The Sunday Times Rich List 2009 was published on 26 April 2009.[1]
Since 1989 the UK national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times (sister paper to The Times) has published an annual magazine supplement to the newspaper called the Sunday Times Rich List. The list is based on an estimate of the minimum wealth of the richest 1,000 people or families in the United Kingdom as of January of that year, and is compiled by Dr Philip Beresford.
This article is concerned with the 2009 list only. For discussion of the lists generally, see Sunday Times Rich List.
A separate section lists the 250 richest Irish, including both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
As in previous years, the List was widely previewed in the UK media and extensively covered on the day of its publication.[2][3]
The top three places in the List were unchanged from the previous year. The Hinduja brothers (ranked 4th in 2008) and Leonard Blavatnik (ranked 11th in 2008) were removed from the list.
Among the most notable changes were the loss of £155 billion from the collective fortunes of Britain's richest 1,000 people, equivalent to more than a third of their estimated wealth, as a consequence of the recession.[1]
Contents |
| Rank | Wealth | Name | Source of wealth | 2008 Rank |
2008 Wealth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £10,800m | Lakshmi Mittal and family | Steel | 1 | £27,700m |
| 2 | £7,000m | Roman Abramovich | Oil, industry, owner of Chelsea FC | 2 | £11,700m |
| 3 | £6,500m | Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster | Property | 3 | £7,000m |
| 4 | £5,000m | Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli | Pharmaceuticals | 6 | £5,650m |
| 5 | £4,000m | Hans Rausing | Packaging | 7 | £5,400m |
| 6 | £3,830m | Sir Philip Green and Lady Green | Retailing | 9 | £4,330m |
| 7 | £2,960m | Charlene Carvalho and Michel Carvalho | Inheritance, brewing, banking (Heineken) | 13 | £3,630m |
| 8 | £2,677m | Sammy Ofer and Eyal Ofer | Shipping, Property | 15 | £3,336m |
| 9= | £2,500m | John Fredriksen | Shipping | 8 | £4,650m |
| 9= | £2,500m | Joe Lewis | Foreign exchange, investment | 19 | £2,800m |
| 9= | £2,500m | Kirsten Rausing and Jorn Rausing | Inheritance, investment (Tetra Pak) | 14 | £3,500m |
| 9= | £2,500m | David and Simon Reuben | Property | 10 | £4,300m |
| 13 | £2,295m | Seán Quinn and family | Quarrying, property, insurance | 12 | £3,730m |
| 14 | £2,000m | Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan and family | Property | 17 | £2,930m |
| 15 | £1,800m | Alan Parker | Duty-free shopping | 28 | £2,086m |
| 16 | £1,610m | Sir Ken Morrison and family | Supermarket | 52 | £1,450m |
| 17 | £1,550m | Roddie Fleming and family | Finance | 35 | £1,900m |
| 18= | £1,500m | Alisher Usmanov | Steel, Mines | 5 | £5,726m |
| 18= | £1,500m | Eddie and Sol Zakay | Property | 47= | £1,500m |
| 18= | £1,500m | Mahdi Al Tajir | Metals, Oil, Water | 26 | £2,200m |
| 18= | £1,500m | Mark Pears and family | Property | 47= | £1,500m |
| 18= | £1,500m | Nicky Oppenheimer | Diamonds, Mining | 18 | £2,870m |
| 18= | £1,500m | Poju Zabludowicz | Property, Hotels | 31 | £2,000m |
| 24 | £1,466m | Bernie Ecclestone | Motor racing | 24 | £2,400m |
| 25= | £1,400m | John Caudwell | Mobile phones | 44 | £1,600m |
| 25= | £1,400m | Sonja Zuckerman | Property | 82 | £1,100m |