People

• Business leaderSwati PiramalSwati Ajay Piramal is an Indian scientist and businesswoman, she also involved in healthcare, focusing on public health and innovation. She is the vice chairperson of Piramal Group, a business conglomerate with interests in pharmaceuticals, financial services, real estate and glass packaging.
• LBusiness leaderLubna OlayanLubna Suliman al-Olayan is a Saudi businesswoman and former CEO and deputy chairman of Olayan Financing Company.
• Business leaderRumaitha Al BusaidiRumaitha Al Busaidi is an Omani climate change activist, women's rights activist, radio presenter, marine scientist, entrepreneur and footballer. She is regarded as the first female football analyst in the Arab World and also became the youngest Omani woman to cross the South Pole. She is also widely popularly regarded as one of the prominent radio personalities in Oman.
• Business leaderOmid KordestaniOmid R. Kordestani is an Iranian-American businessman who was the executive chairman at Twitter from October 2015 to June 2020 and a board member of the company until October 2022. He was a senior vice president, the chief business officer, and most recently a special advisor to the chief executive officer and founders at Google from July 2014 to October 2015 and was a director of Vodafone from March 2013 to October 2014. Kordestani had also previously been at Google from May 1999 to April 2009, reaching the position of Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Field Operations.
• Business leaderHabib ElghanianHabib (Habibollah) Elghanian was a prominent Iranian Jewish businessman and philanthropist who served as the president of the Tehran Jewish Society and acted as the symbolic head of the Iranian Jewish community in the 1970s. He was arrested and sentenced to death by an Islamic revolutionary tribunal shortly after the Iranian Revolution for charges including corruption, contacts with Israel and Zionism, and "friendship with the enemies of God", and was executed by firing squad on 9 May 1979 in Tehran, Iran. He was the first Jew and businessman to be executed by the Council of the Islamic Revolution.
• KBusiness leaderK.MaroCyril Kamar, known by his stage name K.Maro, is a Canadian rapper, singer and businessman of Lebanese origin. He sings in French and English. He is also the founder, the owner, and the CEO of East 47th Music, a record label, and Rock&Cherries Agency, a Paris-based Talents management agency. Both East 47th Music and Rock&Cherries Agency are part of KEG company.
• Business leaderMohamed Ali FaroukMohamed Ali Farouk, also known as Muhammad Ali, is an Egyptian businessman and heir apparent to the head of the Muhammad Ali dynasty, as the elder son of the former monarch of Egypt, King Fuad II.
• Business leaderYang YuanqingYang Yuanqing is a Chinese business executive and philanthropist who is the current chairman and CEO of Lenovo.
• LBusiness leaderLiu XiaoqingLiu Xiaoqing is a Chinese actress and businesswoman. One of the leading actresses in China in the 1980s, she is known for her roles in the films The Little Flower (1979), Reign Behind a Curtain (1983), The Burning of Imperial Palace (1983), Hibiscus Town (1986) and in the TV series Wu Zetian (1995).
• GBusiness leaderGuo JingmingGuo Jingming, also known as Edward Guo, is a Chinese young adult writer, director, and businessman.
• Business leaderLiu ChuanzhiLiu Chuanzhi is a Chinese entrepreneur. Liu is the founder of Lenovo, the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales. He remains one of the leaders of the company.
• Business leaderShobhana BhartiaShobhana Bhartia is an Indian businesswoman. She is the chairperson and editorial director of the HT Media, one of India's largest newspapers and media houses, which she inherited from her father. She has also recently taken charge as the Chancellor BITS School of Management and Pro-Chancellor of BITS-Pilani which was founded by her grandfather G. D. Birla and is the current chairperson of Endeavor India.
• Business leaderIndu JainIndu Jain was an Indian media executive and philanthropist. She belonged to the Sahu Jain family and was the chairperson of India's largest media group, popularly known as The Times Group.
• Business leaderSubrata RoySubrata Roy was an Indian businessman who founded the business conglomerate Sahara India Pariwar in 1978.
• SBusiness leaderSunanda PushkarSunanda Pushkar was an Indian-born Canadian businesswoman. She was a sales director in the Dubai-based TECOM Investments, and a co-owner of the India-based Rendezvous Sports World (RSW), a cricket franchise in the Indian Premier League. Pushkar was the wife of former International diplomat serving under the UN and politician Shashi Tharoor.
• Business leaderTanya DubashTanya Dubash is an Indian businesswoman, and an executive director and chief brand officer at the Godrej Group, and is known for taking up the responsibility for a rebranding exercise in 2008, Godrej Masterbrand Strategy. She is on the boards of Godrej Industries Limited, Godrej Consumer Products Limited, and Godrej Agrovet Limited. She was a board member of Bhartiya Mahila Bank and a trustee of Brown University. She is the elder daughter of the industrialist Adi Godrej.
• ABusiness leaderAnanya BirlaAnanyashree Birla is an Indian businesswoman and artist. She is the daughter of billionaire industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla.
• DBusiness leaderDeena Aljuhani AbdulazizPrincess Deena Ali Al-Juhani is a Saudi American businesswoman and editor. She is the founder and owner of DNA Store in Riyadh. She married into the Saudi royal family and is a former editor-in-chief of Vogue Arabia.
• Business leaderYasir Al-RumayyanYasir bin Othman Al-Rumayyan is a Saudi Arabian businessman who is governor of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), the sovereign wealth fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He also chairs the state-owned petroleum company Saudi Aramco and Saudi Arabia's largest mining company Ma'aden.
• Business leaderZhang QingweiZhang Qingwei is a Chinese politician, business executive, and aerospace engineer, who is a vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. He was formerly the Party Secretary of Hunan, the Party Secretary of Heilongjiang, Governor of Hebei, and chairperson of the Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND). Prior to his government career he was president of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and chairman of Comac, an aerospace manufacturer.
• Business leaderDean ShekDean Shek, also known as Dean Shek Tin, was a Hong Kong film actor and producer with over 72 film credits to his name. Shek was perhaps best known as Professor Kai-hsien in the 1978 film Drunken Master, Lung Sei in the 1987 film A Better Tomorrow II, and Snooker in the 1990 film The Dragon from Russia.
• GBusiness leaderGui MinhaiGui Minhai, also known as Michael Gui, is a Hong Kong-Swedish book publisher and writer. He is an author of many books related to Chinese politics and Chinese political figures; Gui authored around 200 books during his ten-year career under the pen-name Ah Hai (阿海) and was one of three shareholders of Causeway Bay Books in Hong Kong.
• FBusiness leaderForrest LiForrest Li Xiaodong is a Singaporean entrepreneur and billionaire Sama Sistem Bantuan Pilihan Kuis Mellioner Dengan Apps Shopee. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Sea Limited, a Singapore tech company with subsidiaries including Garena, Shopee, and Monee. In addition, he is the chairman of Lion City Sailors FC, as well as president of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS).He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC).
• Business leaderVicente Ferrer MonchoVicente Ferrer Moncho was a Jesuit missionary who spent his life working to improve the lives of the poor in the mission he founded in Southern India. Today the Vicente Ferrer Foundation carries out humanitarian projects in Andhra Pradesh, bringing aid to over 2.5 million poor people.
• SBusiness leaderSubhash ChandraSubhash Chandra Goenka is an Indian media entrepreneur. He is the chairman of the Essel Group, an Indian media conglomerate that owns Zee Media and the chairman emeritus of Zee Entertainment. He founded Zee TV in 1992 and Zee News in 1999. He was elected to the Upper House of the Indian parliament for the Haryana state in the 2016 Rajya Sabha election, as an independent candidate supported by legislators from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
• Business leaderAmrita PatelAmrita Patel is an Indian businessperson associated with the cooperative dairy sector as well as an environmentalist. She headed the National Dairy Development Board from 1998 to 2014 which led the world's biggest dairy development program Operation Flood. She chaired several other institutes and has been a member of board of banks. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001.
• Business leaderSumati MorarjeeSumati Morarjee, also known as the first woman of Indian shipping, is credited to have become the first woman in the world to head an organisation of ship owners, the Indian National Steamship Owners Association which has been traditionally a male bastion. She has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian honor of India in 1971 for her civil services.
• ABusiness leaderAmeera ShahAmeera Shah (born 24 September 1979) is an Indian entrepreneur. She is Executive Chairperson and Whole-time Director of Metropolis Healthcare, a leading diagnostic chain with presence in India and Africa. She is the daughter of Dr Sushil Shah, the founder of Metropolis Healthcare.
• Business leaderAhmed bin Abdulaziz Al SaudPrince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is a member of House of Saud who served as deputy minister of interior from 1975 to 2012 and briefly as minister of interior in 2012. He was detained in March 2020 on the orders of his brother and nephew, King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, respectively, and charged with treason.
• Business leaderDara KhosrowshahiDara Khosrowshahi is an Iranian and American business executive who is the chief executive officer of Uber. He was previously CEO of Expedia Group, a company that owns several travel fare aggregators. He is on the board of directors of BET.com and Hotels.com, and was on the board of The New York Times Company.
• Business leaderKhairat el-ShaterMohammed Khairat Saad el-Shater is an Egyptian engineer, businessman and Islamist political activist. A leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, as the Deputy Supreme Guide, el-Shater was the initial candidate of the movement's Freedom and Justice Party during the 2012 Egyptian presidential election before being disqualified by the election commission. Previously, he was the deputy chairman of the Brotherhood.
• NBusiness leaderNassef SawirisNassef Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian businessman, and the youngest of Onsi Sawiris' three sons. As of January 2026, his net worth was estimated at US$8.5 billion, making him the richest Egyptian.
• Business leaderCyrus S. PoonawallaCyrus Soli Poonawalla is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman and managing director of the Cyrus Poonawalla Group, which includes the Serum Institute of India, an Indian biotech company which is the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world, and Poonawalla Fincorp, a leading NBFC in India. In 2022, he was ranked as the 4th richest person in India on Forbes India rich list with a net worth of $24.3 billion. He was ranked number 1 on the Hurun Global Healthcare Rich List 2022.
• Business leaderNatarajan ChandrasekaranNatarajan Chandrasekaran is an Indian business executive. He is the chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group. He was chief operating officer (COO) and executive director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), where in 2009, he became chief executive officer (CEO). He was also the chairman of Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (TGB). He became the first non-Parsi and professional executive to head the Tata Group. He assumed the chair of B20 India and led the business agenda during India's G20 presidency in 2023.
• Business leaderAdar PoonawallaAdar Villoo Cyrus Poonawalla is an Indian businessman. He is the CEO of Serum Institute of India and chairman of Poonawalla Fincorp. His father is Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the Serum Institute of India.
• Indian businessman (born 1962)Priti AdaniGautam Shantilal Adani is an Indian billionaire businessman who is the founder and chairman of the Adani Group, a multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India. As of June 2026, Adani is ranked as the second richest person in India and 24th in the world, with a net worth of $89.6 billion. In 2022, Time magazine included him in the 100 most influential people in the world.
• Business leaderSulaiman Abdul Aziz Al RajhiSheikh Sulaiman bin Abdulaziz Al Rajhi is a Saudi Arabian businessperson. As of 2011, his wealth was estimated by Forbes to be $7.7 billion, making him the 120th richest person in the world.
• MBusiness leaderMutaib bin Abdulaziz Al SaudMutaib bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was a senior member of the Saudi royal family and after the death of his half brother Prince Bandar in July 2019 was the oldest surviving son of King Abdulaziz.
• ABusiness leaderAbdul Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al SaudAbdul Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was a senior member of the House of Saud and Saudi Arabian deputy minister of defense and aviation. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living member of the Sudairi Seven.
• Business leaderAbdul Reza PahlaviAbdul Reza Pahlavi was a member of Iran's Pahlavi dynasty. He was a son of Reza Shah and a half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

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