List of Wealthiest People in India 2023

This is a List of Wealthiest People in India 2023. India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country as of June 2023; and from the time of its independence in 1947, the world’s most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia.

Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago. Their long occupation, initially in varying forms of isolation as hunter-gatherers, has made the region highly diverse, second only to Africa in human genetic diversity. Settled life emerged on the subcontinent in the western margins of the Indus river basin 9,000 years ago, evolving gradually into the Indus Valley Civilisation of the third millennium BCE.

Mukesh Ambani is the wealthiest person in India, with an estimated net worth of 94.7 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Gautam Adani (No. 2, $53.6 billion), Shiv Nadar (No. 3, $27.6 billion) and Savitri Jindal (No. 4, $21.7 billion).Cyrus Poonawalla is the fifth-richest person in India, with a whopping $20.2 billion. Dilip Shanghvi ranked 6th with a personal wealth of $18.3 billion, followed by Radhakishan Damani with $16.6 billion. Lakshmi Mittal is placed 8th with a net worth of $16.5 billion. Kumar Birla ($15.8 billion) occupied the 9th position among the top 10 wealthiest people in India.