LONDON, 20 May. - (ANA) - The 2022 Sunday Times Rich List has revealed that billionaire brothers Sri and Gopi Hinduja are the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom (UK).

 

The annual list showed that the pair, who run the Mumbai-based conglomerate Hinduja Group, saw their fortune jump by more than £11 billion.

 

There were a record 177 billionaires in the UK, according to the figures.

 

The list featured a number of recognisable figures including Dyson vacuum entrepreneur James Dyson.

 

However, Roman Abramovich slipped out of the top 20 and fellow Russians Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman dropped down the list after the value of their assets was hammered by financial measures in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

 

These are the 20 richest people in the UK according to the Rich List:

 

Sri and Gopi Hinduja and family – £28.47 billion

 

Sir James Dyson and family – £23 billion.

 

David and Simon Reuben and family – £22.26 billion

 

Sir Leonard Blavatnik – £20 billion

 

Guillaume Pousaz – £19.26 billion

 

Lakshmi Mittal and family – £17 billion

 

Christoph Henkel and family – £15 billion

 

Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston and family – £13.5 billion

 

Kirsten and Jorn Rausing – £12 billion

 

Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho – £11.42 billion

 

Michael Platt – £10 billion

 

Alisher Usmanov – £10 billion

 

The Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family – £9.73 billion

 

Barnaby and Merlin Swire and family – £9.6 billion

 

Marit, Lisbet, Sigrid and Hans Rausing – £9.49 billion

 

Anil Agarwal – £9.2 billion

 

Denise, John and Peter Coates – £8.64 billion

 

John Fredriksen and family – £8.31 billion

 

Mikhail Fridman – £8.22 billion

 

Moshe Kantor – £8 billion.                      - (ANA) -

 

 

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