The following mini stats is based on the Chinese signs of 78 people (birth dates known) from the top 100 list.
The People & The Five Elements :
- Wood – 20
- Fire – 19
- Water – 16
- Metal – 13
- Earth – 10
Wood people plus Fire people add up to exactly half (50%) of the total. Earth people are the fewest in number.
The People & The 12 Chinese Animal Signs :
Ox, Goat and Rooster are equally the most in number and all rank #1. Interestingly, only 2 out of 78 individuals are Dog people and both happen to be Water Dogs. Well, are Dogs really not that good at business or money matters?
List of The World’s Billionaires (2011) and Their Chinese Zodiac Signs
|
Rank
|
Name
|
Net Worth
|
Birthdate
(Chinese Sign)
|
Source
|
Country of Citizenship
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
Carlos Slim Helu & family |
$74 B | January 28, 1940 (Earth Rabbit) |
telecom | Mexico |
| 2 | 
Bill Gates |
$56 B | October 28, 1955 (Wood Goat) |
Microsoft | United States |
| 3 | 
Warren Buffett |
$50 B | August 30, 1930 (Metal Horse) |
Berkshire Hathaway | United States |
| 4 | 
Bernard Arnault |
$41 B | March 5, 1949 (Earth Ox) |
LVMH | France |
| 5 | 
Larry Ellison |
$39.5 B | August 17, 1944 (Wood Monkey) |
Oracle | United States |
| 6 | 
Lakshmi Mittal |
$31.1 B | June 15, 1950 (Metal Tiger) |
Steel | India |
| 7 | 
Amancio Ortega |
$31 B | March 28,1936 (Fire Rat) |
Zara | Spain |
| 8 | 
Eike Batista |
$30 B | November 3, 1957 (Fire Rooster) |
mining, oil | Brazil |
| 9 | 
Mukesh Ambani |
$27 B | April 19, 1957 (Fire Rooster) |
petrochemicals, oil & gas | India |
| 10 | 
Christy Walton & family |
$26.5 B | born in 1955 | Walmart | United States |
| 11 | 
Li Ka-shing |
$26 B | July 29, 1928 (Earth Dragon) |
Diversified | Hong Kong |
| 12 | 
Karl Albrecht |
$25.5 B | February 20, 1920 (Metal Monkey) |
Aldi | Germany |
| 13 | 
Stefan Persson |
$24.5 B | October 4, 1947 (Fire Pig) |
H&M | Sweden |
| 14 | 
Vladimir Lisin |
$24 B | May 7, 1956 (Fire Monkey) |
Steel | Russia |
| 15 | 
Liliane Bettencourt |
$23.5 B | October 21, 1922 (Water Dog) |
L’Oreal | France |
| 16 | 
Sheldon Adelson |
$23.3 B | August 6, 1933 (Water Rooster) |
casinos | United States |
| 17 | 
David Thomson & family |
$23 B | June 12, 1957 (Fire Rooster) |
media | Canada |
| 18 | 
Charles Koch |
$22 B | November 1, 1935 (Wood Pig) |
Diversified | United States |
| 18 | 
David Koch |
$22 B | May 3, 1940 (Metal Dragon) |
Diversified | United States |
| 20 | 
Jim Walton |
$21.3 B | born in 1948 | Walmart | United States |
| 21 | 
Alice Walton |
$21.2 B | October 7, 1949 (Earth Ox) |
Walmart | United States |
| 22 | 
S. Robson Walton |
$21 B | born in 1944 | Walmart | United States |
| 23 | 
Kwok Thomas & Raymond & family |
$20 B | born in 1951 & 1952 respectively | real estate | Hong Kong |
| 24 | 
Larry Page |
$19.8 B | March 26, 1973 (Water Ox) |
United States | |
| 24 | 
Sergey Brin |
$19.8 B | August 21, 1973 (Water Ox) |
United States | |
| 26 | 
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud |
$19.6 B | March 7, 1955 (Wood Goat) |
Investments | Saudi Arabia |
| 27 |
Iris Fontbona & family |
$19.2 B | N/A | Mining | Chile |
| 28 | 
Lee Shau Kee |
$19 B | January 29, 1928 (Earth Dragon) |
real estate | Hong Kong |
| 29 | 
Alexei Mordashov |
$18.5 B | September 26, 1965 (Wood Snake) |
Steel | Russia |
| 30 | 
Michael Bloomberg |
$18.1 B | February 14, 1942 (Metal Snake) |
Bloomberg | United States |
| 30 | 
Jeff Bezos |
$18.1 B | January 12, 1964 (Water Rabbit) |
Amazon | United States |
| 32 | 
Michele Ferrero & family |
$18 B | April 26, 1925 (Wood Ox) |
chocolates | Italy |
| 32 | 
Mikhail Prokhorov |
$18 B | May 3, 1965 (Wood Snake) |
Investments | Russia |
| 34 | 
Vladimir Potanin |
$17.8 B | January 3, 1961 (Metal Rat) |
nonferrous metals | Russia |
| 35 | 
Alisher Usmanov |
$17.7 B | September 9, 1953 (Water Snake) |
steel, telecom, stocks | Russia |
| 36 | 
Azim Premji |
$16.8 B | July 24, 1945 (Wood Rooster) |
Software | India |
| 36 | 
Oleg Deripaska |
$16.8 B | January 2, 1968 (Fire Goat) |
aluminum | Russia |
| 38 | 
Michael Otto & family |
$16.6 B | April 12, 1943 (Water Goat) |
Retail | Germany |
| 39 |
German Larrea Mota Velasco & family |
$16 B | born in 1941 or 1947??? | Mining | Mexico |
| 39 | 
Rinat Akhmetov |
$16 B | September 21, 1966 (Fire Horse) |
steel, coal mines | Ukraine |
| 39 | 
John Paulson |
$16 B | December 14, 1955 (Wood Goat) |
hedge funds | United States |
| 42 | 
Shashi & Ravi Ruia |
$15.8 B | born in 1944 & 1949 respectively | Diversified | India |
| 43 | 
Mikhail Fridman |
$15.1 B | April 21, 1964 (Wood Dragon) |
oil, banking, telecom | Russia |
| 44 | 
Michael Dell |
$14.6 B | February 23, 1965 (Wood Snake) |
Dell | United States |
| 44 | 
Susanne Klatten |
$14.6 B | April 28, 1962 (Water Tiger) |
BMW, pharmaceuticals | Germany |
| 46 | 
Steve Ballmer |
$14.5 B | March 24, 1956 (Fire Monkey) |
Microsoft | United States |
| 46 | 
George Soros |
$14.5 B | August 12, 1930 (Metal Horse) |
hedge funds | United States |
| 48 |
Berthold & Theo Jr. Albrecht & family |
$14.4 B | N/A | Aldi, Trader Joes | Germany |
| 49 | 
Birgit Rausing & family |
$14 B | born in 1924 | packaging | Sweden |
| 50 | 
Vagit Alekperov |
$13.9 B | September 1, 1950 (Metal Tiger) |
Lukoil | Russia |
| 51 | 
Aliko Dangote |
$13.8 B | April 10, 1957 (Fire Rooster) |
sugar, flour, cement | Nigeria |
| 52 | 
Mark Zuckerberg |
$13.5 B | May 14, 1984 (Wood Rat) |
United States | |
| 53 | 
Anne Cox Chambers |
$13.4 B | December 1, 1919 (Earth Goat) |
Cox Enterprises | United States |
| 53 | 
Roman Abramovich |
$13.4 B | October 24, 1966 (Fire Horse) |
steel, investments | Russia |
| 55 | 
Jorge Paulo Lemann |
$13.3 B | August 26, 1939 (Earth Rabbit) |
beer | Brazil |
| 56 | 
Savitri Jindal & family |
$13.2 B | March 20, 1950 (Metal Tiger) |
Steel | India |
| 57 | 
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family |
$13 B | December 22, 1951 (Metal Rabbit) |
real estate | United Kingdom |
| 57 | 
Paul Allen |
$13 B | January 21, 1953 (Water Dragon) |
Microsoft, investments | United States |
| 57 | 
Viktor Vekselberg |
$13 B | April 14, 1957 (Fire Rooster) |
oil, metals | Russia |
| 60 | 
Phil Knight |
$12.7 B | February 24, 1938 (Earth Tiger) |
Nike | United States |
| 61 | 
Robert Kuok |
$12.5 B | October 6, 1923 (Water Pig) |
Diversified | Malaysia |
| 61 | 
Carl Icahn |
$12.5 B | February 16, 1936 (Fire Rat) |
leveraged buyouts | United States |
| 63 | 
Mohammed Al Amoudi |
$12.3 B | N/A | oil | Saudi Arabia |
| 64 | 
Donald Bren |
$12 B | born in 1933 | real estate | United States |
| 64 |
Ronald Perelman |
$12 B | January 1, 1943 (Water Horse) |
leveraged buyouts | United States |
| 66 | 
Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez & family |
$11.9 B | N/A | Mining | Mexico |
| 67 | 
Francois Pinault & family |
$11.5 B | August 21, 1936 (Fire Rat) |
Retail | France |
| 68 | 
Joseph Safra |
$11.4 B | N/A | banking | Brazil |
| 69 | 
Abigail Johnson |
$11.3 B | December 19, 1961 (Metal Ox) |
Fidelity | United States |
| 70 | 
Viktor Rashnikov |
$11.2 B | October 13, 1948 (Earth Rat) |
Steel | Russia |
| 71 | 
Leonardo Del Vecchio |
$11 B | May 22, 1935 (Wood Pig) |
eyewear | Italy |
| 72 | 
John Fredriksen |
$10.7 B | May 10, 1944 (Wood Monkey) |
shipping | Cyprus |
| 72 | 
Stefan Quandt |
$10.7 B | May 9, 1966 (Fire Horse) |
BMW | Germany |
| 74 | 
James Simons |
$10.6 B | born in 1938 | hedge funds | United States |
| 75 | 
Luis Carlos Sarmiento |
$10.5 B | January 27, 1933 (Water Rooster) |
banking | Colombia |
| 75 | 
Horst Paulmann & family |
$10.5 B | N/A | Retail | Chile |
| 77 |
Eliodoro, Bernardo & Patricia Matte |
$10.4 B | N/A | paper | Chile |
| 77 | 
Nasser Al-Kharafi & family |
$10.4 B | born in 1944 | construction | Kuwait |
| 79 | 
Sammy Ofer & family |
$10.3 B | February 22, 1922 (Water Dog) |
shipping | Israel |
| 80 | 
Len Blavatnik |
$10.1 B | June 14, 1957 (Fire Rooster) |
Access Industries | United States |
| 81 | 
Hans Rausing |
$10 B | March 25, 1926 (Fire Tiger) |
packaging | Sweden |
| 81 | 
Ernesto Bertarelli & family |
$10 B | September 22, 1965 (Wood Snake) |
biotech | Switzerland |
| 81 |
John Mars |
$10 B | October 15, 1935 (Wood Pig) |
candy, pet food | United States |
| 81 | 
Jacqueline Mars |
$10 B | October 10, 1940 (Metal Dragon) |
candy, pet food | United States |
| 81 | 
Forrest Mars |
$10 B | August 16, 1931 (Metal Goat) |
candy, pet food | United States |
| 81 | 
Klaus-Michael Kuhne |
$10 B | June 2, 1937 (Fire Ox) |
shipping | Germany |
| 81 | 
Gautam Adani |
$10 B | June 24, 1962 (Water Tiger) |
commodities, infrastructure | India |
| 88 | 
Iskander Makhmudov |
$9.9 B | December 5, 1963 (Water Rabbit) |
mining, metals, machinery | Russia |
| 89 | 
Johanna Quandt |
$9.8 B | born in 1926 | BMW | Germany |
| 89 | 
George Kaiser |
$9.8 B | born in 1943 | oil & gas, banking | United States |
| 89 | 
Maria-Elisabeth & Georg Schaeffler |
$9.8 B | N/A | ball bearings | Germany |
| 92 | 
German Khan |
$9.6 B | October 26, 1962 (Water Tiger) |
oil, banking, telecom | Russia |
| 93 | 
Ananda Krishnan |
$9.5 B | born in 1938 | telecom | Malaysia |
| 93 | 
Dmitry Rybolovlev |
$9.5 B | born in 1966 | fertilizer | Russia |
| 95 | 
Robin Li |
$9.4 B | November 17, 1968 (Earth Monkey) |
Internet | China |
| 96 | 
Serge Dassault & family |
$9.3 B | April 4, 1925 (Wood Ox) |
aviation | France |
| 97 | 
Kumar Birla |
$9.2 B | June 14, 1967 (Fire Goat) |
commodities | India |
| 97 | 
Petr Kellner |
$9.2 B | May 20, 1964 (Wood Dragon) |
insurance | Czech Republic |
| 99 | 
Leonid Mikhelson |
$9.1 B | August 11, 1955 (Wood Goat) |
Natural gas | Russia |
| 100 | 
Cheng Yu-tung |
$9 B | August 27, 1925 (Wood Ox) |
real estate | Hong Kong |
