Research project
People who control many UK companies
Every UK company must name its people with significant control: those who own or control it. We identified the people named as a person with significant control of the most companies, from the Companies House register of 31 October 2026. Each has a page listing every company they are named for, including companies since dissolved, and those where their control has ended.
Compiled using data from Companies House (register of people with significant control, 31 October 2026) and OpenRegistry.
- People
- 3,707
- Companies they are named for
- 141,866
- Most companies, one person
- 2,224
How people were identified
The register has no reference number for a person, so a person here is a name together with the month and year of birth recorded for it. Two different people with the same name and the same month and year of birth would be counted as one; one person recorded under different spellings would be counted apart. Addresses and dates of birth are not shown.