List of people from Maharashtra
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This is a list of famous and notable people from Maharashtra, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well known during the peak of their popularity. This list also includes people from ethnicities other than Maharashtrians and those naturalized. For the list of notable Marathi people, see this list of people from the Marathi ethnic group.
Business and industry
- Vikram Pandit - Citigroup CEO
- Abasaheb Garware - Garware group
- Rajendra Pawar - NIIT
- Vivek Ranadive - TIBCO
- Deepak Ghaisas - Iflex
- S L Kirloskar (Shantanurao)- Kirloskar group
- Baburaoji Parkhe - Parkhe group
- Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave SEBI Chairman
- Kiran Karnik Former president of NASSCOM for 2007–08
- Azim Premji - Wipro
- Baba Kalyani (Babasaheb Nilaknthrao Kalyani) - Bharat Forge
- Baburao Govindrao Shirke (Shirke Group of Companies)
- Rahul Bajaj - Bajaj Group
Journalists
- Nanasaheb Parulekar, Founder Editor of Sakal
Entertainment
Actors
- Ajinkya Dev
- Amol Palekar
- Ashok Saraf
- Atul Kulkarni
- Bharat Jadhav
- Chandrakant Mandare
- Dada Kondke
- Dilip Prabhavalkar
- Kashinath Ghanekar
- Kuldeep Pawar
- Laxmikant Berde
- Mahesh Kothare
- Makarand Anaspure
- Makarand Deshpande
- Master Vinaayak
- Milind Gunaji
- Milind Soman
- Mohan Gokhale
- Nana Patekar
- Nilu Phule
- Nishikant Kamat
- Prabhakar Panshikar
- Prashant Damle
- Ritesh Deshmukh
- Rajnikanth
- Sharad Talwalkar
- Sachin Khedekar
- Sachin Pilgaonkar
- Sadashiv Amrapurkar
- Sandeep Kulkarni
- Sanjay Narvekar
- Sayaji Shinde
- Shahu Modak
- Shivaji Satham
- Shreyas Talpade
- Siddharth Jadhav
- Sudhir Joshi
- Subodh Bhave
- Vikram Gokhale
Actresses
- Alka Kubal
- Aditi Govitrikar
- Ashwini Bhave
- Bhavana
- Durga Khote
- Isha Koppikar
- Jayshree Gadkar
- Lalita Pawar
- Leela Chitnis
- Kavita Lad
- Kimi Katkar
- Mugdha Godse
- Madhuri Dixit
- Mamta Kulkarni
- Namrata Shirodkar
- Nishigandha Wad
- Nivedita Joshi
- Nutan
- Padmini Kolhapure
- Pallavi Joshi
- Radhika Apte
- Rajashree
- Rohini Hattangadi
- Shraddha Kapoor
- Shilpa Shirodkar
- Smita Patil
- Shobhana Samarth
- Sonali Bendre
- Sonali Kulkarni
- Sai Tamhankar
- Supriya Pathak
- Usha Chavan
- Urmila Matondkar
- Vandana Gupte
Directors
- Manish Jain
- Yash Chopra
- Karan Johar
- Madhur Bhandarkar
- Ashutosh Gowarikar
- Amol Gupte
- Sachin Pilgaonkar
Music
- Aarya Ambekar (singer)
- Ajay Atul (Music Director)
- Prabha Atre (singer)
- Ashwini Bhide (singer)
- Asha Bhosle (singer)
- Vasantrao Deshpande (classical singer of Patiala Gharana)
- Bal Gandharva (theatre)
- Sawai Gandharva (singer)
- Bhimsen Joshi (classical singer)
- Suman Kalyanpur (singer)
- Kesarbai Kerkar (singer)
- Kishori Amonkar (singer)
- Shri Shrinivas Khale (music director)
- Mogubai Kurdikar (singer)
- Deenanath Mangeshkar (theater)
- Lata Mangeshkar (singer)
- Usha Mangeshkar (singer)
- Anuradha Paudwal (singer)
- Ashutosh Phatak (music director)
- Sadhana Sargam (singer)
- Rahul Vaidya (singer)
- Suresh Wadkar (singer)
- Bela Shende (singer)
- Vaishali Samant(singer)
Politics
- Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak,great freedom fighter Indian National Congress
- Gopinath Munde (1949–2014), senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj
- Sharad Pawar, Founder & President NCP, President MCA, Former Minister of Defence, Minister of Agriculture, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Former President ICC, BCCI
- B. R. Ambedkar, Drafted the constitution of India
- Ajit Pawar, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
- Balasaheb Desai
- Balasaheb Thackeray founder and Chief of the Shivsena
- Chhagan Bhujbal, former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale,Freedom Fighter,MLC Indian National Congress (INC)
- Sunil Deshmukh Former Minister of State
- Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale,Guru of Mahatma Gandhi
- Haribhau Jawale BJP
- Hari Shivaram Rajguru
- Manikrao Thakre, Congress
- Manohar Joshi,former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shiv Sena
- Narayan Rane, Congress
- Nitin Gadkari,Union Transport Minister and former President of BJP
- Patangrao Kadam Indian National Congress
- Pramod Mahajan, BJP
- Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- R R Patil, NCP
- Raj Thackeray Founder Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)
- Pandurang Mahadev Bapat freedom fighter
- Shankarrao Chavan
- Shivraj Patil, former Home Minister of India
- Shrikant Jichkar, (1954-2004)
- Shripad Amrit Dange, founder of Communist Party of India
- Sushilkumar Shinde, Former Energy Minister and Home minister for Government of India
- Vasantdada Patil, freedom fighter & former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- Vilasrao Deshmukh, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar,freedom fighter and Hindu Mahasabha leader
- Yashwantrao Chavan, 1st Chief Minister of Maharashtra and was Deputy Prime Minister of India
Social activists
- Baba Amte (1914–2008), social worker-activist
- Ashok Row Kavi, LGBT rights activist
- Dhondo Keshav Karve
- Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, doctor
- Kisan Mehta
- Harish Iyer, LGBT rights activist, Child rights activist
- Manibhai Desai, agriculturalist
- Bittu Sahgal, environmentalist - editor, Sanctuary Magazine
- Anna Hazare(Kisan baburao hazare)
- Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Mumbai
- Mahatma Jyotiba Phule
- Savitribai Phule
- Vikas Amte (born 1947), doctor, social worker-activist, son of Baba Amte
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Abhay Bang
- Vinoba Bhave
- Bhaurao Patil
Defence Forces
- Qazi Mir Imdad Ali, military officer in 1835
- General Arun S. Vaidya.
- Namdeo Jadav
- Yeshwant Ghadge
Police
- Sachin Waze, former encounter specialist.
Religion
- Samarth Ramdas, Sajjangad
- Tukaram, Dehu
- Namdev, Pandharpur
- Dnyaneshwar, Alandi
- Eknath, Paithan
- Sai Baba
- Gajanan Maharaj, Shegaon
- Chokha Mela, Mangalvedhe
- Gora Kumbhar, Terdhoki
- Muktabai (Kothali) Muktainagar
- Bahinabai
- Janabai, Pandharpur
- Kanhopatra, Pandharpur
- Shri BrahmaChaitanya Gondavalekar Maharaj, Gondavale
- Swami Samartha Maharaj, Akkalkot
Sports
Hockey
Badminton
Bridge
- Jaggy Shivdasani
- Orlando Campos
- Ramesh Gokhale
- Keshav Samant Popularly known as Anand Samant
Chess
Cricket
Sachin Tendulkar
- Abhishek Nayar
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Ajit Agarkar
- Ajit Wadekar
- Anshuman Gaekwad
- Baloo Gupte
- Chandrasekhar Gadkari
- Chandrakant Pandit
- Chandrakant Patankar
- Chandu Borde
- Dattaram Hindlekar
- Dattu Phadkar
- Dilip Vengsarkar
- Hemu Adhikari
- Hemant Kanitkar
- Hrishikesh Kanitkar
- Khandu Rangnekar
- Kiran More
- Manohar Hardikar
- Nilesh Kulkarni
- Paras Mhambrey
- Phiroze Palia
- Pravin Amre
- Polly Umrigar
- Ramnath Parkar
- Ravi Shastri
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Salil Ankola
- Sameer Dighe
- Sanjay Bangar
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Subhash Gupte
- Sunil Gavaskar
- Sairaj Bahutule
- Sandip Patil
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Vijay Hazare
- Vijay Manjrekar
- Vijay Merchant
- Vinod Kambli
- Vinoo Mankad
- Umesh Yadav
- Zaheer Khan
- Rohit Sharma
Shooting
Tennis
Wrestling
- Khashaba Jadhav - First Olympic individual bronze medal for India
Literature
- Acharya Atre
- B. S. Mardhekar
- G. A. Kulkarni
- G. D. Madgulkar
- Gangadhar Gadgil
- Kusumagraj
- Mangesh Padgaonkar
- P. L. Deshpande
- Vasant Abaji Dahake
- Vasant Kanetkar
- Vijay Tendulkar
- Vilas Sarang
- Vinda Karandikar
- Baba Kadam, novelist
- Babasaheb Purandare
Rulers
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
- Madhavrao Peshwa
- Shahu Maharaj
- Malhar Rao Holkar
- Yashwant Rao Holkar
- Sambhaji Maharaj
Doctor
Scientists
- Vijay Bhatkar
- Anil Kakodkar
- Madhav Gadgil
- Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
- Jayant Narlikar
- Shekhar C. Mande
- Chandrashekhar Khare
- Narendra Karmarkar
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
- Abhay Ashtekar
- Aravind Joshi
- Subhash Khot
- Ashok Gadgil
See also
References
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