DFW’s Richest People

Dallas is competitive in all kinds of ways, but just about everyone agrees on the most common measuring stick: Money.

Who’s got it? Who’s getting it? Who used to have it and now wishes he had it back?

While establishing someone else’s wealth can be dicey business, that doesn’t keep the ambitious folks at Forbes from taking a crack at it. When they put together their list of the 400 richest people in America, plenty of Texans made the cut.

Here are the entries from Dallas-Fort Worth, with estimated net worth (in billions) in parentheses:

15. Alice Walton, Fort Worth: 16.1

43. Harold Simmons, Dallas: 7.4

49. Robert Rowling, Dallas: 6.4

57. Robert Bass, Fort Worth: 5.5

76. Henry Ross Perot, Dallas: 4.4

82. Ray Hunt, Dallas: 4.0

91. Richard Rainwater, Fort Worth: 3.5

105. David Bonderman, Fort Worth:3.3

117. Lee Bass, Fort Worth: 3.0

117. Sid Bass, Fort Worth: 3.0

117. T. Boone Pickens, Dallas: 3.0

161. Mark Cuban, Dallas: 2.6

165. Edward Bass, Fort Worth: 2.5

317. Andrew Beal, Dallas: 1.5

317. Gerald J. Ford, Dallas: 1.5

Source: Forbes