List of people from Maharashtra explained
This is a list of notable people from Maharashtra, India
Art
Actors
See main article: List of Marathi film actors.
Actresses
Directors
Visual artists
Award winners from Maharashtra
Business and industry
- Abasaheb Garware, Garware group
- Azim Premji, Wipro
- Baba Kalyani (Babasaheb Nilaknthrao 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 (Shantanurao), Kirloskar group
- Subhash Runwal, Runwal Group Chairman
- Tarita Shankar, India Group
- Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO
- Vivek Ranadive, TIBCO
- Walchand Hirachand, Walchand Group of Industries
Defence forces
Gallantry honors
Journalism
Literature
Medicine
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
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 (Kothali), 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
Scientists
Social activists
Sports
Badminton
Chess
Contract bridge
Cricket
Hockey
Shooting
Other sports
Criminals and gangsters
See also
