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Imran Hakim: My First Million

Less than three years after pitching his iTeddy idea on BBC2’s Dragon’s Den, the Bolton-based entrepreneur is expecting to turnover £20m

Jim Rogers: My First Million

He set up the Quantum fund with George Soros at age 27, made his first million by 35, retired at 37, motorcycled round the world at 47 – and has now relocated his family to the 21st century’s economic powerhouse

Lee Mears: My First Million

England rugby player Lee Mears, 30, might have expected another cap in today’s international against Argentina, had it not been for an injury sustained earlier this season.

Simon Weston: Raising a Million

Simon Weston, 48, joined the Welsh Guards at the age of 16 and served in Berlin, Northern Ireland and Kenya before being deployed to the Falkland Islands.

Gordon Roddick: My First Million

These days, the Body Shop co-founder puts his agricultural and business know-how to use in promoting fair trade and “difficult philantrophy”

Peter Alliss: My First Million

The BBC’s ‘Voice of Golf’ paid off his mortgages and passed his properties to his family – but he thinks inheritance tax is “disgraceful”

My First Million: Len Goodman

The ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ judge was advised to take up ballroom dancing after he got injured playing football – and he has now earned £1m from his TV work

My First Million: Gerald Ronson

Gerald Ronson, 70, left school at 14 to start work with his father in the furniture business. He went on to found property development company, Heron Group, in 1956.

My first million: Mark Gardiner

Mark Gardiner, 47, and his business partner Paul Maddison won £22.5m in the National Lottery in June 1995.

My First Million: Colin Jackson

The world-champion athlete turned commentator started a pension when he was 21, but now prefers to invest in property and solid gold watches