The has been revealed and, once again, JCB chief Lord Bamford is named as the region's wealthiest person.
Here's this year's top 50, plus a photo gallery of the names on the list.
£3.3bn Manufacturing
£2bn Manufacturing
£1.0bn Manufacturing
£950m Banking/Football
£800m Food
£750m Manufacturing/Construction
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£650m Construction/Football
£550m IT/Aerospace
9= Kevin Cash £500m Property
9= Roy Richardson £500m Construction
11 Tony Gallagher £475m Construction
12= Caspar MacDonald-Hall £450m Property
12= Lord Edmiston £450m Property/Automotive
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12= The Mackie Family £450m Electricals
15 Kevin Threlfall £320m Retail
16 Sir Paul Ruddock £300m Hedge Funds
17 Paul Newey £230m Finance
18 Richard Harpin £200m Insurance
19 James Holder £175m Fashion
20 Keith Bradshaw £172m Care Homes/Automotive
21 Sir Euan Anstruther Gough-Calthorpe £170m Property
22 Andrew and Linda Leaver £160m Pharmaceuticals
23 Simon Clarke £150m Property/Construction
24 Peter Horton £145m Property
25= Alan Jackson £130m Telecommunications
25= Eric Grove £130m Property
25= Michael Wright £130m Travel
28= Ozzy Osbourne £128m Music
28= Sir Jack Hayward (deceased) £128m Property/Football
30 Simon Preedy £125m Manufacturing
31= Constantine Folkes £120m Property/Manufacturing
31= Terry Lister £120m Automotive
33 Alan and Wendy English £110m Hotels/Conferencing
34 Jo Bradwell £105m Pharmaceuticals
35 Woon Wing Yip £102m Food
36 Robert Plant £100m Music
37 Rupert Mucklow £98m Construction
38 Raj Chatha £96m Retail
39 Richard and Brenda Smith £95m Computers
40 Grahame Whateley £90m Property
41 Andrew Thorpe £88m Lighting
42 Afzal and Shabir Alimahomed £85m Packaging/Property
43 Peter Blakemore £82m Food
44 Christopher Taylor £81m Pharmaceuticals
45 Paul Bassi £80m Property
46 Tony Deep Wouhra £78m Food
47= Jim Leavesley £75m Salvage/Property
47= David Ball £75m Manufacturing
49 Jeff Lynne £60m Music
50 The Sodha brothers £57m Pharmaceuticals
• Profiles on all the people in the list are at