Naval Hormusji Tata
Born	( 30 สิงหาคม 1904 )30 August 1904 Surat, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died	5 May 1989(5 พฤษภาคม 1989) (aged 84) Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Occupations	Industrialist, Philanthropist
Spouse(s)	Sooni Commissariat ​ (separated)​ Simone Dunoyer ​ (m. 1955)​
Children	3, including Ratan and Noel
Parent	Ratanji Tata (adoptive father)
Relatives	See Tata family

Naval Hormusji Tata (30 August 1904 – 5 May 1989) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who worked for the Tata Group. He was the adopted son of Sir Ratan Tata, and the father of Ratan, Jimmy and Noel Tata.

Naval was born in Surat on 30 August 1904 to a middle-class Parsi family. His father, Hormusji Tata, belonged to a distant branch of the extended Tata family. Hormusji's grandfather, Navroji Tata, was the second-cousin of Jamsetji Tata. Both of them are descended from Bhika Tata. Thus, he was a Tata by birth.^[1] His mother was Ratanbai née Rao, daughter of Cooverbai Rao née Daboo, the sister of Hirabai Tata née Daboo, wife of Tata group founder Jamsetji Tata.^[2]

Hormusji was a spinning master in the Advanced Mills at Ahmedabad and died in 1908^[3][4] when Naval was only four years old. After Naval's father died, his mother relocated to Navsari, where she struggled to earn for the family. Ratanbai's income was derived from embroidery work.^[3] Naval lived at the J. N. Petit Parsi Orphanage to make it easier to raise him.^[3]

Navajbai, wife of Sir Ratanji Tata, adopted him from the orphanage at the age of 13.^[3][4] Ratanji Tata was his maternal uncle because Naval's maternal grandmother and Ratanji's mother were sisters.

Naval later graduated from Bombay University in Economics and proceeded to London for a short course in Accounting.^[3]

He never forgot his past and once remarked:^[3]

"ผมรู้สึกขอบคุณพระเจ้าที่ทรงประทานโอกาสให้ผมได้สัมผัสกับความยากจน ซึ่งเป็นสิ่งที่หล่อหลอมนิสัยใจคอของผมในภายหลังมากกว่าสิ่งอื่นใด"

ภรรยาคนแรกของนาวาลคือซูนี คอมมิสซาริแอท พวกเขามีลูกชายสองคนคือราตันและจิมมี่ ทาทา [ ^{5 ] ลูกชาย}ทั้งสองคนไม่เคยแต่งงานหรือมีบุตร ทั้งคู่แยกทางกันในช่วงกลางทศวรรษ 1940 ^{[ 6 ]}

ต่อมานาวาลได้แต่งงานกับซิโมน ดูนอยเยอร์นักธุรกิจหญิงชาวสวิตเซอร์แลนด์ พวกเขาแต่งงานกันในปี 1955 ^{[ 7 ]}โนเอล ทาทาเป็นลูกชายของพวกเขา^{[ 7 ]}

He differed in opinion with his cousin and long standing colleague, JRD Tata. While JRD wanted to steer clear of politics, Naval stood as an independent candidate from South Bombay in 1971 but lost elections.^[9]

Naval was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India on Republic Day, 1969.^[13] The same year he was given recognition for his role in industrial peace and awarded the Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal. He was conferred the life membership of the National Institute of Personnel Management.^[3]

He died on 5 May 1989 due to cancer in Bombay.^[3][14][15]

• Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management has named the Sports Management Department as The Naval Tata Centre of Excellence in Sports Management in his memory.^[16]
• Naval Tata Memorial Lecture is organised by National Institute of Personnel Management every year in his memory since 1992.
• In 2004, the Tata group organised 'The Century of Trust' exhibition in various cities jointly in memory of Jamsetji Tata, JRD Tata and Naval Tata.^[17]
• Employers' Federation of India launched the 'Naval Tata Institute for Training in Industrial Relations' in 2014 as a memorial to him.^[18]
• In 1999 a book in his memory Naval Tata remembered was published containing compilation of letters, writings, speeches of Naval.^[12]
• In 2019, Government of Odisha, Tata Steel & Tata Trusts (Hockey Ace foundation) launched Hockey HPC in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It was named as Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High Performance Centre to pay tribute to Naval Tata for his significant contribution in development of Hockey in India.^[19]