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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|None}}<br /> <br /> {{Unreferenced|date=May 2017}} <br /> {{Dynamic list}} <br /> This is a &#039;&#039;&#039;list of notable people from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]&#039;&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> ==Art==<br /> * [[Mangesh Tendulkar]]<br /> * [[Pramod Kamble]]<br /> * [[Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis]]<br /> <br /> ===Actors===<br /> {{main|List of Marathi film actors}}<br /> [[File:nana patekar.jpg|thumb|190px|<br /> [[Nana Patekar]]]]<br /> <br /> [[File:Riteish Deshmukh Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum&#039; team at 98.3 FM Radio Mirchi 06.jpg|thumb|190px|<br /> [[Riteish Deshmukh]]]]<br /> *[[Ajinkya Dev]]<br /> *[[Amol Palekar]]<br /> *[[Ankush Chaudhari]]<br /> *[[Ashok Saraf]]<br /> *[[Atul Kulkarni]]<br /> *[[Bharat Jadhav]]<br /> *[[Chandrakant Mandare]]<br /> *[[Dada Kondke]]<br /> *[[Dilip Prabhavalkar]]<br /> *[[Kashinath Ghanekar]]<br /> *[[Kuldeep Pawar]]<br /> *[[Laxmikant Berde]]<br /> *[[Mahesh Kothare]]<br /> *[[Makarand Anaspure]]<br /> *[[Makarand Deshpande]]<br /> *[[Master Vinaayak]]<br /> *[[Milind Gunaji]]<br /> *[[Milind Soman]]<br /> *[[Mohan Gokhale]]<br /> *[[Nana Patekar]]<br /> *[[Nilu Phule]]<br /> *[[Nishikant Kamat]]<br /> *[[Prabhakar Panshikar]]<br /> *[[Prashant Damle]]<br /> *[[Ritesh Deshmukh|Riteish Vilasrao Deshmukh]]<br /> *[[Rajnikanth]]<br /> *[[Sharad Talwalkar]]<br /> *[[Sachin Khedekar]]<br /> *[[Sachin (actor)|Sachin Pilgaonkar]]<br /> *[[Sadashiv Amrapurkar]]<br /> *[[Sandeep Kulkarni]]<br /> *[[Sanjay Narvekar]]<br /> *[[Sayaji Shinde]]<br /> *[[Shahu Modak]]<br /> *[[Shivaji Satham]]<br /> *[[Shreyas Talpade]]<br /> *[[Siddharth Jadhav]]<br /> *[[Sudhir Joshi]]<br /> *[[Subodh Bhave]]<br /> *[[Vikram Gokhale]]<br /> <br /> ===Actresses===<br /> [[File:Urmila at kjo bday.jpg|thumb|upright|<br /> [[Urmila Matondkar]]]]<br /> [[File:Sonali Bendre attends the 63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018 (20) (cropped).jpg |thumb|190px|<br /> [[Sonali Bendre]]]]<br /> *[[Alka Kubal]]<br /> *[[Aditi Govitrikar]]<br /> *[[Ashwini Bhave]]<br /> *[[Bhavana]]<br /> *[[Durga Khote]]<br /> * [[Genelia D&#039;souza|Genelia Deshmukh]]<br /> *[[Isha Koppikar]]<br /> *[[Jayshree Gadkar]]<br /> *[[Lalita Pawar]]<br /> *[[Leela Chitnis]]<br /> *[[Kavita Lad]]<br /> *[[Kimi Katkar]]<br /> *[[Madhuri Dixit]]<br /> *[[Mamta Kulkarni]]<br /> *[[Meena Kumari]]<br /> *[[Mugdha Godse]]<br /> *[[Namrata Shirodkar]]<br /> *[[Nishigandha Wad]]<br /> *[[Nivedita Joshi]]<br /> *[[Nutan]]<br /> *[[Padmini Kolhapure]]<br /> *[[Pallavi Joshi]]<br /> *[[Radhika Apte]]<br /> *[[Rajshree|Rajashree]]<br /> *[[Rohini Hattangadi]]<br /> *[[Shraddha Kapoor]]<br /> *[[Shilpa Shirodkar]]<br /> *[[Smita Patil]]<br /> *[[Shobhana Samarth]]<br /> *[[Sonali Bendre]]<br /> *[[Sonali Kulkarni]]<br /> *[[Sai Tamhankar]]<br /> *[[Supriya Pathak]]<br /> *[[Usha Chavan]]<br /> *[[Urmila Matondkar]]<br /> *[[Vandana Gupte]]<br /> <br /> ===Directors===<br /> [[File:Sachin Pilgaonkar at the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards 2010.jpg|thumb|170px|<br /> [[Sachin Pilgaonkar]]]]<br /> * [[Yash Chopra]]<br /> * [[Karan Johar]]<br /> * [[Madhur Bhandarkar]]<br /> * [[Mahesh Manjrekar]]<br /> * [[Ashutosh Gowarikar]]<br /> * [[Amol Gupte]]<br /> * [[Sachin Pilgaonkar]]<br /> * [[Nagraj Manjule]]<br /> * [[Satish Rajwade]]<br /> * [[Ravi Jadhav]]<br /> * [[Rohit Shetty]]<br /> * [[Ram Gopal Verma]]<br /> * [[Ayan Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Sanjay Leela Bhansali]]<br /> * [[Zoya Akhtar]]<br /> <br /> ===Visual artists===<br /> * [[Maria Marshall]]<br /> <br /> ==Award winners from Maharashtra==<br /> *[[Bharat Ratna]]<br /> ** [[B. R. Ambedkar]]<br /> ** [[Vinoba Bhave]]<br /> ** [[Nanaji Deshmukh]]<br /> ** [[Pandurang Vaman Kane]]<br /> ** [[Dhondo Keshav Karve]]<br /> ** [[Lata Mangeshkar]]<br /> ** [[Sachin Tendulkar]]<br /> <br /> *[[Padma Vibhushan]]<br /> **[[B. G. Kher]], 1954<br /> * [[Padma Bhushan]]<br /> ** [[Homi J. Bhabha]], Science &amp; Engineering, 1954<br /> * [[Padma Shri]]<br /> ** [[Asha Devi Aryanayakam]], Public Affairs, 1954<br /> <br /> == Business and industry ==<br /> * [[Abasaheb Garware]], Garware group<br /> * [[Azim Premji]], Wipro<br /> * [[Baba Kalyani]] (Babasaheb Nilaknthrao Kalyani), Bharat Forge<br /> * [[Baburao Govindrao Shirke]], Shirke Group of Companies<br /> * [[Baburaoji Parkhe]], Parkhe group<br /> * [[Bhavarlal Jain]], Jain Irrigation<br /> * [[Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave]], SEBI Chairman<br /> * [[Chandrashekhar Agashe]], [[Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate|BMSS]]<br /> * [[Dajikaka Gadgil]], [[PNG Jewellers]]<br /> * [[Deepak Ghaisas]], [[Iflex]]<br /> * [[Dilip Dandekar]], [[Kokuyo Camlin|Camlin]]<br /> * [[Ganesh Gadgil]], PNG Jewellers<br /> * [[Jyoti Gogte]], Golden Nugget Engineering &amp; Electroplast<br /> * [[Kalpana Saroj]], Kamani Tubes <br /> * [[Kiran Karnik]], former president of NASSCOM, 2007–08<br /> * [[Panditrao Agashe]], BMSS<br /> * [[Purshottam Narayan Gadgil]], PNG Jewellers<br /> * [[Rahul Bajaj]], Bajaj Group<br /> * [[Rajendra Pawar]], NIIT<br /> * [[Raosaheb Gogte]], [[Gogte Group]]<br /> * [[S L Kirloskar]] (Shantanurao), Kirloskar group<br /> * [[Subhash Runwal]], Runwal Group Chairman <br /> * [[Vikram Pandit]], Citigroup CEO<br /> * [[Vivek Ranadive]], TIBCO<br /> * [[Walchand Hirachand]], Walchand Group of Industries<br /> <br /> == Defence forces ==<br /> *[[General Arun S. Vaidya]]<br /> *[[Namdeo Jadav]]<br /> *[[Yeshwant Ghadge]]<br /> *[[Manoj Mukund Naravane|Manoj Mukund Narwane]]<br /> <br /> ==Gallantry honors==<br /> ===[[Param Vir Chakra]]===<br /> *[[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Ardeshir Burzorji Tarapore]], [[Poona Horse]] ([[wikt:posthumous|posthumous]])<br /> *[[Major]] [[Rama Raghoba Rane]] [[Bombay Engineers]]<br /> * [[Major]] [[Ramaswamy Parameshwaran]]<br /> *<br /> <br /> == Journalism ==<br /> * [[Nanasaheb Parulekar]], founder editor of &#039;&#039;[[Sakal]]&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> ==Literature==<br /> *[[Vasant Purushottam Kale]]<br /> *[[Ranjit Desai]]<br /> *[[N. S. Inamdar]]<br /> *[[Shivaji Sawant]]<br /> *[[Acharya Atre]]<br /> *[[B. S. Mardhekar]]<br /> *[[G. A. Kulkarni]]<br /> *[[G. D. Madgulkar]]<br /> *[[Gangadhar Gadgil]]<br /> *[[Kusumagraj]]<br /> *[[Mangesh Padgaonkar]]<br /> *[[P. L. Deshpande]]<br /> *[[Vasant Abaji Dahake]]<br /> *[[Vasant Kanetkar]]<br /> *[[Vijay Tendulkar]]<br /> *[[Vilas Sarang]]<br /> *[[Vinda Karandikar]]<br /> *[[Baba Kadam]], novelist<br /> *[[Babasaheb Purandare]]<br /> *[[Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar]]<br /> *[[Shirish Kanekar]]<br /> *[[Suhas Shirvalkar]]<br /> *[[Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle]]<br /> *[[Sadashiv Ranade]]<br /> *[[Gangadhar Pathak]]<br /> *[[Dinkar G. Kelkar]]<br /> <br /> ==Medicine==<br /> * [[B. K. Misra]], neurosurgeon<br /> <br /> ==Music==<br /> [[File:Zubin Mehta 1.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Zubin Mehta]]]]<br /> [[File:Lata-Mangeshkar.jpg |thumb|150px|[[Lata Mangeshkar]]]]<br /> [[File: Asha Bhosle.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Asha Bhosle]]]]<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Only add a person to this list if they already have their own article on the English Wikipedia ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> &lt;!---♦♦♦ Please keep the list in alphabetical order by LAST NAME ♦♦♦---&gt;<br /> * [[Mandar Agashe]], music director<br /> * [[Vineet Alurkar]], musician<br /> * [[Aarya Ambekar]], singer<br /> * [[Kishori Amonkar]], singer<br /> * [[Ajay Atul]], music director<br /> * [[Prabha Atre]], singer<br /> * [[Swapnil Bandodkar]], singer<br /> * [[Ashwini Bhide]], singer<br /> * [[Shamika Bhide]], singer<br /> * [[Asha Bhosle]], singer<br /> * [[Vasantrao Deshpande]], classical singer of [[Patiala Gharana]]<br /> * [[Bal Gandharva]], theatre<br /> * [[Sawai Gandharva]], singer<br /> * [[Avdhoot Gupte]], singer<br /> * [[Bhimsen Joshi]], classical singer<br /> * [[Suman Kalyanpur]], singer<br /> * [[Kesarbai Kerkar]], singer<br /> * [[Shrinivas Khale]], music director<br /> * [[Shalmali Kholgade]], singer<br /> * [[Mogubai Kurdikar]], singer<br /> * [[Prathamesh Laghate]], singer<br /> * [[Deenanath Mangeshkar]], theatre<br /> * [[Lata Mangeshkar]], singer<br /> * [[Usha Mangeshkar]], singer<br /> * [[Ketaki Mategaonkar]], singer<br /> * [[Zubin Mehta]], conductor<br /> * [[Vaishali Mhade]], singer<br /> * [[Anuradha Paudwal]], singer<br /> * [[Ashutosh Phatak]], music director<br /> * [[Rohit Raut]], singer<br /> * [[Vaishali Samant]], singer<br /> * [[Sadhana Sargam]], singer<br /> * [[Abhijeet Sawant]], singer<br /> * [[Bela Shende]], singer<br /> * [[Adarsh Shinde]], singer<br /> * [[Rahul Vaidya]], singer <br /> * [[Mugdha Vaishampayan]], singer<br /> * [[Suresh Wadkar]], singer<br /> <br /> == Police ==<br /> *[[Vijay Salaskar]]<br /> *[[Ashok Kamte]]<br /> *[[Tukaram Omble]]<br /> *[[Vishwas Nangare Patil]]<br /> *[[Hemant Karkare]]<br /> <br /> ==Politics==<br /> ===Rajya Sabha members===<br /> * [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra]]<br /> <br /> ===Chief ministers===<br /> * [[List of Chief Ministers of Maharashtra]]<br /> <br /> ===Others===<br /> *[[Ajit Pawar]]<br /> *[[Anant Gadgil]]<br /> *[[Anil Shirole]]<br /> *[[Babasaheb Ambedkar]]<br /> *[[Bal Thackeray]]<br /> *[[Balasaheb Desai]]<br /> *[[Balasaheb Vikhe Patil]]<br /> *[[Chhagan Bhujbal]]<br /> *[[Dhulappa Bhaurao Navale]]<br /> *[[Ganpatrao Deshmukh]]<br /> *[[Gopal Ganesh Agarkar]]<br /> *[[Gopal Krishna Gokhale]]<br /> *[[Gopinath Munde]]<br /> *[[Hari Shivaram Rajguru]]<br /> *[[Haribhau Jawale]]<br /> *[[Keshavrao Jedhe]]<br /> *[[Manikrao Thakre]]<br /> *[[Manohar Joshi]]<br /> *[[Narayan Rane]]<br /> *[[Patangrao Kadam]]<br /> *[[Prakash Ambedkar]]<br /> *[[Pramod Mahajan]]<br /> *[[Prithviraj Chavan]]<br /> *[[R R Patil]]<br /> *[[Raj Thackeray]]<br /> *[[Ram Shinde]]<br /> *[[Ramdas Athawale]]<br /> *[[Rani Lakshmibai]]<br /> *[[Senapati Bapat]]<br /> *[[Shankarrao Chavan]]<br /> *[[Sharad Pawar]]<br /> *[[Shivraj Patil]]<br /> *[[Shrikant Jichkar]]<br /> *[[Shripad Amrit Dange]]<br /> *[[Siddharth Shirole]]<br /> *[[Sudhakarrao Naik]]<br /> *[[Sunil Deshmukh]]<br /> *[[Sushilkumar Shinde]]<br /> *[[Tatya Tope]]<br /> *[[Uddhav Thackeray]]<br /> *[[Vasantrao Naik]]<br /> *[[Vasantdada Patil]]<br /> *[[Vilasrao Deshmukh]]<br /> *[[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]]<br /> *[[Yashwantrao Chavan]]<br /> <br /> ==Religion==<br /> * [[Babasaheb Ambedkar]]<br /> * [[Samarth Ramdas]], [[Sajjangad]]<br /> * [[Saint]] [[Tukaram]], [[Dehu]]<br /> * [[Saint]] [[Namdev]], [[Pandharpur]]<br /> * [[Saint]] [[Dnyaneshwar]], [[Alandi]]<br /> * [[Saint]] [[Eknath]], [[Paithan]]<br /> * [[Sai Baba of Shirdi|Sai Baba]]<br /> * [[Gajanan Maharaj]], [[Shegaon]]<br /> * [[Chokha Mela]], [[Mangalvedhe]]<br /> * [[Gora Kumbhar]], Terdhoki<br /> * [[Muktabai]] (Kothali), Muktainagar<br /> * [[Bahinabai]]<br /> * [[Janabai]], [[Pandharpur]]<br /> * [[Kanhopatra]], [[Pandharpur]]<br /> * [[Shri BrahmaChaitanya]], Gondavale<br /> * [[Swami Samartha Maharaj]], Akkalkot<br /> * [[Jangali Maharaj]], [[Pune]]<br /> * [[Zakir Naik]], [[Mumbai]]<br /> * [[Rufus Pereira]], [[Mumbai]], [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Priesthood in the Catholic Church|priest]] and [[exorcist]]<br /> <br /> ==Rulers==<br /> *[[Krishna of Devagiri|Krishna]]<br /> *[[Ramachandra of Devagiri|Ramachandra]]<br /> *[[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj]]<br /> *[[Madhavrao I]]<br /> *[[Ahilyabai Holkar]]<br /> *[[Shahu II of Kolhapur]]<br /> *[[Mahadaji Shinde]]<br /> *[[Malhar Rao Holkar]]<br /> *[[Yashwantrao Holkar]]<br /> *[[Baji Rao I]]<br /> *[[Khemirao Sarnaik]]<br /> <br /> ==Scientists==<br /> *[[Vijay Bhatkar]]<br /> *[[Anil Kakodkar]]<br /> *[[Madhav Gadgil]]<br /> *[[Raghunath Anant Mashelkar]]<br /> *[[Jayant Narlikar]]<br /> *[[Shekhar C. Mande]]<br /> *[[Chandrashekhar Khare]]<br /> *[[Narendra Karmarkar]]<br /> *[[Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar]]<br /> *[[Shrinivas Kulkarni]]<br /> *[[Abhay Ashtekar]]<br /> *[[Aravind Joshi]]<br /> *[[Subhash Khot]]<br /> *[[Ashok Gadgil]]<br /> *[[Anandi Gopal Joshi]]<br /> *[[Tatyarao Lahane]]<br /> <br /> ==Social activists==<br /> * [[Baba Amte]]<br /> * [[Pandurang Shastri Athavale]]<br /> * [[Sindhutai Sapkal]]<br /> * [[Babasaheb Ambedkar]]<br /> * [[Mahatma Jyotiba Phule]] <br /> * [[Ashok Row Kavi]]<br /> * [[Dhondo Keshav Karve]]<br /> * [[Banoo Jehangir Coyaji]]<br /> * [[Kisan Mehta]]<br /> * [[Harish Iyer]]<br /> * [[Manibhai Desai]]<br /> * [[Anna Hazare]]<br /> * [[Medha Patkar]]<br /> * [[Savitribai Phule]]<br /> * [[Abhay Bang]]<br /> * [[Vinoba Bhave]]<br /> * [[Bhaurao Patil]]<br /> * [[Lokmanya Tilak]]<br /> * [[Veer Savarkar]]<br /> * [[Anna Bhau Sathe]]<br /> * [[Prakash Amte]]<br /> * [[Hari Narke]]<br /> * [[Shivrampant Damle]]<br /> <br /> ==Sports==<br /> <br /> ===Badminton===<br /> * [[Nandu M. Natekar]]<br /> * [[Aparna Popat]]<br /> * [[Larisa Sadarangani]]<br /> <br /> ===Chess===<br /> * [[Praveen Thipsay]]<br /> * [[Abdul Jabbar]]<br /> <br /> ===Contract bridge===<br /> * [[Jaggy Shivdasani]]<br /> * [[Orlando Campos]]<br /> * [[Ramesh Gokhale]]<br /> * [[Keshav Samant]], popularly known as Anand Samant<br /> <br /> ===Cricket===<br /> [[Image:Sachin at Castrol Golden Spanner Awards.jpg|thumb|Sachin Tendulkar]]<br /> [[Image:Rohit Sharma November 2016 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Rohit Sharma]]<br /> * [[Abhishek Nayar]]<br /> * [[Ajinkya Rahane]]<br /> * [[Ajit Agarkar]]<br /> * [[Ashutosh Agashe]]<br /> * [[Baloo Gupte]]<br /> * [[Chandrakant Pandit]]<br /> * [[Chandrakant Patankar]]<br /> * [[Chandrasekhar Gadkari]]<br /> * [[Chandu Borde]]<br /> * [[Dattaram Hindlekar]]<br /> * [[Dattu Phadkar]]<br /> * [[Dilip Vengsarkar]]<br /> * [[Dnyaneshwar Agashe]]<br /> * [[Hemant Kanitkar]]<br /> * [[Hemu Adhikari]]<br /> * [[Hrishikesh Kanitkar]]<br /> * [[Kedar Jadhav]]<br /> * [[Khandu Rangnekar]]<br /> * [[Kiran More]]<br /> * [[Manohar Hardikar]]<br /> * [[Nilesh Kulkarni]]<br /> * [[Paras Mhambrey]]<br /> * [[Phiroze Palia]]<br /> * [[Polly Umrigar]]<br /> * [[Pravin Amre]]<br /> * [[Rahul Dravid]]<br /> * [[Ramnath Parkar]]<br /> * [[Ravi Shastri]]<br /> * [[Rohan Gavaskar]]<br /> * [[Rohit Sharma]]<br /> * [[Sachin Tendulkar]]<br /> * [[Sairaj Bahutule]]<br /> * [[Salil Ankola]]<br /> * [[Sameer Dighe]]<br /> * [[Sandip Patil]]<br /> * [[Sanjay Bangar]]<br /> * [[Sanjay Manjrekar]]<br /> * [[Shardul Thakur]]<br /> * [[Shreyas Iyer]]<br /> * [[Subhash Gupte]]<br /> * [[Sunil Gavaskar]]<br /> * [[Umesh Yadav]]<br /> * [[Vijay Hazare]]<br /> * [[Vijay Manjrekar]]<br /> * [[Vijay Merchant]]<br /> * [[Vinod Kambli]]<br /> * [[Vinoo Mankad]]<br /> * [[Wasim Jaffer]]<br /> * [[Zaheer Khan]]<br /> <br /> ===Hockey===<br /> * [[Dhanraj Pillay]]<br /> * [[Viren Rasquinha]]<br /> * [[Hiranna M. Nimal]]<br /> <br /> ===Shooting===<br /> * [[Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat]]<br /> * [[Tejaswini Sawant]]<br /> <br /> ===Other sports===<br /> * [[Ashish Mane]] - Mountaineerng<br /> * [[Gaurav Natekar]] - Tennis<br /> * [[Khashaba Jadhav]] - Wrestling, won first Olympic individual medal for India<br /> * [[Murlikant Petkar]] - Swimming, India&#039;s first Paralympic Gold Medalist<br /> <br /> ==Criminals and gangsters==<br /> *[[Arun Gawli]]<br /> *[[Dawood Ibrahim]], criminal and drug dealer<br /> *[[Chhota Rajan]]<br /> *[[Manya Surve]]<br /> *[[Maya Dolas]]<br /> *[[Tiger Memon]]<br /> *[[Yakub Memon]]<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[List of Marathi people]]<br /> * [[List of people by India state]]<br /> * [[List of people from Nagpur]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of People From Maharashtra}}<br /> [[Category:Lists of people by state or union territory in India|Maharashtra|*]]<br /> [[Category:Lists of people from Maharashtra|*]]</div>

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