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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