Top 10 richest people in 2010
March 12, 2010 by palPalani
Filed under Cool Stuff, General
Mukesh Ambani is ranked fourth among the World's top 10 billionaires by the Forbes Magazine with total assets worth $29 billion followed by another Indian, steel tycoon L N Mittal, who ranked fifth with a total value of $28.7 billion.
The Forbes Billionaires list for 2010 has witnessed Mexican Carlo Slim surpassing Bill Gates and Warrant Buffett to be the richest man on the earth. Slim's total worth rose $18.5 billion during the year to an estimated $53.5 billion, the Forbes Magazine said. Gates remained second with a fortune of $53 billion.
Apart from Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Head of ArcelorMittal L N Mittal, there were four other Indian tycoons in the top 50 list and 49 others in the complete list of 1,011 billionaires.
The four Indian businessmen, besides Ambani and Mittal, in the top 50 list are Azim Premji (ranked: 28, worth: $17 billion), Sashi Ruia and Ravi Ruia (ranked: 40, worth: $13 billion), and Savitri Jindal (ranked: 44, worth: $12.2 billion).
DLF's K P Singh (74), Aditya Birla Group's Kumar Mangalam Birla (86) and Bharti Airtel's Head Sunil Mittal (87) are the other Indians who are among the top 100 wealthy in India.
Top 10 list
1. Carlos Slim Helu
$53.5
2. Bill Gates
$53.0
3. Warren Buffet
$47.0
4. Mukesh Ambani
$29.0
5. Lakshmi Mittal
$28.7
6. Lawrence Ellison
$28.0
7. Bernard Arnault
$27.5
8. Eike Batista
$27.0
9. Amancio Ortega
$25.0
10. Karl Albrecht
$23.5
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why Saudi king and Abudhabi Shaik are not included on the list?
india has 2 of the the world's richest and yet the country looks like a giant flush bowl. ironic isn't it?
Who said india is poor...
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Its Fabulous and Fantastic to have TWO Indians in the TOP FIVE. Hope to see more Indian names in the list.
East or west India is the best. India been wealthy since centuries thats why mughals, British attracted. Even today India is fastest growing economy in the world. In US and UK all good Doctors and scientist they are Indian. So please dont think Indians are fools just give a chance we are better than rest of world and it shows.
buds INDIA hase two of the worlds richest ppl but we know about the damn Mumbai incident
that it self shows how developed India is
it doest matter that we have our Indians as two richest persons but the only thing that matters is is our india developed nd we know india is not........:(
east or west india is the no one
Indians are doing well all over the world ....:)
pls i want to know their e-mails.