Residence: Charleroi, Belgium

Education: Drop Out, High School

Marital Status: Married, Children: 3

Belgian businessman and the richest man in Belgium, Albert, Baron Frère has an estimated net worth of $4.9 billion as of April 2016, according to Forbes. Albert Frere built the family's scrap-metal business into a media, utilities and oil empire, Compagnie Nationale a Portefeuille. In May 2011 he and French bank BNP Paribas took CNP private; the two parties paid more than $1.9 billion for 28% of the company they didn't own.