Sir Mathuradas Vissanji (1916-1949) was an Indian businessman and politician.
[2] He founded the Wallace Mills Company, a family owned textile business, which is today managed by his grandson Hemant Vissanji.
[3] The Vissanji family also owned the Bombay Burmah Trading Company which is worth over 1 billion $USD today.
[3][5] At the 1943 Birthday Honours of King George VI, he was conferred with a knighthood.
His name was thus published as Sir Mathuradas Vissanji by the London Gazette from then on.