Forbes India Rich List 2021: Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani to Cyrus Poonawalla | Meet top 100 richest Indians

Forbes India Rich List 2021 is out and Reliance Industries MD and Chairman Mukesh Ambani have retained the top position again. Ambani remains the wealthiest Indian for the 14th year in a row—since 2008—adding $4 billion to his net worth in 2021. Gautam Adani, the founder of Adani Group, is now a close second with a $74.8 billion fortune, only $17.9 billion shy of Ambani. 

Industrialist Shiv Nadar, the founder and chairman of HCL technologies is at No. 3. Nadar has retained his third spot as the country’s buoyant tech sector increased his wealth by $10.6 billion. His total net worth has now soared to $31 billion.  

Radhakishan Damani retained the fourth spot with his net worth nearly doubling to $29.4 billion from $15.4 billion, as his supermarket chain Avenue Supermarts opened 22 new stores in the fiscal year ending March.

Meanwhile, Savitri Jindal, chairperson of OP Jindal group, re-entered the top-10 club with $18 billion.

India’s recovery from a deadly second wave of Covid-19, which broke out earlier this year, restored investor confidence in the world’s sixth-largest economy.

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There are six newcomers on this year’s list, with half of them from the booming chemicals sector. They include Ashok Boob (No. 93, $2.3 billion) whose Clean Science and Technology listed in July; Deepak Mehta (No. 97, $2.05 billion) of Deepak Nitrite and Yogesh Kothari (No. 100, $1.94 billion) of Alkyl Amines Chemicals. Arvind Lal (No. 87, $2.55 billion), the executive chairman of diagnostics chain Dr Lal PathLabs, also debuted on the list after a pandemic-induced surge in testing caused shares of his company to double in the past year.

Eleven listees from last year dropped off, given the increased cut-off for gaining entry to this year’s list. The minimum amount required to make this year’s list was $1.94 billion, up from $1.33 billion last year.

Take a look at Forbes India Rich List 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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