Kalanithi Maran
Indian media mogul
Kalanithi Maran (born 24 July 1964) is an Indian billionaire media proprietor. He is the founder and chairman of Sun Group, one of India's largest media conglomerates. He owns multiple television channels, newspapers, weeklies, FM radio stations, DTH services, a movie production house (Sun Pictures), and three cricket team franchises: Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League, Sunrisers Eastern Cape in the SA20 League in South Africa and Sunrisers Leeds in The Hundred in England. He also held a major share in the Indian airline SpiceJet from 2010 to 2015.
Maran won Young Businessman awards from CNBC and Ernst & Young, and Forbes magazine named him the "Television king of southern India". As of November 2025, his net worth is US$2.57 billion.
Early life
Maran was born to former Union Minister Murasoli Maran in Chennai on 24 July 1964. He is the grand-nephew of former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi.
Maran attended the Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School and continued his education through Loyola College, Chennai. To finish his formal education, he traveled to the United States, earning his MBA from the University of Scranton.
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