Sunday Times Rich List 2015
Annually published UK list
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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 £13.8 billion in today's value).[5]
Top 15 fortunes
| 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 |