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Top 10 most famous British entrepreneurs

According to recent surveys, the United Kingdom is home to some of the world’s wealthiest and most well-known entrepreneurs.

Apart from assisting people with their job problems, modern entrepreneurs have also introduced new work cultures and managed to break down long-held prejudices about the workplace.

The top ten most notable British entrepreneurs are discussed here:

1. Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is a British business mogul and millionaire. Richard Branson owes his fortune to a conglomerate of businesses bearing the “Virgin” brand name, including Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Galactic.

With the debut of Virgin Airways in 1984, he continued to expand his commercial empire, launching Virgin Trains, Virgin Media, Virgin Fuels, Virgin Healthcare, and other businesses. The Virgin Group now has over 400 businesses under its management.

Branson is also well-known for his philanthropic contributions.

2. James Dyson

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Dyson Ltd. was founded by James Dyson, a British inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and millionaire entrepreneur.

He has a net worth of over 7 billion dollars and is one of the richest people in the world and the UK.

He is well known for inventing the twin cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which operates on the cyclonic separation concept.

In 1978, he designed a cyclone particle collector that is similar to those seen in larger industrial units like sawmills.

He spent the next five years adapting this solution to home vacuum cleaners, testing over 5,000 prototypes before settling on a model that swirled incoming dirty air around a cylindrical container, where the dust was separated by centrifugal force and settled by gravity, while the purified air escaped out the top.

He demonstrated the power of tenacity by founding a market-leading household appliance company that eventually evolved to produce hair straighteners, hand dryers, and air conditioners after 5,126 prototypes failed.

Dyson is a multi-industry leader.

3. Phillip Green

He is a British businessman who served as chairman of the Arcadia Group, a retailer.

He has a net worth of 2.4 billion dollars.

From 2002 to 2020, he was the owner of the high-end apparel stores Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge. Phillip made his money in the retail sector.

In a $276 million deal, Green purchased department store BHS. Soon later, the corporation purchased Arcadia through Tina’s company, Taveta.

Beyonce and others were soon signed as celebrity spokesmodels for a variety of retail brands. It quickly rose to prominence as one of the most talked-about brands on the high street.

4. Peter Jones

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Peter Jones is a Berkshire, England-based entrepreneur and businessman.

Jones is the last original investor on the BBC Two show Dragons’ Den and the American television show American Inventor. Peter Jones’ net worth is estimated to be at $400 million in 2022.

He landed a job at a large corporation, and a year later, he was in charge. This was only the beginning of Peter’s newfound success. In 1998, he founded Phones International Group, which generated £14 million in revenues in its first year.

His investing organization now owns over 30 different businesses and has amassed a sizable commercial and residential real estate portfolio.

Expansys, Data Select, Jessops, Levi Roots, Red Letter Days, Wonderland Magazine, and Bladez Toyz are among his many businesses.

In 2005, Peter Jones established the Peter Jones Foundation, which oversees the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy and the Tycoon in Schools program.

5. Alan Sugar

Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar, is a business entrepreneur, media personality, author, politician, and political advisor from the United Kingdom.

Lord Sugar has a £1.2 billion net worth.

Alan Sugar established Amstrad (Alan Michael Sugar Trading) in 1968 and began selling electrical goods such as vehicle radios, hi-fi systems, and aerials. Taking advantage of the enthusiasm in computers during the 1980s, it became one of the most well-known names in consumer electronics.

Lord Sugar now controls several electronics companies, including YouView, an internet television service, and Amscreen, a digital media company.

He also has an executive aviation firm called Amsair and a property investment company called Amsprop, which he operates with his son Dan. He has primarily made his fortune from the expansion of his company, Amstrad, as well as some excellent investments.

While it’s unclear how much Lord Sugar makes from his role on The Apprentice, he donates his BBC fee to Great Ormond Street Hospital.

6. Duncan Bannatyne

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Duncan Walker Bannatyne, OBE is a Scottish philanthropist, entrepreneur, and novelist. He is well known for his role as a business angel on BBC’s Dragons’ Den.

Hotels, fitness clubs, spas, media, television, and real estate are some of his commercial interests.

He was given an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his charitable work.

He began his business career by trading automobiles, but it was an ice cream van he purchased for £450 that altered his life forever, and he turned it into a £280 million fortune.

With ‘Duncan’s Super Ices,’ he set out to become the King of the 99, eventually selling the company for £28,000 and using the proceeds to start a nursing home.

Bannatyne has since expanded his business into health clubs (the Bannatyne Health Club & Spa franchise), as well as hotels and real estate.

7. Laurence Graff

Laurence Graff OBE is a millionaire English jeweller and businessman best known as the founder of Graff Diamonds, a provider of jewellery and diamonds.

He is the owner of a polished diamond trade company in Switzerland, as well as real estate in London’s Mayfair neighbourhood and has an interest in a South African diamond distributor.

In Stellenbosch, South Africa’s Napa Valley, he also owns Delaire Graff Estate, a vineyard and winery with a boutique hotel.

Graff is noted for the high quality of their diamonds and traditional designs like the animal and bird brooch series, which are frequently set with a mix of coloured and white diamonds. The peacock brooch worth a staggering US$100 million, which is made up of 120.81 carats of diamonds, is the most famous example of this.

8. Simon Cowell

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Simon Cowell, a British entrepreneur and record executive, established and owns Syco Entertainment – a British media entertainment corporation with offices in both Los Angeles and London.

Simon Cowell is a fantastic entrepreneur and co-founder of a company.

He has aided in the formation of numerous fantastic production firms; however, SyCo, which he owns fifty-fifty with Sony Music Entertainment and created in 2002, is one of his best. The business is mostly involved in television production.

He makes the most of his money as a judge on “The X-Factor,” “America’s Got Talent,” and “Britain’s Got Talent.”

Simon Cowell’s net worth is estimated to be at $600 million in 2022.

9. JK Rowling

Because of the worldwide success and enduring popularity of her original book series, “Harry Potter,” J.K. Rowling is acknowledged as an entrepreneur.

The author’s entrepreneur position stems not just from the large number of books she has sold, but also from the film adaptations and merchandise rights she holds for the series. 

The Harry Potter inventor, who was in poverty at the time she wrote the first Harry Potter novel, has invested a large portion of her income in UK real estate, taxes, and charity.

JK Rowling’s net worth is estimated to be $1 billion in 2022 by several credible sources, including Celebrity Net Worth.

10. David and Simon Reuben

David and Simon Reuben are British businessmen of Indian ancestry. With a net worth of £16 billion, the Sunday Times Rich List declared them the second richest family in the UK in May 2020.

In the 1990s, the brothers formed a partnership and generated money in Russia through their business Trans World.

When the Russian mafia grew stronger and their previous business partner Lev Chernoy was under investigation, they sold the company for more than £500 million in 2000.

Millbank Tower, the John Lewis Partnership headquarters in Victoria, the American Express offices in Victoria, Carlton House SW1, Academy House on Sackville Street, Connaught House on Berkeley Square, Market Towers, and the London Primark store on Oxford Street are among the properties owned by the Reuben Brothers in the United Kingdom.