6. Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal completed a Bachelor of Commerce in St. Xavier’s College in Calcutta. He opened his first steel factory PT Ispat Indo in Indonesia. He is the Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel and mining company. In 2019, Arcelor and Nippon Steel purchased $5.9 billion worth of Essar Steel. From the Forbes list of 03 February 2021, his net worth is $14.1 billion and ranks 154 in the list of the world’s richest people.
7. Sunil Mittal
Sunil Mittal is an Indian Billionaire Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. He started Bharti Enterprises as a maker of bicycle parts and then into telecom, insurance, and various sector. Bharti Airtel is one of India’s largest mobile phone operators, with more than 423 million customers to date. He also owns Airtel Payments Bank in a joint venture with Kotak Mahindra Bank. As per Forbes on 03 February 2021, his wealth is estimated as $12.4 billion, and he is the seventh richest person in India.
8. Cyrus Poonawalla
Cyrus Poonawalla is also known as the ‘vaccine king of India.’ He is the son of a horse breeder. He founded the Serum Institute of India in 1966, producing over 1.5 billion doses of vaccines annually for measles, polio, and flu. Now Serum institute has producing vaccines for COVID-19 in partnerships with AstraZeneca and Oxford University. His son Adar Poonawalla currently works as the CEO of the Serum Institute of India. According to Forbes, as of 03 February 2021, his net worth is $11.5 billion, and the eighth richest person in India and the world rank is 199.
9. Kumar Birla
He completed his MBA and became a chairman of the Aditya Birla Group in 1995 after his father, Aditya Vikram Birla. Kumar Birla is the chairman of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he lost $3.1 billion between 2017 and 2019. According to Forbes, as of 03 February, his wealth is estimated as $11.1 billion, and ninth richest person in India.
10. Dilip Shanghvi
Dilip Shanghvi started his career by helping his father in his wholesale generic drugs business. He founded Sun Pharmaceuticals in 1982 with an investment of INR 10,000. He received the Padma Shri award from the government of India in 2017. As per the Forbes list, in February 2021, he is the tenth richest person in India with a net worth of $11 billion and ranked 204 globally.
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