The Superclass List

In the book, Rothkopf writes that his 2008 list contains 6,000 individuals. The grouping is, however, only defined roughly and as a statistical reality. Rothkopf also writes that the list (one in a million, globally) is always in flux. (Note, world population is now 6.9 – 7 billion. So, if published today, the list may contain 7,000 names.)

Rothkopf states that his list is not to be shown in public, as there will be extensive discussion about who does or does not qualify. In interviews, he mentions individuals who are on the list. This list contains names that he argues he has verified.

1. Rupert Murdoch^[2]

1. Albert Frère^[2]
2. Étienne Davignon^[2]
3. Maurice Lippens^[2]

1. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva^[1]

1. Andronico Luksic^[1]

1. Hu Jintao^[2]
2. Fu Chengyu^[1]
3. Ding Lei^[1]
4. Lou Jiwei^[1]
5. Yang Huiyan^[2]
6. Zhou Xiaochuan^[2]
7. Richard Li Tzar Kai^[2]

1. Luis Alberto Moreno^[1]
2. Shakira^[1]
3. Julio Mario Santo Domingo^[2]

1. Amr Khaled^[2]
2. Amr Moussa^[2]

1. Janus Friis^[2]

1. Nicolas Sarkozy^[2]
2. Pascal Lamy^[1]
3. Michèle Alliot-Marie^[1]
4. Baudouin Prot^[2]
5. Jean-Claude Trichet^[2]

1. Angela Merkel^[2]
2. Josef Ackermann^[1]
3. Josef Joffe^[1]
4. Rene Obermann^[2]
5. Reinhard Mohn^[2]

1. Lakshmi Mittal^[1]
2. Sonia Gandhi^[1]
3. Ratan Tata^[2]
4. Kalanidhi Maran^[2]
5. Rana Talwar^[2]
6. Kushal Pal Singh^[2]
7. Mukesh Ambani^[2]
8. Indra Nooyi^[2]
9. Tenzin Gyatso^[2]

1. Shah Reza Pahlavi^[2]

1. Bob Geldof^[1]

1. Silvio Berlusconi^[1]

1. Jeroen van der Veer^[2]

1. Hiroshi Mikitani^[2]
2. Osamu Suzuki^[2]
3. Akira Mori^[2]

1. Wangari Maathai^[2]

1. Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah^[2]

1. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah^[1]

1. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf^[2]

1. Patrice Motsepe^[2]

1. Mario Molina^[1]
2. Genaro Larrea Mota Velasco^[1]
3. Guillermo Ortiz Martinez^[2]
4. Carlos Slim Helú^[2]
5. Joaquín Guzman^{[citation needed]}

1. Aliko Dangote^[2]
2. Odein Ajumogobia^[2]
3. Francis Arinze^[2]

1. Kim Jong-Un

1. Humza Bin Masood

1. Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani^[2]

1. Alexei Miller^[1]

1. Vladimir Popovkin^[2]
2. Andrey Likhachev^[2]
3. Oleg Deripaska^[2]
4. Sergey Babenkov^[2]

1. Bandar bin Sultan^[1]
2. Al-Waleed bin Talal^[2]

1. Ho Ching^[1]

1. Nelson Mandela (deceased 2013)^[2]
2. Patrice Motsepe^[2]

Anton Rupert Nicky Oppenheimer Douw Steyn

1. David Yonggi Cho^[1]

1. José Manuel Barroso^[2]

1. Carl Bildt^[3]
2. Marcus Wallenberg^[3]
3. Ingvar Kamprad^[3]
4. Fredrik Reinfeldt^[3]
5. Carl-Henric Svanberg^[4]

About 20–30 Swedes are on the list.^[5]

1. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe^[1]

1. Kemal Derviş^[2]
2. Merve Çatalbaş^[2]

1. Khalifa Mohammad Al-Kindi^[2]

1. Mike Turner^[1]
2. Richard Branson^[1]
3. Bernie Ecclestone^[2]
4. Lakshmi Mittal^[2]
5. John Silvester Varley^[2]
6. Mark Thompson^[2]
7. Stacy Shannon^[1]

^[6]

1. Robert Zoellick^[1]
2. Oprah Winfrey^[1]
3. Indra Nooyi^[1]
4. Al Gore^[1]
5. Lee Scott^[1]
6. Michael Mullen^[1]
7. Mark Zuckerberg^[2]
8. Pierre Omidyar^[2]
9. Steve Case^[2]
10. Sumner Redstone^[2]
11. Michael Bloomberg^[2]
12. Rex Tillerson^[2]
13. Ben Bernanke^[2]
14. Ken Lewis^[2]
15. Stephen Green (banker)^[2]
16. Lloyd Blankfein^[2]
17. Sergey Brin^[2]
18. Larry Page^[2]
19. Bill Gates^[2]
20. Warren Buffett^[2]
21. Jerry Yang^[2]
22. Henry "Hank" Paulson^[4]
23. Joshua Bolten^[2]

1. Pope Benedict XVI^[2]

1. Lorenzo Mendoza Gimenez^[1]
2. Gustavo Cisneros^[1]

• About the Superclass, Global Politician.
• Who is the Superclass?, Newsweek.