Top 10 Richest People In India

Richest People In India

10.Gautam Adani  : (Net Worth :- $6.3 Billion )

Gautam Adani

• Full Name       :-    Gautam Shantilal Adani
• Born                 :-    24 June 1962
• Occupation     :-   Chairman, Adani Group
• Known for       :-   Founder And Chairman, Adani Group
• Residence        :-    Ahemedabad, Gujrat, India
• Nationality      :-    Indian
• Spouse             :-   Priti Adnai
• Children          :-   Karan Adani, Jeet Adani
• Parents            :-   Shantilal and Shanta Adani
• Relatives         :-   Vinod Adani (Brothers)

Gautam Shantilal Adani (born 24 June 1962) is an Indian billionaire businessman who is the chairman and founder of Adani Group. According to Forbes, his net wealth is estimated to be $6.3 billion as of April 2017.  He founded the Adani Group in 1988, which now deals in businesses spanning coal trading, coal mining, oil & gas exploration, ports, logistics, power generation, agriculture, edible oils, transmission and gas distribution.

In 1988, he started Adani Enterprises Limited (formerly known as the Adani Export Ltd), the flagship company of the Adani Group, that traded in a variety of power and agricultural commodities. 

The 1991 economic liberalization policies fuelled the rapid growth of the business leading to huge profitability of Adani Exports. This provided further capital to Adani to expand his business. In 2006, Adani Exports was renamed to Adani Enterprises Limited. In 1993, the Government of Gujarat invited private companies to run the Mundra Port and in 1995 the contract was given to Adani Group. -(Wikipedia)

9.Cyrus  Poonawala  : (Net Worth :- $8.8 Billion )

Cyrus Poonawala

• Full Name       :-    Cyrus S. Poonawala
• Born                 :-    1945
• Occupation     :-   Chairman, Ponawala Group
• Known for        :-   Chairman, & Chancellor of the Serium Institute Of India
• Residence       :-    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Nationality     :-    Indian
• Spouse             :-   Villoo Poonawala
• Sibling             :-   Zavaray Poonawala
• Children          :-   Adar Poonawala
• Web Portal     :-  www.cyruspoonawala.com

Cyrus Poonawala was born in 1945 and seriously has one of the badass last name of all time.
Cyrus S. Poonawala is an indian Businessman , The chairman of Poonawal Group , Which includes Serum institute of India, the indian biotech company that manufactures paediatric vaccines.According to the forbes , his personal wealth is to be 8.5 USD Billion.

Vaccine billionaire Cyrus Ponawalla, who set up Serum Institute of India 50 years ago, gained on rising revenue and profit at the privately owned firm, which son, Adar, helps him run. Serum reported a record profit of $360 million on revenue of $695 million for the year ended March 2016. Poonawalla is investing $150 million in a factory to make a range of new vaccines, including for dengue, pneumonia and diarrhea. Adar featured among FORBES ASIA's Heroes of Philanthropy this year for donating $15 million to cleaning up Pune city, where the family resides.(Wikipedia).

8.Kumar  Birla  : (Net Worth :- $10.4 Billion )

Kumar Birla

• Full Name         :-    Aditya Vikram Kumar Mangalam Birla
• Born                   :-    14 June 1967
• Occupation       :-   Chairman, Aditya Group
• Known for          :-   Chairman, Adani Group, Chancellor of the Birla Institute Of  Technology.
• Residence          :-    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Nationality        :-    Indian
• Spouse               :-   Nirja Birla (1989)
• Sibling               :-   Vasavadatta  Bajaj
• Children            :-   Ananya Borla, Aryaman Vikram Birla, Advaithesha Birla

Kumar Birla was born in 1967 in rajasthan and hails from a family that has some of the richest history in all of India. Kumar Mangalam Birla is an Indian industrialist  and the Chairman of the Aditya Birla, Group, one of the largest conglomerate corporations in India.The Group is india's third largest business group . According to Forbes, his personal wealth is estimated to be 10.4 billion USD (April 2017).

Birla took over as chairman of the Aditya Birla Group in 1995, at the age of 28, following the death of his father Aditya Vikram Birla. During his tenure as chairman, the group's annual turnover has expanded from US$3.33 Billion in 1995 to US$41 billion in 2015.

Birla has received several accolades, including the International Advertising Association’s "CEO of the Year Award" in 2016; the US India Business Council's "Global Leadership Award" in 2014; Economic Times “Business Leader Award” in 2003 and 2013; Forbes India Leadership Award – Flagship Award “Entrepreneur of the Year 2012; NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards 2012, “Most Inspiring Leader”; CNBCTV18 IBLA “Business Leader for Taking India Abroad 2012”; CNN-IBN “Indian of the Year Award 2010”; JRD Tata “Leadership Award 2008”; NDTV’s “Global Indian Leader of the Year 2007”.

An educationist, Birla is the Chancellor of Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS). He is Chairman of IIT, Delhi, and Chairman of Rhodes India Scholarship Committee for Oxford University. He serves on London Business School’s Asia Pacific Advisory Board and is an Honorary Fellow of the London Business School.-(Wikipedia)

7.Adi Burjorji Godrej : (Net Worth :- $11.5 Billion )

Adi Godrej

• Full Name               :-    Adi Burjorji Godrej
• Born                         :-    3 april 1942 (Age 75 years )
• Occupation             :-   Chairman, Godrej Group
• Known for               :-   Chairman and CEO of  Godrej Industries.
• Residence               :-    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Nationality             :-    Indian
• Parents                    :-   Jai Godrej, Burjorji Godrej 
• Children                 :-    Pirojshah Adi godrej, Nisa godrej, Taanya Dubhash

The Godrej family, is an Indian parsi family that manages and largely owns the godrej groop , conglomerate founded by Ardeshir Godrej and his brother Burjorji Godrej  in 1987, spanning sectors as diverse as real estate , consumer produts, Industrial engineering, Appliances, furniture, security and agriculture products.Headed by adi godrej alongside his brother, nadir godrej , and cousin, Jamshyd Godrej , the family one of the the richest in india. According to forbes his personal income and wealth is arround to be 11.5 Billion USD.

The Godrej Group is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, managed and largely owned by the Godrej family. It was founded by Ardeshir Godrej and Pirojsha Burjorji Godrej in 1897, and operates in sectors as diverse as real estate, consumer products, industrial engineering, appliances, furniture, security and agricultural products.Subsidiaries and affiliated companies include Godrej Industries and its subsidiaries Godrej Consumer Products, Godrej Agrovet, and Godrej Properties, as well as the private holding company Godrej & Boyce-(Forbes)

6.Shiv Nadar  : (Net Worth :- $12.4 Billion )

Shiv Nadar

• Full Name               :-    Shiv Nadar
• Born                         :-    14 july 1945 (Age 71 Years)
• Occupation             :-    Chairman, HCL Enterprise
• Education               :-   PSG College of Technology, American College, Madurai
• Residence               :-    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Nationality             :-    Indian
• Spouse                    :-    Kiran Nadar
• Sibling                     :-    Promod mittal, Vinod Mittal, Seema Lohia
• Children                 :-     Vanisha Mittal, Aditya Mittal

Shiv Nadar was born in TamilNadu, India in the year 1945. Shiv Nadar is an indian industrialist  and philanthropist . He is the founder and chairman of HCL and Shiv Nadar Foundation . According to Forbes , his personal earnings is arround 12.9 USD Billion.

Nadar began his career at Walchand group's Cooper Engineering in Pune in 1967.he soon gave it up to begin his own venture, in partnerships with several friends and colleagues. These partners were Ajai Chowdhry (Ex-Chairman, HCL Infosystems), Arjun Malhotra (CEO and Chairman, Headstrong), Subhash Arora, Yogesh Vaidya, S. Raman, Mahendra Pratap and DS Puri.

The initial enterprise which Nadar and his partners began was Microcomp, a company which focused on selling teledigital calculators in the Indian market.HCL was founded in 1976, with an investment of Rs. 187,000.

In 1980, HCL ventured into the international market with the opening of Far East Computers in Singapore to sell IT hardware. The venture reported Rs 1 million revenue in the first year and continued to address the Singapore operations.Nadar remained the largest shareholder without retaining any management control.(Wikipedia)

5.Pallonji Mistry  : (Net Worth :- $14.7 Billion )

Paloonji Misty

• Full Name               :-    Paloonji Shapoorji Mistry
• Born                         :-    1929(Age 71 Years)
• Occupation             :-    Tycoon
• Residence               :-    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Nationality             :-    Irish,Indian
• Spouse                    :-    Path Perin Dubash
• Children                 :-     Cyrus Mistry, Shapoor Mistry, Laila Mistry, Aloo Mistry

Paloonji Mystry was born in 1929 and when he was only a few years old his father purchased 18.4% shares of the law firm Tata Sons. Paloonji Shapoorji Mystry is an irish Indian construction tycoon and chaiman of Shapoorji Paloonji Group (SP Group).Accoording to Forbes his personnal welath is 14.7 Billion USD.

 He is the former chairman of Associated Cement Companies. Pallonji gave up his Indian citizenship in 2003 to obtain Irish nationality, because India does not yet allow dual nationality . His son Cyrus was chairman of Tata Sons from November 2011 to October 2016.A short biography of Mistry was written in a 2008 book by Manoj Namburu titled The Moguls of Real Estate.He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in January 2016 by the Government of India for his contributions in the field of trade and industry-(Wikipedia).

4.Laxmi  Mittal  : (Net Worth :- $15 Billion )

Laxmi Mittal

• Full Name               :-    Laxmi Niwas Mittal
• Born                         :-    15 June 1950 (Age 67 Years)
• Occupation             :-   Chairman, Aditya Group
• Known for               :-   Chairman and CEO of  ArcelorMittal Group of companies.
• Education                 :-   St. Xaviers College Kolkata
• Residence               :-    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Nationality             :-    Indian
• Spouse                    :-   Usha Mittal
• Sibling                     :-   Promod mittal, Vinod Mittal, Seema Lohia
• Children                 :-  Vanisha Mittal, Aditya Mittal

Laxmi Niwas Mittal was born in 1950, Rajgarh, India.Laxmi mittal is an indian steel magnet , based in the United Kingdom. He is the Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the worlds largest steel making company .

Mittal owns 38% of ArcelorMittal and holds a 34% stakes in Queens park Ranger F.C .. According to forbes , his personal wealth is estimated arround to be 15 Billion USD.

Indian steel baron Lakshmi Mittal regains his status as the world's second richest Indian on an uptick in steel prices and demand. His ArcelorMittal, which had lost $7.9 billion in 2015, swung to a net profit of $1.8 billion in 2016, its first net profit since 2011. The world's biggest steelmaker also got a reprieve from import tariffs on steel imposed by the U. S. and Europe and a one-time $832 million saving from a new labor contract signed last year with its U.S. workers. The company, along with Italian steel firm Marcegaglia, has put in a bid to acquire Italy's loss making steel group Ilva, for an undisclosed price. Arcelor plans to build its new global headquarters in Luxembourg-.(Forbes).

3.Azim Premji  : (Net Worth :- $16.5 Billion )

Azim  Premji

• Full Name               :-    Azim Hashim Premji
• Known for               :-    Business Tycoon and Czar of IT
• Born                         :-    24 July 1945 (Age 71 Years)
• Education                 :-   Standford University(B.S.E)
• Residence               :-    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Nationality             :-    Indian
• Spouse                    :-   Yasmeen 
• Parents                    :-   Mohammad Hashim Premji
• Children                 :-   Rishad and Tareeq

Azim premji was born in 1945  to father Mohammed premji . Azim Hashim Premji is an indian businessman  and tycoon also known as investor and philanthrophist , who is the chirman of Wipro Limited , informly known as the Czar of the IT indian industries.Accordings to the forbes , his overall net income is arround 16.5 billion USD.

In 1945, Muhammed Hashim Premji incorporated Western Indian Vegetable Products Ltd, based at Amalner, a small town in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. It used to manufacture cooking oil under the brand name Sunflower Vanaspati, and a laundry soap called 787, a byproduct of oil manufacture. In 1966, on the news of his father's death, the then 21-year-old Azim Premji returned home from Stanford University, where he was studying engineering, to take charge of Wipro. 

The company, which was called Western Indian Vegetable Products at the time, dealt in hydrogenated oil manufacturing but Azim Premji later diversified the company to bakery fats, ethnic ingredient based toiletries, hair care soaps, baby toiletries, lighting products, and hydraulic cylinders. In the 1980s, the young entrepreneur, recognising the importance of the emerging IT field, took advantage of the vacuum left behind by the expulsion of IBM from India, changed the company name to Wipro and entered the high-technology sector by manufacturing minicomputers under technological collaboration with an American company Sentinel Computer Corporation.Thereafter Premji made a focused shift from soaps to software-(Wikipedia).

2.Dilip Shangvi  : (Net Worth :- $17.5 Billion )

Dilip Shangvi

• Full Name               :-    Dilip Shanghvi
• Known for               :-    Business Tycoon 
• Born                         :-    1 October 1955  (Age 62 Years)
• Education                 :-   University of Calcutta
• Residence               :-    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Nationality             :-    Indian
• Spouse                    :-   Vibha D Shanghvi
• Children                 :-   Alok Shanghvi

Dilip Shnghvi was born in 1955 in the small town of Amreli which is located in the state of Gujrat.He is well known businessman and tycoon and one of the richest person in the country .He founded Sun Pharmaceuticals with a partner , Pradeep Ghosh. The Government of india awarded him the civilian honour of the PADMA SHREE in 2016. According to the forbes his revenue and net income is arround 17.5 Billion USD.

He started by helping his father in his wholesale generic drugs business in Kolkata.It was during his work as a drugs distributor at Kolkata, he thought of manufacturing his own drugs instead of selling others' products.

Dilip Shanghvi started Sun Pharmaceutical Industries with capital of ₹10,000 in 1982 at Vapi, with one psychiatry drug and a partner, Pradeep Ghosh. In 1997, Sun acquired Caraco Pharma, a loss-making American company, with the aim of expanding Sun's reach in the United States.Sun also acquired Israel's Taro Pharma in 2007.^[Shanghvi stepped down as Chairman and CEO in 2012 and chose Israel Makov, formerly CEO of Teva Pharmaceuticals, as his successor.

 Shangvi became Managing Director.In April 2014 Sun, Ranbaxy, and Daiichi Sankyo (the majority shareholder in Ranbaxy) agreed that Sun would acquire all outstanding shares of Ranbaxy for $3.2B in Sun stock and that Sun would take on $800M in Ranbaxy debt; the deal closed in March 2015 and made Sun the largest drug company in India and the fifth largest in the world, and made Daiichi the second largest shareholder in Sun.As of August 2014, he had a net worth of $17.2 billion-(Wikipedia).

1.Mukesh Ambani  : (Net Worth :- $30.7 Billion )

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani

• Full Name               :-    Mukesh Dhirubai Ambani 
• Known for               :-    Business Magnate
• Occupation             :-   Chairman and MD of Reliance Group Limited.  
• Born                         :-    19 April 1957  (Age 61 Years)
• Education                 :-   Institute of Chemical Technology
• Residence               :-    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Nationality             :-    Indian
• Spouse                    :-    Nita Ambani 
• Children                 :-    Isha ambani, Akash Ambani, Anant Ambani
• Sibling                    :-    Anil Ambani (Brother)
• Parents                   :-   Dhirubhai and Kokilaben Ambani

Not only is Mukesh Ambani the Richest man in india but he is also the richest man in all od Asia .Born in Yemen in 1957 to parents Dhirubai and Kokilaben Ambani, Mukesh would early on be intrested in studing Chemicals .Mukesh Dhirubai Ambani is an Indian business magnate who is the Chairman, Managing Director nad largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited, a fortune 500 company and india's most valuable company by market value.According to the forbes the net income of overall wealth of mukesh ambani is 30.7 billion USD.

In 1980, the Indian government under Indira Gandhi opened PFY (polyester filament yarn) manufacturing to the private sector. Dhirubhai Ambani applied for a license to set up a PFY manufacturing plant. In spite of stiff competition from Tatas, Birlas and 43 others, Dhirubhai was awarded the licence. To help him build the PFY plant, Dhirubhai pulled his eldest son Mukesh out of Stanford where he was studying for his MBA. Mukesh Ambani, then discontinued the program to help his father and initiated Reliance's backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals, beginning in 1981.

Mukesh Ambani set up Reliance Infocomm Limited (now Reliance Communications Limited), which was focused on information and communications technology initiatives.

Ambani directed and led the creation of the world's largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, India, which had the capacity to produce 660,000 barrels per day (33 million tonnes per year) in 2010, integrated with petrochemicals, power generation, port and related infrastructure.

In December 2013 Ambani announced, at the Progressive Punjab Summit in Mohali, the possibility of a "collaborative venture" with Bharti Airtel in setting up digital infrastructure for the 4G network in India.

In February 2014, an FIR has been filed against Mukesh Ambani for alleged irregularities in the pricing of natural gas from K G Basin. Arvind Kejriwal, who had a short stint as Delhi's chief minister and had ordered the FIR against has accused various political parties of being silent on the gas price issue. Kejriwal has asked both Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi to clear their stand on the gas pricing issue. Kejriwal has alleged that the Centre inflated the price of gas to eight dollars a unit though Mukesh Ambani's company spends only one dollar to produce a unit, which meant a loss of Rs. 540 billion to the country annually.

On 18 June 2014, Mukesh Ambani, addressing the 40th AGM of Reliance Industries, said it will invest Rs 1.8 trillion (short scale) across businesses in the next three years and launch 4G broadband services in 2015.In February 2016, Mukesh Ambani-led Jio launched its own 4G smartphone brand named LYF. In June 2016, it was India's third-largest-selling mobile phone brand-(Wikipedia).