Joe Lewis (born London) is a British billionaire who lives in Lyford Cay, Bahamas. Lewis is the 486th richest person of Forbes The World's Richest People list 2006. Lewis was listed as the 16th richest British person in Sunday Times Rich List 2007. Lewis made his initial wealth expanding the family's catering business, then selling luxury goods to tourists, and finally moving into currency trading in the 1970s - resulting in his move to the Bahamas.

Richard Branson , born July 18, 1950, is an English billionaire best known for his 360 companies all bearing the Virgin name. As a young entrepreneur, he had operated a mail-order record business when he was 20 years old, and opened a brick and mortar record shop the following year, 1971: Virgin Records, since he was a "virgin" to business.

Sir Philip Green is a British billionaire businessman who owns some of the United Kingdom's largest retailers, including Bhs and the Arcadia Group. He is Britain's fourth richest man, with a total of 2300 shops in the UK and assets worth around £3.61bn. His assets currently control 12% of the UK clothing retail market, making his empire the second-largest in the sector. The leader, Marks and Spencer, has been the target of two unsuccessful takeover bids from Green.

Joanne "Jo" Rowling BA (Exon.) OBE is an English fiction writer who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling. Rowling is the author of the "Harry Potter" fantasy series, which has gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 325 million copies worldwide. In 2007, "The Sunday Times Rich List" estimated her fortune at £545 million (about US$1 billion), …

Bernard Charles "Bernie" Ecclestone (born October 29 1930 near Bungay, Suffolk, England) is the president and CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, and owns a stake in Alpha Prema, the parent company of the Formula One Group of companies. As such, he is generally considered the primary authority in Formula One racing. He is most commonly addressed in tabloid journalism as "F1 Supremo".

Sir James Michael Goldsmith (February 26, 1933, Paris, France - July 18, 1997, Benahavis, Spain) was a British billionaire businessman and founder of the eurosceptic Referendum Party.

Michael James Wallace Ashley is an English billionaire retail entrepreneur, in the sporting goods market. He is also the largest shareholder in Newcastle United F.C after buying Sir John Hall's share in the club on 23 May 2007. Ranked 25th in the 2007 version of the "Sunday Times Rich List" with estimated wealth of £1.9 billion, Ashley is an intensely private person, who never attends industry functions or gives interviews.

Sir James Dyson is a British industrial designer. He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. His net worth is said to be just over £1 billion (about $2 billion)

John Caudwell is an English billionaire who has made most of his money in the mobile phone business. The Caudwell Group is a mobile communications company, founded by John and his brother Brian Caudwell in 1987 as Midland Mobile Phones, a small local business which took 8 months to sell its first order of 26 phones. The group now sells 26 phones every minute. Developing from a small dealership to a wholesale distributor, turnover expanded to £13 million in 1991, …

Richard Clive Desmond (born 8 December, 1951) is a British publisher, current owner of Express Newspapers and founder of Northern and Shell plc. Express Newspapers publishes the "Daily Express", "Sunday Express", "Daily Star Sunday" and "Daily Star". Northern and Shell was notorious for publishing dozens of pornographic titles, such as "Big Ones", "Skinny and Wriggly", "Forum", …

Sir Kenneth Duncan Morrison CBE (born 20 October 1931) is the executive chairman of Morrisons (Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc), the fourth largest supermarket group in the United Kingdom. He is the youngest child of the late William Murdoch Morrison and Hilda Morrison, who owned a small grocery chain set up in 1899. He was born in Bradford, and was brought up by five elder sisters. Whilst the family business was named after his father, …

Bernard Lewis is the English entrepreneur behind the River Island fashion brand and clothing chain. He was born in February 1926 and opened his first shop aged 20 selling fruit and veg in the North London area (on Holloway Road). At the age 80, "Mr Bernard" (which is the name he is known by staff at River Island) is still involved in the day to day running of the group and is known to visit many of the companies stores at weekends with his wife Vanessa.

David John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville (born 24 October 1940) is a British businessman, politician and life peer for the Labour Party. He is the son of Sir Robert Sainsbury and the nephew of Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury. His cousin is the Conservative peer Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover. Sainsbury retains a large shareholding in his family's Sainsbury's supermarket chain (estimated at 18%).

Major-General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, KG, OBE, TD, DL (born 22 December 1951 in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland), is the son of Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and his wife Hon. Viola Maud Lyttelton. In 2005, he became Chancellor of the University of Chester.

Swraj Paul, Baron Paul (born 1931) is an Indian-born, British-based business magnate and philanthropist. He was knighted by the Queen in 1978. In 1996 he became a life peer, i.e. a member of the House of Lords, taking the title Baron Paul of Marylebone in the City of Westminster.

Charles Gerald John Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan (b. March 24, 1937) is one of the richest people in the United Kingdom. "Forbes Magazine" lists him as the 216th richest person in the world in 2004. He was the Viscount Chelsea before inheriting the title of Earl Cadogan on July 4, 1997. The Cadogan family's wealth is based on landholdings in Chelsea, a wealthy part of London, including much of Sloane Street.

Sir William Forbes of Callendar (1756 - 1823) was a prosperous coppersmith and landowner who lived in Callendar House in Falkirk, Scotland.

Albert Gubay (born 1928) is a Welsh multi-millionaire, presently based in Stanton, Isle of Man. Gubay made his fortune in retailing with Kwik Save, but built it further on investments, mainly in property development. According to Forbes, in 2006 he had an estimated fortune of approximately GBP500 million (USD1.1 billion), making him the 698th richest person in the world.