Forbes India Rich List 2021: This year’s list includes six newcomers, half of whom come from the growing chemicals industry.
Given the raised cut-off for gaining entry to this year’s list, eleven listees from previous year dropped off.
The Forbes India Rich List 2021 is out, and Mukesh Ambani, the MD and Chairman of Reliance Industries, has reclaimed the top spot.
For the 14th year in a row, since 2008, Ambani has been the wealthiest Indian, adding $4 billion to his net worth in 2021.
Gautam Adani, the founder of the Adani Group, is currently only $17.9 billion behind Ambani with a wealth of $74.8 billion.
Shiv Nadar, the founder and chairman of HCL Technologies, is ranked third. Nadar has remained in third place, thanks to a $10.6 billion rise in his fortune because to the country’s booming IT sector.
His entire fortune has risen to $31 billion.
Radhakishan Damani remained in fourth place, with his net worth nearly tripling to $29.4 billion from $15.4 billion in the fiscal year ending March, as his grocery chain Avenue Supermarts launched 22 new locations.
Meanwhile, with $18 billion, Savitri Jindal, chairman of the OP Jindal group, has re-entered the top-10 club.
The recovery of India from a fatal second wave of Covid-19, which broke out earlier this year, has re-established investor confidence in the world’s sixth-largest economy.
This year’s list includes six newcomers, half of whom come from the growing chemicals industry.
They include Ashok Boob’s Clean Science and Technology (No. 93, $2.3 billion), Deepak Mehta’s Deepak Nitrite (No. 97, $2.05 billion), and Yogesh Kothari’s Alkyl Amines Chemicals (No. 100, $1.94 billion). Arvind Lal (No. 87, $2.55 billion), the executive chairman of diagnostics chain Dr Lal PathLabs, also made his debut on the list after his company’s stock doubled in the last year due to a pandemic-induced increase in testing.
Given the raised cut-off for earning entrance to this year’s list, eleven listees from previous year dropped off.
This year’s list required a minimum investment of $1.94 billion, up from $1.33 billion last year.
Here is the Complete List Of Forbes 100 Richest Indians In 2021.
| Rank | Name | Net Worth (In $ Billion) | Company |
| 1 | Mukesh Ambani | 92.7 | Reliance Industries |
| 2 | Gautam Adani | 74.8 | Adani Ports & SEZ |
| 3 | Shiv Nadar | 31 | HCL Technologies |
| 4 | Radhakishan Damani | 29.4 | Avenue Supermarts |
| 5 | Cyrus Poonawalla | 19 | Serum Institute of India |
| 6 | Lakshmi Mittal | 18.8 | ArcelorMittal |
| 7 | Savitri Jindal | 18 | O.P. Jindal Group |
| 8 | Uday Kotak | 16.5 | Kotak Mahindra Bank |
| 9 | Pallonji Mistry | 16.4 | Shapoorji Pallonji Group |
| 10 | Kumar Birla | 15.8 | Aditya Birla Group |
| 11 | Godrej Family | 15.2 | Godrej Group |
| 12 | Sunil Mittal | 14.8 | Bharti Airtel |
| 13 | Bajaj Family | 14.4 | Bajaj Auto |
| 14 | Dilip Shanghvi | 14.3 | Sun Pharmaceutical Industries |
| 15 | Hinduja Brothers | 14 | Ashok Leyland |
| 16 | Burman Family | 11.8 | Dabur India |
| 17 | Madhukar Parekh | 11.7 | Pidilite Industries |
| 18 | Azim Premji | 11.2 | Wipro |
| 19 | Murali Divi | 9.9 | Divi’s Laboratories |
| 20 | Benu Gopal Bangur | 9.5 | Shree Cement |
| 21 | Kuldip Singh & Gurbachan Singh Dhingra | 9.4 | Berger Paints India |
| 22 | Ashwin Dani | 8.9 | Asian Paints |
| 23 | Kushal Pal Singh | 8.7 | DLF |
| 24 | Vinod & Anil Rai Gupta | 7.6 | Havells India |
| 25 | Sudhir & Samir Mehta | 7.1 | Torrent Group |
| 26 | Mahendra Choksi | 6.9 | Asian Paints |
| 27 | Hasmukh Chudgar | 6.6 | Intas Pharmaceuticals |
| 28 | Girdhari Lal Bawri, Rajendra Agarwal & Banwari Lal Bawri | 6.5 | Macleods Pharmaceuticals |
| 29 | Muthoot Family | 6.4 | Muthoot Finance |
| 30 | Harsh Mariwala | 6.3 | Marico |
| 31 | Abhay Vakil | 6.25 | Asian Paints |
| 32 | Pankaj Patel | 6.2 | Cadila Healthcare |
| 33 | Kapil & Rahul Bhatia | 5.8 | InterGlobe Aviation |
| 34 | Singh Family | 5.65 | Alkem Laboratories |
| 35 | Vikram Lal | 5.6 | Eicher Motors |
| 36 | Rakesh Jhunjhunwala | 5.5 | Rare Enterprises |
| 37 | Ajay Piramal | 5.1 | Piramal Enterprises |
| 38 | M.A. Yusuff Ali | 5 | LuLu Group International |
| 39 | Shyam & Hari Bhartia | 4.95 | Jubilant Bhartia Group |
| 40 | Ravi Jaipuria | 4.9 | RJ Corp |
| 41 | Murugappa Family | 4.7 | Murugappa Group |
| 42 | Mangal Prabhat Lodha | 4.5 | Macrotech Developers |
| 43 | Leena Tewari | 4.4 | USV |
| 44 | N.R. Narayana Murthy | 4.35 | Infosys |
| 45 | Nusli Wadia | 4.3 | Britannia Industries |
| 46 | Karsanbhai Patel | 4.2 | Nirma |
| 47 | Byju Raveendran & Divya Gokulnath | 4.05 | BYJU’S |
| 48 | Senapathy Gopalakrishnan | 4.03 | Infosys |
| 49 | Vivek Chaand Sehgal | 4 | Motherson Sumi Systems |
| 50 | Arvind Poddar | 3.97 | Balkrishna Industries |
| 51 | Yusuf Hamied | 3.95 | Cipla |
| 52 | Sanjeev Bikhchandani | 3.91 | Info Edge (India) |
| 53 | Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | 3.9 | Biocon |
| 54 | Pawan Munjal | 3.8 | Hero MotoCorp |
| 55 | Sridhar Vembu & Siblings | 3.75 | Zoho Corporation |
| 56 | Salil Singhal | 3.65 | PI Industries |
| 57 | Inder Jaisinghani | 3.6 | Polycab India |
| 58 | Ramesh Juneja | 3.5 | Mankind Pharma |
| 59 | Arun Bharat Ram | 3.45 | SRF |
| 60 | Yadu Hari Dalmia & Family | 3.4 | Dalmia Bharat |
| 61 | Nandan Nilekani | 3.35 | Infosys |
| 62 | Micky Jagtiani | 3.3 | Landmark Group |
| 63 | Anil Agarwal | 3.25 | Vedanta Resources |
| 64 | Sandeep Engineer | 3.22 | Astral |
| 65 | Chandru Raheja | 3.2 | Mindspace Business Parks REIT |
| 66 | Abhay Firodia | 3.15 | Force Motors |
| 67 | Baba Kalyani | 3.1 | Bharat Forge |
| 68 | R.G. Chandramogan | 3.05 | Hatsun Agro Product |
| 69 | Reddy Family | 3.01 | Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories |
| 70 | Devendra Jain | 3 | Gujarat Fluorochemicals |
| 71 | Lachhman Das Mittal | 2.92 | Sonalika Group |
| 72 | Vijay Chauhan | 2.9 | Parle Products |
| 73 | Amalgamations Family | 2.89 | Tractors and Farm Equipment |
| 74 | Ramesh Kumar & Mukand Lal Dua | 2.85 | Relaxo Footwears |
| 75 | Gupta Family | 2.82 | Lupin |
| 76 | Vikas Oberoi | 2.8 | Oberoi Realty |
| 77 | K. Dinesh | 2.76 | Infosys |
| 78 | Kalanithi Maran | 2.75 | Sun TV Network |
| 79 | P.P. Reddy | 2.73 | Megha Engineering & Infrastructures |
| 80 | Sanjiv Goenka | 2.71 | RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group |
| 81 | Anurang Jain | 2.7 | Endurance Technologies |
| 82 | Rajan Raheja | 2.65 | Exide Industries |
| 83 | Acharya Balkrishna | 2.64 | Patanjali Ayurved |
| 84 | Sunder Genomal | 2.63 | Page Industries |
| 85 | Harsh Goenka | 2.6 | RPG Enterprises |
| 86 | Nithin & Nikhil Kamath | 2.59 | Zerodha Broking |
| 87 | Arvind Lal | 2.55 | Dr Lal PathLabs |
| 88 | Prathap Reddy | 2.53 | Apollo Hospitals Enterprise |
| 89 | Ravi Pillai | 2.5 | RP Group |
| 90 | P.V. Ramprasad Reddy | 2.45 | Aurobindo Pharma |
| 91 | Jitendra Virwani | 2.4 | Embassy Group |
| 92 | Vijay Shekhar Sharma | 2.35 | Paytm |
| 93 | Ashok Boob | 2.3 | Clean Science and Technology |
| 94 | Dilip & Anand Surana | 2.25 | Micro Labs |
| 95 | S.D. Shibulal | 2.15 | Infosys |
| 96 | Chandrakant & Rajendra Gogri | 2.1 | Aarti Industries |
| 97 | Deepak Mehta | 2.05 | Deepak Nitrite |
| 98 | Vinod Saraf | 2 | Vinati Organics |
| 99 | Bajranglal Taparia | 1.95 | Supreme Industries |
| 100 | Yogesh Kothari | 1.94 | Alkyl Amines Chemicals |
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