Indians featured prominently among the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom as per The Sunday Times’ Rich List 2022, which also saw the UK’s number of billionaires swell to a record 177.

Despite thousands in the country struggling with rising prices, the number of billionaires in the UK increased by six in comparison to 2021.

Meanwhile, the combined wealth of UK’s 177 billionaires stood at £653 billion, an increase of more than £55bn (9.4%) from last year’s figure.

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While Indian-origin brothers Sri and Gopi Hinduja took the top spot in the list, other prominent business houses also featured in the list.

Check out the top and bottom rankings of the 250 richest people in the UK.

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Top 20:

1. Sri and Gopi Hinduja and family – £28.472bn
2. Sir James Dyson and family – £23bn
3. David and Simon Reuben and family – £22.265bn
4. Sir Leonard Blavatnik –  £20bn
5. Guillaume Pousaz – £19.259bn
6. Lakshmi Mittal and family –  £17bn
7. Christoph Henkel and family – £15bn
8. Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston and family – £13.5bn
9. Kirsten and Jorn Rausing – £12bn
10. Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho –  £11.421bn
11. Michael Platt – £10bn
12. Alisher Usmanov – £10bn
13. The Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family – £9.726bn
14. Barnaby and Merlin Swire and family – £9.6bn
15.  Marit, Lisbet, Sigrid and Hans Rausing – £9.49bn
16. Anil Agarwal – £9.2bn
17.  Denise, John and Peter Coates –  £8.637bn
18. John Fredriksen and family – £8.311bn
19. Mikhail Fridman – £8.222bn
20. Moshe Kantor – £8bn

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Bottom 20:

1.  Alfie Best and family – £700m
2.  Sir Tom Hunter – £700m
3. May Makhzoumi and family – £700m
4.  Matt and Jodie Moulding – £700m
5. Guy Podjarny – £700m
6. Matthew Riley – £700m
7. Sir Brian Souter and Dame Ann Gloag – £696m
8. Sir Paul Marshall – £680m
9. Ian Wace – £680m
10.  Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussein and family – £670m
11. Charles Gallagher and family – £669m
12. Paul Day and family – £668m
13. Alastair and Michael Powell – £667m
14. Clinton, Spencer and John McCarthy – £662m
15. Tim Knowles – £661m
16. George and Constantine Logothetis and family – £660m
17. John Coulter and Ann Jones – £650m
18. Taavet Hinrikus – £650m
19. The Jatania brothers – £650m
20. Philip Meeson – £650m