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World rank Name Citizenship Net worth ()Source of wealth 176: Robert Kuok Malaysia 11.4 Billion: Kuok Group: 287: Quek Leng Chan Malaysia 8.8 billion: Hong Leong Capital: 624
Forbes magazine annually lists the world's wealthiest individuals – "The World's Richest People". [1] What follows is the list of billionaires (in U.S. dollars ) in Southeast Asia , issued for 2024.
Kuok was born on 6 October 1923 in Johor Bahru during British colonial rule to a wealthy Malaysian Chinese family. He was named after Robert the Bruce, and was enrolled at an English-medium primary school by his father's English-speaking clerk.
The Gondi family of Florence, financial partners of the Medici family in the 15th century. The Fugger family of mercantile bankers and venture capitalists, the richest family in the 16th century. [63] The Welser family, alongside the Fugger one of the most important families of merchant bankers in 16th-century Europe.
This is a list of richest monarchs and family members, as estimated by forbes.com in 2015, [1] Business Insider in 2018, [2] and the CEOWORLD magazine in 2019. [3] The evaluations are based on their personal net worths, excluding properties held by the State, Government or Crown, and all of the figures are in U.S. dollars.
Tun Abdul Razak Hussein (1922-1976), second Prime Minister of Malaysia and is known as Malaysia's "Father of Development" Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (born 1925), fourth and seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia and is known as Malaysia's "Father of Modernisation" Tan Sri Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (1931-2015), former Chief Minister of Kelantan
Tan Sri Datuk Tiong resides in Sibu, a town in Sarawak, of Borneo island that is part of Malaysia. As of March 2018, with a net worth of about US$1.1 billion, [1] Tiong is ranked by Forbes as the 1,999th richest person in the world. [2] In April 2017, Tiong's family confirmed that he was hospitalized after suffering a stroke. [3] [4]
At the time of his death, he was estimated to have a net worth of US$5.1 billion [3] according to Forbes making him the 671th wealthiest person in the world and 3rd richest in Malaysia. [4] Ananda Krishnan shunned public exposure [5] and was known to maintain a low profile for a person of his stature.