Amar Bose biography
Date of birth : 1929-11-02
Date of death : -
Birthplace : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality : Indian-American
Category : Arhitecture and Engineering
Last modified : 2011-09-27
Credited as : electrical engineer, sound engineer, Bose Corporation
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In the year 2007 (Forbes 400), he was listed as 271st richest man in the world, with a net worth of $1.8 billion. In 2009, he had dropped off the billionaire list, and made it back onto the list in 2011, with a net worth of $1.0 billion.
Amar Gopal Bose was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Bengali father and a white American mother. His father, Noni Gopal Bose, was a Bengali freedom revolutionary, who having been imprisoned for his political activities, fled Calcutta in the 1920s in order to avoid further prosecution by the British colonial police.