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.
Business and industry
Walchand Hirachand - Walchand Group of Industries
Bhavarlal Jain - Jain Irrigation
Kalpana Saroj - Kamani Tubes
Kishor Patil - KPIT Technologies Co-founder
Subhash Runwal - Runwal Group Chairman
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
Azim Premji - Wipro
Baba Kalyani (Babasaheb Nilaknthrao Kalyani) - Bharat Forge
Baburao Govindrao Shirke (Shirke Group of Companies)
Rahul Bajaj - Bajaj Group
Nanasaheb Parulekar, Founder Editor of Sakal
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
Ritesh Deshmukh
Rajnikanth
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
Alka Kubal
Aditi Govitrikar
Ashwini Bhave
Bhavana
Durga Khote
Isha Koppikar
Jayshree Gadkar
Lalita Pawar
Leela Chitnis
Kavita Lad
Kimi Katkar
Mugdha Godse
Madhuri Dixit
Mamta Kulkarni
Namrata Shirodkar
Nishigandha Wad
Nivedita Joshi
Nutan
Padmini Kolhapure
Pallavi Joshi
Radhika Apte
Rajashree
Rohini Hattangadi
Shraddha Kapoor
Shilpa Shirodkar
Smita Patil
Shobhana Samarth
Sonali Bendre
Sonali Kulkarni
Sai Tamhankar
Supriya Pathak
Usha Chavan
Urmila Matondkar
Vandana Gupte
Manish Jain
Yash Chopra
Karan Johar
Madhur Bhandarkar
Ashutosh Gowarikar
Amol Gupte
Sachin Pilgaonkar
Nagraj Manjule
Satish Rajwade
Ravi Jadhav
Abhijeet Sawant (singer)
Aarya Ambekar (singer)
Ajay Atul (Music Director)
Prabha Atre (singer)
Ashwini Bhide (singer)
Asha Bhosle (singer)
Vasantrao Deshpande (classical singer of Patiala Gharana)
Bal Gandharva (theatre)
Sawai Gandharva (singer)
Bhimsen Joshi (classical singer)
Suman Kalyanpur (singer)
Kesarbai Kerkar (singer)
Kishori Amonkar (singer)
Shri Shrinivas Khale (music director)
Mogubai Kurdikar (singer)
Deenanath Mangeshkar (theater)
Lata Mangeshkar (singer)
Usha Mangeshkar (singer)
Anuradha Paudwal (singer)
Ashutosh Phatak (music director)
Sadhana Sargam (singer)
Rahul Vaidya (singer)
Suresh Wadkar (singer)
Bela Shende (singer)
Vaishali Samant(singer)
Shalmali Kholgade(singer)
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak,great freedom fighter Indian National Congress
Gopinath Munde (1949–2014), senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Union Minister for Rural Devuelopment and Panchayati Raj
Sharad Pawar, Founder & President NCP, President MCA, Former Minister of Defence, Minister of Agriculture, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Former President ICC, BCCI
Dr B. R. Ambedkar, Sculptor of the constitution of India
Ajit Pawar, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
Balasaheb Desai
Balasaheb Thackeray founder and Chief of the Shivsena
Chhagan Bhujbal, former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale,Freedom Fighter,MLC Indian National Congress (INC)
Sunil Deshmukh Former Minister of State
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Gopal Krishna Gokhale,Guru of Mahatma Gandhi
Haribhau Jawale BJP
Hari Shivaram Rajguru
Manikrao Thakre, Congress
Manohar Joshi,former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shiv Sena
Narayan Rane, Congress
Nitin Gadkari,Union Transport Minister and former President of BJP
Patangrao Kadam Indian National Congress
Pramod Mahajan, BJP
Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
R R Patil, NCP
Raj Thackeray Founder Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)
Pandurang Mahadev Bapat freedom fighter
Shankarrao Chavan
Shivraj Patil, former Home Minister of India
Shrikant Jichkar, (1954-2004)
Shripad Amrit Dange, founder of Communist Party of India
Sushilkumar Shinde, Former Energy Minister and Home minister for Government of India
Uddhav Thackeray, President of Shiv Sena
Vasantdada Patil, freedom fighter & former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Vilasrao Deshmukh, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar,freedom fighter and Hindu Mahasabha leader
Yashwantrao Chavan, 1st Chief Minister of Maharashtra and was Deputy Prime Minister of India
Baba Amte (1914–2008), social worker-activist
Ashok Row Kavi, LGBT rights activist
Dhondo Keshav Karve
Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, doctor
Kisan Mehta
Harish Iyer, LGBT rights activist, Child rights activist
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
Vikas Amte (born 1947), doctor, social worker-activist, son of Baba Amte
B. R. Ambedkar
Abhay Bang
Vinoba Bhave
Bhaurao Patil
Qazi Mir Imdad Ali, military officer in 1835
General Arun S. Vaidya.
Namdeo Jadav
Yeshwant Ghadge
Sachin Waze, former encounter specialist
Vijay Salaskar
Hemant Karkare
Ashok Kamte
Tukaram Omble
Samarth Ramdas, Sajjangad
Tukaram, Dehu
Namdev, Pandharpur
Dnyaneshwar, Alandi
Eknath, Paithan
Sai Baba
Gajanan Maharaj, Shegaon
Chokha Mela, Mangalvedhe
Gora Kumbhar, Terdhoki
Muktabai (Kothali) Muktainagar
Bahinabai
Janabai, Pandharpur
Kanhopatra, Pandharpur
Shri BrahmaChaitanya Gondavalekar Maharaj, Gondavale
Swami Samartha Maharaj, Akkalkot
Dhanraj Pillay
Viren Rasquinha
Hiranna M. Nimal
Nandu M. Natekar
Aparna Popat
Jaggy Shivdasani
Orlando Campos
Ramesh Gokhale
Keshav Samant Popularly known as Anand Samant
Praveen Thipsay
Abdul Jabbar
Abhishek Nayar
Ajinkya Rahane
Ajit Agarkar
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
Zaheer Khan
Rohit Sharma
Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat
Tejaswini Sawant
Gaurav Natekar
Khashaba Jadhav - First Olympic individual bronze medal for India
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
Baba Kadam, novelist
Babasaheb Purandare
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Madhavrao Peshwa
Shahu Maharaj
Malhar Rao Holkar
Yashwant Rao Holkar
Sambhaji Maharaj
Anandi Gopal Joshi
Tatyarao Lahane
Vijay Bhatkar
Anil Kakodkar
Madhav Gadgil
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
Jayant Narlikar
Shekhar C. Mande
Chandrashekhar Khare
Narendra Karmarkar
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
Abhay Ashtekar
Aravind Joshi
Subhash Khot
Ashok Gadgil
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