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 2010,[1] based on the closing stock prices and exchange rates on February 12, 2010. The list includes only females and their associated families.
| # | Name | Birth year and age | Net worth US$ (billions) |
Citizenship | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alice Walton | 1949/1950 (age 61–62) | 20.6 | United States | Wal-Mart |
| 2 | Liliane Bettencourt | 1922/1923 (age 88–89) | 20.0 | France | L'Oréal |
| 3 | Birgit Rausing & family | 1923/1924 (age 87–88) | 13.0 | Sweden/ Switzerland | Tetra Laval |
| 4 | Savitri Jindal | 1961/1962 (age 49–50) | 12.2 | India | Jindal Steel |
| 5 | Abigail Johnson | 1961/1962 (age 49–50) | 11.5 | United States | Fidelity Investments |
| 6 | Susanne Klatten | 1962/1963 (age 48–49) | 11.1 | Germany | Altana |
| 7 | Iris Fontbona & family | 1942/1943 (age 69–70) | 11.0 | Chile | Antofagasta PLC |
| 8 | Jacqueline Mars | 1939/1940 (age 71–72) | 11.0 | United States | Mars, Incorporated |
| 9 | Anne Cox Chambers | 1919/1920 (age 91–92) | 10.0 | United States | Cox Enterprises |
| 10 | Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken | 1919/1920 (age 91–92) | 7.0 | Netherlands | Heineken |
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