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The richest people from Wales have been revealed as eight are named as some of the wealthiest people in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ. Included on this year's edition of The Sunday Times Rich List is the couple behind Specsavers and the owner of Admiral.

It annually ranks the 350 richest people in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ and is printed in a special edition of The Sunday Times Magazine. This year's list of individuals and families have a combined wealth of £772.8bn.

The survey is based on wealth including land, property, other assets such as art and racehorses, or significant shares in publicly-quoted companies and excludes bank accounts, which the Sunday Times does not have access to.

To get a spot on the list you must have a minimum wealth of £350 million with famous names such as Sir Elton John, Lord Lloyd-Webber, Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Euan Blair, Sir Lewis Hamilton. For our free daily briefing on the biggest issues facing the nation, sign up to the Wales Matters newsletter here

Since the list's peak of 177 billionaires recorded in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ in 2022, the number has since dwindled each year to now 156 named in 2025, the sharpest decline yet.

Not only has the number of billionaires dropped but the combined wealth of the people named on the list has reduced by three percent to £772.8 billion. For our free daily briefing on the biggest issues facing the nation, sign up to the Wales Matters newsletter here

The top five named this year all hold the same spot from last year with a staggering combined wealth of over £10bn.

Only one person made the list for the richest person in Wales under 40, founder and chief executive of Wrexham-based Net World Sports, Alex Lovén.