There are millions of entrepreneurs and business leaders in the world. I have chosen 20 of them to make it easier for you to go through or do your projects & ppts.

1. 20 SUCCESSFUL
BUSINESS LEADERS
IN THE WORLD

2. DHIRUBHAI AMBANI
(28-DEC-1932 TO 6-JUL-2002)
Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani, popularly known as Dhirubhai Ambani was
an Indian business tycoon who founded Reliance Industries. Ambani
took Reliance public in 1977 and was worth $25.6 billion upon his death
on 6 July 2002. In 1966 he formed Reliance Commercial Corporation
which later became Reliance Industries on 08 May 1973. He launched
the brand ‘Vimal 'during this time which sold polyester materials for
saris , shawls, suits and dresses . Extensive marketing of the brand in the
interiors of India made it a household name. Franchise retail outlets
were started and they sold the "Only Vimal" brand of textiles. In the
year 1975, a technical team from the World Bank visited the 'Reliance
Textiles' Manufacturing unit. Ambani took Reliance public in 1977 and
was worth $25.6 billion upon his death on 6 July 2002. In 2016, he was
honored posthumously with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second
highest civilian honour for his contributions to trade and industry.

3. JAMSETJI TATA
(3-MAR-1839 TO 19-MAY-1904)
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was an Indian pioneer industrialist,
who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate
company. He founded what would later become the Tata
Group of companies. Tata is regarded as the legendary "Father
of Indian Industry“. Tata, who in his early life was a merchant,
went on to change the business world of India through his many
ventures within the cotton and pig iron industry, and is known
as one of the most important builders of the modern Indian
economy. He was criticized by many Out of his many
achievement, Tata is notable for the Tata Iron and Steel Works
company in Jamshedpur. In addition to the Tata Iron and Steel
Works, he went on to establish businesses in many other areas
that stood as a foundation to modern Indian business.

4. BILL GATES
(28-OCT-1955)
William Henry Gates III is an American business tycoon, software developer,
investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder
of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the
positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief
software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until
May 2014. He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs and pioneers of
the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Gates co-founded
Microsoft with childhood friend Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New
Mexico; it went on to become the world's largest personal
computer software company. Gates led the company as chairman and CEO
until stepping down as CEO in January 2000, but he remained chairman
and became chief software architect. He stepped down as chairman of
Microsoft in February 2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser
to support the newly appointed CEO Satya Nadella. From 1995 to 2017, he
held the Forbes title of the richest person in the world all but four of those
years.

5. TIM COOK
(01-NOV-1960)
Timothy Donald Cook is an American business
executive and industrial engineer. Cook is
the chief executive officer of Apple Inc., and
previously served as the company's chief
operating officer under its cofounder Steve
Jobs. Cook joined Apple in March 1998 as
a senior vice president for worldwide
operations, and then served as the executive
vice president for worldwide sales and
operations. He was made the chief executive on
August 24, 2011. Cook closed factories and
warehouses, and replaced them with contract
manufacturers; this resulted in a reduction of
the company's inventory from months to days.
Predicting its importance, his group invested in
long-term deals such as advance investment
in flash memory from 2005 onward,
guaranteeing stable supply of what became a
key iPod Nano,
then iPhone and iPad component. Cook's
actions were credited with keeping costs under
control and, combined with the company's
design and marketing savvy, generated huge
profits.

6. M.A.YUSUFF ALI
(15-NOV-1955)
Yusuff Ali M. A. is a UAE-based Indian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and
managing director of LuLu Group International that owns the LuLu Hypermarket chain
worldwide and LuLu International Shopping Mall. With an annual turnover of US$7.4
billion, LuLu Group International employs the largest number of Indians outside India.
LuLu Group International commenced its operations as a family business venture. After
joining the business, Yusuff Ali diversified the business to include import and
distribution of frozen products from Europe and the United States. The products were
available not only in Abu Dhabi, but also in other Emirates. The business was soon
expanded to include both food and non-food categories. The group has grown into an
international group with operations spread over three continents. The group's flagship
retail chain of LuLu Hypermarkets and Supermarkets is currently rated as one of the
major players in the Middle East retail sector with more than 100 stores in Arab states
of the Persian Gulf. Apart from the hypermarkets, supermarkets and department stores,
the group also owns several shopping malls. In 2016, Yusuff Ali purchased the Scotland
Yard Building in London. The Lulu Bolgatty International Convention Centre
on Bolghatty Island is one of the largest convention centres in South Asia, along with
the third largest Grand Hyatt branded hotel in the same campus.

7. SHIV NADAR
(14-JUL-1945)
Shiv Nadar is an Indian billionaire 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. 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.

8. MARY BARRA
(24-DEC-1961)
Mary Teresa Barra is an American businesswoman. She has been the chair and
CEO of General Motors Company since January 15, 2014, and she is the first
female CEO of a major automaker. On December 10, 2013, GM named her to
succeed Dan Akerson as chief executive officer, and prior to that, Barra served
as the executive vice president of Global Product Development, Purchasing,
and Supply Chain at General Motors. During her first year as CEO, General
Motors issued 84 safety recalls involving over 30 million cars. Barra was called
before the Senate to testify about the recalls and deaths attributed to the
faulty ignition switch. Barra and General Motors also came under suspicion of
paying for awards to burnish the CEO and corporation's image during that
time. The recalls led to the creation of new policies encouraging workers to
report problems they encounter in an attempt to change company culture. As
CEO, Barra has placed GM's focus as a company transitioning into the tech
space by moving forward in the automated driverless car space with major
acquisitions including Strobe, a startup focused on driverless technology. In
2017 she pushed GM to develop the Chevy Bolt EV, beating rival Tesla in
developing the first electric car priced under $40,000 with a range of 200
miles. In November 2018, Barra announced the closure of five North American
plants and 14,000 worker lay offs.

9. MARC BENIOFF
(25-SEP-1964)
Marc Russell Benioff is an American Internet entrepreneur with a net worth
of $6.9 billion as of January 2020. He is the founder, chairman
and CEO of Salesforce, an enterprise cloud computing company. As of
August 2019, he owned 4.14% of Salesforce shares, worth $4.33 billion.
While still in high school, Benioff sold his first application, How to Juggle, for
$75. At 15 years old, he founded Liberty Software, creating and selling
games such as Flapper for the Atari 8-bit. Epyx published his many
writings and by 16, Benioff was earning royalties of $1,500 a month, enough
to pay for college. Benioff founded Salesforce in March 1999 in a rented San
Francisco apartment and defined its mission in a marketing statement as
"The End of Software." He has long evangelized software as a service as the
model that would replace traditional enterprise software. He is the creator of
the term "platform as a service" and has extended Salesforce's reach by
allowing customers to build their own applications on the company's
architecture or in the Salesforce cloud. On September 16, 2018 Marc and his
wife Lynne bought Time for $190m.

10. MARILLYN HEWSON
(27-DEC-1953)
Marillyn Adams Hewson is the
chairman, president and chief
executive officer of the aerospace
and defense manufacturing
company Lockheed Martin. Hewson
joined the Lockheed Corporation in
1983. Since becoming CEO in 2013,
Lockheed's market cap has doubled.
In July 2015, Hewson announced
Lockheed's purchase of Sikorsky
Aircraft, the producers of Sikorsky
UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters,
giving Lockheed its own helicopter
building capability. Hewson has also
shifted more company efforts
towards building military hardware.

11. MUKESH AMBANI
(19-APR-1957)
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born 19
April 1957) is an Indian
billionaire business magnate, and the
chairman, managing director, and
largest shareholder of Reliance
Industries Ltd. (RIL), a Fortune Global
500 company and India's most valuable
company by market value. According
to Forbes, Mukesh Ambani still remains
the richest man in Asia and the 17th
richest person in the world as of March,
2020. In 1981 he started to help his
father Dhirubhai Ambani run their
family business, Reliance Industries
Limited. By this time, it has already
expanded so that it also deals in refining
and petrochemicals. The business also
included products and services in retail
and telecommunications
industries. Reliance Retail Ltd., another
subsidiary, is also the largest retailer in
India. Reliance's Jio has earned a top-
five spot in the country's
telecommunication services since its
public launch on 5 September 2016.

12. JEFF BEZOS
(12-JAN-1964)
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American internet and aerospace
entrepreneur, media proprietor and investor. He is best known as
the founder, chief executive officer, and president of Amazon. The
first centi-billionaire on the Forbes wealth index, Bezos was named
the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to
$150 billion in July 2018. In September 2018, Forbes described him
as "far richer than anyone else on the planet" as he added
$1.8 billion to his net worth when Amazon became the second
company in history to reach a market cap of $1 trillion. In late 1993,
Bezos decided to establish an online bookstore. He
founded Amazon in his garage on July 5, 1994. He accepted an
estimated $300,000 from his parents and invested in
Amazon. Although Amazon was originally an online bookstore,
Bezos had always planned to expand to other products. Three years
after Bezos founded Amazon, he took it public with an initial public
offering (IPO). In 1998, Bezos diversified into the online sale of
music and video, and by the end of the year he had expanded the
company's products to include a variety of other consumer
goods. Bezos used the $54 million raised during the company's
1997 equity offering to finance aggressive acquisition of smaller
competitors. In 2000, Bezos borrowed $2 billion from banks, as its
cash balances dipped to only $350 million.[38] In 2002, Bezos led
Amazon to launch Amazon Web Services, which compiled data
from weather channels and website traffic. In late 2002, rapid
spending from Amazon caused it financial distress when revenues
stagnated. After the company nearly went bankrupt, he closed
distribution centers and laid off 14% of the Amazon workforce. In
2003, Amazon rebounded from financial instability and turned a
profit of $400 million. In November 2007, Bezos launched
the Amazon Kindle. In 2013, Bezos secured a $600 million contract
with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on behalf of Amazon
Web Services. In October of that year, Amazon was recognized as
the largest online shopping retailer in the world.

13. JACK MA
(10-SEP-1964)
Jack Ma, or Ma Yun is a Chinese
business magnate, investor and
politician. He is the co-founder and
former executive chairman
Group, a multinational technology
conglomerate. Ma is a strong
proponent of an open and market-
driven economy. A prominent
business leader, Ma is seen as a
global ambassador for Chinese
business and as such is frequently
listed as one of the world's most
powerful people,
him 21st on its "World's Most
Powerful People" list. He also serves
as a role model for startup
businesses. In 2017, Ma was ranked
second in the annual "World's 50
Greatest Leaders" list by Fortune.

14. JACK DORSEY
(19-NOV-1976)
Jack Patrick Dorsey is an American computer
programmer and Internet entrepreneur who is the
co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and the founder and
CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. In 2000,
Dorsey started his company in Oakland to dispatch
couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the
Web. His other projects and ideas at this time
included networks of medical devices and a
"frictionless service market". In July 2000, building on
dispatching and inspired in part by LiveJournal and
by AOL Instant Messenger, he had the idea for a
Web-based realtime status/short message
communication service. Williams, Stone and Noah
Glass co-founded Obvious Corporation, which then
spun off Twitter, Inc., with Dorsey as the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO). As CEO, Dorsey saw the
startup through two rounds of funding by venture
capitalists. Dorsey, along with co-founder Jim
McKelvey, developed a small business platform to
accept debit and credit card payments on a mobile
device called Square, released in May 2010. The
company grew from 10 employees in December
2009 to over 100 by June 2011. Square's office is on
Market Street in San Francisco. In September
2012, Business Insider magazine valued Square Inc.
at US$3.2 billion. Dorsey is CEO of Square, Inc.

15. RAHUL BAJAJ
(10-JUN-1938)
Rahul Bajaj is an
Indian billionaire businessman and
philanthropist. He is the chairman
of the Indian conglomerate Bajaj
Group and a member of
parliament. Bajaj comes from the
business house started
by Jamnalal Bajaj. He took over the
Bajaj Group in 1965. His company
has diversified interest in
everything ranging from
automobiles to home appliances.
After the recession and stock
market collapse in 2001, the bajaj
auto was hit hard. However the
company re-invented itself and
became a major success.

16. LAKSHMI MITTAL
(15-JUN-1950)
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is an Indian steel
magnate, based in the United Kingdon.
He is the chairman
and CEO of ArcelorMittal, the world's
largest steelmaking company. In 1976,
due to the curb of steel production by
the Indian government, the 26-year-old
Mittal opened his first steel factory PT
Ispat Indo in Sidoarjo, East
Java, Indonesia. In 2005, Forbes ranked
Mittal as the third-richest person in the
world, making him the first Indian citizen
to be ranked in the top ten in the
publication's annual list of the world's
richest people. In 2007, Mittal was
considered to be the richest Asian person
in Europe.

17. LARRY PAGE
(26-MAR-1973)
Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26,
1973) is an American computer
scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is
best known for being one of the co-
founders of Google along with Sergey Brin.
Page was the chief executive officer
of Alphabet Inc. (Google's parent
company) until stepping down on
December 3, 2019. After stepping aside as
Google CEO in August 2001, in favor
of Eric Schmidt, he re-assumed the role in
April 2011. He announced his intention to
step aside a second time in July 2015, to
become CEO of Alphabet, under which
Google's assets would be reorganized.
Under Page, Alphabet sought to deliver
major advancements in a variety of
industries. On December 4, 2019, Page
stepped down from his CEO position from
Alphabet. Both Page and Sergey Brin will
remain controlling shareholders of
Alphabet. As of January 2020, Page is the
8th-richest person in the world, with a net
worth of $66.3 billion. Forbes placed him
10th in the list "Billionaires 2019".

18. AZIM PREMJI
(24-JUL-1945)
Azim Hashim Premji is an Indian business
tycoon, investor, engineer,
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 2004 and
more recently in 2011.

19. N.R.NARAYANA
MURTHY
(20-AUG-1946)
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy is an Indian billionaire businessman
and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Infosys, and has been
chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief mentor,
before retiring and taking the title chairman emeritus. Murthy and six
software professionals founded Infosys in 1981 with an initial capital
injection of Rs 10,000, which was provided by his wife Sudha
Murthy. Murthy served as the CEO of Infosys for 21 years from 1981 to
2002 and was succeeded by co-founder Nandan Nilekani. At Infosys he
articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery Model for IT
services outsourcing from India. He was chairman of the board from 2002
to 2006, after which he became Chairman of the board and Chief
Mentor. In August 2011, he retired from the company, taking the title
chairman Emeritus. Murthy has been listed among the 12 greatest
entrepreneurs of our time by Fortune magazine.

20. MARK ZUCKERBERG
(14-MAY-1984)
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American internet
entrepreneur and philanthropist. He co-
founded Facebook, Inc. and serves as its chairman,
chief executive officer, and controlling
shareholder. He also co-founded and is a board
member of the solar sail spacecraft development
project Breakthrough starshot. He launched
the Facebook social networking service from his
dormitory room on February 4, 2004, with college
roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew
McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris
Hughes. Originally launched to select college
campuses, the site expanded rapidly and eventually
beyond colleges, reaching one billion users by 2012.
Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012
with majority shares. His net worth is estimated to
be nearly $82 billion as of February 2019, increasing
over the past year with Facebook stock as a
whole. In 2007, at age 23, he became the world's
youngest self-made billionaire. As of 2019, he is the
only person under 50 in the Forbes ten richest
people list, and the only one under 40 in the Top 20
Billionaires list.

21. REED HASTINGS
(08-OCT-1960)
Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. (born October 8,
1960) is an
American billionaire businessman. He is
the cofounder, chairman and chief
executive officer (CEO) of Netflix, and
serves on a number of boards and non-
profit organizations. In 1997, Hastings
and former Pure Software employee Marc
Randolph co-founded Netflix, offering flat
rate movie rental-by-mail to customers in
the United States by combining two
emerging technologies; DVDs, which were
much easier to send as mail than VHS-
cassettes, and an online website to order
them from, instead of a paper
catalogue. Headquartered in Los
Gatos, California, Netflix has amassed a
collection of 100,000 titles and more than
100 million subscribers.