1. SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS

2. Anand Mahindra
Anand Mahindra (born 1 May 1955) is the chairman and managing director of Mahindra Group
His grandfather JC Mahindra co-founded the company in Mumbai, India. Founded as a steel trading company, the Group today has a presence in multiple sectors from agribusiness to aerospace.
After graduating from Harvard Business School, Anand Mahindra joined Mahindra Ugine Steel Company Ltd (MUSCO),[as Executive Assistant to the Finance Director. In 1989 he was appointed President and Deputy managing director of the company. In the summer of 1991, he was appointed Deputy managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., a producer of off-road vehicles and agricultural tractors in India.
Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited is the largest non-banking finance company in rural India. Today, the Mahindra Group is a US$16.5 billion organisation, and one of India's top 10 industrial houses.
Anand Mahindra has been tagged as the face of Indian capitalism by The Economist.Forbes India Magazine has recognised him as their 'Entrepreneur of the Year' for the year 2013.

3. Verghese Kurien
Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 – 9 September 2012) known as the Father of the White Revolution in India
was a social entrepreneur whose "billion-litre idea", Operation Flood - the world's largest agricultural dairy development programme,made India the world's largest milk producer, surpassing the United States of America by 1998,
He helped establish the Amul cooperative, today India's largest food brand, where three-fourths of the price paid by the consumer goes into the hand of the producing dairy farmer, the cooperative's owner.
 He found the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1965, to replicate Amul's "Anand pattern" nationwide.
He also made India self-sufficient in edible oils,taking on a powerful, entrenched and violently resistant oil supplying lobby. He is regarded as one of the greatest proponents of the cooperative movement in the world, his work having lifted millions out of poverty in India and outside.

4. Jamnalal Bajaj
Jamnalal Bajaj (4 November 1889 – 11 February 1942) was an Indian industrialist, a philanthropist, and Indian independence fighter. He was also a close associate and follower of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi is known to have adopted him as his son.
He founded the Bajaj Group of companies in 1926.The group now has 24 companies, including 6 listed companies. 
Jamnalal Bajaj was born into a poor Marwari family, as the third son of Kaniram and Birdibai, in a village named Kashi Ka Bas, near Sikar, Rajasthan.
He was later adopted as a grandson by Seth Bachhraj and his wife Sadibai Bachhraj, a rich Rajasthani merchant couple of Wardha. Seth Bachhraj was a distant relative on his father's side, and was a well-known and respected trader in the British Raj.
Jamnalal Bajaj Award was established in 1978 by the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation and are given away each year on his birth anniversary.

5. Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar (born 14 July 1945) is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades by constantly reinventing his company's focus.
In 2008, Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry. Nadar, nicknamed by friends as Magus (Old Persian for "wizard"), since the mid-1990s has focused his efforts on developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. He is the brother of Tamil novelist Ramanichandran.
The initial enterprise which Nadar and his partners began was Microcomp, a company which focused on selling teledigital calculators in the Indian market.[ HCL was founded in 1976, with an investment of Rs. 187,000.
In 1980, HCL ventured into the international market with the opening of Far East Computers in Singapore to sell IT hardware. The venture reported Rs 1 million revenue in the first year and continued to address the Singapore operations. Nadar remained the largest shareholder without retaining any management control.
In 2008, the government of India awarded Nadar with Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, for his contribution to the IT industry.
In 2007, Madras University awarded him an honorary doctorate degree (D Sc) for his contributions in promoting software technology.Nadar was also recognised as E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 (Services).
In 1995 he became the Dataquest IT Man of the year. the In 2005 he was bestowed with CNBC Business Excellence Award.

6. Subrata Roy
Subrata Roy  (born 10 June 1948) is an Indian businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the Sahara India, an Indian conglomerate with diversified businesses and ownership interests that include London's Grosvenor House, New York's Plaza Hotel, Aamby Valley City and Force India. Roy founded the company in 1978.
He was named among the 10 Most Powerful People of India in by India Today. In 2004, the group was termed by the Time magazine as ‘the second largest employer in India' after the Indian Railways. He has been in Tihar Jail since 2014.
Roy joined Sahara Finance, a struggling company, in 1978,that ran a chit fund and took it over. He changed its financial model. Sahara is said to have used the financial model of much older Peerless Group. They are termed residuary non-banking companies (RNBCs)that accept deposits of very low amounts.
Subrata Roy received an honorary doctorate in business leadership from the University of East London (2013).
He also received the Business Icon of the Year award at the Powerbrands Hall of Fame Awards in London in 2011.He has been the ITA – TV Icon of the Year He has received the Global Leadership Award in He received Businessmen of the Year Award in 2002, the Best Industrialist Award in 2002, Vishisht Rashtriya Udaan Samman (2010) by a daily from India’s top most publication house.

7. Prannoy Roy
Roy was born in Calcutta to a Bengali father who was the Chief Executive of the Indian unit of a British company and an Irish mother who was a teacher. He attended The Doon School, Dehradun.
He later won a scholarship to Haileybury and Imperial Service College in the UK for his A-levels and qualified as a British Chartered Accountant,a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (England and Wales) and has a PhD in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics.
Prannoy Roy is a TV / digital journalist in India, an author and a professional British Chartered Accountant and Economist. He has been the lead anchor for election analysis and budget specials on India's national television network Doordarshan and for BBC World News' Question Time India.
In 1988, Roy, along with his journalist wife Radhika, launched a television production house called New Delhi Television.
Roy started his career with televised coverage of India's general elections. On Doordarshan, he hosted news programs "The News Tonight" and "The World This Week" (which were nominated as one of India's 5 best television programs since independence.He also started India's first 24-hour English news channel NDTV 24x7.

8. Kishore Biyani
Kishore Biyani (born on August 9, 1961) is the Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer India’s leading Retail Company, Future Group. Future Group mainly deals in retail chains spread over the space of 20 million square feet in more than 240 cities in India and attracts over 370 million customer visits annually. As the Group CEO of Future Group, Kishore leads a strong leadership team that delivers on Future Group’s vision of making India a ‘Sone Ki Chidiya’ once again. 
collectively, these are spread over almost 20 million square feet of retail space in over 240 cities and towns in India and on various digital platforms. Future Group stores attract over 370 million customers annually and are served by over 45,000 customer associates directly employed by the Group and almost million people who are directly or indirectly associated with the Group’s businesses. The group has also developed an extensively portfolio of brands in the fashion, food and beauty space that are retailed through its own outlets as well as through other competing chains.
In the fashion space, some of Future Group brands include, Scullers, Indigo Nation, Jealous, Lee Cooper, Converse, John Miller, Bare, UMM, Knighthood etc. In the FMCG space, Future Group brands include, Tasty Treat, Sunkist, Veg Affair, Golden Harvest, Nilgiris, Kosh, Sangi’s Kitchen, among others. 

9. Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born 19 April 1957) is an Indian business magnate who is the chairman, managing director and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India's second-most valuable company by market value.He holds a 44.7% stake in the company.RIL deals mainly in refining, petrochemicals, and in the oil and gas sectors. Reliance Retail Ltd., another subsidiary, is the largest retailer in India.
He is the elder son of the late Dhirubhai Ambani and Kokilaben Ambani and the brother of Anil Ambani. In 2016, he was ranked 38, and is the only Indian businessman, on Forbes' list of the world's most powerful people.As of 2016, Ambani has consistently held the title of India's richest person on the magazine's list for ten years.Through Reliance, he also owns the Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians.
In 2012, Forbes named him one of the richest sports owners in the world.He resides at the Antilia Building, one of the world's most expensive private residences. Its value is close to 1 billion dollars.As of 2015, Ambani ranked fifth among India's philanthropists, according to China’s Hurun Research Institute.
He has served on the board of directors of Bank of America and the international advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the chairman of the board of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, which is one of the leading business schools in India.

10. Azim Premji
Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian business tycoon, investor, and philanthropist. who is the chairman of Wipro Limited.
He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry. He was responsible for guiding Wipro through four decades of diversification and growth to finally emerge as one of the global leaders in the software industry.In 2010, he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asiaweek.
He has twice been listed among the 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, once in and more recently in 2011.Premji owns 73% percent of Wipro and also owns a private equity fund, PremjiInvest, which manages his $2 billion worth of personal portfolio.
In 2013 he gave away 25 per cent of his personal wealth to charity and has also pledged to give away the rest of 25% in the next 5 years.

11. Colonel Sanders
Colonel Harland David Sanders(September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American businessman, best known for founding fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (now known as KFC) and later acting as the company's brand ambassador and symbol. His name and image are still symbols of the company.
Sanders held a number of jobs in his early life, such as steam engine stoker, insurance salesman and filling station operator. He began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in North Corbin, Kentucky, during the Great Depression.
Sanders recognized the potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first KFC franchise opened in Utah in The company's rapid expansion across the United States and overseas was overwhelming for Sanders and in 1964 he sold the company to a group of investors led by John Y. Brown, Jr. and Jack C. Massey for $2 million

12. Richard and Maurice McDonald
Brothers  Richard James "Dick" McDonald (February 16, 1909 – July 14, 1998) Maurice James "Mac" McDonald (November 26, 1902 – December 11, 1971)
were American restaurateurs and entrepreneurs who developed and opened the first McDonald's restaurant in Their innovative concept and execution of a fast food stand has been highly influential in American cuisine, serving as the foundation for a global enterprise.
The McDonald brothers were born in Manchester, New Hampshire. Their parents were immigrants from Ireland.Their father worked as a shift manager in a New Hampshire shoe factory. In the late 1920s, the brothers moved together to California.
In 1937, the McDonald brothers opened a hot dog stand (without hamburgers on the menu) in Arcadia, California, northeast of Los Angeles. It was a typical drive-in food stand of its era, where patrons waited in their cars while carhop waiters took and delivered orders.
In 1948, the brothers designed a purpose-built restaurant in San Bernardino, focused on hamburgers and french fries, on the corner of 1398 North E Street and West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California  While this "McDonald's" was still premised on most customers arriving by car, its design was unique due to a combination of factors: