Top 25 Richest In The US 2009

Here is the list of 25 american's richest men extracted from top 400 richest americans 2009 according to forbes.

RANK NAME NET WORTH ($MIL) AGE RESIDENCE SOURCE

1 William Gates III 50,000 53 Medina Microsoft

2 Warren Buffett 40,000 79 Omaha Berkshire Hathaway

3 Lawrence Ellison 27,000 65 Redwood City Oracle

4 Christy Walton & family 21,500 54 Jackson Wal-Mart

5 Jim C. Walton 19,600 61 Bentonville Wal-Mart

6 Alice Walton 19,300 60 Fort Worth Wal-Mart

7 S. Robson Walton 19,000 65 Bentonville Wal-Mart

8 Michael Bloomberg 17,500 67 New York Bloomberg

9 Charles Koch 16,000 73 Wichita manufacturing, energy

9 David Koch 16,000 69 New York manufacturing, energy

11 Sergey Brin 15,300 36 Palo Alto Google

11 Larry Page 15,300 36 San Francisco Google

13 Michael Dell 14,500 44 Austin Dell

14 Steven Ballmer 13,300 53 Seattle Microsoft

15 George Soros 13,000 79 Westchester hedge funds

16 Donald Bren 12,000 77 Newport Beach real estate

17 Paul Allen 11,500 56 Mercer Island Microsoft, investments

17 Abigail Johnson 11,500 47 Boston Fidelity

19 Forrest Edward Mars 11,000 78 McLean candy, pet food

19 Jacqueline Mars 11,000 70 Bedminster candy, pet food

19 John Mars 11,000 73 Arlington candy, pet food

22 Carl Icahn 10,500 73 New York leveraged buyouts

23 Ronald Perelman 10,000 66 New York leveraged buyouts

24 George B. Kaiser 9,500 67 Tulsa oil & gas, banking

24 Philip Knight 9,500 71 Beaverton Nike