The Sunday Times Rich List 2021 is the 33rd annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times online on 21 May 2021. [1]
The List was edited by Robert Watts who succeeded long-term compiler Philip Beresford in 2017. He noted that "the fact many of the super-rich grew so much wealthier at a time when thousands of us have buried loved ones and millions of us worried for our livelihoods makes this a very unsettling boom."
2021 [1] | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2020 [4] | ||
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Rank | Net worth £ bn | Rank | Net worth £ bn | |||
01 | £23.00 | Sir Len Blavatnik | United States & United Kingdom | Investment, music and media | 4 | £15.781 |
02 | £21.465 | David and Simon Reuben | United Kingdom | Property and Internet | 2= | £16.00 |
03 | £17.00 | Sri and Gopi Hinduja | India | Industry and finance | 2= | £16.00 |
04 | £16.30 | Sir James Dyson and family | United Kingdom | Industry (Dyson) | 1 | £16.20 |
05 | £14.68 | Lakshmi Mittal and family | India | Steel | 19 | £6.781 |
06 | £13.406 | Alisher Usmanov | Russia | Mining and investment | 7 | £11.68 |
07 | £13.00 | Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing | Sweden | Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak) | 6 | £12.10 |
08 | £12.101 | Roman Abramovich | Russia & Israel | Oil and industry | 12 | £10.156 |
09 | £12.013 | Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho | Netherlands | Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken) | 9 | £10.30 |
10 | £11.00 | Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston and family | Canada & United Kingdom | Retailing | 8 | £10.53 |
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