This is a list of notable people from Maharashtra, India
Art Mangesh TendulkarRenowned cartoonist Mangesh Tendulkar dies in Pune Pramod Kamble S. D. Phadnis
Actors
Ajinkya Deo 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 Vinayak Milind Gunaji Milind Soman Mohan Gokhale Nana Patekar Nilu Phule Nishikant Kamat Prabhakar Panshikar Prashant Damle Riteish Deshmukh Sharad Talwalkar Sachin Khedekar Sachin Pilgaonkar Sadashiv Amrapurkar Sandeep Kulkarni Sanjay Narvekar Sayaji Shinde Shahu Modak Shivaji Satam Shreyas Talpade Siddharth Jadhav Sudhir Joshi Subodh Bhave Vikram Gokhale
Actresses Alka Kubal Aditi Govitrikar Ashwini Bhave Bhavana Durga Khote Genelia D'Souza Isha Koppikar Jayshree Gadkar Lalita Pawar Leela Chitnis Kavita Lad Kimi Katkar Madhuri Dixit Mamta Kulkarni Meena Kumari Mugdha Godse Namrata Shirodkar Shenaz Treasurywala Nishigandha Wad Nivedita Saraf Nutan Padmini Kolhapure Pallavi Joshi Radhika Apte Rajshree Rohini Hattangadi Shraddha Kapoor Shilpa Shirodkar Smita Patil Sheetal Agashe Shobhna Samarth Sonali Bendre Sonali Kulkarni Sai Tamhankar Supriya Pathak Sushama Shiromanee Usha Chavan Urmila Matondkar Vandana Gupte
Directors Madhur Bhandarkar Mahesh Manjrekar Ashutosh Gowariker Amole Gupte Sachin Pilgaonkar Nagraj Manjule Satish Rajwade Ravi Jadhav Ayan Mukerji Sanjay Leela Bhansali Zoya Akhtar
Visual artists Maria Marshall
Award winners from Maharashtra Bharat Ratna B. R. Ambedkar Vinoba Bhave Nanaji Deshmukh Pandurang Vaman Kane Dhondo Keshav Karve Lata Mangeshkar Sachin Tendulkar
Padma Vibhushan B. G. Kher, 1954 Padma Bhushan Homi J. 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 Chandrashekhar Agashe, BMSS Dajikaka Gadgil, PNG Jewellers Deepak Ghaisas, Iflex Dilip Dandekar, Camlin Ganesh Gadgil, PNG Jewellers Jyoti Gogte, Golden Nugget Engineering & Electroplast Kalpana Saroj, Kamani Tubes Kiran Karnik, former president of NASSCOM, 2007–08 Panditrao Agashe, BMSS Purshottam Narayan Gadgil, PNG Jewellers Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj Group Rajendra Pawar, NIIT Raosaheb Gogte, Gogte Group S L Kirloskar (Shantanurao), Kirloskar group Subhash Runwal, Runwal Group Chairman Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO Vivek Ranadive, TIBCO Walchand Hirachand, Walchand Group of Industries Street vendor Dolly Chaiwala
Defence forces General Arun S. Vaidya Namdeo Jadav Yeshwant Ghadge Manoj Mukund Narwane Manoj Pande Vivek Ram Chaudhari
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 Shakuntala Karandikar Baba Kadam, novelist Babasaheb Purandare Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar Shirish Kanekar Suhas Shirvalkar Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle Sadashiv Ranade Gangadhar Pathak Dinkar G. Kelkar Irawati Karve
Medicine B. K. Misra, neurosurgeon
Music
Mandar Agashe, music director Vineet Alurkar, musician Aarya Ambekar, singer Kishori Amonkar, singer Ajay Atul, music director Prabha Atre, singer Swapnil Bandodkar, singer Ashwini Bhide, singer Shamika Bhide, singer Asha Bhosle, singer Vasantrao Deshpande, classical singer of Patiala Gharana Bal Gandharva, theatre Sawai Gandharva, singer Avdhoot Gupte, singer Bhimsen Joshi, classical singer Suman Kalyanpur, singer Kesarbai Kerkar, singer Shrinivas Khale, music director Shalmali Kholgade, singer Mogubai Kurdikar, singer Prathamesh Laghate, singer Deenanath Mangeshkar, theatre Lata Mangeshkar, singer Usha Mangeshkar, singer Ketaki Mategaonkar, singer Zubin Mehta, conductor Vaishali Mhade, singer Anuradha Paudwal, singer Ashutosh Phatak, music director Rohit Raut, singer Vaishali Samant, singer Sadhana Sargam, singer Abhijeet Sawant, singer Bela Shende, singer Adarsh Shinde, singer Rahul Vaidya, singer Mugdha Vaishampayan, singer Suresh Wadkar, singer Hip Hop Divine, rapper Naezy, rapper
Police Vijay Salaskar Ashok Kamte Tukaram Omble Vishwas Nangare Patil Hemant Karkare
Politics Rajya Sabha members List of Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra
Chief ministers List of chief ministers of Maharashtra
Others Ajit Pawar Anant Gadgil 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 Thakare 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 Sudhakarrao Naik Sunil Deshmukh Sushilkumar Shinde Tatya Tope Uddhav Thackeray Vasantrao Naik Vasantdada Patil Vilasrao Deshmukh Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Yashwantrao Chavan
Religion Samarth Ramdas Tukaram Namdev Dnyaneshwar Eknath Sai Baba of Shirdi Gajanan Maharaj Chokhamela Gora Kumbhar Muktabai Bahinabai Janabai Kanhopatra Gondavalekar Maharaj Swami Samarth Jangali Maharaj Rufus Pereira
Rulers Krishna of Devagiri Ramachandra of Devagiri Shivaji Sambhaji Madhavrao I Ahilyabai Holkar Shahu II of Kolhapur Mahadaji Shinde Malhar Rao Holkar Yashwantrao Holkar Bajirao I Khemirao Sarnaik
Scientists Vijay P. Bhatkar Anil Kakodkar Madhav Gadgil Raghunath Mashelkar Jayant Narlikar Shekhar C. Mande Chandrashekhar Sonwane Chandrashekhar Khare Narendra Karmarkar Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar Shrinivas Kulkarni Abhay Ashtekar Aravind Joshi Subhash Khot Ashok Gadgil Anandi Gopal Joshi T. P. Lahane
Social activists Baba Amte Pandurang Shastri Athavale Sindhutai Sapkal B. R. Ambedkar Jyotirao Phule Ashok Row Kavi Dhondo Keshav Karve Banoo Jehangir Coyaji Kisan Mehta Harish Iyer Manibhai Desai Anna Hazare Medha Patkar Savitribai Phule Abhay and Rani Bang Vinoba Bhave Bhaurao Patil Bal Gangadhar Tilak Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Annabhau Sathe Prakash Amte Hari Narke Shivrampant Damle
Sports
Badminton Nandu Natekar Aparna Popat
Chess Pravin Thipsay Vidit Gujrathi
Contract bridge Jaggy Shivdasani Orlando Campos Ramesh Gokhale Keshav Samant, popularly known as Anand Samant
Cricket Abhishek Nayar Ajinkya Rahane Ajit Agarkar Ashutosh Agashe Baloo Gupte Chandrakant Pandit Chandrakant Patankar Chandrasekhar Gadkari Chandu Borde Dattaram Hindlekar Dattu Phadkar Dilip Vengsarkar Dnyaneshwar Agashe Hemant Kanitkar Hemu Adhikari Hrishikesh Kanitkar Kedar Jadhav Khandu Rangnekar Kiran More Manohar Hardikar Nilesh Kulkarni Paras Mhambrey Phiroze Palia Polly Umrigar Pravin Amre Rahul Dravid Ramnath Parkar Ravi Shastri Rohan Gavaskar Rohit Sharma Sachin Tendulkar Sairaj Bahutule Salil Ankola Sameer Dighe Sandeep Patil Sanjay Bangar Sanjay Manjrekar Shardul Thakur Shreyas Iyer Subhash Gupte Sunil Gavaskar Umesh Yadav Vijay Hazare Vijay Manjrekar Vijay Merchant Vinod Kambli Vinoo Mankad Wasim Jaffer Zaheer Khan
Hockey Dhanraj Pillay Viren Rasquinha Hiranna Nimal
Shooting Anjali Bhagwat Tejaswini Sawant
Other sports Ashish Mane - Mountaineerng Gaurav Natekar - Tennis K. D. Jadhav - Wrestling, won first Olympic individual medal for India Murlikant Petkar - Swimming, India's first Paralympic Gold Medalist Dilip Gavit, Para athlete
Criminals and gangsters Arun Gawli Dawood Ibrahim, criminal and drug dealer Chhota Rajan Manya Surve Maya Dolas Tiger Memon Yakub Memon
See also List of Marathi people Lists of Indian people List of people from Nagpur
References