Top 10 Richest People In India 2020. Get a List of Indias Top 10 Richest Billionaires 2020 Here

Who is the Richest Man in India?

In 2020, the Indian Economy faced huge losses due to the Coronavirus pandemic that has affected us a lot lately. According to the IIFL Wealth Hurun India Rich List 2020, India's wealthiest people possess $823 billion cumulative wealth, one-third of its GDP which is more than the combined GDP of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bhutan. The top 10 Richest People in India 2020 are, 

1. Mukesh Ambani

2. Hinduja Brothers

3. Shiv Nadar

4. Gautham Adani

5. Azim Premji

6. Cyrus Poonawalla

7. Radhakishan Daman

8. Uday Kotak

9. Dilip Shanghvi

10. Cyrus And Shapoor Pallonji

List of Top 10 Richest People in India 2020

The industry has switched the positions due to the Covid 19 pandemic, where the healthcare industry and Pharma stood first, followed by Petrochemical, Software and Services. Let us now look at the list of the top 10 richest People in India 2020.

1. Mukesh Ambani

The wealthiest person in India, Mukesh Ambani, is at the richest man in India and occupies the fifth place in the world's richest persons' list. With a net worth of $74.4 billion, Mukesh Ambani's wealth ensues from the petrochemicals and oil and gas businesses. Reliance Jio is one of India's largest telecom networks today and has already raised over $20 billion.

2. Hinduja Brothers

Hinduja Brothers are at the second place in the list. The Hinduja family, who are also among the world's richest. The bulk of their revenue comes from Hinduja Group, who have investments spanning finance, media and health care in almost 40 countries.

3. Shiv Nadar

Shiv Nadar is the third richest person in India, with his $21.7 billion net worth. The founder of HCL Technologies, with a $23 billion (market value) company, it is one of the most extensive software services in the world today. Being present in over 45 countries worldwide, HCL Technologies, makes Shiv Nadar stands at the 72nd position in the list of world's richest persons in the world.

4. Gautham Adani

With $26.5 billion net worth, Adani is one of India's top 10 richest persons and ranks 54 on the world's richest people list. Not only Mundra Port, his wealth-generating portfolios include a range of commodities, power generation including renewable energy, and transmission.

5. Azim Premji

Azim Premji's wealth of Rs 1,14,400 crores, his company's stock has rallied about 70 per cent since Thierry Delaporte took up as new Chief Executive Officer and the share price is increased the most among India's four largest outsourcing firms now.

6. Cyrus Poonawalla

Poonawalla is at the top of the rich list, Poonawalla has a net worth of $11.4 billion. He was the founder of the Serum Institute of India in 1966. It is now the largest producer of vaccines for measles, influenza and polio. Currently, they are co-developing two vaccines for COVID-19. In the world's wealthiest person list, he ranks in the 181st position.

7. Radhakishan Daman

With a net worth of $18.9 billion, Radhakishan Damani is at the 102nd position in the global rich list. The Mumbai stock market investor, founded the supermarket chain DMart in 2017, and eventually made it to its most-valued retail chain.

8. Uday Kotak

Kotak Mahindra Bank founder, Uday Kotak has a net worth of $15.8 billion, occupies the fifth position on India's richest list. With a, Kotak takes 121st place on the world's richest persons' list.

9. Dilip Shanghvi

Dilip Shanghvifounder of Sun Pharma, has a current net worth of $9.4 billion. Dilip Shanghvi has turned his entire firm into the largest player in manufacturing speciality generic drugs, and invested in energy and oil ventures. In the world's richest persons' list in the world, he ranks in the 227th position.

10. Cyrus And Shapoor Pallonji

The Pallonji brothers, Cyrus and Shapoor Pallonji, are at the tenth place with Rs 76,000 crore separately. The SP Group's biggest asset is an 18.4% stake in Tata Sons and decided to sell their stake in Tata Sons in September 2020.