Sunday Times Rich List 2015

This article is about the Rich List published in 2015. For general information about the list, see Sunday Times Rich List.

The Sunday Times Rich List 2015 is the 27th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 26 April 2015.^[1]

The Guardian reported that the collective wealth of Britain’s 1,000 richest people had more than doubled in the last 10 years with a combined fortune of just over £547bn and a fortune of £100m was now required to qualify for the list.^[2]

Top 12 fortunes

Rank	Wealth	Name	Citizenship	Source of wealth	2014 rank	2014 wealth
1	£13,170m	Leonard Blavatnik	United States	Industry	4	£11,000m
2	£13,000m	Sri and Gopi Hinduja	India	Industry and Finance	1	£11,900m
3	£11,000m	Galen Weston and George G. Weston and family	Canada	Retailing	11	£7,300m
4	£9,800m	Alisher Usmanov	Russia	Mining and Investment	2	£10,650m
5	£9,700m	David and Simon Reuben	United Kingdom	Property and Internet	7	£9,000m
6	£9,450m	Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli	Switzerland & United Kingdom	Pharmaceuticals	5	£9,750m
7	£9,200m	Lakshmi Mittal and family	India	Steel	3	£10,250m
8	£8,700m	Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing	Sweden	Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak)	8	£8,800m
9	£8,560m	Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster	United Kingdom	Property	10	£8,500m
10	£7,290m	Roman Abramovich	Russia	Oil and industry	9	£8,520m
11	£7,240m	John Fredriksen and family	Cyprus	Shipping and oil services	6	£9,250m
12	£7,145m	Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho	Netherlands^[3]	Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken)	12	£6,365m