India's 10 Richest People in 2026
Gautam Adani has overtaken Mukesh Ambani to become India's richest person again, according to the Hurun India Rich List 2026. Steel magnate LN Mittal nearly doubled his wealth to take third place.
Quick Answer
Gautam Adani and his family are India's richest, with a net worth of ₹9.23 lakh crore (about US$96.5 billion), according to the Hurun India Rich List 2026. Mukesh Ambani and family are second with ₹8.63 lakh crore, followed by LN Mittal (₹3.39 lakh crore), Cyrus Poonawalla (₹3.03 lakh crore) and Roshni Nadar Malhotra (₹2.79 lakh crore), India's richest woman. The top 10 together hold ₹39.01 lakh crore.
This ranking uses the Hurun India Rich List 2026, the 15th edition of the list published by Hurun India with M3M India. It covers people born or brought up in India with a net worth of at least ₹1,000 crore, and wealth was valued as of August 24, 2026. Hurun counts many fortunes as family wealth, so entries such as "Gautam Adani and family" include holdings shared with relatives. Figures are in rupees as published by Hurun; the US dollar amounts are our own conversions at ₹95.63 per dollar, the rate Hurun used. 1 lakh crore is 1 trillion rupees. Each entry also notes where the person comes from and how the fortune was built.
Hurun versus Forbes
Hurun and Forbes publish separate lists of India's richest people, and their numbers differ because they use different valuation dates and methods, and Hurun often counts family wealth together. Both put Gautam Adani first in 2026. This article uses Hurun's figures throughout; they should not be compared directly with the Forbes-based figures in our world's richest people ranking.
Net worth, ₹ lakh crore (Hurun India Rich List 2026)
Source: Hurun India Rich List 2026, valued as of August 24, 2026Tap any name to jump to the full breakdown below.
Ranked #10 to #1
Samir Mehta & family
From Ahmedabad, Gujarat · US$19.8B · up 52%- Net worth:
- ₹1.89 lakh cr
- Category:
- Torrent Group · Pharmaceuticals
Samir Mehta and family, of the Ahmedabad-based Torrent Group, hold ₹1.89 lakh crore, up 52% from last year, joining the top 10. Torrent was founded by his father, U.N. Mehta, and grew from pharmaceuticals into power and gas.
Hurun links the jump to Torrent Pharmaceuticals' merger with JB Chemicals.
Source: Hurun India Rich List 2026
Anil Agarwal & family
Born in Patna, Bihar · lives in London · US$21.8B · up 87%- Net worth:
- ₹2.08 lakh cr
- Category:
- Vedanta · Metals and mining
Anil Agarwal and family hold ₹2.08 lakh crore after an 87% rise in a year. Born in Patna, Bihar, he moved to Mumbai at 19 and started out trading scrap metal in the 1970s before building Vedanta, now headquartered in London, where he lives.
Agarwal's 87% rise is the second-biggest percentage gain in this top 10, behind only LN Mittal's 93%.
Source: Hurun India Rich List 2026
Azim Premji & family
Born in Mumbai · Wipro is based in Bengaluru · US$27.5B- Net worth:
- ₹2.63 lakh cr
- Category:
- Wipro · IT services
Azim Premji and family hold ₹2.63 lakh crore. Born in Mumbai, Premji took over his family's business at 21 after his father's death, when it was a vegetable oil company, and turned Wipro into one of India's biggest IT services firms, based in Bengaluru.
Premji is just ₹2,000 crore behind Dilip Shanghvi in seventh place, one of the closest gaps on the list.
Source: Hurun India Rich List 2026
Dilip Shanghvi
Born in Amreli, Gujarat · US$27.7B- Net worth:
- ₹2.65 lakh cr
- Category:
- Sun Pharmaceutical · Pharmaceuticals
Dilip Shanghvi is worth ₹2.65 lakh crore. Born in Amreli, Gujarat, in 1955 and raised in Kolkata, he founded Sun Pharmaceutical Industries in 1983 with a small loan from his father, starting with a single factory in Vapi, Gujarat.
Shanghvi is one of two pharmaceutical fortunes in the top 10, alongside Samir Mehta of Torrent.
Source: Hurun India Rich List 2026
Kumar Mangalam Birla & family
Born in Kolkata · based in Mumbai · US$28.1B- Net worth:
- ₹2.69 lakh cr
- Category:
- Aditya Birla Group · Conglomerate
Kumar Mangalam Birla and family hold ₹2.69 lakh crore. Born in Kolkata, Birla became chairman of the Mumbai-based Aditya Birla Group at 28, after his father Aditya Vikram Birla died in 1995.
The Aditya Birla Group spans cement, metals, financial services and fashion.
Source: Hurun India Rich List 2026
Roshni Nadar Malhotra & family
Delhi · chairperson of HCLTech · US$29.2B- Net worth:
- ₹2.79 lakh cr
- Category:
- HCLTech · IT services
Roshni Nadar Malhotra and family hold ₹2.79 lakh crore, making her India's richest woman. She chairs HCLTech, the IT company founded by her father, Shiv Nadar, who gifted her 47% of his stake in the family holding companies HCL Corp and Vama Delhi in March 2025, giving her control of the group.
She is one of 131 women on the 2026 list, up from 100 in the previous edition.
Source: Hurun India Rich List 2026
Cyrus Poonawalla & family
From Pune, Maharashtra · US$31.7B- Net worth:
- ₹3.03 lakh cr
- Category:
- Serum Institute of India · Vaccines
Cyrus Poonawalla and family hold ₹3.03 lakh crore. Poonawalla founded the Serum Institute of India in Pune in 1966; it became one of the world's largest vaccine makers by the number of doses produced.
Poonawalla is the richest healthcare entrepreneur in the top 10, ahead of both pharmaceutical fortunes.
Source: Hurun India Rich List 2026
LN Mittal & family
Born in Sadulpur, Rajasthan · lives in London · US$35.4B · up 93%- Net worth:
- ₹3.39 lakh cr
- Category:
- ArcelorMittal · Steel
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal and family hold ₹3.39 lakh crore after a 93% rise, climbing eight places to third. Born in Sadulpur, Rajasthan, and based in London for decades, Mittal built one of the world's largest steelmakers, ArcelorMittal, created in 2006 by merging Mittal Steel with Arcelor.
Mittal added ₹1.64 lakh crore in a year, the largest gain in rupees on the entire list.
Source: Hurun India Rich List 2026
Mukesh Ambani & family
Born in Aden, Yemen · based in Mumbai · US$90.2B · down 10%- Net worth:
- ₹8.63 lakh cr
- Category:
- Reliance Industries · Energy, telecom, retail
Mukesh Ambani and family hold ₹8.63 lakh crore, down about 10% from ₹9.55 lakh crore last year, when they ranked first. Born in 1957 in Aden, where his father Dhirubhai Ambani was working, he took over Reliance Industries after his father's death in 2002 and expanded it from refining into Jio telecom and Reliance Retail. He lives in Mumbai.
Ambani and Adani together hold ₹17.86 lakh crore, about 46% of the top 10's combined wealth, nearly as much as the other eight put together (₹21.15 lakh crore).
Source: Hurun India Rich List 2026
Gautam Adani & family
From Ahmedabad, Gujarat · US$96.5B · up 13%- Net worth:
- ₹9.23 lakh cr
- Category:
- Adani Group · Ports, energy, infrastructure
Gautam Adani and family are India's richest, with ₹9.23 lakh crore, up 13% from ₹8.15 lakh crore last year. Born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Adani left college and started out in Mumbai's diamond trade before founding a commodities trading firm in 1988. His Adani Group now runs ports, airports, power and green energy, and is still based in Ahmedabad.
Adani finished about ₹60,000 crore ahead of Ambani, after trailing him by about ₹1.4 lakh crore a year earlier.
Source: Hurun India Rich List 2026
What the numbers tell us
The top 10 hold ₹39.01 lakh crore combined, about 21% of the ₹187.5 lakh crore owned by all 1,810 people on Hurun's list. Total wealth on the list rose 12.8% even though the Nifty 50 fell 3.9% and the Sensex fell 5.8% over the same period. Mumbai is home to 465 of the people on the list, more than any other city. Gujarat stands out in the top 10: Gautam Adani and Samir Mehta are from Ahmedabad and Dilip Shanghvi from Amreli, and the Ambani family's roots are in Gujarat too. Two of the ten, LN Mittal and Anil Agarwal, live in London.
- Data period:
- Hurun India Rich List 2026; wealth valued as of August 24, 2026; released September 23, 2026
- Last updated:
- October 22, 2026
- Sources:
- Hurun India and M3M India, Hurun India Rich List 2026 (15th edition), as reported by Business Today, Gulf News and Boldsky; biographical details from company histories, Wikipedia and The Week
- Source links:
- Business Today: Hurun India Rich List 2026, Adani reclaims top spot with ₹9.23 lakh crore
- Gulf News: India has 391 dollar billionaires, meet the 10 richest
- Boldsky: Hurun India Rich List 2026, India's 10 richest
- The Week: Shiv Nadar gifts 47% of his stake in HCL Corp and Vama Delhi to Roshni Nadar Malhotra (March 2025)
- Wikipedia: Dilip Shanghvi
- Wikipedia: Anil Agarwal (industrialist)
People are ranked by net worth in the Hurun India Rich List 2026, which covers individuals born or brought up in India worth at least ₹1,000 crore, valued as of August 24, 2026. Hurun often reports wealth for a person and their family together. Unlisted companies are valued using recent funding rounds or comparisons with listed peers. Rupee figures are Hurun's; US dollar figures are our conversions at ₹95.63 per US dollar, the rate Hurun used, and may differ slightly from figures in news reports that used other rates. Percentage changes, last year's figures, the top-10 total and other comparisons come from Hurun's published figures or our calculations from them.
Figures marked as estimates are based on publicly available information and may vary from other published sources.
Frequently Asked Questions
Gautam Adani and family, with ₹9.23 lakh crore (about US$96.5 billion), according to the Hurun India Rich List 2026. Mukesh Ambani and family are second with ₹8.63 lakh crore.