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Most of us dream of winning a couple of million on the Lottery, but that�s small change for this lot.
They are the richest of the rich, and they call the UK home.
There are now more billionaires in this country than ever, with 56 members in the ultra-exclusive club, according to the Hurun Global Rich List 2014.
From shipping tycoons to titled landowners and the bloke who invented the bagless vacuum cleaner, here are Britain�s richest billionaires.
fox17online.com1. Leonard Blavatnik, 56 - �10.8billion Len Blavatnik: Has multi-storey car park in his house The Russian-born tycoon went to the US at the age of 21 and amassed his fortune through investments in oil, coal and property. He now owns Warner Music Group and Parlophone Records.
Favourite toy is 164ft yacht Odessa. His home in Kensington, West London, has 13 bedrooms, a massage room, cinema, 25-metre indoor pool and a multi-storey car park in the basement.
2. Lakshmi Mittal, 63 - �10.2billionBorn in India, Mittal set up his first steel factory in 1976 and is now the owner of the world�s largest steelmaker. One in every five cars uses Mittal�s steel. He spent �36million on his daughter�s wedding. His Kensington home is dubbed the Taj Mittal, as the interior is swathed in marble taken from the same quarry as the Taj Mahal.
3. Srichand Hinduja, 78 - �7.2billionHe started out in textiles in his native India before investing in Bollywood, weapons and oil. His house near Buckingham Palace is worth �300million, the third most expensive in the world. He claims he learned prudence from feeding nuts to the squirrels in St James�s Park.
�They take one and save two,� he said.
4. John Fredriksen, 69 - �6.9billionNorwegian-born Cypriot shipping tycoon made his fortune during the Iran-Iraq war. He likes to spend it on Norwegian art and take his days off in Marbella. His Chelsea home has 10 bedrooms and a ballroom.
5=. Gerald Grosvenor, 62 - �6.6billionThe 6th Duke of Westminster has close ties to the Royals and is Britain�s wealthiest landowner. His family, whose influence dates back to the 17th century, has a trust which owns 190 acres of Belgravia, central London. He gave a �6.5million mansion to a charity for wounded soldiers.
But he was not always aware of his family�s riches - he grew up on a remote farm in Northern Ireland.
5=. Hans Rausing, 87 - �6.6billionThe Swedish businessman lives in a mansion in East Sussex and owns homes in the Bahamas and Sweden. He inherited Tetra Pak, the world�s largest food packaging company, from his father. He breeds deer and collects vintage cars. In 2012 his son, also Hans, was found to have hidden the body of wife Eva, 48, in a mound of bin bags, clothes and sheets at their Belgravia home.
7. Roman Abramovich, 47 - �4.8billion Action Dream: Roman Abramovich (somewhere in middle) celebrates winning the Champions League Known throughout Britain as the owner of Chelsea FC, the Russian tycoon was orphaned as a child and dropped out of college. He started out making plastic ducks before raking in billions from oil deals in the 90s after the Soviet Union broke up.
He owns one of the world�s largest luxury yachts - the 533ft Eclipse, which cost him more than �150million in 2010.
8. Bruno Schroder, 80 - �3.5billionBritish merchant banker is the fourth generation of his family to run asset managers Schroders. He flies his own �1.5million, six-seater plane.
9. Charles Cadogan, 76 - �3.5billionThe 8th Earl of Cadogan heads up a 300-year-old British property dynasty that owns large chunks of some of the most desirable areas of London. He once shut down a restaurant because he did not enjoy the food. After his meal at Oriel in Sloane Square in 2008, the Old Etonian declared: �I didn�t like the food and the prices are far too high.
I can tell you that we won�t be renewing their lease.�
10. Richard Branson, 63 - �3.5billion PA Tycoon: Sir Richard with sprint king Usain Bolt He started trading in 1970 with mail order records. Now his Virgin group comprises more than 400 companies. He owns Necker Island and one of the fastest cruising yachts on the planet - complete with submarine.
He is currently trying to send tourists into space with company Virgin Galactic.
11. Mike Ashley, 49 - �3.3billionFounded sportswear chain Sports Direct in 1982 after leaving school. He owns a 33-room mansion in Hertfordshire and bought Newcastle United in 2007.
12. David and Simon Reuben, 70 and 66 - �3billion eachThe brothers were born in India but raised in the UK. They made their billions in metal trading, aluminium production and property. The Reuben brothers now control 48% of all horse racing in the UK.
13. James Dyson, 66 - �2.9billion Dyson: Bags of ideas, but none in his vacuum Inventor who produced the bagless vacuum cleaner after running through 5,127 prototypes. He owns a 91ft luxury yacht and 300-acre Georgian estate in Gloucestershire, a London townhouse and �3million French chateau.
14. The Reimann family - �2.7billion eachSiblings Matthias, Renata, Stefan and Wolfgang - all adopted - inherited the Joh A Benckiser company from their dad. It includes the Labelux group that manages Bally and Jimmy Choo.
15. Philip and Tina Green, 61 - �2.6billionCounting Simon Cowell and Kate Moss as pals, Green bought and sold sports retailers Olympus and JJB Sports, then took over the Arcadia Group, which includes Topshop and Dorothy Perkins.
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