List of people from Maharashtra
This is a list of notable people from Maharashtra, India.
Art
Actors
- Ajinkya Dev
- Amol Palekar
- Ankush Chaudhari
- 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
- Riteish Vilasrao 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
- Madhuri Dixit
- Mamta Kulkarni
- Meena Kumari
- Mugdha Godse
- 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
- Yash Chopra
- Karan Johar
- Madhur Bhandarkar
- Ashutosh Gowarikar
- Amol Gupte
- Sachin Pilgaonkar
- Nagraj Manjule
- Satish Rajwade
- Ravi Jadhav
- Rohit Shetty
- Ram Gopal Verma
- Ayan Mukherjee
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali
- Zoya Akhtar
Visual artists
Award winners from Maharashtra
- Padma Vibhushan
- Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, 1954
- Padma Bhushan
- Homi Jehangir Bhabha, Science & Engineering, 1954
- Padma Shri
- Asha Devi Aryanayakam, Public Affairs, 1954
Business and industry
- Abasaheb Garware, Garware group
- Azim Premji, Wipro
- Baba Kalyani (Babasaheb Nilaknthrao Kalyani), Bharat Forge
- Baburao Govindrao Shirke, Shirke Group of Companies
- Baburaoji Parkhe, Parkhe group
- Bhavarlal Jain, Jain Irrigation
- Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave, SEBI Chairman
- Deepak Ghaisas, Iflex
- Kalpana Saroj, Kamani Tubes
- Kiran Karnik, former president of NASSCOM, 2007–08
- Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj Group
- Rajendra Pawar, NIIT
- S L Kirloskar (Shantanurao), Kirloskar group
- Subhash Runwal, Runwal Group Chairman
- Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO
- Vivek Ranadive, TIBCO
- Walchand Hirachand, Walchand Group of Industries
Defence forces
- General Arun S. Vaidya
- Namdeo Jadav
- Yeshwant Ghadge
- Manoj Mukund Narwane
Gallantry honors
Param Vir Chakra
- Lieutenant Colonel Ardeshir Burzorji Tarapore, Poona Horse (posthumous)
- Major Rama Raghoba Rane Bombay Engineers
- Major Ramaswamy Parameshwaran
Journalism
- Nanasaheb Parulekar, founder editor of Sakal
Literature
- Vasant Purushottam Kale
- Ranjit Desai
- N. S. Inamdar
- Shivaji Sawant
- 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
- Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
- Shirish Kanekar
- Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle
Music
- Abhijeet Sawant, singer
- 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
- Zubin Mehta, conductor
- Anuradha Paudwal, singer
- Ashutosh Phatak, music director
- Sadhana Sargam, singer
- Rahul Vaidya, singer
- Suresh Wadkar, singer
- Bela Shende, singer
- Vaishali Samant, singer
- Shalmali Kholgade, singer
Police
- Sachin Waze
- Vijay Salaskar
- Hemant Karkare
- Ashok Kamte
- Tukaram Omble
Politics
Rajya Sabha members
Chief ministers
- List of Chief Ministers of Maharashtra
Others
- Ajit Pawar
- Anil Shirole
- Babasaheb Ambedkar
- Bal Thackeray
- Balasaheb Desai
- Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
- Chhagan Bhujbal
- Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale
- Ganpatrao Deshmukh
- Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Gopinath Munde
- Hari Shivaram Rajguru
- Haribhau Jawale
- Keshavrao Jedhe
- Manikrao Thakre
- Manohar Joshi
- Narayan Rane
- Patangrao Kadam
- Prakash Ambedkar
- Pramod Mahajan
- Prithviraj Chavan
- R R Patil
- Raj Thackeray
- Ram Shinde
- Ramdas Athawale
- Rani Lakshmibai
- Senapati Bapat
- Shankarrao Chavan
- Sharad Pawar
- Shivraj Patil
- Shrikant Jichkar
- Shripad Amrit Dange
- Siddharth Shirole
- Sunil Deshmukh
- Sushilkumar Shinde
- Tatya Tope
- Uddhav Thackeray
- Vasantdada Patil
- Vilasrao Deshmukh
- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
- Yashwantrao Chavan
Religion
- Samarth Ramdas, Sajjangad
- Saint Tukaram, Dehu
- Saint Namdev, Pandharpur
- sant Dnyaneshwar, Alandi
- Saint 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
- Jangali Maharaj, Pune.
Rulers
Scientists
Social activists
- Baba Amte
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale
- Sindhutai Sapkal
- Babasaheb Ambedkar
- Mahatma Jyotiba Phule
- Ashok Row Kavi
- Dhondo Keshav Karve
- Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
- Kisan Mehta
- Harish Iyer
- Manibhai Desai
- Bittu Sahgal
- Anna Hazare
- Medha Patkar
- Savitribai Phule
- Abhay Bang
- Vinoba Bhave
- Bhaurao Patil
- Lokmanya Tilak
- Veer Savarkar
- Anna Bhau Sathe
- Prakash Amte
- Hari Narke
Sports
Badminton
Contract bridge
- Jaggy Shivdasani
- Orlando Campos
- Ramesh Gokhale
- Keshav Samant, popularly known as Anand Samant
Chess
Mountaineerng
Cricket
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Rohit Sharma
- Abhishek Nayar
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Ajit Agarkar
- 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
- Kedar Jadhav
- Manohar Hardikar
- Nilesh Kulkarni
- Paras Mhambrey
- Phiroze Palia
- Pravin Amre
- Polly Umrigar
- Rahul Dravid
- Ramnath Parkar
- Ravi Shastri
- Rohan Gavaskar
- 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
- Wasim Jaffer
- Umesh Yadav
- Zaheer Khan
- Rohit Sharma
Shooting
- Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat
- Tejaswini Sawant
Tennis
Wrestling
- Khashaba Jadhav, won first Olympic individual bronze medal for India
Criminals and Gangster
- Arun Gawli
- Dawood Ibrahim, criminal and drug dealer
- Chhota Rajan
- Manya Surve
- Maya Dolas
- Tiger Memon
- Yakub Memon
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See also
- List of Marathi people
- List of people by India state
- List of people from Nagpur
References
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