The Sunday Times Rich List 2015 is the 27th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 26 April 2015.[1]
The Guardian reported that the collective wealth of Britain’s 1,000 richest people had more than doubled in the last 10 years with a combined fortune of just over £547bn and a fortune of £100m was now required to qualify for the list.[2]
This year's list marked the first year Queen Elizabeth II was not among the list's top 300 most wealthy since the list began in 1989.[3] In the Sunday Times Rich List 1989, the Queen had been ranked number one in the United Kingdom, with a net worth of £5.2 billion, which included state assets that were not hers personally,[4] (approximately £16.3 billion in today's value).[5]
| 2015[1] | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2014[6] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Net worth £ bn |
Rank | Net worth £ bn | |||
1 
|
£13.18
|
Leonard Blavatnik |  United States
|
Industry | 4 | £11.00 |
2 
|
£13.00
|
Sri and Gopi Hinduja |  India
|
Industry and finance | 1 | £11.90 |
| 3
|
£11.00
|
Galen Weston and George G. Weston and family |  Canada
|
Retailing | 11 | £7.30 |
| 4
|
£9.80
|
Alisher Usmanov |  Russia
|
Mining and investment | 2 | £10.65 |
| 5
|
£9.70
|
David and Simon Reuben |  United Kingdom
|
Property and internet | 7 | £9.00 |
| 6
|
£9.45
|
Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli |  Switzerland & United Kingdom
|
Pharmaceuticals | 5 | £9.75 |
| 7
|
£9.20
|
Lakshmi Mittal and family | India
|
Steel | 3 | £10.25 |
8 
|
£8.70
|
Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing |  Sweden
|
Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak) | 8 | £8.80 |
| 9
|
£8.56
|
The Duke of Westminster | United Kingdom
|
Property | 10 | £8.50 |
| 10
|
£7.29
|
Roman Abramovich | Russia
|
Oil and industry | 9 | £8.52 |
| 11
|
£7.24
|
John Fredriksen and family |  Cyprus
|
Shipping and oil services | 6 | £9.25 |
| 12
|
£7.15
|
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho |  Netherlands[7]
|
Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken) | 12 | £6.36 |
| 13
|
£6.50
|
Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay | United Kingdom
|
Property, media, retailing | 16 | £6.00 |
| 14
|
£6.40
|
Hans Rausing and family | Sweden
|
Packaging (Tetra Pak) | 17 | £5.90 |
| 15
|
£5.94
|
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and family |  Saudi Arabia
|
Property, hotels (MBI Group) | 13 | £6.16 |
