Billionaire
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- For other uses, see Billionaire (disambiguation).
In countries that use the short scale number naming system, a billionaire is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of a currency, usually the US Dollar, Euro or the pound. Forbes Magazine updates a complete list of US Dollar billionaires around the world every year. There were 793 officially known short scale billionaires in the world as of 2009[1].
In countries that use the long scale number naming system, a billionaire is someone who has at least a million times a million units of currency. There are no billionaires under the long scale number naming system.
Under the short scale number naming system, a trillionaire would be a person who has at least a thousand billion units of currency. Under the long scale number naming system, a trillionaire would be a person who has at least a million billion units of currency. Even under the short scale number naming system there are no trillionaires.
[edit] See also
[edit] Regions by net worth
- List of Australians by net worth
- List of Brazilians by net worth
- List of Canadians by net worth
- List of Danes by net worth
- List of Dutch by net worth
- List of French people by net worth
- List of Indians by net worth
- List of Indonesians by net worth
- List of Japanese by net worth
- List of Malaysians by net worth
- List of Pakistanis by net worth
- List of Iranian people by net worth
- List of Poles by net worth
- List of Russians by net worth
- List of Singaporeans by net worth
- List of Swedes by net worth
- List of Taiwanese by net worth
- List of Turks by net worth
[edit] Miscellaneous
- List of college dropout billionaires
- Lists of wealthy historical figures
- List of non-Forbes billionaires
- List of countries by the number of billionaires
- List of female billionaires
- List of heads of state and government by net worth
- List of Korean billionaires and multi-millionaires
- List of most wealthy historical figures
- List of US-dollar billionaires in Germany
- List of the 100 wealthiest people
- Wealthiest non-inflated historical figures
- List of the richest royals
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