6. Jamshedji Tata

3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904

Father of Indian Industry

He was the founder of the biggest ensemble of the industries in India, the Tata Group. He started his adventurous life in business by setting a cotton mill in Mumbai and then one another in Nagpur. His dream was to set-up an iron and steel company, a science institution where one can learn science, a world-class hotel, and a hydro-electric plant, reports KannanWrites. Though one of his dreams, to build a world class hotel, was completed within his life-time with Taj Hotel, his other dreams were fulfilled by his successors for which he had already laid the stepping stones.