The Sunday Times Rich List 2026 featured the bet365 owners, the Done brothers, and various other gambling industry figures with deep pockets.
The Hinduja family continue in their place as the wealthiest people in the UK, but runners-up the Reuben Brothers rank as arguably the highest placed entry relevant to the gambling industry.
Although the pair’s wealth stems initially from metal trading in the 80s and 90s, with their £28bn fortune consolidated by dealings in real estate and various other investments, they also own Arena Racing Company, operator of 16 racecourses across the UK.
Industry mainstays
A family with an even higher profile in the gambling industry are the Coates (Denise, John and Peter), who dropped one place from last year into 17th.
However, the bet365 owners do not have cause to fret over their Rich List relegation, with the family’s wealth increasing by £283m to £9.72bn.
Further reflecting the operator’s standing, minority shareholder and early investor Will Roseff also features on the list in 239th place – his 6.7% stake in bet365 has gone a long way in netting him a worth of £591m.
The Done brothers are also very familiar figures in lists such as these, with their £3.61bn of wealth from Betfred seeing them place 46th.
Other high-flying industry figures include the Isle of Man-dwelling Mark Scheinberg, who co-founded PokerStars, BetVictor’s Tabor family and PartyGaming’s Parasol family.
Investors
Aside from those industry mainstays, there are a few interesting and indirectly relevant entries to the list.
New York’s own Kalshi is not a business that would necessarily be associated with UK rich lists, but 34th place has plenty to do with the prediction market giant.
Sequoia Capital has helped Welsh venture capitalist Sir Michael Moritz and his wife, Harriet Heyman, reach a fortune of £5.48bn, up £1.05bn since 2025, and the success of Kalshi has played a part in that.
Involved since the early days, Sequoia bought in at the prediction market operator’s Series A funding round in 2021.
The investment firm was also part of a group of 24 investors that raised $1bn for Kalshi towards the end of 2025 and helped send the company’s valuation stratospheric.
Gambling-adjacent figures
There are still more high-profile names that catch the eye when browsing the list through a gambling industry lens.
Richard Desmond, for instance, has troubled the gambling news plenty over the past couple of years and slots in at 120th.
His failed bid for the National Lottery licence led the former Channel 5 owner to pursue drawn-out legal action, a case that was finally dismissed, pending appeal, in April 2026.
Elsewhere, Tony Bloom owns both Brighton and Hove Albion FC and 29% of Heart of Midlothian FC, but he is also well known for playing high-stakes poker and heading up a private betting syndicate.
After Celtic dramatically overhauled Hearts for the title on the final day of the Scottish Premiership, Bloom may yet take some comfort from having broken into the Sunday Times’ top 200, with a fortune of £779m, up £58m year-on-year.
