Lakshmi Mittal is a London-based Indian billionaire industrialist, born in Sadulpur village, in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and resides in Kensington, London. He is the fourth richest person in the world, with a personal fortune of US$45.0 billion according to Forbes magazine.

The Financial Times named Lakshmi Mittal its 2006 Person of the Year. In May 2007, he was named one of the "100 most influential people" by Time magazine.