The King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, has an estimated net worth of $30 billion as of 2011 according to Forbes. He has reigned for 64 years, the longest reigning monarch in Thailand’s history and the longest serving current head of state in the world. Known as Rama IX, he was born on December 5, 1927 in Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the younger son of HRH Prince Mahidol Aduljadej and HRH Princess Srinagarindra. He was enrolled by his father in the Public Health program at Harvard University. He briefly attended Mater Dei school in Bangkok but his mother took the family to Switzerland in 1933. He continued his education at the Ecole Nouvelle de la Suisse Romande in Lausanne. He received the baccalauréat des lettres (high-school diploma with major in French literature, Latin, and Greek) from the Gymnase Classique Cantonal of Lausanne. In 1945, he begun studying science at the University of Lausanne, when the family returned to Thailand after the World War II ended.
Born as Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, Pablo Escobar was probably one of the extremely rich criminals in the world in his time. With an estimated net worth of around $30 billion, Pablo Escobar was described as a wealthy narcoterrorist, drug lord and cocaine trafficker.
Property developer Hui Ka Yan is the chairman of Evergrande Real Estate Group and he has an estimated net worth of $30.2 billion in July 2019. He is also the seventh richest person in China and 209th in the world. Born in 1958 in Henan Province in China, he graduated from Wuhan University of Science and Technology with a degree in metallurgy in 1982. Since 2003, he has been a management professor at Wuhan. He earned his honorary Ph.D. from the University of West Alabama in 2008.
Tadashi Yanai is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. and has an estimated net worth of $30.4 billion in August 2019. He is the richest person in Japan and 66th among the world’s billionaires.
American casino magnate, Sheldon Gary Adelson, has a net worth of $31.4 billion in August 2019. Currently the 8th wealthiest American and 16th wealthiest person in the world, Adelson vastly increased his net worth upon the initial public offering of Las Vegas Sands in December 2004. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited which operates The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. His fortune is up $7 billion since in 2010, as his strong position in the casino-crazy Asian markets has pushed stock of Las Vegas Sands up roughly 50% to a recent $48. (Shares once traded as low as $1.50 in 2009.) Through his majority-owned subsidiary Sands China, Adelson has 3 resorts in Macau.
American businessman, co-founder and Chairman of Nike, Inc., Philip Hampson “Phil” Knight has a net worth of $31.9 billion in August 2019. Knight, a former University of Oregon track star, founded Blue Ribbon sports in 1964, selling Japanese running shoes out of the trunk of his car at track meets on the weekends while teaching accounting at Portland State. He renamed his company Nike after the Greek goddess of Victory in 1971 and paid Carolyn Davidson $35 to design the company’s iconic swoosh logo. In 2002, Knight purchased Will Vinton (Animation) Studios, Travis, Knight’s son, serves as president and CEO of Knight’s stop-motion film studio, Laika. The studio released its first feature film, Coraline, in 2009 and plans to release its second film, ParaNorman, in the summer of 2012. The Knight Management Center at Stanford University opened this past May. The 8 building complex cost a reported $345 million to construct, with $105 million coming from Knight himself.