List of Kunbi people

The following is a list of notable Kunbi people

Politics

• Shrikant Jichkar – Member of Parliament, Member of Rajya Sabha, Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra, Managing Editor of Nagpur Times and Nagpur Patrika
• S. K. Wankhede – former BCCI President and State Minister.
• Anant Geete – Member of Parliament and former Union Minister of Power.
• Panjabrao Deshmukh – social reformer, educationist and freedom fighter in Vidarbha.
• Tukaram Surve - Shivsena's Ex. MLA from Shrivardhan Vidhansabha
• Vishnu Gholam – Kunbi Sena Founder & Chairman Social Organisation
• JAYSINGRAO GAIKWAD PATIL - Originally from Killedharur dist. Beed Nowadays residing at Aurangabad Ex. MLC (2 terms) Ex. MP (3 Terms) Ex. Union MOS HRD GOI, Ex. MOS Cooperation in Maharashtra Govt., Activist leader of Maratha Aarakshan.

Academics and writers

• Atul Gawande – second generation Harvard professor and doctor, who is also a columnist in US.

Sports

• Sandeep Patil is a cricket player and former coach of the Kenya Cricket Team that reached World Cup Semi-Finals in 2003. He had a record for six fours in a cricket over.
• Aditya Raut – youngest person in the world to swim across five continental channels
• Anshuman Gaekwad – former Indian cricket team coach and Cricket player

Film, music, and modeling

• Rajnikanth (Birth Name:Shivaji Rao Gaikwad), a famous Indian film actor. He is the second-highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan.
• Lalita Pawar was a Bollywood actor known as The Mother of all mothers-in-law in films.
• Smita Patil was a Bollywood actress, a two-time Best Actress award winner at the National Film Festival (Bhumika and Chakra) and a Padmashree.

Science and technology

• Vijay Bhatkar – an IT computer scientist from India.