{"id":36888,"date":"2026-05-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/36888\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:00:00","slug":"rich-list-2026-who-are-the-wealthiest-people-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/36888\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich List 2026: Who are the wealthiest people in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Sunday Times Rich List has revealed the wealthiest individuals and families in the UK, and how much they are worth.<\/p>\n

Sanjay and Dheeraj Hinduja have topped the high-profile list following the death of father Gopichand Hinduja.<\/p>\n

Gopi Hinduja, the patriarch behind Indian Conglomerate Hinduja Group, died last year.<\/p>\n

Other high profile billionaires including Sir James Dyson and Sir Jim Ratcliffe were also fixtures on the list once again.<\/p>\n

The number of billionaires recorded by the list increased to 157 for the year, nudging up from 156 a year ago after a recent period of decline.<\/p>\n

These are the 20 richest people and families in the UK, according to the Rich List:<\/p>\n

1. Sanjay and Dheeraj Hinduja and family \u2013 \u00a338 billion<\/p>\n

2. David and Simon Reuben and family \u2013 \u00a327.971 billion<\/p>\n

\"Royal Len Blavatnik with the Prince of Wales (Joe Giddens\/PA) \u00b7 Joe Giddens <\/p>\n

3. Sir Leonard Blavatnik \u2013 \u00a326.852 billion<\/p>\n

4. Idan Ofer \u2013 \u00a324.481 billion<\/p>\n

5. Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston and family \u2013 \u00a318.939 billion<\/p>\n

6. Christopher Harborne \u2013 \u00a318.177 billion<\/p>\n

\"Revolut Revolut co-founder Nik Storonsky (Revolut\/PA) \u00b7 Revolut <\/p>\n

7. Nik Storonsky \u2013 \u00a316.411 billion<\/p>\n

8. Alex Gerko \u2013 \u00a316.006 billion<\/p>\n

9. Sir Jim Ratcliffe \u2013 \u00a315.194 billion<\/p>\n

10. Igor and Dmitry Bukhman \u2013 \u00a314.26 billion<\/p>\n

11. Kirsten and Jorn Rausing \u2013 \u00a312.6 billion<\/p>\n

12. Michael Platt \u2013 \u00a312.481 billion<\/p>\n

13. Sir James Dyson and family \u2013 \u00a312 billion<\/p>\n

\"Dyson Sir James Dyson, founder of the Dyson company (Isabel Infantes Media Assignments\/PA) \u00b7 Isabel Infantes Media Assignments <\/p>\n

14. Lord Bamford and family \u2013 \u00a310.318 billion<\/p>\n

15. Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho \u2013 \u00a310.215 billion<\/p>\n

16. Barnaby and Merlin Swire and family \u2013 \u00a39.736 billion<\/p>\n

17. Denise, John and Peter Coates \u2013 \u00a39.728 billion<\/p>\n

18. The Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family \u2013 \u00a39.677 billion<\/p>\n

=19. Moshe Kantor \u2013 \u00a38.888 billion<\/p>\n

=19. Marit, Lisbet, Dame Sigrid and Sir Hans Rausing \u2013 \u00a38.888 billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sunday Times Rich List has revealed the wealthiest individuals and families in the UK, and how much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18093,18094,18095,10182,18096,18053,18092,18031,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-36888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-dheeraj-hinduja","9":"tag-gopichand-hinduja","10":"tag-hinduja-group","11":"tag-jim-ratcliffe","12":"tag-len-blavatnik","13":"tag-nik-storonsky","14":"tag-sir-james-dyson","15":"tag-sunday-times-rich-list","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116577306118562324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}