List of people from Maharashtra
This is a '''list of notable people from Maharashtra, India'''
Art
Actors
- 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
- Riteish Vilasrao Deshmukh
- 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
Actresses
- Alka Kubal
- Aditi Govitrikar
- Ashwini Bhave
- Bhavana
- Durga Khote
- Genelia Deshmukh
- Isha Koppikar
- Jayshree Gadkar
- Lalita Pawar
- Leela Chitnis
- Kavita Lad
- Kimi Katkar
- Madhuri Dixit
- Mamta Kulkarni
- Meena Kumari
- Mugdha Godse
- Namrata Shirodkar
- Shenaz Treasury
- Nishigandha Wad
- Nivedita Joshi
- Nutan
- Padmini Kolhapure
- Pallavi Joshi
- Radhika Apte
- Rajashree
- Rohini Hattangadi
- Shraddha Kapoor
- Shilpa Shirodkar
- Smita Patil
- Sheetal Agashe
- Shobhana Samarth
- Sonali Bendre
- Sonali Kulkarni
- Sai Tamhankar
- Supriya Pathak
- Sushama Shiromanee
- Usha Chavan
- Urmila Matondkar
- Vandana Gupte
Directors
- Yash Chopra
- Karan Johar
- Madhur Bhandarkar
- Mahesh Manjrekar
- Ashutosh Gowarikar
- Amol Gupte
- Sachin Pilgaonkar
- Nagraj Manjule
- Satish Rajwade
- Ravi Jadhav
- Rohit Shetty
- Ram Gopal Verma
- Ayan Mukherjee
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali
- Zoya Akhtar
Visual artists
Award winners from Maharashtra
- Bharat Ratna
- * B. R. Ambedkar
- * Vinoba Bhave
- * Nanaji Deshmukh
- * Pandurang Vaman Kane
- * Dhondo Keshav Karve
- * Lata Mangeshkar
- * Sachin Tendulkar
- Padma Vibhushan
- *B. G. Kher, 1954
- Padma Bhushan
- * Homi J. Bhabha, Science & Engineering, 1954
- Padma Shri
- * Asha Devi Aryanayakam, Public Affairs, 1954
Business and industry
- Abasaheb Garware, Garware group
- Azim Premji, Wipro
- Baba Kalyani, Bharat Forge
- Baburao Govindrao Shirke, Shirke Group of Companies
- Baburaoji Parkhe, Parkhe group
- Bhavarlal Jain, Jain Irrigation
- Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave, SEBI Chairman
- Chandrashekhar Agashe, BMSS
- Dajikaka Gadgil, PNG Jewellers
- Deepak Ghaisas, Iflex
- Dilip Dandekar, Camlin
- Ganesh Gadgil, PNG Jewellers
- Jyoti Gogte, Golden Nugget Engineering & Electroplast
- Kalpana Saroj, Kamani Tubes
- Kiran Karnik, former president of NASSCOM, 2007–08
- Panditrao Agashe, BMSS
- Purshottam Narayan Gadgil, PNG Jewellers
- Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj Group
- Rajendra Pawar, NIIT
- Raosaheb Gogte, Gogte Group
- S L Kirloskar, Kirloskar group
- Subhash Runwal, Runwal Group Chairman
- Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO
- Vivek Ranadive, TIBCO
- Walchand Hirachand, Walchand Group of Industries
Street vendor
Defence forces
Gallantry honors
[Param Vir Chakra]
- Lieutenant Colonel Ardeshir Burzorji Tarapore, Poona Horse
- Major Rama Raghoba Rane Bombay Engineers
- Major Ramaswamy Parameshwaran
Journalism
- Nanasaheb Parulekar, founder editor of ''Sakal''
Literature
- Vasant Purushottam Kale
- Ranjit Desai
- N. S. Inamdar
- Shivaji Sawant
- 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
- Shakuntala Karandikar
- Baba Kadam, novelist
- Babasaheb Purandare
- Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
- Shirish Kanekar
- Suhas Shirvalkar
- Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle
- Sadashiv Ranade
- Gangadhar Pathak
- Dinkar G. Kelkar
- Irawati Karve
Medicine
- B. K. Misra, neurosurgeon
Music
- Mandar Agashe, music director
- Vineet Alurkar, musician
- Aarya Ambekar, singer
- Kishori Amonkar, singer
- Ajay Atul, music director
- Prabha Atre, singer
- Swapnil Bandodkar, singer
- Ashwini Bhide, singer
- Shamika Bhide, singer
- Asha Bhosle, singer
- Vasantrao Deshpande, classical singer of Patiala Gharana
- Bal Gandharva, theatre
- Sawai Gandharva, singer
- Avdhoot Gupte, singer
- Bhimsen Joshi, classical singer
- Suman Kalyanpur, singer
- Kesarbai Kerkar, singer
- Shrinivas Khale, music director
- Shalmali Kholgade, singer
- Mogubai Kurdikar, singer
- Prathamesh Laghate, singer
- Deenanath Mangeshkar, theatre
- Lata Mangeshkar, singer
- Usha Mangeshkar, singer
- Ketaki Mategaonkar, singer
- Zubin Mehta, conductor
- Vaishali Mhade, singer
- Anuradha Paudwal, singer
- Ashutosh Phatak, music director
- Rohit Raut, singer
- Vaishali Samant, singer
- Sadhana Sargam, singer
- Abhijeet Sawant, singer
- Bela Shende, singer
- Adarsh Shinde, singer
- Rahul Vaidya, singer
- Mugdha Vaishampayan, singer
- Suresh Wadkar, singer
Hip Hop
Police
Politics
Rajya Sabha members
Chief ministers
Others
- Ajit Pawar
- Anant Gadgil
- Anil Shirole
- Babasaheb Ambedkar
- Bal Thackeray
- Balasaheb Desai
- Balasaheb Vikhe Patil
- Chhagan Bhujbal
- Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale
- Ganpatrao Deshmukh
- Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- Gopinath Munde
- Hari Shivaram Rajguru
- Haribhau Jawale
- Keshavrao Jedhe
- Manikrao Thakare
- Manohar Joshi
- Narayan Rane
- Patangrao Kadam
- Prakash Ambedkar
- Pramod Mahajan
- Prithviraj Chavan
- R R Patil
- Raj Thackeray
- Ram Shinde
- Ramdas Athawale
- Rani Lakshmibai
- Senapati Bapat
- Shankarrao Chavan
- Sharad Pawar
- Shivraj Patil
- Shrikant Jichkar
- Shripad Amrit Dange
- Siddharth Shirole
- Sudhakarrao Naik
- Sunil Deshmukh
- Sushilkumar Shinde
- Tatya Tope
- Uddhav Thackeray
- Vasantrao Naik
- Vasantdada Patil
- Vilasrao Deshmukh
- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
- Yashwantrao Chavan
Religion
- Babasaheb Ambedkar
- Samarth Ramdas, Sajjangad
- Saint Tukaram, Dehu
- Saint Namdev, Pandharpur
- Saint Dnyaneshwar, Alandi
- Saint Eknath, Paithan
- Sai Baba
- Gajanan Maharaj, Shegaon
- Chokha Mela, Mangalvedhe
- Gora Kumbhar, Terdhoki
- Muktabai, Muktainagar
- Bahinabai
- Janabai, Pandharpur
- Kanhopatra, Pandharpur
- Shri BrahmaChaitanya, Gondavale
- Swami Samartha Maharaj, Akkalkot
- Jangali Maharaj, Pune
- Zakir Naik, Mumbai
- Rufus Pereira, Mumbai, Roman Catholic priest and exorcist
Rulers
- Krishna
- Ramachandra
- Chhatrapati Shivaji
- Chhatrapati Sambhaji
- Madhavrao I
- Ahilyabai Holkar
- Shahu II of Kolhapur
- Mahadaji Shinde
- Malhar Rao Holkar
- Yashwantrao Holkar
- Baji Rao I
- Khemirao Sarnaik
Scientists
- Vijay Bhatkar
- Anil Kakodkar
- Madhav Gadgil
- Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
- Jayant Narlikar
- Shekhar C. Mande
- Chandreshekhar Sonwane
- Chandrashekhar Khare
- Narendra Karmarkar
- Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
- Shrinivas Kulkarni
- Abhay Ashtekar
- Aravind Joshi
- Subhash Khot
- Ashok Gadgil
- Anandi Gopal Joshi
- Tatyarao Lahane
Social activists
- Baba Amte
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale
- Sindhutai Sapkal
- Babasaheb Ambedkar
- Mahatma Jyotiba Phule
- Ashok Row Kavi
- Dhondo Keshav Karve
- Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
- Kisan Mehta
- Harish Iyer
- Manibhai Desai
- Anna Hazare
- Medha Patkar
- Savitribai Phule
- Abhay Bang
- Vinoba Bhave
- Bhaurao Patil
- Lokmanya Tilak
- Veer Savarkar
- Anna Bhau Sathe
- Prakash Amte
- Hari Narke
- Shivrampant Damle
Sports
Badminton
Chess
Contract bridge
- Jaggy Shivdasani
- Orlando Campos
- Ramesh Gokhale
- Keshav Samant, popularly known as Anand Samant
Cricket
- Abhishek Nayar
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Ajit Agarkar
- Ashutosh Agashe
- Baloo Gupte
- Chandrakant Pandit
- Chandrakant Patankar
- Chandrasekhar Gadkari
- Chandu Borde
- Dattaram Hindlekar
- Dattu Phadkar
- Dilip Vengsarkar
- Dnyaneshwar Agashe
- Hemant Kanitkar
- Hemu Adhikari
- Hrishikesh Kanitkar
- Kedar Jadhav
- Khandu Rangnekar
- Kiran More
- Manohar Hardikar
- Nilesh Kulkarni
- Paras Mhambrey
- Phiroze Palia
- Polly Umrigar
- Pravin Amre
- Rahul Dravid
- Ramnath Parkar
- Ravi Shastri
- Rohan Gavaskar
- Rohit Sharma
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Sairaj Bahutule
- Salil Ankola
- Sameer Dighe
- Sandip Patil
- Sanjay Bangar
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Shardul Thakur
- Shreyas Iyer
- Subhash Gupte
- Sunil Gavaskar
- Umesh Yadav
- Vijay Hazare
- Vijay Manjrekar
- Vijay Merchant
- Vinod Kambli
- Vinoo Mankad
- Wasim Jaffer
- Zaheer Khan
Hockey
Shooting
Other sports
- Ashish Mane - Mountaineerng
- Gaurav Natekar - Tennis
- Khashaba Jadhav - Wrestling, won first Olympic individual medal for India
- Murlikant Petkar - Swimming, India's first Paralympic Gold Medalist