Who is your Idol in life!
Though business and entrepreneurship in India isn’t new, Indian companies and businesses has come a long way. There are numerous Indians who became famous due their businesses and their companies are listed on the Fortune 500 and a huge number of them have become billionaires.
Budding and fledgling MBAs businessmen and women looking for inspiration would do well to study the achievements of India’s greatest businessmen and make them their Idol / Ideal. Some on the list are especially inspiring because they managed to make their fortune during British rule when the environment was not conducive for business and particularly for Indian business and some of them made fortune in the 21st century. The businessmen who succeeded in that environment went the extra mile to succeed. This list will give you a broad outline of the amazing journey some of these tycoons took. Let’s jump into the list celebrate the achievements of some of these greats.
| India State | Famous Business Personality – Idol |
| Andhra | Kallam Anji Reddy – founder of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories |
| Andhra | Prathap C. Reddy – founder of Apollo Hospitals, India |
| Andhra | BR Raju – founder of Satyam Computers |
| Andhra | Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy – founder of GVK |
| Andhra | P Obul Reddy – founder of Nippo batteries |
| Bihar | Anil Agarwal – Vedanta Group |
| Bihar | Anil Sharma – Amrapali Group |
| Bihar | Samprada Singh – Alkem Laboratories |
| Bihar | Natwarlal – Famous ConMan |
| Gujurati | Mukesh Ambani – RIL |
| Gujurati | Uday Kotak – Kotak Bank |
| Gujurati | Dilip Shanghvi – Sun Pharma |
| Gujurati | Mahatma Gandhi – Father of the nation |
| Karnataka | A. B. Shetty, founder of Vijaya Bank |
| Karnataka | Nandan Nilekani, Infosys Technologies, Ltd. |
| Karnataka | V. G. Siddhartha, Cafe Coffee Day |
| Karnataka | Vijay Mallya, UB Group |
| Karnataka | N. R. Narayana Murthy, Infosys Technologies, Ltd. |
| Karnataka | T. M. A. Pai, co-founder of Syndicate Bank |
| Kerela | Rajesh Gopinathan – CEO TCS |
| Kerela | T K Kurien – Wipro |
| Kerela | S. D. Shibulal – Infosys |
| Kerela | Thomas Kurian – Oracle |
| Kerela | Verghese Kurien – Amul |
| Kerela | Ravi Pillai – RP Group |
| Maharashtrian | Baba Kalyani – Bharat Forge |
| Maharashtrian | Veena Patil – Veena Travel |
| Maharashtrian | Jaykumar Khanderao Pathare – VIP |
| Maharashtrian | Girish Paranjpe – CEO Wipro |
| Maharashtrian | Sudha Murthy – Socialist, Infosys |
| Maharashtrian | Kiran Karnik – President NASSCOM |
| Maharashtrian | Rajeev Suresh Samant – CEO of Sula Vineyards |
| NorthEast | Ajmal Ali – Ajmal Perfumes |
| NorthEast | Bharjit Singh, Chief Executive Officer, ODESH |
| NorthEast | Hironmoy Gogoi – Serial Entrepreneur |
| NorthEast | Rewaj Chettri – Serial Entrepreneur |
| NorthEast | Tanushree Hazarika – Eclectic Northeast |
| NorthEast | Arindam Dasgupta, founder, Tamul Plates |
| Punjab | Ajaypal Singh Banga – CEO MasterCard, ex CEO Citi |
| Punjab | M. S. Banga – HUL |
| Punjab | Rohit Bansal – Snapdeal |
| Punjab | Binny Bansal – Flipkart |
| Punjab | Rana Kapoor – Yes Bank |
| Rajasthan | Jamnalal Bajaj – Bajaj Group |
| Rajasthan | Motilal Oswal of Motilal Oswal securities |
| Rajasthan | Desh Bandhu Gupta of Lupin Laboratories |
| Rajasthan | Ghanshyam Das Birla – Birla Group |
| Rajasthan | Lakshmi Mittal – Mittal Group |
| Tamil | Ashok Amritraj – Hollywood |
| Tamil | Shiv Nadar – HCL |
| Tamil | Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi – PepsiCo |
| Tamil | Sundar Pichai – Google |
| Tamil | Vasant Narasimhan – Novartis |
| UP | K.P. Singh – DLF |
| UP | Vinod Gupta – CEO InfoUSA |
| UP | Vijay Shekhar Sharma – CEO of Paytm |
| UP | Abu Salem – Gangster |
| West Bengal | Rajat Gupta – Ex MD Mckensie |
| West Bengal | Amar Bose – Founder Bose Corporation |
| West Bengal | Prannoy Roy – Founder NDTV |
| West Bengal | Subroto Roy – Founder Sahara |