Rich List 2026: The UK’s wealthiest billionaires revealed
Annual Sunday Times The Rich List has revealed Britain’s richest people and families and how much they are worth.
Sanjay and Dheeraj Hinduja topped the high-profile list following the death of their father Gopichand Hinduja, leader of the Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group, who died last year.
Other high-profile billionaires, including Sir James Dyson and Sir Jim Ratcliffe, were also fixtures on the list once again.
The number of billionaires recorded on the list increased from 156 last year to 157 this year, following a recent period of decline.
Christopher Harborne, who broke records with his political donations to Reformation, was a new addition to the 2026 list.
The entrepreneur and investor came in sixth place with an estimated fortune of £18.2bn.
Rich List 2026
The 20 richest people and families in Britain, according to the Rich List:
- 1. Sanjay and Dheeraj Hinduja and family – £38bn
- 2. David and Simon Reuben and family – £27.971bn
- 3. Sir Leonard Blavatnik – £26.852bn
- 4. Idan Ofer – £24.481bn
- 5. Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston and family – £18.939 billion
- 6.Christopher Harborne – £18.177bn
- 7. Nik Storonsky – £16.411bn
- 8. Alex Gerko – £16.006bn
- 9. Sir Jim Ratcliffe – £15.194bn
- 10. Igor and Dmitry Bukhman – £14.26 billion
- 11. Kirsten and Jorn Rausing – £12.6bn
- 12. Michael Platt – £12.481bn
- 13. Sir James Dyson and family – £12 billion
- 14. Lord Bamford and family – £10.318bn
- 15. Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho – £10.215 billion
- 16. Barnaby and Merlin Swire and family – £9.736bn
- 17. Denise, John and Peter Coates – £9.728bn
- 18th Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family – £9.677bn
- =19. Moshe Kantor – £8.888bn
- =19. Marit, Lisbet, Dame Sigrid and Sir Hans Rausing – £8.888 billion
Robert Watts, compiler of the Sunday Times Rich List, said: “Many foreign billionaires living in the UK have left school because they moved elsewhere.
“We have also seen a sharp increase in the number of British nationals now residing in Dubai, Switzerland and Monaco. As UK nationals, these people remain on our Rich List, no matter where they currently live.”
“These two migrations are creating challenges for the UK economy and public finances.
“Will more rich people now set up or grow ventures abroad and, by doing so, create fewer jobs here? How much tax, if any, can Rachel Reeves’s Treasury collect from wealthy Britons who have left the country?”
