Sunday Times Rich List 2015

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]

Top 15 fortunes

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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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Beresford, Philip, ed. (26 April 2015). "2015 Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Richest Double wealth". The Guardian. United Kingdom. 26 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  3. ^ Helen Nianias (26 April 2015). "The Queen drops off the top end of the Sunday Times Rich List for the first time since its inception". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-25. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Rich List: Changing face of wealth". BBC News. 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  5. ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  6. ^ Beresford, Philip, ed. (18 May 2014). "2014 Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  7. ^ Fontevecchia, Agustino. "Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken". Forbes. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
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