Lancashire’s richest people named in The Sunday Times Rich List 2026 including Issa brothers & Tyson Fury

The richest people in Lancashire - and across Britain - have been revealed by the Sunday Times.

This morning, the 38th edition of The Sunday Times Rich list was released, revealing the richest people across Britain.

This year’s list of 350 individuals and families together holds combined wealth of £783.5 billion — a sum larger than the annual GDP of Belgium ($776 billion), Sweden ($760 billion) and Israel ($719 billion) which also represents about a quarter of the UK’s total annual GDP.

Sir Elton John, Lord Lloyd-Webber, Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, JK Rowling, Charlotte Tilbury and Sir Lewis Hamilton all appear in the annual survey.

Looking towards the North West, Chemicals magnate and Ineos CEO Sir Jim Ratcliffe - also part owner of Manchester United FC- was named the richest in the region with an estimated wealth of £15.194 billion, down from £17.046bn last year.

The 73-year-old businessman oversees a sprawling petrochemicals empire spanning 27 countries but as a result of rising debt, falling revenues and a £515.7 million loss, the valuation of Ineos has been cut to £17 billion.

His 29 per cent stake in Manchester United FC is worth £1.4 billion.

Sir Ratcliffe was actually born in Failsworth, Manchester, at a time when it was still part of Lancashire but there are some even more bona-fide Lancastrians named in the list.

First up is Preston born hedge fund manager Michael Platt who comes in as the second richest person in the North West and the across.

58-year-old Michael, who is now based in Jersey, is reportedly worth £12.481 billion, down from £12.5 billion in 2025.

In 2000, he co-founded BlueCrest Capital Management which, as of 2026, boasts a portfolio of roughly £2.48 billion.

Michael is renowned for his successes in the finance industry, particularly in the field of quantitative trading, but he is also a major art collector.

Lytham resident Tom Morris and his family come in as the third richest people in the North West with an estimated wealth of £8.061 billion in 2026 compared to £6.989 billion in 2025.

72-year-old Tom, who was born in Liverpool but lives in Lytham with his wife and five adult children, founded the retail chain Home Bargains back in 1976, when he was just 21.

There are now over 600 Home Bargains stores across the UK and in 2025 the chain turned over £4.54 billion and made huge profits of £492 million.

The retail family are followed closely by Blackburn born supermarket moguls Mohsin, 52 and Zuber Issa, 51, in fourth place.

The Lancashire brothers have an estimated wealth of £5 billion in 2026, down from £6 billion in 2025.

Brought up in the Brookhouse area of Blackburn by parents who had moved to the UK from Indian in the 1960s, the Issa brothers bought their first petrol station in Bury back in 2001.

They then built this into the EG Group, which is now worth just shy of £7 billion and has around 33,000 employees in more than 4,3000 sites across eight countries.

Its single biggest market by revenue is the USA, followed by Europe, including Germany, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and the United Kingdom, as well as Australia.

Clitheroe born financer Peter Hargreaves was then named the eighth richest person in the North West.

The 79-year-old, who co-founded Hargreaves Landsdwon, a large UK financial services company has an estimated weath of £2.325bn which is up from £2.3bn in 2025.

Peter, a former pupil of Clitheroe Royal Grammar School founded Hargeaves Landsdown in 1981 with Stephen Lansdown.

He still retains a 10 per cent shareholding in this company, whilst also being the chairman of Blue Whale Capital, an investment company launched in 2017

Other entries in the North West richlist that can claim Lancashire heritage are fifth place Fred and Peter Done (worth £3.612b billion), seventh place John Gore (worth £2.25 billion), eight place Henry Moser and family (worth £2.178 billion) and tenth place John Whittaker and family (worth £1.5 billion).

These four entries were born in Salford, Southport, Bury and Bury again respectively- when the now Greater Manchester or Merseyside localities were still part of our Red Rose County.

Elsewhere, the Sunday Times also revealed the wealthiest people under 40 in the North West and former longtime Morecambe resident Tyson Fury comes in fourth place.

The boxer, who is now based in the Isle of Man, has a reported wealth of £162 million in 2026, which also makes him the 229th richest person under 40 nationally.

37-year-old Tyson, who proudly goes by the nickname ‘The Gypsy King’ , has held multiple world heavyweight championships whilst also creating a name for himself as a media personality and setting up his own energy and sports nutrition brand Furocity.

Tyson and wife Paris, along with their seven children, had lived in Morecambe for nearly two decades before moving to the Isle of Man in 2025.

Take a look at the full rankings below...

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2026 – THE WEALTHIEST IN THE NORTH WEST

THE WEALTHIEST UNDER 40 IN THE NORTH WEST

For the full 350 richest people in the UK go online at www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list

This weekend’s 76-page special edition of The Sunday Times Magazine will also reveal the wealth of the 350 richest people in Britain, as well as The Sunday Times Giving List in association with the Charities Aid Foundation.

*An original vesion of this story was posted without the inclusion of Michael Platt, Peter Hargreaves and Michael Flacks as their names were not included in our embargoed North West release. We have since corrected the North West data once the full guide was available for viewing.