Kumar Birla

Kumar Birla is the eighth richest person in India with a net worth of $16.5 billion. He is the head of the Aditya Birla Group, which generates $46 billion in sales and is known as the commodities king. Kumar Birla is a billionaire Indian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, a conglomerate that owns roughly a third of India's largest cement maker, Grasim Industries. He's also the chancellor of Ahmedabad's Birla Institute of Technology and Science and the Indian Institute of Management. He is the fourth generation of the Aditya Birla Group, which is worth $46 billion on the stock market.

The group's businesses include cement, aluminum, communications, and financial services. Kumar Birla was 28 years old when his father, Aditya Birla, died in 1995, and he inherited the family fortune. He resigned as chairman of Vodafone Idea in August 2021, a debt-ridden telecom firm formed in 2018 by merging his Idea Cellular and Vodafone India.

Net worth: $16.5 Billion

Source of wealth: Commodities

City: Mumbai