List of Zoroastrians - in Science and Industry

In Science and Industry

  • Cowasji Shavaksha Dinshaw (Adenwalla) (1827–1900): entrepreneur; founder of the modern port of Aden
  • Byram Dinshawji Avari (1942- ): Pakistani hotelier, founder and chairman of the Avari Group of companies.
  • Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909–1966): nuclear scientist; first chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission.
  • Adi Bulsara (1952-): Physicist
  • Ardaseer Cursetjee of the Wadia shipbuilding family, first Indian elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
  • Keki Dadiseth (1946- ): Home and Personal Care Director, Unilever plc
  • Nadirshaw Edulji Dinshaw (18??-1924?): industrialist and philanthropist; NED Engineering College.
  • Ardeshir Godrej (1868–1936): inventor; co-founder (with his brother Piroj) of the Godrej industrial empire
  • Pirojsha Godrej (1882–1972): entrepreneur; co-founder (with his brother Ardeshir) of the Godrej industrial empire
  • Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Lady, continued her husband Sir Jamsetji Jeejeebhoy philanthropic work, builder of Mahim Causeway, connects two islands of Bombay and Salsette (north Bombay.)
  • Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Sir: philanthropist and founder of B.J. Medical College, Pune.
  • Jamsetji Jeejeebhoy, Sir (1783–1859): opened sea trade with China; philanthropist, J J Hospital,
  • Cowasjee Jehangir, Sir (1879–1962): civil engineer; master constructor of Bombay
  • Fardunjee Marzban (1787–1847): publisher, founded the first vernacular newspaper on the Indian subcontinent Bombay Samachar
  • Pallonji Mistry (1929- ): construction tycoon
  • Hormusjee Naorojee Mody, Sir (1838–1911): financier and industrialist in Hong Kong
  • Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, Sir (1823–1901): founded the first textile factories in India
  • Cyrus Poonawalla (1945- ): industrialist, pharmacologist; co-founder of the Serum Institute of India
  • Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney Sir, (1812-1878), 1st Baronet, philanthropist, including various academic buildings of the Bombay University.
  • Jehangir Hormusjee Ruttonjee (1880–1960): industrialist; founded Hong Kong's first brewery; established the first anti-tuberculosis sanatorium in the far-east
  • Nowroji Saklatwala Chairman of Tata group of companies from 1932 till his untimely death in 1938.
  • Homi Nusserwanji Sethna (1924-2010): Padma Vibhushan awardee, chemical engineer; guided the development of India's first nuclear explosive device.
  • Ardeshir Darabshaw Shroff (1899–1965): economist; delegate at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference; co-author of the Bombay Plan; founder-director of the Investment Corporation of India; first Indian chairman of the Bank of India
  • Dorabji Tata, Sir (1859–1932): industrialist and philanthropist, Sir Dorab Tata Trust.
  • Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (1839–1904): industrialist; founder of the Tata group of companies, titled a "One-Man Planning Commission" by Nehru
  • Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy (J. R. D.) Tata (1904–1993): industrialist; founder of India's first commercial airline: Air India
  • Ratan Jamshetji Tata, Sir, younger son of Jamshetji Tata, industrialist and philanthropist, Sir Ratan Tata Trust
  • Ratan Naval Tata (1937- ): Chairman of the Tata Group of companies; member of the central board of the Reserve Bank of India
  • Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia (1702–1774): shipwright and naval architect; builder of the first dry-dock in Asia
  • Ness Wadia (1970-): joint-Managing Director of Bombay Dyeing.
  • Spenta R. Wadia theoretical physicist.

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