Arnold Mærsk Mc Kinney Møller (13 July 1913 16 April 2012) was a Danish shipping magnate.

(Mexican telephone magnate Carlos Slim, for example, is a close competitor to Gates for the title of the world s richest man.)

Linda Marie McMahon (née Edwards born October 4, 1948) is an American professional wrestling magnate and a former Republican Party candidate.

By leaving Pinchuk off this list, Yushchenko may be hinting that he wants a truce with Ukraine's most powerful magnate should he become president.

Then there is the ongoing conflict of interests between Berlusconi the Premier and Berlusconi the magnate, who holds public licenses that make him a semi monopolist in media and TV advertising.

For example, the state has granted a 4.2 billion loan to the aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska (who held first place on the Forbes list before the crisis) to pay off Western creditors.

As shown by the exile of the former media tycoons Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinky, and the imprisonment of oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, three fates await Putin s enemies exile, imprisonment, or the grave.

Independence Christian Michelsen, a shipping magnate and statesman, and Prime Minister of Norway from 1905 to 1907, played a central role in the peaceful separation of Norway from Sweden on 7 June 1905.

With this endorsement, there was a rush to support his project, headed by King Oscar II, who personally contributed 30,000 kronor, and Alfred Nobel, the dynamite magnate and founder of the Nobel Prize.

Doing so would highlight the famous case of former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose political ambitions alone landed him in prison, and who has been declared, after a second trial, a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.