With a net worth of $92.7 billion, according to Forbes, the Chairman of Reliance Industries tops the list, yet again. During the lockdown period, Ambani raised $20 billion, by selling one-third of the stake of Jio to investors like Google and Facebook. He has remained at the top place for more than 10 years now.
Gautam Adani
The infrastructure tycoon has a net worth of $74.8 billion. Apart from infra, he has business interests in power generation and transmission, edible oil and real estate as well. Interestingly, Adani owns a 74 per cent stake in Mumbai International Airport.
Shiv Nadar
With a net worth of $31 billion, the co-founder of HCL ranks third this year. He is a leading philanthropist and has donated more than $662 million to his Shiv Nadar Foundation. His daughter, Roshni Nadar Malhotra, is the current Chairman of HCL Technologies.
Radhakishan Damani
Damani has a net worth of $29.4 billion. He owns 214 DMart stores across the country. In 2017, he became India’s retail king after a successful IPO of his supermarket chain Avenue Supermart.
Cyrus Poonawalla
The founder of Serum Institute of India, Poonawalla has a net worth of $19 billion. SII is the world’s largest vaccine maker. During and after Covid-19’s second wave, the majority of Indians got vaccinated with Covishield, a product of SII.
Lakshmi Mittal
The Chairman of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel and mining company, Mittal has a net worth of $18.8 billion. He has been frequently featured on the list of richest Indians. In January 2021, Mittal gave the CEO’s position to his son Aditya Mittal.
Savitri Jindal
The Richest Indian woman, Jindal has a net worth of $18 billion. She is the Chairperson of Jindal Group, founded by her late husband, Om Prakash Jindal. In 2005, after Jindal’s sudden death, the group got divided among their four sons.
Uday Kotak
Founder of Kotak Mahindra Bank, Uday Kotak has a net worth of $16.5 billion. The bank, which is now among the top four private banks in the country, was converted to a bank from a finance firm that Kotak founded in 1985. He was, initially, backed by Anand Mahindra for the bank.
Pallonji Mistry
Famous construction and engineering giant Shapoorji Pallonji Group is virtually controlled by Mistry. He has a net worth of $16.4 billion. Interestingly, SP Group also owns the water purifier brand, Eureka Forbes.
Kumar Birla
Head of Aditya Birla Group, Birla has a net worth of $15.8 billion. In India, he is also called the ‘Commodity King’. He inherited the empire after the death of his father, Aditya Birla, in 1995.
Richest people on earth in 2021 : With a net worth of more than $296 billion as of November 27, 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, followed by Amazon’s founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos. The businessman has a total net worth of approximately $201 billion.
LVMH’s Chairman and CEO, Bernard Arnault, is the 3rd-richest person in the world, with approximately $164 billion in current real-time total net worth. Microsoft mogul Bill Gates ranked 4th with a personal wealth of $136 billion, followed by Larry Page with $127 billion.
RANK NAME TOTAL NET WORTH COUNTRY INDUSTRY
1 Elon Musk $296 billion United States Technology
2 Jeff Bezos $201 billion United States Technology
3 Bernard $164 billion France Consumer
Arnault
4 Bill Gates $136 billion United States Technology
5 Larry Page $127 billion United States Technology
6 Mark $124 billion United States Technology
Zuckerberg
7 Sergey Brin $122 billion United States Technology
8 Steve Ballmer $117 billion United States Technology
9 Larry Ellison $112 billion United States Technology
10 Warren Buffett $103 billion United States Diversified
11 Mukesh $91.1 billion India Energy
Ambani
12 Francoise $90.1 billion France Consumer
Meyers
13 Gautam Adani $78.1 billion India Industrial
14 Zhong $75.1 billion China Diversified
Shanshan
15 Amancio $70.5 billion Spain Retail
Ortega
16 Michael $70 billion United States Media & Telecom
Bloomberg
17 Jim Walton $65.0 billion United States Retail
18 Rob Walton $64.5 billion United States Retail
19 Alice Walton $63.1 billion United States Retail
20 Phil Knight $62.9 billion United States Consumer