The Sunday Times Rich List 2016 is the 28th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 24 April 2016.[1] Long-term compiler Philip Beresford was joined by Robert Watts for the 2016 list.

An estimated wealth of £103 million is required for entry in the 2016 list. Newly added to the list for the first time, and ranked in the top 100, are John Grayken, Christo Wiese, Sunil Vaswani & Family, and Martin Moller.

Top 20 fortunes

2016[1] Name Citizenship Source of wealth 2015[2]
Rank Net worth
£ bn 		Rank Net worth
£ bn
1 Increase £13.10 Increase David and Simon Reuben  United Kingdom Property and Internet 5 £9.70
2 Steady £13.00 Steady Sri and Gopi Hinduja  India Industry and Finance 2 £13.00
3 Decrease £11.59 Decrease Leonard Blavatnik  United States Investment, music and media 1 £13.17
4 Decrease £11.00 Steady Galen Weston and George G. Weston and family  Canada &  United Kingdom Retailing 3 £11.00
5 Increase £9.78 Increase Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli  Switzerland &  United Kingdom Pharmaceuticals 6 £9.45
6 Increase £9.35 Increase The Duke of Westminster  United Kingdom Property 9 £8.56
7 Increase £9.15 Increase Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho  Netherlands[3] Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken) 12 £7.15
8 Steady £8.70 Steady Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing  Sweden Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak) 8 £8.70
9 Increase £8.60 Increase Hans Rausing and family  Sweden Packaging (Tetra Pak) 14 £6.40
10 Decrease £7.58 Decrease Alisher Usmanov  Russia Mining and Investment 4 £9.80
11 Decrease £7.12 Decrease Lakshmi Mittal and family  India Steel 7 £9.20
12 Increase £7.00 Increase Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay  United Kingdom Property, media, internet retailing 13 £6.50
13 Decrease £6.40 Decrease Roman Abramovich  Russia Oil and industry 10 £7.29
14 Decrease £6.30 Decrease John Fredriksen and family  Cyprus &  Norway Shipping and oil services 11 £7.24
15 Steady £5.84 Decrease Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and family  Saudi Arabia Hotels, food and industry (MBI Group) 15 £5.94
16 Increase £5.70 Increase Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan and family  United Kingdom Property 18 £4.80
17 Increase £5.00 Increase Sir James Dyson  United Kingdom Industry (Dyson) 22 £3.50
18 Increase £4.83 Increase Nicky Oppenheimer  South Africa Diamonds (De Beers) 19 £4.55
19 Increase £4.52 Increase Sir Richard Branson  United Kingdom Industry (Virgin Group) 20 £4.10
20 £4.41 John Grayken  Ireland Property and Investment (Lone Star Funds) - -

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Beresford, Philip; Watts, Robert, eds. (24 April 2016). "Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  2. ^ Beresford, Philip, ed. (April 2015). "Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  3. ^ Fontevecchia, Agustino. "Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken". Forbes. Retrieved 9 October 2015.

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