| Rashmi Thackeray | |
| Birth Name: | Rashmi Patankar |
| Birth Place: | Dabhol, Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, India |
| Office: | Spouse of Chief Minister of Maharashtra |
| Term Start: | 28 November 2019 |
| Term End: | 29 June 2022 |
| 1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata: | Uddhav Thackeray |
| Predecessor: | Amruta Fadnavis |
| Successor: | Lata Shinde |
| Office1: | Editor-in-chief of Saamana[1] and Marmik[2] |
| Term Start1: | 2020 |
| Predecessor1: | Uddhav Thackeray |
| Children: | 2, including Aaditya Thackeray |
| Relatives: | See Thackeray Family |
| Alma Mater: | Vinayak Ganesh Vaze Autonomous College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Mulund East |
| Education: | B. Com. |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
Rashmi Thackeray (née Patankar) is an Indian journalist and the editor-in-chief of Saamana and Marmik. She is the spouse of Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray and the mother of Aaditya Thackeray.
The daughter of businessman Madhav Patankar of Dombivli, she attended V G Vaze College in Mulund for her Bachelor of Commerce degree. She joined the Life Insurance Corporation of India as a contract employee in 1987. A friend of Raj Thackeray's sister, Jaywanti, she met Uddhav Thackeray. The couple got married in 1989.[3] [4] [5] The couple have two sons, Aditya (Former Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Environment Government of Maharashtra) and Tejas.[6]