Rank #2331
Banwari Lal Bawri
Net worth $1.8B
Pharmaceuticals · India
- Born
- Apr 02, 1953
- Age
- 73
- Source
- Pharmaceuticals
- Residence
- Mumbai
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Banwari Lal Bawri is the joint managing director of privately held Macleods Pharmaceuticals, one of India's leading pharma firms.
- Bawri, whose family owned a pharmacy in Jaipur, set up Macleods Pharmaceuticals with two siblings in 1986 to make anti-TB medicines.
- Macleods produces generics for a range of diseases including asthma, osteoporosis and diabetes.
- Older brother Girdharilal Bawri is chairman of Macleods. While younger brother Rajendra Agarwal passed away in November 2025.
- Bawri and his two brothers live together with their families in the same building in Mumbai.
- The company was named after John Macleod, a Scottish doctor and author of medical textbooks.