Richest Persons In India

According to the latest report by Forbes Magazine, India is home of 52 billionaires. Last year, there were 27 billionaires in India but this year there are 52. The combined fortune of India’s 100 richest persons is $276 billion which is almost equivalent to one-fourth India’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product). In this list, Mukesh Ambani (CMD Reliance Industries) is at the top position with net worth estimated at 32 billion USD. His brother, Anil Ambani is at third position whereas Lakshmi Mittal is on second position in the list. Software czar, Azim Premji is at fourth position with net worth estimated at 14.9 billion USD.

“For people with publicly traded fortunes, net worth's were calculated using stock prices and exchange rates as of October 16. Privately held fortunes were valued at book value or by coupling estimates of revenues, profits or book value to prevailing ratios for similar publicly traded companies,” Forbes.

Person	Worth	Company
1. Mukesh Ambani	$32 billion	Reliance Industries
2. Lakshmi Mittal	$30 billion	ArcelorMittal
3. Anil Ambani	$17.5 billion	Reliance ADA Group
4. Azim Premji	$14.9 billion	Wipro
5. Shashi Ruia	$13.6 billion	Essar Group
6. KP Singh	$13.5 billion	DLF Universal
7. Savitri Jindal	$12 billion	Jindal Steel
8. Sunil Mittal	$8.2 billion	Bharti Airtel
9. KumarMangalam Birla	$7.8 billion	Aditya Birla Group
10. Gautam Adani	$6.4 billion	Adani Group
11. Anil Agarwal	$6.3 billion	Vedanta Resources
12. Adi Godrej	$5.4 billion	Adi Godrej
13. GM Rao	$4.3 billion	GMR Group
14. Dilip Shanghvi	$4.1 billion	Sun Pharma
15. Shiv Nadar	$3.7 billion	HCL Technologies
16. Uday Kotak	$3.3 billion	Kotak Mahindra Bank
17. Malvinder Mohan Singh	$3 billion	Religare and Fortis Healthcare
18. Subhash Chandra	$2.7 billion	Zee TV
19. Indu Jain	$2.4 billion	Times Group
20. Kalanithi Maran	$2.3 billion	Sun TV Network
21. Anand Burman	$2.25 billion	Dabur India
22. Brijmohan Lall Munjal	$2.2 billion	Hero Group
23. Sudhir Mehta	$2.02 billion	Torrent Group
24. Cyrus Poonawalla	$2 billion	Serum Institute of India
25. Ramesh Chandra	$1.95 billion	Unitech
26. Micky Jagtiani	$1.9 billion	Landmark Group
27. YK Hamied	$1.89 billion	Cipla
28. Pravin Kumar Tayal	$1.88 billion	Tayal Group
29. Jaiprakash Gaur	$1.87 billion	Jaiprakash Associates
30. Rajan Raheja	$1.85 billion	Raheja Group
31. Venugopal Dhoot	$1.8 billion	Vidoecon group
32. Rahul Bajaj	$1.75 billion	Bajaj Group of Companies
33. Tulsi R Tanti	$1.7 billion	Suzlon
34. Lagadapati Madhusudhan Rao	$1.67 billion	Lanco Infratech
35. Baba Kalyani	$1.63 billion	Bharat Forge
36. Rakesh Wadhawan	$1.6 billion	HDIL
37. Chandru Raheja	$1.55 billion	K Raheja Group
38. NR Narayana Murthy	$1.5 billion	Infosys
39. Gautam Thapar	$1.4 billion	Avantha Group
40. Rama Prasad Goenka	$1.35 billion	RPG Enterprises
41. Niranjan Hiranandani	$1.32 billion	Hiranandani Group
42. Desh Bandhu Gupta	$1.3 billion	Lupin
43. Nandan Nilekani	$1.25 billion	Unique Identification Authority of India
44. Pankaj Patel	$1.21 billion	Zydus Cadila Group
45. Vikas Oberoi	$1.2 billion	Oberoi Constructions
46. Senapathy Gopalakrishnan	$1.15 billion	Infosys
47. GV Krishna Reddy	$1.07 billion	GVK Group
48. Ajay Piramal	$1.06 billion	Piramal Group
49. Vinod Goenka	$1.05 billion	Dynamix Balwas Group
50. Shahid Balwa	$1.02 billion	Dynamix Balwas Group
51. Virendra Mhaiskar	$1.01 billion	IRB Infrastructure
52. Anand Jain	$1 billion	Jai Corp