Top 10 Richest Person in The India
With exponential growth being what is currently happening to India's economy, it could very well be one of the pretty frequent questions floating across your mind. A record number of Indians, 200 of them in all, make it to Forbes' 2024 World's Billionaires list. No surprise that the list is topped by Mukesh Ambani, and then follows all the big guns, including Gautam Adani and Shiv Nadar. This post brings to you the list of the top 10 richest people in India, courtesy.
S.N. | Name | Company | Net worth |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Mukesh Ambani | Reliance Industries Ltd | $123.7 billion |
2 | Gautam Adani | Adani Groups | $83.4 billion |
3 | Savitri Jindal & family | O.P. Jindal Group | $40.7 billion |
4 | Shiv Nadar | HCL | $35 billion |
5 | Dilip Shanghvi | Sun Pharmaceuticals | $26 billion |
6 | Kumar Birla | Aditya Birla Group | $24 billion |
7 | Cyrus Poonawalla | Serum Institute of India | $22.4 billion |
8 | Radhakishan Damani | Avenue Supermarkets | $22.8 billion |
9 | Kushal Pal Singh | DLF Limited | $18.4 billion |
10 | Ravi Jaipuria | RJ Corp | $17.4 billion |
- 1. Mukesh Ambani
Age: 66 Years Net Worth: $123.7 B Source: Reliance Industries Ltd
Now, at 66, his net worth is $110.9 billion, at the pinnacle of India's wealth hierarchy. He led as the Managing Director and Chairman of Reliance Industries. Ambani runs a large company with revenues in excess of Rs 8 lakh crore ($104 bn). The business profile of Reliance Industries runs throughout: petrochemicals, oil and gas, retail, telecom—in all. His involvement in the Ambani family is further extended by his three children: Akash, Anant, and Isha. Each of them manages a different division of this corporate giant.
- 2. Gautam Adani
Age: 61 Years Net Worth: $83.4 B Source: Adani Group
Gautam Shantilal Adani's investment career has been more than successful, which is portrayed by his current net worth of US$77.8 billion, all because of the efforts of the Adani Group. He led this multinational conglomerate to become the monopolistic inhabitant in the sector of port operations and development across India. Of note, Adani's wife, Priti Adani, chaired the Adani Foundation, which he founded in 1996. Businesses under its umbrella range from, among others, ports and airports to power generation and transmission, renewable energy. However, Hindenburg Research charged Adani with financial misbehavior and market manipulation. This forces a massive decline of over $120 billion in Adani's firm market valuation following the publication of their findings.
- 3. Savitri Jindal & family
Age: 73 Years Net Worth: $40.7 B Source: O.P. Jindal Group
Savitri Jindal serves as the emeritus chair of the O.P. Jindal Group, which she led after her husband's demise. An Indian politician and businesswoman, she has four sons: Prithviraj, Sajjan, Ratan, and Naveen Jindal, who run various businesses under the group. The JSW Sports business sector is one of the businesses running under the group and makes immense contributions towards the creation of a vibrant sports ecosystem in India. She is proudly known as the richest woman in India.
- 4. Shiv Nadar
Age: 78 Years Net Worth: $35.0 B Source: HCL Enterprise
Shiv Nadar is the founder of HCL Technologies, one of the largest IT services companies in India, based out of Noida. He started HCL in 1976 and went on to give India a share in the global IT scenario. He put his company on the global map and took innovation from his own industry to make HCL a leader in IT services worldwide, by riding the global wave of outsourcing.
- 5. Dilip Shanghvi
Age: 67 Years Net Worth: $26.0 B Source: Sun Pharmaceuticals
At 67 years, Dilip Shanghvi is worth US$23.9 billion, basing his net worth on revolutionary work at Sun Pharmaceutical Industries. Under his watch, Sun Pharmaceutical made history as the first Indian pharmaceutical company to reach a valuation of US$5 billion. Such was the boom in Shanghvi's growth profile when, in 2014, the company made a very significant acquisition in Ranbaxy Laboratories at a value of US$4 billion, which was a radical step in the evolution of this company.
- 6. Kumar Birla
Age: 57 Years Net Worth: $24.0 B Source: Aditya Birla Group
Kumar Birla is an international figure in the commodities industry and heads the Aditya Birla Group, which is an Indian diversified business group working on aluminum, cement, financial services, and many other sectors. Further, he remained a non-executive chairman of Vodafone Idea—one of the major telecommunication companies—until his resignation in 2021 due to the escalating debt issues of the company. The latest, however, is that Birla has been reinstated as the non-executive director of Vodafone Idea, coinciding with its epic ₹18,000 crore FPO that is the largest ever in India's history. This is indeed a defining moment for Vodafone Ideachristened "Vodafone Idea 2.0"-in view of its intensive program on network improvements and 5G rollouts.
- 7. Cyrus Poonawalla
Age:83 years Net Worth:$22.4 B Source:Serum Institute of India
Cyrus Poonawalla is the founder of Serum Institute of India, located in Pune—the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. Founded in 1966 under the great hands of Poonawalla, he has contributed tremendously toward global health, more so in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic through affordable vaccines on a mass scale with great strides in public health.
- 8.Radhakishan Damani
Age:69 years Net Worth:$21.8 B Source:Avenue Supermarkets
One such Indian entrepreneur and value investor is Radhakishan Shivkishan Damani. He is known because of the parent company of Avenue Supermarts Limited, operating about 336 DMart stores in India. He is also called India's retail king. His journey began from Mumbai in 2002. He also holds control over his investment activity through his company named Bright Star Investments Limited. He also has stakes in VST and India Cement, and the property portfolio includes Radisson Blu Resort in Alibaug.
- 9 . Kushal Pal Singh
Age:92 years Net Worth:$18.4 B Source:DLF Limited
Kushal Pal Singh is chairman emeritus at DLF, the largest listed real estate company in India by market capitalization. A veteran of the army, Singh joined DLF—a company founded by his father-in-law—in 1961. He built DLF City in Gurgaon after that and headed it for over five decades. Now he serves as chairman emeritus. HELD by his son, Rajiv Singh Pal, chairman of the realty today, the Delhi-headquartered company is. The year 2022 saw DLF accounted for with the launch of a luxury residential project within Delhi along with GIC.
- 10.Ravi Jaipuria
Age: 69 Years Net Worth: $17.4 B Source of Wealth: RJ Corp
Ravi Jaipuria is referred to as the man who made India drink a little more and eat a little more. He is the owner and chairman of RJ Corp, and his business interests span from beverages and fast food to healthcare and education. Under the group umbrella, he oversees Varun Beverages—named after his son—which is the largest bottling partner for PepsiCo's soft drink brands outside the US. There is also Devyani International—named after his