The number of Indian billionaires doubled from
24 last year to 49 this year in Forbes’ list of
billionaires. China, with 64, had the most Asian billionaires. Mukesh Ambani
again topped the Indian list. Globally, Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu
($53.5 billion) displaced Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($53 billion) as the
world’s richest person
Forbes Rank |
Name |
Age |
Value $Billion |
4 |
Mukesh Ambani |
52 |
29 |
5 |
Lakshmi Mittal |
59 |
28.7 |
28 |
Azim Premji |
64 |
17 |
36 |
Anil Ambani |
50 |
13.7 |
40 |
Shashi & Ravi Ruia |
66 |
13 |
44 |
Savitri Jindal |
60 |
12.2 |
74 |
Kushal Pal Singh |
78 |
9 |
86 |
Kumar Birla |
42 |
7.9 |
87 |
Sunil Mittal |
52 |
7.8 |
113 |
Anil Agarwal |
56 |
6.4 |
148 |
Adi Godrej & family |
67 |
5.2 |
167 |
Gautam Adani |
47 |
4.8 |
173 |
Dilip Shanghvi |
54 |
4.6 |
201 |
Shiv Nadar |
64 |
4.2 |
297 |
G. M. Rao |
59 |
3.2 |
297 |
Malvinder & Shivinder Singh |
37 |
3.2 |
316 |
Uday Kotak |
51 |
3 |
342 |
Kalanithi Maran |
44 |
2.9 |
354 |
Subhash Chandra |
59 |
2.8 |
354 |
Indu Jain |
73 |
2.8 |
354 |
Micky Jagtiani |
58 |
2.8 |
463 |
Sudhir & Samir Mehta |
55 |
2.1 |
488 |
Cyrus Poonawalla |
68 |
2 |
488 |
Rajan Raheja & family |
55 |
2 |
488 |
Yusuf Hamied & family |
73 |
2 |
582 |
Baba Kalyani |
61 |
1.7 |
616 |
Gautam Thapar |
49 |
1.6 |
616 |
N.R. Narayana Murthy & family |
63 |
1.6 |
655 |
Pankaj Patel |
57 |
1.5 |
655 |
Chandru Raheja |
69 |
1.5 |
655 |
Desh Bandhu Gupta |
72 |
1.5 |
721 |
Jaiprakash Gaur |
79 |
1.4 |
721 |
Ramesh Chandra |
70 |
1.4 |
721 |
Nandan Nilekani & family |
54 |
1.4 |
773 |
Rama Prasad Goenka |
80 |
1.3 |
773 |
Senapathy Gopalakrishnan & family |
54 |
1.3 |
828 |
Anand Jain |
53 |
1.2 |
828 |
Vikas Oberoi |
39 |
1.2 |
880 |
Rahul Bajaj |
71 |
1.1 |
880 |
Vinod Goenka |
51 |
1.1 |
937 |
Vijay Mallya |
54 |
1 |
937 |
Ajay Piramal |
54 |
1 |
937 |
K. Anji Reddy |
68 |
1 |
937 |
Rakesh Wadhawan & family |
57 |
1 |
937 |
Benu Gopal Bangur |
78 |
1 |
937 |
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala |
49 |
1 |
937 |
Shahid Balwa |
36 |
1 |
937 |
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