Jindal vs Frist Jr.
JSW Steel and HCA Healthcare.
The differences
- Forbes puts Savitri Jindal about $0.9B ahead of Thomas Frist Jr..Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Oct 2026.
- Savitri Jindal: through marriage. Thomas Frist Jr.: co-founded it.
- Thomas Frist Jr. is about 12 years older than Savitri Jindal.
- Savitri Jindal is from India; Thomas Frist Jr. is from United States.
- Savitri Jindal has held a public or government advisory role; Thomas Frist Jr. has none on record.
Put someone else on either side
Side by side
Jindal
Frist Jr.The money
- Net worth, Forbes
- $38.3BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
- $37.4BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
- Net worth, Bloomberg
- $32.7BBloomberg, 17 Oct 2026
- $41.5BBloomberg, 17 Oct 2026
- Forbes rank
- No. 55Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
- No. 59Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
- Billionaire since
- Not stated
- Not stated
Where it came from
- How it started
- Through marriageTook over as chair of the O.P. Jindal Group and control of her husband's stake after his death in 2005; he founded the group in 1952
- Co-founded itFounded Hospital Corporation of America in 1968 with his father, Dr. Thomas F. Frist Sr., and Jack Massey
- Main source
- O.P. Jindal Group: stakes in JSW Steel, JSW Energy, Jindal Steel & Power, Jindal Stainless, Jindal Saw, JSW Infrastructure and JSW Holdings
- HCA Healthcare stock, and cash from HCA share sales and dividendsBloomberg: $32.4 billion in HCA stock and $9.18 billion in cash
- Companies
- JSW Steel, Jindal StainlessJSW Steel: None stated; run by her son Sajjan Jindal; Jindal Stainless: Chairperson emeritus of the O.P. Jindal Group, listed on the board page
- HCA HealthcareHCA Healthcare: Co-founder; no executive position
- Biggest stake
- JSW SteelStake not stated
- HCA Healthcare27% owned
The person
- Born
- 20 Mar 1950Tinsukia, Assam, India
- 12 Aug 1938Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Country
- IndiaLives in Hisar, India
- United States
- Education
- No universityMatriculation
- Graduate degreeMD, Washington University School of Medicine (1965); bachelor's degree, Vanderbilt University (1961)
- Parents
- Not stated
- Father Dr. Thomas F. Frist Sr. was a Nashville cardiologist and internal medicine specialist who co-founded HCA with him
What they give
- Giving Pledge
- Not a signer
- Not a signer
- Foundation
- Not stated
- The Frist FoundationFounded by HCA in 1982 and later made independent; he chairs it
- Lifetime giving
- Not stated
- Not stated
Role and record
- Role now
- Chair of the boardChairperson emeritus of the O.P. Jindal Group; member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly for Hisar
- Founder, no executive roleCo-founder of HCA Healthcare; chairman of the Frist Foundation
- Successor
- Her four sons run the group's companies independently: Prithviraj (Jindal Saw), Sajjan (JSW Group), Ratan (Jindal Stainless) and Naveen (Jindal Steel)
- Jack O. Bovender Jr. succeeded him as HCA chairman in 2002; his sons Thomas Frist III and William Frist are HCA board members
- Public office
- Member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly for Hisar; Haryana power minister; Haryana minister of state for revenue, disaster management, rehabilitation and housing; Haryana minister for urban local bodies; Member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly for Hisar2005-2014; until 2009; 2006; 2013; 2024-
- None found
- Legal record
- 2013: Punjab and Haryana High CourtThe court directed her to vacate her official residence, held after her term as power minister ended in 2009, and imposed a penalty.
- None found
