Rank #2043
Rajendra Agarwal
Net worth $1.9B
Pharmaceuticals · India
- Born
- Feb 25, 1959
- Age
- 67
- Source
- Pharmaceuticals
- Residence
- Mumbai
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Medical doctor, whose family owned a pharmacy in Jaipur, set up Macleods Pharmaceuticals with his two brothers in 1986 to make anti-TB medicines.
- Privately held Macleods Pharmaceuticals is among India's top 10 pharma firms.
- Macleods produces generics for a range of diseases including asthma, osteoporosis and diabetes.
- Agarwal's older brothers, Girdharilal Bawri and Banwarilal Bawri. who are also billionaires, are chairman and joint managing director respectively.
- Agarwal 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.