List of Indians by net worth

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The following is a list of Indians by net worth. According to the Forbes magazine, India has recently become home to the largest number of billionaires in Asia. The following data comes from the Forbes list of India's 40 Richest [1]. There are 54 Indians (Indian citizens only) in the following list including 14 billionares who did not make it into top 40.

Until the late 1960s, royalty like Nizam Asaf Jah VII dominated the elite list in India. Commoners like Dhirubhai Ambani began to amass fortunes in the last quarter of 20th century as the country began to liberalise controls on industry.

Methodology: Ranking has been broadened to include family fortunes. For instance, Tulsi Tanti's $10 billion fortune represents his family's entire 70% stake in Suzlon Energy, not his 29% stake that's reflected in the billionaire rankings. Net worths were calculated using Nov 2nd 2007 market prices and exchange rates. Privately held companies are valued by comparing them to similar publicly traded companies. Besides being rich, one must be an Indian citizen to make this list. As a result, three non-India residents, including Lakshmi Mittal, are included, but construction magnate Pallonji Mistry, Tata Sons' largest shareholder, who has become a citizen of Ireland, is not.

Rank Name Net Worth (US$ bil) Age City Main Source Industry
1 Lakshmi Mittal 51 56 London Arcelor Mittal Steel
2 Mukesh Ambani 49 50 Mumbai Reliance Industries Diversified
3 Anil Ambani 45 48 Mumbai Reliance - Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Diversified
4 Kushal Pal Singh 35 75 Delhi DLF Universal Real Estate, Construction
5 Azim Premji 12.7 61 Bangalore Wipro Diversified but primarily software and IT-enabled services
6 Sunil Mittal 12.5 49 Delhi Bharti Airtel Telecommunications
7 Shashi Ruia & Ravi Ruia 12 63 Mumbai Essar Group Textiles, Steel, Shipping
8 Ramesh Chandra 11.6 68 Delhi Unitech Construction, Real Estate
9 Kumar Mangalam Birla 11 39 Mumbai Aditya Birla Group Diversified
10 Tulsi Tanti 10 47 Pune Suzlon Wind Power
11 Savitri Jindal 8.5 58 Hisar, Mumbai Jindal Steel Metals
12 Anil Agarwal 7.4 52 London Vedanta Resources Mining
13 Gautam Adani 6.7 45 Ahmedabad Adani Group Infrastructure
14 Grandhi Rao 6.2 57 Hyderabad GMR Group Infrastructure
15 Adi Godrej 5.2 64 Mumbai Godrej Industries Diversified
16 Uday Kotak 4.6 46 Mumbai Kotak Mahindra Finance
17 Indu Jain 4.4 71 Delhi Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. Media
18 Shiv Nadar 4.3 61 Delhi HCL Consumer electronics, ITES
19 Anand Jain 4 50 Mumbai Jai Corp Limited Real Estate
20 Dilip Shanghvi 3.9 50 Mumbai Sun Pharmaceuticals Pharmaceuticals
23 Jaiprakash Gaur 3.9 76 Delhi Jaiprakash Associates Infrastructure
24 Cyrus Poonawalla 3.1 67 Pune Serum Institute of India Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology
25 Kalanithi Maran 2.7 42 Chennai Sun Network Media
26 Subhash Chandra 2.6 55 Mumbai Zee Network Entertainment
27 Baba Kalyani 2.5 56 Pune Bharat Forge Metals
28 Rakesh Wadhawan 2.35 55 Mumbai Housing Development & Infrastructure Ltd Real Estate
29 Rahul Bajaj 2.3 67 Pune Bajaj Diversified
30 Malvinder & Shivinder Singh 2.25 NA Delhi Ranbaxy Pharma
31 Venugopal Dhoot 2.2 52 Mumbai Videocon Consumer durables
32 Rajan Raheja 2.15 54 Mumbai Rajan Raheja Group Diversified
33 Niranjan Hiranandani 2.1 57 Mumbai Hiranandani Developers Pvt. Ltd Real Estate
34 Vivek Burman 2 70 Delhi Dabur India Limited Herbal consumer products
35 L. Madhusudhan Rao 1.9 41 Hyderabad Lanco Group Infrastructure
36 Gautam Thapar 1.8 46 Mumbai Avantha Group Chemicals, infrastructure & engineering
37 Anurag Dikshit 1.75 35 Gibraltar PartyGaming Online gambling
38 Vikas Oberoi 1.7 37 Mumbai Oberoi Constructions Property development
39 N.R. Narayana Murthy 1.69 61 Bangalore Infosys Technologies Software and IT-enabled services
40 Anu Aga 1.67 65 Pune Thermax Energy and environment engineering solutions
41 Gracias Saldanha 1.65 70 Mumbai Glenmark Pharmaceutical
42 Vijay Mallya 1.6 51 Bangalore United Breweries Group Beverages, Airlines
43 Naresh Goyal 1.55 56 Mumbai Jet Airways Airlines
44 Murali K.Divi 1.53 Divi's Laboratories Pharmaceuticals
45 Jignesh Shah 1.37 Financial Technologies Financial software
46 Yusuf Hamied 1.32 69 Mumbai Cipla Pharma
47 Nandan Nilekani 1.26 50 Bangalore Infosys Software and IT-enabled services
48 Pradeep Jain 1.25 Parsvnath Developers Real estate
49 Siddhiprasad 1.24 34 Nagpur Essel Propack Diversified
50 Habil Khorakiwala 1.23 63 Mumbai Wockhardt Health
51 Rohtas Goel 1.20 Omaxe Real estate
52 S Gopalakrishnan 1.18 51 Bangalore Infosys Software and IT-enabled services
53 Brijmohan Lall Munjal 1.12 83 Delhi Hero Honda Automotive
54 Rakesh Jhunjhunwala 1.20 Rare Enterprises Investments
55 Keshub Mahindra 1.08 Mahindra & Mahindra Diversified
56 Nimesh Kampani 1.05 61 Mumbai JM Financial Financial services

S.R - $23 Billion

5. S.R - $23 Billion

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