Net worth: $9.5 billion
Abramovich was born in 1966 in Saratov, Russia. His mother died when he was 18 months old. His father died when he was four.
Orphaned, he was taken in by his uncle in Moscow and his grandparents in the northern province of Komi.
He went to Russia's Industrial Institute for college and then started trading oil products in western Siberia.
The Guardian reports that his "big break" came in 1992 when he caught the favor of Boris Berezovsky, one of Russia's premier tycoons as the country moved into capitalism.
Berezovsky fled to the UK after fraud charges. Abramovich took the reins of his empire, accumulating "80% of Sibneft, Russia's fifth-largest oil company; 50% of Rusal, the Russian aluminium oil monopoly; and 26% of Aeroflot, Russia's national airline," the Guardian reports. Then he got into private investments.
Today, Abramovich is one of Russia's richest people, and he has toys like the world's largest yacht, a Boeing 767, and the Chelsea Football Club.
Bonus: his daughter has an Instagram that shows what it's like to be an heiress.