The list comes at a time when the Donald Trump administration is cracking down on immigrants in the US through mass deportations, tighter Green Card rules, and widespread immigration enforcement operations, among other measures.
Marking the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, Forbes on Wednesday released a list of the country’s 250 successful living immigrants, featuring billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, renowned entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, among other Indians.
The top five ranks on the list were occupied by Austria-born billionaire, real estate mogul, movie star and former California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger (#1), Russia-born tech giant Elon Musk (#2), Russia-born Google cofounder Sergey Brin (#3), Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang from Taiwan (#4), and Australian media mogul and owner of Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and Fox News, Rupert Murdoch (#5).
The Forbes’ list features prominent figures from across the fields of technology, media, science, politics, economics, arts and culture, including Nobel Prize winners, who all have contributed significantly to the American economy and society.
The list comes at a time when the Donald Trump administration is cracking down on immigrants in the US through mass deportations, tighter Green Card rules, and widespread immigration enforcement operations, among other measures. Just on Wednesday, the US House of Republicans also approved a $70 billion immigration enforcement package that would fund border and deportation agencies through Trump’s term.
Here are the top Indian-origin immigrants who made it to the Forbes list:
| Rank | Indian immigrants | Designation |
| #14 | Vinod Khosla | Cofounder of Sun Microsystems |
| #27 | Naval Ravikant | Cofounder of investment platform AngelList, made early bets on Uber, Twitter and delivery service Postmates, acquired by Uber in 2020 |
| #31 | Hemant Taneja | Founder of General Catalyst, and investor, Stripe, Snap and defense firm Andruil |
| #44 | Sanjay Mehrotra | CEO of Micron, and founder of memory chip giant Sandisk |
| #55 | Sundar Pichai | Google CEO since 2015 |
| #59 | Abhijit Banerjee | Cofounder of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and Nobel Prize winner in Economics (2019) |
| #64 | Padma Lakshmi | Top Chef host |
| #89 | Satya Nadella | CEO of Microsoft, spearheaded acquisitions of Activision Blizzard and LinkedIn |
| #91 | Neerja Sethi | Pledged to give away $1.3 billion of $2.8 billion combined fortune in 2025, along with her husband |
| #93 | Jay Chaudhry | Founder of cloud security firm ZScaler, and four other companies — all acquired |
| #98 | Romesh T. Wadhwani | Founder of Aspect Development, chairman and founder of enterprise AI company Symphony AI |
| #103 | Kavitark Ram Shriram | Founding investor in Google, with early bets on Stripe, Notion |
| #127 | Jyoti Bansal | Founder of software company AppDynamics, sold to Cisco in 2017. Founder of AI company, Harness |
| #142 | Neha Narkhede | Cofounder of data streaming platform Confluent, acquired by IBM in March 2026 |
| #145 | David Paul | Founder of medtech company Globus Medical |
| #147 | Jitendra Mohan | Cofounder and CEO of semiconductor company Astera Labs |
| #155 | Nikesh Arora | CEO of cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks since 2018 |
| #156 | Shyam Sankar | Chief technology officer of defense technology company Palantir, chairman of biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks |
| #198 | Raj Sardana | Founder of IT services firm Innova Solutions |
| #207 | Aman Narang | Cofounder of Toast, an app that serves as the cashier for close to 100,000 restaurant locations |
| #219 | Arvind Krishna | CEO of IBM |
| #221 | Shantanu Narayen | CEO of Adobe, founder of digital photo-sharing pioneer Pictra |
| #223 | K.R. Sridhar | Leader of a team at NASA developing oxygen-generation technology, and founder of clean energy technology company Bloom Energy |
| #224 | Premal Shah | Cofounder of non-profit organization Kiva, supporting small businesses in emerging economies |
| #230 | Rakesh Gangwal | Former CEO for US Airways Group, and cofounder of IndiGo, India’s largest airline |
| #231 | Rajiv Jain | Founder and chairman of investment management firm GQG partners |
| #248 | Indra Nooyi | Former CEO and chair of PepsiCo, presently, a board member of Amazon |
