Sir Sathi Narain KBE (1919 - 19 October 1989) was a Fiji Indian businessman who built a construction and shipping business.
His parents had arrived in Fiji as indentured labourers abroad the S.S. Ganges on 21 February 1913 and were sent to work for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR) estate at Rakui in Navua on the eastern side of the island of Viti Levu.
After five years, his parents became "free" and moved to a village outside Navua and continued working for the CSR but under better conditions.
Relations between Narain and his stepfather were not always good, so when he was sent to hospital in Levuka for a knee ailment, he stayed on at his recently married sister's place.
When the dentist moved to Suva, Narain went with them and for two years worked full-time at their home as houseboy and at the surgery.
When his younger brother also came to Suva for medical treatment, the two moved into a house in Toorak, where Narain started building small artifacts for his neighbours.
He saw the opportunity and bought a 210-acre (0.85 km2) copra plantation in Savusavu from William Edmund Willoughby-Tottenham, despite opposition from other European planters.
In his maiden speech he spoke about ways of assisting low wage earners, by giving them income tax deductions for medical expenses.
From 1960 onwards the Narain Construction business expanded greatly and spread to all parts of Fiji.
He acquired the established engineering firm of Bish Limited in 1960, a branch was opened in Lautoka and he was the first to build town houses in Suva.