The richest self-made woman in the UK paid herself £217 million in 2016 and is said to have a personal fortune of circa £3.17 billion. A former betting shop cashier, Denise Coates purchased the domain Bet365.com in 2000 and has since grown the operation into one of the world’s largest online gambling companies. A Sheffield University graduate and the daughter of the chairman of Stoke City F.C., this incredibly successful business titan is nicknamed ‘The Patron of the Potteries’ for employing a large number of people in Stoke-on-Trent. She lives surprisingly modestly with her husband and five children in a farmhouse in Cheshire.
The Roll Call - TYCOONS
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Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922)
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Hetty Green (AKA Henrietta Green, ‘The Witch of Wall Street,’ née Henrietta Robinson, 1834 – 1916)
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Denise Coates
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Trevor Hemmings CVO
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Herb Chambers (born Herbert G. Chambers)
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Leslie Wexner (AKA “Les” Wexner)
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Nicolas Berggruen (AKA “The Homeless Billionaire”)
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Sir Martin Sorrell (AKA “The Third Brother”)
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John Pappajohn
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Sir John Ritblat FRICS, FSVA
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Rich Ricci
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Richard Desmond (nicknamed “Mr Badger”)
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Howard Raymond
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Richard Caring
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Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken
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Urs Schwarzenbach
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Wafic Saïd
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James Sherwood
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Crispin Odey
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Vincent Tchenguiz
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Leona Helmsley (1920 – 2007)
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Gina Rinehart
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Alan Miller
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Owen Oyston
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Sidney Frank (1919 – 2006)
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Robert Maxwell (1923 – 1991)
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Nick & Christian Candy
Amazing success story. She must have made a lot of others very rich along the way too.