The Sunday Times Rich List 2018 is the 30th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 13 May 2018.[1]
The list was edited by Robert Watts who succeeded long-term compiler Philip Beresford last year.
The list was previewed in the previous week's Sunday Times and widely reported by other media.[2]
2018[3] | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2017[4] | |||
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Rank | Net worth bn | Rank | Net worth bn | ||||
01 | £21.05 | Sir Jim Ratcliffe | Industry (Ineos) | 18 | £5.75 | ||
02 | £20.64 | Sri and Gopi Hinduja | Industry and finance | 1 | £16.20 | ||
03 | £15.26 | Sir Len Blavatnik | Investment, music and media | 2 | £15.98 | ||
04 | £15.09 | David and Simon Reuben | Property and Internet | 3 | £14.00 | ||
05 | £14.66 | Lakshmi Mittal and family | Steel | 4 | £13.22 | ||
06 | £11.10 | Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho | Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken) | 10 | £9.30 | ||
07 | £10.84 | Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing | Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak) | 8 | £9.66 | ||
08 | £10.55 | Alisher Usmanov | Mining and investment | 5 | £11.79 | ||
09 | £10.05 | Galen Weston and George G. Weston and family | & | Retailing | 7 | £10.50 | |
10 | £9.96 | The 7th Duke of Westminster | Inheritance and property | 9 | £9.52 | ||
11 | £9.66 | Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli | & | Pharmaceuticals | 6 | £11.50 | |
12 | £9.50 | Sir James Dyson and family | Industry (Dyson) | 14 | £7.80 |