List of people from Mumbai

This is a list of notable residents of Mumbai, India. Residents may be known as Bombayites, or Mumbaikars (in Marathi).

Sport

Cricketers

• Ajit Agarkar
• Madhav Apte
• Pravin Amre
• Farokh Engineer
• Sunil Gavaskar
• Subhash Gupte
• Wasim Jaffer
• Vinod Kambli
• Ashok Mankad
• Vijay Manjrekar
• Vijay Merchant
• Sandeep Patil
• Dattu Phadkar
• Ramesh Powar
• Ajinkya Rahane
• Richard Rutnagur
• Ravi Shastri
• Rohit Sharma
• Prithvi Shaw
• Eknath Solkar
• Leonard Stileman-Gibbard
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Polly Umrigar
• Dilip Vengsarkar
• Ajit Wadekar
• Thomas Wainwright

Field hockey

• Yuvraj Valmiki

Kickboxing

• Sarah Avraham, Indian-born Israeli kickboxer, 2014 Women's World Thai-Boxing Champion

Business

Ajay Piramal

• Anil Agarwal
• Anil Ambani
• Mukesh Ambani
• Kumar Mangalam Birla
• Kishore Biyani
• Radhakishan Damani
• Adi Godrej
• Sajjan Jindal
• Uday Kotak
• Vurjeevandas Madhowdas
• Anand Mahindra
• Deena Mehta
• Ajay Piramal
• Albert Abdullah David Sassoon
• David Sassoon
• Ronnie Screwvala
• Ratan Tata
• Nusli Wadia
• Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

Film

Actors and directors

• Abhishek Bachchan
• Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
• Amitabh Bachchan
• Sanjay Leela Bhansali, director
• Tamanna Bhatia
• Ankush Chaudhari
• David Abraham Cheulkar
• Ileana D'Cruz
• Bobby Deol
• Ritesh Deshmukh
• Dev, Bengali actor
• Varun Dhawan
• Madhuri Dixit
• Sanjay Dutt
• Karan Johar
• Swapnil Joshi
• Bhalchandra Kadam, aka Bhau Kadam
• Kajol
• Urmila Kanitkar
• Arjun Kapoor
• Kareena Kapoor
• Karisma Kapoor
• Ranbir Kapoor
• Shraddha Kapoor
• Sonam Kapoor
• Aamir Khan
• Salman Khan
• Dada Kondke
• Mahesh Kothare
• Ishaa Koppikar
• Vierendrra Lalit, director
• Urmila Matondkar
• Amol Palekar
• Amey Pandya
• Sachin Pilgaonkar
• Dilip Prabhavalkar
• Hrithik Roshan, actor
• Nilesh Sable
• Ashok Saraf
• Subhash Sharma, art director
• Namrata Shirodkar
• Shilpa Shirodkar
• Ranveer Singh
• Shreyas Talpade
• Preity Zinta

Music

Conductors

Zubin Mehta

• Zubin Mehta

Lyricists and singers

• Javed Akhtar
• Asha Bhosle
• Rahul Dev Burman
• Geeta Dutt
• Lata Mangeshkar
• Freddie Mercury
• Mohammed Rafi
• Geetika Varde, classical singer[1]

Writers and journalists

See also: List of poets from Mumbai

• Devyani Chaubal (1942–1995), film journalist and columnist of the 60s and 70s
• Firdaus Kanga
• B. K. Karanjia (1919–2012), film journalist and editor of Filmfare and Screen, chairman of NFDC
• Rudyard Kipling
• Rohinton Mistry
• Gregory David Roberts
• Salman Rushdie
• Rishi Vohra

Others

• Troy Costa (born 1975), fashion designer[2]
• Kekoo Gandhy (1920–2012), art gallery owner, founded Gallery Chemould in 1963[3]
• Chandrakala A. Hate, author, feminist, social worker, and professor
• Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy, merchant and philanthropist
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah, lawyer, politician, and the founder of Pakistan
• Kisan Mehta, president of nonprofits
• Abie Nathan, humanitarian and peace activist
• Reshma Qureshi, model and vlogger
• Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, community leader, philanthropist and industrialist
• Sandra Samuel, nanny who saved the life of two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg during the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks
• Ranvir Shah, cultural activist and philanthropist[4]
• Jagannath Shankarshet, philanthropist and educationalist
• Subhash Sharma, fine artist, creative designer
• Tarun Tahiliani, fashion designer[5]
• Zakir Naik - Physician, Islamic preacher, founder of Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and Peace TV

References

1. "United Colours of India". Hindustan Times. 27 January 2009. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
2. "Narendra Modi out to make strong fashion statement in US; hires high-profile designer Troy Costa". The Economic Times. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
3. "Chemould celebrates fifty years". The Times of India. 17 August 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
4. Muthalaly, Shonali (30 October 2009). "Best of three worlds". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
5. "Designs on the bride". India Today. 7 November 2008. Retrieved 29 May 2014.