Sir Alan Michael Sugar is an English businessman. After leaving school at 16, Sugar started selling car aerials and electrical goods out of a van he had bought with his savings of £100. He now has an estimated fortune of £830m. and was ranked 84th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2007. Despite being best known as a technology businessman, most of Sugar's wealth now derives from his property portfolio in Mayfair, rather than business ventures.

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), …

Jim Ratcliffe is the 10th richest person in the UK, according to the 2007 Sunday Times Rich List 2007. He is the boss of the Ineos chemicals group.

Nadhmi Auchi, born in 1937, is a British-resident, Iraqi-born billionaire businessman. In the "Sunday Times Rich List 2007" ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 18th with an estimated fortune of £1,995 million. Nadhmi Auchi graduated in Economics and Political Science from the Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad in 1967. He also worked with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, becoming Director of Planning and Development.

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, …

John Patrick McManus is an Irish businessman and racehorse owner. Born in Limerick, he began his business career at his family’s construction plant hire firm, and then became an on-course bookmaker at Limerick’s greyhound track, before moving into horse ownership and racing. He has a stud farm in County Kildare. In 1982, he and his wife bought Martinstown Stud on over 400 acres in County Limerick from the McCalmonts. McManus is National Hunt racing's largest owner.

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.

Dr. Tony Ryan, who lives in Ardclough Co. Kildare, is an Irish multi-millionaire, founder of Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) and co-founder of Ryanair with Christy Ryan and Liam Lonergan. Ryanair is believed to be the main source of his current wealth: the company is now one of the biggest airlines in Europe and is valued at several billion euro. Tony Ryan is believed to have a personal fortune ranging between €800m and €1bn.

Nasser David Khalili is an Iranian-born Jewish property developer, a cousin of Israeli minister Shaul Mofaz, art collector and philanthropist, based in London. In the "Sunday Times Rich List 2007" ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 5th with an estimated fortune of £5,800 million. This included an estimated value of £4,500 million for his art collection.

John Robert Madejski OBE DL, born Robert John Hurst on April 28 1941 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is a British businessman, mainly active in publishing and the hotel industry. As of 2007, he is in the top 200 wealthiest people in the UK, with a net worth said to be in the region of £400 million ("see" Sunday Times Rich List 2007). He changed his name when his stepfather, a Polish airman during World War II, …

Nick Denton is the founder and proprietor of Gawker Media. Nick Denton was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford. He began his career as a journalist with the Financial Times. Denton is openly gay. Denton co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called "All That Glitters".

Dr.Seán Quinn is an Irish billionaire entrepreneur from Derrylin, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was born 5 December 1947, the son of a small farmer, and left school at 14 years of age. The Sunday Times Rich List 2007 estimates his personal worth (at the start of January 2007) to be €4.621 billion or £3.05 billion, thereby making him the richest man in Ireland. He is ranked second only to Hilary Weston (who qualifies through marriage to Galen Weston, …

Simon Halabi is a Syrian-born businessman based in the United Kingdom. His business interests include health club chain Esporta and the PM Club based at Cambridge House in London and at Mentmore Towers in Buckinghamshire. In the "Sunday Times Rich List 2007" he was ranked 14th with an estimated fortune of £3,000 million.

Mahdi Al Tajir is a billionaire businessman from the United Arab Emirates, based in the United Kingdom. He has interests in finance and real estate operations, and owns the Highland Spring bottled water company. In the "Sunday Times Rich List 2007" ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 21st with an estimated fortune of £2,200 million.

Poju Zabludowicz is a Finnish businessman based in London who controls the investment company Tamares Group. In the "Sunday Times Rich List 2007" of the wealthiest people in the United Kingdom he was ranked 24th with an estimated fortune of £2,000 million.

Vladimir Kim is a billionaire businessman from Kazakhstan, of Korean descent. He is chairman of Kazakhmys, the copper mining company quoted on the London Stock Exchange, and owns around 45% of the firm. In the "Sunday Times Rich List 2007" ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 19th with an estimated fortune of £2,261 million.

Irvine Alan Stewart Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw is a Scottish businessman, and a member of the House of Lords. In the "Sunday Times Rich List 2007" ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 100th with an estimated fortune of £730 million. Laidlaw founded the company Institute for International Research in 1973, which he sold in 2005 for a sum believed to be in the order of £775m, is one of the largest financial backers of the UK's Conservative Party.

Wafic Rida Saïd (born Damascus, 1939) is a Syrian-Saudi-Arabian businessman living in Monaco and the UK. Saïd became a billionaire through his connections with the Saudi royal family, acting as a negotiator and consultant on many major infrastructure and armaments projects including the multi-billion dollar Al Yamamah arms contract. He is Chairman of Said Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, incorporated in Bermuda, with investments in Europe, …

Michael Hintze is an Australian millionaire businessman, philanthropist and political patron, based in the United Kingdom. He was educated at the University of Sydney and Harvard University. He is the head of CQS Management, a private London hedge fund, and has been cited in the press as one of the highest paid people in the City.