forbes releases their Billionaires List every year. But I thought I would throw out some more names and numbers partly for perspective, and partly for fun. Included in this list are wealthy people from different generations (with very rough inflation-adjusted, US dollar estimates) as well as some fictitious characters from popular culture. Enjoy!
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Alexander the Great – Tens or Hundreds of Trillions? (having conquered most of the known world)
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John D. Rockefeller – $392.2 Billion (the oil guy)
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Henry Ford – $194.9 Billion (the car guy)
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Bill Gates – $40.0 Billion (the computer guy)
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Warren Buffett – $37.0 Billion (the investing guy)
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Scrooge McDuck – $29.1 Billion (the duck guy)
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Michael Bloomberg – $16.0 Billion (Mayor of New York, and the “Bloomberg” guy)
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Pablo Escobar – $15.4 Billion (Columbian Drug Czar guy)
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Queen Elizabeth II – $14.0 Billion (including Crown property, a more modest $650 million without)
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Richie Rich – $12.3 Billion (the kid guy)
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Gordon Gekko – $8.5 Billion (the ‘Wall Street’ movie guy)
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Jabba the Hut – $8.4 Billion (the Outer Rim crime lord guy)
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Phil Knight – $8.2 Billion (the shoe guy)
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James Simons – $8.0 Billion (the hedge fund guy)
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Tony Stark – $7.9 Billion (the Iron Man guy)
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Bruce Wayne – $5.8 Billion (the Bat guy)
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Steven Spielberg – $3.1 Billion (the movie guy)
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Donald Trump – $3.0 Billion (the billionaire guy)
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Oprah Winfrey – $2.7 Billion (the talk show lady)
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C. Montgomery Burns – $996 Million (the Simpson’s guy)
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Feel free to make suggestions for additions, I’ll throw them up as time goes on… 
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Comment by Four Pillars on 18 May 2009:
Excellent!
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Comment by Ink-Stained Gorilla on 19 May 2009:
Santa Claus, Daddy Warbucks.
Comment by Patrick on 19 May 2009:
Out of curiosity… where did you get all the numbers?
Comment by Jordan on 19 May 2009:
Hilarious!
but I think Trump should be “The Bad hair real estate guy”
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@Four Pillars – yeah, you should’ve stumbled it by now…
@Ink-Stained Gorilla – Okay, I’ll have to do some research
@Patrick – combination of Forbes, Wikipedia and the New York times.
@Jordan – I’m worried about libel with that guy…
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