Kartar Lalvani

{{Short description|British-Indian businessman}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Kartar Singh Lalvani

| image = Kartar Singh Sarabha.jpg

| caption = Kartar artistic portrait

| birth_name = Kartar Singh Lalvani

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1931|12}}

| birth_place = Karachi, Sind, British India

| nationality = British

| occupation = Businessman

| title = Chairman, Vitabiotics

| known for = Founding Vitabiotics

| children = Tej Lalvani

| relations = Gulu Lalvani (brother)
Dino Lalvani (nephew)

}}

Kartar Singh Lalvani {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE}} (born December 1931) is a British-Indian businessman, and the founder and chairman of Vitabiotics, a vitamin and mineral-based food supplements company.

Lalvani was born to a Sindhi Sikh family in 1931 in Karachi. Lalvani's father was the owner of pharmacies in Karachi, Sind before the partition of India.{{cite web|url=https://www.asian-voice.com/Opinion/Columnists/Rani-Singh/Dr-Kartar-Lalvani-OBE-The-Vitamin-King-Making-People-Healthier|title=Dr Kartar Lalvani OBE; The Vitamin King Making People Healthier...|last=ABPL|date=|website=www.asian-voice.com|access-date=26 October 2017}} His family moved to Bombay after partition, where he was raised and educated.[http://www.sindhishaan.com/article/personalities/pers_07_04.html Dr. Kartar T . Lalwani conferred E&Y Award 2008]. Sindhishaan. He was one of nine brothers and sisters. He first came to London in 1956 to study pharmacy and went on to complete his doctorate from the University of Bonn.{{cite book |last1=Lalvani |first1=Kartar |title=The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q4SlCwAAQBAJ |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |language=en |date=10 March 2016|isbn=9781472924841 }} His family subsequently migrated to London during the 1960s.

He founded Binatone with his brothers Gulu Lalvani and Pratap Singh Lalvani, which is currently run by Gulu's son Dino Lalvani. Vitabiotics is currently run by his own son Tej Lalvani. Lalvani's youngest sister is the socialite Bina Ramani ({{nee|Lalvani}}), after whom Binatone was named.[https://www.deccanchronicle.com/140311/entertainment-bollywood/article/i-wish-i-had-married-shammi-kapoor-bina-ramani I wish I had married Shammi Kapoor - Bina Ramani]. Deccan Chronicle.[https://www.rediff.com/news/1999/may/07bina.htm Bina Ramani: The hostess with the mostest]. Rediff.

In 2008, Lalvani had an estimated net worth of £200 million.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/3484579/First-British-Asian-billionaires-defy-the-downturn.html|title=First British Asian billionaires defy the downturn|first=Jon|last=Swaine|date=19 November 2008|publisher=|access-date=26 October 2017|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}

He is also a philanthropist, private scholar and historian, serving as an honorary professor at the University of Franche-Comté. Lalvani has written about the colonial history of India.