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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
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.
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.
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.
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]
The richest family in the United States is currently the Walton family. They are worth $248.5 billion. The family still owns nearly half of their namesake company, Walmart.
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. The Baring family, owners of an important merchant bank in London in the 18th to 19th centuries.
The Waltons were recently named the world's richest family by Bloomberg, with a striking net worth of $432 billion. Already a powerful dynasty, the three Walton children and their offspring became ...