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Sunday Times Rich List 2015

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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 Increase £13.18 Increase Leonard Blavatnik  United States Industry 4 £11.00
2 Decrease £13.00 Increase Sri and Gopi Hinduja  India Industry and finance 1 £11.90
3 Increase £11.00 Increase Galen Weston and George G. Weston and family  Canada Retailing 11 £7.30
4 Decrease £9.80 Decrease Alisher Usmanov  Russia Mining and investment 2 £10.65
5 Increase £9.70 Increase David and Simon Reuben  United Kingdom Property and internet 7 £9.00
6 Decrease £9.45 Decrease Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli  Switzerland &  United Kingdom Pharmaceuticals 5 £9.75
7 Decrease £9.20 Decrease Lakshmi Mittal and family  India Steel 3 £10.25
8 Steady £8.70 Decrease Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing  Sweden Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak) 8 £8.80
9 Increase £8.56 Increase The Duke of Westminster  United Kingdom Property 10 £8.50
10 Decrease £7.29 Decrease Roman Abramovich  Russia Oil and industry 9 £8.52
11 Decrease £7.24 Decrease John Fredriksen and family  Cyprus Shipping and oil services 6 £9.25
12 Steady £7.15 Increase Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho  Netherlands[7] Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken) 12 £6.36
13 Increase £6.50 Increase Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay  United Kingdom Property, media, retailing 16 £6.00
14 Increase £6.40 Increase Hans Rausing and family  Sweden Packaging (Tetra Pak) 17 £5.90
15 Decrease £5.94 Decrease 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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