Ratan Tata Age, Wiki and Bio

Ratan Tata

Quick Info

ProfessionIndustrialist, Investor, Philanthropist
NationalityIndian
Date of Birth28/12/1937
Age86 years (died on 09, Oct, 2024)
Date of Death09/10/2024
BirthplaceBombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
ReligionZoroastrianism
Marital StatusUnmarried
HometownMumbai, India
Zodiac signCapricorn

Bio/Wiki

Full NameRatan Naval Tata
EthnicityParsee (a small, tightly-knit Zoroastrian community, which originates from Persia)
Food HabitNon-Vegetarian
AddressRatan Tata lives in a sea-facing three-storeyed house (designed by himself) in Mumbai's Colaba region.

Physical Stats & More

Height177 cm (1.77 m / 5’ 10”)
Eye ColorLight Brown
Hair ColorGray

Educational Qualification(s)

School
  • Campion School, Mumbai
  • Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai
College/University
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
  • Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Qualification
  • B.S. degree in architecture with structural engineering from Cornell University, New York
  • Advanced Management Programme from Harvard Business School, 1975

Personal Life

Hobbies
  • Listening to old Hindi Songs
  • Painting
  • Driving
  • Flying Jet Planes
  • Playing the Piano
  • Reading
  • Playing with his pet dogs

Relationships & More

Marital StatusUnmarried
Affairs/Girlfriends
  • In an interview, when asked how many times he had been in love, he replied, 'seriously, four times.'

Family

FatherNaval Tata (businessman)
MotherSooni Commissariat
SiblingsBrother(s): Jimmy Tata (businessman), Noel Tata (half-brother) (businessman)
ChildrenNone

Career

Notable Positions
  • Chairman of Tata Group (1991-2012)
  • Ratan Tata joined Tata Group in 1961 at the Tata Steel, where he was assigned the responsibility to shovel limestone & handle blast furnace.
  • Pragmatic business skills led him to become the Chairman of Tata Group in March 1991.
Achievements
  • Got Tata Tea to acquire Tetley, Tata Motors to acquire Jaguar Land Rover, and Tata Steel to acquire Corus.
  • Gifted India its first indigenous car- Tata Indica in 1998.
  • Launched his dream car- Tata Nano in 2009.

Favourites

Businessmen
  • JRD Tata
  • Jean Riboud (the former chairman of Schlumberger)
ColourWhite
Food
  • Masoor Dal cooked with lots of garlic
  • Mutton Pulao Dal
  • Nut-rich baked custard
Holiday DestinationCalifornia

Style Quotient

Car Collection
  • Ferrari California
  • Honda Civic
  • Land Rover Freelander
  • Maserati Quattroporte
  • Cadillac XLR
  • Mercedes Benz 500 SL
  • Chrysler Sebring
  • Mercedes Benz S-Class
  • Jaguar F-Type
  • Jaguar XF-R
Assets/PropertiesFor detailed information, click here.
Net Worth (approx.)$291 billion (as in 2010)

Some Lesser Known Facts

Ratan Tata does not smoke.
Ratan Tata does not drink alcohol.
Ratan Tata is a notable figure in the history of Tata Group’s business.
He is recognized for his simplicity and introverted nature.
People often describe Ratan Tata as shy and a loner.
During his 21-year leadership as the Chairman of Tata Group (1991-2012), revenues grew over 40 times and profits over 50 times.
Ratan Tata's success could be seen as accidental in many ways.
Despite heading a major business conglomerate, he leads a modest life away from the media's attention.
This humble business magnate drives himself to work in a Tata sedan.
Ratan Tata hails from a family that lacked descendants.
The Tata family gained fame when Jamsetji Tata established a textile mill in 1868, offering workers benefits like pension and accident compensation, a rare practice at the time.
By 1971, the Tatas had established a strong business but were facing a shortage of heirs.
Ratan Tata's father, Naval H Tata, had an ordinary upbringing, raised in an orphanage after the death of his parents.
At 13, Naval was adopted by Lady Navajbai Tata, eventually becoming the deputy chairman of the Tata Group.
Ratan Tata is a Tata by birth, with family ties to the Tata lineage.
Despite his current understated lifestyle, Ratan Tata spent his childhood in luxury at Tata Palace in Mumbai.
Ratan was chauffeured in a Rolls-Royce to school during his youth.
He shared a special bond with his grandmother, Lady Navajbai Tata.
Ratan Tata pursued architecture at Cornell University in the United States, where he took on various odd jobs to support himself.
Ratan Tata revealed a lasting affection for an American woman he fell in love with.
Ratan Tata's mother tongue is Gujarati.
Ratan Tata adores dogs and has two pet dogs named Maximus and Tito.
Bombay House, Tata Sons' headquarters, has a tradition of sheltering stray dogs during rainfall.
Ratan Tata, a trained pilot, became the first Indian to fly the F-16 on 8 February 2007.
Although an architect, he has only designed two houses: his mother's and his beach house.
Ratan Tata is distinguished by his strong social conscience.
He values fairness over wealth and owns less than 1% of the Tata group.
In September 2022, Ratan Tata was appointed as a trustee of the PM-CARES Fund along with KT Thomas and Kariya Munda.