Take Ardila Lulle, whose empire spans soft drinks, beer, glass, radio and television, textiles and sugar.
Horacio Cartes, a businessman whose empire spanned banking, farming, tobacco and football, became Paraguay's president in August.
The unfortunate Quinlan, whose empire was once worth £10bn, was disappearing under a mountain of unserviceable debt.
He is also in close contact with Rupert Murdoch, whose empire includes Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.
At seventeen, she had married the newspaper mogul Edward R. Thomas, whose empire included the New York Morning Telegraph.
The region's prehistoric indigenous inhabitants included the Toltec, Chichimec, and Aztec peoples, whose empire was conquered by the Spanish in 1521.
The temple contains a monumental frieze of basalt relief sculptures created by the ancient Hittites, whose empire once stretched from Anatolia to northern Syria.
They also permit durational experiments like the unblinking films of Andy Warhol, whose "Empire," a fixed shot of the Empire State Building, lasts more than eight hours.
Juchen script was borrowed from the Khitan, a people whose empire the Juchen overthrew, but the Khitan writing system was altered to resemble Chinese characters more closely.
The rule of the 16th century Mogul emperor Akbar, whose empire extended from the Indian subcontinent to Afghanistan, was an outstanding example of this Koranic pluralism.
London-based Ukrainian businessman Len Blavatnik, whose empire includes the Warner Music Group, came top of the list thanks to his estimated fortune of £13.17bn.
