Famous American Entrepreneurs
Name
Score Books 2 1 4 3 5 9 6 7 12 8 11 10 15 14 13
Bill Gates 86 O. Winfrey 72 S. Spielberg 70 Jack Welch 62 Ross Perot 58 M. Stewart 56 W. Buffett 51 Steve Jobs 44 R. Murdoch 43 George 41 Lucas Ted Turner 38 V. 31 McMahon Marc Rich 29 Larry Ellison 20 D. Trump 19
TV/Radio Mentions 2 10 7 3 6 8 4 12 5 15 11 14 1 9 13
Press Clips 1 5 2 10 8 3 9 15 4 13 7 11 6 14 12
Web Hits 1 6 5 12 9 2 14 4 8 3 7 10 15 11 13
Net Worth (in $mil) 54,000 900 2,100 680 3,900 650 33,200 1,400 7,500 3,000 6,200 700 1,200 21,900 1,800
400 Rank 1 280 90 376 47 381 2 158 21 60 25 364 189 4 110
Web mentions generated by Google; press clips by Lexis-Nexis; biographies by Bowker's Books in Print via the New York Public Library's online resources; TV/radio mentions compiled via Dow Jones Interactive's media transcripts. Net worth figures from Forbes magazine. Forbes 400 rankings are for 2001.
Among the other well-known Forbes 400 members who were contenders for the Famous 15 this year were Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Steve Case, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, David Geffen, Jerry Jones, Ralph Lauren, Charles Schwab and George Soros. Among these also-rans, Bloomberg is the best bet to make the Famous 15 list for 2002, since he was just elected mayor of New York.