3. Azim Premji

• Net Worth: 15.9 B                                                                       
• Source of Wealth: software
• Citizen: India
• Age: 68

With a net worth close to 16 Billion US Dollars, Azim Premhi ranks third in this list of top 10 richest people in India. He is the chairman of Wipro. Wipro was founded by his father Hasham Premji and it sold ghee as well as vegetable oils. Azim Premji transformed this company into a technology firm. It is the third largest IT Company in India.

In the list of richest people in the world, he ranks 71 according to Forbes. And he ranks 61 in the list of most powerful people in the world by Forbes. He dropped-out of Stanford University to join Wipro after his father’s death.