These 119 Indian billionaires are worth over $300 billion right now, according to Forbes

Dec 28, 2020, 14:50 IST

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India has added at least 17 billionaires in the last six months.
There are 119 billionaires in India right now — who collectively have over $300 billion.
Mukesh Ambani is the richest person in India and is worth $88 billion, followed by Gautam Adani and Shiv Nadar.

Even as the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the personal savings of hundreds of people and wrecked damage across global economies — some have become richer. India has added at least 17 billionaires in the last six months.

According to the Forbes list, there are 119 billionaires in India right now — who collectively have $300 billion. Mukesh Ambani, who helms the oil-to-telecom conglomerate, Reliance Industries, is the richest person in India with a net worth of $88 billion. He is followed by Gautam Adani and Shiv Nadar

These are 119 billionaires in India right now, according to Forbes real-time billionaires on December 28, 2020 —

Global Rank	India Rank	Name	Net Worth ($ Billion)	Age	Source of Income
9	1	Mukesh Ambani	$77.0 B	63	diversified
48	2	Gautam Adani	$28.3 B	58	commodities, ports
65	3	Shiv Nadar	$22.9 B	75	software services
98	4	Radhakishan Damani & family	$19.0 B	65	retail, investments
115	5	Uday Kotak	$16.3 B	61	banking
138	6	Lakshmi Mittal	$14.7 B	70	steel
184	7	Cyrus Poonawalla	$11.4 B	79	vaccines
197	8	Sunil Mittal & family	$10.6 B	63	telecom
211	9	Dilip Shanghvi	$10.0 B	65	pharmaceuticals
218	10	Kumar Birla	$9.8 B	53	commodities
258	11	Azim Premji	$8.3 B	75	software services
262	12	Kuldip Singh & Gurbachan Singh Dhingra	$8.3 B	unknown	paints
265	13	Savitri Jindal & family	$8.2 B	70	steel
315	14	Benu Gopal Bangur	$7.3 B	89	cement
320	15	Murali Divi & family	$7.3 B	69	pharmaceuticals
338	16	Ashwin Dani	$6.9 B	78	paints
402	17	Kushal Pal Singh	$6.1 B	89	real estate
407	18	Bajaj brothers	$6.0 B	unknown	diversified
444	19	Mahendra Choksi & family	$5.6 B	79	paints
447	20	Rahul Bajaj	$5.5 B	82	diversified
459	21	Hasmukh Chudgar	$5.4 B	87	pharmaceuticals
465	22	Pankaj Patel	$5.4 B	67	pharmaceuticals
511	23	Kapil & Rahul Bhatia	$5.1 B	unknown	airlines
525	24	Abhay Vakil & family	$5.1 B	70	paints
569	25	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	$4.8 B	67	biopharmaceuticals
574	26	Vikram Lal	$4.8 B	78	motorcycles
608	27	M.A. Yusuff Ali	$4.5 B	65	retail
715	28	Pawan Munjal & family	$3.9 B	66	motorcycles
734	29	Nusli Wadia	$3.8 B	76	consumer goods
735	30	Karsanbhai Patel	$3.8 B	76	consumer goods
822	31	Anil Agarwal & family	$3.5 B	67	mining, metals
849	32	N.R. Narayana Murthy	$3.4 B	74	software services
870	33	Shyam & Hari Bhartia	$3.3 B	67	diversified
880	34	Vinod & Anil Rai Gupta	$3.3 B	unknown	electrical equipment
903	35	P.V. Ramprasad Reddy	$3.2 B	62	pharmaceuticals
932	36	Rakesh Jhunjhunwala	$3.1 B	60	investments
933	37	Senapathy Gopalakrishnan	$3.1 B	65	software services
958	38	Ajay Piramal	$3.0 B	65	pharmaceuticals
976	39	Samir Mehta	$3.0 B	57	pharmaceuticals, power
976	40	Sudhir Mehta	$3.0 B	66	pharmaceuticals, power
996	41	Ravi Jaipuria	$2.9 B	66	soft drinks, fast food
998	42	Chandru Raheja	$2.9 B	80	real estate
1040	43	Micky Jagtiani	$2.8 B	69	retail
1069	44	Vivek Chand Burman	$2.8 B	83	consumer goods
1112	45	Sanjeev Bikhchandani	$2.7 B	57	Internet
1189	46	Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath	$2.5 B	39	education technology
1200	47	Harsh Mariwala	$2.5 B	69	consumer goods
1204	48	Kalanithi Maran	$2.5 B	55	media
1235	49	Madhukar Parekh	$2.4 B	73	adhesives
1239	50	Nandan Nilekani	$2.4 B	65	software services
1246	51	Jamshyd Godrej	$2.4 B	71	consumer goods
1246	52	Adi Godrej	$2.4 B	78	consumer goods
1246	53	Rishad Naoroji	$2.4 B	69	consumer goods
1246	54	Smita Crishna-Godrej	$2.4 B	70	consumer goods
1246	55	Nadir Godrej	$2.4 B	69	consumer goods
1267	56	Vijay Shekhar Sharma	$2.3 B	42	financial technology
1284	57	Anand Burman	$2.3 B	68	consumer goods
1300	58	Jitendra Virwani	$2.3 B	54	real estate
1301	59	Aloke Lohia	$2.3 B	62	petrochemicals
1326	60	Shashi & Ravi Ruia	$2.2 B	unknown	diversified
1328	61	Abhay Firodia	$2.2 B	76	automobiles
1329	62	Acharya Balkrishna	$2.2 B	48	consumer goods
1356	63	Salil Singhal	$2.2 B	73	agrochemicals
1380	64	K. Dinesh	$2.1 B	66	software services
1386	65	Vikas Oberoi	$2.1 B	50	real estate
1390	66	Baba Kalyani	$2.1 B	71	engineering
1411	67	Arvind Poddar	$2.1 B	63	tires
1422	68	Kishore Mariwala	$2.1 B	85	consumer goods
1440	69	Arvind Tiku	$2.0 B	50	oil & gas, investments
1500	70	Mahendra Prasad	$2.0 B	80	pharmaceuticals
1511	71	Harsh Goenka	$2.0 B	63	diversified
1528	72	Yusuf Hamied	$1.9 B	84	pharmaceuticals
1589	73	Sunny Varkey	$1.9 B	63	education
1591	74	Lachhman Das Mittal	$1.9 B	90	tractors
1603	75	Sandeep Engineer	$1.8 B	59	plastic pipes
1633	76	Anand Mahindra	$1.8 B	65	diversified
1644	77	S.D. Shibulal	$1.8 B	65	software services
1653	78	Chirayu Amin	$1.8 B	74	pharmaceuticals
1660	79	Sanjiv Goenka	$1.8 B	59	diversified
1725	80	Devendra Jain	$1.7 B	91	chemicals
1731	81	Narendrakumar Parekh	$1.7 B	82	adhesives
1742	82	P.P. Reddy	$1.6 B	63	infrastructure
1749	83	Bhadresh Shah	$1.6 B	69	engineering
1754	84	Satish Reddy	$1.6 B	53	pharmaceuticals
1765	85	Ajay Parekh	$1.6 B	63	adhesives
1777	86	Amit Burman	$1.6 B	51	consumer goods
1795	87	P.V.Krishna Reddy	$1.6 B	51	infrastructure
1803	88	G.V. Prasad	$1.6 B	60	pharmaceuticals
1814	89	G. Rajendran	$1.5 B	78	jewellery
1826	90	Surjit Kumar Gupta	$1.5 B	78	electrical equipment
1827	91	R.G. Chandramogan	$1.5 B	71	dairy
1846	92	Arvind Lal	$1.5 B	71	medical diagnostics
1848	93	Basudeo Singh	$1.5 B	80	pharmaceuticals
1889	94	Anurang Jain	$1.5 B	58	auto parts
1899	95	Harindarpal Banga	$1.5 B	70	commodities
1914	96	Sushilkumar Parekh	$1.4 B	87	adhesives
2047	97	Girdhari Lal Bawri	$1.3 B	73	pharmaceuticals
2047	98	Banwari Lal Bawri	$1.3 B	67	pharmaceuticals
2047	99	Rajendra Agarwal	$1.3 B	61	pharmaceuticals
2055	100	Niranjan Hiranandani	$1.3 B	70	real estate
2064	101	Ravi Pillai	$1.3 B	67	construction
2066	102	Rajju Shroff	$1.3 B	87	agrochemicals
2071	103	Subhash Runwal	$1.3 B	77	real estate
2076	104	Ranjan Pai	$1.3 B	48	education
2078	105	Shamsheer Vayalil	$1.3 B	43	healthcare
2086	106	Mangal Prabhat Lodha	$1.3 B	65	real estate
2103	107	Pradip Burman	$1.2 B	78	consumer goods
2133	108	Balkrishan Goenka	$1.2 B	54	textiles
2143	109	Radha Vembu	$1.2 B	48	technology
2159	110	Sachin Bansal	$1.2 B	39	flipkart
2180	111	Hemendra Kothari	$1.2 B	74	Financial Services
2184	112	Mofatraj Munot	$1.2 B	76	real estate
2193	113	T.S. Kalyanaraman	$1.2 B	73	jewelry
2207	114	Radhe Shyam Goenka	$1.2 B	74	consumer goods
2207	115	Radhe Shyam Agarwal	$1.2 B	75	consumer goods
2240	116	Murli Dhar & Bimal Kumar Gyanchandani	$1.1 B	unknown	Detergents
2251	117	Binny Bansal	$1.1 B	38	flipkart
2289	118	Nirmal Minda	$1.1 B	63	auto parts
2312	119	Analjit Singh	$1.0 B	66	healthcare

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