The Cypriots who made it on the Sunday Times Rich List 2025

The Sunday Times Rich List 2025 has been released and it includes four UK Cypriots as well as Norwegian-born Cypriot oil tanker and shipping billionaire businessman based in London John Fredriksen, who made it to the Top 10.

The Sunday Times Rich List is a list of the 1,000 wealthiest people or families in the United Kingdom, updated annually in April and published as a magazine supplement by British national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times since 1989

The richest Cypriots are highlighted below.

Alki David

At number 58 is Alki David and the Leventis family with a value of £2.89b Alki David was born In Nigeria his parents from Cyprus and lives here in the UK and Los Angeles.

David, who has appeared as heavies and the like in films or TV series in Britain, runs FilmOn, a patented live-streaming Internet business, allowing access to live HDTV streaming via PCs, televisions and cell phones . David had a controlling 80% stake. Alki David is a member of the prominent Cypriot Leventis family who merged its worldwide bottling operation with Coca Cola to create London listed international drinks bottler Coca Cola HBC.

Lazari Family

The Lazari Family is listed at number 62 with a value of £2.65b

The founder, Christos Lazari, was born in Dora, Limassol and arrived in Britain at 16 years old. In the early seventies he started working in the dress business eventually owning his own dress manufacturing business, Drendie Girl, before entering the property investment business.

The business is run by his sons Len and Nick and daughter Andrie.

John Christodoulou

John Christodoulou is in the List at number 65 with a value of £2.6b

John Christodoulou, born in Cyprus, fled the country with his family after the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974 and resettled in the UK.
He decided to drop out of school at age 16 and worked as a diamond mounter, using his early profits to buy his first property: a studio apartment in London.
The Yianis Group’s portfolio includes residential, retail, office and hotel properties, including 5 hotels in the UK.
The Monaco resident still maintains close ties with his birth country and his Yianis Christodoulou Foundation supports children’s education around the world, especially his place of birth Cyprus.

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou

At number 97 is Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and family, with a value of £1.78b

The son of a Cypriot shipping magnate, Stelios Hadjioannou gets the bulk of his fortune from his stake in budget airline easyJet.Stelios founded easyJet in 1995 after leaving his father’s company; his siblings Clelia and Polys both have large stakes in the airline.
Stelios maintains ownership of the easy brand through his private company, easyGroup.
Through his easyGroup, Stelios has licensed the easy name to such businesses as easyHotel, easyCar and easyCoffee.

John Fredriksen

Also Cypriot national John Fredriksen and family (shipping and oil services) made it on the rich list at no.9 with £13.683b

He owns the world's largest oil tanker fleet and has major interests in the offshore driller Seadrill, the fish farming company Mowi, and the dry bulk company Golden Ocean Group.

Who makes the top 10?

According to the Sunday Times, the 10 richest families and individuals in the UK, the estimated value of their fortunes and the primary source of their wealth are:

Rank 2025(2024) Name Worth Rise/Fall Source of wealth
1 (1) Gopi Hinduja and family £35.304b £1.892b Industry and finance: Hinduja Group
2 (3) David and Simon Reuben and family £26.873b £1.896b Property and internet: Reuben Brothers
3 (2) Sir Leonard Blavatnik £25.725b £3.521b Investment, music and media: Access Industries
4 (5) Sir James Dyson and family £20.8b No change Technology: Dyson Group
5 (6) Idan Ofer £20.121b £5.161b Shipping and industry: Israel Corporation
6 (8) Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston and family £17.746b £3.253b Retail: Primark
7 (4) Sir Jim Ratcliffe £17.046b £6.473b Chemicals: Ineos
8 (7) Lakshmi Mittal and family £15.444b £523 Steel: ArcelorMittal
9 (9) John Fredriksen and family £13.683b £816m Shipping and oil services: Frontline
10 (27) Igor and Dmitry Bukhman £12.54bn £6.191bn Games: Playtrix