People

• ZBusiness leaderZhang JindongZhang Jindong is a Chinese entrepreneur. He is one of the founders and the current honorary chairman of the Suning.com, headquartered in Nanjing, Jiangsu. He also owned 100% stake in Suning Holdings Group, 65% stake in Suning Real Estate as well as 48.1% stake in Suning Appliance Group as the second largest shareholder. His company also was the majority owner of Italian football club Inter Milan until May 2024.
• Business leaderLi Xiaopeng (politician)Li Xiaopeng is a Chinese businessman and politician, who served as the Minister of Transport from 2016 to 2024. He is the former chief executive of China Huaneng Group, a power generation company. He was also Governor of Shanxi between 2012 and 2016. As the son of former Chinese Premier Li Peng, he is a prominent member of the faction known in Chinese politics as the princelings.
• Business leaderGuo GuangchangGuo Guangchang is a Chinese businessman and investor. He is the chairman and co-founder of Fosun International Limited, and a representative of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. As of July 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth was US$2.8 billion. According to Hurun Report's 2019 China Rich List he was the 45th richest person in China.
• TBusiness leaderTony ZhangTony Zhang Zhidong is a Chinese businessman who is the co-founder, former CTO and second-largest individual shareholder of Tencent, a Chinese internet conglomerate.
• Business leaderKalanithi MaranKalanithi Maran is an Indian billionaire media proprietor. He is the founder and chairman of Sun Group, one of India's largest media conglomerates. He owns multiple television channels, newspapers, weeklies, FM radio stations, DTH services, a movie production house, and three cricket team franchises: Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League, Sunrisers Eastern Cape in the SA20 League in South Africa and Sunrisers Leeds in The Hundred in England. He also held a major share in the Indian airline SpiceJet from 2010 to 2015.
• Business leaderDalip Singh SaundDalip Singh Saund was an Indian-born American farmer, lobbyist, judicial officer, academic, and Democratic Party politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1957 to 1963. He was the first Sikh, Punjabi American, Indian American, and Asian American elected to the United States Congress. As a resident of Westmoreland, California, Saund represented California's 29th congressional district, which at the time consisted of Imperial and Riverside counties.
• Business leaderShahnaz HusainShahnaz Husain is an Indian businesswoman and the founder, chairperson and managing director of, The Shahnaz Husain Group. She has received acclaim for pioneering the herbal beauty care movement and taking the Indian herbal heritage of Ayurveda worldwide. In 2006, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, by the Government of India for her contribution to the fields of trade and industry.
• VBusiness leaderVandana LuthraVandana Luthra is an Indian entrepreneur and the founder of VLCC Health Care Ltd, a beauty and wellness company with operations in Asia, the GCC countries, and Africa.
• Business leaderVijay Shekhar SharmaVijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian technology entrepreneur known as the founder and chief executive officer of One97 Communications and its consumer brand Paytm.
• RBusiness leaderRadhakishan DamaniRadhakishan Shivkishan Damani is an Indian billionaire businessman and investor. He is the founder and chairman of retail chain DMart. His estimated net worth is US$14.8 billion as of September 2026, according to Forbes.
• ABusiness leaderAditi GuptaAditi Gupta is an Indian author and co-founder of Menstrupedia Comic. She and her husband, both National Institute of Design Alumni, co-founded Menstrupedia Comic in 2012. In 2014, she was named in the Forbes India 30 Under 30 2014 list.
• FBusiness leaderFalguni NayarFalguni Sanjay Nayar is an Indian billionaire businesswoman, who is the founder and CEO of the beauty and lifestyle retail company Nykaa, formally known as FSN E-Commerce Ventures which is an acronym of her own name. Nayar is one of two self-made female Indian billionaires.
• Business leaderAbdulaziz bin Turki Al-FaisalAbdulaziz bin Turki bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, also known as Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Faisal, is a former Saudi racing driver and businessman as well as a member of the House of Saud. Prince Abdulaziz is the Minister of Sports appointed by King Salman with a royal decree on 25 February 2020.
• Business leaderSulaiman Al-FahimSulaiman Abdul-Karim Mohammed Al-Fahim is an Emirati television personality and self described billionaire businessman in the UAE real estate sector. He was involved in the deal in which the Abu Dhabi royal family obtained Manchester City F.C., and was briefly owner of Portsmouth F.C.. In 2018, he was convicted and sentenced to five years in jail by a UAE court for stealing £5 million.
• NBusiness leaderNazar NajarianNazar Najarian, also known as Nazo, was a Lebanese businessman and politician of Armenian descent who served as secretary-general of Lebanon's Kataeb Party, a Christian political party, from 11 June 2018 until his death on 4 August 2020.
• Business leaderPrince Abbas HilmiPrince Abbas Hilmi is an Egyptian and Ottoman prince and financial manager. A member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty, he is the only son of Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim and his Ottoman wife Princess Neslişah, and grandson of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II Bey.
• Business leaderOvidio G. AssonitisOvidio Gabriel Assonitis is an Egyptian-born Greco-Italian entertainment executive, film producer, screenwriter, and director best known for his numerous B-horror films including Beyond the Door, Tentacles, Madhouse, and Piranha II: The Spawning.
• Business leaderAlaa MubarakAlaa Mohammed Hosni El Sayed Mubarak is an Egyptian businessman and the elder of two sons of Hosni Mubarak, the former President of Egypt who served from 1981 to 2011, and his wife, Suzanne Mubarak.
• Business leaderKwong Siu-hingKwong Siu-hing, or sometimes Kwok Kwong Siu-hing, is the matriarch of the Kwok family. She controls the conglomerate Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property developer in Hong Kong as of 2019. As of 2008, Kwong effectively controls about 41.53% of SHK Properties' shares through a family trust, so she was deemed as the largest shareholder of the company, with a net worth of 19.4 billion dollars as of February 2026.
• Business leaderJoseph LauJoseph Lau Luen-hung is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman. Lau is the former chairman of property developer Chinese Estates. He is an avid art and wine collector. His fortune is estimated by Forbes at $13.3 billion as of September 2021. In 2014, he became a convicted felon and fugitive in Macau.
• Business leaderYang LanYang Lan is a Chinese media proprietor, journalist, and talk show host. She is the co-founder and chairperson of the Sun Media Group and the Sun Culture Foundation. In 2013, she was ranked number 100 in Forbes magazine's 100 World's Most Powerful Women.
• PBusiness leaderPeng LeiPeng Lei, also known as Lucy Peng, is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman. She is one of the founders of the e-commerce company Alibaba Group. As of March 2017, Peng was one of 21 self-made women billionaires in China.
• Business leaderZhang KangyangZhang Kangyang, known as Steven Zhang, is a Chinese businessman and former chairman of Italian football club Inter Milan.
• Business leaderNess WadiaNess Nusli Wadia is an Indian businessman. Wadia is the managing director of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, a company which has holdings in most of the Wadia Group subsidiaries, including an indirect majority stake in Britannia Industries. He was the Joint Managing Director of Bombay Dyeing, the flagship company of the Wadia Group, till March 2011 when he stepped down from the post. Wadia is a co-owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Punjab Kings.
• Business leaderT. T. KrishnamachariTiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari was an Indian politician who served as Finance Minister from 1956 to 1958 and from 1964 to 1966. He was also a founding member of the first governing body of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in New Delhi, India's first independent economic policy institute established in 1956.
• Business leaderAdi GodrejAdi Burjorji Godrej is an Indian Parsi billionaire businessman and head of the Godrej family, chairman of the Godrej Group. As of November 2025, he has an estimated net worth of US$4 billion.
• Business leaderRobert VadraRobert Vadra is an Indian entrepreneur, and the husband of Priyanka Gandhi.
• Business leaderRakesh JhunjhunwalaRakesh Radheyshyam Jhunjhunwala was an Indian billionaire investor, stock trader, and Chartered Accountant. He began investing in 1985 with a capital of ₹5,000, with his first major profit in 1986. At the time of his death, he had an estimated net worth of US$5.8 billion, making him the 438th richest person in the world. He was a partner in his own asset management firm, Rare Enterprises.
• ZBusiness leaderZarina ScrewvalaZarina Screwvala is an Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist. She is currently the Managing Trustee of Swades Foundation, a foundation dedicated towards Rural Empowerment in India.
• RBusiness leaderRitu DalmiaRitu Dalmia is an Indian celebrity chef and restaurateur. She is the chef and co-owner of the popular Italian restaurant Diva in Delhi, which she established in 2000, with co-founder Gita Bhalla under partnership firm "Riga Food". Other restaurants of company include 'Latitude 28' and 'Cafe Diva'. She hosted a TV cookery show, 'Italian Khana', for NDTV Good Times for three seasons, and published her first cookbook by the same name in 2009.
• NBusiness leaderNisa GodrejNisaba Adi "Nisa" Godrej is an Indian businesswoman, and the chair of Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL).
• SBusiness leaderSulajja Firodia MotwaniSulajja Firodia Motwani is an Indian entrepreneur. She is currently the vice-chairperson of Kinetic Engineering Limited and is the founder and CEO of Kinetic Green Energy & Power Solutions Limited.
• ABusiness leaderAruna JayanthiAruna Jayanthi is an Indian businesswoman and managing director of Capgemini's Asia Pacific and Latin America business unit. Previously, she held roles as their CEO of Business Services and CEO of Capgemini India. Jayanthi joined Capgemini in 2000 and was part of the core team that initiated and set up the firm's offshore capabilities in India, eventually heading up their global outsourcing services. Jayanthi has been chairperson of the board of governors of National Institute of Technology Calicut since November 2014.
• Business leaderAbdullah bin Faisal Al Saud (1923–2007)Abdullah bin Faisal Al Saud was a Saudi Arabian businessman, politician, and poet who held multiple posts in the Saudi government throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Prince Abdullah was the eldest son of Faisal and one of the grandsons of Saudi Arabia's founder King Abdulaziz. He served as the governor of Hejaz during the reign of Abdulaziz, and as the minister of health and interior during the reigns of his grandfather and uncle Saud. These positions made him one of the most powerful Saudi Arabian royals of his time.
• MBusiness leaderMohammed Hussein Al AmoudiMohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi is an Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire businessman.
• Business leaderAnwar GargashAnwar Mohammed Gargash is an Emirati politician who served as the minister of state for foreign affairs between February 2008 and February 2021. Since February 2021, he has been serving as a senior diplomatic advisor to the United Arab Emirates president.
• Business leaderHamdan bin Rashid Al MaktoumSheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum was an Emirati politician, the deputy ruler of Dubai and the minister of finance and industry of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was the second son of the late ruler Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum. Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum was the head of the UAE's delegation at the International Monetary Fund and the OPEC Fund.
• Business leaderSultan Al JaberSultan Ahmed Al Jaber, is an Emirati politician who is the minister of industry and advanced technology of the United Arab Emirates, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and chairman of Masdar.
• Business leaderFarhad MoshiriArdavan Farhad Moshiri is a British-Iranian businessman based in Monaco. He is the former majority owner and board member of English Premier League team Everton, and is the former chairman of USM Holdings, a Russian holding company.
• Business leaderDariush MostafaviSeyed Dariush Mostafavi was an Iranian football player and executive. He was the chairman of the multisport club Persepolis F.C. based in Tehran, and chairman of IRIFF. Mostafavi was also a player for Team Melli, Taj and Persepolis. He died on 1 August 2025, at the age of 80.

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