• The Waltons - no, not the television family.  Seems the Wal-tons are the force behind Wal-Mart, and worth almost 16 billion dollars each.  Guess it pays to sell discount merchandise with an animated happyface mascot.
• The Mars family.  Took me a minute to figure out that they are the chocolate bar mavens- and worth about 10 billion a piece.  Worth pointing out that they are worth about 8.2 billion more than the person who came up with Slim-Fast and the owners of New Balance. 
• The guy who invented Beanie Babies is worth a cool 4 billion.
• Wrigley (of chewing gum fame) is the 65th richest American.
• The Donald is only worth a couple billion - though that's more than enough to get a decent haircut.
• Oprah chimes in at number 235 on the list - the first television celebrity to appear (unless you count Trump, but his acting is so bad that I don't think that's realistic).
• Even after prison, Martha still has 975 million to her name.

-H.