Top 5 richest Indians

In 2021, the top 100 Indians' "cumulative wealth increased to $775 billion, a gain of $257 billion."

5. Cyrus Poonawalla 

The net worth of Cyrus Poonawalla is $19 billion. One of the vaccines used to combat Covid-19 is Covishield, which is manufactured by Mr Poonawalla's Serum Institute of India.

Cyrus S. Poonawalla (born 1941) is an Indian businessman and the chairman and managing director of the Cyrus Poonawalla Group, which includes the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine maker. With a net worth of $19 billion, he was placed number 5 on Fortunes' India wealthy list in 2021.

4. Radhakishan Damani

The D Mart founder's fortune has doubled in the last year, from $15.4 billion to $29.4 billion.

Radhakishan S. Damani is the founder of DMart and an Indian billionaire investor and businessman. His money is also managed by his investment firm, Bright Star Investments Limited. He was ranked #98 richest person in the world by Bloomberg Billionaire Index on August 19, 2021.

3. Shiv Nadar

Shiba Nadar of HCL Technologies increased his wealth by $10.6 billion, bringing it to $31 billion.

Shiv Nadar is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist worth billions of dollars. He is the creator of HCL Technologies Limited and the Shiv Nadar Foundation, as well as its chairman emeritus. Nadar created HCL in the mid-1970s and over the next three decades evolved the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise by repeatedly redefining the company's emphasis. Nadar received the Padma Bhushan award in 2008 for his contributions to the IT industry.

2. Gautam Adani

Gautam Adani, the chairman and founder of the Adani Group, is the year's highest gainer, with a roughly 200 percent increase in wealth since 2020, bringing his net worth to $49.5 billion.

To put things in perspective, the difference in net worth between Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani in 2020 was $63.5 million. It will be $17.9 billion in 2021.

1.Mukesh Ambani

According to the Forbes India Rich List, Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, is the country's richest individual. Mukesh Ambani has been India's wealthiest man since 2008, adding $4 billion to his fortune from the last year.

Mukesh Ambani's net worth is expected to reach $92.7 billion this year, up from $88.7 billion in 2020.

Mukesh Ambani is the world's 6th wealthiest person, according to Forbes, as of October 2020. In July 2018, he surpassed Jack Ma, the executive chairman of Alibaba Group, as Asia's wealthiest person, with a net worth of $44.3 billion. He is also the world's wealthiest individual outside of North America and Europe. According to China's Hurun Research Institute, Ambani was ranked seventh among India's benefactors in 2015. He was the first non-American to be appointed to the Board of Directors of Bank of America.

He also owns the Mumbai Indians of the Indian Premier League and is the founder of the Indian Super League, a football league in India, through Reliance. Forbes ranked him one of the world's wealthiest sports owners in 2012. He lives in the Antilia Building, which is one of the most expensive private mansions in the world, with a price tag of $1 billion.