Harold Hamm 
Age 72   Net Worth $15.7 Billion
Born   Lexington, Oklahoma    Citizen  US
Selfmade in Oil and Natural Gas Exploration, founded Continental Resource sin 1965 at age 21


Education:  High School 

Here is a picture of Harold Hamm 

Here is my youtube link to Harold Hamm 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvhi1pgq3V8

He was born the youngest of 13 children of poor sharecropper parents 

At age 17, he completed high school and his first job was as a gas station attendant 

The bulk of his fortune was made in Bakken Formation, the largest oil discovery in the past 40  years in the world 

Harold Hamm is the Father of Horizontal Drilling or Fracking 

Harold Hamm is also the Father of America's Energy Renaissance

He almost singlehandedly brought the US to near energy independence and in 2018, US is a net exporter of Natural Gas


In 2014, he survived a lucky divorce

Harold Hamm divorced his wife Sue Ann Arnall of 26 years and got away paying only $975 million, less than 10% of his net worth


Here is a picture of the famous check