Yusuf Hamied

Yusuf Hamied

Yusuf Hamied (#1745)

I've done more humanitarian work than Bill Gates and Warren Buffett put together.

  • $ 2 B
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • India
  • M
  • 89 Years

About Me

Yusuf Hamied is the non-executive chairman of Mumbai-based generics maker Cipla. Cipla was founded in 1935 by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied, a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi. After the patriarch passed away in 1972, Cambridge-educated Hamied and his brother Mustafa inherited the business. Hamied took on big pharmaceutical companies, offering low-cost generic drugs for diseases such as AIDS, earning the label of drug pirate. At the annual shareholders' meeting in 2023, Hamied called reports of a potential stake sale in Cipla by the family to a private equity firm as "speculative."
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  • #1676   Billionaires (2026)

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Net Worth Growth Over Time

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Current Net Worth: $2.4B (May 4, 2026)