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Personages during the Maratha empire

 * Balaji Janardan Bhanu (Nana Phadnavis) (1742-1800) - minister and statesman of the Maratha Empire during the  Peshwai; mastermind of the  Barabhai council; supplemented  Pune’s water supply with his own water canal from village Narhe, Ambegaon to Shaniwarwada.


 * Balaji Vishwanath Bhat (Nanasheb Peshwe) (1720-1761) - 8th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, in the court of Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj of Satara and then his successor  Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj (Ramaraja); built Katraj canals to supply water, bridges, temples and lodges for travellers in Pune.


 * Narayan Balaji Bhat (Narayanrao Peshwe) (1755-1773) - 10th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, in the court of Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj (Ramaraja) of Satara;  Narayan Peth in Pune is named after him.


 * Vishwanath Balaji Bhat (Bajirao Peshwe) (1700-1740) - 7th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, in the court of Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj of Satara; responsible for shifting the administrative capital of the Maratha Empire to Pune; built the Shaniwarwada.
 * Jijabai Bhosale (Rajmata Jijabai) (1598-1674) – wife of Shahajiraje Bhosale,  jahagirdar of Pune; mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj who raised him during 1640s in Pune.
 * Ghashiram Savaldas (Ghashiram Kotwal) (-1791) - kotwal of Pune city; carried out major  civil works, constructed a temple, a tank at Hadapsar, and a garden on the road to Hadapsar; created Navapura Peth to the east of Bhavani Peth.

Pre-independence personages

 * Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856–1895) – journalist, educationalist and social reformer; co-founder of multiple educational institutions including the Deccan Education Society, New English School and Fergusson College;  editor of  Kesari and  founder and  editor of Sudharak.
 * Pandurang Mahadev Bapat (Senapati Bapat) (1880-1967) - initially a revolutionary and later a  satyagrahi in the Indian independence movement; studied bomb-making with the  India House group in London, and Paris, and disseminated this knowledge amongst  revolutionaries after returning to  India; led the Mulshi satyagraha against the building of the Mulshi dam.
 * Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915) – early nationalist leader on the moderate wing of the  Congress party; mentor to Mahatma Gandhi; founder of the Servants of India Society.
 * Jyotirao Govindrao Phule (Mahatma Jyotiba Phule) (1827-1890) - started the first indegenously run girls' school in India; as a social reformer worked for women's right to education, Hindu widow remarriage while also starting an infanticide prevention centre for pregnant widows, and against  caste discrimination; formed the Satyashodhak Samaj alongwith his followers.
 * Gopal Hari Shidhaye (Lokahitawadi Gopal Hari Deshmukh) (1823-1892) – social reformer, wrote articles aimed at social reform in Marathi society in the weekly Prabhakar under the pen name Lokhitawadi.
 * Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) - indian nationalist leader

Post-independence personages

 * Vitthalrao Gadgil – Leader of Indian National Congress
 * Anil Shirole - Ex-Member of Parliament from Pune, Former Big Leader of Pune and BJP.
 * Siddharth Shirole - Present Member of Legislative Assembly from Shivajinagar Assembly Constituency Pune, Present Leader of Shivajinagar, Pune and BJP.
 * Bal Thackeray (1926-2012) – founder of the Shiv Sena; born in Pune.