Celebrity Billionaires

Guess who…

I am the world’s richest man, valued at

$56 billion

Now aged 51, I am involved with tackling AIDS in Africa and set up my own charity to

help them

So far, I have given away

nearly $30bn of my fortune

to good causes

I made my money as the

inventor of Microsoft Windows

My name is Bill Gates

My name is Joanne and I am a 42 year

old writer

I have sold over 325 million books - the last four have been the fastest selling books in

history

I have a fortune of £545 million

which makes me the thirteenth

richest woman in Britain

I have donated £22 million to Comic Relief

I am the author of the Harry Potter

books

My name is JK Rowling

I am the third richest man in the

world, worth $52 billion

I made my money through

investing in insurance companies

Recently I gave $30

billion of my fortune to

the Bill and Melinda Gates

Foundation - the largest

single donation

ever made in the USA

I only earn $100,000 a

year and still live in the

same house that I bought in 1958 for $31,500

My Name is Warren Buffet

I am 53 and the world's only black

billionaire for three years in a

row

I am also, according to

many assessments, the most influential woman in the

world

I am an influential book critic, an

Oscar nominated actress, and a

magazine publisher, as well

as an award winning chat show

host

In 2005 alone I donated $303

million to charity

My chat show is called The

Oprah Winfrey Show

My name is Oprah

Winfrey

I am a Russian oil billionaire worth

$18.2 billion

In Russia, I am well known as the governor of

Chukotka in the far northeast of the

country

I am best known in the UK as the

owner of Chelsea Football Club

My name is Roman

Abramovich

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