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
edit| 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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "Richest Double wealth". The Guardian. United Kingdom. 26 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Rich List: Changing face of wealth". BBC News. 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Beresford, Philip, ed. (18 May 2014). "2014 Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ Fontevecchia, Agustino. "Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken". Forbes. Retrieved 9 October 2015.