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OTHER CENTIMILLIONAIRES

Our listing of OC’s 20 wealthiest people captures the richest of the rich here. But it only scratches the surface. Here’s a list of other wealthy Orange County residents or people who’ve made fortunes here and are believed to be worth around $100 million or more, though an exact number is hard to pin down.


Donald Beall

Partner, Dartbrook Partners LLC; retired chairman, chief executive, Rockwell International (now Rockwell Automation Inc.); director, Rockwell Collins Inc.

Larry Bedrosian

Chief executive, Fresno-based Bedrosians; real estate owner

R.J. Brandes

Founder, Belgravia Capital Corp., Belgravia Financial Service; chief executive, Blenheim EquiSports of California LLC

CARY BREN

Owner, president, Irvine-based California Pacific

Homes Inc.

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; philan-thropist

Walter Cruttenden

Chairman, chief executive, Newport Beach-based Cruttenden Partners LLC

Sandra Segerstrom Daniels

Philanthropist, daughter of late Harold T. “Hal” Segerstrom Jr., Jeanette Segerstrom

RONALD DAVIES

Retired senior vice chairman, MBNA Corp.

H.K. Desai

Chairman, chief executive, president, QLogic Corp.

Lawrence Dodge

Chairman, chief executive, Irvine-based American Sterling Corp.

DAVID DOYLE

Cofounder, Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software Corp.

Robert J. Eichenberg,

LaDorna Ellison Eichenberg

Cofounders, co-chairs, Lake Forest-based Ellison Educational Equipment Inc.

Paul Folino

Chairman, chief executive, Costa Mesa-based Emulex Corp.; philanthropist

AL FRINK

U.S. assistant secretary of manufacturing 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 of Corona del Mar nursery Rogers Gardens; owns part of La Casa Pacifica, former Nixon summer compound in San Clemente

ROBERT “BOB” HOFF

General partner, Crosspoint Venture Partners

Anthony Hsieh

President, LendingTree LLC; founder, Irvine-based HomeLoanCenter.com

LAP SHUN “JOHN” HUI

Owner, EM Holdings; Gateway Inc. shareholder

Fletcher Jones Jr.

Chief executive, president, Fletcher Jones

Management Group

Donald Kennedy

Chairman emeritus, Santa Ana-based First

American Corp.

DON KOLL

Principal, The Koll Company

Dean Koontz

Best-selling suspense novelist

Gilbert LeVasseur Jr.

Founding partner, Irvine-based Cooper & LeVasseur

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 LLC

Robert Martini

Retired chairman, Valley Forge, Pa.-based AmerisourceBergen Corp.

FARIBORZ MASEEH

Founder, IntelliSense Corp.; managing principal, founder, Picoco LLC; philanthropist

ChARLES Mathewson

Retired chairman, Reno-based International Game Technology

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 of Milan P Enterprises LLC,

Costa Mesa

James M. Peters Jr.

Founder, J.M. Peters Co., now Capital Pacific

Holdings Inc.; 20% owner of Costa Mesa-based

Volcom Inc.

WILLIAM PODLICH

Cofounder, Newport Beach-based Pacific

Investment Management Co.; philanthropist, Democratic activist

FRANK PRITT

Founder, former chief executive, Seattle-based Attachmate Corp., now AttachmateWRQ

John Paul Reddam

Founder, former chief executive, DiTech Funding

Corp.; founder, Irvine-based CashCall Inc.;

owns racehorses

JOHN SAUNDERS

Owner, Saunders Property Co., London Coin Galleries Inc., Newport Beach

Stephen Scarborough

Chief executive, Standard Pacific Corp.

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

ESTHER Snyder

President, primary owner, Irvine-based In-N-Out

Burgers Inc.

Donald Sodaro

Chairman, chief executive, Newport Beach-based Hanford Hotels Inc.

GLENN STEARNS

Chairman, founder, Santa Ana-based Stearns Cos.

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, family director, Irvine-based Freedom Communications Inc.

Peter Ueberroth

Managing director, Newport Beach-based The Contrarian Group; chairman, Newport Beach-based Ambassadors International Inc.

RAY WATT

Chief executive, Newport Beach-based WL Homes LLC

Greg Weaver

Chairman, Anaheim-based Pacific Sunwear of

California Inc.

H. Lawrence “Larry” Webb

Chief executive, Newport Beach-based WL Homes LLC

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

REN & #201; WOOLCOTT, RICHARD WOOLCOTT

Chairman; chief executive, Costa Mesa-based

Volcom Inc.

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