Yusuf Khwaja Hamied was born on 25 July 1936 is a billionaire Indian scientist and businessman, the chairman of Cipla, a generic pharmaceuticals company founded by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied in 1935. Hamied is best known outside India for defying large Western pharmaceutical companies in order to provide generic AIDS drugs and treatments for other ailments primarily affecting people in poor countries. Hamied has led efforts to eradicate AIDS in the developing world and to give patients life-saving medicines regardless of their ability to pay, and has been characterized as a modern-day Robin Hood figure as a result. Yusuf Hamied is married to Farida and they have no children. His younger brother, M. K. Hamied, is Cipla’s non-executive vice-chairman. The latter has three children, including Samina Vaziralli, who is being groomed to take over Cipla in the future. Hamied was awarded the ‘CNN-IBN Indian of the Year’ in the category of business by CNN-IBN in 2012 “for taking on multinational pharma companies and making some of the essential drugs more affordable to the masses in the developing countries. In late 2013, he was also named one of the India’s “25 Greatest Global Living Legends” by news broadcaster NDTV. He was also recently interviewed for the Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School, discussing at length his strategies to provide AIDS treatments and other drugs to help treat poor people in the developing world. Hamied is best known outside India for defying large Western pharmaceutical companies in order to provide generic AIDS drugs and treatments for other ailments primarily affecting people in poor countries. Hamied has led efforts to eradicate AIDS in the developing world and to give patients life-saving medicines regardless of their ability to pay, and has been characterized as a modern-day Robin Hood figure as a result. In 2009 the Yusuf Hamied Centre was opened at Christ’s College, Cambridge. The centre features a bronze portrait bust of Hamied by fellow Christ’s College alumnus, Anthony Smith.
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| Name | Yusuf Hamied |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Yusuf Khwaja Hamied |
| Birth Place | Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Date Of Birth | 25 July 1936 |
| Age | 81 Years |
| Height | 5'8"(approx.) |
| Weight | 78 Kg (approx.) |
| Profession | Businessman |
| Awards | Padma Bhushan |
| Net Worth | 1.6 billion USD |
| TV Serials | Unknown |
| Movie | Unknown |
| School | Unknown |
| College | Christ’s College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Home Town | Vilnius, Lithuania |
| City | Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Fathers Name | Khwaja Abdul Hamied |
| Mothers Name | Unknown |
| Siblings | Mustafa Hamied, Sophie Ahmed |
| Spouse | Farida Hamied |
| Girlfriend/Boyfriend | Farida Hamied |