A Chinese research firm Hurun conducted a survey on Richest billionaires in the world and ranked 1,867 billionaires from 68 countries.
Top 5 Rich persons in the world:
1) Bill Gates – US $ 68 billion
2) Warren Buffet – US $ 68 billion
3) Amancio Ortega – US $ 62 billion
4) Carlos Slim Helu and family – US $ 60 billion
5) Larry Ellison – US $ 60 billion
Compared to other countries like Germany, Switzerland, France and Japan, India has a larger number of rich businessmen and Mumbai ranks in the top 6 billionaire cities in the world.
Top Rich billionaires in India:
- Mukesh Ambani was ranked 41st in the list.
- Lakshmi N Mittal was ranked 49th with a personal net worth of $17 billion.
- Dilip Sanghvi of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and Wipro’s Azim Premji both ranked 77th with a personal wealth of $ 13.5 billion each.
- Tata Sons’ Pallonji Mistry ranked 93rd with a personal wealth of $ 12 billion.
- SP Hinduja and family was ranked 93rd on the list, with a net worth of $12 billion
- Chairman of Wipro Limited, Azim Hashim Premji made it into the list at 77th position while news corp owner
- Founder and chairman of HCL, Shiv Nadar makes it to the list at 105 position .
- Kumar Birla enters the list at 175th position.
- Chairman of Poonawalla Group, Cyrus S Poonawalla made it into the list at 261th position.
Some of other prominent Indians on the list:
- Â Uday Kotak-Â Â Vice-chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank
- Â Jamshyd Godrej-Â managing director and chairman of Godrej & Boyce
- Â Adi Godrej-Â chairman of the Godrej Group
- KP Simgh -DLF India
- Brijmohan Lall Munjal & family -Hero MotoCorp
- Desh Bandhu Gupta-Â Founder and Chairman of Lupin Limitedz
- Ravi Ruia and Shashi Ruia -Essar group
- Ajay Kalsi-Â first generation entrepreneur
- Yusuf Hamied Cipla group
- Kalanithi Maran -Managing Director of Sun Group
- Rishad Naoroji -Godrej
- GV Prasad -Dr Reddy’s lab
- Ajay Piramal-Piramal enterprise
- Ashwin Dani-Â Asian paints
- Nandan Nilekani-Â Infosys
- Vijay Chauhan -Parle products,
- Baba Kalyani -chairman and managing director of Bharat Forge
- Glenn Saldanha -Glenn Pharma
- Gautam Thapar -Crompton Greaves
- Lachman Das Mittal-Â sonalika group
- Mangal Prabhat Lodha -Lodha developers
- Mallika Srinivasan -TAFE
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