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
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- The ancient Maharashtrian kingdoms
- Vidarbha Kingdom
- Satavahana Empire
- Traikutaka dynasty
- Vakataka dynasty
- Shilahara dynasty
- Yadava dynasty
- The Jadhav (Sindkhed Raja-Maharashtra)
- Lakhuji Jadhav
- Jijabai
- Dhanaji Jadhav
- The Bhosales (Maharashtra)
- Chattrapati Shahu[1]
- Maloji Bhosale
- Raghoji I Bhonsle
- Rajaram Chhatrapati[1]
- Ramaraja[1]
- Sambhaji[1]
- Shahaji
- Shivaji[2]
- Tarabai
- The Peshwe
- The Bhosales (Thanjavur-Tamil Nadu)
- The Holkars (Indore-Madhya Pradesh)
- The Shinde/Scindia (Gwalior-Madhya Pradesh)
- The Newalkars (Jhansi-Uttar Pradesh)
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- The Gandekars (Bhor-Maharashtra)
- The Pawar (Dhar-Madhya Pradesh)
- The Ghorpade (Sandur-Karnataka)
- The Gaekwad (Baroda-Gujarat)
Historic warriors
- Satvahana dynasty (2nd century BCE–Early 3rd century CE)
- Abhira dynasty (Early 3rd century CE-Late 4th century CE)
- Traikutaka dynasty (4th century CE)
- Vakataka dynasty (Mid 3rd century CE-Early 6th century)
- 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)
- During 17th century and Shivaji's reign[10]
- Peshwa Baji Rao I
- Khemirao Sarnaik
- Govind Rao Khare
- Bajaji Rao Naik Nimbalkar
- Baji Prabhu Deshpande[11]
- Dhanaji Jadhav[12]
- Firangoji Narsala[13]
- Gomaji Naik
- Hambirrao Mohite[14]
- Kanhoji Angre
- Kanhoji Jedhe[15]
- Khanderao Dabhade
- Maynak Bhandari
- Murarbaji Deshpande[16]
- Netaji Palkar[13]
- Prataprao Gujar[17]
- Rango Narayan Orpe[18]
- Santaji Ghorpade[19]
- Tanaji Malusare[20]
- During 18th century and Peshwa rule
- The 27-year war - India's longest fought war (1680–1707)
- Leaders of Anglo Maratha Wars I, II, III (1775–1818)
Indian independence movement
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- Leaders of Ist War of Indian Independence (1857)
- Revolutionaries
- Father of Indian unrest
- Father of Indian armed struggle
- First political murder in Indian freedom struggle
- First Secret Society for Independence
- 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
Humanitarians and reformers
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- Father of renaissance of western India
- Reformers
- Bene Israeli reformer and scholar
- Social activists
- Abhay and Rani Bang
- Anna Hazare
- Annabhau Sathe
- Baba Amte
- Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil
- Nana Patekar
- Nanaji Deshmukh[21]
- 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
Defence leaders
- Father of Indian Navy
- First living recipient of the Param Vir Chakra
- Third woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank
- ARMY
- Generals
- Lieutenant Generals
- Others
- NAVY
- Admirals
- Vice/Rear Admirals
- Others
- AIR FORCE
- Air Chief Marshal
- Air Marshal
- Others
Religion and spirituality
- Father of Hindu Nationalism in India
- Datta Sampradaya
- Mahanubhava Sampradaya
- Warkari Movement
- Ganapatyas
- Late medieval period Saints (1200–1526)
- Early modern period Saints (1526–1858)
- Swadhyaya Movement
- Prarthana Samaj
- Modern period, independence and after (1858–1947)
- RSS Members
Politics
- Speaker of Lok Sabha
- First female President of India
- Deputy Prime Minister of India
- First female Chief Minister of Goa
- First female Chief Minister of Rajasthan
- First Chief Minister of Goa
- First Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
- First Chief Minister of Bombay State
- First Hindu and first man of Indian descent to be elected to the Scottish Parliament
- First General Secretary of the Communist Party of India.
- Founder of All India Trade Union Congress
- Goa's first woman parliamentarian
- Samyukta Maharashtra Movement
- 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
- American politics
- Goa legislative Assembly
Bureaucrats and diplomats
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- Foreign Service
- Indian Administrative Service
- Indian Civil Service
Founder, jurists and lawyers
- 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
- International lawyers
- 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
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- Father of Indian Trade Union Movement
- Founder of the Asia's first Cooperative sugar factory.
- 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[22]
- 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.
- RBI Governors
- Economists
- Bhalchandra Mungekar
- Narendra Jadhav
- Srikant Datar[23]
- Sukhadeo Thorat
- Ajit Ranade
- Avinash Dixit[24]
- Dattatreya Gopal Karve
- Devdatta Dabholkar
- Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil[25]
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Lalita D. Gupte
- Ram G. Takwale[26]
- Sukhadeo Thorat
- Vivek Kulkarni
- Suresh Tendulkar
- Usha Thorat
- Amrita Narlikar
- Vijay Kelkar
- Vikram Limaye
Academicians/educationists
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- Ancient Maharashtrian academicians
- Founder of India's First Women University
- Founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India
- Founder and president of the Symbiosis Society
- Founding director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Founder of Fergusson College
- First female teacher of India
- First female Indian anthropologist
- Most qualified person of India
- Pioneers in women's education
- Founder of Balwadi
- Indologists
- Global Teacher Prize recipient
- Father of Marathi journalism.
- 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
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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
- Seed Mother of India
- Father of the Indian Seed Industry
- 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
- First U.S. Chief Data Scientist
- 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
- 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
- First Indian Female to receive PhD
- Father of Pathology and Medical Research
- ICMR Scientists
- Immunologist
- 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
- Nuclear scientists
- Fellow of Royal Society
- Theoretical physicists
- Astro - physicists
- ISRO and DRDO scientists
- Indian Institute Of Technology(IIT) - Chairman/Directors
- Aerospace engineering
- Others
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Industrial design
Arts
Cinema and theatre
- Father of Indian Cinema
Dadasaheb Phalke - Maker of India's first full-length feature Raja Harishchandra
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- First Indian to receive the Oscar
- First female actress of India
- Dada Saheb Phalke Award - Lifetime contribution to Indian Cinema
- Actors
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- 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
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- Actresses
- Aditi Sarangdhar
- Amruta Khanvilkar
- Ankita Lokhande
- Anjana Mumtaz
- Antara Mali
- Ashalata Wabgaonkar
- Ashwini Bhave
- Bhagyashree Patwardhan
- Bhargavi Chirmule
- Durga Khote
- Durgabai Kamat[29][30]
- 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
- Directors
- Abhinay Deo
- Amol Gupte
- Amol Palekar
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- Ancient Maharashtrian litterateurs
- Jnanpith Award winners - Outstanding contribution in Indian Literature
Noted Marathi writers in non-Marathi languages
- D. R. Bendre - Considered as the greatest Kannada lyric poet of the 20th century.[31]
- 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
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Columnists and journalists
- Arun Sadhu
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- Raja Shamraj
- Nanasaheb Parulekar
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- 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
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- Dinkar G. Kelkar
- Gangadhar Pathak
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- K. N. Dikshit
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- M. K. Dhavalikar
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- Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar
- S. T. Joshi
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- 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
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- Production designers
- Cartoonists
- Sculptors
- Painters
- Gopi Kukde
- Pratap Mullick
- S. K. Bakre
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- 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
Music
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
Modern music
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)
Sports
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- First Individual Olympic Medal for India
- First Individual Paralympic Medal for India
- First Indian to score 100 international 100's
- First Indian woman to cross Gobi Desert
- First Indian woman to obtain WIM title
- 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
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
- Thanjavur
- Reddy Row
- Serfoji I
- Serfoji II[4]
- 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
- United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe
- Mexico
- South East and Far East
- Canada
- Australia
- 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)
- Ramon Magsaysay - Asia's Noble
- Bharat Ratna - Highest Civilian Award
- Ashok Chakra - India's highest peacetime military decoration award for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield.
- Param Vir Chakra - India's highest military decoration, awarded for displaying distinguished acts of valour during wartime.
- Victoria Cross
- 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.
See also
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