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This list of female billionaires is based on an annual ranking of the world's wealthiest people compiled and published by Forbes magazine in March 2007,[1] based on the closing stock prices and exchange rates on 9 February 2007. The list includes only females and their associated families.

# Name Net worth Citizenship Source
1 Alice Walton US$23.0 billion   United States Wal-Mart
2 Liliane Bettencourt US$21.9 billion   France L'Oréal
3 Abigail Johnson US$15.0 billion   United States Fidelity Investments
4 Anne Cox Chambers US$14.6 billion   United States Cox Enterprises
5 Jacqueline Mars US$14.5 billion   United States Mars, Incorporated
6 Birgit Rausing and family US$14.0 billion   Sweden/ Switzerland Tetra Laval
7 Susanne Klatten US$9.6 billion   Germany Altana
8 Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler and her son Georg US$8.7 billion   Germany Schaeffler Group
9 Savitri Jindal US$8.5 billion  India Jindal Steel
10 Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken US$7.2 billion   Netherlands Heineken
11 Johanna Quandt US$6.7 billion   Germany BMW
12 Antonia Johnson US$6.6 billion   Sweden A. Johnson & Co.
13 Dorothéa Steinbruch US$6.1 billion   Brazil Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional
14 Esther Koplowitz US$5.6 billion   Spain Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas
15 Madeleine Schickedanz US$5.5 billion   Germany Quelle Versand
16 Alicia Koplowitz US$5.0 billion   Spain Investments
17 Shari Arison US$5.0 billion  Israel Carnival Corporation
18 Indu Jain US$4.4 billion   India Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd.
19 Nina Wang (died April 2007) US$4.2 billion   Hong Kong Real Estate Investments
20 Joan Tisch US$3.7 billion   United States Loews Corporation
21 Heidi Horten US$3.4 billion   Austria Department Store Chain
22 Rosalia Mera US$3.4 billion   Spain Inditex
23 Elena Baturina US$3.1 billion   Russia Inteco
24 Martha Ingram US$2.9 billion   United States Ingram Industries
25 Barbara Piasecka Johnson and family US$2.8 billion   United States Johnson & Johnson
26 Giuliana Benetton US$2.8 billion   Italy Benetton
27 Ann Walton Kroenke US$2.7 billion   United States Wal-Mart
28 Leona Mindy Rosenthal Helmsley US$2.5 billion   United States Real Estate
29 Ronda Stryker US$2.5 billion   United States Stryker Corporation
30 Mary Alice Dorrance Malone US$2.3 billion   United States Campbell Preserve Company
31 Dinara Kulibaeva US$2.1 billion   Kazakhstan Halyk
32 Penny Pritzker US$2.1 billion   United States Hyatt & Marmon
33 Wilma Tisch US$2.1 billion   United States Loews Corporation
34 Barbara Carlson Gage US$2.0 billion   United States Carlson Companies
35 Karen Pritzker US$2.0 billion   United States Hyatt
36 Liselott Persson US$2.0 billion   Sweden Hennes & Mauritz
37 Leonore Annenberg US$2.0 billion   United States Inheritance
38 Linda Pritzker US$2.0 billion   United States Hyatt
39 Margaret Magerko US$2.0 billion   United States Retail
María Asunción Aramburuzabala and family US$2.0 billion   Mexico Grupo Modelo
39 Marilyn Carlson Nelson US$2.0 billion   United States Carlson Companies
40 Sylvia Ströher US$1.9 billion   Germany Inheritance
41 Helen Johnson-Leipold US$1.6 billion   United States S. C. Johnson & Son
42 Imogene Powers Johnson US$1.6 billion   United States S. C. Johnson & Son
43 Nancy Lerner US$1.6 billion   United States Inheritance
44 Norma Lerner US$1.6 billion   United States Inheritance
45 Phyllis Taylor US$1.6 billion   United States Taylor Energy
46 Winnie Johnson-Marquart US$1.6 billion   United States S. C. Johnson & Son
47 Oprah Winfrey US$1.5 billion   United States Harpo Productions
48 Marguerite Harbert US$1.4 billion   United States Inheritance
49 Anneliese Brost US$1.3 billion   Germany Newspaper Empire
50 Charlotte Colket Weber US$1.3 billion   United States Campbell Preserve Company
51 Anne Windfohr Marion US$1.3 billion   United States Inheritance
52 Chu Lam Yiu US$1.3 billion   China Huabao International Holdings
53 Hope Hill Van Beuren US$1.3 billion   United States Campbell Preserve Company
54 Margaret Whitman US$1.3 billion   United States Ebay
55 Suna Kirac US$1.2 billion   Turkey Koc Group
56 Dorrance Hamilton US$1.1 billion   United States Campbell Preserve Company
57 Mary West US$1.1 billion   United States West Corp
58 Lily Safra US$1.1 billion   Brazil Inheritance
59 JK Rowling US$1.1 billion   United Kingdom Harry Potter Books and Movies
60 Mary Anselmo US$1.0 billion   United States PanAmSat
61 Weili Dai US$1.0 billion   United States Marvell Semiconductor
62 Ada J Powhida US$1.0 billion   United States Inheritance

References

  1. ^ "The World's Billionaires". Forbes. 8 March 2007. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html. Retrieved 2007-03-21. 

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