Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy (born 20 August 1946) is an Indian billionaire businessman.

[14] He has been described as the "father of the Indian IT sector" by Time magazine and CNBC for his contribution to outsourcing in India.

[19] N. R. Narayana Murthy was born on 20 August 1946 in Sidlaghatta, a city in India's south-western state of Karnataka[20] into a Kannada- speaking middle-class Brahmin family.

[24] Murthy first worked as a research associate under a faculty at IIM Ahmedabad and then later as the chief systems programmer.

In 1981 he, with six software professionals, founded Infosys[28][29][30] with an initial capital investment of Rs 10,000, which was provided by his wife Sudha Murty.

[31] At Infosys he articulated, designed and implemented a global delivery model for IT services outsourcing from India.

[41] In 2010, Murthy has made an investment in SKS Microfinance along with venture capitalist Vinod Khosla.

[47] [48] Murthy's wife Sudha is an educator, author, and philanthropist who has served as the chairperson of the non-profit Infosys Foundation.

[52] In 2009, Akshata married British-Indian Conservative politician Rishi Sunak, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024.