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
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2. Sri and Gopi Hinduja
Fortune: £13bn
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3. Galen and George Weston and family
Fortune: £11bn
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4. Alisher Usmanov
Fortune: £9.8bn
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5. David and Simon Reuben
Fortune: £9.7bn
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6. Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli
Fortune: £9.45bn
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7. Lakshmi Mittal and family
Fortune:  £9.2bn
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8. Kirsten and Jorn Rausing
Fortune: £8.7bn
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9. The Duke of Westminster
Fortune: £8.56bn
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10. Roman Abramovich
Fortune: £7.29bn
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11. John Fredriksen and family
Fortune: £7.24bn
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12. Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho
Fortune: £7.145bn
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13. Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay
Fortune: £6.5bn
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14. Hans Rausing and family
Fortune: £6.4bn
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15. Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and family
Fortune: £5.935bn
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16. Carrie and Francois Perrodo and family
Fortune: £5.8bn
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17. Nathan Kirsh
Fortune: £5.06bn
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18. Earl Cadogan and family
Fortune: £4.8bn
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19. Nicky Oppenheimer and family
Fortune: £4.55bn
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20. Sir Richard Branson and family
Fortune: £4.1bn
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