Alan Sugar: The Baron of Success

Alan Michael Sugar, also known as Baron Sugar, is an English media personality, political advisor, and business magnate. He is said to have an estimated fortune of £770 million, which is equivalent to about 1.14 billion USD. He was also ranked 89th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2011.

Sugar was born in Hackney, east London. He was from a Jewish family and is the youngest of four children. When he was young, his family lived in a council flat. After leaving school when he was 16, he worked as a statistician at the Ministry of Education. He also began to sell car aerials and electrical goods out of a van that he had bought from his savings of £50.

Sugar was the chairman of Tottenham Hotspur from 1991 to 2001. He can be seen in BBC’s The Apprentice, which is based upon the popular TV series of the same title.