The Sunday Times Rich List 2019 is the 31st annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 12 May 2019. [1]
The List was edited by Robert Watts who succeeded long-term compiler Philip Beresford in 2017.
The List was previewed in the previous week's Sunday Times and widely reported by other media. [2] [3]
2019 [1] | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2018 [4] | ||
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Rank | Net worth GB£ bn | Rank | Net worth GB£ bn | |||
01 | £22.00 | Sri and Gopi Hinduja | India | Industry and finance | 2 | £20.64 |
02 | £18.66 | David and Simon Reuben | United Kingdom | Property and Internet | 4 | £15.09 |
03 | £18.15 | Sir Jim Ratcliffe | United Kingdom | Industry (Ineos) | 1 | £21.05 |
04 | £14.37 | Sir Len Blavatnik | United States & United Kingdom | Investment, music and media | 3 | £15.26 |
05 | £12.60 | Sir James Dyson and family | United Kingdom | Industry (Dyson) | 12 | £9.50 |
06 | £12.26 | Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing | Sweden | Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak) | 7 | £10.85 |
07 | £12.00 | Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho | Netherlands | Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken) | 6 | £11.10 |
08 | £11.34 | Alisher Usmanov | Russia | Mining and investment | 8 | £10.56 |
09 | 11.22 | Roman Abramovich | Russia & Israel | Oil and industry | 13 | £9.33 |
10 | £10.90 | Mikhail Fridman | Russia & Israel | Banking | 13 | £10.90 |
11 | £10.67 | Lakshmi Mittal and family | India | Steel | 5 | £14.66 |
12 | £10.57 | Anil Agarwal | India | Mining | 74 | £1.85 |
13 | £10.50 | Guy Weston, Galen Weston Jr., George G. Weston and family | Canada & United Kingdom | Retailing | 9 | £10.05 |
14 | £10.10 | The 7th Duke of Westminster and Grosvenor family | United Kingdom | Inheritance and property | 10 | £9.96 |
15 | £9.71 | Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli | Switzerland & United Kingdom | Pharmaceuticals | 11 | £9.66 |
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