List of poets from Mumbai

Urdu poets

 * Ali Sardar Jafri
 * Majrooh Sultanpuri
 * Sahir Ludhianvi
 * Kaifi Azmi
 * Nida Fazli
 * Javed Akhtar
 * Shakeel Badayuni
 * Quaiser Khalid

Marathi poets

 * Narayan Surve
 * Mangesh Padgaonkar

Hindustani poets

 * Gulzar
 * Javed Akhtar
 * Majrooh Sultanpuri
 * Sameer
 * Prasoon Joshi

Indian English poets
Bombay Poets (or, Bombay School of Poets) is one which is known to redefine Indian English poetry. The school began in the 1960s, and have flourished ever since. It has includes persons who have also changed the perception of Indian poetry by performing in cultural hubs such as Soho, London, New York, and many more of such places. Their selected works have also been achieved at the Cornell Library.
 * Nissim Ezekiel
 * R. Parthasarathy
 * Dom Moraes
 * Adil Jussawalla
 * Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
 * Dilip Chitre
 * Gieve Patel
 * Ranjit Hoskote
 * Eunice de Souza
 * Jerry Pinto
 * Annie Zaidi
 * Arun Kolatkar
 * Santan Rodrigues
 * Rochelle Potkar