''Sunday Times'' Rich List 2017

The Sunday Times Rich List 2017 is the 29th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 7 May 2017.[1]

The List was edited by Robert Watts who succeeded long-term compiler Philip Beresford this year.

The list was previewed in the previous week's Sunday Times and widely reported by other media.[2]

Top 15 fortunes

2017[1] Name Citizenship Source of wealth 2016[3]
Rank Net worth
GB£ bn		 Rank Net worth
GB£ bn
01 Increase £16.20 Increase Sri and Gopi Hinduja  United Kingdom[4][5] Industry and Finance 2 £13.00
02 Increase £15.98 Increase Leonard Blavatnik  United States Investment, music and media 3 £11.59
03 Decrease £14.00 Increase David and Simon Reuben  United Kingdom Property and Internet 1 £13.10
04 Increase £13.22 Increase Lakshmi Mittal and family  India Steel 11 £7.12
05 Increase £11.79 Increase Alisher Usmanov  Russia Mining and Investment 10 £7.58
06 Decrease £11.50 Increase Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli   Switzerland &  United Kingdom Pharmaceuticals 5 £9.78
07 Decrease £10.50 Decrease Galen Weston and George G. Weston and family  Canada &  United Kingdom Retailing 4 £11.00
08 Steady £9.66 Increase Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing  Sweden Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak) 8 £8.70
09 Decrease £9.52 Increase The Duke of Westminster  United Kingdom Property 6 £9.35
10 Decrease £9.30 Increase Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho  Netherlands Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken) 7 £9.15
11 Decrease £9.25 Increase Hans Rausing and family  Sweden Packaging (Tetra Pak) 9 £8.60
12 Increase £8.06 Increase John Fredriksen and family  Cyprus &  Norway Shipping and oil services 14 £6.30
13 Steady £8.05 Increase Roman Abramovich  Russia Oil and industry 13 £6.40
14 Increase £7.80 Increase Sir James Dyson and family  United Kingdom Industry (Dyson) 17 £5.00
15 Decrease £7.20 Increase Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay  United Kingdom Property, media, internet retailing 12 £7.00

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Watts, Robert, ed. (7 May 2017). "Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  2. ↑ Independent: "Sunday Times Rich List: UK's 10 richest couples revealed"
  3. ↑ Beresford, Philip; Watts, Robert, eds. (24 April 2016). "Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑
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