Nineteen Midlands-based business tycoons worth more than a combined £34 billion have been named among the richest people in the UK.
Some of the region's best-known business people - from firms including bet365, JCB, Sports Direct and Bloor Homes - appear in The Sunday Times Rich List 2022.
The rich list is an annual index which ranks the country's 250 wealthiest residents. Here we take a look at the entries from the Midlands.
The rankings:
17th place - The Coates family - who own online gambling company bet365 and Stoke City Football Club - top the list of the richest people in the West Midlands, but come in 17th place overall. Together, Denise, John and Peter Coates are worth a huge £8.637 billion which is £189 million higher than 2021.
42nd place - JCB chairman Lord Anthony Bamford - whose father founded the Staffordshire digger-maker in 1945 - is the second richest person in the West Midlands. This is despite seeing his family fortune fall by £275 million in 2022 to £4.32 billion.
59th place - With a fortune of £2.995 billion, House of Fraser and Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley is the wealthiest person in the East Midlands - and 59th place overall. The 57-year-old has seen his personal fortune rise by £277 million in the past year.
70th place - Anglo-French entrepreneur Jacques Gaston 'Tony' Murray and his family owns Wolverhampton-based Andrew Sykes Group, which hires heating and air conditioning equipment, and Leeds-based fire protection business London Security. At 102, he's the oldest person in the Rich List, and has a wealth of £2.5 billion. This is £230 million more than in 2021.
85th place - The only multi-billionaire with Leicestershire links in this year's list is John Bloor, the man behind Bloor Homes and the owner of the Triumph motorbike factory near Hinckley. He is the 85th richest person in the UK with £2.079 billion worth of assets - an increase of £804 million a year ago. That's the equivalent of earning nearly £92,000 every hour - or about £1,530 every minute.
103rd place - Sir Will Adderley, whose parents Bill and Jean founded Dunelm on a Leicester market stall in 1979, is ranked in 103rd place with a family fortune of £1.78 billion. This is down £9 million on last year where they were ranked in 92nd place.
115th place - Stoke-on-Trent born philanthropist and Phones 4u founder John Caudwell is even richer than he was last year after seeing his fortune increase by £14 million to £1.5 billion this year. This makes him the fourth richest person in the West Midlands and 115th in the UK.
130th place - Engineering tycoon Tony Langley - who started in business in 1975 aged just 20 - has seen his fortune rise by a huge £560 million in 2022, taking his overall fortune to £1.35 billion. He is ranked in 130th place which is up 74 places on last year.
140th place - Sir Tony Gallager sold his Warwick-based strategic land business Gallagher Estates for £525 million in 2017 but he is still involved in the property investment and development business Gallagher Developments. He is ranked at 140th place in this year's Rich List with a fortune of £1.25 billion which is £150 million higher than last year.
183rd place - Caspar MacDonald Hall's Kingswinford-based London & Cambridge Properties has become one of the most active players on the Midlands property scene, owning, investing in and managing a host of commercial developments across the region and elsewhere. It won't be a surprise, therefore, that Caspar MacDonald-Hall and family have seen their fortune increase by £45 million to £954 million in 2022.
185th place - Roy Richardson and his family are involved in a variety of investment and property projects but they are most famous for developing the Merry Hill shopping centre in Dudley in the 1980s which continues to be a major retail and economic hub for West Midlands to this day. They are ranked at 185th place with a fortune of £945 million.
Joint 191st place - The Duke of Devonshire's family are custodians of Chatsworth House, which is due to reopen next month, as well as Bolton Abbey in the Yorkshire Dales. According to the list he has a net worth of £900 million - up £5 million - with his source of wealth being cited as land and art.
Joint 191st place - Ben Francis famously started fitness clothing brand Gymshark from his parents' garage when he was just 19 years old and in 2020 the Solihull firm took on its first external investment from US private equity house General Atlantic, valuing the company at a claimed £1 billion. Today Ben Francis and his family are worth £900 million after seeing their wealth increase by a further £200 million.
206th place - From its Stratford-upon-Avon HQ, the Rigby family is involved in a broad range of companies and investments from sectors such as technology, aviation, finance and real estate as well as owning and operating Bournemouth, Coventry, Exeter and Norwich airports. Together Sir Peter, James and Steve Rigby are worth £804 million - £29 million more than in 2021.
207th place - The Kirkland family, whose patriarch John Kirkland passed away last November, owns the family construction business Bowmer and Kirkland. It has netted them a worth of £803 million, up £29 million year-on-year, according to The Sunday Times.
216th place - Lord Robert Edmiston is the founder of IM Group and made his millions through the importation of Japanese cars and parts and also through property investment, development and ownership via Solihull-based IM Properties. He is now worth a total of £763 million after seeing his fortune fall by £134 million.
220th place - Freddie Linnett and the Murphy family own Leicester-based Charles Street Buildings, which has been behind a lot of Leicester's new developments in recent years. Their wealth has leapt £3 million to £744 million in the past year.
Joint 230th place - Alfie Best is a new entry in the list, with about £700 million to his family's name after his caravan park company did well during the pandemic when staycations became more popular. The Leicester-born millionaire owns Wyldecrest Parks in Essex.
Joint 230th place - Staffordshire-born singer/songwriter and former Miss UK Kirsty Bertarelli is also a new entry this year. Following a divorce from her billionaire husband Ernesto, she is ranked in 230th place with a personal fortune of £700 million. Her source of wealth is cited as divorce and song writing.
Topping this year's Rich List are Sri and Gopi Hinduja who are now worth a whopping £28.4 billion while tech tycoon Sir James Dyson takes second place with a fortune of £23 billion.
Other notable billionaires who feature in the list include former Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich - whose fortune has halved to £6 billion - and Sir Richard Branson who is now worth £4.2 billion. Chancellor Rishi Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, are new to the list this year in 222nd place with a combined wealth of £730 million.
