# List of Marathi people

This is a list of notable Marathi people an ethnolinguistic group that speaks Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language as their native language.

## Dynasties
### The ancient Marhatta kingdoms

* Vidarbha Kingdom
* Satavahana Empire
* Traikutaka dynasty
* Vakataka dynasty
* Kadamba dynasty
* Chalukya dynasty
* Rashtrakuta Empire
* Shilahara dynasty
* Yadava dynasty

### The Jadhav (Sindkhed Raja-Maharashtra)

* Lakhuji Jadhav
* Jijabai
* Dhanaji Jadhav

### The Bhosales (Maharashtra)

* Chattrapati Shahu
* Maloji Bhosale
* Raghoji I Bhonsle
* Rajaram Chhatrapati
* Ramaraja
* Sambhaji
* Shahaji
* Shivaji
* Tarabai

### The Peshwe

* Moropant Trimbak Pingle
* Nilakanth Moreshvar Pingale
* Ramchandra Pant Amatya
* Bahiroji Pingale
* Parshuram Trimbak Kulkarni
* Balaji Vishwanath
* Madhav-Rao II
* Raghunath-Rao
* Narayan-Rao
* Baji Rao I
* Balaji Bajirao
* Madhav-Rao I

### The Bhosales (Thanjavur-Tamil Nadu)

* Ekoji I
* Serfoji II
* Shahuji I
* Serfoji I
* Tukkoji
* Pratapsingh
* Thuljaji
* Shivaji
* Venkoji

### The Holkars (Indore-Madhya Pradesh)

* Ahilyabai Holkar
* Malhar Rao Holkar
* Shivajirao Holkar
* Tukojirao Holkar (II)
* Krishna Bai Holkar
* Hari Rao Holkar
* Tukojirao Holkar III
* Yashwantrao Holkar
* Yeshwantrao Holkar II

### The Shinde/Scindia (Gwalior-Madhya Pradesh)

* Daulatrao Scindia
* Jankoji Rao Scindia I
* Dattaji Rao Scindia
* Kadarji Rao Scindia
* Manaji Rao Scindia
* George Jivaji Rao Scindia
* Madho Rao Scindia
* Jayajirao Scindia
* Jayapparao Scindia
* Mahadji Shinde
* Ranojirao Scindia

### The Newalkars (Jhansi-Uttar Pradesh)

* Gangadhar Rao Newalkar
* Lakshmibai

### The Gandekars (Bhor-Maharashtra)

* Shankarrao Chimnajirao Gandekar
* Raghunathrao Shankarrao Gandekar

### The Pawar (Dhar-Madhya Pradesh)

* Hemendra Singh Rao Pawar
* Krishnaji Rao III Puar
* Tukoji Rao IV Puar
* Tukoji Rao III Puar
* Vikram Singh Rao II Puar

### The Ghorpade (Sandur-Karnataka)

* Murari Rao
* Shivashanmukha Rao
* Ramachandra Vitthala Rao
* Venkata Rao III
* Yeshwantrao Ghorpade

### The Gaekwad (Baroda-Gujarat)

* Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad
* Pilaji Rao Gaekwad
* Gayatri Devi
* Damaji Rao Gaekwad
* Indira Raje
* Sayajirao Gaekwad III
* Pilaji Rao Gaekwad
* Pratap Singh Gaekwad

## Historic warriors
### Satvahana dynasty (2nd century BCE–Early 3rd century CE)

* Satakarni
* Simuka
* Kanha
* Gautamiputra Satakarni
* Vasishthiputra Pulumavi
* Hāla
* Vashishtiputra Sātakarni
* Satakarni II
* Shalivahana

### Vakataka dynasty (Mid 3rd century CE-Early 6th century)

* Pravarasena I
* Vindhyasena
* Narendrasena
* Harishena

### Kadamba dynasty (345 CE–540 CE)

* Mayurasharma

### Chalukya dynasty (543 CE–753 CE)

* Pulakeshin I
* Pulakeshin II
* Kirttivarman I
* Mangalesha
* Vikramaditya I

### Rashtrakuta Empire (753 CE–982 CE)

* Dantidurga
* Amoghavarsha
* Krishna I
* Govinda II
* Dhruva Dharavarsha

### Shilahara dynasty of North Konkan (Early 9th century CE-Mid 13th century CE)

* Aparajita
* Arikesarin a.k.a. Keshideva I
* Aparaditya I

### Yadava dynasty (Mid 9th century CE-Early 14th century CE)

* Bhillama a.k.a. Bhillamadeva
* Simhana a.k.a. Singhaṇadeva
* Krishna a.k.a. Kānharadeva
* Hemadri a.k.a. Hemāḍi Panḍita or Hemāḍapanta

### During 17th century and Shivaji's reign

* Peshwa Baji Rao I
* Khemirao Sarnaik
* Govind Rao Khare
* Bajaji Rao Naik Nimbalkar
* Baji Prabhu Deshpande
* Dhanaji Jadhav
* Firangoji Narsala
* Gomaji Naik
* Hambirrao Mohite
* Kanhoji Angre
* Kanhoji Jedhe
* Khanderao Dabhade
* Maynak Bhandari
* Murarbaji Deshpande
* Netaji Palkar
* Prataprao Gujar
* Rango Narayan Orpe
* Santaji Ghorpade
* Tanaji Malusare

### During 18th century and Peshwa rule

* Chimnaji Appa
* Chimnaji Phatak
* Malhar Rao Holkar
* Ranoji Bhoite
* Raghuji Bhonsle
* Tukoji Rao Holkar
* Sadashivrao Bhau
* Vishwasrao
* Nana Fadnavis
* Balkrishna Phatak
* Balkrishna Latey

### The 27-year war - India's longest fought war (1680–1707)

* Ramchandra Pant Amatya
* Shankaraji Narayan Gandekar
* Pralhad Niraji
* Santaji Ghorpade
* Khanderao Dabhade
* Dhanaji Jadhav
* Tarabai

### Leaders of Anglo Maratha Wars I, II, III (1775–1818)

* Bapu Gokhale
* Mahadji Shinde
* Raghunath Rao
* Raghoji II Bhonsale
* Yashwantrao Holkar
* Daulat Scindia
* Peshwa Baji Rao II
* Mudhoji II Bhonsle
* Janoji Bhonsle
* Malharrao Holkar III

## Indian independence movement
### Leaders of Ist War of Indian Independence (1857)

* Nana Sahib
* Rani Lakshmibai
* Tatya Tope
* Jhalkari Bai

### Revolutionaries

* B R Ambedkar
* Bhaurao Patil
* Anant Laxman Kanhere
* Panjabrao Deshmukh
* Abasaheb Khedkar
* Babarao Savarkar
* Ganesh Damodar Savarkar
* Hari Shivaram Rajguru
* Krishnaji Gopal Karve
* Nana Patil
* Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje
* Veer Bhai Kotwal
* Vishnu Ganesh Pingle

### Father of Indian unrest

* Bal Gangadhar Tilak

### Father of Indian armed struggle

* Vasudev Balwant Phadke

### First political murder in Indian freedom struggle

* Chapekar brothers

### First Secret Society for Independence

* Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

### Others

* Yashwantrao Chavan
* Keshavrao Jedhe
* K. B. Hedgewar
* Achyut Patwardhan
* Gangadhar Adhikari
* Shankarrao Chavan
* B. S. Moonje
* Babu Genu
* Shripad Amrit Dange
* Dada Dharmadhikari
* Ganesh Shrikrishna Khaparde
* Gopal Krishna Gokhale
* Rango Bapuji Gupte
* Narahar Vishnu Gadgil
* Madhav Shrihari Aney
* Gangadharrao Balkrishna Deshpande
* Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar
* Thakurdas Bang
* Narayan Malhar Joshi
* Ravindra Kelekar
* Senapati Bapat
* Mohan Ranade
* Vasukaka Joshi
* Shankarrao Deo
* Vinoba Bhave
* Reuben Dhondji Ashtumkar
* Vasantdada Patil
* Nagnath Naikwadi
* Swami Ramanand Tirtha
* Nath Pai
* Ranjit Pandit
* Shivlinga Shivacharya Maharaj
* Datta Raghoba Devane

## Humanitarians and reformers
### Father of renaissance of western India

* Mahadev Govind Ranade

### Reformers

* B. R. Ambedkar
* Dhondo Keshav Karve
* Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
* Gopal Hari Deshmukh
* Gopal Krishna Gokhale
* Atmaram Pandurang
* Jyotiba Phule
* Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj
* Panjabrao Deshmukh
* Vinayak Damodar Sawarkar
* Maharshi Vitthal Ramji Shinde
* Savitribai Phule
* Dinkarrao Javalkar

### Bene Israeli reformer and scholar

* Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar

### Social activists

* Abhay and Rani Bang
* Anna Hazare
* Annabhau Sathe
* Baba Amte
* Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil
* Nana Patekar
* Nanaji Deshmukh
* Nanasaheb Parulekar
* Narayan Chandavarkar
* Narendra Dabholkar
* Pandita Ramabai
* Prakash Amte
* Mandakini Amte
* Raghunath Karve
* R. G. Bhandarkar
* Sharad Anantrao Joshi
* Eknath Ranade
* Durgabai
* Shobhana Ranade
* Damodar Bapat
* Ram Ingole

### Philanthropists

* Nirmala Deshpande
* Gopal Baba Walangkar
* Sindhutai Sapkal
* Jagannath Shankarshet
* Sane Guruji
* Purushottam Kakodkar
* V. M. Tarkunde
* Kaka Kalelkar

## Defence leaders
### Father of Indian Navy

* Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

### First living recipient of the Param Vir Chakra

* Rama Raghoba Rane

### Third woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank

* Madhuri Kanitkar

### Generals

* J. R. Bhonsle
* Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
* Arun Shridhar Vaidya
* Manoj Mukund Naravane

### Lieutenant Generals

* S. P. P. Thorat
* Rajendra Ramrao Nimbhorkar
* Vinod G. Khandare
* Madhuri Kanitkar
* D. B. Shekatkar
* Shailesh Tinaikar

### Others

* Brigadier John Dalvi
* Jagannath Raoji Chitnis
* A.K. Sarwate
* Sudhir Sawant

### Admirals

* Bhaskar S. Soman
* Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni
* Vishnu Bhagwat

### Vice/Rear Admirals

* Manohar Prahlad Awati
* S. G. Karmarkar
* Murlidhar Sadashiv Pawar
* Satish Namdeo Ghormade
* SV Bhokare
* Benjamin Abraham Samson
* Ravindra Jayant Nadkarni
* Rajesh Pendharkar

### Others

* Mohan Narayan Rao Samant
* Dilip Donde
* Kulbhushan Jadhav

### Air Chief Marshal

* Hrushikesh Moolgavkar
* Lakshman Madhav Katre
* Anil Tipnis
* Pradeep Vasant Naik
* Vivek Ram Chaudhari

### Air Marshal

* Shirish Baban Deo
* Suryakant Chintaman Chafekar

### Others

* Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik
* Flt lt V. V. Tambay

## Religion and spirituality
### Father of Hindu Nationalism in India

* Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

### Datta Sampradaya

* Narsimha Saraswati
* Saraswati Gangadhar
* Swami Samarth
* Rang Avadhoot
* Gagangiri Maharaj
* Vasudevanand Saraswati
* Nana Maharaj Taranekar
* Janardan Swami

### Mahanubhava Sampradaya

* Chakradhar Swami
* Mhaimbhat

### Warkari Movement

* Dnyaneshwar
* Muktabai
* Nivruttinath
* Sopan
* Namdev
* Chokhamela
* Eknath
* Tukaram
* Savata Mali

### Ganapatyas

* Morya Gosavi

### Late medieval period Saints (1200–1526)

* Mukundraj
* Gora Kumbhar
* Santaji Jagnade
* Samarth Ramdas
* Changdev Maharaj
* Janabai
* Kanhopatra
* Damaji

### Early modern period Saints (1526–1858)

* Swami Samarth
* Brahma Chaitanya

### Swadhyaya Movement

* Pandurang Shastri Athavale
* Jayshree Talwalkar

### Prarthana Samaj

* Dadoba Pandurang
* Atmaram Pandurang
* Narayan Chandavarkar
* Vithal Krishnaji Khedkar

### Modern period, independence and after (1858–1947)

* Gagangiri Maharaj
* Pant Maharaj Balekundrikar
* Nana Dharmadhikari
* Sant Gadge Baba
* Shirdi Sai Baba
* Gajanan Maharaj
* Upasni Maharaj
* Gulabrao Maharaj
* Jangali Maharaj
* Shri Madhavnath Maharaj
* Tukdoji Maharaj
* Nisargadatta Maharaj
* Tukamai
* Nana Maharaj Taranekar
* Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
* Ezekiel Isaac Malekar

### RSS Members

* M. S. Golwalkar
* Laxman Vasudev Paranjape
* Mohan Bhagwat
* Nathuram Godse

### Marathi Kirtankar

* Indurikar Maharaj

## Politics
### Speaker of Lok Sabha

* Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
* Shivraj Patil
* Manohar Joshi
* Sumitra Mahajan

### First female President of India

* Pratibha Patil

### Deputy Prime Minister of India

* Yashwantrao Chavan

### First female Chief Minister of Goa

* Shashikala Kakodkar

### First female Chief Minister of Rajasthan

* Vasundhara Raje

### First Chief Minister of Goa

* Dayanand Bandodkar

### First Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

* Govind Ballabh Pant

### First Chief Minister of Bombay State

* B. G. Kher

### First Hindu and first man of Indian descent to be elected to the Scottish Parliament

* Sandesh Gulhane

### First General Secretary of the Communist Party of India.

* S.V. Ghate

### Founder of All India Trade Union Congress

* Narayan Malhar Joshi

### Goa's first woman parliamentarian

* Sanyogita Rane

### Samyukta Maharashtra Movement

* Keshavrao Jedhe
* Shreedhar Mahadev Joshi
* Shripad Amrit Dange
* Narayan Ganesh Gore
* Pralhad Keshav Atre
* Keshav Sitaram Thackeray
* Pandurang Mahadev Bapat
* S.K. Patil

### Union Cabinet Ministers

* B. R. Ambedkar
* R. R. Diwakar
* N.V. Gadgil
* B. V. Keskar
* C. D. Deshmukh
* Govind Ballabh Pant
* Dr.Panjabrao Deshmukh
* Hari Vinayak Pataskar
* Yashwantrao Chavan
* Madhu Dandavate
* Tukaram Shrangare
* Shankarrao Chavan
* Vasant Sathe
* Saroj Khaparde
* Madho Rao Scindia
* Shivraj Patil
* Sharad Pawar
* Nitin Gadkari
* Suresh Prabhu
* Jyotiraditya Scindia

### Others

* Marotrao Kannamwar
* Ashok Chavan
* Ajit Pawar
* Anant Gadgil
* Babasaheb Ambedkar
* Bal Thackeray
* Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
* Balasaheb Desai
* Chhagan Bhujbal
* Devendra Fadnavis
* Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale
* Eknath Khadse
* Eknath Shinde
* K. B. Hedgewar
* Dutta Samant
* Gopal Krishna Gokhale
* Gopinath Munde
* Harshavardhan Patil
* Krishna Chandra Pant
* Kapil Moreshwar Patil
* Lokmanya Tilak
* Manohar Joshi
* Narayan Rane
* Prakash Ambedkar
* Pramod Mahajan
* Pratapsinh Rane
* Prithviraj Chavan
* Ramdas Athavale
* Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil
* Raj Thackeray
* Ratnappa Kumbhar
* R. R. Patil
* Raksha Khadse
* Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar
* Shivajirao Adhalarao Patil
* Shivraj Patil
* Shrikant Shinde
* Sushilkumar Shinde
* Vasantdada Patil
* Vasantrao Naik
* Vilasrao Deshmukh
* Vinod Tawde
* Vitthalrao Gadgil
* Uddhav Thackeray
* Sanjay Dhotre
* Anil Shirole
* Siddharth Shirole
* S. R. Patil
* Vivek Narayan Shejwalkar
* Yashodhara Raje Scindia
* Chandrakant Patil
* Udaysingrao Gaikwad
* Raju Shetti
* Ruturaj Patil
* Dhananjay Mahadik
* Satej Patil
* C. R. Patil
* Chandroji Angre
* Sambhaji Angre
* Dinkar Rao
* Kushabhau Thakre

### United Kingdom and Irish politics

* Pratap Chitnis, Baron Chitnis
* Leo Varadkar

### American politics

* Ameya Pawar
* Kumar P. Barve
* Kshama Sawant
* Nitin Pradhan
* Swati Dandekar
* Ajit V. Pai
* Shri Thanedar

### Goa legislative Assembly

* Govind Gaude
* Ramesh Tawadkar
* Subhash Phal Desai
* Sudin Dhavalikar
* Nilkanth Halarnkar

## Bureaucrats and diplomats
### Foreign Service

* R. D. Sathe
* Ambassador Dnyaneshwar Mulay
* Ashok B. Gokhale
* Apa Sahib
* Ravindra Mhatre
* Atul Khare
* Vijay Keshav Gokhale

### Indian Administrative Service

* Avinash Dharmadhikari
* C. B. Bhave
* C. D. Deshmukh
* Kiran Karnik
* Vijay Kelkar
* B. G. Kher
* N. G. Gore
* Uttam Khobragade
* Devyani Khobragade
* Amit Khare
* Bhausaheb Ubale
* Gautam Bambawale

### Indian Civil Service

* N. Vittal
* Y. N. Sukthankar
* B.G. Deshmukh
* Achyut Madhav Gokhale
* J. W. Bhore
* Gurunath Venkatesh Bewoor
* C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao Sahib
* D. S. Joshi
* R. Ramachandra Rao

## Founder, jurists and lawyers
### Law and Justice Minister

* B.R. Ambedkar

### 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

* Narayan Meghaji Lokhande

### Founder of the Asia's first Cooperative sugar factory.

* Vithalrao Vikhe Patil

### Others

* Abasaheb Garware
* Chandrashekhar Agashe
* Dnyaneshwar Agashe
* Baba Kalyani
* Baburao Govindrao Shirke
* Baburaoji Parkhe
* Deepak Ghaisas
* Dinesh Keskar
* Vasudev Salgaocar
* D.S.Kulkarni
* Girish Paranjpe
* Harsh Chitale
* Kalpana Saroj
* Kiran Karnik
* Laxmanrao Kirloskar
* Nitin Paranjpe
* Panditrao Agashe
* Rajendra Pawar
* Raosaheb Gogte
* Ravi Pandit
* Sanjay Kirloskar
* Shri Thanedar
* Subhash Runwal
* Suhas Patil
* Suresh Haware
* Vikram Pandit
* Vivek Ranadive
* Vasantrao Ghatge
* Dilip Dandekar
* Mandar Agashe
* Rajeev Samant
* Sunil Khandbahale
* Dajikaka Gadgil
* Vithal Balkrishna Gandhi
* Leena Tewari
* Prakash Apte
* Vivek Ranadivé
* Sachin S. Lawande
* Abhi Talwalkar
* Rajendra Singh Pawar

## Fiscal policy leaders
### First Indian to be appointed the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

* C. D. Deshmukh

### RBI Governors

* C. D. Deshmukh
* K. G. Ambegaonkar
* B. N. Adarkar

### Economists

* Bhalchandra Mungekar
* Narendra Jadhav
* Srikant Datar
* Sukhadeo Thorat
* Ajit Ranade
* Avinash Dixit
* Dattatreya Gopal Karve
* Devdatta Dabholkar
* Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil
* Gopal Krishna Gokhale
* Lalita D. Gupte
* Ram G. Takwale
* Sukhadeo Thorat
* Vivek Kulkarni
* Suresh Tendulkar
* Usha Thorat
* Amrita Narlikar
* Vijay Kelkar
* Vikram Limaye

## Academicians/educationists
### Ancient Maharashtrian academicians

* Nagarjuna
* Shripati
* Bhaskaracharya
* Hemadri
* Jñaneśvara
* Jayatirtha
* Gaṇeśa Daivajna
* Bhattoji Dikshita
* Munishvara
* Kamalakara
* Gagabhatta
* Jagannatha Samrat
* Bhaskararaya

### Founder of India's First Women University

* Dhondo Keshav Karve

### Founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India

* G. S. Ghurye

### Founder and president of the Symbiosis Society

* S. B. Mujumdar

### Founding director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

* P. K. Kelkar

### Founder of Fergusson College

* Lokmanya Tilak

### First female teacher of India

* Savitribai Phule

### First female Indian anthropologist

* Irawati Karve

### Most qualified person of India

* Shrikant Jichkar

### Pioneers in women's education

* Jyotiba Phule
* Shalini Moghe
* Justice Ranade
* Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar

### Founder of Balwadi

* Tarabai Modak

### Indologists

* Pandurang Vaman Kane
* V.S. Sukthankar
* Irawati Karve
* G. T. Deshpande
* Malati Shendge
* R. N. Dandekar

### Global Teacher Prize recipient

* Ranjitsinh Disale

### Father of Marathi journalism.

* Balshastri Jambhekar

### Others

* Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
* Achyut Kanvinde
* Ajit Rangnekar
* Anutai Wagh
* D. Y. Patil
* Dilip Gaonkar
* Jayant Naik
* Madho Rao Scindia
* T. Gopala Rao
* Laxmanshastri Joshi
* C. D. Deshpande
* Surendra Sheodas Barlingay
* Chitra Naik
* Anand Teltumbde
* T. Madhava Rao
* Prabhakar Vaidya
* Anant Raje
* Uday Salunkhe
* Vishnushastri Chiplunkar
* Pravin Patkar
* P. A. Inamdar
* Shivrampant Damle
* Jyoti Gogte
* Trimbak Krishna Tope

## Sciences
### Chemistry

* Bal Dattatreya Tilak
* N. K. Naik
* Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
* Shankar Abaji Bhise
* Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre
* Shridhar Sathe
* Waman Bapuji Metre
* B. D. Kulkarni
* Vivek Ranade
* Ashish Kishore Lele
* J. B. Joshi
* G. D. Yadav
* Narasinh Narayan Godbole
* Pramod P. Wangikar
* Yogesh M. Joshi
* Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni
* Samir Mitragotri
* Sagar Jamane

### Earth sciences
#### First Indian Women to Antarctica

* Aditi Pant

#### Seed Mother of India

* Rahibai Soma Popere

#### Father of the Indian Seed Industry

* B. R. Barwale

#### Others

* Pandurang Khankhoje
* Waman Bapuji Metre
* Ashok Gadgil
* Raghunath Vithal Khedkar
* Madhav Gadgil
* Nalini Nadkarni
* Atmaram Sadashiv Jayakar
* Nandini Nimbkar
* Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme
* Raghavendra Gadagkar
* Shya Chitaley
* S. B. Mujumdar
* Shankar Purushottam Agharkar
* Shripad Dabholkar
* B. V. Nimbkar
* Satish Ramnath Shetye
* Natasha Mhatre
* Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane
* K. V. Ghorpade
* Atmaram Bhairav Joshi
* Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade
* Isaac David Kehimkar
* Sharad P. Kale
* B.G. Matapurkar

### Engineering and technology
#### Father of Indian Super Computers

* Vijay P. Bhatkar

#### First U.S. Chief Data Scientist

* DJ Patil

#### Others

* Abhi Talwalkar
* Arvind Joshi
* Aniruddha M. Gole
* Atul Chitnis
* Aravind Joshi
* Girish Wagh
* Prashant Ranade
* Satyendra Pakhale
* Shamkant Navathe
* Subhash Khot
* Arun G. Phadke
* Anil Kamath
* Suhas Patankar
* Vikas Joshi
* Vishnu Madav Ghatage
* Yashavant Kanetkar
* Shakuntala Joshi
* Ramesh Raskar
* Deepak B. Phatak
* Sarita Adve
* Sunil Khandbahale
* Ashwin Gumaste
* Achyut Godbole
* Sanjay Govind Dhande

### Mathematics and statistics
#### First Indian to be Senior Wrangler

* R. P. Paranjpye

#### Others

* Eknath Ghate
* Bapudeva Sastri
* Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi
* Chandrashekhar Khare
* D. R. Kaprekar
* Dinesh Thakur
* Kapil Hari Paranjape
* M. N. Vartak
* Narendra Karmarkar
* Rahul Pandharipande
* Mangala Narlikar
* Rajeeva Karandikar
* S. S. Shrikhande
* Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
* Vinay V. Deodhar
* Vivek Borkar
* Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme
* Subhash Khot
* Ravindra Shripad Kulkarni
* Vishnu Vasudev Narlikar
* Ravindra Bapat

### Medicine and surgery
#### First Indian Female Physician

* Anandi Gopal Joshi

#### First Indian Female to receive PhD

* Kamala Sohonie

#### Father of Pathology and Medical Research

* V. R. Khanolkar

#### ICMR Scientists

* Chintaman Govind Pandit
* Raman Gangakhedkar

#### Immunologist

* K. B. Sainis
* Dinakar M. Salunke

#### Others

* Abhay and Rani Bang
* Amit Prabhakar Maydeo
* Atul Gawande
* Bhau Daji
* Chetan E. Chitnis
* Nilima Arun Kshirsagar
* Dwarkanath Kotnis
* Himmatrao Bawaskar
* Irawati Karve
* Krishna Chandra Chunekar
* Kamal Ranadive
* Prakash Amte
* S. B. Mujumdar
* Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar
* Shekhar C. Mande
* Shashank R. Joshi
* Shubha Tole
* Suresh Jayakar
* Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare
* Vithal Nagesh Shirodkar
* Kshama Metre
* Ramakant Krishnaji Deshpande
* Jayant B. Udgaonkar
* Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale
* N. R. Pathak
* Sanjeev Galande
* Sakharam Arjun
* Kshama Metre
* Tatyarao Lahane
* Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade
* Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme
* Rajendra Achyut Badwe
* Pramod P. Wangikar
* Jerusha Jhirad
* Jyeshtharaj Joshi
* Vikas Mahatme
* Mansukh C. Wani
* Maneesha S. Inamdar
* Milind Vasant Kirtane
* Jagannath Dixit
* Nikhil Dhurandhar
* Prabhu B. Patil
* Ganesh Bagler
* Suresh Jadhav (biotechnology executive)

### Physics
#### Astronomy

* Venkatesh Bapuji Ketakar
* Bal Gangadhar Tilak

#### Nuclear scientists

* Anil Kakodkar
* Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme
* Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande
* Shivram Baburao Bhoje
* Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan

#### Fellow of Royal Society

* Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
* Subhash Khot

#### Theoretical physicists

* Abhay Ashtekar
* Atish Dabholkar
* Rohini Godbole

#### Astro - physicists

* Jayant Narlikar
* Amol Dighe
* Avinash Deshpande
* Nissim Kanekar
* S.M. Chitre
* Chanda Jog
* Shrinivas Kulkarni

#### ISRO and DRDO scientists

* Vasant Gowarikar
* Pramod Kale
* Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre

#### Indian Institute Of Technology(IIT) - Chairman/Directors

* P. K. Kelkar
* Abhay Karandikar

#### Aerospace engineering

* N. K. Naik
* Shivkar Bapuji Talpade

#### Others

* Anupam Saraph
* Sachin Lawande
* Arun Nigavekar
* Gopal H. Gaonkar
* Pramod Khargonekar
* Sulabha K Kulkarni
* Umesh Waghmare
* Sanjay Govind Dhande
* Dilip Devidas Bhawalkar
* Sanjeev Dhurandhar
* Sunil Khandbahale
* Neelima Gupte
* Vivek Borkar
* Mandar Madhukar Deshmukh

### Industrial design

* Satyendra Pakhale
* Sumant Moolgaokar

## Arts
### Cinema and theatre
#### Dada Saheb Phalke Award - Lifetime contribution to Indian Cinema

* Ruby Myers
* Durga Khote
* V. Shantaram
* Lata Mangeshkar
* Bhalji Pendharkar
* Asha Bhosle
* Rajinikanth

#### Actors

* Ajinkya Dev
* Ashok Saraf
* Amol Palekar
* Bharat Jadhav
* Dada Kondke
* David Abraham Cheulkar
* Dilip Prabhavalkar
* Kanan Kaushal
* Kashinath Ghanekar
* Kuldeep Pawar
* Laxmikant Berde
* Mahesh Kothare
* Makrand Deshpande
* Milind Gunaji
* Milind Soman
* Mohan Agashe
* Mohan Gokhale
* Nana Patekar
* Nagesh Bhosale
* Nitish Bharadwaj
* Nilu Phule
* Prashant Damle
* Prasad Oak
* Rajnikant
* Ramesh Bhatkar
* Raqesh Vashisth
* Riteish Deshmukh
* Sachiin J Joshi
* Sachin Khedekar
* Sachin Pilgaonkar
* Sadashiv Amrapurkar
* Sanjay Narvekar
* Sayaji Shinde
* Shivaji Satam
* Shreyas Talpade
* Shriram Lagoo
* Siddharth Jadhav
* Subodh Bhave
* Sudhir Joshi
* Upendra Limaye
* Vikram Gokhale
* Vijayendra Ghatge
* Viju Khote
* Vivek Lagoo
* Mohan Joshi
* Ankush Chaudhari
* Arun Sarnaik
* Ravindra Mahajani
* Gashmeer Mahajani
* Akash Thosar
* Umesh Kamat
* Pushkar Shrotri
* Swapnil Joshi
* Keshavrao Date
* Shrikant Moghe
* Master Vithal
* Harshvardhan Rane

#### Actresses

* Aditi Sarangdhar
* Amruta Khanvilkar
* Amruta Patki
* Ankita Lokhande
* Anjana Mumtaz
* Antara Mali
* Ashalata Wabgaonkar
* Ashwini Bhave
* Bhagyashree Patwardhan
* Bhargavi Chirmule
* Durga Khote
* Durgabai Kamat
* Hansa Wadkar
* Shanta Apte
* Gauri Pradhan Tejwani
* Gayatri Joshi
* Jayshree Gadkar
* Jyothika
* Kajal Kiran
* Kajol
* Kimi Katkar
* Kavita Lad
* Leela Chitnis
* Lalita Pawar
* Madhuri Dixit
* Madhu Sapre
* Mamta Kulkarni
* Manasi Moghe
* Manjari Phadnis
* Mayuri Kango
* Mithila Palkar
* Mrinal Kulkarni
* Mrunal Thakur
* Mugdha Godse
* Mukta Barve
* Nagma
* Namrata Shirodkar
* Nanda
* Nikki Tamboli
* Nishigandha Wad
* Nivedita Joshi
* Nutan
* Padmini Kolhapure
* Pallavi Joshi
* Priya Bapat
* Priya Tendulkar
* Radhika Apte
* Ranjana Deshmukh
* Reema Lagoo
* Renuka Shahane
* Rinku Rajguru
* Sagarika Ghatge
* Sakhi Gokhale
* Sai Tamhankar
* Saiyami Kher
* Sandhya Shantaram
* Sarika
* Shakuntala Paranjpye
* Shashikala
* Shilpa Shirodkar
* Shilpa Tulaskar
* Shobhana Samarth
* Shibani Dandekar
* Smita Patil
* Sonali Bendre
* Shraddha Kapoor
* Sonalee Kulkarni
* Sonali Kulkarni
* Sulochana
* Sharvari Wagh
* Shriya Pilgaonkar
* Supriya Pilgaonkar
* Sulbha Arya
* Tanuja
* Tanvi Azmi
* Tara Deshpande
* Urmila Matondkar
* Usha Kiran
* Vandana Gupte
* Varsha Usgaonkar
* Shilpa Shinde
* Vidya Malvade
* Rohini Hattangadi
* Sai Deodhar
* Shivani Surve
* Meenakshi Shirodkar
* Leena Chandavarkar
* Isha Koppikar
* Nalini Jaywant

#### Directors

* Abhinay Deo
* Amol Gupte
* Amol Palekar
* Anand Patwardhan
* Ashutosh Gowariker
* Bhalji Pendharkar
* Bhagwan Dada
* Baburao Mistry
* Dadasaheb Phalke
* Deepak Kadam
* Deepshikha Deshmukh
* Dinkar D. Patil
* Dadasaheb Torne
* Gauri Shinde
* Jabbar Patel
* Kunal Deshmukh
* Madhur Bhandarkar
* Master Vinayak
* Mahesh Kothare
* Mahesh Manjrekar
* Milind Sulekha Purushottam
* N. Chandra
* Nagraj Manjule
* Nishikant Kamat
* Paresh Mokashi
* Raja Nawathe
* Raja Paranjpe
* Raja Thakur
* Sachin Kundalkar
* Sachin Pilgaonkar
* Sai Paranjpe
* Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
* V Shantaram
* Vishram Sawant
* Vishnupant Damle
* Swapna Waghmare Joshi
* Satish Rajwade
* Anant Mane

#### Models and beauty pageant winners

* Aditi Gowitrikar
* Anusha Dandekar
* Madhu Sapre
* Mugdha Godse
* Gayatri Joshi
* Rakhi Sawant
* Ujjwala Raut
* Sonali Raut
* Manasi Moghe
* Lopamudra Raut
* Namrata Shirodkar
* Meera Deosthale

#### Hollywood

* Aditya J Patwardhan
* Omi Vaidya
* Deep Katdare
* Shirish Korde
* Devika Bhise
* Michelle Khare
* Janina Gavankar
* Nivedita Kulkarni
* Karsh Kale

#### Bigg-Boss (Hindi) show winners

* Shilpa Shinde
* Tejasswi Prakash

### Literature
#### Ancient Maharashtrian litterateurs

* Hāla
* Pravarasena II
* Bharavi
* Dandi
* Bhavabhuti
* Akalajalada
* Rajashekhara
* Neelakantha Chaturdhara

#### Jnanpith Award winners - Outstanding contribution in Indian Literature

* Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
* Vinda Karandikar
* Ravindra Kelekar
* Bhalchandra Nemade
* Kusumagraj
* D. R. Bendre
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

#### Others

* Acharya Atre
* Annabhau Sathe
* Arun Kolatkar
* Arun Sadhu
* Balwant Moreshwar Purandare
* Bahinabai Chaudhari
* Bal Samant
* Dattaram Maruti Mirasdar
* Daya Pawar
* Dilip Chitre
* D. M. Mirasdar
* G. A. Kulkarni
* Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar
* Ganesh Trimbak Deshpande
* Gangadhar Gadgil
* Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
* Hamid Dalwai
* Hari Narayan Apte
* Hemant Divate
* Indira Sant
* Irawati Karve
* Jaywant Dalvi
* Laxman Mane
* Madhu Limaye
* Nirja
* Madhu Mangesh Karnik
* Mahesh Elkunchwar
* Malati Bedekar
* Manya Joshi
* Manohar Malgonkar
* Mohan Samant
* Anant Kanekar
* Nagnath S. Inamdar
* Namdev Dhasal
* Narayan Gangaram Surve
* Narayan Hari Apte
* Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave
* Purushottam Laxman Deshpande
* Ram Ganesh Gadkari
* Ranjit Desai
* Ratnakar Matkari
* Sadanand Rege
* Saleel Wagh
* Sandeep Khare
* Satish Alekar
* Shanta Shelke
* Shivaji Sawant
* Shridhar Bhaskar Warnekar
* Shrikrishna Raut
* Sharmila Rege
* Suresh Bhat
* Vasant Abaji Dahake
* Vasant Purushottam Kale
* Vasant Kanetkar
* Vasudha Patil
* Vijay Tendulkar
* Vilas Sarang
* Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar
* Vishram Bedekar
* Vishwas Patil
* Gopal Nilkanth Dandekar
* Jagdish Khebudkar
* Shakuntala Karandikar

#### Columnists and journalists

* Arun Sadhu
* Balshastri Jambhekar
* Raja Shamraj
* Nanasaheb Parulekar
* Waman Gopal Joshi
* Madhavrao Bagal
* Atmaram Raoji Bhat
* Yadunath Thatte
* Madhav Yeshwant Gadkari
* Govind Talwalkar
* Ganpatrao Jadhav
* Vidyadhar Gokhale
* Praful Bidwai
* Nikhil Wagle
* Anubha Bhonsle
* Uttam Kamble
* Sanjay Raut
* Rajdeep Sardesai
* Shobhaa De

#### Historians

* Amrit Gangar
* Anant Sadashiv Altekar
* Babasaheb Purandare
* Conjeevaram Hayavadana Rao
* D. R. Bhandarkar
* Dattatray Balwant Parasnis
* Dattatraya Ganesh Godse
* Datto Vaman Potdar
* Dinkar G. Kelkar
* Gangadhar Pathak
* Govind Sakharam Sardesai
* K. N. Dikshit
* M. N. Deshpande
* M. K. Dhavalikar
* Ninad Bedekar
* Prachi Deshpande
* Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar
* Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar
* S. T. Joshi
* Sadashiv Ranade
* Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar
* Sethu Madhav Rao Pagadi
* Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar
* Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
* V. S. Wakaskar
* Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi
* Vidyadhar Johrapurkar
* Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar
* Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade
* Narhar Ambadas Kurundkar
* Vasudeo Sitaram Bendrey

### 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

* Atul Kasbekar
* Baburao Painter
* Gautam Rajadhyaksha
* Waman Thakre
* Debu Deodhar
* Amol Gole
* Jagdish Mali
* Anna Salunke

#### Costume/fashion designers

* Bhanu Athaiya
* Nachiket Barve
* Anita Dongre

#### Production designers

* Nitin Chandrakant Desai
* Vishnupant Govind Damle

#### Cartoonists

* Bal Thackeray
* S. D. Phadnis
* D. G. Kulkarni
* Maya Kamath
* S. N. Gorakshakar
* Vasant Sarwate
* Raj Thackeray

#### Sculptors

* Valay Shende
* Ram V. Sutar
* Sadashiv Sathe
* Pramod Kamble
* Subodh Kerkar
* Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar
* Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe

#### Painters

* Gopi Kukde
* Pratap Mullick
* S. K. Bakre
* H. A. Gade
* D. G. Kulkarni
* N. S. Bendre
* M. V. Dhurandhar
* Pralhad Anant Dhond
* M. R. Acharekar
* Shripad Damodar Satwalekar
* Amruta Patil
* Sawlaram Lakshman Haldankar
* Ketaki Pimpalkhare
* Sambhaji Kadam
* Tryambak Vasekar
* Sudhir Patwardhan
* Prafulla Dahanukar
* S. M. Pandit
* Prabha Badgelwar
* Jivya Soma Mashe
* Vasudeo S. Gaitonde
* Raghunath Krishna Phadke

#### Calligraphers/typographers

* Raghunath K. Joshi
* Vinay Saynekar

## Music
### Hindustani classical music

* Ajay Pohankar
* Ajit Kadkade
* Anand Bhate
* Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar
* Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande
* Bal Gandharva
* C. R. Vyas
* Mysore Sadashiva Rao
* Hirabai Badodekar
* Jyotsna Bhole
* Jitendra Abhisheki
* Kesarbai Kerkar
* Kishori Amonkar
* Krishnarao Phulambrikar
* Kumar Gandharva
* Mahesh Kale
* Manik Varma
* Mogubai Kurdikar
* Prabha Atre
* Rahul Deshpande
* Manjusha Kulkarni-Patil
* Satish Vyas
* Sanjeev Abhyankar
* Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar
* Shrinivas Khale
* Shruti Sadolikar
* Sureshbabu Mane
* Ulhas Kashalkar
* Devaki Pandit
* Uday Bhawalkar
* V. G. Jog
* Vasantrao Deshpande
* Padma Talwalkar
* Veena Sahasrabuddhe
* Vidyadhar Oke
* Vikas Kashalkar
* Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
* Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
* Vinayakrao Patwardhan
* K. G. Ginde
* Sumati Mutatkar
* Shounak Abhisheki
* D. V. Paluskar
* Deenanath Mangeshkar
* Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale
* Sawai Gandharva
* Dhondutai Kulkarni
* Balakrishnabuwa Ichalkaranjikar
* B. R. Deodhar
* Ramdas Kamat
* Narayanrao Vyas

### Music directors

* Arun Paudwal
* Anil Mohile
* Anand Modak
* C. Ramchandra
* Datta Naik
* Datta Davjekar
* Hridaynath Mangeshkar
* Laxmikant Kudalkar
* Ram Kadam
* Ram-Laxman
* Sudhir Phadke
* Shrinivas Khale
* Shridhar Phadke
* Vasant Desai
* Vasant Prabhu
* Ashok Patki
* Govindrao Tembe
* Sneha Khanwalkar
* Yashwant Dev

### Modern music

* Ajay–Atul
* Amitraj
* Ashutosh Phatak
* Avdhoot Gupte
* Ajit Parab
* AV Prafullachandra
* Digvijay Bhonsale
* Gaurav Dagaonkar
* Karsh Kale
* Kaushal Inamdar
* Milind Date
* Milind Ingle
* Nilesh Moharir
* Salil Kulkarni
* Sandeep Shirodkar
* Sneha Khanwalkar
* Rohan-Rohan
* Rahul Ranade

### Singers

* Aarya Ambekar
* Adarsh Shinde
* Anupama Deshpande
* Anuradha Paudwal
* Arun Date
* Asha Bhosle
* Bela Shende
* Hema Sardesai
* Kumari Kanchan Dinkarrao Mali-Shah
* Lata Mangeshkar
* Manik Varma
* Meena Mangeshkar
* Nihira Joshi
* Sudesh Bhosle
* Prajakta Shukre
* Rahul Vaidya
* Rohit Shyam Raut
* Sadhana Sargam
* Sanjivani
* Shalmali Kholgade
* Shahir Vitthal Umap
* Sudhir Phadke
* Shridhar Phadke
* Swapnil Bandodkar
* Suresh Wadkar
* Usha Mangeshkar
* Vaishali Mhade
* Vaishali Samant
* Avadhoot Gupte
* Swanand Kirkire
* Digvijay Bhonsale

#### Winner of Indian Idol (Season 1)

* Abhijeet Sawant

## Sports
### First Individual Olympic Medal for India

* Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav

### First Individual Paralympic Medal for India

* Murlikant Petkar

### First Indian to score 100 international 100's

* Sachin Tendulkar

### First Indian woman to cross Gobi Desert

* Sucheta Kadethankar

### First Indian woman to obtain WIM title

* Jayshree Khadilkar

### India's first Olympic Marathon runner

* Phadeppa Dareppa Chaugule

### Cricket

* Aavishkar Salvi
* Abey Kuruvilla
* Aditya Tare
* Ajinkya Rahane
* Ajit Agarkar
* Ajit Wadekar
* Arjun Tendulkar
* Anshuman Gaekwad
* Armaan Jaffer
* Ashutosh Agashe
* Bapu Nadkarni
* Baloo Gupte
* Chandu Sarwate
* Chandrakant Pandit
* Chandrasekhar Gadkari
* Chandrakant Patankar
* Chandu Borde
* Arundhati Kirkire
* Sanjay Jagdale
* Dhawal Kulkarni
* Dattu Phadkar
* Dattaram Hindlekar
* Dilip Sardesai
* Dilip Vengsarkar
* Eknath Solkar
* Hemu Adhikari
* Hemant Kanitkar
* Hrishikesh Kanitkar
* Khandu Rangnekar
* Kiran More
* Kedar Jadhav
* Lisa Sthalekar
* Manohar Hardikar
* Mona Meshram
* Nilesh Kulkarni
* Rahul Dravid
* Paras Mhambrey
* Poonam Raut
* Pranav Dhanawade
* Pravin Amre
* Ramesh Powar
* Ramnath Parkar
* Ramakant Achrekar
* Rohan Gavaskar
* Rohit Sharma
* Ruturaj Gaikwad
* Sachin Tendulkar
* Salil Ankola
* Sameer Dighe
* Sanjay Bangar
* Subhash Gupte
* Sairaj Bahutule
* Sandeep Patil
* Shardul Thakur
* Sanjay Manjrekar
* Shubhangi Kulkarni
* Smriti Mandhana
* Surya Kumar Yadav
* Sunil Gavaskar
* Sushil Nadkarni
* Vinod Kambli
* Umesh Yadav
* Vijay Hazare
* Vijay Manjrekar
* Zaheer Khan
* Wasim Jaffer
* Pravin Tambe
* Viraj Bhosale
* Datta Gaekwad
* Shivajirao Gaekwad
* Abhijit Karambelkar
* C. R. Mohite
* Nana Joshi
* Tushar Deshpande
* Rajvardhan Hangargekar
* Darshan Nalkande
* B. B. Nimbalkar

### Chess

* Abhijit Kunte
* Akshayraj Kore
* Anupama Gokhale
* Bhagyashree Thipsay
* Divya Deshmukh
* Eesha Karavade
* Jayshree Khadilkar
* Mrunalini Kunte
* Praveen Thipsay
* Rohini Khadilkar
* Ramchandra Sapre
* Shardul Gagare
* Swapnil Dhopade
* Vasanti Khadilkar
* Abhimanyu Puranik
* Vidit Gujrathi

### Others

* Aditi Mutatkar – Badminton
* Anjali Bhagwat - Shooter
* Ashish Mane - Mountaineer
* Brahmanand Sankhwalkar – Footballer
* Damayanti Tambay – Badminton
* Gaurav Natekar – Tennis
* Kavita Raut – Runner
* Krushnaa Patil – Mountaineer
* Mahesh Gawli – Footballer
* Nandu M. Natekar – Badminton
* Nikhil Kanetkar – Badminton
* Rahi Sarnobat - Shooter
* Raju Gaikwad - Footballer
* Ramchandra Parab – Footballer
* Ramesh Gokhale - Bridge
* Sameer Naik – Footballer
* Tejaswini Sawant - Shooter
* Tushar Khandekar – Field hockey
* Harsha Bhogle – Commentator
* Meghana Erande - Voice artist
* Shridhar Chillal – Longest fingernails
* Savitri Khanolkar – Designer of PVC
* Arundhati Pantawane – Badminton
* Tanvi Lad – Badminton
* Sanjivani Jadhav – Runner
* Sundeep Waslekar - Strategic Foresight Group
* Jyoti Amge - Smallest women
* Bhimrao Kesarkar - Silver medalist in men's javelin at Summer Paralympics 1984
* Sangram Chougule - Bodybuilding
* Sunil Jadhav - Bodybuilding

## Outside Maharashtra
### Bene Israel

* Eli Ben-Menachem
* Liora Itzhak
* Samson Kehimkar
* Eban Hyams
* Nissim Ezekiel
* Jerusha Jhirad
* Ezra Mir
* Leela Samson
* Reuben Dhondji Ashtumkar
* David Abraham Cheulkar

### Thanjavur

* Reddy Row
* Serfoji I
* Serfoji II
* Shahuji I
* Thanjavur Subha Rao
* Tukkoji
* V. P. Madhava Rao
* N. Vittal
* Palladam Sanjiva Rao
* R. Balaji Rao
* R. Ramachandra Rao
* R. Raghunatha Rao
* Sir T. Madhava Rao
* R. Venkata Rao
* T. Ananda Rao
* T. Rama Rao
* T. Venkata Rao
* Nakul Abhyankar
* N. Madhava Rao
* T. R. Ramachandran
* Bharati Shivaji

### Uttarakhand

* Govind Ballabh Pant
* K.C. Pant
* Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan

### United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe

* Pratap Chitnis, Baron Chitnis
* Leo Varadkar - Ireland P.M
* Atul Chitnis
* Satyendra Pakhale
* Mangesh Panchal
* Arvinn Gadgil
* Sandesh Gulhane

### Mexico

* Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje

### South East and Far East

* Dwarkanath Kotnis
* Yogendra Puranik

### Canada

* Natasha Mhatre

### Australia

* Anusha Dandekar
* Neel Kolhatkar
* Minoti Apte
* Lisa Sthalekar

### United States

* Sakharam Ganesh Pandit
* Pramod Khargonekar
* Dinesh Thakur
* Chandrashekhar Khare
* Anil Nerode
* Avinash Kamalakar Dixit
* Aravind Joshi
* Abhay Ashtekar
* Ashok Gadgil
* Shrinivas Kulkarni
* Janina Gavankar
* Nivedita Kulkarni
* Deep Katdare
* Omi Vaidya
* DJ Patil
* Karsh Kale
* Shirish Korde
* Abhi Talwalkar
* Sachin Lawande
* Srikant Datar
* Vikram Pandit
* Vivek Ranadivé
* Suhas S. Patil
* Arun G. Phadke
* S. T. Joshi
* Kumar P. Barve
* Swati Dandekar
* Kshama Sawant
* Ameya Pawar
* Ramesh Raskar
* Atul Gawande
* Sushil Nadkarni
* Nalini Nadkarni
* Devika Bhise
* Shreeram Abhyankar
* Narendra Karmarkar
* Nitin Pradhan
* Gopal H. Gaonkar
* Rahul Pandharipande
* Ajit V. Pai
* Samir Mitragotri
* Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande
* Bharti Kirchner
* Saurabh Netravalkar
* Aditya J Patwardhan
* Shya Chitaley
* Shri Thanedar
* Raj Date
* Michelle Khare

### UAE

* Zulekha Daud UAE's first Woman Doctor

## Awardee
### First Indian to receive Magsaysay Award (Asia's Nobel)

* Vinoba Bhave

### Ramon Magsaysay - Asia's Noble

* Vinoba Bhave
* Pandurang Shastri Athavale
* Baba Amte
* Rajanikant Arole
* Mabelle Arole
* Prakash Amte
* Mandakini Amte
* Harish Hande

### Bharat Ratna - Highest Civilian Award

* Govind Ballabh Pant
* Dhondo Keshav Karve
* Pandurang Vaman Kane
* Vinoba Bhave
* B. R. Ambedkar
* Lata Mangeshkar
* Sachin Tendulkar
* Nanaji Deshmukh

### 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.