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- Sri and Gopi Hinduja
- James Dyson
- David and Simon Reuben
- Leonard Blavatnik
- Guillaume Pousaz
- Lakshmi Mittal
- Kirsten Rausing
- Jim Ratcliffe
Sri and Gopi Hinduja
Their family’s company has assets in automotive, finance, oil, and other areas, with a fortune, assessed at £28.472 billion, the greatest figure ascribed to a family or individual in the Rich List’s 34-year history. Prakash, Ashok, Sri, and Gopi Hinduja head the Hinduja Group, a multinational business. Trucks, lubricants, banking, and cable television are all part of their group’s operations. The brothers possess a significant amount of property in London, notably the historic Old War Office building in Whitehall, which will host a Raffles Hotel.
Sri and Gopi Hinduja live in London; Prakash in Monaco; and Ashok, the eldest sibling, manages their Indian affairs from Mumbai. A court petition in the United Kingdom in June 2020 disclosed a feud between the eldest Srichand and his three younger brothers over the ownership of a Geneva bank. The Hinduja family rose to the first position from third place in last year’s list of the UK’s wealthiest net worth individuals, although The Sunday Times reported that “all may not be harmonious” within the dynasty. Sri Hinduja, 86, claims personal ownership of the Hinduja Bank in Switzerland, but Gopi, 82, and their other brothers allege Sri suffers from dementia.
Net worth: $28.472 Billion
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James Dyson
“Money was really unimportant” when James Dyson was a child, he told the BBC. With a net worth of £23 billion, he now has plenty to spare. In the 1990s, his vacuum cleaners became famous, and he has since expanded his product line to include hairdryers, air conditioners, hand dryers, and lighting. Dyson’s design and economic success added credibility to his mission to rekindle the British spirit of creativity. Against the Odds, an autobiographical narrative of his perseverance in the face of adversity was released in 1997. He was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire the following year.
Dyson was asked by the Conservative Party to offer strategies to boost innovation in 2009, and he responded in March 2010 with Ingenious Britain: Making the United Kingdom the Leading High-Tech Exporter in Europe. According to The Sunday Times, his most recent innovation, the Dyson Zone, is a pair of over-ear noise-canceling headphones with an air-purifying mask “that gives the wearer more than a passing resemblance to a cyberman.”
Net worth: $23 Billion
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David and Simon Reuben
The Indian-born British industrialists have a net worth of £22.265 billion, which they have amassed through their vast real estate and internet empires. The brothers “grew up in squalor and were badly educated in a state school in Islington,” according to The Sun. David and Simon Reuben, brothers, amassed a fortune in real estate and technology and are among the richest people in the UK. It sold 49 percent of its data center business, GlobalSwitch, to a group of Chinese investors for roughly $3 billion in December 2016. The brothers were born in Mumbai and raised in the United Kingdom, where David began his career dealing metals while Simon began his career importing carpets and purchasing real estate.
Before launching Trans-World Metals, they worked as carpet fitters and scrap metal collectors. The couple has “spent their fortune on a variety of boy’s toys,” according to the newspaper, “including a £54 million super yacht and a £20 million private plane.”
Net worth: $20 Billion
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Leonard Blavatnik
Investment, music and media mogul Leonard Blavatnik has a net worth of £19 bn, down £3bn on last year when he topped the list ” richest people in the UK”. He has a string of “glamorous businesses”, including “record label Warner Music and sports streaming provider Dazn”, The Guardian said last year. But the original source of his wealth was “energy and metals companies” formed after the break-up of the Soviet Union.
The Ukrainian-born billionaire also made “billions by buying out heavy industrial companies, including the Texan chemicals and plastics company LyondellBasell and Calpine, which runs gas-fired power plants”, the paper added. When it was sold to Russia’s Rosneft in 2013, Blavatnik’s share was worth more than £4 billion. He also invests in aluminium producers and chemical companies, as well as the world’s largest producer of polypropylene LyondellBasell. In 2011, he bought Warner Music and then The Beatles’ label, Parlophone.
Net worth: $19 Billion
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Guillaume Pousaz
Guillaume Pousaz, a Dubai-based Swiss entrepreneur and one of the richest people in the UK, launched Checkout.com in 2012 to solve the challenge of online payment processing for retailers and buyers throughout the world. Checkout.com received a $1 billion investment from private investors in January 2022, valuing the company at $18.65 billion. Pousaz, the CEO of Checkout.com, owns roughly two-thirds of the company based in London.
According to The Sunday Times, millions of people “use Pousaz’s payments giant without realizing it,” as it “provides the financial plumbing behind Netflix subscriptions and Deliveroo deliveries.” “He and his family continue to fly economy,” despite their enormous wealth. “I see the biggest risk to my children changing the way we live our lives, for them to think life is easy,” he remarked. “You want to keep things normal and humble.”
Net worth: $18.65 Billion
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Lakshmi Mittal
Through his roles as executive chair of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel and mining firm, and head of stainless steel manufacturer Aperam, the Indian steel billionaire has amassed £17 billion. Lakshmi Mittal is the chairman of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel and mining business by output, and one of the richest people in the UK, with a net worth of $76.6 billion. He was born into a steel family and split from his siblings to found Mittal Steel, which he later merged with France’s Arcelor in 2006.
Arcelor Mittal recorded a net profit of $15 billion in 2021, up from a net loss of $733 million in 2020, thanks to higher steel prices. In January 2021, Mittal handed up the CEO post to his son, Aditya Mittal, but remained executive chairman of ArcelorMittal. When Russia invaded Ukraine, he was compelled to “stop production at his plant in the country’s heartland city of Kryvyi Rih for six weeks,” according to The Sunday Times. In President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown, ArcelorMittal is also “one of the largest employers.”
Net worth: $17 Billion
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Kirsten Rausing
The Rausing siblings hold a third of Tetra Laval, a worldwide food packaging, processing, and distribution corporation, with a fortune of £12 billion. They are descended from Ruben Rausing, a Swedish industrialist who founded the firm in 1951. Kirsten Rausing, along with her brothers Finn and Jörn, owns a third of the packaging company TetraLaval and is on the board of directors. Kirsten’s grandfather created Tetra Pak, a company that pioneered aseptic packaging.
The new packaging allowed products such as milk and orange juice to be stored in cartons rather than glass bottles. In 1995, Kirsten’s late father, Gad, purchased Kirsten’s uncle Hans for an estimated $7 billion. International Flavors & Fragrances is also owned by Kirsten’s two siblings, Finn and Jörn.
Net worth: $9.4 Billion
Jim Ratcliffe
Ratcliffe’s fortune has grown by £8 billion since last year, making him the first British-born industrialist to reach the top of the list of richest people in the UK. Jim Ratcliffe’s is the quintessential rags-to-riches tale. He was born and raised on the outskirts of Manchester. From his parents’ council house, he used to count the number of chimneys he could see. The Sunday Times reports on this.
Ineos, one of the world’s largest chemical firms, was created by him and is presently operated by him. He also has yachts and sizable real estate holdings, including a massive house in remote northeast Iceland that he purchased in December. Ratcliffe stated he was surprised by his company’s progress in an interview with The Sunday Times that was published today. “Absolutely,” he stated. “Here’s a picture of the council house where I first started.”
Net worth: $8 Billion
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