These are the top 20 richest people in Britain

London has more billionaires than any other city in the world

The Sunday Times Rich List 2015 is out making all of us feel poor again.

Ukrainian billionaire Leonard Blavatnik topped this year’s list with his £13.17bn fortune. The Warner Music owner’s wealth shot up by £3bn in the last year.

The richest 1,000 people on the list together own a staggering £547.126bn – that’s double what they owned in 2005 (£249.6bn). Each person who made it to the top 1,000 is worth over a £100m.

The extent of the billionaires’ affluence is such that they’ve booted the Queen off the list of the top 300 richest people in Britain. This is despite her fortune increasing by £10m to £340m this year.

This year’s list shows that London has more billionaires than any other city in the world. Out of the 117 billionaires, 80 are based in the capital.

Take a look at the Britain’s top 20 richest people, according to The Sunday Times Rich List:

1. Len Blavatnik

Fortune: £13.17bn

 

2. Sri and Gopi Hinduja

Fortune: £13bn

 

3. Galen and George Weston and family

Fortune: £11bn

 

4. Alisher Usmanov

Fortune: £9.8bn

 

5. David and Simon Reuben

Fortune: £9.7bn

 

6. Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli

Fortune: £9.45bn

 

7. Lakshmi Mittal and family

Fortune:  £9.2bn

 

8. Kirsten and Jorn Rausing

Fortune: £8.7bn

 

9. The Duke of Westminster

Fortune: £8.56bn

 

10. Roman Abramovich

Fortune: £7.29bn

 

11. John Fredriksen and family

Fortune: £7.24bn

 

12. Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho

Fortune: £7.145bn

 

13. Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay

Fortune: £6.5bn

 

14. Hans Rausing and family

Fortune: £6.4bn

 

15. Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and family

Fortune: £5.935bn

 

16. Carrie and Francois Perrodo and family

Fortune: £5.8bn

 

17. Nathan Kirsh

Fortune: £5.06bn

 

18. Earl Cadogan and family

Fortune: £4.8bn

 

19. Nicky Oppenheimer and family

Fortune: £4.55bn

 

20. Sir Richard Branson and family

Fortune: £4.1bn

 

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