Sunday Times Rich List 2009

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

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.

This article is concerned with the 2009 list only. For discussion of the lists generally, see Sunday Times Rich List.

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.

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.

Top 25 fortunes

Rank	Wealth	Name	Source of wealth	2008 Rank	2008 Wealth
1	£10,800m	Lakshmi Mittal and family	Steel	1	£27,700m
2	£7,000m	Roman Abramovich	Oil, industry, owner of Chelsea FC	2	£11,700m
3	£6,500m	The Duke of Westminster	Property	3	£7,000m
4	£5,000m	Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli	Pharmaceuticals	6	£5,650m
5	£4,000m	Hans Rausing	Packaging	7	£5,400m
6	£3,830m	Sir Philip Green and Lady Green	Retailing	9	£4,330m
7	£2,960m	Charlene Carvalho and Michel Carvalho	Inheritance, brewing, banking (Heineken)	13	£3,630m
8	£2,677m	Sammy Ofer and Eyal Ofer	Shipping, Property	15	£3,336m
9=	£2,500m	John Fredriksen	Shipping	8	£4,650m
9=	£2,500m	Joe Lewis	Foreign exchange, investment	19	£2,800m
9=	£2,500m	Kirsten Rausing and Jorn Rausing	Inheritance, investment (Tetra Pak)	14	£3,500m
9=	£2,500m	David and Simon Reuben	Property	10	£4,300m
13	£2,295m	Seán Quinn and family	Quarrying, property, insurance	12	£3,730m
14	£2,000m	Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan and family	Property	17	£2,930m
15	£1,800m	Alan Parker	Duty-free shopping	28	£2,086m
16	£1,610m	Sir Ken Morrison and family	Supermarket	52	£1,450m
17	£1,550m	Roddie Fleming and family	Finance	35	£1,900m
18=	£1,500m	Alisher Usmanov	Steel, Mines	5	£5,726m
18=	£1,500m	Eddie and Sol Zakay	Property	47=	£1,500m
18=	£1,500m	Mahdi Al Tajir	Metals, Oil, Water	26	£2,200m
18=	£1,500m	Mark Pears and family	Property	47=	£1,500m
18=	£1,500m	Nicky Oppenheimer	Diamonds, Mining	18	£2,870m
18=	£1,500m	Poju Zabludowicz	Property, Hotels	31	£2,000m
24	£1,466m	Bernie Ecclestone	Motor racing	24	£2,400m
25=	£1,400m	John Caudwell	Mobile phones	44	£1,600m
25=	£1,400m	Sonja Zuckerman	Property	82	£1,100m

See also

• Lists of billionaires
• Sunday Times Rich List 2007
• Sunday Times Rich List 2008
• Sunday Times Rich List 2010
• Sunday Times Rich List 2011
• Sunday Times Rich List 2012
• Sunday Times Rich List 2013
• Sunday Times Rich List 2014
• Sunday Times Rich List 2015
• Sunday Times Rich List 2016

External links

• Sunday Times Rich List online edition