Is Nicole’s Kidman family one of the world’s largest landowners?

Australian farming company Kidman Holdings is the eighth biggest landowner in the world.

The research, published today, ranks the Kidmans as owning a tract of land four-and-a-half times the size of Wales – 24,000,000 acres.

‘At eight on the list of individual and family landowners are the farms and ranches of the Kidmans in Australia, to whom the actress Nicole Kidman is related,’ the survey said.

‘Theirs is the largest private, non-monarchical, non-state landholding on earth.’

Kidman Holdings was founded by Sir Sidney Kidman in the 19th century.
He reputedly started the family firm after running away from home at the age of 13, with his sole possession a one-eyed horse. He died in 1935.

Nicole Kidman was born in Honolulu but grew up in Australia.