List of Top 100 Entrepreneurs in India | Best Successful and Famous Indian Entrepreneurs

Age: 72

Net Worth: $16.4 Billion

Industry: steel

• Savitri Devi Jindal was born on 20 March 1950 is a great Indian businesswoman
• She is the Chairperson of OP Jindal Group.
• Savitri Jindal is also the president of a well-known medical college and that is Maharaja Agrasen Medical College, Agroha.

Age: 67

Net Worth: $15.5 Billion (as of Jan)

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• Dilip Shanghvi was born on 1 October 1955 and is an Indian businessman.
• He is one of India's richest people.
• Dilip Shanghvi founded Sun Pharmaceuticals.
• The Indian Government has awarded him the honor of the Padma Shri in the year 2016.
• India Today's magazine has ranked Dilip Shanghvi the 8th most powerful people in India of year 2017.

Age: -

Net Worth: $15.2 Billion (2023)

Industry: diversified

Age: 55

Net Worth: $15 Billion

Industry: commodities

• Kumar Mangalam Birla was born on 14 June 1967 is an Indian industrialist.
• He is also the chairman of Aditya Birla Group, one of the huge multi-industry companies in India.
• Kumar Birla is the chancellor of Birla Institute of Technology & Science.
• He is the chairman of a well-know institution that is Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) also for the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Age: -

Net Worth: $14.6 Billion

Industry: diversified

• Bajaj family owns and controls the 95 year-old Bajaj Group.
• Bajaj Group is mainly known for its motorcycle maker Bajaj Auto, its financial services arm and also the Bajaj Finserv. 
• Patriarch Rahul Bajaj is the chairman of Bajaj Group (pictured person), and he shares this with his fellow cousins Madhur, Niraj and Shekhar.
• Rahul Bajaj's younger son Sanjiv is currently running Bajaj Finserv and it is family's #1 asset.

Age: 65

Net Worth: $14.5 Billion

Industry: telecom

• Sunil Bharti Mittal was born on 23 October 1957 and is an Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• He is the founder and chair-person of Bharti Enterprises.
• Bharti Airtel is the group's main company is one of the world's largest telecom company.

Age: 58

Net Worth: $14.2 Billion (Forbes 2022)

Industry: diversified

Age: -

Net Worth: $13.9 Billion (Forbes 2022)

Industry: consumer goods, real estate

Age: 77

Net Worth: $12.6 Billion

Industry: adhesives

• Madhukar Parekh is a well-known Indian entrepreneur.
• He is the chairman of Pidilite Industries which is a global company.  
• Madhukar is 17th richest Indian with a net worth of US$7.2 billion according to forbes 2020.

Age: -

Net Worth: $9.6 Billion

Industry: consumer goods

• Five branches of the Burman family share a consumer goods fortune drawn mainly from their majority stake in listed flagship Dabur.
• The Burman family has their majority stake in their flagship brand Dabur and many more.
• The brand known as Dabur which is a company came into existence in 1884 in Kolkata and the person behind it was S.K. Burman.
• This company started by Burman is a path of ayurveda and it is to make medicines so that people can fight diseases such as malaria and cholera naturally.
• This family's private holdings do range from many restaurants to home healthcare to life insurance and lots more.

Age: 77

Net Worth: $9.3 Billion

Industry: software services

• Azim Hashim Premji was born on 24 July 1945 is an Indian business tycoon, engineer, investor and also a philanthropist.
• He was the former chairman of Wipro Ltd.
• He is generally known as the Czar of IT Industry in India.
• He was the backbone and responsible for getting Wipro through four decades of growth and diversification, to finally making it as one of the global leaders in the IT/software industry.
• In the year 2010, he was listed among the 20 most influential and powerful men in the world by the Asiaweek magazine.

Age: 91

Net Worth: $8.8 Billion

Industry: real estate

• Kushal Pal Singh in 1961 left the army position. So that, he can work and help DLF company which was started by his father in law in the year 1946.
• Kushal Pal Singh later built Delhi Land & Finance (DLF) City in Gurgaon, by acquiring land from local farmers.
• At present, this Delhi based Delhi Land & Finance company, is running under his son rajiv as chairman
• DLF is India's largest listed property firm by market cap.

Age: 80

Net Worth: $8.4 Billion

Industry: paints

• Ashwin Suryakant Dani is an Indian businessman.
• He is the non-executive chairman of the Asian Paints Ltd. company
• Asian Paints Ltd. is the largest paint making company in India with operations in around 16 countries. 
• He was used to be the vice chairman and also the managing director of Asian paints Ltd., That is from Dec 1998 to Mar 2009.

Age: 68

Net Worth: $8.1 Billion

Industry: soft drinks, fast food

• India's cola king, Ravi Jaipuria, presides over the $1.7 billion (revenue) drinks and foods group RJ Corp.
• His listed flagship Varun Beverages is one of PepsiCo's biggest bottlers outside the U.S.
• The youngest of three brothers, Jaipuria studied in the U.S. and returned home in 1985 to join the family business as a bottler for Coca-Cola.
• After a family division in 1987, in which he got one bottling plant as his share, he switched to PepsiCo.
• Jaipuria's other interests include minority stakes in healthcare firm Medanta and listed budget hotel chain Lemon Tree.

Age: -

Net Worth: $6.8 Billion

Industry: paints

• Brothers Gurbachan Singh and Kuldip Singh Dhingra owners and manages Berger Paints India which is India's second-largest paint maker company.
• In the year 1991 these two brothers bought Berger Paints from the controversial businessman Vijay Mallya.
• Other than India this company Berger paints has an huge presence in countries like Russia, Bangladesh, Nepal and Poland.

Age: 80

Net Worth: $6.6 Billion

Industry: motorcycles

• Vikram Lal's company- Eicher Motors manufactures the iconic vehicles Royal Enfield motorbikes and he is the two-wheeler tycoon in India.
• Eicher company has only three factories in the country. Still they have already sold more than 697,582 bikes in the financial year-- FY20, but that is a 15% less selling from 2019.
• His son Siddhartha stepped down as chief executive in April 2019 but stayed on as managing director.
• Eicher is joined by a venture called Volvo from Sweden to manufacture busses and trucks.
• Man Mohan Lal, who is Vikram's father have opened a tractor shop and named it as Goodearth Company in the year 1948 and later partnered with German firm Eicher to manufacture tractors.

Age: 81

Net Worth: $6.5 Billion

Industry: paints

• Mahendra Choksi is the son of one of four co-founders of listed company Asian Paints.
• Mahendra Choksi was the late Ashwin's brother. His son, Manish Choksi is now the company's vice chairman
• Asian Paints is India's leading paint maker or manufacturer.
• His main source of wealth is from Asian paints.

Age: 71

Net Worth: $6.45 Billion

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• Scientist Murali Divi founded Divi's Laboratories about 30 years ago as a drug research company.
• At this date, this firm is one of the world's top suppliers of pharmaceutical materials and ingredients.
• Divi's laboratories also do manufacturing parts for giant pharmaceutical companies and manufacture nutraceuticals.
• This company generates more than 80% of its annual revenue by exporting products and that is around $755 million.

Age: -

Net Worth: $6.4 Billion

Industry: pharmaceuticals, power

• Sudhir & Samir Mehta generated the large part of their wealth from a company named Torrent Pharmaceuticals
• This is a flagship of the more than $3 billion in revenue as Torrent Group.
• Torrent which is a 61-year-old business company was founded by their late father- Uttambhai Nathalal Mehta. 
• Uttambhai Mehta was a salesman for Swiss pharmaceutical giant that is Sandoz company.

Age: -

Net Worth: $6.3 Billion

Industry: electrical equipment

• Mother and son Vinod and Anil Rai Gupta have generated there wealth from Havells India.
• Havells India company is run by Anil rai Gupta and manufactures everything from electrical appliances like lighting fixtures to fans and electrical  refrigerators to washing machines.
• Havells company was founded by Vinod's husband Qimat Rai Gupta in the year 1958.
• The Havells company has more than 14 factories and they sell in more than fifty countries worldwide.

Age: 89

Net Worth: $6.2 Billion

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• Hasmukh Chudgar founded Intas Pharmaceuticals in the year 1977.
• He has transferred operations to his sons i.e. Nimish and Binish. This is both guys running the $2 billion worth of a company.
• This company which is named Intas, it operates fifteen factories, of which 10 are in India and the rest are in Mexico and Europe.
• In the year 2019, the Intas company made an affordable drug that is for treatment of breast cancer called Eleftha.

Age: 91

Net Worth: $6 Billion

Industry: cement

• Benu Gopal Bangur generates his wealth by holding the majority stake in Shree Cement which is India's one of most cost effective cement manufacturing company.
• Shree cement company was started in the year 1979 in Jaipur city and sells branded cement under the popular names of Bangur Cement, Shree Ultra Jung Rodhak and Rockstrong cement.
• At present the Bangur cement company is running on the hands of his son Hari Mohan Bangur and his grandson named Prashant.

Age: 59

Net Worth: $5.9 Billion

Industry: investments

• Rekha Jhunjhunwala inherited a valuable stock portfolio from her late husband Rakesh Jhunjhunwala passed away in August 2022 at age 62.
• Son of an income tax officer, Jhunjhunwala started dabbling in stocks while still in college.
• He began investing with $100 in 1985 when the Bombay Stock Exchange Index was at 150; it now trades at over 38,000.
• His most valuable listed holding is watch and jewelry maker Titan, part of the Tata conglomerate.
• Jhunjhunwala also has stakes in privately held companies such as Star Health Insurance, Metro Brands and Concord Biotech.

Age: -

Net Worth: $5.8 B

Industry: diversified

• The Murugappa family controls the $5 billion (revenues) Murugappa group, founded in 1900 as a moneylending firm in Myanmar.
• The group has 28 businesses including nine listed companies making abrasives, auto components, bicycles, fertilizers and sugar.
• The group's marquee brands include BSA and Hercules for bicycles and Parry for sugar.
• Fourth generation family member M.M. Murugappan (pictured), has been group chairman since 2018.
• Valli Arunachalam, a daughter from the fifth generation, been fighting for a board position in the holding company.

Age: 71

Net Worth: $5.7 B

Industry: consumer goods

• Harsh Mariwala transformed the trading business of his family in edible oils and spices into consumer products called Marico.
• While Marico is known for its Saffola oil for cooking and Parachute oil for hair. These products are getting sold in more than 25 countries.
• Marico company even sells Saffola FITTIFY which is a kind of healthy soup. Marico has introduced many immunity boosting food products labeled Saffola ImmuniVeda.
• Harsh Mariwala's other entries consists of Kaya company which is a chain network of many skin care clinics.

Age: 87

Net Worth: $5.5 B

Industry: biscuits

• Vijay Chauhan is the patriarch of the family that controls Parle Products, best known for its popular glucose biscuit, Parle G.
• The privately held biscuit, confectionery and snacks maker gets the bulk of its estimated $1.6 billion in revenue from biscuits.
• The company donated 30 million biscuit packets during the coronavirus-related lockdown.
• The company also has factories overseas in eight countries, including Mexico.
• Chauhan's son Ajay and his nephews work at Parle.

Age: -

Net Worth: $5.45 B

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• These are three siblings, whose family once owned a pharmacy in Jaipur city. 
• They started Macleods Pharmaceuticals in the year 1986 to manufacture anti-TB medicines.
• This privately held company makes and produces generics materials for a range of diseases which includes asthma, diabetes and osteoporosis disease.

Age: 67

Net Worth: $5.4 B

Industry: retail

• Yusuff Ali Musaliam Veettil Abdul Kader, generally known him as Yusuff Ali M.A. was born on 15 November 1955 is a Dubai based Indian billionaire businessman. 
• Yusuff is the chairman and managing director of a multi-industry group called LuLu Group International.
• Special thing about LuLu Group International is that it employs the largest number of Indian employees outside the India.

Age: 70

Age: 67

Age: -

Net Worth: $4.9 B

Industry: airlines

• Father and son Kapil Bhatia and Rahul Bhatia's most important asset is Inter Globe Aviation.
• By whose whose the IndiGo company is the largest airline by market share in India.
• They have a fleet of 283 aircraft and flew to 87 destinations which includes 24 overseas and of course it was before Covid-19 pandemic, which forced it to curtail operations.
• Its CEO is airline veteran Ronojoy Dutta, a former president of United Airlines.
• Airline veteran Ronojoy Dutta is the CEO of IndiGo and he used to be the president of United Airlines.

Age: 92

Net Worth: $4.55 B

Industry: chemicals

• Patriarch Devendra Jain divided the family's assets in Inox Group in 2021 between his two sons Pavan and Vivek.
• Elder son Pavan is chairman of the Inox Group which includes medical gas maker Inox Air Products and movie theater chain Inox Leisure Ltd.
• Younger son Vivek is chairman of the InoxGFL group which includes chemical maker Gujarat Flourochemicals; Inox Wind and and wind farm maintenance company Inox Green Energy Services.
• The Inox group has a chain of 167 cinema multiplexes, which were closed after the nationwide lockdown was imposed in March 2020.
• In 2019, the group demerged its chemicals business and brought in a separate management team for it.

Age: -

Net Worth: $4.5 B

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• Singh family owns a majority stake in Alkem Laboratories.
• Samprada Singh's cousin Basudeo Narain Singh now manages Alkem as an executive chairman of the company.
• To the end of 2020 this company Alkem reported a huge 48% rise in net growth and earnings to about USD $153 Million on revenue of around USD $1.1 billion.
• This generics company which is listed and have about 21 factories all across the country in India and USA.

Age: 76

Net Worth: $4.3 B

Industry: software services

• N.R. Narayana Murthy is the legendary cofounder and retired chairman of Indian tech giant Infosys, in which he continues to hold a minority stake.
• Murthy stepped down as chairman in 2011 after 30 years with the company but returned in 2013 to hand over management to a professional CEO in 2014.
• In 2017, Murthy was in the news for raising concerns over alleged corporate governance lapses at Infosys, which the company denied.
• The controversy led to the CEO's resignation and a board shakeup, which saw the return of retired cofounder Nandan Nilekani as nonexecutive chairman.

Age: 67

Net Worth: $4.2 B

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• Former pharma salesman Ramesh Juneja founded privately held Mankind Pharma with his younger brother Rajeev in 1995.
• The company is a low-cost generics champion generating most of its $810 million in revenue in India.
• Private equity firms Capital International and ChrysCapital are key investors in Mankind.
• Juneja's U.K.-educated son Arjun heads international operations.
• The company also makes popular brands of condoms and pregnancy test kits.

Age: 65

Net Worth: $4.1 B

Industry: infrastructure

• A farmer's son, P.P. Reddy founded Megha Engineering Enterprises to build small pipes for municipalities in 1989.
• He soon expanded into building infrastructure projects such as dams, natural gas distribution networks, power plants and roads.
• In 2006, he changed the company's name to Megha Engineering & Infrastructures.
• His nephew, P.V.Krishna Reddy, who joined him in 1991, runs the company.
• Megha is building India's largest lift irrigation project, worth $14 billion, in drought-prone Telangana state.

Age: 59

Net Worth: $4.08 B

Industry: retailing

• Former investment banker Falguni Nayar quit her job to start Nykaa, a retailer of beauty products in 2012.
• Nykaa's marquee investors include U.S. private equity giant TPG Growth as well as billionaires Harsh Mariwala and Harry Banga.
• Nykaa, which means "one in the spotlight," currently sells more than 4,500 brands online as well through more than 100 stores across India.
• Nayar took Nykaa public in November 2021, becoming India's richest self-made female entrepreneur in the process.
• Her twin daughter and son both work in the business and have board seats.

Age: 71

Net Worth: $4.05 B

Industry: financial services

• M.G. George Muthoot, who was chairman and ran the company with his three brothers, passed away in March 2021.
• Muthoot finance is the leader in India for gold.
• This Muthoot Group was founded by his grandfather in the year 1887 as a trader in timber and food grains and also supplying rations to huge British run plantations and more.
• Group company has more than 6 million active customers and around 5,500 branches all over India.

Age: 82

Net Worth: $4 B

Industry: real estate

• One of four brothers, Chandru Raheja ventured out on his own in 1996 after a split in his family's property empire.
• Today his privately held K. Raheja Corp. is one of Mumbai's leading developers and is run by his sons Neel and Ravi.
• Raheja is known for its IT parks, hotels, malls and listed department store chain, Shoppers Stop.
• In February 2019, Raheja listed his Chalet Hotels, which owns a string of hotels such as the J.W. Marriott in Mumbai and the Westin in Hyderabad.
• In August 2020, Raheja listed part of his commercial properties, co-owned with private equity firm Blackstone under the Mindspace Business Parks REIT.

Age: 86

Net Worth: $3.9 B

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• Yusuf Hamied is the non-executive chairman of $2.3 billion (revenue) generics maker Cipla.
• Cipla was founded in 1935 by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied, a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.
• After the patriarch passed away in 1972, Cambridge-educated Hamied and his brother Mustafa inherited the business.
• Hamied took on big pharmaceutical companies, offering low-cost generic drugs for diseases such as AIDS, earning the label of drug pirate.
• In 2020, Cipla launched a range of drugs to treat Covid-19, including a generic version of Remdesivir manufactured under license from Gilead Sciences.

Age: 55

Net Worth: $3.8 B

Industry: business software

• Sridhar Vembu is the founder and CEO of privately held Zoho, a maker of cloud-based business software.
• Vembu, who owns a majority stake in Zoho with his siblings, started the business as AdventNet along with two siblings and three friends.
• Zoho has 50 million users world wide and Zoho One is its flagship product with over 45 apps.
• Vembu has a ph.d. in electrical engineering from Princeton and started his career at Qualcomm in 1994.
• Zoha is building a new 375-acre campus in Austin, Texas, which will also house its Zoho University.

Age: 69

Net Worth: $3.77 B

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• Pankaj Ramanbhai Patel was born in 1952/1953 is an Indian businessman.
• Pankaj Patel is the chairman of Cadila Healthcare company which is the fifth largest pharmacy company in India.
• Pankaj Patel who is the Indian pharma magnate runs and manages Cadila Healthcare company. Cadila was co-founded by his father in 1952 to manufacture vitamins.
• This huge $2 billion dollars worth generics maker company Cadila is headquartered in Ahmedabad city.

Age: 45

Net Worth: $3.75 B

Industry: readymade garments

• Ravi Modi started Vedant Fashions, named after his only son, in Kolkata city in 2002 to manufacture traditional Indian garments.
• Vedant's popular brand Manyavar is best known for its men's kurtas, sherwanis and jackets and women's lehengas, sarees and gowns, aimed at the Indian wedding market.
• Modi's wife Shilpi has a board seat, while his son Vedant is the company's chief marketing officer.
• The $85 million (revenue) company has more than 600 stores across India and 11 international stores.

Age: 65

Net Worth: $3.74 B

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• The media-shy heir of a pharma fortune, Leena Tewari chairs privately held USV India, which her late father Vithal Gandhi set up with Revlon in 1961.
• USV specializes in diabetic and cardiovascular drugs, with a portfolio that spans biosimilar drugs, injectables and active pharmaceutical ingredients.
• The $468 million (revenue) company is run by her husband, Prashant, an Indian Institute of Technology grad and mechanical engineer from Cornell.
• In 2018, USV acquired German generics firm Juta Pharma for an undisclosed sum.
• USV is building a new formulations plant in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

Age: 69

Net Worth: $3.7 B

Industry: garments

• Sunder Genomal's Page Industries is one of the biggest licensees in the world for underwear maker Jockey.
• The Bangalore-headquartered Page Industries is also the exclusive Indian licensee of swimwear brand Speedo.
• Sunder, who shares his wealth with the two brothers, set up Page Industries in 1994 with the aim of bringing Jockey to India.
• Sunder's son Shamir is the company's chief strategy officer

Age: 82

Net Worth: $3.61 B

Industry: chemicals

• Arun Bharat Ram is chairman of $1.1 billion (revenue) SRF, a maker of specialty chemicals and packaging film.
• Bharat Ram started his career in 1967 with the Delhi Cloth & General Mills Co. Ltd. (now DCM Ltd.), owned by his family.
• He set up SRF in 1970, as a manufacturer of nylon tire cords. Today, the company has 13 manufacturing plants, including in Thailand and South Africa.
• Both his sons, Ashish and Kartik, help him run the business.

Age: 42

Net Worth: $3.6 B

Industry: edtech

• A former math tutor, Byju Raveendran founded online ed-tech company Byju's in 2011.
• The company's last funding round in December 2020 valued it at $12 billion. Byju's investors include Mark Zuckerberg and Tencent.
• Byju's flagship app, aimed at school children from grades one to 12, has registered a cumulative 42 million downloads.
• His wife Divya, who was one of his early students, helps him run the company and also sits on the board.
• Byju's is looking to hire 8,000 people in 2021 across content, sales and product development.

Age: 78

Net Worth: $3.59 B

Industry: consumer goods

• Mr. Nusli Wadia, chairman of Wadia Group which is a cookie manufacturing company, has hands on ship manufacturing past to year 1736.
• Wadia Group all companies consists of Britannia Industries and  textiles industries including popular name Bombay Dyeing company and well-known airline GoAir company.
• Britannia company is mainly known for its cookies which turned 100-years-old in 2018.
• Nusli Wadia is referred to be a corporate samurai by Indian media for fighting many legal battles.
• One most know battle against Tata Group in past and his old friend Ratan Tata.

Age: 69

Age: 66

Net Worth: $3.5 B

Industry: auto parts

• Vivek Chaand Sehgal chairs the $11.3 billion (revenue) Samvardhana Motherson Group, which was set up in 1975.
• Sehgal draws the biggest chunk of his wealth from flagship Motherson Sumi Systems, India's largest auto components maker by sales.
• The company, which has Japan's Sumitomo Wiring Systems as a partner, has 271 factories with operations in 41 countries.
• Its clients include Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, Ford and Toyota.
• Sehgal plans to demerge the domestic wiring harness business of Motherson Sumi Systems and list it separately in 2021.

Age: -

Net Worth: $3.45 B

Industry: financial services

• Brothers Nithin (pictured) and Nikhil Kamath founded discount brokerage Zerodha in 2010 and went on to disrupt the brokerage market in India.
• Zerodha has 3 million users, making it one of the top retail brokers in the country.
• Their venture capital fund and incubator, called Rainmatter, invests in fintech companies and ventures that promote financial inclusion.
• Their investment management firm True Beacon is aimed at ultra-high net worth investors and operates on a zero-fee model.

Age: -

Net Worth: $3.4 B

Industry: tractors

• The Amalgamations family is a storied south Indian clan known best for tractor manufacturer TAFE and diesel engine maker Simpson & Co.
• The 82 year-old group, founded by the late S. Anantharamakrishnan, has 47 companies and is chaired by his son, A. Krishnamoorthy.
• The chairman's niece Mallika Srinivasan, a Wharton grad, chairs TAFE, the world's third-largest tractor maker by volume.
• TAFE has U.S. agri-equipment major, AGCO as its joint venture partner.
• Tractor sales which were hit by the pandemic-induced lockdown saw a spurt in June and July 2020 thanks to an uptick in rural demand.

Age: 69

Net Worth: $3.35 B

Industry: cables & wires

• Inder Jaisinghani runs Polycab India, which makes electrical wires and cables. He started the company as a trading firm in 1986.
• International Finance Corporation, the private equity arm of the World Bank, picked up a stake in the company in 2008.
• In 2014, Polycab expanded into making products such as electric fans, LED lighting, switches and switchgear.
• The company went public in 2019.
• The stock got a boost in 2022 from increasing electrification and an uptick in spending in the power sector.

Age: 70

Net Worth: $3.34 B

Industry: diversified

• Brothers Shyam and Hari Bhartia run the Jubilant Bhartia group with interests in pharma, fast food, energy and auto distribution.
• Their pharma flagship, Jubilant Life Sciences, exports generics to 85 countries.
• Jubilant Foodworks has 1,335 Domino's Pizza outlets and 34 Dunkin Donuts stores in India. It also has ChefBoss, a new ready-to-cook range.
• Shares in their pharma unit soared in 2020 when it launched a generic version of Remdesivir, a drug to treat Covid-19.
• Shyam Bhartia is chairman while his younger brother Hari is co-chair and managing director.

Age: 67

Net Worth: $3.32 B

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• Ajay Piramal chairs Piramal Enterprises, a company with interests in pharma, healthcare and financial services.
• Piramal started out in his family's textile business at age 22 in 1977 but went on to build a pharma empire through acquisitions.
• Piramal inked his biggest deal in 2010 when he sold his domestic formulations business to Abbott Labs for $3.8 billion.
• Piramal's wife Swati is vice-chairman while his daughter Nandini and son Anand have board seats.
• In June 2020, Piramal Enterprises agreed to sell a 20% stake in its pharma subsidiary for $490 million to private equity firm, The Carlyle Group.

Age: 50

Net Worth: $3.3 B

Industry: consumer goods

• Acharya Balkrishna derives his fortune from consumer goods giant Patanjali Ayurved.
• Balkrishna owns the bulk of the privately held company, which he cofounded with politically well-connected yoga guru Baba Ramdev.
• Patanjali sells everything from herbal toothpastes and cosmetics to noodles and jams.
• To push online sales, Patanjali has agreements with several e-commerce giants, such as Amazon and BigBasket.
• In December 2019, Patanjali acquired debt-laden edible oils maker, Ruchi Soya for $610 million.

Age: -

Net Worth: $3.25 B

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• Dilip and Anand Surana run Bangalore-headquartered generics firm Micro Labs.
• The company makes drugs for cardiac diseases, diabetes and pain management. It also makes ophthalmic products for Bausch & Lomb's Asia-Pacific market.
• The privately held company gets nearly 60% of its annual revenue of $478 million from the domestic market.
• The company was founded by their late father G.C. Surana, a former pharma distributor, in 1973 in Chennai.

Age: 52

Net Worth: $3.22 B

Industry: real estate

• Property magnate Vikas Oberoi controls and runs Mumbai-listed Oberoi Realty, known for its high-end suburban condos.
• Oberoi owns a Westin hotel in suburban Mumbai and is building the city's first Ritz-Carlton hotel and residences.
• Oberoi, who is not related to the family behind the Oberoi hotel chain, is also building a mall, hotel and office tower in mid-town Mumbai.

Age: 61

Net Worth: $3.2 B

Industry: plastic pipes

• Chemical engineer Sandeep Engineer, started out working in the pharma industry before launching his own pharma venture in 1987.
• A decade later, he latched on to making plastic pipes, convincing India's plumbers about their superiority to metal pipes.
• Sales at his company, Astral (formerly Astral Poly Technik), got a boost when Bollywood actor Salman Khan became brand ambassador.

Age: 78

Net Worth: $3.15 B

Industry: automobiles

• Abhay Firodia is chairman of Force Motors, maker of vans, pickup trucks, SUVs and tractors and privately held auto parts firm Jayahind Industries.
• The company, previously known as Bajaj Tempo when it was a joint venture with the Bajaj clan, is run by his son Prasan since 2009.
• It was founded by his late father, Navalmal Firodia, in 1958, who fell out with the Bajaj family in 1968 after a bitter feud.
• The bulk of Firodia's wealth is from stakes he continues to hold in various Bajaj companies.
• Jaya Hind Industries, which has a joint venture with French auto parts firm Montupet, makes aluminum castings for the auto sector.

Age: 75

Net Worth: $3.13 B

Industry: agrochemicals

• Salil Singhal is the chairman emeritus of PI Industries, a maker of plant protection and nutrient products.
• The company was founded by his father P.P. Singhal in 1946 to manufacture edible oils.
• Singhal's son Mayank is the vice chairman and managing director and has been involved with PI Industries since 1996.

Age: 66

Net Worth: $3.1 B

Industry: jewelry

• Son of a jewelry store owner and school dropout, Joy Alukkas went to the Middle East to open the family's first overseas store in 1987 in Abu Dhabi.
• He broke off to launch his own Joyalukkas brand, which now has 84 outlets spread across India and 43 overseas.
• His other interests include a money exchange outfit, malls and real estate.

Age: 79

Net Worth: $3.06 B

Industry: consumer goods

• Karsanbhai Patel is the founder of Nirma. Started out by mixing detergents in his home backyard and selling them door-to-door.
• Karsanbhai Patel's Nirma brand fought a detergent war with giant competitors like Procter & Gamble and Unilever
• At present, Nirma brand is one of the largest producers of soda ash in the world by quantity.
• Nuvoco Vistas, which is his cement unit has completed a $730 million acquisition of Emami Cement Company in 2020.

Age: 67

Net Worth: $3.05 B

Industry: software services

• Cofounder of Infosys Senapathy "Kris" Gopalakrishnan retired from the company in 2014.
• He occupied various positions at Infosys including that of CEO and vice chairman.
• Since his retirement he has personally invested in a slew of startups through his business incubator Axilor Ventures and some venture funds.
• Gopalakrishnan has also funded and created Itihaasa, a digital app that chronicles the evolution of India's IT industry.

Age: 70

Net Worth: $3 B

Industry: industrial explosives

• Satyanarayan Nuwal started Solar Industries India in 1995 to trade in industrial explosives. Later he started manufacturing them.
• The biggest chunk of its annual revenue comes from exports, followed by housing and infrastructure, state-owned coal companies and the defense sector.
• The son of a government employee, Nuwal set up his first business, an ink manufacturing unit in 1970 at age 18.

Age: 71

Net Worth: $2.9 B

Industry: retail

• Middle East retail magnate Micky Jagtiani drove a taxi in London before moving to Bahrain and starting a baby products shop in 1973.
• He built it into the Dubai-headquarted Landmark Group, which his wife Renuka runs today as chairman and CEO.
• Landmark has 2,300 stores spread across 22 countries in the Middle East, Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

Age: 65

Net Worth: $2.8 B

Industry: tires

• Arvind Poddar and his family control Balkrishna Industries, which provides off-highway tires for the agriculture, mining and construction sectors.
• Poddar is chairman and managing director of the company while his son Rajiv is the joint managing director.
• With roots in the textile business going back to 1951, Balkrishna Industries started making bicycle tires in 1963.
• Poddar entered the off-highway tire market in the mid-1990s and now supplies to clients in Europe and the Americas.
• Poddar is setting up a tire plant in the U.S. to supply to the local market there.

Age: 67

Net Worth: $2.75 B

Industry: software services

• Nandan Nilekani is the cofounder of tech giant Infosys and its non-executive chairman since August 2017.
• Nilekani, who left Infosys in 2009, was brought back in 2017 after a boardroom shakeup at the company and the sudden departure of its CEO.
• Nilekani is credited with building Aadhaar, India's mammoth identity card scheme, while chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India.
• The tech magnate, who still has shares in Infosys, has backed Fundamentum, a $100 million venture capital fund aimed at technology companies.
• He and wife Rohini have signed the Giving Pledge. They run separate philanthropic arms, which focus on areas such as urbanization and biodiversity.

Age: 69

Net Worth: $2.7 B

Industry: biopharmaceuticals

• Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw was born on 23 March 1953 and is an Indian entrepreneur.
• She is the Founder and chair-person of Biocon Limited and also the Biocon Biologics Ltd.
• Biocon is a giant biotechnology company situated in Bangalore district, India
• She is also the former chairperson of IIM (Indian Institute of Management), Bangalore. 
• In the year 2014, she has been awarded the Othmer Gold Medal for her outstanding contributions to progress in science and chemistry.

Age: 57

Net Worth: $2.65 B

Industry: media

• The politician's son Kalanithi Maran dabbled in his family's modest publishing business before launching Sun TV Network in 1993.
• Sun is now a regional television heavyweight with 32 channels reaching more than 95 million households in India.
• Sun's reach also extends to the south Indian diaspora in 27 countries around the world.
• Maran's other interests include newspapers, radio and direct-to-home television.

Age: 65

Net Worth: $2.6 B

Industry: auto parts

• Nirmal Minda is chairman and managing director of UNO Minda (formerly Minda Industries), which makes a range of auto parts for cars and two-wheelers.
• The business was started by his late father in 1958, initially to make electric parts for motorcycles.
• Minda joined the family business in 1977 in the marketing division but eventually separated from his brother in 1996.

Age: 74

Net Worth: $2.4 B

Industry: engineering

• MIT engineer Baba Kalyani's Bharat Forge, which his son Amit helps him run, was founded by his father in 1966.
• Bharat Forge, best known for making auto parts, also manufactures components for sectors such as aerospace and oil and gas.
• Bharat Forge is the flagship of the $3 billion (revenue) Kalyani Group.
• Kalyani has a collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries to make air defense systems.

Age: -

Net Worth: $2.35 B

Industry: pharmaceuticals

• The Reddy family draws its wealth from a stake in listed generics maker Dr Reddy's Laboratories.
• The $2.3 billion (revenue) firm was founded in 1984 by the late K. Anji Reddy, the son of a turmeric farmer, to make pharma ingredients and generics.
• The company is now run by his son Satish Reddy and son-in-law G.V. Prasad (pictured). They are chairman and co-chairman respectively.
• In August 2020, the company launched a version of Favipiravir, a drug to treat Covid-19, under a licensing agreement with Fujifilm Toyama Chemical.
• Russia's sovereign wealth fund agreed to supply 100 million doses of its Sputnik V vaccine for Covid-19 to Dr Reddy's to distribute in India.

Age: -

Net Worth: $2.32 B

Industry: footwear

• Delhi-based brothers Ramesh Kumar (pictured) and Mukand Lal Dua get their wealth from a majority stake in Relaxo Footwears.
• The company is known for its affordable brands such as Sparx (sports shoes), Bahamas (flip flops) and Schoolmate (school shoes).
• Ramesh Kumar runs the company as managing director. Mukand Lal is a director on the board.
• The brothers joined their family business of footwear and bicycle parts in 1974.
• Today the company has eight factories with the capacity to produce 600,000 pairs a day.

Age: 92

Net Worth: $2.31 B

Industry: tractors

• Lachhman Das Mittal started his business career in 1990 at age 60 after retiring from the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India.
• Today his Sonalika Group is India's third-largest tractor maker by market share.
• Japanese firm Yanmar has a 30% stake in his tractor outfit International Tractors.
• Mittal has handed over operations to his sons Amrit Sagar and Deepak and grandsons Raman, Sushant and Rahul, but attends office every day.

Age: 61

Net Worth: $2.3 B

Industry: diversified

• Sanjiv Goenka controls the $4 billion (revenue) conglomerate RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, headquartered in Kolkata.
• Its flagship is 121-year-old power utility, CESC, which Goenka has restructured into four separate companies.
• Other assets include Supermarket chain Spencer's and snacks brand Too Yumm!, which son Shashwat looks after.
• Goenka owns a majority stake in football team ATK and had the 2-year franchise for Indian Premier League cricket team Rising Pune Supergiants.

Age: 60

Net Worth: $2.28 B

Industry: auto parts

• Motorcycle tycoon Rahul Bajaj's nephew Anurang Jain started Endurance Technologies in 1985 to supply aluminum castings to his uncle's Bajaj Auto.
• Jain and his family own a substantial stake in Endurance, which supplies parts for two-wheelers and three-wheelers in India and car parts in Europe.
• Endurance went public in 2016. It now has 17 factories in India and 10 in Europe.

Age: 75

Net Worth: $2.27 B

Industry: cement

• Yadu Hari Dalmia and the family of his late sibling Jai Hari Dalmia control the Dalmia Bharat Group.
• He and his brother inherited stakes in the group from his father Jaidayal Dalmia, who set it up in 1939. His brother Jai Hari passed away in July 2021.
• Listed Dalmia Bharat is the fourth-largest cement producer in the country, with 14 factories.

Age: 90

Net Worth: $2.26 B

Industry: healthcare

• Cardiologist Prathap Reddy, founded Apollo Hospitals Enterprise in 1983 after he returned from the US in the 1970s.
• The $1.9 billion (revenue) company operates a network of 71 hospitals, 268 primary care clinics and more than 4,700 pharmacies.
• His four daughters run the company. Eldest Preetha Reddy and third daughter Shobana Kamineni are executive vice chairpersons.

Age: 68

Net Worth: $2.25 B

Industry: diversified

• Low-profile Rajan Raheja hails from the sprawling Raheja property clan in Mumbai.
• After a family spilt, he went on to build a separate diversified empire that included interests in cement, batteries and cable television.
• Raheja's biggest asset is listed auto battery maker Exide Industries.
• He also owns listed cable television unit Hathway Cable & Datacom, in which Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has a majority stake.
• His son, Akshay Raheja, sits on the board of Raheja QBE General Insurance, a joint venture between his listed Prism Johnson and Australia's QBE Insurance.

Age: 80

Net Worth: $2.23 B

Industry: engineering

• Anu Aga derives her wealth from a majority stake in listed engineering firm Thermax.
• Aga started working at Thermax in 1985 when it was run by her husband and took the helm in 1996 after he died of a heart attack.
• She stepped down as chairman in 2004, ceding the spot to her daughter Meher, a UK-trained chemical engineer who lets hired executives manage the firm.

Age: 72

Net Worth: $2.22 B

Industry: footwear

• Rafique Malik's Metro Brands is a popular multi-brand footwear retailer with 624 stores across 142 cities in India.
• The $177 million (revenue), privately held company is known for its brands such as Mochi, Metro and Walkway.
• Farah Malik Bhanji, the second of his five daughters, runs the company as managing director.

Age: 68

Net Worth: $2.21 B

Industry: software services

• K. Dinesh is a cofounder of Indian tech giant Infosys.
• Since stepping down from the company's board in 2011, he and his wife Asha have devoted themselves to philanthropy.
• Ashraya Hastha Trust, their philanthropic arm, is two decades old and focuses on education, healthcare, animal welfare and agriculture.
• They have funded a cancer center at the Narayana Health Hospital and a clinic; the latter is on their ancestral land in Mysore city.

Age: 67

Net Worth: $2.2 B

Industry: diversified

• Anand Mahindra is the third generation scion of the Mahindra clan and chairs the $19.4 billion (revenue) Mahindra & Mahindra conglomerate.
• The group's operations span 22 industries from auto to information technology to real estate.
• Mahindra is best known for its tractors and its sports utility vehicles, such as the Scorpio and Bolero.
• Anand Mahindra also owns a small but valuable stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank.
• He relinquished his role as executive chairman and became non-executive chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra in April 2020.

Age: 59

Net Worth: $2.15 B

Industry: internet

• Indian internet pioneer, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, draws his wealth from listed Info Edge (India).
• Info Edge owns portals for job search (naukri.com), matrimony (jeevasathi.com); real estate (99acres.com) and education (shiksha.com).
• It also owns stakes in online food delivery outfit Zomato and insurance marketplace, policybazaar.com.
• Bikhchandani, who studied at the premier Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is founder and executive vice-chairman of Info Edge.

Age: 73

Net Worth: $2.1 B

Industry: dairy

• R.G. Chandramogan, a college dropout, started a tiny venture in 1970 to make ice cream.
• Today, his listed Hatsun Agro Product is India's largest private dairy company by sales.
• Everyday Hatsun gets milk directly from 400,000 farmers spread across 13,000 villages.
• Hatsun also exports dairy ingredients to more than 38 countries.

94. Ashok Boob