Harry Djanogly

Sir Harry Arieh Simon Djanogly,[1] CBE (born 1 August 1938) is an English textile manufacturer, art collector and philanthropist.

Djanogly, who is estimated to be worth £300 million, made his fortune from the merger of his Nottingham Manufacturing Company with other textile interests in 1986 to form Coats Viyella.

Born in France, Djanogly emigrated to the United Kingdom as a child fleeing from the Nazis and was naturalised a British subject on 1 November 1948.

[2][3] Djanogly is an active philanthropist and has an art collection that has been said to include the largest number of Lowrys in the world, as well as works by Picasso and Monet.

[12] In 2014, Djanogly and his wife were awarded the Prince of Wales Medal for Arts Philanthropy.