Ray Lee Hunt
$6.5B
Born
Apr 06, 1943
Age
82
Source of Wealth
Oil, real estate
Residence
Dallas, Texas
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
5
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Southern Methodist University
- Ray Lee Hunt is the wealthiest of legendary oil wildcatter H.L. Hunt's 15 children.
- He is the chairman emeritus of 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 CEO of Hunt Consolidated's energy and infrastructure businesses and is his heir apparent.
- Hunt's half-brothers, W. Herbert (d. 2024) and Nelson Bunker Hunt (d. 2014), once tried to corner the silver market.
- Hunt's father is said to have been a major inspiration for the J.R. Ewing character on the TV show "Dallas."
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