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.

Rulers and generals


• Vidarbha Kingdom
 * The ancient Maharashtrian kingdoms

• Satavahana Empire

• Traikutaka dynasty

• Vakataka dynasty

• Shilahara dynasty

• Yadava dynasty

• Lakhuji Jadhav
 * The Jadhav (Sindkhed Raja-Maharashtra)

• Jijabai

• Dhanaji Jadhav

• Chattrapati Shahu
 * The Bhosales (Maharashtra)

• Maloji Bhosale

• Raghoji I Bhonsle

• Rajaram Chhatrapati

• Ramaraja

• Sambhaji

• Shahaji

• Shivaji

• Tarabai

• Moropant Trimbak Pingle
 * The Peshwe

• 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

• Ekoji I
 * The Bhosales (Thanjavur-Tamil Nadu)

• Serfoji II

• Shahuji I

• Serfoji I

• Tukkoji

• Pratapsingh

• Thuljaji

• Shivaji

• Venkoji

• Ahilyabai Holkar
 * The Holkars (Indore-Madhya Pradesh)

• Malhar Rao Holkar

• Shivajirao Holkar

• Tukojirao Holkar (II)

• Krishna Bai Holkar

• Hari Rao Holkar

• Tukojirao Holkar III

• Yashwantrao Holkar

• Yeshwantrao Holkar II

• Daulatrao Scindia
 * The Shinde/Scindia (Gwalior-Madhya Pradesh)

• 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

• Shankarrao Chimnajirao Gandekar
 * The Gandekars (Bhor-Maharashtra)

• Raghunathrao Shankarrao Gandekar

• Hemendra Singh Rao Pawar
 * The Pawar (Dhar-Madhya Pradesh)

• Krishnaji Rao III Puar

• Tukoji Rao IV Puar

• Tukoji Rao III Puar

• Vikram Singh Rao II Puar

• Murari Rao
 * The Ghorpade (Sandur-Karnataka)

• Shivashanmukha Rao

• Ramachandra Vitthala Rao

• Venkata Rao III

• Yeshwantrao Ghorpade

• Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad
 * The Gaekwad (Baroda-Gujarat)

• Pilaji Rao Gaekwad

• Gayatri Devi

• Damaji Rao Gaekwad

• Indira Raje

• Sayajirao Gaekwad III

• Pilaji Rao Gaekwad

• Pratap Singh Gaekwad

Historic warriors
• Satakarni
 * Satvahana dynasty (2nd century BCE–Early 3rd century CE)

• Simuka

• Kanha

• Gautamiputra Satakarni

• Vasishthiputra Pulumavi

• Hāla

• Vashishtiputra Sātakarni

• Satakarni II

• Shalivahana

• Ishwarsena
 * Abhira dynasty (Early 3rd century CE-Late 4th century CE)

• Dharasena
 * Traikutaka dynasty (4th century CE)

• Pravarasena I
 * Vakataka dynasty (Mid 3rd century CE-Early 6th century)

• Vindhyasena

• Narendrasena

• Harishena

• Aparajita
 * Shilahara dynasty of North Konkan (Early 9th century CE-Mid 13th century CE)

• Arikesarin a.k.a. Keshideva I

• Aparaditya I

• Bhillama a.k.a. Bhillamadeva
 * Yadava dynasty (Mid 9th century CE-Early 14th century CE)

• Simhana a.k.a. Singhaṇadeva

• Krishna a.k.a. Kānharadeva

• Hemadri a.k.a. Hemāḍi Panḍita or Hemāḍapanta

• Peshwa Baji Rao I
 * During 17th century and Shivaji's reign

• 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

• Chimnaji Appa
 * During 18th century and Peshwa rule

• Chimnaji Phatak

• Malhar Rao Holkar

• Ranoji Bhoite

• Raghuji Bhonsle

• Tukoji Rao Holkar

• Sadashivrao Bhau

• Vishwasrao

• Nana Fadnavis

• Balkrishna Phatak

• Balkrishna Latey

• Ramchandra Pant Amatya
 * The 27-year war - India's longest fought war (1680–1707)

• Shankaraji Narayan Gandekar

• Pralhad Niraji

• Santaji Ghorpade

• Khanderao Dabhade

• Dhanaji Jadhav

• Tarabai

• Bapu Gokhale
 * Leaders of Anglo Maratha Wars I, II, III (1775–1818)

• 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

• B R Ambedkar
 * Revolutionaries

• 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

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak
 * Father of Indian unrest

• Vasudev Balwant Phadke
 * Father of Indian armed struggle

• Chapekar brothers
 * First political murder in Indian freedom struggle

• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
 * First Secret Society for Independence

• Yashwantrao Chavan
 * Others

• 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

Humanitarians and reformers


• Mahadev Govind Ranade
 * Father of renaissance of western India

• B. R. Ambedkar
 * Reformers

• 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

• Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar
 * Bene Israeli reformer and scholar

• Abhay and Rani Bang
 * Social activists

• 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

• Nirmala Deshpande
 * Philanthropists

• Gopal Baba Walangkar

• Sindhutai Sapkal

• Jagannath Shankarshet

• Sane Guruji

• Purushottam Kakodkar

• V. M. Tarkunde

• Kaka Kalelkar

Defence leaders
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
 * Father of Indian Navy

• Rama Raghoba Rane
 * First living recipient of the Param Vir Chakra

• Madhuri Kanitkar
 * Third woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank

• J. R. Bhonsle
 * ARMY
 * Generals

• Gopal Gurunath Bewoor

• Arun Shridhar Vaidya

• Manoj Mukund Naravane • S. P. P. Thorat
 * Lieutenant Generals

• Rajendra Ramrao Nimbhorkar

• Vinod G. Khandare

• Madhuri Kanitkar

• D. B. Shekatkar

• Shailesh Tinaikar

• Brigadier John Dalvi
 * Others

• Jagannath Raoji Chitnis

• A.K. Sarwate

• Sudhir Sawant

• Bhaskar S. Soman
 * NAVY
 * Admirals

• Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni

• Vishnu Bhagwat • Manohar Prahlad Awati
 * Vice/Rear Admirals

• S. G. Karmarkar

• Murlidhar Sadashiv Pawar

• Satish Namdeo Ghormade

• SV Bhokare

• Benjamin Abraham Samson

• Ravindra Jayant Nadkarni

• Rajesh Pendharkar • Mohan Narayan Rao Samant
 * Others

• Dilip Donde

• Kulbhushan Jadhav • Hrushikesh Moolgavkar
 * AIR FORCE
 * Air Chief Marshal

• Lakshman Madhav Katre

• Anil Tipnis

• Pradeep Vasant Naik

• Vivek Ram Chaudhari • Shirish Baban Deo
 * Air Marshal

• Suryakant Chintaman Chafekar

• Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik
 * Others

• Flt lt V. V. Tambay

Religion and spirituality
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
 * Father of Hindu Nationalism in India

• Narsimha Saraswati
 * Datta Sampradaya

• Saraswati Gangadhar

• Swami Samarth

• Rang Avadhoot

• Gagangiri Maharaj

• Vasudevanand Saraswati

• Nana Maharaj Taranekar

• Janardan Swami

• Chakradhar Swami
 * Mahanubhava Sampradaya

• Mhaimbhat

• Dnyaneshwar
 * Warkari Movement

• Muktabai

• Nivruttinath

• Sopan

• Namdev

• Chokhamela

• Eknath

• Tukaram

• Savata Mali

• Morya Gosavi
 * Ganapatyas

• Mukundraj
 * Late medieval period Saints (1200–1526)

• Gora Kumbhar

• Santaji Jagnade

• Samarth Ramdas

• Changdev Maharaj

• Janabai

• Kanhopatra

• Damaji

• Swami Samarth
 * Early modern period Saints (1526–1858)

• Brahma Chaitanya

• Pandurang Shastri Athavale
 * Swadhyaya Movement

• Jayshree Talwalkar

• Dadoba Pandurang
 * Prarthana Samaj

• Atmaram Pandurang

• Narayan Chandavarkar

• Vithal Krishnaji Khedkar

• Gagangiri Maharaj
 * Modern period, independence and after (1858–1947)

• 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

• M. S. Golwalkar
 * RSS Members

• Laxman Vasudev Paranjape

• Mohan Bhagwat

• Nathuram Godse

Politics
• Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
 * Speaker of Lok Sabha

• Shivraj Patil

• Manohar Joshi

• Sumitra Mahajan

• Pratibha Patil
 * First female President of India

• Yashwantrao Chavan
 * Deputy Prime Minister of India

• Shashikala Kakodkar
 * First female Chief Minister of Goa

• Vasundhara Raje
 * First female Chief Minister of Rajasthan

• Dayanand Bandodkar
 * First Chief Minister of Goa

• Govind Ballabh Pant
 * First Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

• B. G. Kher
 * First Chief Minister of Bombay State

• Sandesh Gulhane
 * First Hindu and first man of Indian descent to be elected to the Scottish Parliament

• S.V. Ghate
 * First General Secretary of the Communist Party of India.

• Narayan Malhar Joshi
 * Founder of All India Trade Union Congress

• Sanyogita Rane
 * Goa's first woman parliamentarian

• Keshavrao Jedhe
 * Samyukta Maharashtra Movement

• Shreedhar Mahadev Joshi

• Shripad Amrit Dange

• Narayan Ganesh Gore

• Pralhad Keshav Atre

• Keshav Sitaram Thackeray

• Pandurang Mahadev Bapat

• S.K. Patil

• B. R. Ambedkar
 * Union Cabinet Ministers

• 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

• Marotrao Kannamwar
 * Others

• 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

• Pratap Chitnis, Baron Chitnis
 * United Kingdom and Irish politics

• Leo Varadkar

• Ameya Pawar
 * American politics

• 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
• R. D. Sathe
 * Foreign Service

• Ambassador Dnyaneshwar Mulay

• Ashok B. Gokhale

• Apa Sahib

• Ravindra Mhatre

• Atul Khare

• Vijay Keshav Gokhale

• Avinash Dharmadhikari
 * Indian Administrative Service

• 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

• N. Vittal
 * Indian Civil Service

• 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
• B.R. Ambedkar
 * Father of Indian Constitution


 * 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
 * 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
• Narayan Meghaji Lokhande • Vithalrao Vikhe Patil • Abasaheb Garware
 * Father of Indian Trade Union Movement
 * Founder of the Asia's first Cooperative sugar factory.
 * Others

• 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
• C. D. Deshmukh • C. D. Deshmukh
 * First Indian to be appointed the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
 * RBI Governors

• K. G. Ambegaonkar

• B. N. Adarkar

• Bhalchandra Mungekar
 * Economists

• 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


• Nagarjuna
 * Ancient Maharashtrian academicians

• Shripati

• Bhaskaracharya

• Hemadri

• Jñaneśvara

• Jayatirtha

• Gaṇeśa Daivajna

• Bhattoji Dikshita

• Munishvara

• Kamalakara

• Gagabhatta

• Jagannatha Samrat

• Bhaskararaya

• Dhondo Keshav Karve
 * Founder of India's First Women University

• G. S. Ghurye
 * Founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India

• S. B. Mujumdar
 * Founder and president of the Symbiosis Society

• P. K. Kelkar
 * Founding director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

• Lokmanya Tilak
 * Founder of Fergusson College

• Savitribai Phule
 * First female teacher of India

• Irawati Karve
 * First female Indian anthropologist

• Shrikant Jichkar
 * Most qualified person of India

• Jyotiba Phule
 * Pioneers in women's education

• Shalini Moghe

• Justice Ranade

• Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar


 * Founder of Balwadi


 * Tarabai Modak

• Pandurang Vaman Kane
 * Indologists

• V.S. Sukthankar

• Irawati Karve

• G. T. Deshpande

• Malati Shendge

• R. N. Dandekar

• Ranjitsinh Disale
 * Global Teacher Prize recipient

• Balshastri Jambhekar
 * Father of Marathi journalism.

• Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
 * Others

• 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

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
• Aditi Pant
 * First Indian Women to Antarctica

• Rahibai Soma Popere
 * Seed Mother of India

• B. R. Barwale
 * Father of the Indian Seed Industry

• Pandurang Khankhoje
 * Others

• 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
• Vijay P. Bhatkar
 * Father of Indian Super Computers

• DJ Patil
 * First U.S. Chief Data Scientist

• Abhi Talwalkar
 * Others

• 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
• R. P. Paranjpye
 * First Indian to be Senior Wrangler

• Eknath Ghate
 * Others

• 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
• Anandi Gopal Joshi • Kamala Sohonie • V. R. Khanolkar • Chintaman Govind Pandit
 * First Indian Female Physician
 * First Indian Female to receive PhD
 * Father of Pathology and Medical Research
 * ICMR Scientists

• Raman Gangakhedkar

• K. B. Sainis
 * Immunologist

• Dinakar M. Salunke • Abhay and Rani Bang
 * Others

• 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
• Venkatesh Bapuji Ketakar
 * Astronomy

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak • Anil Kakodkar
 * Nuclear scientists

• Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme

• Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande

• Shivram Baburao Bhoje

• Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan • Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
 * Fellow of Royal Society

• Subhash Khot • Abhay Ashtekar
 * Theoretical physicists

• Atish Dabholkar

• Rohini Godbole • Jayant Narlikar
 * Astro - physicists

• Amol Dighe

• Avinash Deshpande

• Nissim Kanekar

• S.M. Chitre

• Chanda Jog

• Shrinivas Kulkarni • Vasant Gowarikar
 * ISRO and DRDO scientists

• Pramod Kale

• Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre • P. K. Kelkar
 * Indian Institute Of Technology(IIT) - Chairman/Directors

• Abhay Karandikar • N. K. Naik
 * Aerospace engineering

• Shivkar Bapuji Talpade • Anupam Saraph
 * Others

• 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

Cinema and theatre
• Dadasaheb Phalke - Maker of India's first full-length feature Raja Harishchandra
 * Father of Indian Cinema



• Bhanu Athaiya
 * First Indian to receive the Oscar

• Durgabai Kamat
 * First female actress of India

• Ruby Myers
 * Dada Saheb Phalke Award - Lifetime contribution to Indian Cinema

• Durga Khote

• V. Shantaram

• Lata Mangeshkar

• Bhalji Pendharkar

• Asha Bhosle

• Rajinikanth • Ajinkya Dev
 * Actors

• 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



• Aditi Sarangdhar
 * Actresses

• Amruta Khanvilkar

• 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

• Mamta Kulkarni

• 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

• 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

• Abhinay Deo
 * Directors

• 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

• 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

• Aditi Gowitrikar
 * Models and beauty pageant winners

• Anusha Dandekar

• Madhu Sapre

• Mugdha Godse

• Gayatri Joshi

• Rakhi Sawant

• Ujjwala Raut

• Sonali Raut

• Manasi Moghe

• Lopamudra Raut

• Namrata Shirodkar

• Meera Deosthale

• Aditya J Patwardhan
 * Hollywood

• 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


• Hāla
 * Ancient Maharashtrian litterateurs

• 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

• Acharya Atre
 * Others

• 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

• Atul Kasbekar
 * Photographers/cinematographers

• Baburao Painter

• Gautam Rajadhyaksha

• Waman Thakre

• Debu Deodhar

• Amol Gole

• Jagdish Mali

• Anna Salunke

• Bhanu Athaiya
 * Costume/fashion designers

• Nachiket Barve

• Anita Dongre

• Nitin Chandrakant Desai
 * Production designers

• Vishnupant Govind Damle

• Bal Thackeray
 * Cartoonists

• S. D. Phadnis

• D. G. Kulkarni

• Maya Kamath

• S. N. Gorakshakar

• Vasant Sarwate

• Raj Thackeray

• Valay Shende
 * Sculptors

• Ram V. Sutar

• Sadashiv Sathe

• Pramod Kamble

• Subodh Kerkar

• Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar

• Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe

• Gopi Kukde
 * Painters

• 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

• Raghunath K. Joshi
 * Calligraphers/typographers

• Vinay Saynekar

Hindustani classical music
• Ajay Pohankar

• Ajit Kadkade

• Anand Bhate

• Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar

• Ashwini Bhide

• 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

• C. Ramchandra

• Datta Naik

• Hridaynath Mangeshkar

• Laxmikant Kudalkar

• Ram Kadam

• Ram-Laxman

• Sudhir Phadke

• Shrinivas Khale

• Shridhar Phadke

• Vasant Desai

• Vasant Prabhu

• Ashok Patki

• Govindrao Tembe

• Sneha Khanwalkar

Modern music
• Ajay–Atul

• Ashutosh Phatak

• Avdhoot Gupte

• Digvijay Bhonsale

• Gaurav Dagaonkar

• Karsh Kale

• Kaushal Inamdar

• Milind Date

• Milind Ingle

• Nilesh Moharir

• Salil Kulkarni

• Sneha Khanwalkar

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

• Abhijeet Sawant
 * Winner of Indian Idol (Season 1)

Sports


• Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav
 * First Individual Olympic Medal for India

• Murlikant Petkar
 * First Individual Paralympic Medal for India

• Sachin Tendulkar
 * First Indian to score 100 international 100's

• Sucheta Kadethankar
 * First Indian woman to cross Gobi Desert

• Jayshree Khadilkar
 * First Indian woman to obtain WIM title

• Phadeppa Dareppa Chaugule
 * India's first Olympic Marathon runner

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
• Eli Ben-Menachem
 * Bene Israel

• Ruby Myers

• Liora Itzhak

• Samson Kehimkar

• Eban Hyams

• Nissim Ezekiel

• Jerusha Jhirad

• Ezra Mir

• Leela Samson

• Reuben Dhondji Ashtumkar

• David Abraham Cheulkar

• Reddy Row
 * Thanjavur

• 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

• Govind Ballabh Pant
 * Uttarakhand

• K.C. Pant

• Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan

• Pratap Chitnis, Baron Chitnis
 * United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe

• Leo Varadkar - Ireland P.M

• Atul Chitnis

• Satyendra Pakhale

• Mangesh Panchal

• Arvinn Gadgil

• Sandesh Gulhane

• Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje
 * Mexico

• Dwarkanath Kotnis
 * South East and Far East

• Yogendra Puranik

• Natasha Mhatre
 * Canada

• Anusha Dandekar
 * Australia

• Neel Kolhatkar

• Minoti Apte

• Lisa Sthalekar

• Sakharam Ganesh Pandit
 * United States

• 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

• Zulekha Daud UAE's first Woman Doctor
 * UAE

Awardee
• Vinoba Bhave
 * First Indian to receive Magsaysay Award (Asia's Nobel)

• Vinoba Bhave
 * Ramon Magsaysay - Asia's Noble

• Pandurang Shastri Athavale

• Baba Amte

• Rajanikant Arole

• Mabelle Arole

• Prakash Amte

• Mandakini Amte

• Harish Hande

• Govind Ballabh Pant
 * Bharat Ratna - Highest Civilian Award

• 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.