10 Richest People From The Middle East
10. Aymin Hariri $1.4 Billion
Ayman Rafic Hariri is a Lebanese billionaire heir and businessman, the second youngest son of Rafic Hariri. He was born in 1978(37 years). He is the son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He’s involved in running Saudi Oger, one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest construction companies and the source of the Hariri family fortune.
Oger was part of a venture that won a $653 million contract in January 2013 to build a local branch of the Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi. Oger’s other interests include telecommunications; it has a major stake in Turk Telekom. He also owns shares in Middle Eastern banks, including Jordan’s Arab Bank. He’s ranked number 6 in Lebanon having a Net worth of $1.1 billion. He’s currently residing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and he’s married with a child.
9. Mohammed Al Rajhi $1.5 Billion
The group’s subsidiaries include Rajhi Steel Company Ltd, Fayha Company Ltd, Al Jazirah Company for Home Appliances, Falcon Company for Plastic Industries, and Al Rajhi Heavy Industries Company. Each of these companies has a presence both inside and outside of the kingdom. A number of its subsidiary companies received industrial and quality awards including ISO 9001 certification and some other highly reputed product conformity certificates.
8. Abdullah Al Rajhi $2.6 Billion
Abdullah Al Rajhi, together with brothers Sulaiman (also a billionaire), Mohammed, and the late Saleh, formed more than 50 years ago Al Rajhi Bank, one of the largest Islamic banks in the world. The Al Rajhi family still dominates the board of the publicly-traded bank.
Abdullah Al Rajhi also owns a stake in Islamic bank powerhouse Al Baraka Banking Group, founded by fellow billionaire Saleh Kamel. Other holdings include stakes in cement and agriculture companies. He’s ranked 7th in Saudi Arabia with net worth of $1.36 billion. He died in 2011.
7. Saleh Kamel $2.9 Billion
Kamel is also chairman of Al Baraka, which operates Islamic banks throughout the Middle East, as well as in Pakistan and Indonesia. Hes ranked 5th richest man in Saudi Arabia with a net worth of $1.9 biilion dollars. He owned the ART TV network, the only sports channels that broadcast the FIFA world cup in the Middle East. He is married, with two children, and lives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
6. Mohammed Al Issa (Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber) $3.7 Billion
5. Prince Sultan bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabeer $4.2 Billion
4. Saleh Al Rajhi $5.8 Billion
The Al Rajhi family still dominates the board of the publicly-traded bank. He also owns a stake in Islamic bank powerhouse Al Baraka Banking Group, founded by fellow billionaire Saleh Kamel. Other holdings include stakes in cement and agriculture companies. He’s ranked 7th in Saudi Arabia with net worth of $1.36 billion. He died in 2011.
3. Sulaiman Al Rajhi $6.5 Billion
Sulaiman Abdulaziz Al Rajhi holds the largest individual stake in his family’s Al Rajhi Bank, which has consistently reported the most profitable operations amongst all of Saudi Arabia’s banking groups. A co-founder of the bank, with older brother, Saleh, he is currently the chairman of what is nationally recognized as the Tadawul’s most venerable institution. The Al Rajhi family is considered, by most in Saudi Arabia, as the country’s wealthiest non-royals, and among the world’s leading philanthropists. He’s ranked 6th richest billionaire in Saudi Arabia with a net worth of $6.5 billion dollars.
2. Mohammed Al Amoudi $14.1 Billion
In Ethiopia he has invested in sectors including agriculture, cement production and gold mining. His Saudi Star has cultivated thousands of acres of land for fruits, vegetables, cereals, coffee, tea, flowers and most recently rice fields for customers in Ethiopia and abroad – he exports coffee beans to Starbucks and tea leaves to Lipton.
He has a net worth estimated at $14.1 billion. Forbes named him as Ethiopia’s richest man, the second richest Saudi Arabian citizen in the world and the second richest black person in the world.[2] Al Amoudi made his fortune in construction and real estate before branching out to buy oil refineries in Sweden and Morocco. He is the largest individual foreign investor in Ethiopia and a major investor in Sweden. He’s ranked 2nd richest billionaire in Saudi Arabia.
1. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud $21.8 Billion
His business acumen and shrewd entrepreneurial prowess have earned him comparisons to American investor and business magnate Warren Buffett. Due to his prominence as a businessman, he was acknowledged by Time, who labeled the Prince as the “Arabian Warren Buffett”. He’s ranked most richest billionaire in Saudi Arabia with total net worth of $21.8 billion dollars.
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