Top ten businssmen in the world

1. Warren Buffett (US). $62 billion 

2. Carlos Slim Helu (Mexico). $60 billion 
3. Bill Gates (US). $58 billion 
4. Lakshmi Mittal (India). $45 billion 
5. Mukesh Ambani (India). $43 billion 
6. Anil Ambani (India). $42 billion 
7. Ingvar Kamprad (Sweden). $31 billion 
8. KP Singh (India). $30 billion 
9. Oleg Deripaska (Russia). $28 billion 
10. Karl Albrecht (Germany). $27 billion 

TOP 10 BUSINESS MEN IN INDIA...................................…

1. Lakshmi Mittal, 55
Company: Mittal Steel
Net worth: $20bn
Named after the Hindu deity of fortune and prosperity, the steel tycoon is “quintessentially Indian”, despite having
lived in Britain since the 1970s, says The South China Morning Post. Born in a remote village, he got his start when
his family moved to Calcutta and opened a small steel mill. Within 20 years, Ispat International was hailed as “the
best steel firm on the planet”. The 2004 merger with rival International Steel Group also made it the largest. Today,
Mittal Steel, of which he owns 87.4%, continues to expand, but ironically, it does no business in India. It’s “one of my
biggest disappointments”, says Mittal.

2. Azim Premji, 60
Company: Wipro Technologies
Net worth: $11bn
“The father of the Indian outsourcing phenomenon”, Premji got his major break in 1978 when IBM pulled out of India,
says The Independent. Premji had inherited Wipro, then a company selling cooking fat, on his father’s death in 1966
and decided to move into the nascent computing business. He still owns 82% of the New York-listed company: it has
annual revenues of £1bn, while clients include Nokia, Microsoft and Prudential. Still, this tycoon belongs to the old-
banger school of billionaires: his ancient Ford Escort is, he says, “a lucky car”.

3. Mukesh Ambani, 48
Company: Reliance Industries
Net worth: $7bn
News that a feud between the warring Ambani brothers had been resolved sent Indian stocks to new highs last
summer, says The Economist. The brothers are heirs to the $22.5bn Reliance Group built up from a simple textile-
trading business by their former school-master father – and they had been at daggers since his death in 2002. Luckily
their mother was finally able to broker a truce (after taking advice from religious astrologers), says Newsweek, and in
the ensuing demerger, Mukesh, “a family man and meticulous planner”, kept the group’s petrochemicals flagship,
Reliance Industries, and Indian Petrochemicals Corp.
4. Anil Ambani, 46
Company: Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises
Net worth: $5.5bn
At the height of the feud (see story above), Anil Ambani achieved notoriety for alleging that his brother had broken
corporate governance regulations, says BusinessWeek. He now seems “almost his usual self – brash, natty and
cheerful”. The Wharton graduate, married to a Bollywood actress, hasn’t done too badly from the split, says the FT:
his new group controls Reliance’s telecoms and finance firms.

5. Kushal Pal Singh, 74

Company: Delhi Land & Finance
Net worth: $5bn
The former army officer joined his father-in-law’s firm in 1971 and transformed it into India’s biggest real-estate
developer. His big breakthrough, says The Times of India, was transforming a barren expanse of land outside Delhi
into Guargaon: “the most competitive city-suburb in India”. The development even spawned a new word: Guppie – a
Guargaon yuppie.

6. Sunil Mittal: Age 48

Company: Bharti Group
Net worth $4.9bn
India’s “most ambitious telecom entrepreneur” describes himself as “the product of economic reform”, says
BusinessWeek. He started a bicycle-parts business at a precociously early age before moving into telephony in the
1980s. In the past ten years, Mittal has grabbed 22% of India’s mobile-phone market. Recent attempts to diversify
have proved less successful, says the FT. Mittal had hoped to overhaul India’s food chain and make it a leading
exporter. “This is work in progress,” he says.

7. Kumar Mangalam Birla, 38

Company: Aditya Birla Group
Net worth: $4.4bn
The head of the close-knit Birla clan inherited control of the commodities and electronics powerhouse on the death of
his father in 1995. Many feared the LSE graduate wouldn’t be up to the job, says BusinessWeek. He has proved
them wrong, but his preference for privacy has recently been hit by an elderly cousin leaving a chunk of the empire to
her accountant, says The Hindu. Birla has vowed to win it back. The case continues.

8. Tulsi Tanti, 47
Company: Suzlon Energy
Net worth: $3.7bn
The textile producer moved into wind energy ten years ago, says Forbes. In October, he listed Suzlon Energy, in
which he and his siblings own 70%. He is now expanding into the US and China.

9. Pallonji Mistry, 76
Company: multiple interests
Net worth: $3.3bn
Often described as the “king-maker of Corporate India”, the secretive construction magnate is the biggest
shareholder in Tata Sons, a holding company with a big stake in India’s largest software company, Tata Consultancy
Services, says The Australian.

10. Anurag Dikshit, 34

Company: PartyGaming
Net worth: $3.1bn
The software brain behind PartyGaming is a “non-gambling, vegetarian Hindu”, says the FT. Before his 1988 chance
meeting with co-founder Ruth Parasol, he’d honed his programming skills in the US at AT&T and Lucent. A
workaholic based in Gibraltar, he keeps a low profile.
Here is the list of top ten richest person in India and the latest updates about the top ten Indian richest people listed by the
networth.The list of top ten richest man in India may differ by their latest networth.

1.Mukesh Ambani From Mumbai with main source as Reliance Industries.

2.Lakshmi Mittal From London with main source as ArcelorMittal.

3.Anil Ambani From Mumbai with main source as Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.
4.Kushal Pal Singh From Delhi with main source as DLF Universal.

5.Azim Premji From Bangalore with main source as Wipro Technologies.

6.Sunil Mittal From Delhi with main source as Bharti Airtel.

7.Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja From London with main source as Hinduja Group.

8.Shashi Ruia And Ravi Ruia From Mumbai with main source as Essar Group.

9.Ramesh Chandra From Delhi with main source as Unitech.

10.Kumar Mangalam Birla From Mumbai with main source as Aditya Birla Group.
Born: December 28, 1932
Died: July 6, 2002
Achievements: Dhiru Bhai Ambani built India's largest private sector company. Created an equity cult in the Indian capital market.
Reliance is the first Indian company to feature in Forbes 500 list 

Dhirubhai Ambani was the most enterprising Indian entrepreneur. His life journey is reminiscent of the rags to riches story. He is
remembered as the one who rewrote Indian corporate history and built a truly global corporate group. 

Dhirubhai Ambani alias Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani was born on December 28, 1932, at Chorwad, Gujarat, into a Modh family. His
father was a school teacher. Dhirubhai Ambani started his entrepreneurial career by selling "bhajias" to pilgrims in Mount Girnar
over the weekends.

After doing his matriculation at the age of 16, Dhirubhai moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked there as a gas-station attendant, and as
a clerk in an oil company. He returned to India in 1958 with Rs 50,000 and set up a textile trading company.

Assisted by his two sons, Mukesh and Anil, Dhiru Bhai Ambani built India's largest private sector company, Reliance India Limited,
from a scratch. Over time his business has diversified into a core specialisation in petrochemicals with additional interests in
telecommunications, information technology, energy, power, retail, textiles, infrastructure services, capital markets, and logistics.

Dhirubhai Ambani is credited with shaping India's equity culture, attracting millions of retail investors in a market till then dominated
by financial institutions. Dhirubhai revolutionised capital markets. From nothing, he generated billions of rupees in wealth for those
who put their trust in his companies. His efforts helped create an 'equity cult' in the Indian capital market. With innovative
instruments like the convertible debenture, Reliance quickly became a favorite of the stock market in the 1980s.

In 1992, Reliance became the first Indian company to raise money in global markets, its high credit-taking in international markets
limited only by India's sovereign rating. Reliance also became the first Indian company to feature in Forbes 500 list.

Dhirubhai Ambani was named the Indian Entrepreneur of the 20th Century by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FICCI). A poll conducted by The Times of India in 2000 voted him "greatest creator of wealth in the century".