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Republic Biscuit Corporation
Republic Biscuit Corporation, known as Rebisco, is a family-owned Philippine snack-food manufacturer founded by Jacinto Ng Sr. in 1963, exporting to 48 countries and controlling Asia United Bank.
Richard Elman (commodities trader)
Richard Elman is a British commodities trader who founded Noble Group in Hong Kong in 1986 and built it into Asia's biggest commodity trader before its 2018 collapse.
Rimbunan Hijau Group
Rimbunan Hijau Group, whose name means "Forever Green," is a Malaysian conglomerate founded in Sibu, Sarawak, in 1975 by Tiong Hiew King, spanning timber, palm oil, property, and Chinese-language media.
Robert G. Coyiuto Jr.
Robert G. Coyiuto Jr. is a Filipino businessman who chairs insurer Prudential Guarantee, founded PGA Cars, and holds a major stake in the Philippines' power grid operator.
Robert Ng
Robert Ng Chee Siong is a Hong Kong property magnate who chaired the Sino Group from 1991 until 2025 and, with his brother Philip, controls Singapore's Far East Organization.
Ronnie C. Chan
Ronnie C. Chan, also known as Ronnie Chan (陈启宗), is a Hong Kong property executive who led Hang Lung Group from 1991 to 2024 and co-founded the investment group Morningside.
Royal Golden Eagle Group
Royal Golden Eagle Group is a Singapore-headquartered natural resources group controlled by Indonesian-born tycoon Sukanto Tanoto, with businesses in pulp and paper, viscose, and palm oil.
RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group
The RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, also known as the RPSG Group, is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, created in 2011 when Rama Prasad Goenka's businesses were divided between his sons.
S. K. Burman
S. K. Burman, or Sourindra Mohan Burman, was a 19th-century Calcutta physician and Ayurveda practitioner who founded Dabur in 1884 to make Ayurvedic medicines; the name came from "Daktar Burman".
Samina Hamied
Samina Hamied is an Indian business executive and third-generation member of the family that founded Cipla, its Executive Vice-Chairperson from 2016 to 2024, now founder of AYRA Ventures.
Sappe
Sappe (เซ็ปเป้) is a Thai beverage company founded in 1988, best known for Mogu Mogu, a fruit juice drink with nata de coco, and for the Sappe Beauti Drink line.
Sarath Ratanavadi
Sarath Ratanavadi (สารัชถ์ รัตนาวะดี) is a Thai energy and telecommunications executive, CEO of Gulf Development, which he founded in 2007 and took public in 2017.
Sathien Setthasit
Sathien Setthasit (สาธิต เสถียรสิทธิ์), formally Sathien Sathientham, is a Thai businessman who co-founded the Carabao energy drink in 2001 and serves as CEO of Carabao Group, listed in Bangkok in 2014.
Sheng Siong Group
Sheng Siong Group (升菘集团) is a Singaporean supermarket chain founded by the Lim brothers in 1985 and listed on the Singapore Exchange since 2011, the country's second-largest behind NTUC FairPrice.
Shikha Sharma
Shikha Sharma is an Indian banker who was managing director and CEO of ICICI Prudential Life from 2000 to 2009 and of Axis Bank from 2009 to 2018.
Shin Kyuk-ho
Shin Kyuk-ho, known in Japan as Takeo Shigemitsu, was a Korean businessman who founded the Lotte Group, starting with chewing gum in Japan in 1948.
Sinar Mas (Eka Tjipta Widjaja and the Widjaja family fortune)
Sinar Mas is the Indonesian business fortune of Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who began selling biscuits in Makassar in 1938 and built pulp, paper, palm oil, and finance companies.
Sinar Mas Group
Sinar Mas Group is an Indonesian diversified conglomerate founded by Eka Tjipta Widjaja in 1938, operating through more than 400 companies including Asia Pulp & Paper.
SM Group
SM Group, also known as the Samra Midas group, is a South Korean business group founded in 1988 by builder Woo Oh-hyun, centered on construction and shipping.
Soledad Oppen-Cojuangco
Soledad Oppen-Cojuangco, known as Gretchen, is a Filipina heiress who inherited the fortune of her late husband Eduardo "Danding" Cojuangco Jr., the longtime San Miguel Corporation chairman who died in 2020.
Sorabji Pochkhanawala
Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala (1881–1937) was a Parsi banker in Bombay who founded the Central Bank of India in 1911, the first Indian commercial bank wholly owned and managed by Indians.
Southern Roadways
Southern Roadways (Southern Roadways Private Ltd.) was a Madurai-based road freight and parcel carrier of the TVS group, founded in 1946 by T.V. Sundaram Iyengar.
Sri Prakash Lohia
Sri Prakash Lohia, born 1952 in Kolkata, is an Indonesian petrochemical and fertilizer tycoon who founded Indorama Corporation with his father and is among Indonesia's richest people.
Sudono Salim
Sudono Salim, born Liem Sioe Liong, was a Chinese-Indonesian tycoon who migrated from Fujian in 1938 and built Salim Group, Indonesia's largest conglomerate, which collapsed after Suharto fell in 1998.
Sukanto Tanoto
Sukanto Tanoto (陈江和), also known as Chen Jianghe, is an Indonesian-born, Singapore-based billionaire who founded and chairs Royal Golden Eagle, a pulp, palm oil, and energy group.
Sundaram Industries
Sundaram Industries is an Indian manufacturer of rubber products, solid tires, and defense solutions, founded in 1943 by T V Sundram Iyengar and part of the TVS Mobility Group.
Sunway Group
Sunway Group is a Malaysian conglomerate founded in 1974 by Jeffrey Cheah, centered on property, construction, and healthcare, and best known for building Sunway City Kuala Lumpur on 800 acres of former tin-mining land.
Syed Mokhtar Albukhary
Syed Mokhtar Albukhary is a low-profile Malaysian business tycoon and philanthropist whose DRB-HICOM and MMC groups span ports, automotive, banking, postal services, and rice trading, worth an estimated US$3.5 billion in 2026.
T. K. Gajjar
T. K. Gajjar, full name Tribhuvandas Kalyandas Gajjar (1863–1920), was an Indian chemist and industrialist, Western India's first industrial chemist and the founder of Alembic Chemical Works in Baroda.
T. S. Srinivasan
T. S. Srinivasan (1922–1979) was an Indian industrialist of the TVS Group, youngest son of founder T. V. Sundram Iyengar, who built its auto-components base and two-wheeler business.