J. R. D. Tata

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata ( Jahangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata, born July 29, 1904 in Paris, † 29 November 1993, Geneva ) was a successful businessman in India. He founded the first commercial airline in India, the Tata Airlines ( later renamed Air India ).

He stood at the head of the Tata Group, which plays an important role in the economy in India about 50 years. Tata in 1957 was awarded the Padma Vibhushan Bharat Ratna and 1992 with the.

JRD Tata was born in Paris, the son of Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his French wife Sooni Tata nee, nee Suzanne Briere. The Tata family, originally a family of Parsee priests, had developed by Jamshedji Tata, who had turned to the trade and entrepreneurship to a dynasty of industrialists. Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was a cousin of Jamshedji Tata. " Jeh " or JRD, as he was known, spent much of his childhood in France. He was inspired there by the French aviation pioneer Louis Bleriot and learned to fly. It was 1929, the first Indian who holds a pilot's license.

J.R.D. Tata Group further developed the family crucial and is considered one of the pioneers of Indian industrialization. It applies to the, which he founded in 1932 the first Indian crow Tata Airlines, from the 1946 Air India emerged as the father of Indian aviation.

He was succeeded by Ratan Tata.