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Giorgos Economou

Greek shipbuilder and art collector · born August 4, 1953

$1.5Bolder estimate, as of March 2015 · Bloomberg

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George Economou or Georgios Ekonomou is a Greek billionaire shipowner, CEO of DryShips Inc. and Ocean Rig, and the owner of Cardiff Marine. Economou owns oil tankers as well as dry bulk ships and manages them through Cardiff Marine.

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March 2015$1.5BBloomberg · current

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Meg Whitman
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Meg Whitman

Entrepreneur · Hewlett-Packard · software

1956 · United States

$4.1Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes

Margaret Cushing Whitman is an American business executive, diplomat and politician. She served as the United States ambassador to Kenya from July 2022 to November 2024 under President Joe Biden.

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Barack Obama

Politician

1961 · United States

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to serve as president.

Official White House Photo by Pete Souza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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