richest people of the year in 2008.

Mukesh Ambani

Age: 49
Nationality: Indian
Martial Status: Married
Children: 3

Education: University of Bombay
Worth: 63.2 Billion

Mukesh Ambani has taken the title for the richest person in the universe in 2008 with the net worth of 63.2 billion dollars. It was only going to be a matter of time before an Indian became the world's riches person, with two of them on the top five. Making his money from petrochemicals, oil refining, textiles, retail and biotechnology, Mukesh Ambani has become the richest person in the world. His biggest money maker has been in the past year based on the soaring Reliance stock prices. With the soaring prices rising by more than 700 points in one day Mukesh instantly became the richest person latterly over night. But Mukesh needs to watch out because he has both Bill and Carlos less then a billion behind him.