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.

Contents 1 Corporate Lawyers 2 Business and industry 3 Journalists 4 Entertainment 4.1 Actors 4.2 Actresses 4.3 Male models & Mr (India/World/Universe) 4.4 Female models & Miss (India/World/Universe) 5 Historians 6 Music 7 Politics 8 Social activists 9 Defence Forces 10 Religion 11 Sports 11.1 Badminton 11.2 Bridge 11.3 Chess 11.4 Cricket 11.5 Shooting 11.6 Tennis 11.7 Wrestling 12 Literature 13 Rulers 14 Doctors 15 Scientists 16 See also 17 References

Corporate Lawyers

• Nitin Potdar - M&A Partner J. Sagar Associate

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

Journalists

• Rohit Viswanath- CNN Young Journalist of the Year 2006.^[1] Editorial Page writer with The Times of India.
• Nanasaheb Parulekar, Founder Editor of Sakal

Entertainment

Actors

• Aditya Soni
• Ajinkya Dev
• Amol Palekar
• Ashok Saraf
• Atul Kulkarni
• Bharat Jadhav
• Chandrakant Mandare
• Dilip Prabhavalkar
• Kuldeep Pawar
• Laxmikant Berde
• Mahesh Kothare
• Makarand Anaspure
• Makarand Deshpande
• Master Vinaayak
• Milind Gunaji
• Milind Soman
• Mohan Gokhale
• Nana Patekar
• Nilu Phule
• Nishikant Kamat
• Prashant Damle
• Ritesh Deshmukh
• Sachin Khedekar
• Sachin Pilgaonkar
• Sadashiv Amrapurkar
• Sandeep Kulkarni
• Sanjay Narvekar
• Sayaji Shinde
• Shahu Modak
• Shivaji Satham
• Shreyas Talpade
• Shriram Lagu
• Sudhir Joshi
• Subodh Bhave
• Vikram Gokhale

Actresses

• Alka Kubal
• Aditi Govitrikar
• Ashwini Bhave
• Bhavana
• Durga Khote
• Isha Koppikar
• Jayshree Gadkar
• Lalita Pawar
• Leela Chitnis
• Kimi Katkar
• Madhuri Dixit
• Mamta Kulkarni
• Namrata Shirodkar
• Nishigandha Wad
• Nivedita Joshi
• Nutan
• Padmini Kolhapure
• Pallavi Joshi
• Rajashree
• Rohini Hattangadi
• Shilpa Shirodkar
• Shobhana Samarth
• Sonali Bendre
• Sonali Kulkarni
• Supriya Pathak
• Usha Chavan
• Urmila Matondkar
• Vandana Gupte

Male models & Mr (India/World/Universe)

• Milind Soman

Female models & Miss (India/World/Universe)

• Madhu Sapre
• Mugdha Godse

Historians

• Dulari Qureshi

Music

• Aarya Ambekar (singer)
• Prabha Atre (singer)
• Ashwini Bhide (singer)
• Asha Bhosle (singer)
• Vasantrao Deshpande (classical singer of Patiala Gharana)
• Bal Gandharva (theatre)
• Sawai Gandharva (singer)
• Avadhoot Gupte (music director)
• Bhimsen Joshi (classical singer)
• Suman Kalyanpur (singer)
• Kesarbai Kerkar (singer)
• Shri Shrinivas Khale (music director)
• Mogubai Kurdikar (singer)
• Deenanath Mangeshkar (theater)
• Lata Mangeshkar (singer)
• Usha Mangeshkar (singer)
• Zubin Mehta, conductor and Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
• Anuradha Paudwal (singer)
• Ashutosh Phatak (music director)
• Sadhana Sargam (singer)
• Rahul Vaidya (singer)
• Suresh Wadkar (singer)
• Bela Shende (singer)
• Vaishali Samant(singer)

Politics

• Raj Thackeray, founder and Chief of the MNS
• Ajit Pawar, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
• Ashok Chavan, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• B. R. AmbedkarDrafted the constitution of India
• Balasaheb Thackeray founder and Chief of the Shivsena
• Balasaheb Vikhe Patil, Indian National Congress (INC)
• Chapekar brothers
• Chhagan Bhujbal, former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Datta Meghe, NCP
• Dr Vimal Mundada, Health Minister of Maharashtra
• Dr. Sunil Deshmukh (INC), Minister of State
• Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale
• Gulabrao Patil, Congress leader and MP
• Gurudas Kamat, Congress
• Hari Shivaram Rajguru
• Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian National Congress
• Manikrao Thakre, Congress
• Manohar Joshi, Shiv Sena
• Narayan Rane, Congress
• Nitin Gadkari, BJP
• Pramod Mahajan, BJP
• Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• R R Patil, NCP
• Raj Thackeray, founder and Chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
• Pandurang Mahadev Bapat freedom fighter
• Shankarrao Chavan
• Sharad Pawar, NCP
• Shivraj Patil, former Home Minister of India
• Shrikant Jichkar, (1954-2004)
• Shripat Amrit Dange, founder of Communist Party of India
• Suresh Kalmadi, Indian National Congress
• Sushilkumar Shinde, Energy Minister Government of India
• Vilasrao Deshmukh, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Hindu Mahasabha leader
• Yashwantrao Chavan, 1st Chief Minister of Maharashtra and was Deputy Prime Minister of India

Social activists

• Baba Amte
• Dhondo Keshav Karve
• Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, doctor
• Kisan Mehta
• 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
• Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
• Abhay Bang

Defence Forces

• Qazi Mir Imdad Ali, military officer in 1835
• General Arun S. Vaidya
• Namdeo Jadav
• Yeshwant Ghadge
• Sachin Waze, former encounter specialist.

Religion

• Saint Gadge Maharaj, Anjangaon Surji
• Samarth Ramdas, Sajjangad
• Saint Tukaram, Dehu
• Saint Namdeva, Pandharpur
• Saint Dnyaneshwar, Alandi
• Saint Eknath, Paithan
• Sai Baba of Shirdi
• Gajanan Maharaj, Shegaon
• Chokha Mela, Mangalvedhe
• Gora Kumbhar, Terdhoki
• Saint Bahinabai
• Saint Janabai, Pandharpur
• Saint Kanhopatra, Pandharpur
• Shri Brahmachaitanya Gondavalekar Maharaj, Gondavale
• Shri Dhondibua, Palus

Sports

Badminton

• Nandu M. Natekar
• Aparna Popat

Bridge

• Jaggy Shivdasani
• Orlando Campos
• Ramesh Gokhale

Chess

• Abhijit Kunte
• Praveen Thipsay

Cricket

• Abhishek Nayar
• 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
• Zahir Khan

Shooting

• Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat
• Tejaswini Sawant

Tennis

• Gaurav Natekar

Wrestling

• Khashaba JadhavFirst Olympic individual gold medal for india

Literature

• Acharya Atre
• Arun Kolatkar
• Baburao Bagul
• B. S. Mardhekar
• Dilip Chitre
• Dulari Qureshi
• G. A. Kulkarni
• G. D. Madgulkar
• Gangadhar Gadgil
• Kiran Nagarkar
• Kusumagraj
• Mangesh Padgaonkar
• P. L. Deshpande
• Rajashree
• P. S. Rege
• Vasant Abaji Dahake
• Vasant Kanetkar
• Vijay Tendulkar
• Vilas Sarang
• Vinda Karandikar
• Shobha De

Rulers

• Shivaji
• Madhavrao Peshwa
• Shahu Maharaj

Doctors

• Anandi Gopal Joshi

Scientists

• Anil Kakodkar
• Madhav Gadgil
• Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

See also

• List of people by India state
• Dhangar

References

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