=19. Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler – $6.7 Billion

Scharffler owns Schaeffler AG, one of the world’s largest producers of ball bearings and machine components. Maria-Elisabeth took over the company in 1996 following the death of her husband Georg Schaeffler.

=19. Eva Gonda de Rivera – $6.7 Billion

The widow of Eugenio Garza Laguera, who was the former chairman of FEMSA, Latin America’s biggest independent Coca-Cola bottler and distributor. Eugenio, who passed away in 2008, left his large stake to his wife Eva and four daughters.

18. Margarita Louis-Dreyfus – $8.4 Billion

This Swiss billionaire is the chairperson of the French commodities giant Louis Dreyfus. She took over the company when her husband Robert passed away in 2009 due to leukemia. Dreyfus and its competitors ADM, Bunge and Cargill are known as the “ABCD” group of companies. They control global flows of food commodities.

17. Blair Parry-Okeden – $8.5 Billion

Granddaughter of James M. Cox, the founder of Cox Enterprises. Blair Parry-Okeden’s brother, Jim Kennedy, is chairman and her aunt, Anne Cox Chambers, is the largest shareholder and sits on the board.

16. Carrie Perrodo – $8.8 Billion

Originally from Singapore, Ka Yee (Carrie) Wong is the widow of French entrepreneur Hubert Perrodo who passed away in 2006 while hiking in the Alps. Perrodo’s fortune is expected to be passed down entirely to Carrie and their three children. Sharing the entrepreneurial bug, Carrie had her own modeling agency, Carrie’s Models.