Introduction
India is one of the largest economies in the world. It has a population of over 1.3 billion people and its economy is growing at an average rate of 7% per year. With so many people living in this country, there are many business men who have made their mark on this country's history as well as its economy. These five businessmen have been ranked as top five richest Indians by Forbes magazine:
Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani is an Indian business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India's second most valuable company by market value.
Although he has never been an executive at any major corporation or government post in India or abroad, his companies have been involved in industries such as energy production and telecommunications since early stages. In Forbes 2015 list of The World's Billionaires he placed at number 95 with wealth valued at $34 billion US dollars.
Gautam Adani
Gautam Adani is an Indian businessman, born in Mumbai. He is the founder and chairman of Adani Group which has interests in power generation, logistics and ports as well as petrochemicals.
He is also one of India’s richest people with a net worth of $30 billion as per Forbes magazine's list of billionaires released on May 1st 2018.
Gautam Adani became India's richest person after he overtook Mukesh Ambani by becoming a part of Forbes' list for 30 years running until 2018 (he was ranked at number 26 on this list). He has been ranked at number 8 among Asia Pacific’s richest people by Business Today magazine while also being included in The Sunday Times 100 Richest People In The World List 2017 published within their September issue; thereby making him not only one among Asia Pacific but also worldwide!
Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal is the chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel producer. He is also the world's second-richest man, with an estimated net worth of $58.3 billion as per Forbes magazine’s 2017 billionaires list (he has since been bumped up to number one).
Mittal was born on May 16th 1951 in Mumbai India to a Parsi family that ran a small business manufacturing textiles. His father had started his own textile business after migrating from Persia while his mother was born into a merchant family who owned several companies including hotels in Bombay city.
Mittal studied at Cathedral & John Connon School where he excelled academically but struggled socially because he did not fit in with other students due to being overweight at school age; this led him later on during college days via motivational techniques such as self-help books like Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill which helped him overcome these problems when trying out different career paths after graduation instead becoming an accountant like most Parsis tend do until today owing largely due its success rates among young people looking for employment opportunities within India today
Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar is a business man and philanthropist who was born in 1945. He has founded HCL, which is now one of the largest IT companies in India with over 60000 employees serving customers across the globe. His net worth is approximately $20 billion as per Forbes’s 2016 list.
Nadar was born in a small village called Chediha near Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh). He had an encouraging family background and his parents encouraged him to study more than anything else despite having to work hard at home since they did not have enough money for all their needs.
Cyrus S. Poonawalla
- Chairman, Serum Institute of India (SIID) and Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited
- Chairman, Poonawalla Foundation
- These Indian Businessmen are top five richest in India.
The top five richest businessmen in India are Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Lakshmi Mittal, Shiv Nadar and Cyrus Poonawalla.
Mukesh Ambani is a businessman who owns Reliance Industries Limited that has been ranked as the third largest conglomerate in India by Forbes magazine. He also owns The Times of India newspaper which publishes six national dailies across various regions such as Mumbai (English), Delhi (English), Chandigarh (Hindi) and Chennai (Tamil). In total there are more than 1,100 editions throughout the country. He was born on 21 December 1956 to Dhirubhai Ambani who had founded the company so he could provide affordable prices for electrical goods for domestic use at time when electricity was not widely available due to lack of infrastructure facilities like power plants etcetera....
Conclusion
We can see that these top five businessmen in India are very powerful and influential. They have a lot of money, even though all of them are billionaires. They are also very successful in their fields, so it’s clear that their success was not just a coincidence; they worked hard for it