# List of people from Maharashtra

This is a list of notable people from Maharashtra, India

## Art

* Mangesh Tendulkar
* Pramod Kamble
* S. D. Phadnis

### Actors

* Ajinkya Dev
* 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 Vinaayak
* Milind Gunaji
* Milind Soman
* Mohan Gokhale
* Nana Patekar
* Nilu Phule
* Nishikant Kamat
* Prabhakar Panshikar
* Prashant Damle
* Riteish Vilasrao Deshmukh
* Sharad Talwalkar
* Sachin Khedekar
* Sachin Pilgaonkar
* Sadashiv Amrapurkar
* Sandeep Kulkarni
* Sanjay Narvekar
* Sayaji Shinde
* Shahu Modak
* Shivaji Satham
* Shreyas Talpade
* Siddharth Jadhav
* Sudhir Joshi
* Subodh Bhave
* Vikram Gokhale

### Actresses

* Alka Kubal
* Aditi Govitrikar
* Ashwini Bhave
* Bhavana
* Durga Khote
* Genelia Deshmukh
* Isha Koppikar
* Jayshree Gadkar
* Lalita Pawar
* Leela Chitnis
* Kavita Lad
* Kimi Katkar
* Madhuri Dixit
* Mamta Kulkarni
* Meena Kumari
* Mugdha Godse
* Namrata Shirodkar
* Shenaz Treasury
* Nishigandha Wad
* Nivedita Joshi
* Nutan
* Padmini Kolhapure
* Pallavi Joshi
* Radhika Apte
* Rajashree
* Rohini Hattangadi
* Shraddha Kapoor
* Shilpa Shirodkar
* Smita Patil
* Sheetal Agashe
* Shobhana Samarth
* Sonali Bendre
* Sonali Kulkarni
* Sai Tamhankar
* Supriya Pathak
* Usha Chavan
* Urmila Matondkar
* Vandana Gupte

### Directors

* Yash Chopra
* Karan Johar
* Madhur Bhandarkar
* Mahesh Manjrekar
* Ashutosh Gowarikar
* Amol Gupte
* Sachin Pilgaonkar
* Nagraj Manjule
* Satish Rajwade
* Ravi Jadhav
* Rohit Shetty
* Ram Gopal Verma
* Ayan Mukherjee
* 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
* Tarita Shankar, India Group
* Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO
* Vivek Ranadive, TIBCO
* Walchand Hirachand, Walchand Group of Industries

## 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

## 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

* Babasaheb Ambedkar
* Samarth Ramdas, Sajjangad
* Saint Tukaram, Dehu
* Saint Namdev, Pandharpur
* Saint Dnyaneshwar, Alandi
* Saint Eknath, Paithan
* Sai Baba
* Gajanan Maharaj, Shegaon
* Chokha Mela, Mangalvedhe
* Gora Kumbhar, Terdhoki
* Muktabai (Kothali), Muktainagar
* Bahinabai
* Janabai, Pandharpur
* Kanhopatra, Pandharpur
* Shri BrahmaChaitanya, Gondavale
* Swami Samartha Maharaj, Akkalkot
* Jangali Maharaj, Pune
* Zakir Naik, Mumbai
* Rufus Pereira, Mumbai, Roman Catholic priest and exorcist

## Rulers

* Krishna
* Ramachandra
* Chhatrapati Shivaji
* Chhatrapati Sambhaji
* Madhavrao I
* Ahilyabai Holkar
* Shahu II of Kolhapur
* Mahadaji Shinde
* Malhar Rao Holkar
* Yashwantrao Holkar
* Baji Rao I
* Khemirao Sarnaik

## Scientists

* Vijay Bhatkar
* Anil Kakodkar
* Madhav Gadgil
* Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
* Jayant Narlikar
* Shekhar C. Mande
* Chandreshekhar Sonwane
* Chandrashekhar Khare
* Narendra Karmarkar
* Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
* Shrinivas Kulkarni
* Abhay Ashtekar
* Aravind Joshi
* Subhash Khot
* Ashok Gadgil
* Anandi Gopal Joshi
* Tatyarao Lahane

## Social activists

* Baba Amte
* Pandurang Shastri Athavale
* Sindhutai Sapkal
* Babasaheb Ambedkar
* Mahatma Jyotiba Phule
* Ashok Row Kavi
* Dhondo Keshav Karve
* Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
* Kisan Mehta
* Harish Iyer
* Manibhai Desai
* Anna Hazare
* Medha Patkar
* Savitribai Phule
* Abhay Bang
* Vinoba Bhave
* Bhaurao Patil
* Lokmanya Tilak
* Veer Savarkar
* Anna Bhau Sathe
* Prakash Amte
* Hari Narke
* Shivrampant Damle

## Sports
### Badminton

* Nandu M. Natekar
* Aparna Popat

### Chess

* Praveen Thipsay
* Abdul Jabbar
* 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
* Sandip 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 M. Nimal

### Shooting

* Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat
* Tejaswini Sawant

### Other sports

* Ashish Mane - Mountaineerng
* Gaurav Natekar - Tennis
* Khashaba Jadhav - Wrestling, won first Olympic individual medal for India
* Murlikant Petkar - Swimming, India's first Paralympic Gold Medalist

## Criminals and gangsters

* Arun Gawli
* Dawood Ibrahim, criminal and drug dealer
* Chhota Rajan
* Manya Surve
* Maya Dolas
* Tiger Memon
* Yakub Memon