Sunday Times Rich List 2015
This article is about the Rich List published in 2015. For general information about the list, see Sunday Times Rich List.
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]
Top 15 fortunes
| Rank | Wealth | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2014 rank |
2014 wealth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
£13,170m |
Leonard Blavatnik |  United States |
Industry | 4 | £11,000m |
2 |
£13,000m |
Sri and Gopi Hinduja |  India |
Industry and Finance | 1 | £11,900m |
| 3 |
£11,000m |
Galen Weston and George G. Weston and family |  Canada |
Retailing | 11 | £7,300m |
| 4 |
£9,800m |
Alisher Usmanov |  Russia |
Mining and Investment | 2 | £10,650m |
| 5 |
£9,700m |
David and Simon Reuben |  United Kingdom |
Property and Internet | 7 | £9,000m |
| 6 |
£9,450m |
Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli |  Switzerland & United Kingdom |
Pharmaceuticals | 5 | £9,750m |
| 7 |
£9,200m |
Lakshmi Mittal and family | India |
Steel | 3 | £10,250m |
8 |
£8,700m |
Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing |  Sweden |
Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak) | 8 | £8,800m |
| 9 |
£8,560m |
The Duke of Westminster | United Kingdom |
Property | 10 | £8,500m |
| 10 |
£7,290m |
Roman Abramovich | Russia |
Oil and industry | 9 | £8,520m |
| 11 |
£7,240m |
John Fredriksen and family |  Cyprus |
Shipping and oil services | 6 | £9,250m |
| 12 |
£7,145m |
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho |  Netherlands[3] |
Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken) | 12 | £6,365m |
| 13 |
£6,500m |
Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay | United Kingdom |
Property, media, retailing | 16 | £6,000m |
| 14 |
£6,400m |
Hans Rausing and family | Sweden |
Packaging (Tetra Pak) | 17 | £5,900m |
| 15 |
£5,935m |
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and family |  Saudi Arabia |
Property, hotels (MBI Group) | 13 | £6,160m |
See also
- Forbes list of billionaires
- Sunday Times Rich List 2007
- Sunday Times Rich List 2008
- Sunday Times Rich List 2009
- Sunday Times Rich List 2010
- Sunday Times Rich List 2011
- Sunday Times Rich List 2012
- Sunday Times Rich List 2013
- Sunday Times Rich List 2014
- Sunday Times Rich List 2016
References
- ↑ "Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ↑ Richest Double wealth at The Guardian. Retrieved 26 April 2015
- ↑ Agustino Fontevecchia. "Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken". Forbes. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
External links
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