2. Oprah Winfrey:

Born in the year 1954, this 58 years old celeb is an American media proprietor, apart from that she is also a talk show host as well as an actress, producer and philanthropist. She is very well recognized by the famous show that started in the year 1986 and ended just last year [2011] “The Oprah Winfrey Show’. She is also considered as the richest African-American women of the 20^th century. According to few assessments, she has also been termed as one of the most influential woman in the world. This lady who believed in getting better and richer with everything she did, started her professional life as a grocery store clerk which was just like an menial job which was situated next to her father’s barbershop in Nashville, Tenn. At the age of just 16 years, she quickly changed her profession into the broadcast media where her duty was to read news for a local radio station. Today, she is one among the famous billionaires in the world owning a net worth of $ 2.7 billion as of 2011.