INDIA’S BILLIONAIRES LIST - 2018

INDIA’S BILLIONAIRES

2018

Do you know that - stock market prices are the basis for calculating the wealth of people and declaring the Billionaires of the world? OK. They are the easiest way of calculating our wealth. For Billionaires, the other wealth, like Buildings, farm houses, cars and even planes may perhaps be peanuts. 

Forbes and some others calculate the wealth of Billionaires broadly based on stock prices and I don’t know what else they take into account. It doesn’t matter for us. The world Billionaires list is growing steadily. At the top also, some minor changes are taking place every year.

The Indian Billionaires List also is growing steadily. 

Mr.Mukesh Ambani sits at the top of India’s list quite comfortably with $40.1 B. He is managing his Flagship company, Reliance Industries excellently. 

The second richest Billionaire is Mr.Azim Premji with just 18.8 B. But, he is known to have donated a lot of his money to Charities.

Acharya Balkrishna of Patanjali fame, is a new Entrant into the List at a fairly high ranking of 14.

I personally congratulate all the 119 Indian Billionaires. I hope this tribe of billionaires will grow by leaps and bounds in coming years. However, I wish Some Indian organization also computes the wealth of wealthy Individuals in India and publish some sort of interesting statistics of how they are growing.

We need case studies of meteoric growth of Individuals which can serve other ambitious individuals in their search for entrepreneurship and wealth.

Sl. No	World Rank	Name	Net Worth	Age	Source
1	#19	Mukesh Ambani	$40.1 B	60	petrochemicals, oil & gas
2	#58	Azim Premji	$18.8 B	72	software services
3	#62	Lakshmi Mittal	$18.5 B	67	steel
4	#98	Shiv Nadar	$14.6 B	72	software services
5	#115	Dilip Shanghvi	$12.8 B	62	pharmaceuticals
6	#127	Kumar Birla	$11.8 B	50	commodities
7	#143	Uday Kotak	$10.7 B	59	banking
8	#151	Radhakishan Damani	$10 B	63	investments, retail
9	#154	Gautam Adani	$9.7 B	55	commodities, ports
10	#170	Cyrus Poonawalla	$9.1 B	76	vaccines
11	#176	Savitri Jindal	$8.8 B	68	steel
12	#176	Sunil Mittal	$8.8 B	60	telecom
13	#265	Kushal Pal Singh	$6.4 B	86	real estate
14	#274	Acharya Balkrishna	$6.3 B	45	consumer goods
15	#274	Vikram Lal	$6.3 B	76	motorcycles
16	#281	Nusli Wadia	$6.2 B	74	consumer goods
17	#289	Benu Gopal Bangur	$6 B	86	cement
18	#372	Kalanithi Maran	$5.2 B	52	media
19	#388	Subhash Chandra	$5 B	67	media
20	#388	Pankaj Patel	$5 B	65	pharmaceuticals
21	#388	M.A. Yusuff Ali	$5 B	62	retail
22	#404	Ajay Piramal	$4.9 B	62	pharmaceuticals
23	#422	Bajaj brothers	$4.8 B	-	diversified
24	#466	Kapil & Rahul Bhatia	$4.5 B	-	airlines
25	#480	Micky Jagtiani	$4.4 B	66	retail
26	#499	Rahul Bajaj	$4.3 B	79	motorcycles
27	#527	Pawan Munjal	$4.1 B	64	motorcycles
28	#550	B.R. Shetty	$4 B	76	healthcare
29	#572	Sudhir & Samir Mehta	$3.9 B	-	diversified
30	#572	Ravi Pillai	$3.9 B	64	construction
31	#606	Mangal Prabhat Lodha	$3.7 B	62	real estate
32	#629	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	$3.6 B	65	biotech
33	#629	Karsanbhai Patel	$3.6 B	74	consumer goods
34	#652	Kuldip Singh & Gurbachan Singh Dhingra	$3.5 B	-	paints
35	#652	Baba Kalyani	$3.5 B	69	engineering
36	#679	Shashi & Ravi Ruia	$3.4 B	-	diversified
37	#703	Anil Agarwal	$3.3 B	64	mining, metals
38	#703	Ashwin Dani	$3.3 B	75	paints
39	#729	Sameer Gehlaut	$3.2 B	44	finance
40	#766	Rajan Raheja	$3.1 B	63	diversified
41	#791	Hasmukh Chudgar	$3 B	84	pharmaceuticals
42	#791	Rakesh Jhunjhunwala	$3 B	57	investments
43	#822	Smita Crishna-Godrej	$2.9 B	67	consumer goods
44	#822	Adi Godrej	$2.9 B	76	consumer goods
45	#822	Jamshyd Godrej	$2.9 B	69	consumer goods
46	#822	Nadir Godrej	$2.9 B	67	consumer goods
47	#822	Rishad Naoroji	$2.9 B	66	consumer goods
48	#859	Aloke Lohia	$2.8 B	59	petrochemicals
49	#859	Chandru Raheja	$2.8 B	77	real estate
50	#887	Anil Ambani	$2.7 B	58	diversified
51	#965	P.V. Ramprasad Reddy	$2.5 B	60	pharmaceuticals
52	#1020	Jai Hari & Yadu Hari Dalmia	$2.4 B	-	cement
53	#1020	Abhay Firodia	$2.4 B	73	automobiles
54	#1020	Leena Tewari	$2.4 B	60	pharmaceuticals
55	#1020	Sunny Varkey	$2.4 B	60	education
56	#1070	Murali Divi	$2.3 B	67	pharmaceuticals
57	#1070	Harsh Goenka	$2.3 B	60	diversified
58	#1070	Murli Dhar & Bimal Kumar Gyanchandani	$2.3 B	-	Detergents
59	#1103	Shyam & Hari Bhartia	$2.2 B	65	Diversified
60	#1103	Vinod & Anil Rai Gupta	$2.2 B	72	electrical equipment
61	#1103	Jitendra Virwani	$2.2 B	52	real estate
62	#1157	Sanjiv Goenka	$2.1 B	57	diversified
63	#1157	Ravi Jaipuria	$2.1 B	63	soft drinks
64	#1157	Harsh Mariwala	$2.1 B	66	consumer goods
65	#1157	N.R. Narayana Murthy	$2.1 B	71	software services
66	#1157	Vikas Oberoi	$2.1 B	47	real estate
67	#1215	Vivek Chand Burman	$2 B	80	consumer goods
68	#1215	Ramesh Juneja	$2 B	62	pharmaceuticals
69	#1215	Lachhman Das Mittal	$2 B	87	tractors
70	#1215	Mofatraj Munot	$2 B	73	real estate
71	#1215	Arvind Poddar	$2 B	60	tires
72	#1215	Arvind Tiku	$2 B	48	oil & gas, investments
73	#1284	Nandan Nilekani	$1.9 B	62	software services
74	#1284	Ranjan Pai	$1.9 B	45	education
75	#1339	Anand Burman	$1.8 B	65	consumer goods
76	#1339	Senapathy Gopalakrishnan	$1.8 B	62	software services
77	#1394	Yusuf Hamied	$1.7 B	81	pharmaceuticals
78	#1394	Devendra Jain	$1.7 B	89	chemicals
79	#1394	Anand Mahindra	$1.7 B	62	automobiles
80	#1394	Kishore Mariwala	$1.7 B	83	consumer goods
81	#1394	Vijay Shekhar Sharma	$1.7 B	39	financial technology
82	#1477	Radhe Shyam Agarwal	$1.6 B	73	consumer goods
83	#1477	Achal Bakeri	$1.6 B	58	air coolers
84	#1477	Radhe Shyam Goenka	$1.6 B	72	consumer goods
85	#1561	Joy Alukkas	$1.5 B	61	jewelry
86	#1561	Niranjan Hiranandani	$1.5 B	68	real estate
87	#1561	Anurang Jain	$1.5 B	56	auto parts
88	#1561	Rajju Shroff	$1.5 B	84	agrochemicals
89	#1561	Shamsheer Vayalil	$1.5 B	41	healthcare
90	#1650	Anu Aga	$1.4 B	75	engineering
91	#1650	Krishna Kumar Bangur	$1.4 B	57	graphite electrodes
92	#1650	R.G. Chandramogan	$1.4 B	69	dairy
93	#1650	K. Dinesh	$1.4 B	63	software services
94	#1650	Balkrishan Goenka	$1.4 B	51	textiles
95	#1650	T.S. Kalyanaraman	$1.4 B	70	jewelry
96	#1650	Nimesh Kampani	$1.4 B	71	investment banking
97	#1650	Dinesh Nandwana	$1.4 B	54	software services
98	#1650	Subhash Runwal	$1.4 B	74	real estate
99	#1756	Rana Kapoor	$1.3 B	60	banking
100	#1756	Habil Khorakiwala	$1.3 B	75	pharmaceuticals
101	#1756	Mahendra Prasad	$1.3 B	78	pharmaceuticals
102	#1756	Bhadresh Shah	$1.3 B	66	engineering
103	#1867	Harindarpal Banga	$1.2 B	67	commodities
104	#1867	Amit Burman	$1.2 B	48	consumer goods
105	#1867	Kochouseph Chittilappilly	$1.2 B	67	manufacturing
106	#1867	Ajay Kalsi	$1.2 B	57	oil & gas
107	#1867	Hemendra Kothari	$1.2 B	71	Financial Services
108	#1867	S.D. Shibulal	$1.2 B	63	software services
109	#1867	Basudeo Singh	$1.2 B	77	pharmaceuticals
110	#1867	Samprada Singh	$1.2 B	92	pharmaceuticals
111	#1999	Chirayu Amin	$1.1 B	71	pharmaceuticals
112	#1999	Sheela Gautam	$1.1 B	86	mattresses
113	#1999	Madhu Kapur	$1.1 B	-	banking
114	#1999	Satish Mehta	$1.1 B	67	pharmaceuticals
115	#1999	Analjit Singh	$1.1 B	64	healthcare
116	#2124	Raamdeo Agrawal	$1 B	61	financial services
117	#2124	Tarang Jain	$1 B	56	auto components
118	#2124	Nirmal Minda	$1 B	60	auto parts
119	#2124	Ravindra Kishore Sinha	$1 B	66	security services

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