The UK's top 100 richest people in 2025
The UK's top 100 richest people in 2025
The Sunday Times Rich List has been released today and for once, the rich are getting poorer
Ed Sheeran is one of the richest young people aged under 40 in the UK
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The Sunday Times Rich List for 2025 has been unveiled today on May 16 unveiling the fortunes of the nation's wealthiest people. This year's list has seen the most significant drop in billionaire numbers in its 37-year history. The list comprises 350 individuals, with the entry threshold stagnating at £350m, indicating a decline in billionaires for the third consecutive year.
The UK's 350 richest people, as per the list, have an astonishing combined wealth of £7772.8bn. Among the 350 are notable figures such as Sir Christopher Nolan, Sir Mick Jagger and Sir Elton John, to name but a few. Despite a dip in their wealth, the Hinduja family, behind the Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group, have topped the Sunday Times Rich List for the fourth year running. Gopi Hinduja and his family have amassed a fortune of £35.3bn.
According to the latest Sunday Times rich list, in Wales, the richest person is a venture capitalist worth £4.4bn.
To make the top five, you would need a fortune of more than £20bn. The wealthiest is Indian-British industrialist Gopi Hinduja, whose family empire grew from his father's textile and trading business and is now valued at £35.3bn. He's followed by the property, private equity and venture capital billionaires Simon and David Reuben, brothers valued at a combined £26.78bn.
Also in the top five is Sir Leonard Blavatnik, a Ukraine-born oligarch who made his fortune in the privatisation of aluminium and oil assets after the collapse of the Soviet Union. His wealth is estimated at £25.73bn. Sir James Dyson, the inventor and designer whose bagless vacuum cleaner transformed the household cleaning industry, is in fourth with a £20.8bn fortune. And Israeli-born Idan Ofer rounds out the top five thanks to his investments in car manufacturing and energy giving him a fortune of £20.12bn.
Gareth Bale has dropped out of the under 40 Rich List. Only one Welsh person made the youth list, the internet retail sports entrepreneur Alex Loven. Others who did make it include singer Dua Lipa with an estimated wealth of £115m, Harry Styles, worth £225m, and Ed Sheeran with £370m.
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Overall, the UK's billionaire population has decreased from 165 to 156 this year. Robert Watts, who orchestrates the Sunday Times Rich List, said: "The Sunday Times Rich List is changing. Our billionaire count is down and the combined wealth of those who feature in our research is falling.
"We are also finding fewer of the world's super rich are coming to live in the UK."
Watts also observed a significant backlash against Rachel Reeves' Treasury department. "This year we were also struck by the strength of criticism for Rachel Reeves's Treasury. We expected the abolition of non-dom status would anger affluent people from overseas.
"But homegrown young tech entrepreneurs and those running centuries-old family firms are also warning of serious consequences to a range of tax changes unveiled in last October's budget.
King Charles has seen a rise in his own wealth to make him wealthier than his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The late Queen was said to be worth £370m in 2022 compared to Charles' current fortune of £640m.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla laugh during a reception to mark the launch of the Queen's reading room medal at Clarence House
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Home Bargains billionaire Tom Morris remains the wealthiest Liverpudlian ever, according to the the Liverpool Echo, with a wealth of £6.99bn, placing him 26th in the UK.
The discount chain Home Bargains, which has brought the Morris family their fortune, started with a single store - originally named Home and Bargain - which opened in Old Swan in 1976. It was founded by then-21 year old Tom, the son of a Scotland Road shopkeeper.
Here's an excerpt from the illustrious top 100 wealthiest individuals in the UK:.
The top 100 richest people in the UK and their net worth:.
1. Gopi Hinduja and family - £35.3 billion.
2. David and Simon Reuben and family - £26.87 billion.
3. Sir Leonard Blavatnik - £25.73 billion.
4. Sir James Dyson and family - £20.8 billion.
5. Idan Ofer - £20.12 billion.
6. Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston and family - £17.75 billion.
7. Sir Jim Ratcliffe - £17.05 billion.
8. Lakshmi Mittal and family - £15.44 billion.
9. John Fredriksen and family - £13.68 billion.
10. Igor and Dmitry Bukhman - £12.54 billion.
11. Kirsten and Jorn Rausing - £12.51 billion.
12. Michael Platt - £12.5 billion.
13. Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho - £10.09 billion.
14. Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family - £9.88 billion.
15. Lord Bamford and family - £9.45 billion.
16. Denise, John and Peter Coates - £9.44 billion.
17. Carrie and Francois Perrodo and family - £9.3 billion.
18. Barnaby and Merlin Swire and family - £9.25 billion.
19. Marit, Lisbet, Sigrid and Hans Rausing - £9.09 billion.
20. Alex Gerko - £8.75 billion.
21. Sir Chris Hohn - £8.145bn.
22. Daniel Kretinsky - £7.79bn.
23. Anders Holch Povlsen - £7.704bn.
24. Moshe Kantor - £7.661bn.
25. Anil Agarwal - £7.5bn.
26. Tom Morris and family - £6.989bn.
27. Nik Storonsky - £6.978bn.
28. Stephen Rubin and family - 6.661bn.
29. Glenn Gordon and family - £6.398bn.
30. Earl Cadogan and family - £6.139bn.
31. Sri Prakash Lohia - £6.028bn.
32. Zuber and Mohsin Issa - £6bn.
33. Joe Lewis - £5.774bn.
34. Ian and Richard Livingstone - £5.732bn.
35. Hilton Schlosberg - £5.457bn.
36. Andy Currie - £5.338bn.
37. John Reece - £5.316bn.
38. Mark Scheinberg - £5.081bn.
39. Teddy Sagi - £5bn.
40. Sir Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman - £4.435bn.
41. Guillaume Pousaz - £4.429bn.
42. Johan Eliasch - £4bn.
43. Leonie Schroder and family - £3.933bn.
44. Laurence and Francois Graff - £3.65bn.
45. Eddie and Sol Zakay - £3.6bn.
46. Ben and Adam Keswick and family - £3.466bn.
47. Mark Pears and family - £3.451bn.
48. Navin and Varsha Engineer - £3.45bn.
49. Baron Howard de Walden and family - £3.244bn.
50. Alan Parker and family - £3.24bn.
51. Yakir Gabay - £3.226bn.
52. Mike Ashley - £3.12bn.
53. John Bloor - £3.101bn.
54. Stephen Fitzpatrick - £3.073bn.
55. Sammy Tak Lee and family - £3.065bn.
56. Clive Calder - £3bn.
57. Fred and Peter Done - £2.915bn.
58. Alki David and the Leventis family - £2.898bn.
59. Bernard Lewis and family - £2.724bn.
60. Sir Anwar Pervez and family - £2.715bn.
61. Alejandro Santo Domingo and Lady Charlotte Wellesley - £2.661bn.
62. Inna Gudavadze - £2.65bn.
62. The Lazari family - £2.65bn.
64. John Christodoulou - £2.6bn.
64. Chris and Sarah Dawson - £2.6bn.
64. Benzion Freshwater and family - £2.6bn.
64. Sir Dennis and Lady Gillings - £2.6bn.
64. Chris Rokos - £2.6bn.
69. Simon, Bobby and Robin Arora - £2.578bn.
70. Geoffrey Warren - £2.552bn.
71. Alan Howard - £2.5bn.
72. Sir Richard Branson and family - £2.419bn.
73. Peter Hargreaves - £2.3bn.
74. Farhad Moshiri - £2.258bn.
75. Sunder Genomal and family - £2.25bn.
76. John Gore - £2.181bn.
77. Henry Moser - £2.155bn.
78. Georg and Emily von Opel - £2.083bn.
79. Jim and Sally Thompson - £2.016bn.
80. Lord Hintze - £2.002bn.
81. Bernie Ecclestone and family - £2bn.
81. Lord Paul and family - £2bn.
81. John Whittaker and family - £2bn.
84. Jasminder Singh and family - £1.981bn.
85. Wafic Said - £1.973bn.
86. Simon Nixon - £1.95bn.
87. Jean-François Decaux and family - £1.922bn.
88. Sir Ian Wood and family - £1.914bn.
89. Tony Langley - £1.9bn.
89. Viscount Portman and family - £1.9bn.
91. Henri Beaufour - £1.844bn.
92. Mark and Lindy O'Hare - £1.836bn.
93. Sir Will Adderley and family - £1.805bn.
94. Peter Harris and family - £1.791bn.
95. Jonas and Mathias Kamprad - £1.774bn.
96. Kristo Kaarmann - £1.741bn.
97. Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and family - £1.707bn.
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98. James and John Martin and family - £1.699bn.
99. Andrey Andreev - £1.694bn.
100. Michael Flacks - £1.681bn.
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