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A M Naik
A. M. Naik, born Anil Manibhai Naik, is an Indian industrialist who joined Larsen & Toubro in 1965 and led it as chairman from 2003 to 2023.
A. M. Murugappa Chettiar
A. M. Murugappa Chettiar (ஏ. எம். முருகப்பா செட்டியார்) was an Indian financier who founded a banking firm in Burma around 1900 that grew into the Murugappa Group.
A. S. Kotibhasker
A. S. Kotibhaskar, full name Anant Shridhar Kotibhaskar, was an Indian chemist and Gold Medalist in Technological Chemistry who co-founded Alembic Chemical Works in 1907.
Abhishek Lodha
Abhishek Lodha is an Indian real estate executive who leads Lodha Developers, the Mumbai-based firm founded by his father Mangal Prabhat Lodha in 1980, as Managing Director and CEO.
AZB & Partners
AZB & Partners is a full-service Indian corporate law firm founded in 2004 by Zia Mody, Ajay Bahl, and Bahram Vakil, with six offices and more than 700 lawyers.
Baba Kalyani
Baba Kalyani, also known as Babasaheb Kalyani, is an Indian industrialist who has led Bharat Forge in Pune since 1993, building it into the world's second-largest auto forging company.
Benu Gopal Bangur
Benu Gopal Bangur is an Indian businessman and patriarch of the family that controls Shree Cement, built from Beawar, Rajasthan into India's third largest cement group; he stepped down as chairman in 2022.
Bhai Mohan Singh
Bhai Mohan Singh (1917–2006) was an Indian pharmaceutical industrialist who built Ranbaxy Laboratories into one of India's largest drug companies and led it for over four decades.
Brijmohan Lall Munjal
Brijmohan Lall Munjal (बृजमोहन लाल मुंजाल; 1923–2015) was an Indian industrialist who founded the Hero Group and made Hero Honda the world's largest two-wheeler maker.
CG Power and Industrial Solutions
CG Power and Industrial Solutions is an Indian electrical equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mumbai, making transformers, switchgear, motors, and railway components, controlled by the Murugappa Group since 2020.
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance, commonly Chola Finance, is a Chennai-based Indian non-banking financial company founded in 1978 by the Murugappa Group and one of India's largest vehicle financiers.
CK Birla Group
The CK Birla Group, renamed the CKA Birla Group in 2025, is an Indian multinational conglomerate controlled by CK Birla, operating in technology services, automotive, building products, and healthcare.
Coromandel International
Coromandel International is an Indian agri-inputs company and Murugappa Group flagship, incorporated in 1961, that makes phosphatic fertilizers and crop protection chemicals and runs over 1,200 agri-retail stores.
Deepak Bagla
Deepak Bagla is an Indian investment promotion executive who served as Managing Director and CEO of Invest India, the national investment agency, from 2015 to 2023.
Deepak Parekh
Deepak Parekh is an Indian banker and chartered accountant who joined HDFC in 1978 and chaired it from 1993 until its 2023 merger into HDFC Bank.
Dvārakā Nāth Tāgore
Dvārakā Nāth Tāgore (দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর; 1794–1846), known as Prince Dwarkanath, was a Bengali zamindar and entrepreneur of Calcutta who founded Carr, Tagore & Company in 1834 and was the grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore.
EID Parry
EID Parry is a Chennai-headquartered sugar, biofuel, and consumer products company founded by Thomas Parry in 1788, which set up India's first sugar plant and operates as part of the Murugappa Group.
Ela Bhatt
Ela Bhatt (1933–2022) was an Indian labor lawyer who founded SEWA, a trade union of poor self-employed women, in Ahmedabad in 1972 and led it until 1996.
Essar Group
Essar Group is an Indian business house founded by the brothers Shashi and Ravi Ruia in 1969, which sold its core oil, steel, and port assets between 2017 and 2022.
Ghanshyam Das Birla
Ghanshyam Das Birla, known as G.D. Birla, was an Indian industrialist from Pilani, Rajasthan, who built the Birla group into one of India's two largest business houses and co-founded FICCI.
Godrej
Godrej is an Indian conglomerate founded in 1897 and headquartered in Mumbai, whose businesses range from locks and soaps to aerospace, real estate, and agricultural science.
GVK Group
GVK Group is an Indian infrastructure group founded by G.V. Krishna Reddy and headquartered in Secunderabad, which built and operated Mumbai's main international airport before ceding it to the Adani Group in 2020.
GVK Reddy
GVK Reddy, full name Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy, is the founder and chairman of the Hyderabad-based GVK Group, an Indian infrastructure company spanning power, transportation, and hospitality.
Henning Holck-Larsen
Henning Holck-Larsen (1907–2003) was a Danish chemical engineer who co-founded Larsen & Toubro in Mumbai in 1938 with Soren Kristian Toubro, building it into India's largest engineering company.
Keshub Mahindra
Keshub Mahindra (1923–2023) was an Indian industrialist who chaired the Mahindra Group from 1963 to 2012, and was convicted of negligence in the 1984 Bhopal gas leak case.
Lodha Group
Lodha Group, formally Lodha Developers Limited and traded as Macrotech Developers until 2025, is a Mumbai-headquartered real estate developer controlled by the Lodha family, listed since 2021 and among India's largest by sales.
M. M. Murugappan
M. M. Murugappan is an Indian businessman and chemical engineer who served as Executive Chairman of the Murugappa Group, a Chennai conglomerate, from 2018 to 2020.
M. V. Subbiah
M. V. Subbiah is an Indian industrialist who chaired the Murugappa Group from the mid-1990s to April 2001, converting it into a professionally managed conglomerate.
Mallika Srinivasan
Mallika Srinivasan, born Mallika Sivasailam in 1959, is an Indian businesswoman who chairs TAFE, a Chennai tractor maker selling over 200,000 tractors annually, which she took over in 2011.
MH Hasham Premji
MH Hasham Premji, born Mohamed Hasham Premji, was an Indian businessman who founded Western India Vegetable Products in 1945, the company that became Wipro, and died in 1966.