Top 10 Indian Entrepreneurs

1. Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirubhai Ambani (1932–2002) is an Indian businessman who started humbly by selling traditional snacks to religious pilgrims. His business soon grew, and he expanded and diversified into industries including telecommunications, power generation, information technology, consumer goods, and logistics. Today, Reliance Industries is India's largest private company and is listed on the Fortune 500.

According to Forbes, Ambani's son runs Reliance and is one of India's wealthiest people; Mukesh Ambani, 64, is worth over $71 billion.

2.Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata or JRD Tata (1904–1993) was born in Paris to Indian and French parents. He was trained as an aviator in Europe and later became India's first commercial airline pilot.

Working for the family business, TATA group, he set out on his own and built TATA Airlines, which ultimately became the modern Air India.

By the time of JRD Tata's death, TATA owned nearly 100 different businesses across many industries.5 Notably, his automobile venture, Tata Motors (TTM), produces economical automobiles that nearly all working Indians can afford to own.6 JRD Tata is descended from Jamsetji Tata, who founded the TATA group of companies in the mid-1800s. India is the world's largest democracy, and its economy has been growing rapidly over the past few decades. As a country, it also holds the second-largest native population behind China. Not surprisingly, India has produced several billionaire entrepreneurs. Although many live in poverty due to India's high levels of income inequality, the country has maintained a long tradition of entrepreneurship and wealth creation.

3. Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, age 73, is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded IT giant Infosys (INFY) with an initial investment of 10,000 rupees, or just a few hundred dollars today's terms.

With a net worth of $4 billion, he is often referred to as the father of the Indian IT industry, serving as CEO of Infosys from 1981 until 2002 and then its chair until 2011.9 As of July 2021, Infosys has a market capitalization of around $90 billion.

4. Shiv Nadar

Shiv Nadar, 75, founded HCL Infosystems in 1976, investing a few thousand dollars, selling calculators and microcomputers.

HCL soon expanded to Singapore and the Far East, generating over 1 million rupees in sales not long after its expansion. HCL has continued to grow, making Nadar a billionaire worth over $23.8 billion.11

5. Lakshmi Niwas Mittal

Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, 70, is an Indian entrepreneur who worked for his father's steel business.

He later set out on his own due to family infighting and created what is now one of the largest steelmakers in the world, ArcelorMittal (MT). As of April 2020, ArcelorMittal has a market capitalization of $32.96 billion.12 Mittal himself is worth nearly $18.38 billion.13

6. Ghanshyam Das Birla

Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894-1983) is a well-known Indian businessman who started his first company in the early 1900s operating a cotton and textile mill. By 1919, Birla's businesses also included significant paper and sugar production.

By the time he died, Birla Group was a multi-sector global conglomerate. His great-grandson Kumar Mangalam Birla, 52, now runs the company and commands a net worth of $13.4 billion.14

7. Dilip Shanghvi

Dilip Shanghvi, 65, started Sun Pharmaceuticals in 1982 with a meager 10,000 rupee investment, or approximately $200. As the son of a pharmaceutical distributor, Shanghvi knew what he was doing.

Today, through gradual development and a series of acquisitions, that investment has grown to a value of nearly 2 trillion rupees, making Sun India's largest pharmaceutical company. Today, Shanghvi has a net worth of around $11.8 billion.15

8. Azim Premji

Azim Premji, 74, is worth an estimated $9 billion and is the former chair of Wipro Industries (WIT), a diversified software and technology company that many have compared to Microsoft.

Premji is sometimes referred to as India's Bill Gates due to his informal title as "czar" of the Indian IT industry.

9. Mukesh Jagtiani

Mukesh "Micky" Jagtiani, 69, is an Indian-Emirati businessman who has spent most of his life outside India. While he was educated in Mumbai and Beirut, he moved to London for accounting school before dropping out. Soon, starting his first company while driving a taxi, his company eventually grew into the retail and real estate giant Landmark, now based out of Dubai.

10.Priyanka Bhatnagar

 Founder of Samridhii Believing in the immense power of the human soul, Priyanka has turned herself among the most recognized tarot card & Reiki Healer in her discipline.

Decades of helping people rendering Spiritual services related to psychic healing, angel healing, horoscope matching, numerology aiming at prosperity and contentment in the lives, manifold since 2018 she has become “The Best Tarot Card Reader in Delhi.”

-Rahul