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Sunday Times Rich List

Annually published UK list

Field	Value
title	Sunday Times Rich List
subheader	List of 1,000 UK residents, ranked in order of net worth
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header1	Publication details
label2	Publisher
label3	Publication
data3	The Sunday Times
label4	First published
data4	1989
label5	Latest publication
data5	16 May 2025
header6	Current list details (2025)
label7	Wealthiest
data7	Gopichand Hinduja
label8	Net worth (1st)
data8	35.304 billion
label9	Entry point (1,000th)
label10	Total list net worth value
label11	Average net worth
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below	Sunday Times Rich List website

The Sunday Times Rich List is a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people or families resident in the United Kingdom ranked by net wealth. The list is updated annually in April and has been published as a magazine supplement by British national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times since 1989. The editorial decisions governing the compilation of the Rich List are published in the newspaper and online as its "Rules of engagement".

The Rich List is not limited to British citizens and it includes individuals and families born overseas but who predominantly work and/or live in Britain. This excludes some individuals with prominent financial assets in Britain.

The editors estimate subjects' wealth from a range of public information, based on values in January each year. They typically explain their actions by stating: "We measure identifiable wealth, whether land, property, racehorses, art or significant shares in publicly quoted companies. We exclude bank accounts—to which we have no access... We try to give due consideration to liabilities."

The 2015 list marked the first year Queen Elizabeth II was not among the list's top 300 most wealthy since the list began in 1989. She was number one on the inaugural Sunday Times Rich List 1989.

The most recent list was published online on 16 May 2025 and in print on 18 May 2025.

Tax List

The Sunday Times Tax List was inaugurated on 27 January 2019 in the Sunday Times Magazine, using data collected for the Rich List and edited by Robert Watts.

Giving List

Since 2005, as part of the Rich List, The Sunday Times has produced an annual Giving List, which tracks the most generous philanthropists in the UK as a proportion of their wealth. In 2018, it was reported that, of the 300 philanthropists listed in the Giving List, a total of £3.207 billion was given away.

Jamie Cooper, the former wife of hedge fund manager Sir Christopher Hohn, was ranked in first place with a giving index of 88.89%, which amounted to donations in 2018 of £299.6 million.

Book version

A fuller version of the Rich List is also published in a reference book edition, edited by Philip Beresford. This list covers the top 5,000 richest people, rather than the top 1,000, and includes their business addresses:

Sunday Times Rich List 2006–2007 was published by A & C Black in December 2006 ().
Sunday Times Rich List 2007–2008 was due to be published by A & C Black in November 2007 () but no book appeared due to a deadlock between the publishers and The Sunday Times. The publisher was keen to carry on but only if a CD version was attached to the book. The Sunday Times would not allow this as it would give competitors a chance to develop their own database and launch rival rich lists.

References

"''The Sunday Times''".
Helen Nianias. (26 April 2015). "The Queen drops off the top end of the Sunday Times Rich List for the first time since its inception". The Independent.
(16 May 2025). "The Sunday Times Rich List 2025 revealed".
Watts, Robert. "The Sunday Times Tax List 2019: Britain's top taxpayers revealed".
Press Association. (27 January 2019). "Stephen Rubin, owner of JD Sports, paid most tax in UK last year with £181m bill". The Guardian.
"UK's richest gave away over £3.2bn last year, according to Sunday Times".
Cooney, Rebecca. "Giving by the richest steady at £3.2bn".
[http://www.thinkresource.org/node/1427 Thinkresource.org] {{Webarchive. link. (28 July 2011 Resource talks to Philip Beresford)

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