The Sunday Times Rich List has been issued today, peppered with people from the Red Rose area - one of them has even made £500m in the last year, and another has lost £97m.
To find out who they are - and how they made their money - click on the pages below.
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5. Tim Knowles - £735m
Chorley's Tim Knowles is worth £735m, with no change from last year. Knowles not only left school at 16 without a qualification. He wasn’t even able to read or write. Starting out by cleaning cars and selling ice-creams from a van, a year later he would buy his first property – a fishmonger’s in Chorley. After cleaning it out he rented it to other businesses. That would be the start of his FI Real Estate Management, a real estate outfit now overseeing assets worth more than £1.2bn, including Botany Bay. | Neil Cross-National World
6. Matt and Jodie Moulding
Colne-born Matt Moulding and his wife Jodie are worth £573m, down £97m since last year. This puts them in 257th place in the 2025 Rich List. Matt, who attended St John Fisher and Thomas More Roman Catholic High School, is the founder and CEO of internet retailer THG plc. In 2021 the father-of-four was said to be worth £1.4 billion in 2021. | submit Photo: UGC
7. Matthew Riley - £500m
Daisy founder and chairman Matthew Riley is worth £500m, placing him in 273rd place in 2025. The telecoms entrepreneur who went to Fisher More High School in Colne and still lives in Burnley. He left school at 16 to take up a trainee scheme as a fax machine engineer. | Wayne Myers Photo: Wayne Myers