Sunday Times Rich List 2009

The Sunday Times Rich List 2009 was published on 26 April 2009.[1]

This article is about the Rich List published in 2009. For general information about the list, see Sunday Times Rich List.

Since 1989 the UK national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times (sister paper to The Times) has published an annual magazine supplement to the newspaper called the Sunday Times Rich List. The list is based on an estimate of the minimum wealth of the richest 1,000 people or families in the United Kingdom as of January of that year, and is compiled by Dr Philip Beresford.

A separate section lists the 250 richest Irish, including both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

As in previous years, the List was widely previewed in the UK media and extensively covered on the day of its publication.[2][3]

The top three places in the List were unchanged from the previous year. The Hinduja brothers, ranked 4th in 2008, and Leonard Blavatnik, ranked 11th in 2008, were removed from the list. Among the most notable changes were the loss of £155 billion from the collective fortunes of Britain's richest 1,000 people, equivalent to more than a third of their estimated wealth, as a consequence of the recession.[1]

Top 25 fortunes
2009[4] Name Citizenship Source of wealth 2008[5]
Rank Net worth
GB£ bn		 Rank Net worth
GB£ bn
1 £10.80 Lakshmi Mittal and family  India Steel 1 £27.70
2 £7.00 m Roman Abramovich  Russia Oil, industry, owner of Chelsea FC 2 £11.70
3 £6.50 The Duke of Westminster  United Kingdom Property (Grosvenor Group) 3 £7.00
4 £5.00 Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli Pharmaceuticals 6 £5.65
5 £4.00 Hans Rausing Packaging 7 £5.40
6 £3.83 Sir Philip Green and Lady Green  United Kingdom Retailing 9 £4.33
7 £2.96 Charlene Carvalho and Michel Carvalho  Netherlands Inheritance, brewing, banking (Heineken) 13 £3.63
8 £2.68 Sammy Ofer and Eyal Ofer Shipping, Property 15 £3.34
9 £2,50 John Fredriksen Shipping 8 £4.65
9 £2.50 Joe Lewis  United Kingdom Foreign exchange, investment 19 £2.80
9 £2.50 Kirsten Rausing and Jorn Rausing Inheritance, investment (Tetra Pak) 14 £3.50
9 £2.50 David and Simon Reuben Property 10 £4.30
13 £2.30 Seán Quinn and family Quarrying, property, insurance 12 £3.73
14 £2.00 Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan and family Property (Cadogan Estates) 17 £2.93
15 £1.80 Alan Parker Duty-free shopping 28 £2.09
16 £1.61 Sir Ken Morrison and family Supermarket 52 £1.45
17 £1.55 Roddie Fleming and family Finance 35 £1.90
18 £1.50 Alisher Usmanov Steel, Mines 5 £5.73
18 £1.50 Eddie and Sol Zakay Property 47 £1.50
18 £1.50 Mahdi Al Tajir Metals, oil, water 26 £2.20
18 £1.50 Mark Pears and family Property 47 £1.50
18 £1.50 Nicky Oppenheimer  South Africa Diamonds, mining (De Beers) 18 £2.87
18 £1.50 Poju Zabludowicz Property, hotels 31 £2.00
24 £1.47 Bernie Ecclestone  United Kingdom Motor racing 24 £2.40
25 £1.40 John Caudwell Mobile phones 44 £1.60
25 £1.40 Ian and Richard Livingstone Property 38 £1.88

See also
  • Lists of billionaires


References
  1. Beresford, Philip, ed. (April 26, 2009). "Sunday Times Rich List 2009: Bonfire of the billionaires wipes out £155bn fortune". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 2009-05-02.
  2. "Sunday Times Rich List 2009". Daily Telegraph. United Kingdom. 25 April 2009.
  3. "UK super-rich 'hit in downturn'". BBC News. 25 April 2009.
  4. Beresford, Philip, ed. (25 April 2010). "2009 Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  5. "Rich List reveals wealthy reap profits under Labour". The Sunday Times. 27 April 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-05-18.
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