Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani ( born December 28, 1932 in Chorwad, Gujarat, † July 6, 2002 in Mumbai, Maharashtra ) was the founder of the Indian petrochemicals group and India's richest billionaire. He is also known under the name of Dhirubhai Ambani ( bhai is a respektsbezeugender suffix in Gujarat and is called in many Indian languages ​​" older brother ").

He came as the son of a teacher to the world and married Kokilaben, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. After his death, his sons Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani took over as CEO of Reliance Industries. Because of numerous differences between the two brothers you split up the company and Anil Ambani founded Reliance - Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. With assets of more than 14.9 billion U.S. dollars is Mukesh Ambani Lakshmi Mittal after and before Anil Ambani and Azim Premji, the CEO of the software company Wipro Technologies, India's second most wealthy man. Ambani's second son, Anil Ambani is, with assets of 13.4 billion U.S. dollars, India's third richest man.