Tata family tree
Jamsetji Tata's sons and cousins, Naval Tata's adoption, Ratan and Noel Tata, and the marriages that join the Tatas to the Mistry, Petit and Wadia families.
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Who is related to whom in the Tata family
How is Ratan Tata related to Noel Tata?
Noel Tata is Ratan Tata’s half-brother (chhota bhai in Hindi). Both descend from Naval Tata.
How is Ratan Tata related to Jamsetji Tata?
Jamsetji Tata is Ratan Tata’s paternal great-grandfather (pardada in Hindi).
How is JRD Tata related to Jamsetji Tata?
Jamsetji Tata is JRD Tata’s first cousin once removed (his father’s cousin). Both descend from Kavasji Maneckji Tata.
How is Noel Tata related to Cyrus Mistry?
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry is Noel Tata’s brother-in-law (saala in Hindi).
How is Ratan Tata related to Cyrus Mistry?
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry is Ratan Tata’s brother’s wife’s brother.
How was Muhammad Ali Jinnah related to JRD Tata?
JRD Tata is Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s wife’s brother’s wife’s brother.
How is Nusli Wadia related to Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
Muhammad Ali Jinnah is Nusli Wadia’s maternal grandfather (nana in Hindi).
How was Shapurji Saklatvala related to Jamsetji Tata?
Jamsetji Tata is Shapurji Saklatvala’s maternal uncle (mama in Hindi). Both descend from Nusserwanji Ratan Tata and Jeevanbai Tata.
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The Tata family, generation by generation
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- Kavasji Maneckji Tata
- Dadabhoy Tata · married Bhikhibai Tata
- Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (1856 – 1926): Jamsetji Tata's maternal cousin and an early senior figure in the Tata group; JRD's father. · married Suzanne RD Tata: Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata's French wife, mother of JRD, Sylla, Rodabeh, Darab and Jamshed.
- JRD Tata (1904 – 1993): Fourth chairman of the Tata group, who started Tata Airlines, later Air India. · married Thelma Tata: JRD Tata's wife.
- Rodabeh Tata: JRD Tata's younger sister.
- Darab Tata: JRD Tata's younger brother.
- Sylla Petit: JRD Tata's elder sister, married to Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, 3rd Baronet. · married Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit (third baronet) (1901 – 1983): Married Sylla Tata; his sister Rattanbai (Ruttie) married Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
- Jamshed Tata: JRD Tata's younger brother, known as Jimmy.
- Jeevanbai Tata · married Nusserwanji Ratan Tata
- Jamsetji Tata (1839 – 1904): Founder of the Tata group, born in 1839 in a Parsi family from Navsari.
- Dorabji Tata (1859 – 1932): Jamsetji's elder son and the second chairman of the Tata group. · married Meherbai Tata (? – 1931): Dorabji Tata's wife; she was the paternal aunt of the scientist Homi Bhabha.
- Jamsetji Tata also married Hirabai Daboo
- Ratanji Tata (1871 – 1918): Jamsetji's younger son, a philanthropist. He and Navajbai had no children of their own. · married
- · was married to Soonoo Tata: Naval Tata's first wife and the mother of Ratan and Jimmy Tata; the marriage ended in divorce.
- Ratan Tata (1937 – 2024): Chairman of the Tata group from 1991 to 2012, and its interim chairman for four months in 2016 to 2017.
- Jimmy Tata: Ratan Tata's younger brother.
- Naval Tata also married Simone Tata (1930 – 2025): Naval Tata's second wife and Noel's mother. She ran the cosmetics company Lakme and chaired Trent.
- Noel Tata (b. 1957): Naval and Simone Tata's son, Ratan's half-brother and chairman of the Tata Trusts since October 2024. · married Aloo Mistry: Pallonji Mistry's younger daughter, married to Noel Tata.
- Leah Tata: Noel and Aloo Tata's elder daughter, a vice-president at Indian Hotels Company.
- Noel Tata’s children whose other parent the sources don’t name:
- Maya Tata: Noel and Aloo Tata's younger daughter, on the board of the Tata Medical Center Trust.
- Neville Tata: Noel and Aloo Tata's son, who works at Trent. · married Manasi Kirloskar: Neville Tata's wife, daughter of Vikram Kirloskar.
- Dhunbai Tata
- Jerbai Tata: Jamsetji Tata's sister and the mother of Shapurji Saklatvala. · married Dorabji Saklatvala
- Shapurji Saklatvala (1874 – 1936): Jamsetji Tata's nephew, who was elected to the British House of Commons as a Communist.
- Virbaiji Tata: Jamsetji Tata's sister and the mother of Nowroji Saklatvala. · married Bapuji Saklatvala
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- Nowroji Saklatvala (1875 – 1938): Jamsetji Tata's nephew, who chaired Tata Sons from 1932 until his death in 1938.
- Kaekobad Saklatvala · married Sehra Bardi
- Minocher Tata
- Jimmy Minocher Tata
- Vera Farhad Choksey
Also in this tree, through marriage
- Jinnahbhai Poonja (1857 – 1901)
- Mitthibai Jinnahbhai (1857 – 1902)
- Sir Ness Wadia (1873 – 1952)
- Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit (second baronet) (1873 – 1933): Father of Rattanbai (Ruttie) Jinnah and of the third baronet, who married Sylla Tata.
- Dinbai Jejeebhoy (1874 – 1965)
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876 – 1948): Founder of Pakistan; his wife Ruttie Petit was the sister of Sylla Tata's husband.
- Rattanbai Jinnah (1900 – 1929): Known as Ruttie; daughter of Sir Dinshaw Petit, wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and sister-in-law of Sylla Tata.
- Neville Wadia (1911 – 1996): Businessman, Dina Jinnah's husband and Nusli Wadia's father.
- Dina Wadia (1919 – 2017): Jinnah and Ruttie's only child; she stayed in India and married Neville Wadia.
- Pallonji Mistry (1929 – 2022): Construction magnate whose family became the largest single shareholder in Tata Sons.
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- Pat Perin Dubash (b. 1939): Pallonji Mistry's wife, born in Dublin in 1939.
- Nusli Wadia (b. 1944): Businessman; Jinnah's grandson and chairman of the Wadia group.
- Vikram Kirloskar (1958 – 2022)
- Shapoor Mistry (b. 1964): Pallonji Mistry's elder son, who runs the Shapoorji Pallonji group.
- Cyrus Pallonji Mistry (1968 – 2022): Pallonji's younger son, chairman of Tata Sons from 2012 until he was removed in 2016; died in a road crash in 2022.
- Geetanjali Kirloskar
- Behroze Mistry
- Laila Mistry
- Rustom Jehangir
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Photo credits
The pictures on the cards are from Wikimedia Commons, shown at thumbnail size under the licence named on each file. Pictures of living people appear only for public figures (politicians, royals, and film, music and sport people with no personality-rights order or suit in India we know of). Anyone else, and anyone under 18, shows initials.
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- Jamsetji Tata: photo by hochgeladen in en-Wiki von Chirags, Public domain
- Jinnahbhai Poonja: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Dorabji Tata: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Ratanji Tata: photo by Globalfunky, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Shapurji Saklatvala: photo by Bassano Ltd, Public domain
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Navajbai Tata: photo by Lallie Charles, Public domain
- Rattanbai Jinnah: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Naval Tata: photo by Prashantk2, CC BY-SA 4.0
- JRD Tata: photo by http://photodivision.gov.in/IntroPhotodetails.asp?thisPage=953, Public domain
- Pallonji Mistry: photo by President's Secretariat, GODL-India
- Ratan Tata: photo by Wmgwarwick, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Cyrus Pallonji Mistry: photo by Avinash4peace, CC BY-SA 4.0
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