Ray Lee Hunt

$7.22B
$1.2M
as of 07/02/24

About Ray Lee Hunt

Ray Lee Hunt is the wealthiest of legendary oil wildcatter H.L. Hunt's 15 children.

He chairs Hunt Consolidated, an oil and gas, real estate and investing conglomerate.

His Hunt Oil, once one of the largest privately-held oil firms in the U.S., owns stakes in natural gas fields and a gas liquefaction plant in Peru.

Hunt Oil was one of the first to land an exploration deal in Iraq's Kurdistan region after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

His son, Hunter Hunt, serves as co-CEO of Hunt Consolidated and is his heir apparent.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Oil, real estate

Residence

Dallas, Texas

Marital status

Married

Birth date

04/06/43 (age 81)

Number of children

5

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Southern Methodist University

Self-made

inherited and growing

Ray Lee Hunt’s fortune is worth

120K

troy ounces of gold

111K

median U.S. household

72K

median U.S. income

0.144%

U.S. credit card volume

0.029%

GDP of the United States

0.021%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Hunt's father is said to have been a major inspiration for the J.R. Ewing character on the TV show "Dallas."

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

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