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Gautam Adani
$9.3 billion
India
Adani is a college dropout who spurned his father's textile trading business to seek his own fortune, first by importing scarce plastic polymers. Today he is Asia's richest newcomer thanks to two big public holdings, Adani Enterprises, and Mundra Port, one of India's first private-sector ports, which listed in November 2007. He's a yoga fanatic.
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