Sunday Times Rich List 2012
This article is about the Rich List published in 2012. For general information about the list, see Sunday Times Rich List.
The Sunday Times Rich List 2012 is the 24th annual survey of the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 29 April 2012.[1]
Top 12 fortunes
| Rank | Wealth | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2011 rank |
2011 wealth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
£12,700m |
Lakshmi Mittal and family |  India |
Steel | 1 | £17,500m |
| 2 |
£12,315m |
Alisher Usmanov |  Russia |
Mining and Investment | 2 | £12,400m |
| 3 |
£9,500m |
Roman Abramovich | Russia |
Oil and industry | 3 | £7,400m |
| 4 |
£8,600m |
Sri and Gopi Hinduja | India |
Industry and Finance | 9 | £6,000m |
| 5 |
£7,580m |
Leonard Blavatnik |  United States |
Industry | 6 | £6,237m |
| 6 |
£7,400m |
Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli |  Switzerland &  United Kingdom |
Pharmaceuticals | 5 | £6,870m |
| 7 |
£7,350m |
Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster | United Kingdom |
Inheritance, Property | 4 | £7,000m |
| 8 |
£7,083m |
David and Simon Reuben | United Kingdom |
Property and Internet | 8 | £6,176m |
| 9 |
£6,600m |
John Fredriksen and family |  Cyprus |
Shipping and oil services | 7 | £6,200m |
| 10 |
£5,900m |
Galen Weston, George Weston and family |  Canada |
Retailing | 9 | £6,000m |
| 11 |
£5,490m |
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel Carvalho |  Netherlands |
Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken) | 11 | £5,400m |
| 12 |
£4,300m | Hans Rausing and family |  Sweden |
Packaging | 13 | £4,200m |
| 13 | £4,100m | Joseph Lau |  China |
Property | ||
| 14 | £4,300m | Nicky Oppenheimer |  South Africa |
Mining, Diamonds | ||
| 15 | £3,900m | Kirsten & Jörn Rausing | Sweden |
Inheritance, Investment | ||
| 16 | £3,400m | Sir Richard Branson | United Kingdom |
Internet, Transport, Finance | ||
| 17 | £3,300m | Sir Philip and Lady Green | United Kingdom |
Retailing |
See also
- Forbes list of billionaires
- Sunday Times Rich List 2007
- Sunday Times Rich List 2008
- Sunday Times Rich List 2009
- Sunday Times Rich List 2010
- Sunday Times Rich List 2011
- Sunday Times Rich List 2013
- Sunday Times Rich List 2014
- Sunday Times Rich List 2015