Billionaire Club Ranking 2009

Rank

Promoters

Flagship company

Industry

Wealth (Rs crore)

‘08

‘09

Jan '08

Jan '09
1 1 Mukesh Ambani Reliance Ind Refineries 2,42,902.02 1,02,976.76
2 2 Anil Ambani Reliance Communications Telecommunication 1,66,308.96 56,226.71
4 3 Sunil Mittal Bharti Airtel Telecommunication 77,776.69 55,027.08
3 4 K P Singh & Family DLF Realty 1,56,400.46 31,657.29
7 5 Azim Premji Wipro IT 53,470.03 27,246.74
5 6 Anil Agarwal Sterlite Ind Metals 68,727.81 25,551.66
8 7 Gautam S Adani Adani Enterprises Trading 53,332.89 17,661.54
16 8 Dilip S Shanghvi Sun Pharma Pharmaceutical 15,949.03 15,047.99
10 9 Kumar Mangalam Birla Grasim Industries Diversified 38,462.81 13,256.32
24 10 Malvinder & Shivinder Singh Religare Enterprises Diversified 10,611.88 12,184.30
50 11 Saurav Tayal Family Jaybharat Textiles Textiles 5,643.57 11,085.81
9 12 Prithviraj, Sajjan & Naveen Jindal Jindal Steel Metals 40,784.05 11,010.94
12 13 G M Rao GMR Infrastructure Infrastructure 28,588.16 10,180.67
18 14 Shiv Nadar HCL Technologies IT 14,686.51 5,953.34
27 15 Rahul Bajaj Bajaj Auto Automobiles 10,323.17 5,890.29
14 16 Vijay Mallya United Breweries Breweries 22,345.63 5,825.03
15 17 Uday Kotak Kotak Mahindra Bank Bank 21,857.51 5,811.47
43 18 Y K Hamied Cipla Pharmaceutical 6,109.73 5,712.24
38 19 V C Burman Family Dabur FMCG 6,734.65 5,389.03
11 20 Tulsi R Tanti Suzlon Energy Capital goods 38,300.17 5,215.78
21 21 Kalanithi Maran Sun TV Network Media-entertainment 11,605.47 5,070.51
67 22 Brijmohan Lall Munjal Hero Honda Automobiles 4,041.05 4,596.39
13 23 Jaiprakash Gaur Jaiprakash Associates Cement 23,975.03 4,411.82
34 24 Vyomesh M Shah & Mahipatray V Shah Akruti City Realty 7,171.00 4,227.86
55 25 Ashwin Choksi, Ashwin Dani, Abhay Vakil Asian Paints FMCG 5,279.77 4,203.21
6 26 Ramesh Chandra Unitech Realty 56,965.44 4,177.05
22 27 Adi Godrej Godrej Industries FMCG 11,598.21 4,034.66
20 28 Subhash Chandra Zee Entertainment Media-entertainment 12,131.50 4,005.43
49 29 Murali Krishna Prasad Divi Divi's Lab Pharmaceutical 5,836.05 3,819.60
97 30 Nitin Sandesara Sterling Biotech Pharmaceutical 2,825.06 3,631.20
58 31 N R Narayana Murthy Infosys Technologies IT 4,821.72 3,468.29

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 32 S Kishore & K A Sastry KSK Energy Power

NR

 3,157.43
35 33 Glenn Saldhanha Glenmark Pharma Pharmaceutical 7,056.91 3,081.56
30 34 Keshub Mahindra Mahindra & Mahindra Automobiles 8,338.01 2,951.48

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 35 Virendra D Mhaiskar IRB Infrastructure Developers Realty

NR

 2,858.72
45 36 Sudhir Mehta Torrent Pharma Pharmaceutical 6,046.24 2,725.48
25 37 Shashi & Ravi Ruia Essar Oil Refineries 10,551.11 2,535.29
93 38 Pankaj R Patel Cadila Healthcare Pharmaceutical 2,853.93 2,517.43
107 39 D B Gupta Lupin Pharmaceutical 2,422.92 2,481.01
64 40 Sriram Thygaraj Shriram Transport Finance Financial services 4,212.00 2,463.21
28 41 B N Kalyani Bharat Forge Auto ancillaries 10,095.33 2,457.96
71 42 Ajay Piramal Piramal Healthcare Pharmaceutical 3,441.40 2,430.34
75 43 Nandan M Nilekani Infosys Technologies IT 3,326.99 2,393.12
81 44 S Gopalakrishnan Infosys Technologies IT 3,230.56 2,323.76
47 45 Gautam Thapar Crompton Greaves Capital goods 5,992.60 2,323.09
52 46 Kishore Biyani Pantaloon Retail Retail 5,536.72 2,321.81
32 47 B K Goenka Welspun India Textiles 7,647.96 2,223.37
105 48 Harsh C Mariwala Marico FMCG 2,611.69 2,207.99
39 49 R P Goenka CESC Diversified 6,731.49 2,199.08
60 50 Rajan Raheja Exide Ind Diversified 4,319.60 2,107.03
17 51 Rakeshkumar Wadhawan HDIL Realty 15,812.50 2,080.86
63 52 Nusli Wadia Bombay Dyeing Diversified 4,224.87 2,079.53
65 53 Manoj G Tirodkar GTL IT 4,185.71 2,065.26
70 54 PRS Oberoi EIH Services-hotels 3,532.71 2,038.68
23 55 Lagadapati Madhusudan Rao Lanco Infratech Engineering 11,114.12 2,018.01
73 56 Murugappan Family EID Parry Diversified 3,389.69 2,002.10
62 57 Shantanu Prakash Educomp Solutions IT 4,226.35 1,950.09
33 58 G V Krishna Reddy GVK Power & Infra Infrastructure 7,444.48 1,948.53
100 59 K Anji Reddy Dr Reddy's Labs Pharmaceutical 2,772.75 1,931.99
79 60 B K Parkeh & Family Pidilite Ind Chemicals 3,265.69 1,842.39
59 61 Samir Jain & Family Entertainment Network Media-entertainment 4,616.66 1,756.06
108 62 K Dinesh Infosys Technologies IT 2,420.50 1,741.08
80 63 Rajju D Shroff United Phosphorus Pesticides 3,232.00 1,682.86
29 64 V N Dhoot & Family Videocon Ind Diversified 9,916.80 1,633.46
40 65 Raghav Bahl TV18 Media-news 6,482.12 1,626.41
36 66 Satya Narian Prakash Punj Punj Lloyd Constructions 6,842.70 1,578.21
48 67 Hinduja Brothers Hinduja TMT Diversified 5,917.18 1,564.54
106 68 Vivek Chaand Sehgal Motherson Sumi Auto ancillaries 2,572.62 1,550.10
112 69 S D Shibulal Infosys Technologies IT 2,121.56 1,526.04
26 70 Reji Abraham Aban Offshore Oil exploration 10,407.97 1,400.98
84 71 Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Biocon Pharmaceutical 3,131.96 1,381.56
87 72 Rakesh & Rekha Jhunjhunwala Investor Diversified 3,078.69 1,362.79
69 73 Venu Srinivasan & Suresh Krishna TVS Motors Automobiles 3,743.09 1,317.84
51 74 Anu Aga Thermax Capital goods 5,552.91 1,304.24
130 75 R S Agarwal Emami FMCG 1,817.91 1,279.48
101 76 Karsanbhai Khodidas Patel Nirma FMCG 2,771.65 1,279.48
42 77 Ashok Sarin & Anil Sarin Anant Raj Ind Realty 6,349.53 1,238.63
77 78 B G Bangur Shree Cement Cement 3,295.66 1,232.43
131 79 Sandip & Sanjay Jhunjhunwala Rei Agro Agro products 1,817.22 1,199.54
147 80 Shashi Kiran Shetty Allcargo Global Logistics 1,563.59 1,189.67
46 81 Naresh Goyal Jet Airways Aviation 6,004.01 1,185.39
41 82 Nimesh Nagindas Kampani JM Financial Financial services 6,477.58 1,119.12
85 83 Shyam Sunder Bhartia Jubilant Organosys Chemicals 3,123.32 1,080.41
184 84 Mam Ramaswamy & Geetha Muthiah Chettinad Cement Cement 1,141.96 1,051.63
95 85 K M Sheth & Family G E Shipping Shipping 2,834.48 1,047.23
57 86 Jignesh P Shah Financial Technology IT 4,890.04 1,029.69
124 87 BS & GS Sawhney, DPS Kohili Koutons Retail Retail 1,962.48 1,016.50
54 88 S N Kirloskar Kirloskar Brothers Engineering 5,353.15 1,007.45

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 89 Ismail G Memon & Family KGN Industries Miscellaneous

NR

 985.75
119 90 P K Khurana Everest Kanto Cylinder Packaging 1,992.46 978.39
136 91 Abhijit Rajan Gammon India Engineering 1,737.12 948.5
72 92 H F Khorakiwala Wockhardt Pharmaceutical 3,401.90 940.94
86 93 D P Jindal Maharashtra Seamless Metals 3,087.01 913.39
19 94 J K Jain Jai Corp Infrastructure 14,293.84 912.78
61 95 B G Raghupathy BGR Energy Sys Engineering 4,269.41 897.17
56 96 B K Birla Century Textiles Diversified 4,981.00 891.19
118 97 H S Bedi Tulip Telecom Telecommunication 2,002.30 874.79
202 98 Arvind T Shah Asian Star Gems & Jewellery 1,033.36 872.51
37 99 Rohtas Goel & Family Omaxe Realty 6,819.65 856.01
129 100 Analjit Singh Max India Pharmaceutical 1,821.47 841.01

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