Forbes India Rich List 2020

In a tumultuous year for the global economy, India's richest preserved their wealth. Mukesh Ambani remains the wealthiest Indian for the 13th year in a row, adding $37.3 billion to his net worth; vaccine maker Cyrus Poonawalla entered the top 10 at rank 6 as all eyes remain on the antidote, while Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar Shaw became the highest wealth gainer in percentage terms and all the pharmaceutical billionaires on the list saw their wealth rise. Fewer billionaires saw their wealth erode this year than they did in 2019.

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Rank	Name	Net Worth (In $ Billion)	Company	Age
1	Mukesh Ambani	88.7	Reliance Industries	63
2	Gautam Adani	25.2	Adani Ports & SEZ	58
3	Shiv Nadar	20.4	HCL Technologies	75
4	Radhakishan Damani	15.4	Avenue Supermarts	65
5	Hinduja brothers	12.8	Ashok Leyland	84, 79, 74, 69
6	Cyrus Poonawalla	11.5	Serum Institute of India	79
7	Pallonji Mistry	11.4	Shapoorji Pallonji Group	91
8	Uday Kotak	11.3	Kotak Mahindra Bank	61
9	Godrej Family	11	Godrej Group	NA
10	Lakshmi Mittal	10.3	ArcelorMittal	70
11	Sunil Mittal	10.2	Bharti Airtel	62
12	Dilip Shanghvi	9.5	Sun Pharmaceutical Industries	65
13	Burman Family	9.2	Dabur India	NA
14	Kumar Birla	8.5	Aditya Birla Group	53
15	Azim Premji	7.9	Wipro	75
16	Bajaj Family	7.4	Bajaj Auto	NA
17	Madhukar Parekh	7.2	Pidilite Industries	74
18	Kuldip & Gurbachan Singh Dhingra	6.8	Berger Paints India	73, 70
19	Savitri Jindal	6.6	O.P. Jindal Group	70
20	Murali Divi	6.5	Divi's Laboratories	69
21	Benu Gopal Bangur	6.1	Shree Cement	89
22	Sudhir & Samir Mehta	5.9	Torrent Group	66, 57
23	Hasmukh Chudgar	5.4	Intas Pharmaceuticals	87
24	Ashwin Dani	5.3	Asian Paints	77
25	Girdhari Lal Bawri, Rajendra Agarwal & Banwari Lal Bawri	5	Macleods Pharmaceuticals	73, 67, 61
26	M.G. George Muthoot	4.8	Muthoot Finance	70
27	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	4.6	Biocon	67
28	Pankaj Patel	4.55	Cadila Healthcare	67
29	M.A. Yusuff Ali	4.45	LuLu Group International	64
30	Kapil & Rahul Bhatia	4.4	InterGlobe Aviation	88, 60
31	Singh Family	4.35	Alkem Laboratories	NA
32	Mahendra Choksi	4.3	Asian Paints	79
33	Kushal Pal Singh	4.26	DLF	89
34	Vikram Lal	4.25	Eicher Motors	78
35	Harsh Mariwala	4.15	Marico	69
36	Nusli Wadia	4	Britannia Industries	76
37	Pawan Munjal	3.9	Hero MotoCorp	66
38	Abhay Vakil	3.85	Asian Paints	69
39	Karsanbhai Patel	3.8	Nirma	76
40	Vinod & Anil Rai Gupta	3.55	Havells India	75, 51
41	Anil Agarwal	3.4	Vedanta Resources	67
42	Yusuf Hamied	3.3	Cipla	84
43	Reddy Family	3.25	Dr. Reddy's Laboratories	NA
44	Gupta Family	3.2	Lupin	NA
45	P.P. Reddy	3.1	Megha Engineering & Infrastructures	63
46	Byju Raveendran & Divya Gokulnath	3.05	BYJU'S	39, 34
47	Leena Tewari	3	USV	63
48	Shyam & Hari Bhartia	2.95	Jubilant Bhartia Group	67, 63
49	P.V. Ramprasad Reddy	2.9	Aurobindo Pharma	62
50	Ajay Piramal	2.89	Piramal Enterprises	65
51	N.R. Narayana Murthy	2.85	Infosys	74
52	Micky Jagtiani	2.8	Landmark Group	69
53	Chandru Raheja	2.75	Mindspace Business Parks REIT	80
54	Rakesh Jhunjhunwala	2.7	Rare Enterprises	60
55	Ramesh Juneja	2.65	Mankind Pharma	65
56	Senapathy Gopalakrishnan	2.6	Infosys	65
57	Kalanithi Maran	2.46	Sun TV Network	55
58	Amalgamations Group Family	2.45	Tractors & Farm Equipment	NA
59	Sridhar Vembu & Siblings	2.44	Zoho	52
60	Salil Singhal	2.42	PI Industries	73
61	Ravi Jaipuria	2.4	RJ Corp	65
62	Vijay Shekhar Sharma	2.35	Paytm	42
63	Murugappa Family	2.34	Murugappa Group	NA
64	Jitendra Virwani	2.3	Embassy Property Development	54
65	Arvind Poddar	2.25	Balkrishna Industries	62
66	Acharya Balkrishna	2.22	Patanjali Ayurved	48
67	Shashi & Ravi Ruia	2.2	Essar Group	76, 71
68	Sanjeev Bikhchandani	2.1	Info Edge (India)	57
69	Nandan Nilekani	2.07	Infosys	65
70	Vijay Chauhan	2.05	Parle Products	84
71	Vivek Chaand Sehgal	2.04	Motherson Sumi Systems	64
72	Baba Kalyani	2	Bharat Forge	71
73	Mahendra Prasad	1.98	Aristo Pharmaceuticals	80
74	Anurang Jain	1.87	Endurance Technologies	58
75	Lachhman Das Mittal	1.86	Sonalika Group	89
76	Sunny Varkey	1.85	GEMS Education	63
77	Rajan Raheja	1.84	Exide Industries	66
78	K. Dinesh	1.83	Infosys	66
79	Harsh Goenka	1.82	RPG Enterprises	62
80	Abhay Firodia	1.8	Force Motors	75
81	Vikas Oberoi	1.75	Oberoi Realty	50
82	Chirayu Amin	1.71	Alembic Pharmaceuticals	73
83	Sanjiv Goenka	1.7	RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group	59
84	Ramesh Kumar & Mukand Lal Dua	1.65	Relaxo Footwears	66, 71
85	Dilip & Anand Surana	1.64	Micro Labs	54, 49
86	Devendra Jain	1.6	Gujarat Fluorochemicals	91
87	Sunder Genomal	1.58	Page Industries	66
88	Anand Mahindra	1.57	Mahindra & Mahindra	65
89	S.D. Shibulal	1.56	Infosys	65
90	Nithin & Nikhil Kamath	1.55	Zerodha Broking	41, 34
91	G. Rajendran	1.54	GRT Jewellers	78
92	Bhadresh Shah	1.53	AIA Engineering	69
93	Rajju Shroff	1.5	UPL	86
94	Manohar Lal & Madhusudan Agarwal	1.45	Haldiram Snacks	65, 64
95	Vinod Saraf	1.4	Vinati Organics	68
96	Chandrakant & Rajendra Gogri	1.39	Aarti Industries	74, 60
97	Premchand Godha	1.36	IPCA Laboratories	73
98	Rajesh Mehra	1.35	Jaquar Group	62
99	Arun Bharat Ram	1.34	SRF	79
100	R.G. Chandramogan	1.33	Hatsun Agro Products	71

NOTE : Public fortunes were calculated based on stock prices and exchange rates as of September 18, 2020. Private companies were valued based on similar companies that are publicly traded.