The Sunday Times Rich List 2017 is the 29th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 7 May 2017. [1]
The list was edited by Robert Watts who succeeded long-term compiler Philip Beresford this year.
The list was previewed in the previous week's Sunday Times and widely reported by other media. [2]
2017 [1] | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2016 [3] | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rank |
Net worth £ bn |
Rank | Net worth £ bn | |||
01 ![]() |
£16.20 ![]() |
Sri and Gopi Hinduja | ![]() |
Industry and Finance | 2 | £13.00 |
02 ![]() |
£15.98 ![]() |
Leonard Blavatnik | ![]() |
Investment, music and media | 3 | £11.59 |
03 ![]() |
£14.00 ![]() |
David and Simon Reuben | ![]() |
Property and Internet | 1 | £13.10 |
04 ![]() |
£13.22 ![]() |
Lakshmi Mittal and family | ![]() |
Steel | 11 | £7.12 |
05 ![]() |
£11.79 ![]() |
Alisher Usmanov | ![]() |
Mining and Investment | 10 | £7.58 |
06 ![]() |
£11.50 ![]() |
Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli | ![]() ![]() |
Pharmaceuticals | 5 | £9.78 |
07 ![]() |
£10.50 ![]() |
Galen Weston and George G. Weston and family | ![]() ![]() |
Retailing | 4 | £11.00 |
08 ![]() |
£9.66 ![]() |
Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing | ![]() |
Inheritance and investment ( Tetra Pak) | 8 | £8.70 |
09 ![]() |
£9.52 ![]() |
The Duke of Westminster | ![]() |
Property | 6 | £9.35 |
10 ![]() |
£9.30 ![]() |
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho | ![]() |
Inheritance, banking, brewing ( Heineken) | 7 | £9.15 |
11 ![]() |
£9.25 ![]() |
Hans Rausing and family | ![]() |
Packaging ( Tetra Pak) | 9 | £8.60 |
12 ![]() |
£8.06 ![]() |
John Fredriksen and family | ![]() ![]() |
Shipping and oil services | 14 | £6.30 |
13 ![]() |
£8.05 ![]() |
Roman Abramovich | ![]() |
Oil and industry | 13 | £6.40 |
14 ![]() |
£7.80 ![]() |
Sir James Dyson and family | ![]() |
Industry ( Dyson) | 17 | £5.00 |
15 ![]() |
£7.20 ![]() |
Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay | ![]() |
Property, media, internet retailing | 12 | £7.00 |