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Top 10 Richest Indians

Richest Indians in 2010.

10. Gautam Adani

Gautam Adani — Net Worth: $6 Billion

Started just in 1988, the Adani group has climbed up the ladder fast to reach forefront of business in commodities trading and expanded to infrastructure and energy. Its chairman Gutam Adani is our tenth richest person.

09. Kumar Birla

Kumar Birla — Net Worth: $7.8 billion

Birla group used to be the number two business house in India but after its split some decades ago, one of the group companies Aditya-Birla group, is the world's tenth largest cement company.

08. Sunil Mittal

Sunil Mittal — Net worth - $8.2 billion.

Airtel is the pioneer in the telecom in India and is the number one in the field. It is this company that took mobile phone and telemedia to all the corners of India. The Bharthi Airtel, the company that owns Airtel has Sunil Mittal as its chairman.

07. Savitri Jindal

Savitri Jindal — Net Worth - $12 billion.

Om Prakash Jindal, the founder of the Jindal Group died in March 2005 and the family fortune was divided into four parts for 4 brothers but eh controlling interest went to his wife Savitri Jindal. The lady as the non-executive chairman of the O.P. Indal group. This company manufactures power and steel.

06. Kushal Pal Singh

K.P. SIngh — Net Worth - $13.5 billion.

The property company DLF's slogan says it all: Building India. DLf is India's and now world's largest builders and their operations extend throughout India. Almost all metropolitan and tier II cities come under their developing activities. The chairman Kushal Pal Singh is an army veteran. DLF has a city named after itself near Delhi: DLF city!

05. Shashi & Ravi Rhuia

Shashi - Ravi Rhuia — Joint Net Worth - $13.6 billion.

Family business to the fore again. When Nand Kishore Ruia,their father died, the brothers Shashi and Ravi Ruia took over the company known as Essar group. mainly into shipping and paint in the beginning, now their multi-faceted operations include steel, power and oil.

04. Azim Premji

Azim Premji — Net Worth - $14.9 billion

When Azim Premji was selling cooking oil, nobody knew him. He made a plunge into IT sector when it was in nascent stage. He did not look back since then. His Wipro is as well known as any other IT major in the world with its third largest exports from the country to scores of countries in the world. Computers and allied industries keep him in the 4th position.

03. Anil Ambani

Anil Ambani — Net Worth - $17.5 billion.

Ambani brothers can easily be the richest people in the world by far, had they chosen to remain as one company. Alas, they had to part company and the younger Brother Anil Ambani comes third in our list of 10 richest Indians. His business interests include telecom, entertainment, financial services and infrastructure. His flag ship company is Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Group.

02. Lakshmi N. Mittal

Lakshmi N. Mittal — Net Worth - $30 billion

You could have called him a little upstart some years ago and you would not have been more wrong. Not any more. From a scrap merchant in erstwhile Calcutta to one of the top steel magnets in the world is no joke. Sheer hard work and prudence has earned him the second place in this list. His factories are present in South America, India and Middle east.

01. Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani — Net Worth - $32 billion.

Well, we all know who the first one is in our list. Yes, It is Mukesh Ambani, the elder of the Ambani brothers. He has his hand in many businesses but the important ones are Petrol, oil and gas. His Reliance Industries is the numero uno company in India. Another distinction he has is that he is the second richest man in the world. Fortune magazinwe predicts he will be the richest man in the world before 2014. He continues his father, Dhirubhai Ambani's legacy in business.

World's Top 10 Richest Sports Team Owners

There was a time not too long ago when sports teams were considered a billionaire's ultimate luxury purchase. Sports was the one area where the super wealthy could still be super fans. But in recent years, the business side of owning a sports franchise has started to overshadow that fun. Money has been flowing into sports, notably from corporate sponsorships, brand new stadiums, and massive television contracts -- and billionaires are taking notice.

10. Micky Arison

Team: Miami Heat
Net worth: $5.7 billion

Carnival Cruises, the company founded by the father of current boss Micky Arison, had a shipwreck of year, at least in terms of public relations. In February 2012 32 passengers were killed when a ship on its Costa line, the Concordia, ran aground in Tuscany. A year later, 4,000 passengers were stranded for days in the Gulf of Mexico with little food and few working bathrooms after an engine fire crippled its ship, Triumph. The stock was immediately slammed but had run up nicely (20%) in the prior 12 months on optimism about renewed consumer spending on vacations. Another positive development on dry land: Arison's NBA team, the Miami Heat, won the 2012 NBA championship, helping boost the franchise's value by 37% to $625 million.

09. Charles Johnson

Team: San Francisco Giants
Net worth: $5.7 billion

Charles Johnson serves as chairman of Franklin Resources, parent of mutual fund purveyor Franklin Templeton, with more than $781 billion in assets under management as of December, 2012. His half-brother, Rupert, Jr. serves as vice chairman. Their father, Rupert Sr., founded a mutual fund shop in 1947, then called Franklin Distributors. Charles took over as chief executive in 1957 and the two brother expanded into Franklin Resources in 1969. Charles' son Gregory is the company's chief executive, while his daughter Jennifer serves as chief operating officer. A Yale alum, he worked as a waiter at a dining hall as an undergrad. Charles is chairman of the San Francisco Giants baseball team, and recently made a rare public appearance at the team's World Series celebration parade in October. He and his wife own the Hillsborough, Calif. Carolands mansion, which has 98 rooms and was the site for a Mitt Romney presidential fundraiser in May 2012. Johnson and his wife also oversee the Charles and Ann Johnson Foundation, which gives regularly to local schools and causes such as Stanford University and the California Academy of Sciences.

08. Margarita Louis-Dreyfus

Team: Olympique Marseille
Net worth: $6 billion

Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, who is new to the Forbes Billionaires list, has held her own as chairman of the French commodities giant formerly run by her late husband, Robert. Margarita took over when Robert died of leukemia in 2009. In October 2012 she sold the company's energy trading business. She has also raised capital on the public markets for the first time in the firm's 160-year history, issuing $350 million in bonds on the Singapore market. A Russian who is known as "the tsarina" by the French press, she reportedly plans to spend $7 billion on acquisitions over the next five years. She appears to be preparing her three children to join the firm. She reportedly put her twins, Kyril and Mauric, in boarding school in Singapore for a year to expose them to new schools of thought. Her eldest son, Eric, had an internship at Glencore, a competing firm. She married Robert in 1992 after meeting him on a plane in 1988. It was the second marriage for both.

07. Silvio Berlusconi

Team: AC Milan
Net worth: $6.2 billion

Silvio Berlusconi sure acts like the Teflon politician. Despite an October 2012 conviction by a Milan court for tax fraud and still pending charges against him for having sex with a minor (he denies the allegations), the billionaire announced in December that he plans to run for prime minister of Italy again -- a post from which he resigned in November 2011 amid plunging approval ratings and one he has held three times. Berlusconi started his career as a singer on cruise ships and built a fortune through holding company Fininvest that includes stakes in Mediaset, Italy's largest media company; financial services company Mediolanum (founded by Italian billionaire Ennio Doris); Mondadori, one of the country's largest publishing houses; movie maker Medusa and popular soccer team A.C. Milan. Berlusconi's eldest daughter Marina chairs Fininvest. A rise in the price of Mediolanum stock lifted Berlusconi's net worth by $300 million over the past year.

06. Phil Anschutz

Teams: Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings
Net worth: $10 billion

Phil Anschutz has made fortunes in oil, railroads and telecom, but his biggest bets are in entertainment. In late 2012 he put his Anschutz Entertainment Group up for sale, hoping to get more than $8 billion. Through AEG, he operates dozens of the world's greatest concert venues like the Staples Center and Nokia Theater in L.A., London's O2, and Shanghai's Mercedes-Benz Arena. He fills his halls with his own in-house entertainment, including the L.A. Lakers and NHL's L.A. Kings. His music division manages rock stars like Justin Bieber, Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez. His film division has produced the Chronicles of Narnia series. New deal: AEG partnered with Ryan Seacrest and Mark Cuban to rebrand HDNet as a new TV network called AXS. It will feature lots of live entertainment from AEG's venues. AXS is also the name of AEG's new no-fee ticketing venture to compete with Ticketmaster. Anschutz hopes to bring NFL football back to L.A., with plans to build a $1 billion stadium adjacent to the Staples Center. If only he can find a team to buy. He's got plenty of cash to make the deal, having sold oil and gas fields for $1 billion in 2010. Other passions: the art of the American West; his collection of Bierstadts, Remingtons and Russells (now on display in a new Denver museum) could be the world's best. Enjoys the western vistas too; his company Xanterra manages lodges in many national parks, and this year he bought the famed Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs. On his own land in Wyoming, Anschutz is developing a wind farm that could boast 1,000 turbines.

05. Roman Abramovich

Team: Chelsea
Net worth: $10.2 billion

In August 2012 Roman Abramovich won a suit in the High Court in London brought by billionaire Boris Berezovsky. his former partner. Berezovsky had been seeking $5.6 billion he claimed Abramovich failed to pay for stakes in oil giant Sibneft and aluminum producer Rusal. Abramovich has stakes in steel giant Evraz and mining firm Highland Gold. Together with his Evraz partner, billionaire Alexander Abramov, he plans to buy a large stake (about 10%) in Norilsk Nickel. Abramovich was orphaned as a child and dropped out of college, then made his fortune in a series of controversial oil export deals in the early 1990s. He teamed up with Berezovsky to take over Sibneft at a fraction of its market value. He sold his stake in Russian Aluminum to another billionaire, Oleg Deripaska, and a 73% stake in Sibneft to gas titan Gazprom for $13 billion in 2005. He owns the U.K.'s Chelsea soccer team. He owns the world's largest yacht, the 533-foot Eclipse, which cost him more than $250 million in 2010. He also has a 377-foot ice boat, the Luna, a Boeing 767 and homes in London, France, St. Barts, Colorado and Los Angeles. He owns a large art collection. In January 2013 he bought a collection of 40 paintings by Ilya Kabakov, the most expensive living Russian artist, from U.S. collector John L. Stewart.

04. Mikhail Prokhorov

Team: Brooklyn Nets
Net worth: $13 billion

Mikhail Prokhorov has been, by turns, banker, athlete, metals mogul, playboy, investor, media player, politician, NBA owner (the Brooklyn Nets) and now, again, politician. He rocked Russia when he jumped into its 2012 presidential race against strongman Vladimir Putin. No one expected him to win but he managed to get 8% of the vote, even though he ran an unexceptional campaign. (He did, however, rap on TV, perhaps suggesting that some of his friendship with Jay-Z is rubbing off). While the 6-foot-8-inch bachelor and martial arts enthusiast moved the Nets to a new arena in Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards, and often jets in to watch a game, he has no plans to settle in the U.S. He insists that his serious interest is Russian politics, and he has created a new party, the Civic Platform, that he intends to expand until it's strong enough to go head-to-head with Putin's United Russia. He has the money to see it through. In late February 2013 he sold his 37.8% share of Polyus Gold International Ltd. for $3.6 billion.

03. Paul Allen

Teams: Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers
Net worth: $15 billion

Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Paul Allen continues to score big in real estate, tech and energy. In late 2012 his Vulcan Real Estate sold to Amazon the 12-building campus the online retailer had been leasing in downtown Seattle. At $1.15 billion, it was the biggest U.S. commercial real estate deal of the year. The proceeds will go to paying off debt and developing even more space for Amazon. Allen has been selling off shares of the software maker he started with Bill Gates and investing in a more diversified basket of media, energy and tech stocks. He's also put venture money into natural gas-to-fuels play Siluria, and diagnostics firm Applied Proteomics. Allen is that rare billionaire who combines passions for sports and science. He owns the Seattle Seahawks (pro football), the Portland Trailblazers (pro basketball) and is a part-owner in the Seattle Sounders FC (pro soccer). The cancer survivor also has a keen interest in neuroscience, having recently lost his mother to Alzheimer's disease. To date he has committed $500 million to the Allen Institute for Brain Science, which makes public a detailed "atlas" of genes that control the human brain.

02. Rinat Akhmetov

Team: FC Shakhtar Donesk
Net worth: $15.4 billion

Ukraine's wealthiest and son of a coal miner, Rinat Akhmetov has been dealing with uprisings at his coal mines with miners at one mine seizing offices in protest against their dismissal. But the value of his energy company, DTEK, continues to increase with rising demand. Strength in the energy sector has offset declines in his steel producer Metinvest which is suffering from depressed steel prices. Akhmetov has reportedly fallen out with Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, with whom he had a strong alliance over the past decade; Akhmetov also stepped down from Parliament. A soccer aficionado, he is riding high after the UEFA Euro 2012 games were played in his $400 million Donbass Arena.

01. Mukesh Ambani

Team: Mumbai Indians
Net worth: $21.5 billion

Mukesh Ambani's fortune dropped $1 billion though he remains India's richest person and his Reliance Industries remains country's most valuable company. Reliance, along with its partner BP, will be investing $5 billion in KG-D6, the country's largest offshore gas field where output has sharply declined and which has been the subject of scrutiny by a federal auditor. Despite hectic lobbying with the federal oil ministry, it has not yet secured a price increase for gas. Ambani is also preparing to roll out 4G services for which he may reportedly lease towers from Reliance Infratel, run by his once-estranged sibling Anil. Mukesh and his wife Nita throw lavish parties, the latest being for British prime minister David Cameron on his recent trip to Mumbai.

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Top 10 Youngest Billionaires on the Forbes

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has occupied the top spot on the Forbes' youngest billionaires list, beating Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The list also includes Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker from Facebook. Others featuring on the list are Hariri brothers, Scott Duncan and Yishikazu Tanaka.

10. Dustin Moskovitz

Net Worth: $2.7 billion
Age: 26

Dustin Moskovitz is the world's youngest billionaire who co-founded social networking site Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes. He is just eight days younger than Zuckerberg.

After the stupendous success of Facebook, Dustin started a new firm called Asana to solve enterprise collaboration.

09. Mark Zuckerberg

Net Worth: $13.5 billion
Age: 26

This Harvard dropout has been instrumental in making Facebook the most successful networking site of the present time. He is the CEO of Facebook at present. Zuckerberg has a long list of admirers, from Apple's Steve Jobs to US President Barack Obama.

08. Albert von Thurn und Taxis

Net Worth: $2 billion
Age: 27

Albert is a German prince and socialite. He made his first appearance on the Forbes' list at the age of eight, but made an official entry after he inherited fortune on his 18th birthday.

He was the youngest billionaire till 2010, when he was overthroned by Zuckerberg. Albert's assets include real estate, tech firm and huge stretch of woodland in Germany.

07. Scott Duncan

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Net Worth: $3.1 billion
Age: 28

Scott inherited the $12.4-billion pipeline empire built by his father Dan Duncan. Duncan Senior started his business, which now has thousands of miles of pipeline, from scratch.

06. Eduardo Saverin

Net Worth: $1.6 billion
Age: 29

Eduardo is another young billionaire from the Facebook stable. However, relationship soured when Facebook sued Eduardo for allegedly interfering with business and insisting on keeping 30 per cent stake. Finally, the matter was settled with Eduardo getting a 5 per cent stake.

05. Yang Huiyan

Net Worth: $4.1 billion
Age: 29

Yang is the only woman in top 10 of Forbes' young billionaires list. She is main shareholder of Country Garden Holdings. Her father transferred 70 per cent of the company's shares to her before its IPO in 2007.

04. Fahd Hariri

Net Worth: $1.5 billion
Age: 30

Youngest son of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri inherited stake in his father's businesses after the latter's assassination in 2005. The conglomerate has interests in construction, telecom and real estate businesses.

04. Sean Parker

Net Worth: $1.6 billion
Age: 30

Sean is a strategist who co-founded Napster, Plaxo, and Causes and was also a part of Facebook. Napster was a peer-to-peer music sharing service that brought free music to the masses. But it didn't last long owing to allegations of piracy. In 2002, Parker launched Plaxo, an online address book and social networking service.

He's currently a managing partner at Founders Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in tech companies.

02. Ayman Hariri

Net Worth; $1.5 million
Age: 32

Ayman is the older brother of Fahd. He has also inherited his father's business and is at present a board member of Saudi Oger and South African mobile operator 3C Telecommunications.

01. Yoshikazu Tanaka

Net Worth; $2.2 million
Age: 34

Yoshikazu is a self-made billionaire who started his career at Sony, then worked for a networking site before developing his own networking site, Gree. His company was listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2005, a couple of years after it was founded. He's planning to go global and set up shop in California.

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