OTHER CENTIMILLIONAIRES
Our listing of OC’s wealthiest people captures the richest of the rich here. But it only scratches the surface. In our research, we came across other wealthy Orange County residents or people who’ve made fortunes here. Here’s a list of those believed to be worth around $100 million or more, though an exact number is hard to pin down.
Larry Bedrosian
Chief executive, Fresno-based Bedrosians; real estate owner
R.J. Brandes
Founder, Belgravia Capital Corp., Bel-gravia Financial Service; chief executive, Blenheim EquiSports of California LLC
ALLEN CHAO
Chairman, chief executive, president, Corona-based Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. (lives in Anaheim Hills)
PETER COOPER
Founding partner, Irvine-based Cooper & LeVasseur LLC
John Crean
Founder, retired chairman, Riverside-based Fleetwood Enterprises Inc.; owns Village Crean in Santa Ana Heights; developer of Crean Acres, Hemet; philanthropist
Walter Cruttenden
Chairman, chief executive, Newport Beach-based Cruttenden Partners LLC
H.K. Desai
Chairman, chief executive, president, QLogic Corp.
Lawrence Dodge
Chairman, chief executive, Irvine-based American Sterling Group of Cos.
JAMES DOWNEY
Founder, chief executive, majority owner, Huntington Beach-based C & D; Aerospace
DAVID DOYLE
Cofounder, Irvine-based Quest Software Corp.
Paul Folino
Chairman, chief executive, Costa Mesa-based Emulex Corp.; philanthropist
AL FRINK
U.S. assistant secretary of manufact-uring and services nominee;
cofounder, Santa Ana-based
Fabrica International, now part of
Dixie Group Inc.
Jim GlidEwell
Chief executive, president, Newport Beach-based Glidewell Laboratories
Doy Henley
Retired businessman, philanthropist, GOP activist
Gavin Herbert
Founder, chairman emeritus, Allergan Inc.; chairman, owner, Corona del Mar nursery Roger’s Gardens; owns part of La Casa Pacifica, former Nixon summer compound in San Clemente
LAP SHUN “JOHN” HUI
Owner, EM Holdings; sold eMachines Inc. to Gateway Inc. in March
Fletcher Jones Jr.
Chief executive, president, Fletcher Jones Management Group
Donald Kennedy
Chairman emeritus, Santa Ana-based First American Corp.
DONALD KOLL
Principal, The Koll Company
Dean Koontz
Best-selling suspense novelist
Gilbert LeVasseur Jr.
Founding partner, Irvine-based Cooper & LeVasseur LLC
GEORGE LOPEZ
Founder, chairman, chief executive, president, San Clemente-based ICU Medical Inc.
HADI MAKARECHIAN
Chairman, chief executive, president, Newport Beach-based Capital Pacific Holdings Inc.
CHARLES MARTIN
Founder, former managing partner, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital; partner emeritus, Costa Mesa-based Westar Capital
Robert Martini
Retired chairman, Valley Forge, Pa.-based Amerisource-Bergen Corp.
James Mellor
Chairman, AmerisourceBergen Corp.
James Muzzy
Cofounder, managing director, Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Management Co.
Milan Panic
Founder, former chief executive,
Costa Mesa-based ICN
Pharmaceuticals Inc., now Valeant Pharmaceuticals International;
founder Milan P Enterprises LLC,
Costa Mesa
WILLIAM PODLICH
Cofounder, Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Management Co.; philanthropist, Democratic activist
John Paul Reddam
Founder, former chief executive,
DiTech Funding Corp.; owns real estate brokerage Relantis of Irvine; owns
several racehorses
Henry Segerstrom
Managing partner, minority owner, C.J. Segerstrom & Sons
Pawan Seth
Drug developer, founder, Pharma
Pass LLC, now part of Canada’s
Biovail Corp
KOSTI SHIRVANIAN
Founder, Western Waste Industries
Ron Simon
Chairman, chief executive, Newport Beach-based RSI Holding Corp.,
owner of RSI Home Products,
marble countertop maker General Marble
ESTHER Snyder
President, primary owner, Irvine-based In-N-Out Burgers
Arthur Svendsen
founder, former chairman, chief executive, Standard Pacific Corp.
ED ThoRP
Mathematician, author of “Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One”
David Threshie
Former chairman, Irvine-based Freedom Communications Inc.
Peter Ueberroth
Managing director, Newport Beach-based The Contrarian Group; chairman, Newport Beach-based Ambassadors International Inc.
Greg Weaver
Chairman, chief executive, Anaheim-based Pacific Sunwear of California Inc.
Mark Wetterau
Chairman, chief
executive, majority owner, Irvine-based Golden State Foods Corp.; chief
executive, St. Louis-based Wetterau Associates
DAVID WILSON
Owner, Orange-based David Wilson Auto Group
