 Robert Holmes à Court

Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court (27 July 1937 – 2 September 1990) was a South African-born Australian entrepreneur who became Australia's first billionaire, before dying suddenly of a heart attack in 1990 at the age of 53.A great-great-grandson of William Holmes à Court, 2nd Baron Heytesbury, and a grand-nephew of William Frederick Holmes à Court, 3rd Baron Heytesbury, Holmes à Court was one of the world's most feared corporate raiders through the 1980s, having built his empire single-handedly from virtually nothing to a diversified resources and media group with an estimated value immediately before the 1987 stockmarket crash of about A$2 billion.