Here is the List of Richest Man in Chennai

Richest Man in Chennai

India has four big cities: Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, the country’s second most industrialized state. Poes Garden and Boat Club Road are two of Chennai’s wealthiest districts.

Here is the list of Richest Man in Chennai:

1.M. M. Murugappan & family

Chairman – Murugappa Group
Net Worth – $5.8 Billion (46000 Crore)
Industry – Diversified (Lending, Cycles, Sugar)

MM Murugappan is a fourth-generation member of the Murugappa family and the former Chairman of the Murugappa Group

He is the current chairman Carborundum Universal Ltd Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Company Limited, Murugappa Water & Technology Solutions and Trustee of the AMM Foundation. He also serves as the Correspondent of the Murugappa Polytechnic College, and on the board of IIT Madras-Research Park.Murugappan is a non-executive chairman on the board of Cyient Ltd. He retired from the board of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd in 2020. He also serves as an Independent Director of Carson Cumberbatch, Sri Lanka.

2. Radha Vembu

Chairman – Zoho
Net Worth – $3.8 Billion (30500 Crore)
Industry – Software & Services

Radha Vembu (born 1972/1973) is an Indian billionaire businesswoman and the owner of a majority stake in Zoho Corporation, an Indian software development company. Zoho Corporation was co-founded by her and her brother Sridhar Vembu, who started the business in 1996 as AdventNet.She owns a majority stake in the company and is a product manager for email service, Zoho Mail, and also the director of Corpus Foundation.She actively keeps herself away from the limelight.

3. Vembu Sekar

Chairman – Zoho
Net Worth – $2.8 Billion (22300 Crore)
Industry – Software & Services

Sridhar Vembu (born 1968) is an Indian billionaire business magnate and the founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation. According to Forbes, he is the 55th richest person in India with a net worth of $3.75 billion, as of 2021. He was awarded India’s fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 2021

4. Kalanithi Maran

Chairman – Sun TV Network
Net Worth – $2.6 Billion (21300 Crore)
Industry – Media

Kalanithi Maran is an Indian media mogul who is the chairman and founder of the Sun Group.He owns television channels, newspapers, weeklies, FM radio stations, DTH services, a cricket team (Sunrisers Hyderabad), and a movie production house. He also held a major share in the Indian airline Spice Jet from 2010 to 2015

5.  Arun Pudur

Chairman – Celframe Corporation
Net Worth – $2.6 Billion (20000 Crore)
Industry – Media

Arun Pudur is the founder and group president of Celframe Corporation. Pudur was born in Chennai, but his family moved to Bengaluru, as his father used to stay 7 to 8 months a year there. His father, Sri Ranga, was a cinematographer. Pudur is a graduate of the University of Bangalore, majoring in Business Management.

6. Prathap Reddy & family

Chairman – Apollo Hospitals Enterprise
Net Worth – $ 2.2 Billion (18700 Crore)
Industry – Healthcare

Prathap Chandra Reddy (born 5 February 1933) is an Indian entrepreneur and cardiologist who founded the first corporate chain of hospitals in India, the Apollo Hospitals. Reddy was married at an early age to a lady of his own community and social background in a match arranged by their families in the usual Indian way. The couple are the parents of four children, all girls.

7. R.G. Chandramogan & Family

Chairman – Hatsun Agro Product
Net Worth – $ 2.2 Billion (18600 Crore)
Industry – FMCG

R. G. Chandramogan is a dairyman and entrepreneur from Tamil Nadu. He is the Chairman of Hatsun Agro Product Ltd, the largest private sector dairy company in India. The company’s well-known brands Arun, Arokya and Hatsun are leaders in the segments of ice creams, milk and curd amongst private dairies in India. He is one of the first generation of entrepreneurs from Thiruthangal, Sivakasi.He is one among the 100 India Billionaires, with a fortune of $2.5 billion.

8. Venu Srinivasan

Chairman – TVS Group
Net Worth – $ 2.1 Billion (16000 Crore)
Industry – Motorcycles

Venu Srinivasan is an Indian industrialist. He is Chairman Emeritus of TVS Motor Company, one of the leading manufacturers of two-wheelers in the world and Sundaram-Clayton Limited, a leading manufacturer of auto components in India. He also serves on the board of Tata Sons Ltd., the holding company of the conglomerate the Tata Group and TVS & Sons. He is a Director on the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India. He is also Vice Chairman of Tata Trusts. Tata Trusts holds 66% of the equity capital of Tata Sons. He was conferred the Padma Bhushan Award, the third Highest civilian award in India, in January 2020

9. GSK Velu

Chairman – Trivitron Healthcare
Net Worth – $ 1.3 Billion (10300 Crore)
Industry – Healthcare

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10. Sadayandi Moopanar & family

Chairman – Pothys
Net Worth – $ 1.2 Billion (9500 Crore)
Industry – Textiles, Apparel & Accessories

Moopanar was born on 19 August 1931 at Kabisthalam village in the composite Thanjavur district, the rice granary of Tamil Nadu. His father was R. Govindaswamy Moopanar and his mother was Saraswathi Ammal. He belonged to a family of landed aristocracy that owned vast tracts of fertile land. His father R. Govindaswamy Moopanar was a Congressman. The family patronised music, arts and literature. Moopanar himself was president of the Tiruvaiyaru Sri Thyaga Brahma Mahotsava Sabha from 1980 until his death. This Sabha conducts the annual Thyagaraja music festival at Thiruvaiyaru, the saint-composer’s birthplace.

11. A Krishnamoorthy

Chairman – Amalgamations (TAFE, Simpson & Co.)
Net Worth – $ 1 Billion (7600 Crore)
Industry – Automobile & Auto Components

A. M. Krishnamurthy is an Indian politician and was member of the Bharatiya Janata Party until he joined All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in 2006. Krishnamurthy was a member of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly from the Reddiarpalayam constituency in Ozhukarai taluk, Puducherry district from 2001 to 2006. He was First elected MLA of Bharatiya Janata Party in Puducherry Legislative Assembly.

12. Sita Venkataramani

Chairman – Amalgamations (TAFE, Simpson & Co.)
Net Worth – $ 1 Billion (7600 Crore)
Industry – Automobile & Auto Components

Sita Venkataramani was an Indian lawyer and an acclaimed writer in English. He wrote mainly on South Indian rural life and the Indian independence movement. His works Murugan the Tiller (1927) and Kandan The Patriot (1932) had received considerable appreciation and Venkataramani was the subject of a biography by N. S. Ramaswami. Venkataramani was met by Paul Brunton during his travels in India and this incident finds mention in his book A Search in Secret India.

13. MAMR Muthiah & family

Chairman – Chettinad Cement
Net Worth – $ 1 Billion (7500 Crore)
Industry – Cement & Cement Products

Muthiah Annamalai Muthiah Chettiar Muthiah (5 September 1929 – 24 January 1970) was an Indian industrialist and politician. The oldest son of M. A. Muthiah Chettiar, Muthiah served as President of the Southern Indian Chamber of Commerce. From 1948 to 1970, Muthiah was the titular Kumarrajah of Chettinad.

14. AV Venkatraman

Chairman – Latent View Analytics
Net Worth – $700 Million (5500 Crore)
Industry – Software & Services

Krishnaswami Venkataraman FNA, FASc, FNASc, FRSC, popularly known as KV, was an Indian organic chemist and the first Indian director at National Chemical Laboratory (NCL Pune) and University Department of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (UDCT). 

15. CC Paarthipan & family

Chairman – Caplin Point Laboratories
Net Worth – $570 Million (4500 Crore)
Industry – Pharmaceuticals

A first generation entrepreneur, C.C.Paarthipan’s stint in the Pharmaceutical industry goes back almost 3 decades. Starting in the 80’s as a medical representative, he has scaled multiple heights to bring Caplin Point to its position today. Fascinated by the road less traveled, he has taken the company’s products to different corners of the globe, catering predominantly to the bottom of the pyramid with a combination of good quality and affordable products. He continues actively heading the organization in its multi-pronged growth approach for the years ahead.

16. TT Raghunathan

Chairman – TT Raghunathan
Net Worth – $570 Million (4500 Crore)
Industry – Consumer Durables

The TTK Group was started in 1928 by T. T. Krishnamachari, and is largely owned by the family. The group has revenues of over US$450 Million^[1] with a presence across India and several international markets. The group has joint ventures with global corporations such as SSL International and Dr. Scholl’s foot care products. The group is also associated with several charitable and social organizations, such as the TTK Voluntary Blood Bank, the T.T. Ranganathan Clinical Research Foundation (a hospital for alcohol and drug addiction) and TTK Schools for the underprivileged.

17. Dev Kishan Jhaver

Chairman – Tagros Chemicals India
Net Worth – $500 Million (4100 Crore)
Industry – Agro-chemicals

Devkishan Jhaver is registered with Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA). Their DIN is 00415238. Following are their current and past directorships.

18. Hari Krishna Jhaver

Chairman – Tagros Chemicals India
Net Worth – $500 Million (4100 Crore)
Industry – Agro-chemicals

Hari Krishna Exports Pvt. Ltd., also known as HK, is an Indian diamond conglomerate, headquartered in The Capital, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, India. It was established in 1992 by Savji Dholakia and his three brothers. The company has manufacturing units at Surat in Gujarat and its marketing and sales office in Mumbai.

19. Kishore Kumar Jain

Chairman – Khazana Jewellery
Net Worth – $450 Million (3800 Crore)
Industry – Jewellery

Khazana Jewellery is an organised jewellery retail house in South India. It was founded by Kishore Kumar Jain, and opened its first professionally managed retail showroom in Cathedral Road, Chennai, in 1993. It has since expanded to over 40+ showrooms across India. Khazana Jewellery has contributed ₹10 crore towards fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, this comprises ₹4 crore for Andhra Pradesh and ₹3 crore each for Tamil Nadu and Telangana

20. Lakshmi Narayanan

Chairman – Amalgamations
Net Worth – $450 Million (3800 Crore)
Industry – Automobile & Auto Components

He has played a leading role in the global information technology industry for more than 25 years, managing divisions and business units in Europe, India and the United States. Since joining Cognizant Technologies in 1994, he has been instrumental in formulating the company’s strategy and building and managing the organization’s development centers in India, where he is based. A member of Cognizant’s Board of Directors, Narayanan spends time traveling extensively in the U.S. and Europe to meet clients.

21. Mallika Srinivasan

Chairman – Amalgamations
Net Worth – $450 Million (3800 Crore)
Industry – Automobile & Auto Components

Mallika Srinivasan (born 1959) is an Indian industrialist and is the Chairman and Managing Director of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, a tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, India. She is also the Chairperson of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) constituted by the Government of India

22. Munuswamy Anandan

Chairman – Aptus Value Housing Finance
Net Worth – $450 Million (3800 Crore)
Industry – Financial Services

Mr. M Anandan was Executive Director (1997-2000) Managing Director (2000 – 2006) of Cholamandalam Investments and Finance. He was Managing Director (2006-2008) of Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Company, a Joint Venture with Mitsui Sumitomo, a leading Japanese Insurance Group. He was also CEO / Director of the Financial Services Businesses in Murugappa Group.

23. Shankar Sundaram

Chairman – Amalgamations
Net Worth – $450 Million (3800 Crore)
Industry – Automobile & Auto Components

Shankar Sundaram is also known as Sundaram is an Actor from India. Born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. So far Shankar Sundaram has worked in the Kollywood entertainment industry and his artwork has been released in Tamil and Telugu language movies.

24. Shriram Murali

Chairman – Amalgamations
Net Worth – $450 Million (3800 Crore)
Industry – Automobile & Auto Components

Sriram Murali is a filmmaker known for his movies(Saving the Dark (2018)) and viral videos(Lost in Light (2016), Lost in Light II (2017)) on Light Pollution. He has a passion for Astronomy and uses photography and filmmaking to create awareness about Light Pollution. His work has been published in National Geographic, Time and several other magazines.

25. Govindarajulu Radhakrishnan

Chairman – GRT Jewellers
Net Worth – $450 Million (3700 Crore)
Industry – Jewellery

The companies he is associated with are from various industries such as Construction, Manufacture of textiles, Other Service activities, , Manufacture of wearing apparel; dressing and dyeing of fur, Hotels and Restaurants, Other service activites, Financial intermediation, except insurance and pension funding, Finance, Supporting and auxiliary transport activities, activities of travel agencies, Real Estate and Renting, Business Services, Trading, Agriculture and Allied Activities, Manufacturing (Metals & Chemicals and their products), Community, Personal and Social Services etc.

26. Kiran Kumar

Chairman – Lalithaa Jewellery
Net Worth – $420 Million (3300 Crore)
Industry – Jewellery

Kiran Kumar (born Deepak Dhar; 20 October 1953) is an Indian screen and theatre actor. He has worked in numerous Hindi, Bhojpuri and Gujarati television and film productions. His latest work in drama is Charlie 2 He attended Daly College, a boarding school in Indore, enrolled at R.D. National College in Bandra, Mumbai, and later joined the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune. He was known as “Deepak Dhar” in Film and Television Institute of India among his friends.

Kumar starred in Do Boond Pani in 1971 and went on to play the lead roles in several more movies. Kumar saw his career suffer with the release of movies like Jangal Mein Mangal, among others. Rakesh Roshan’s Khudgarz got him back to Hindi cinema, in which negative roles in films like Tezaab and Khuda Gawah won him accolades as an antihero.

27. Arun Jain & family

Chairman – Intellect Design Arena
Net Worth – $400 Million (3100 Crore)
Industry – Software & Services

Arun Jain (born 30 December 1959) is a Chennai-based Indian industrialist, investor, and philanthropist.He is the chairman and managing director of Intellect Design Arena Limited, an IT software products company in the banking, financial services, and insurance space, which is listed on the National Stock Exchange as Intellect. He was also the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Polaris Consulting and Services Ltd. (formerly known as Polaris Software Labs), an IT services company. On 4 March 2016, Virtusa Corporation acquired a majority stake in Polaris Consulting & Services Limited

28. N Jayamurugan

Chairman – SNJ Distilleries
Net Worth – $400 Million (3100 Crore)
Industry – Alcoholic Beverages

Jayamurugan first entered the Tamil film industry as a producer, making Sindhu Bath (1995) through his production house Manithan Cine Arts. Jayamurugan made his directorial debut through the romantic drama film Roja Malare (1997) starring Murali, Arun Pandian and Anand Babu in the lead roles. Prior to release, the film garnered attention for its shoot in St. Mary’s Islands. Upon release, the film received mixed reviews from film critics. In the late 1990s, he made a film called Poonguyile with Livingston, Udhaya and Vindhya, which was shelved after several schedules.

29. Rangarajan S

Chairman – Data Patterns (India)
Net Worth – $350 Million (2700 Crore)
Industry – Aerospace & Defense

Srinivasan Rangarajan (10 April 1936 – 8 February 2007) was an Indian journalist, entrepreneur, cricketer, film producer and socialite. He is the youngest son of K. Srinivasan and grandson of S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar.

30. Siva Arul Durai

Chairman – Saravana Stores Thanga Nagai Maligai
Net Worth – $350 Million (2700 Crore)
Industry – Jewellery

V. Sivakumar, better known by his professional name Stun Siva, is an Indian stunt choreographer notable for his work in the South Indian film industry. Born in Chennai, Sivakumar developed an early interest in the Vietnamese martial art of Vovinam,

31. John K John

Chairman – Johnson Lifts
Net Worth – $350 Million (2200 Crore)
Industry – Industrial Products

John Poulson Keyser, known professionally as John K (formerly stylized as JOHN.k), is an American pop singer. K’s first single was the song “OT”, which he self-released in 2017.His single “If We Never Met” came to the attention of Elvis Duran.

32. N Srinivasan

Chairman – India Cements
Net Worth – $350 Million (2200 Crore)
Industry – Cement & Cement Products

Narayanaswami Srinivasan (born 3 January 1945)^, is an Indian industrialist. He is a former Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and former President of the BCCI, the governing body for cricket in India. He is also the managing director of India Cements Limited.He is the owner of Indian Premier League (IPL) team Chennai Super Kings.

33. AD Padmasingh Isaac

Chairman – Aachi Masala
Net Worth – $250 Million (1900 Crore)
Industry – Food Processing

A.D. Padmasingh Is not just an Entrepreneur but he’s more than that. He is passionate about creating many young entrepreneurs, his speech has influenced many youngsters and a lot of them consider him as their role model. So far he has created about 4000 (entrepreneurs) exclusive Agents through his own brand and each one of them is an Entrepreneur.

34. Vinod Kumar Saraogi & family

Chairman – Go Fashion (India)
Net Worth – $220 Million (1800 Crore)
Industry – Textiles, Apparel & Accessories

Vinod Kumar is an Indian politician, social worker and incumbent Member of Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly for Nachan Assembly constituency as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party.He is serving his third term as MLA in the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly, winning continuously since 2012 in the Bharatiya Janata Party Government of Himachal Pradesh.In 2022 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Vinod Kumar defeated Naresh Kumar of Indian National Congress party by the margin of 8,956 votes.

35. Rafeeque Ahamed & family

Chairman – Farida Shoes
Net Worth – $220 Million (1700 Crore)
Industry – Textiles, Apparel & Accessories

Rafeeq Ahmed (born 17 December 1961) is an Indian poet, lyricist and novelist. He has won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry and is a six-time winner of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyrics. With more than 600 songs in his credit, Rafeeq Ahamed is regarded as the most successful and critically acclaimed lyricist of contemporary Malayalam films

36. AM Gopalan & family

Chairman – Sree Gokulam Chit & Finance
Net Worth – $200 Million (1600 Crore)
Industry – Financial Services

He is best known for producing the 2009 historical drama film Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja and the 2015 Kollywood action thriller Thoongaa Vanam. Other significant film credits include Naku Penta Naku Taka (2013), Thilothama (2015), Clint (2017) and Kayamkulam Kochunni (2018).

37. C Selvam

Chairman – Asvini Fisheries
Net Worth – $200 Million (1600 Crore)
Industry – Food Processing

Amirthanathan Adaikalanathan commonly known as Selvam Adaikalanathan, is a Sri Lankan Tamil militant turned politician and Member of Parliament. He was the Deputy chairman of committees of the Parliament of Sri Lanka from September 2015 to March 2020. He is the leader of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization, a member of the Tamil National Alliance.

38. Jai Kishan Jhaver

Chairman – Tropical Agro Systems India
Net Worth – $200 Million (1500 Crore)
Industry – Agro-chemicals

Jai Kishen is a 1994 Bollywood action drama film directed by Sunil Agnihotri. It stars Akshay Kumar in a dual role, Ayesha Julka and Chandni. It was the first film where Akshay Kumar appeared in a dual role. It was an average grosser at the box office. One of the characters that Akshay Kumar played was a visually impaired man. He later played a similar role in the 2002 film Aankhen

39. Vishnu Khemani

Chairman – Century Plyboard
Net Worth – $150 Million (1400 Crore)
Industry – Construction Materials

Vishnu Khemani is on the board of Century Plyboards (India) Ltd.
(former Joint Managing Director & Director), Sharon International Services Pvt Ltd.
and Century MDF Ltd.
He previously held the position of Managing Director at Sharon Veneers Pvt Ltd.

40. Kavita Yadupati Singhania & family

Chairman – JK Cement
Net Worth – $150 Million (1300 Crore)
Industry – Cement & Cement Products

The Singhania family is a prominent Indian business family, that started out in the Indian city of Kanpur. The family expanded into three major branches and is currently based out of Kanpur, Mumbai and Delhi. JK Organisation founded by Lala Kamlapat Singhania is one of the largest conglomerates in India today, with multiple million and billion dollar companies under its belt.

The family owns majority stakes in several publicly listed companies such as JK Tyre, JK Cement, JK Lakshmi Cement, JK Paper, Jaykay Enterprises, JK Agri Genetics (JK Seeds) and JK Dairy (Umang Dairies). Some privately held companies in the family are Raymond Group, J.K. Ansell, JK Technosoft, JK Fenner, JK Insurance brokers and Global Strategic Technologies.

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