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 £ in today's value).
| 2015 | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2014[5] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | [6] | 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 | ||