List of Kunbi people
The following is a list of notable Kunbi people
Politics
- Sharad Pawar,president, Nationalist Congress Part, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India.
- Shrikant Jichkar, MP, Member of Rajya Sabha, Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra, Managing Editor of Nagpur Times and Nagpur Patrika
- S. K. Wankhede is a former BCCI President and State Minister.
- Anant Geete is a Member of Parliament and former Union Minister of Power.
- Panjabrao Deshmukh, social reformer, educationists and freedom fighter in Vidarbha.
- H.H. Sayajirao Gaekwad, was the Maharaja of Baroda State from 1875 to 1939, and is notably remembered for reforming much of his state during his rule.
- Scindias of Gwalior, are basically Kunbi tracing their roots in Satara distict in Maharashtra .
- Pratibha Patil,President of India.
Academics and writers
Sports
Film, music, and modeling
- Rajnikanth (Birth Name:Shivaji Rao Gaekwad), 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 , a two-time Best Actress award winner at the National Film Festival (Bhumika and Chakra) and a Padmashree.
- Sagarika Ghatge,Belong to Royal Holkar Family( Bollywood Actoress work in chak de India and fox)
- Ujjwala Raut-Sterry is a supermodel now settled in the US.