The 20 richest people living in Scotland in 2019 has been revealed.
The annual survey of the nation’s wealthiest individuals was carried out by The Sunday Times and provides a snapshot of the Scottish business elite and their financial performance over the last 12 months. It includes retail magnates, oil tycoons, landed gentry, bankers as well as a few self-made billionaires from the worlds of food distribution, transport and literature. Full story here.
Glenn Gordon is chairman of William Grant & Sons distillers. The company, based in Banffshire, produces Glenfiddich among other spirits. 2019 wealth: 2.882bn
Sir Ian Clark Wood is an Aberdeen-based businessman and philanthropist. He is best known for his work in the North Sea oil industry with Wood Group. 2019 wealth: 1.763bn
Mohamed Al-Fayed is an Egyptian businessman. He owns the Hotel Ritz in Paris and formerly owned Harrods department store in London. He bought the Balnagown estate in Easter Ross in 1972. 2019 wealth: 1.7bn
John Shaw and Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (pictured) have a stake in Biocon, a pharmaceuticals business based in Bangalore. It was sold in 1997, but Mr Shaw, a University of Glasgow graduate, arranged to buy it back a year later. 2019 wealth: 1.689bn
Mahdi Al Tajir is a Bahraini-Emirati businessman who founded the Highland Spring bottled water empire. He spends much of his time at Keir House (pictured) in Perthshire. 2019 wealth: 1.66bn
Buckie-born businessman Trond Mohn and his sister, Marit Mohn Westlake, made their fortune in Norway. 2019 wealth: 1.602bn
The Thomson family own Dundee-based media business DC Thomson, which publishes newspapers and iconic comics such as the Beano - whose famous characters include Denis the Menace (pictured). 2019 wealth: 1.401bn
Philip Day is the CEO and owner of The Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group. He also owns The Scottish Deer Centre, a 55-acre wildlife sanctuary. 2019 wealth: 1.2bn
The family of Sir Arnold Clark, who died in 2017 aged 89, have built a fortune on sales of new and used cars. 2019 wealth: 1.178bn
