This is a list of notable Marathi people an ethnolinguistic group that speaks Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language as their native language.
Dynasties
Ancient Maharashtrian kingdoms
Mediaeval Maratha kingdoms
The Bhosales (Maharashtra)
The Jadhavs (Sindkhed Raja-Maharashtra)
The Peshwe
The Bhosales (Thanjavur-Tamil Nadu)
The Holkars (Indore-Madhya Pradesh)
The Shinde/Scindia (Gwalior-Madhya Pradesh)
The Newalkars (Jhansi-Uttar Pradesh)
Gangadhar Rao Newalkar Lakshmibai
The Gandekars (Bhor-Maharashtra)
The Pawar (Dhar-Madhya Pradesh)
The Ghorpade (Sandur-Karnataka)
The Gaekwad (Baroda-Gujarat)
Historic warriors
Satavahana Empire(2nd century BCE–Early 3rd century CE)
Vakataka dynasty (Mid 3rd century CE-Early 6th century)
Rashtrakuta Empire (753 CE–982 CE)
Shilahara dynasty of North Konkan (Early 9th century CE-Mid 13th century CE)
Yadava Empire (Mid 9th century CE-Early 14th century CE)
During 17th century and Shivaji's reignFile:Baji Rao I.png - Wikipedia
During 18th century and Peshwa rule
The 27-year war - India's longest fought war (1680–1707)
Leaders of Anglo Maratha Wars I, II, III (1775–1818)
Indian independence movement
Leaders of Ist War of Indian Independence (1857)
Revolutionaries
Father of Indian unrest
Father of Indian armed struggle
First political murder in Indian freedom struggle
First Secret Society for Independence
Others
Humanitarians and reformers
Father of renaissance of western India
Reformers
Bene Israeli reformer and scholar
Social activists
Philanthropists
Defence leaders Father of Indian Navy
First living recipient of the Param Vir Chakra
Third woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank
ARMY Generals
Lieutenant Generals
Others
NAVY Admirals
Vice/Rear Admirals
Others
AIR FORCE Air Chief Marshal
Air Marshal
Others
Religion and spirituality Father of Hindu Nationalism in India
Datta Sampradaya
Mahanubhava Sampradaya
Warkari Movement
Ganapatyas
Late medieval period Saints (1200–1526)
Early modern period Saints (1526–1858)
Swadhyaya Movement
Prarthana Samaj
Modern period, independence and after (1858–1947)
RSS Members
Marathi Kirtankar
Politics Speaker of Lok Sabha
First female President of India
Deputy Prime Minister of India
First female Chief Minister of Goa
First female Chief Minister of Rajasthan
First Chief Minister of Goa
First Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
First Chief Minister of Bombay State
First Hindu and first man of Indian descent to be elected to the Scottish Parliament
First General Secretary of the Communist Party of India.
Founder of All India Trade Union Congress
Goa's first woman parliamentarian
Samyukta Maharashtra Movement
Union Cabinet Ministers
Others
United Kingdom and Irish politics
American politics
Goa legislative Assembly
Govind Gaude Ramesh Tawadkar Subhash Phal Desai Sudin Dhavalikar Nilkanth Halarnkar
Bureaucrats and diplomats
Foreign Service
Indian Administrative Service
Indian Civil Service
Founder, jurists and lawyers Law and Justice Minister
Chief Justice of India D. Y. Chandrachud P. B. Gajendragadkar Y. V. Chandrachud V.N. Khare Sharad Arvind Bobde Uday Umesh Lalit
Supreme Court Judges Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar
P. B. Sawant Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar Hemant Laxman Gokhale Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai U. U. Lalit Sujata Manohar V. D. Tulzapurkar J. R. Mudholkar Hemant Gokhale
International lawyers Harish Salve M. R. Jayakar Sakharam Ganesh Pandit
Others Moropant Vishvanath Joshi G. S. Khaparde Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai J. R. Mudholkar Naresh Harishchandra Patil Ujjwal Nikam S. B. Tambe V. S. Sirpurkar
Business, trade and industries
Father of Indian Trade Union Movement
Founder of the Asia's first Cooperative sugar factory.
Others
Fiscal policy leaders
First Indian to be appointed the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
RBI Governors
Economists
Academicians/educationists
Ancient Maharashtrian academicians
Founder of India's First Women University
Founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India
Founder and president of the Symbiosis Society
Founding director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Founder of Fergusson College
First female teacher of India
First female Indian anthropologist
Most qualified person of India
Pioneers in women's education
Founder of Balwadi
Tarabai Modak
Indologists
Global Teacher Prize recipient
Father of Marathi journalism.
Others
Sciences
Chemistry
Earth sciences First Indian Women to Antarctica
Seed Mother of India
Father of the Indian Seed Industry
Others
Engineering and technology Father of Indian Super Computers
First U.S. Chief Data Scientist
Others
Mathematics and statistics First Indian to be Senior Wrangler
Others
Medicine and surgery First Indian Female Physician
First Indian Female to receive PhD
Father of Pathology and Medical Research
ICMR Scientists
Immunologist
Others
Physics Astronomy
Nuclear scientists
Fellow of Royal Society
Theoretical physicists
Astro - physicists
ISRO and DRDO scientists
Indian Institute Of Technology(IIT) - Chairman/Directors
Aerospace engineering
Others
Industrial design
Satyendra Pakhale Sumant Moolgaokar
Arts
Cinema and theatre Father of Indian Cinema
First Indian to receive the Oscar
First female actress of India
Dada Saheb Phalke Award - Lifetime contribution to Indian Cinema
Actors
Actresses
Directors
Models and beauty pageant winners
Hollywood
Bigg-Boss (Hindi) show winners
Shilpa Shinde Tejasswi Prakash
Literature
Ancient Maharashtrian litterateurs
Jnanpith Award winners - Outstanding contribution in Indian Literature
Noted Marathi writers in non-Marathi languages
D. R. Bendre - Considered as the greatest Kannada lyric poet of the 20th century. Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh - One of the pioneers of modern Hindi poetry. Kaloji Narayana Rao- One of the greatest Telugu poets. His birth anniversary is celebrated as Telangana Language Day Madhavrao Sapre - Writer and journalist in Hindi Madhusudan Kalelkar - Writer in Hindi cinema Others
Columnists and journalists
Historians
Other applied arts
Father of Indian Circus - Vishnupant Moreshwar Chatre
First Ventriloquist in Modern India - Y. K. Padhye
Father of Indian Comic Books - Anant Pai
Photographers/cinematographers
Costume/fashion designers
Production designers
Cartoonists
Sculptors
Painters
Calligraphers/typographers
Music
Hindustani classical music
Music directors
Modern music
Singers
Winner of Indian Idol (Season 1)
Sports
First Individual Olympic Medal for India
First Individual Paralympic Medal for India
First Indian to score 100 international 100's
First Indian woman to cross Gobi Desert
First Indian woman to obtain WIM title
India's first Olympic Marathon runner
Cricket
Chess
Others
Outside Maharashtra Bene Israel
Thanjavur
Uttarakhand
United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe
Mexico
South East and Far East
Canada
Australia
United States
UAE
Awardee First Indian to receive Magsaysay Award (Asia's Nobel)
Ramon Magsaysay - Asia's Noble
Bharat Ratna - Highest Civilian Award
Ashok Chakra - India's highest peacetime military decoration award for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield.
Hemant Karkare Vijay Salaskar Ashok Kamte Tukaram Omble Jagannath Raoji Chitnis Vijay Salaskar
Param Vir Chakra - India's highest military decoration, awarded for displaying distinguished acts of valour during wartime.
Rama Raghoba Rane Ardeshir Tarapore
Victoria Cross
Yeshwant Ghadge Namdeo Jadhav
Padma Vibhushan- Second Highest Civilian Award of India
Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher Hari Vinayak Pataskar Kaka Kalelkar Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi P. B. Gajendragadkar C. D. Deshmukh Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey Baba Amte Lakshman Shastri Joshi Pandurang Shastri Athavale Nanaji Deshmukh Lata Mangeshkar Kishori Amonkar Jayant Narlikar Nirmala Deshpande V. N. Khare Asha Bhosle Sachin Tendulkar Anil Kakodkar Vijay Kelkar Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Sharad Pawar Balwant Moreshwar Purandare Prabha Atre M. F. Husain Arun Shridhar Vaidya Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre Rajinikanth Madhav Shrihari Aney Kaloji Narayana Rao
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane Madhav Gadgil Jayant B. Udgaonkar Dinakar Mashnu Salunke Shekhar C. Mande Sanjeev Galande Shubha Tole Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale Raghavendra Gadagkar Bal Dattatreya Tilak Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre Girjesh Govil Pramod Sadasheo Moharir Janardan Ganpatrao Negi Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre Ashwin Gumaste Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni Yogesh M. Joshi Ashish Kishore Lele Vivek Ranade Vivek Borkar Jyeshtharaj Joshi B. D. Kulkarni Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Kapil Hari Paranjape Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar Eknath Prabhakar Ghate Jayant Vishnu Narlikar Ramanath Cowsik Varun Sahni Atish Dabholkar Umesh Waghmare Nissim Kanekar Mandar Madhukar Deshmukh Chetan Eknath Chitnis Santosh G. Honavar Vidita Ashok Vaidya
Criminals and Gangsters Arun Gawli, Indian gangster turned politician Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, Indian crime lord and terrorist who was founder of D-company. Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar, Indian gangster Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje (often known as Chota Rajan), Indian gangster Maya Dolas, Indian gangster and former member of D-company Manya Surve, Indian gangster Dilip Buwa, Indian gangster and sharpshooter Ravi Pujari, Indian gangster and extortionist Chota Shakeel, Indian gangster and lieutenant of Dawood Ibrahim.
See also List of people from Maharashtra List of people from Nagpur
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