Our list of OC’s wealthiest people captures the richest of the rich here. But it only scratches the surface. We’ve come across other wealthy Orange County residents or people who’ve made fortunes here. Here’s a list of those estimated to be worth around $100 million or more, though an exact number is hard to pin down.
Peter Adderton
Chief executive, Los Angeles-based Amp’d Mobile Inc.; founder, Boost Mobile LLC
Donald R. 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
Richard John “RJ” Brandes
Founder, Belgravia Capital Corp., Belgravia Financial Service; chief executive, Blenheim EquiSports of California Inc.
CARY BREN
Owner, president, Irvine-based California Pacific Homes Inc.
John Crean
Founder, retired chairman, Riverside-based Fleetwood Enterprises Inc.; philanthropist
PETER COOPER
Founding partner, manager, Irvine-based Cooper & LeVasseur LLC
Walter Cruttenden
Chairman, chief executive, Newport Beach-based Cruttenden Partners LLC
Sandra Segerstrom Daniels
Managing partner, C.J. Segerstrom & Sons
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 Group of Cos.
DAVID DOYLE
Cofounder, Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software Corp.
Sanford Edward
President, Headlands Reserve LLC
Robert J. Eichenberg, LaDorna Ellison Eichenberg
Cofounders, co-chairs, Lake Forest-based Ellison Educational Equipment Inc.
AL FRINK
U.S. assistant secretary of manufacturing and services; cofounder, Santa Ana-based Fabrica International, now part of Dixie Group Inc.
Paul Folino
Chairman, chief executive, Costa Mesa-based Emulex Corp.;
philanthropist
Jim GlidEwell
Chief executive, president, Newport Beach-based Glidewell Laboratories
Doy Henley
Chairman, National R.V. Holdings Inc.; founder, retired chairman, chief executive, Aeromil Engineering Co.
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
Roger C. Hobbs
President, R.C. Hobbs Co.; president Century American Corp.
ROBERT “BOB” HOFF
General partner, Crosspoint Venture Partners
Barry Hon
President, Hon Development Corp.
Anthony Hsieh
President, LendingTree LLC; founder, Irvine-based HomeLoanCenter.com
LAP SHUN “JOHN” HUI
Owner, EM Holdings; founder, eMachines Inc.
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 Co.
Dean Koontz
Suspense novelist
Stephanie and Daniel Kwock
Major shareholders, Volcom Inc.
Gilbert LeVasseur Jr.
Cofounder, managing 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
Chairman, chief executive, chief investment officer, Mont Pelerin Capital LLC; partner emeritus, Costa Mesa-based Westar Capital LLC
FARIBORZ MASEEH
Founder, IntelliSense Corp.; managing principal, founder, Picoco LLC; philanthropist
ChARLES Mathewson
Chairman emeritus, Reno-based International Game Technology
James Mellor
Former chairman, chief executive General Dynamics Corp.
ANTHONY MOISO AND FAMILY
Chief executive, president, Rancho Mission Viejo LLC
James Muzzy
Cofounder, managing director, Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Management Co.
CRAIG NICKOLOFF
Chief executive, CWN Management Inc.’s Claim Jumper Enterprises
Milan Panic
Founder, former chief executive, Costa Mesa-based ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc., now Valeant Pharmaceuticals International; founder, MP Global Enterprises and Associates LLC, Costa Mesa
James M. Peters Jr.
Founder, J.M. Peters Co., now Capital Pacific Holdings Inc.
WILLIAM PODLICH
Cofounder, Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Management Co.; philanthropist, Democratic activist
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, C.J. Segerstrom & Sons
Pawan Seth
Drug developer, founder, Pharma Pass LLC, now part of Canada’s Biovail Corp.
Peter Shea Jr.
Chief executive, president, J.F. Shea Co.
KOSTI SHIRVANIAN
Founder, Western Waste Industries
ESTHER Snyder
President, primary owner, Irvine-based In-N-Out Burgers
Donald Sodaro
Chairman, president, 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.
David Threshie
Former chairman, family director, Irvine-based Freedom Communications Inc.
EDWARD ThoRP
President, Edward O. Thorp & Associates; mathematician, author of “Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One”
Peter Ueberroth
Chairman, U.S. Olympic Committee; managing director, Newport Beach-based The Contrarian Group; chairman, Newport Beach-based Ambassadors International Inc.
RAY WATT
Director, Newport Beach-based WL Homes LLC
Greg Weaver
Retired 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’s Automotive Group
RAY WIRTA
Retired chief executive, vice chairman, CB Richard
Ellis Group Inc.
REN & #201; WOOLCOTT, RICHARD WOOLCOTT
Chairman; chief executive, Volcom Inc.
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The Weekend Wealthy
If you can’t live here year round, you still can play here.
Orange County is a second (or even third or fourth) home for many rich folks. Our wealthiest package wouldn’t be complete without a little name-dropping of some notable people with homes here, mostly for leisure:
Warren Buffett
Richie Sambora
Gil Amelio
Nicholas Cage
Roy Disney
Russell Goldsmith, chief executive, City National Bank
Pierre Omidyar, founder, chairman, eBay Inc.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, chief executive, International Lease Finance Corp.
Jack Kemp, former U.S. representative, Housing and Urban Development secretary
Lodwrick Cook, former Atlantic Richfield Co. chairman; cofounder
Joel Laub, chief executive, Las Vegas-based Astoria Homes LLC
Edward J. Herbst, chief executive, Herbst Gaming Inc.
Gary Primm, former chairman, chief executive of Primadonna Resorts Inc
Paxson Offield, president, Santa Catalina Island Co.
Benson Ford Jr., great-grandson of Henry Ford
Thomas L. Phillips, chairman of Potomac, Md.-based newletter publisher Phillips International Inc.
Jim Easton, chairman, chief executive, Van Nuys-based Easton Sports Inc.
Scott Blum, founder, Buy.com, ThinkTank LLC
Steve Johnson, funding partner, chief executive, Sage Hill Partners; cofounder, Johnson-Grace Co.
