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.
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.
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. 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, (approximately £ in today's value).
Top 15 fortunes 2015NameCitizenshipSource of wealth2014RankNet worth bn Rank Net worth bn1 £13.18 Leonard Blavatnik Industry4£11.002 £13.00 Sri and Gopi Hinduja Industry and finance1£11.903 £11.00 Galen Weston and George G. Weston and family Retailing11£7.304 £9.80 Alisher Usmanov Mining and investment2£10.655 £9.70 David and Simon Reuben Property and internet7£9.006 £9.45 Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli & Pharmaceuticals5£9.757 £9.20 Lakshmi Mittal and family Steel3£10.258 £8.70 Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak)8£8.809 £8.56 The Duke of Westminster Property10£8.5010 £7.29 Roman Abramovich Oil and industry9£8.5211 £7.24 John Fredriksen and family Shipping and oil services6£9.2512 £7.15 Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken)12£6.3613 £6.50 Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay Property, media, retailing16£6.0014 £6.40 Hans Rausing and family Packaging (Tetra Pak)17£5.9015 £5.94 Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and family Property, hotels (MBI Group)13£6.16
See also Forbes list of billionaires
References
External links Sunday Times Rich List