Here’s the list of richest people in India

1. Mukesh Ambani- $38 billion

Mukesh Ambani is the most known face on our list because of his telecom venture Jio which provided cheap telecom services and sparked a war between the telecom companies to survive. Mukesh Ambani is the chairman of the Reliance Industries, which is India’s oil and gas giant. With a swooping $38 billion worth, Mukesh Ambani has topped our list of India’s richest people.

2. Azim Premji- $19 billion

Azim Premji is the chairman of the Wipro Limited which is India’s third largest outsourcer. Azim started looking after his family business in cooking oil but after the death of his father, he expanded into software making. Wipro has its innovation center in the Silicon Valley.

3. Hinduja Family- $18.4 billion

Four brothers of the Hinduja Family control the multinational Hinduja Group. Two of them live in London, one in Geneva while the youngest brother looks after the interests of the Indian market. Their businesses range from trucks to banking and cable television.

4. Lakshmi Mittal- $16.5 billion

Lakshmi Mittal is the chairman and CEO of world’s biggest steelmaker, ArcelorMittal. Mittal Steel merged with France’s Arcelor which later on with Italian steel firm Marcegaglia, acquired Italy’s steelmaking group Ilva in June 2017.

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5. Pallonji Mistry- $16 billion

Pallonji Mistry is the chairman of 152-year-old Shapoorji Pallonji Group, which is India’s engineering and construction giant. His older son also owns Eureka Forbes which is leading brand of water purifiers.

6. Godrej Family- $14.2 billion

Godrej Group is a 120-year-old consumer goods giant and is run by the Godrej family member themselves. Adi Godrej is the chairman of the group and his daughter Nisaba is the chairman of the Godrej consumer products while his son Pirojsha runs Godrej Properties.

7. Shiv Nadar- $13.6 billion

Shiv Nadar is the co-founder and chairman of HCL, which is an IT enterprise. Along with being a billionaire industrialist, he is also a philanthropist and the founder of Shiv Nadar Foundation which is empowering individuals through transformational education. HCL Technologies hires school graduates all over the world and teach them on the job.

8. Kumar Birla- $12.6 billion

Kumar Birla is the chairman of one of the largest corporations in India- Aditya Birla Group, which interests from cement manufacturing to telecom and financial services. Last year, Kumar announced the merger between his telecom firm Idea Cellular and Vodafone India to take on the current market giant Reliance Jio Telecoms. Apart from large conglomerate corporations, he is also the chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, and the chairman of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.