Sunday Times Rich List 2016

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The Sunday Times Rich List 2016 is the 28th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 24 April 2016. [1] Long-term compiler Philip Beresford was joined by Robert Watts for the 2016 list.

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An estimated wealth of £103 million is required for entry in the 2016 list. Newly added to the list for the first time, and ranked in the top 100, are John Grayken, Christo Wiese, Sunil Vaswani & family, and Martin Moller.

Top 20 fortunes

2016 [1] NameCitizenshipSource of wealth2015 [2]
Rank Net worth
£ bn
RankNet worth
£ bn
1 Increase2.svg£13.10 Increase2.svg David and Simon Reuben Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Property and Internet5£9.70
2 Steady2.svg£13.00 Steady2.svg Sri and Gopi Hinduja Flag of India.svg  India Industry and Finance2£13.00
3 Decrease2.svg£11.59 Decrease2.svg Leonard Blavatnik Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Investment, music and media1£13.17
4 Decrease2.svg£11.00 Steady2.svg Galen Weston and George G. Weston and familyFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada & Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Retailing3£11.00
5 Increase2.svg£9.78 Increase2.svg Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland & Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Pharmaceuticals6£9.45
6 Increase2.svg£9.35 Increase2.svg The Duke of Westminster Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Property9£8.56
7 Increase2.svg£9.15 Increase2.svg Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands [3] Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken)12£7.15
8 Steady2.svg£8.70 Steady2.svg Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak)8£8.70
9 Increase2.svg£8.60 Increase2.svg Hans Rausing and familyFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Packaging (Tetra Pak)14£6.40
10 Decrease2.svg£7.58 Decrease2.svg Alisher Usmanov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Mining and Investment4£9.80
11 Decrease2.svg£7.12 Decrease2.svg Lakshmi Mittal and familyFlag of India.svg  India Steel7£9.20
12 Increase2.svg£7.00 Increase2.svg Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Property, media, internet retailing13£6.50
13 Decrease2.svg£6.40 Decrease2.svg Roman Abramovich Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Oil and industry10£7.29
14 Decrease2.svg£6.30 Decrease2.svg John Fredriksen and familyFlag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus & Flag of Norway.svg  Norway Shipping and oil services11£7.24
15 Steady2.svg£5.84 Decrease2.svg Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and familyFlag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia Hotels, food and industry (MBI Group)15£5.94
16 Increase2.svg£5.70 Increase2.svg Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan and familyFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Property18£4.80
17 Increase2.svg£5.00 Increase2.svg Sir James Dyson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Industry (Dyson)22£3.50
18 Increase2.svg£4.83 Increase2.svg Nicky Oppenheimer Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa Diamonds (De Beers)19£4.55
19 Increase2.svg£4.52 Increase2.svg Sir Richard Branson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Industry (Virgin Group)20£4.10
20£4.41 John Grayken Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Property and Investment (Lone Star Funds)--

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References

  1. 1 2 Beresford, Philip; Watts, Robert, eds. (24 April 2016). "Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  2. Beresford, Philip, ed. (April 2015). "Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  3. Fontevecchia, Agustino. "Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken". Forbes . Retrieved 9 October 2015.