Most billionaires these days own art and art world billionaires are increasingly identifying with GOP values. Many of them spent large amounts in order to acquire some of the most important and expensive art work and equally spend as large sums to protect their collection from potential damages as well as from potential theft. The US site artnews.com, published the list with the 200 most important collectors worldwide. This year’s list of TOP 200 Collectors features 5 Greek collectors. The greatest Greek collector is Dimitris Daskalopoulos and we find him in the 36th position of the list with a collection numbering more than 500 projects.

Dimitris Daskalopoulos

Dimitris Daskalopoulos is the most important of the Greek collectors featured in the list as we find him in the 36th place. He made his fortune in the Greek food industry, and over the past two decades has amassed a collection of more then 500 pieces by 170 artists including John Bock, Sarah Lucas, Matthew Barney, Lynda Benglis, and Louise Bourgeois, adding about 20 new works per year. A selection of works from his collection was shown at the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2011. The collector also founded the Athens–based contemporary art foundation NEON, which stages free exhibitions and other cultural events and programs to present contemporary art to a broader audience, both in Greece and internationally. He experienced his first art “epiphany” at the age of 12, in front of a Rubens paintings at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. The first piece he acquired was Rebecca Horn’s The Painting in the Inner Egg (1993), and his favorite piece is Duchamp’s Fountain (1917/1964). He told ARTnews, “I think the role of the collector, which I consider to be that of a temporary caretaker of the physical manifestation of great ideas and artistic creativity, is to think about the present but also to look ahead and see how a collection can be a part of the world in the future.” Speaking of collecting, Daskalopoulos doesn’t limit himself to art—he also collects red wine and 18th-century smoking pipes.

George Economou

George Economou is in 41 place of the list. “I believe in ignoring the trends,” George Economou once told the Wall Street Journal. “People buy with their ears. You should buy with your eyes—which represent your heart—and not with your ears.” Economou has been buying with his eyes since 2001. As a result, he has amassed a large and eclectic collection which, containing everything from Picasso to lesser-known early 20th century German and Austrian artists to public telephones, and in recent years has shifted aesthetic gears to embrace postwar and contemporary art. You won’t find many German Expressionist works at his home, however. “I don’t think,” he once said, “that these are really pictures you want to have in your bedroom.” Instead he houses them at the George Economou Collection, a private museum in Athens; recent exhibitions have featured artists such as Taryn Simon, Rashid Johnson, Paul McCarthy, and Georg Baselitz. In March of 2015, Economou joined the board of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, and is also a board member of the Tate Foundation Board of Trustees.

Dakis Ioannou

Dakis Joannou is in 73rd place. He created his DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in 1982 in Nea Ionia, a northern suburb of Athens. Joannou has told ARTnews that the foundation is the byproduct of his relationship with artists; its first acquisition was One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. JK 241 Series) by Jeff Koons.

Dimitris Mavrommatis

Greek financier Dimitri Mavrommatis is in 102 place. He owns Art Deco furniture, 18th-century Sèvres porcelain, African sculptures, and modernist paintings, and he attributes the diversity of his collection to quitting smoking. When he worked at Salomon Brothers in the ’80s, he would go to the Met instead of having a cigarette on his breaks. There, he saw all kinds of art that piqued his curiosity. When he is not avidly collecting, Mavrommatis serves as a member of the European advisory board of Christie’s and the advisory board of Sotheby’s.

Philip Niarchos

Philip Niarchos is in 109th place. As the heir to the fortune and art collection of his father, the Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos, Philip S. Niarchos is believed to have one of the most valuable art collections in the world. One of his father’s greatest purchases was Pablo Picasso’s Yo, Picasso (1901), which he acquired in 1989 for $47.8 million. Niarchos has also made notable purchases of his own, such as a Vincent van Gogh self-portrait, auctioned at Christie’s in 1989, that cost him $71.5 million. Niarchos is a member of the board of trustees at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and of the International Council at Tate.

Read below the whole list of the 200 collectors:

1.SHELLEY FOX AARONS AND PHILIP E. AARONS
New York – Real estate

2. ROMAN ABRAMOVICH AND DASHA ZHUKOVA
Moscow – Steel, mining, investments, and professional soccer (Chelsea Football Club)

3. RICARD AKAGAWA
São Paulo – Travel and real estate investments

4. PAUL ALLEN
Seattle – Computer software and sports franchises

5. MARÍA ASUNCIÓN ARAMBURUZABALA
Mexico City – Beverages and investments

6. HÉLÈNE AND BERNARD ARNAULT
Paris – Luxury goods (LVMH)

7. LAURA AND JOHN ARNOLD
Houston – Hedge Fund

8. HANS RASMUS ASTRUP
Glasgow, Oslo – Shipping- and finance-related activities

9. CANDACE CARMEL BARASCH
New York – Real estate

10. MARIA ARENA AND WILLIAM BELL JR.
Los Angeles – Television production

11. ERNESTO BERTARELLI
Gstaad, Switzerland – Biotech and investments

12. DEBRA AND LEON BLACK
New York – Investment banking

13. LEN BLAVATNIK
London, New York – Investments (media, industrials, and real estate)

14. NEIL G. BLUHM
Chicago – Real estate

15. KAREN AND CHRISTIAN BOROS
Berlin – Advertising, communication, and publishing

16. IRMA AND NORMAN BRAMAN
Miami Beach – Automobile dealerships

17. UDO BRANDHORST
Munich – Insurance

18. PETER M. BRANT
Greenwich, Connecticut – Newsprint manufacturing

19. EDYTHE L. AND ELI BROAD
Los Angeles – Philanthropy (The Broad Foundation)

20. JAMES KEITH (JK) BROWN AND ERIC DIEFENBACH
New York, Ridgefield, Connecticut – Investments and law

21. BETTINA AND DONALD L. BRYANT JR.
Saint Helena, California, St. Louis, Missouri – Winemaking (Bryant Family Vineyard) and insurance

22. MELVA BUCKSBAUM AND RAYMOND LEARSY
Colorado, Connecticut, New York – Inheritance (shopping malls) and commodities trading

23. JOOP VAN CALDENBORGH
Wassenaar, the Netherlands – Chemical industry (Caldic)

24. EDOUARD CARMIGNAC
Paris – Asset Management

25. TRUDY AND PAUL CEJAS
Miami Beach – Investments (PLC Investments)

26. PIERRE CHEN
Taipei – High-tech industry

27. ADRIAN CHENG
Hong Kong – Retail and real estate (K11 and New World Development)

28. HALIT CINGILLIOGLU
Monaco – Banking

29. KEMAL HAS CINGILLIOGLU
London – Banking

30. ELLA FONTANALS-CISNEROS
Gstaad, Switzerland, Madrid – Investments, real estate, and telecommunications

31. PATRICIA PHELPS DE CISNEROS AND GUSTAVO A. CISNEROS
Caracas, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, New York – Media, entertainment, telecommunications, consumer products, and travel resorts

32. ALEXANDRA AND STEVEN A. COHEN
Greenwich, Connecticut – Investments

33. CHERRYL AND FRANK COHEN
Cheshire, England – Home-improvement stores

34. ISABEL AND AGUSTÍN COPPEL
Mexico City – Retail

35. ROSA AND CARLOS DE LA CRUZ
Key Biscayne, Florida – Coca-Cola bottling in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean

36. DIMITRIS DASKALOPOULOS
Athens – Financial services and investment company (DAMMA Holdings)

37. TIQUI ATENCIO DEMIRDJIAN
London, Venezuela – Investments

38. BETH RUDIN DEWOODY
Los Angeles, New York, West Palm Beach, Florida – Philanthropy and real estate

39. LEONARDO DICAPRIO
Los Angeles – Actor

40. GLENN DUBIN
New York – Asset Management

41. GEORGE ECONOMOU
Athens – Investments and shipping (DryShips)

42. STEFAN T. EDLIS AND H. GAEL NEESON
Aspen, Colorado, Chicago – Plastics manufacturing (retired)

43. CARL GUSTAF EHRNROOTH
Helsinki – Construction and Investments

44. MITZI AND WARREN EISENBERG
Union, New Jersey – Retail (Bed Bath & Beyond)

45. REBECCA AND MARTIN EISENBERG
New York – Retail (Bed Bath & Beyond)

46. LAWRENCE J. ELLISON
Woodside, California – Software

47. CARYL AND ISRAEL ENGLANDER
New York – Hedge Fund

48. SUSAN AND LEONARD FEINSTEIN
Long Island, New York – Retail (Bed Bath & Beyond)

49. FRANK J. FERTITTA III AND LORENZO FERTITTA
Las Vegas – Casinos (Station Casinos) and professional fighting (Ultimate Fighting Championship)

50. MARILYN AND LARRY FIELDS
Chicago – Commodities

51. AMANDA AND GLENN R. FUHRMAN
New York – Investments (MSD Capital)

52. ANTOINE DE GALBERT
Paris – Inheritance

53. CHRISTY AND BILL GAUTREAUX
Kansas City, Kansas or Kansas City, Missouri – Energy (Crestwood Midstream Partners)

54. YASSMIN AND SASAN GHANDEHARI
London – Investments (real estate and industrials)

55. INGVILD GOETZ
Munich – Inheritance (mail-order retail)

56. NOAM GOTTESMAN
New York – Hedge Fund

57. LAURENCE GRAFF
Gstaad, Switzerland – Jewelry

58. KENNETH C. GRIFFIN
Chicago – Hedge Fund

59. FLORENCE AND DANIEL GUERLAIN
Paris – Inheritance (perfume)

60. AGNES GUND
Kent, Connecticut, New York, Peninsula, Ohio – Inheritance

61. NATHALIE AND CHARLES DE GUNZBURG
New York – Investments

62. FRANCESCA VON HABSBURG
Vienna – Philanthropy (founder and chairwoman, TBA21)

63. CHRISTINE AND ANDREW HALL
Palm Beach, Florida – Financial management

64. DIANE AND BRUCE HALLE
Arizona- Tires (discount tire company)

65. PRINCE HANS-ADAM II VON UND ZU LIECHTENSTEIN
Vaduz, Liechtenstein – Inheritance

66. JANINE AND J. TOMILSON HILL
New York – Investment banking

67. MARGUERITE HOFFMAN
Dallas – Private investments

68. MAJA HOFFMANN
Zurich – Inheritance (pharmaceuticals)

69. HONG RA-HEE AND LEE KUN-HEE
Seoul – Electronics (Samsung)

70. SUSAN AND MICHAEL HORT
New Jersey, New York – Printing

71. ALAN HOWARD
London – Hedge Fund

72. FRANK HUANG
Taipei – Computer hardware

73. DAKIS JOANNOU
Athens – Construction

74. EDWARD ““NED”” JOHNSON III
Boston – Finance (Fidelity Investments)

75. VIATCHESLAV KANTOR
London, Moscow – Fertilizer (Acron Group), president of the European Jewish Congress

76. NASSER DAVID KHALILI
London – Real estate and investments

77. ALISON AND PETER W. KLEIN
Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany – Real estate (Peter Klein Real Estate)

78. JEANNE AND MICHAEL L. KLEIN
Austin, Texas, Santa Fe – Oil and gas exploration and production

79. JILL AND PETER KRAUS
Dutchess County, New York, New York – Investment management

80. MARIE-JOSÉE AND HENRY R. KRAVIS
New York – Finance and investments

81. ANANDA KRISHNAN
Kuala Lumpur – Finance and investments

82. GRAZYNA KULCZYK
Poznan, Poland – entrepreneur (Stary Browar Commerce, Art and Business Centre), Investments

83. PIERRE LAGRANGE
London – Hedge Fund

84. BARBARA AND JON LANDAU
New York – Entertainment

85. STEVEN LATNER AND MICHAEL LATNER
Toronto – Real estate

86. JOSEPH LAU
Hong Kong – Real estate

87. THOMAS LAU
Hong Kong – Real estate

88. JO CAROLE AND RONALD S. LAUDER
Palm Beach, Florida, Paris, Wainscott, New York, Washington, D.C. – Cosmetics (Estee Lauder Companies)

89. LEONARD A. LAUDER
New York – Cosmetics (Estee Lauder Companies)

90. BARBARA LEE
Cambridge, Massachusetts – Investments

91. LIZ AND ERIC LEFKOFSKY
Glencoe, Illinois – Venture investments

92. BARBARA AND AARON LEVINE
Washington, D.C. – Law practice

93. MARGARET MUNZER LOEB AND DANIEL S. LOEB
New York – Hedge Fund

94. EUGENIO LÓPEZ ALONSO
Los Angeles, Mexico City – Beverages (Jumex)

95. JHO LOW
Hong Kong – Finance and investments

96. MARAMOTTI FAMILY
Reggio Emilia, Italy – Fashion

97. MAURICE MARCIANO
Beverly Hills, California – Retail (Guess)

98. MARTIN Z. MARGULIES
Miami – Real-estate development

99. DONALD B. MARRON
New York – Private equity

100. DAVID MARTINEZ
London, New York – Investment management (Fintech Advisory)

101. SUSAN AND LARRY MARX
Aspen, Colorado, Marina del Rey, California – Investments and real estate (retired)

102. DIMITRI MAVROMMATIS
Paris – Investment banking and asset management

103. RAYMOND J. MCGUIRE
New York – Finance

104. JOHN S. MIDDLETON
Philadelphia – Manufacturing

105. LEONID MIKHELSON
Moscow – Gas (Novatek)

106. NINA AND FRANK MOORE
New York – Neurosurgery

107. CATRIONA AND SIMON MORDANT
Italy, New York, Sydney, Australia – Investments

108. VICTORIA AND SAMUEL I. NEWHOUSE JR.
New York – Publishing

109. PHILIP S. NIARCHOS
Saint Moritz, Switzerland – Shipping and finance

110. GENNY AND SELMO NISSENBAUM
Rio de Janeiro – Investments and real estate

111. TAKEO OBAYASHI
Tokyo – Construction contracting, engineering, and design

112. DANIEL OCH
Scarsdale, New York – Hedge Fund

113. MAJA OERI AND HANS BODENMANN
Basel, Switzerland – Inheritance (pharmaceuticals)

114. THOMAS OLBRICHT
Berlin – Doctor of medicine

115. ROSE-MARIE AND EIJK VAN OTTERLOO
Naples, Florida – Investment fund

116. MICHAEL OVITZ
Los Angeles – Technology, finance, and investments

117. BERNARDO PAZ
Brumadinho, Brazil – Mining

118. ANDREA AND JOSÉ OLYMPIO PEREIRA
São Paulo – Investment banking

119. MARSHA AND JEFFREY PERELMAN
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania – Manufacturing

120. RONALD O. PERELMAN
New York – Finance

121. LISA AND RICHARD PERRY
New York – Fashion and investments

122. AMY AND JOHN PHELAN
Aspen, Colorado, New York – Investments (MSD Capital)

123. FRANÇOIS PINAULT
Paris – Luxury goods (Kering) and auctions (Christie’s)

124. VICTOR PINCHUK
Kiev, Ukraine – Investment Advisory group (EastOne Group)

125. SABINE AND HASSO PLATTNER
Heidelberg, Germany – Software (SAP AG Software Company)

126. MIUCCIA PRADA AND PATRIZIO BERTELLI
Milan – Fashion

127. VÉRONIQUE AND LOUIS-ANTOINE PRAT
Paris – Inheritance (manufacturing)

128. LISA AND JOHN PRITZKER
San Francisco – Hotels and investments

129. PENNY PRITZKER AND BRYAN TRAUBERT
Chicago – Real estate, hotels (Hyatt), and financial information

130. SULTAN SOOUD AL QASSEMI
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates – entrepreneur, Inheritance

131. QIAO ZHIBING
Shanghai – Entertainment industry

132. CINDY AND HOWARD RACHOFSKY
Dallas – Investments

133. EMILY AND MITCHELL RALES
New York, Potomac, Maryland – Tool industry

134. STEVEN RALES
Washington, D.C. – Tool industry

135. PATRIZIA SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO
Turin, Italy – Industrial manufacturing

136. BOB RENNIE
Vancouver, British Columbia – Real estate

137. LOUISE AND LEONARD RIGGIO
Bridgehampton, New York, Palm Beach, Florida – Retail (Barnes & Noble)

138. ELLEN AND MICHAEL RINGIER
Zurich – Publishing

139. LINNEA CONRAD ROBERTS AND GEORGE ROBERTS
Atherton, California – Finance (KKR)

140. ABY J. ROSEN
Southampton, New York – Real estate

141. HILARY AND WILBUR L. ROSS JR.
Palm Beach, Florida – Author, Private equity (distressed companies)

142. ERIC DE ROTHSCHILD
Paris, Pauillac, France – Banking

143. RUBELL FAMILY
Miami – Real estate and hotels

144. BETTY AND ISAAC RUDMAN
Dominican Republic – Imports and manufacturing (home appliances)

145. DMITRY RYBOLOVLEV
Moscow – Fertilizer

146. CHARLES SAATCHI
London – Advertising

147. JOSEPH SAFRA
Geneva, New York, São Paulo – Banking

148. LILY SAFRA
Geneva – Inheritance

149. SAINSBURY FAMILY
London – Supermarkets

150. ELHAM AND TONY SALAMÉ
Beirut, Milan – Fashion retailing (Aishti)

151. NADIA AND RAJEEB SAMDANI
Dhaka, Bangladesh – Conglomerate interests (Golden Harvest Group) and philanthropy (Samdani Art Foundation)

152. MARIEKE AND PIETER SANDERS
Haarlem, the Netherlands – Corporate-law practice

153. VICKI AND ROGER SANT
New York, Washington, D.C. – Energy

154. FAYEZ SAROFIM
Houston – Investment counseling

155. LOUISA STUDE SAROFIM
Houston, Santa Fe – Investments

156. TATSUMI SATO
Hiroshima, Japan – Manufacturing (radiators)

157. CHRISTIANE SCHAUFLER-MÜNCH AND PETER SCHAUFLER
Sindelfingen, Germany -Industry (refrigeration compressors)

158. CHARA SCHREYER
Los Angeles, San Francisco – Real estate

159. HELEN AND CHARLES SCHWAB
Atherton, California, San Francisco – Investment firm

160. MARIANNE AND ALAN SCHWARTZ
Birmingham, Michigan – Law practice

161. ULI SIGG
Mauensee, Switzerland – Media

162. PETER SIMON
London – Retail (Monsoon)

163. ELIZABETH AND FREDERICK SINGER
Great Falls, Virginia – Internet education

164. CARLOS SLIM HELÚ
Mexico City – Telecommunications, finance, and retail

165. ERIC SMIDT
Los Angeles – Tool industry

166. JERRY I. SPEYER AND KATHERINE G. FARLEY
New York – Real estate

167. SUSANA AND RICARDO STEINBRUCH
São Paulo – Textiles (Vicunha Textil)

168. JUDY AND MICHAEL H. STEINHARDT
Mount Kisco, New York – Investment firm

169. GAYLE AND PAUL STOFFEL
Aspen, Colorado, Dallas, Palm Springs, California – Investments

170. NORAH AND NORMAN STONE
California, Napa Valley, California, San Francisco – Psychology, law (retired), and private investments

171. JULIA STOSCHEK
Düsseldorf, Germany – Industry (automotive supplier)

172. IRIS AND MATTHEW STRAUSS
Rancho Santa Fe, California – Private real-estate investments (M.C. Strauss Company)

173. SYLVIA AND ULRICH STRÖHER
Darmstadt, Germany – Real estate, financial assets, and private equity

174. SUH KYUNG-BAE
Seoul – Cosmetics (AmorePacific)

175. BRETT AND DANIEL S. SUNDHEIM
New York – Hedge fund (Viking Global Investors)

176. LISA AND STEVE TANANBAUM
West Palm Beach, Florida, Westchester, New York – Asset Management

177. LAUREN AND BENEDIKT TASCHEN
Berlin, Los Angeles – Publishing

178. BUDI TEK
Jakarta, Indonesia, Shanghai – Philanthropy (Yuz Foundation and Yuz Museum)

179. SHEIKH HAMAD BIN JASSIM BIN JABER AL THANI
Doha, Qatar, London, New York – Inheritance and investments (Qatar Investment Authority)

180. SHEIKHA AL MAYASSA BINT HAMAD BIN KHALIFA AL THANI
Doha, Qatar – Inheritance

181. DAVID THOMSON
Toronto – Media

182. JANE AND ROBERT TOLL
Bucks County, Pennsylvania – Luxury homes (Toll Brothers)

183. ROBBI AND BRUCE E. TOLL
Rydal, Pennsylvania – Luxury homes (Toll Brothers)

184. MYRIAM AND GUY ULLENS
Verbier, Switzerland – Private equity and food industry

185. DEAN VALENTINE
Beverly Hills, California – Media entrepreneur

186. WALTER VANHAERENTS
Brussels – Real estate and construction

187. ALICE WALTON
Fort Worth – Inheritance (Wal-Mart)

188. WANG JIANLIN
Beijing – Real estate

189. WANG WEI AND LIU YIQIAN
Shanghai – Investments

190. WANG ZHONGJUN
Beijing – Film production (Huayi Brothers Media)

191. JUTTA AND SIEGFRIED WEISHAUPT
Laupheim, Germany – Industry (fuel technology)

192. ALAIN WERTHEIMER
New York – Fashion

193. ABIGAIL AND LESLIE H. WEXNER
Columbus, Ohio – Retail (L brands)

194. REINHOLD WÜRTH
Niedernhall, Germany, Salzburg, Austria – Industry (hardware)

195. ELAINE WYNN
Las Vegas – Hotels and casinos

196. STEPHEN A. WYNN
Las Vegas – Casino resorts

197. TADASHI YANAI
Tokyo – Fashion retailing (Uniqlo)

198. YANG BIN
Beijing – Automobile dealerships

199. ANITA AND POJU ZABLUDOWICZ
London – Technology and real estate

200. JOCHEN ZEITZ
Cape Town – Investments