Top 25 Richest Indians as per Forbes List 2009

• 1. Mukesh Ambani – Reliance Industries Ltd (Petro Chemicals)
• 2. Lakshmi Niwas Mittal- Arcelor Mittal (Steel)
• 3. Anil Ambani- Reliance ADAG Group (Energy,Comm., Infrastructure)
• 4. Azim Premji- Wipro ( Infotech, Electricals, BPO, FMCG)
• 5. Shashi & Ravi Ruia- Essar Group ( Telecom, Steel)
• 6. Kushal Pal Singh- DLF (Cement, Construction)
• 7. Savitri Jindal- Jindal Industries (Steel and Power)
• 8. Sunil Bharti Mittal- Bharti Group (Telecom- Airtel, Insurance)
• 9. Kumar Manglam Birla- Birla Group (Hindalco)
• 10. Gautam Adani- Adani Group (Energy and Infrastructure Business)
• 11. Anil Agarwal- Steralite Industries (Metals and Mining)
• 12. Adi Godrej- Godrej Industries
• 13. G.M. Rao- GMR Industries (Infrastructure)
• 14. Dilip Shanghvi- Sun Pharmaceuticals.
• 15. Shiv Nadar- HCL Technologies ( Computers)
• 16. Uday Kotak- Kotak Mahindra Bank
• 17. Malvinder & Shivinder Singh- Religare, Ranbaxy (Now Taken by Japan's Daiichi Sankyo for $2 billion)
• 18. Subhash Chandra- Essel Group (Zee Telefilms, DNA Newspaper)
• 19. Indu Jain- Bennett, Coleman & Co. (Times Group- The Times of India, Economic Times)
• 20. Kalanithi Maran- SUN Networks (Media)
• 21. Anand Burman- Dabur
• 22. Brijmohan Lall Munjal- Hero Group
• 23. Sudhir & Samir Mehta- Torrent Pharma
• 24. Cyrus Poonawalla- Orchid Chemicals (Pharma), Stud Farms, Hotels, Fashion
• 25. Ramesh Chandra- Unitech ( Property,Wireless Communication)