This is a list of British billionaires by net worth, based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled by Bloomberg , [1] The Sunday Times, [2] and by Forbes magazine. [3] The lists are incomplete.
World rank | Name | Net worth (USD) | Source of wealth |
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54 | Sir James Dyson | 27.3 billion | Consumer |
61 | Sir Jim Ratcliffe | 25 billion | Industrial |
91 | Hinduja family | 15 billion | Diversified |
171 | Duke of Westminster | 13.2 billion | Real Estate |
242 | Michael Platt | 9.91 billion | Finance |
247 | Denise Coates | 9.75 billion | Gambling |
288 | Lord Bamford & family | 8.73 billion | Industrial |
330 | Sir Richard Branson | 7.9 billion | Diversified |
339 | Andrew Currie | 7.7 billion | Industrial |
340 | John Reece | 7.65 billion | |
367 | Earl Cadogan | 7.09 billion | Real Estate |
398 | Joe Lewis | 6.64 billion | Diversified |
410 | Simon Reuben | 6.43 billion | |
411 | David Reuben | 6.43 billion | |
448 | Laurence Graff | 6.04 billion | Consumer |
481 | Clive Calder | 5.65 billion | Entertainment |
497 | Tom Morris | 5.51 billion | Retail |
Net worth (GBP) | Source of wealth | |
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Hinduja family | 22 billion | Industry and finance |
Jim Ratcliffe | 18.2 billion | Chemicals |
Leonard Blavatnik | 14.4 billion | Investment, music and media |
James Dyson and family | 12.6 billion | Household goods and technology |
Kirsten Rausing and Jorn Rausing | 12.3 billion | Inheritance and investment |
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken | 12 billion | Inheritance, brewing and banking |
Alisher Usmanov | 11.3 billion | Mining and investment |
Roman Abramovich | 11.2 billion | Oil and industry |
Mikhail Fridman | 10.9 billion | Industry |
World rank | Name | Net worth (USD) | Source of wealth |
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18 | Jim Ratcliffe | 32.0 billion | oil and chemicals |
64 | Hinduja family | 19.8 billion | diversified |
65 | David and Simon Reuben | 15.3 billion | investments, real estate |
250 | Ian and Richard Livingstone | 5.8 billion | real estate |
269 | Joe Lewis | 5.6 billion | investments |
315 | Bruno Schroder | 5.1 billion | banking |
324 | David and Frederick Barclay | 5.0 billion | media, retail |
324 | Richard Branson | 5.1 billion | Virgin Group Ltd |
339 | Philip and Tina Green | 4.8 billion | fashion retail |
359 | Laurence Graff | 4.6 billion | diamond jewellery |
367 | Clive Calder | 4.5 billion | record label |
367 | Michael Platt | 4.5 billion | hedge funds |
414 | James Dyson | 4.2 billion | vacuums |
522 | Denise Coates | 3.6 billion | online gambling |
660 | Andrew Currie | 3.0 billion | chemicals |
660 | John Reece | 3.0 billion | chemicals |
693 | Anthony Bamford | 2.9 billion | construction equipment |
693 | Bernie Ecclestone | 2.9 billion | Formula One |
717 | Peter Hargreaves | 2.8 billion | financial services |
782 | Michael Ashley | 2.6 billion | sports retailing |
782 | Robert Miller | 2.6 billion | retail |
867 | Sunil Vaswani | 2.4 billion | diversified |
896 | Bernard Lewis | 2.3 billion | fashion retailer |
896 | Farhad Moshiri | 2.3 billion | diversified |
939 | John Caudwell | 2.2 billion | mobile phones |
973 | Christopher Hohn | 2.1 billion | hedge fund |
1030 | Maritsa Lazari | 2.0 billion | real estate |
1030 | Tom Morris | 2.0 billion | retail |
1098 | Eddie and Sol Zakay | 1.9 billion | real estate |
1161 | John Coates | 1.8 billion | online gambling |
1161 | Mark Coombs | 1.8 billion | finance |
1161 | Stephen Rubin | 1.8 billion | sports apparel |
1290 | Lord Ashcroft | 1.6 billion | security |
1376 | Charles Dunstone | 1.5 billion | mobile phones |
1376 | David Harding | 1.5 billion | finance |
1376 | Anthony Langley | 1.5 billion | manufacturing |
1376 | Hilton Schlosberg | 1.5 billion | energy drinks |
1376 | Ian Wood | 1.5 billion | energy services |
1468 | Alex Beard | 1.4 billion | mining, commodities |
1468 | Richard Desmond | 1.4 billion | publishing |
1468 | Alan Howard | 1.4 billion | hedge funds |
1468 | John Whittaker | 1.4 billion | real estate |
1567 | Jasminder Singh | 1.3 billion | hotels |
1678 | Raghuvinder Kataria | 1.2 billion | diversified |
1795 | Ayman Asfari | 1.1 billion | oil services |
1795 | Arnold Clark | 1.1 billion | Arnold Clark Automobiles |
1795 | Mark Dixon | 1.1 billion | office real estate |
1795 | Mohammed Ibrahim | 1.1 billion | communications |
1795 | Kenneth Lo | 1.1 billion | textiles |
1940 | John Bloor | 1.0 billion | real estate, manufacturing |
1940 | Saket Burman | 1.0 billion | consumer goods |
1940 | Philip Day | 1.0 billion | clothing retail |
1940 | David McMurtry | 1.0 billion | manufacturing |
1940 | Simon Nixon | 1.0 billion | price comparison website |
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