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Dieter Schwarz

Entrepreneur · Lidl · retail

1939 · Germany

$41Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes

Dieter Schwarz is a German billionaire businessman, and owner of the Schwarz-Gruppe. He is the former chairman and CEO of the supermarket chain Lidl, and the hypermarket chain Kaufland. As of 2025, he has the highest net worth in Germany.

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Emilio T. Yap

Entrepreneur

1925–2014 · Philippines

$1.1Bolder estimate, as of 2013 · Forbes

Philippine businessman (1925-2014)

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Howard Hughes

Entrepreneur · Hughes Aircraft Company · manufacturing

1905–1976 · United States

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Creator

1896–1940 · United States

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

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Linda McCartney

Musician

1941–1998 · United States

Linda Louise, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings, which she had formed with her husband Paul McCartney of the Beatles.

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Howard Florey

Politician

1898–1968 · Australia

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".

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