As the market capitalization of India increases day by day Indian companies are growing exponentially from reliance jio to tata steel corporation all have seen a great peak on the market. India produced several billionaires in the last decade. Just because of increasing demand on the market some of the companies are successful in capturing a large number of audience.
In this article, We have compiled the top 10 richest persons in India in 2022. Some of them also come on the list of the richest persons in the world. We have considered the Forbes ranking of top-earning people in India.
Top 10 Richest Person In India 2022
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10. Dilip Shanghvi
Dilip Shanghvi Founder and managing director of sun pharmaceuticals which is India’s most valuable pharma industry with annual revenue of 4.5 billion dollars (33300 crores). sun pharma acquired Caraco pharma and taro pharma in order to expand their company globally. he recently invested in renewable energy and oil gas. He is the 10th richest person in India with a net worth of $10.9 Billion (80600 crores INR)
9. Cyrus Poonawalla
Cyrus Poonawalla is the chairman and managing director of the poonawalla group of companies which includes serum institutes of India an Indian biotech company that is famous for vaccines productions. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2005. He also owns Bilthoven biological, Poonawalla clean energy, Poonawalla hospitality and real estate, and villo Poonawalla greenfield farm. He is the seventh richest healthcare billionaire in the world and also the 9th richest person in India with a net worth of $11.5 Billion (85100 crores INR)
8. Kumar Birla
Kumar Birla is the chairman of the multinational Aditya Birla group which operates a large number of industries including cement, Aluminum, Telecom, and financial services. He owned one of the largest telecom company Idea who recently merged with Vodafone and was renamed VI. Most popular fashion brands like Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Peter England, and pantaloons also come under the Birla group of companies. He is the 8th most wealthiest person in India net worth of $13.7 Billion (102100 crores INR)
7. Savitri Jindal and Family
Savitri Jindal is India’s richest Indian woman and chairperson of OP Jindal groups which includes India’s leading steel, power, infrastructure, and cement industries. She was also a shareholder of Nalwa sons, Shalimar paints, and Hexa traders. She is also head of some software and pharmaceutical industries. Her net worth is $13.8 Billion (108259 crores INR)
6. Radhakishan Damani
Radhakishan Damani is a businessman and founder of Dmart which is India’s leading supermarket with more than 234 Dmart stores across India and revenue of 300 billion Indian rupee in the financial year 2021. Radha Kishan holds various stocks including Avenue supermarts, Trend ltd, United breweries, VST Industries, Sundaram finance, India cement, etc. He becomes India’s 6th richest man with a net worth of $14.5 Billion (1,13,000 crores INR)
5. Uday Kotak
Uday Kotak was one of the India’s top bankers and. He is the owner and executive vice-chairman of Kotak Mahindra bank which is counted in Indian’s top 4 banks in the private sector. He has various shares in stocks, financial services, investment banking, mutual funds, and car finance. He has been a 25 percent stakeholder at Goldman Sachs since 2006.in 2014 he was named Ernst and young world entrepreneur of the year. Also Indian is the 4th richest person with a net worth of $14.8 Billion (1,17,000 crores INR)
4. Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal is the executive chairman of the world’s largest steelmaking company ArcelorMittal and also chairman of leading stainless steel manufacturer company Aperam. Lakshmi Mittal is a member of various trusts and boards. Since 2008 he was a member of the board of the director of Goldman Sachs. His total net worth according to Forbes was $18.1 Billion (1,33,000 crores INR)
3. Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar was an industrialist and founder of HCL technologies which is one of the biggest IT hardware companies which has earned 10 million dollars in 2020. He also runs the Shiv Nadar foundation which is an educational association for student’s welfare. He was awarded Padma Bhushan for his work in the IT industry. Shiv Nadar is Indian 3rd richest person with a net worth of $25.3 million (1,41,700 crores INR)
2. Gautam Adani
Gautam Adani is the chairman of the Adani group of companies which is Gujarat based multinational company with a 15 billion dollar total revenue last year. He acquired a 74% stake in Mumbai airport in 2020. His main company Adani group deals with power transmission, green energy, and gas. He was the 2nd wealthiest person in India with a total net worth of $62 Billion (4.71 lakh crores INR)
1. Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and owner of the Reliance telecom industry. His main company reliance jio was the largest telecom company in India. He also owns the petrochemical and oil industry whose turnover increased by 35% last year. Forbes ranked him the wealthiest person in India for the 13th consecutive year. He is also the richest man in India with a net worth of $87 billion (6.6 lakh crores INR)
So here we come to the end of this list of Top 10 Richest Person In India 2022. You can also check our latest post on Top 10 Richest Bollywood Actors 2022