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Four Indians among top 10 in Forbes rich list; Buffett at the top news
06 March 2008

Mumbai: Three Indians – NRI steel baron Lakshmi Mittal, Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani – take the fourth, fifth and sixth positions, respectively in the Forbes annual list of top 10 richest persons. Another Indian, DLF chairman K P Singh has occupied the eighth position in the list.
 
The other Indians who have made it to the Forbes list include Ravi and Sashi Ruia and Azim Premji, who have occupied the 43rd and 30th spot with net worth of $15 billion and $12.7 billion respectively.

The Forbes list also include Sunil Mittal and family with net worth $11.8 billion, Kumar Birla and Ramesh Chandra with $9.6 billion, Gautam Adani $9.3 billion, Savitri Jindal and family $8.2 billion, Anil Agawal $6 billion and Adi Godrej and family $5.5 billion.

New comers Sameer Gehlaut with a net worth of $1.2 billion and Gautam Adani with a net worth of $9.3 billion also found a place in the Forbes list.

The list also includes Senapathy Gopalakrishnan, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and Rahul Bajaj, with a net worth of $1 billion each.
 
Legendary investor Warren Buffett has overtaken Microsoft founder-chairman Bill Gates and Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim Helu to become the world's richest person.

Buffett has taken the top slot with a net worth of $62 billion, against Slim's $60 billion and Gates' $58 billion.

Mittal has a net worth of $45 billion dollars, Mukesh Ambani $43 billion and Anil Ambani $42 billion while K P Singh has a net worth of $30 billion.

Anil Ambani has come on top, in terms of wealth created in the last one year, followed by his elder brother Mukesh Ambani.

Following are the Indian billionaires who made it to the list of world's richest persons, as complied by Forbes magazine.

Rank Name Net worth ($billion)
4 Lakshmi Mittal 45
5 Mukesh Ambani 43
6 Anil Ambani 42
8 KP Singh 30
43 Shashi & Ravi Ruia 15
60 Azim Premji 12.7
64 Sunil Mittal & family 11.8
76 Kumar Birla 10.2
86 Ramesh Chandra 9.6
91 Gautam Adani 9.3
110 Savitri Jindal & family 8.2
164 Anil Agarwal 6
178 Adi Godrej & family 5.5
198 G M Rao 5.2
203 Pallonji Mistry 5
236 Indu Jain 4.4
260 Dilip Shanghvi 4
277 Jaiprakash Gaur 3.9
277 Shiv Nadar 3.9
288 Uday Kotak 3.7
307 Cyrus Poonawalla 3.5
327 Anand Jain 3.4
368 Chandru Raheja 3
368 Tulsi Tanti 3
428 Rakesh Wadhawan & family 2.7
446 Kalanithi Maran 2.6
462 Malvinder & Shivinder Singh 2.5
462 Micky Jagtiani 2.5
524 Venugopal Dhoot 2.3
524 Subhash Chandra 2.3
573 Niranjan Hiranandani 2.1
573 Rajan Raheja 2.1
605 Reji Abraham 2
677 Baba Kalyani 1.8
707 Vikas Oberoi 1.7
743 Anurag Dikshit 1.6
785 GV Krishna Reddy 1.5
785 Gracias Saldanha 1.5
843 Naresh Goyal 1.4
843 NR Narayana Murthy 1.4
843 Gautam Thapar 1.4
897 Girish Tanti 1.3
897 Jitendra Tanti 1.3
897 Nimesh Kampani 1.3
897 PNC Menon 1.3
962 Vijay Mallya 1.2
962 Vinod Tanti 1.2
962 Sameer Gehlaut 1.2
1014 Habil Khorakiwala 1.1
1014 Jignesh Shah 1.1
1014 Anu Aga 1.1
1014 Nandan Nilekani 1.1
1062 Senapathy Gopalakrishnan 1
1062 Rahul Bajaj 1
1062 Rakesh Jhunjhunwala 1

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Four Indians among top 10 in Forbes rich list; Buffett at the top