India is a country where there is no dearth of talent. The people of our country have made their mark not only in the world but also in space. Now if you look for the list of the richest or most influential people in India, there is a lot of difference between them. There may be many people in this rich list who have got this position from their father or grandfather. It means that most of the people whose names we hear in the list of richest people today have got this empire from their father or grandfather.
Among the influential people, there are some people who have political protection or who have been promoted by the western civilization . For example, take the President of Ukraine, Zelensky, who pushed his own country into darkness forever due to his stupidity, but the western civilization has included him in the list of influential people by calling him Hero of the Year. So you will find many such examples which you will find in both these lists.
In such a situation, if you want to know about truly rich, influential people, then add hard work to it because if hard work is also added to it, then we can call him an entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is a person who has built a huge empire on his own and who has even changed the picture of his country or the world. Moving forward on this, today we will share with you a list of 10 such entrepreneurs who changed the fate of their country India and brought it to the front row.
Top 10 Entrepreneurs in India
First of all, you should know what an entrepreneur is or who is called an entrepreneur. So entrepreneurs are called udyami in Hindi which means one who sets up a complete business or company on the strength of his own effort and hard work. It means that the person starts a work on the basis of his hard work, planning, goals, objectives and makes it so big that it becomes a very big business or company and millions of people get jobs from it.
So in today’s article, we will share with you a list of some such top entrepreneurs of India about whom you should know. You must be knowing the names of many of them because due to their work, they always remain in the headlines in the news of India. Still, you will get to know about them in detail through this article. Let’s know about them one by one.
1. Dhirubhai Ambani
Dhirubhai Ambani started his career by selling traditional dishes to religious pilgrims and Dhirubhai Ambani (1932 – 2002) was an Indian tycoon who developed and expanded his business in telecommunications, power generation, telecommunication consumer products, logistics materials, due to which his company flourished very fast. At present, Reliance Company is the largest private company in India and is counted among the 500 largest companies i.e. it is among the Fortune 500 companies. Today the CEO of the entire Reliance Industries Company is Mukesh Ambani and Ambani’s son and according to Forbes, their total wealth is 70-75 billion dollars.
2. Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata
Jhangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata is also known as JRD Tata and he was born on 29 July 1904 in the house of Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata. His mother’s name was Suzanne Briere, a Frenchman and he was their second child. Jhangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was India’s first pilot who worked as the chairman of Tata & Sons for 50 years and apart from this, he also founded India’s first international airline Air India International. Jhangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was also honored with Padma Vibhushan in the year 1957 and Bharat Ratna in 1992. JRD Tata was a descendant of Jamsetji Tata who founded the Tata Group in the mid-nineteenth century.
3. N. R. Narayana Murthy
N R Narayana Murthy was born on 20 August 1946 in Mysore. He is the founder of India’s famous software company Infosys Technology and a well-known industrialist. He is considered one of the best Indian businessmen of the modern era. He played an important role in the success of Infosys, a leading IT firm that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. N R Narayana Murthy worked for Patni Computer Systems in Pune before starting his own business. N R Narayana Murthy is known as the father of Indian IT industry who served as the CEO of Infosys from 1981 to 2002 and later as its chairman till 2011. Infosys currently has a net worth of more than $90-95 billion.
4. Ardeshir Godrej
A lawyer who was practicing in East Africa soon distanced himself from the profession because he had understood that his principle of honesty was not going to work in this profession and he was none other than Ardeshir Godrej who was born in 1868. For livelihood, he worked as a chemist’s assistant in a pharma company and when he did not like the job, he started making surgical blades and scissors. His business failed because Ardeshir Godrej used to make tools for a British company and this company was going to sell his tools and the patch got stuck. Ardeshir wanted Make in India printed on it in the name of the country but the British were not ready for it. After failure in medical equipment, Ardeshir and his siblings got success in making locks. The Godrej Group was formed in 1897 and now their firms generate revenue of more than 11 billion dollars. Today his grandson and the CEO of the company run the company and the total worth of Godrej is 2.7 billion dollars.
5. Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar is a prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of HCL Technologies. Shiv Nadar ji invested a small amount of a few thousand dollars and started HCL Infosys, a calculator and microcomputer manufacturer, in 1976. Soon after, he had sales of more than a million rupees and the success of HCL made Shiv Nadar a billionaire with a net worth of $23.8 billion. Shiv Nadar has surfed the emerging IT sector for four decades during his tenure. Today HCL Technologies is one of the largest IT technology and R&D divisions in the world. In 2008, Shiv Nadar ji was also awarded the Padma Bhushan in the field of industry and trade by the Government of India and in 2010 his personal wealth was equivalent to US $ 4.2 billion.
6. Mukesh Jagtiani
Mukesh Mickey Jagtiani was born on 15 August 1952 in Kuwait. His father was originally from Mumbai but moved to Kuwait in search of a better future where he was born. When Mukesh Mickey Jagtiani was 3 years old, his father left him with his elder brother Mahesh to live with his sister in Mumbai where he did his primary education. Mukesh Mickey Jagtiani is an Indian entrepreneur who has mostly lived in the United Arab Emirates. He studied in a school in Bombay and Beirut before moving to London to study accounting school. He then founded his own company while working as a taxi driver which grew into the commerce and real estate behemoth Landmark headquartered in Dubai. Mukesh Mickey Jagtiani’s net worth is estimated at $3.6 billion.
7. Lakshmi Niwas Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal was born on 2 September 1950 in Rajgarh tehsil of Churu district of Rajasthan in India to a Lakshmi family where his joint family of 25 members lived. His father’s name is Mohan Lal Mittal and his brothers’ names are Pramod Mittal and Vinod Mittal. Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is an Indian businessman who started his career with his own father’s steel company. Later, due to family feuds and disputes, Lakshmi Mittal went out and founded ArcelorMittal on his own, which is today one of the world’s leading steel industries. As of April 2020, ArcelorMittal’s enterprise value was $32.98 billion. Mittal’s personal wealth is estimated to be more than $18.40 billion.
8. Dilip Shanghvi
Dilip Sanghvi (born 1 October 1955) is an Indian businessman. He became the richest Indian in 2015 and is the founder and managing director of Sun Pharmaceutical. Dilip Sanghvi founded Sun Pharmaceutical in 1982 by investing 10,000 rupees (about $200). Sun India is now the largest pharmaceutical firm in India and Sun Pharmaceutical is the country’s largest pharmacy firm in the United States. Sun Pharma is one of the fifth largest specialist generic companies in the world. Dilip Sanghvi is the chairman of the Governing Board at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay IIT Mumbai. Dilip Sanghvi has been appointed to the 21-member Central Board Committee of the RBI and is one of the richest people in India. Dilip Sanghvi’s net worth is estimated to be around $11.8 billion.
9. Ghanshyam Das Birla
Ghanshyam Das Birla was born in 1894 in Pilani, Rajasthan, India and died in 1983 in Mumbai. He was an Indian entrepreneur who started his first business in the early 1900s with cotton and textile mills. He later expanded Birla to include coffee, paper and sugar manufacturing in 1919. By the time of his death, the Birla Group had grown into a multi-sector global corporation. He was a friend, advisor, admirer and colleague of Gandhiji. In 1957, the Government of India also awarded him the Padma Vibhushan. Kumar Mangalam, his great-grandson, is now the head of the corporation and they have a combined net worth of $13.5 billion.
10. Azim Hashim Premji
Azim Hashim Premji was born on 24 July 1945, his father Mohammed Hashim Premji was a rice businessman. He had a big rice business in Burma (present-day Myanmar) due to which he was called the Rice King of Burma. After this, he came from Burma and settled in Gujarat. Azim Premji is the former director of Wipro Industries (WIT) which is known for a versatile software and technology business that has been compared to Microsoft by many people. Azim Premji is also known for his social work and this work is done through his foundation and the name of his foundation is “Azim Premji Foundation”. Through this foundation, Azim Premji helps poor children by tying up with schools. Azim Premji is known as the Bill Gates of India and his net worth is said to be around 9.1 billion.
Conclusion
In this blog, you learned who is included in the list of Top 10 Entrepreneurs in India and what is the total wealth of these entrepreneurs. Hopefully, from this post you have got useful information regarding Top 10 Entrepreneurs in India. If you have any question regarding this post, then you can tell us by commenting in the comment box given below. Your feedback and suggestions are welcome as always. Thank you.
