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 | ![]() |
Industry | 4 | £11.00 |
2 ![]() |
£13.00 ![]() |
Sri and Gopi Hinduja | ![]() |
Industry and finance | 1 | £11.90 |
3 ![]() |
£11.00 ![]() |
Galen Weston and George G. Weston and family | ![]() |
Retailing | 11 | £7.30 |
4 ![]() |
£9.80 ![]() |
Alisher Usmanov | ![]() |
Mining and investment | 2 | £10.65 |
5 ![]() |
£9.70 ![]() |
David and Simon Reuben | ![]() |
Property and internet | 7 | £9.00 |
6 ![]() |
£9.45 ![]() |
Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli | ![]() ![]() |
Pharmaceuticals | 5 | £9.75 |
7 ![]() |
£9.20 ![]() |
Lakshmi Mittal and family | ![]() |
Steel | 3 | £10.25 |
8 ![]() |
£8.70 ![]() |
Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing | ![]() |
Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak) | 8 | £8.80 |
9 ![]() |
£8.56 ![]() |
The Duke of Westminster | ![]() |
Property | 10 | £8.50 |
10 ![]() |
£7.29 ![]() |
Roman Abramovich | ![]() |
Oil and industry | 9 | £8.52 |
11 ![]() |
£7.24 ![]() |
John Fredriksen and family | ![]() |
Shipping and oil services | 6 | £9.25 |
12 ![]() |
£7.15 ![]() |
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho | ![]() |
Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken) | 12 | £6.36 |
13 ![]() |
£6.50 ![]() |
Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay | ![]() |
Property, media, retailing | 16 | £6.00 |
14 ![]() |
£6.40 ![]() |
Hans Rausing and family | ![]() |
Packaging (Tetra Pak) | 17 | £5.90 |
15 ![]() |
£5.94 ![]() |
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and family | ![]() |
Property, hotels (MBI Group) | 13 | £6.16 |
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