Top 12 Fortunes
| Rank | Value | Name | Source of wealth | 2007 Rank |
2007 Wealth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £27700m | Lakshmi Mittal | Steel | 1 | £19250m |
| 2 | £11700m | Roman Abramovich | Oil, industry | 2 | £10800m |
| 3 | £7000m | Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster | Property | 3 | £7000m |
| 4 | £6200m | Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja | Industry and finance | 4 | £6200m |
| 5 | £5726m | Alisher Usmanov | Steel and mining | - | |
| 6 | £5650m | Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli | Pharmaceuticals | - | |
| 7 | £5400m | Hans Rausing | Food packaging | 6 | £5400m |
| 8 | £4650m | John Fredriksen | Shipping | 8 | £3500m |
| 9 | £4330m | Sir Philip Green | Retailing | 7 | £4900m |
| 10 | £4300m | David and Simon Reuben | Property | 8 | £3490m |
| 11 | £3974m | Leonard Blavatnik | Industry | - | |
| 12 | £3730m | Seán Quinn | Quarrying, property, insurance | 12 | £3050m |
Read more about this topic: Sunday Times Rich List 2008
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