This is a list of famous and notable people from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity. This list also includes people from ethnicities other than Maharashtrians and those naturalized. For the list of notable Marathi people

Marathi people

The Marathi people or Maharashtrians are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, that inhabit the Maharashtra region and state of western India. Their language Marathi is part of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages...

, see this list of people from the Marathi ethnic group.

Corporate Lawyers

• Nitin Potdar - M&A Partner J. Sagar Associate

Business and industry

• Vikram Pandit
  Vikram Pandit
  Vikram S. Pandit is an Indian-born American business executive. He is the current CEO of Citigroup.-Early life:Vikram Pandit was born in Nagpur, India to an affluent Marathi family . His father, S B Pandit was an executive director at Sarabhai Chemicals in Baroda. He completed his schooling at the...
  
   - Citigroup CEO
• Abasaheb Garware
  Abasaheb Garware
  Bhalchandra Digamber Garware was a pioneering industrialist from Maharashtra state in India and Founder Chairman of the Garware Group of Industries.- Birth and childhood :...
  
   - Garware group
• Rajendra Pawar - NIIT
• Vivek Ranadive
  Vivek Ranadive
  Vivek Ranadivé is the Chairman, CEO and Founder of TIBCO Software, the computer software technology company he founded in 1997 with the vision of bringing real-time technology into the mainstream...
  
   - TIBCO
• Deepak Ghaisas
  Deepak Ghaisas
  Deepak Ghaisas is the chairman of Gencoval Strategic Services Pvt Ltd. Previously he was the CEO - India Operations and CFO of I-flex Solutions Ltd., India. He has worked in the software industry since 1987....
  
   - Iflex
• S L Kirloskar (Shantanurao)- Kirloskar group
• Baburaoji Parkhe
  Baburaoji Parkhe
  Malhar Sadashiv "Baburaoji" Parkhe तथा बाबुरावजी पारखे; 15 April 1912 – 13 January 1997),was an Indian industrialist from a Maharashtrian Deshastha Brahmin family. Parkhe was known to have a good study of Vedic literature. He was known to be a strong follower of Param Sadguru Shree Gajanan...
  
   - Parkhe group
• Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave
  Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave
  Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave is an Indian financial regulator. He was appointed as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India in February 2008 for a period of three years.He is currently replaced by Upendra Kumar Sinha as the chairman of SEBI after his tenure. He was SEBI's senior...
  
   SEBI Chairman
• Kiran Karnik
  Kiran Karnik
  Kiran Karnik is a prominent figure and guiding force behind the Indian outsourcing industry. He has formerly been the president of NASSCOM , and is now one of its trustees. Mr...
  
   Former president of NASSCOM for 2007–08

Journalists

• Rohit Viswanath
  Rohit Viswanath
  Rohit Viswanath is an Indian foreign policy expert and a commentator on International Affairs. He is the editor of'Insight from India on Politics, Economics & Strategy' a premium blog on India's international relations...
  
  - CNN Young Journalist of the Year 2006. Editorial Page writer with The Times of India
  The Times of India
  The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. TOI has the largest circulation among all English-language newspaper in the world, across all formats . It is owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd...
  
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• Nanasaheb Parulekar
  Nanasaheb parulekar
  Narayan Bhikaji Parulekar commonly referred as Nanasaheb Parulekar –,was the Founder Editor of 'Sakal', a Marathi daily newspaper, launched in January 1932...
  
  , Founder Editor of Sakal
  Sakal
  Sakal is a Marathi language daily newspaper headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Sakal is the flagship newspaper of the foundation publication, Sakal Media Group. Present newspaper circulation of Sakal is approximately 1.5 million copies per day, mainly in Maharashtra...
  
  

Actors

• Aditya Soni
• Ajinkya Dev
  Ajinkya Dev
  Ajinkya Dev is a noted actor in Marathi films and is the son of veteran Marathi actor Ramesh Dev & Seema Dev. "Vasudev Balawant Phadke" was the latest Marathi film in which he was the lead. Film was released in December 2007....
  
  
• Amol Palekar
  Amol Palekar
  Amol Palekar is an Indian actor of the 1970s and a director of Hindi and Marathi cinema.-Theater career:Palekar began in Marathi experimental theatre with Satyadev Dubey, and later started his own group, Aniket, in 1972 [citation needed]...
  
  
• Ashok Saraf
  Ashok Saraf
  Ashok Saraf is an Indian actor and comedian. He has appeared in many Hindi and Marathi movies for since the late 1960s.Ashok Saraf is known mainly for comedy movies, many of which he appeared in with Laxmikant Berde...
  
  
• Atul Kulkarni
  Atul Kulkarni
  Atul Kulkarni born 10 September 1965 is an Indian actor who has won two National Awards and has superstar status in Marathi film industry after successful movies like Valu and Natarang....
  
  
• Bharat Jadhav
  Bharat Jadhav
  is a popular Marathi theatre and film actor. He is known as a comedian, particularly when working in commercial Marathi cinema and drama. His play Sahi re Sahi is one of the most successful Marathi plays ever...
  
  
• Chandrakant Mandare
  Chandrakant Mandare
  Chandrakant Mandare was a well-known Marathi actor and an artist. He played different roles in Marathi films and devoted his life to art. He was a master in paintings and powder shading....
  
  
• Dilip Prabhavalkar
  Dilip Prabhavalkar
  Dilip Prabhavalkar is an Indian Marathi film and television actor. Although he has established himself as a prominent Marathi stage and movie actor for a while now, he became particularly known on the national scene for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 2006 film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai. He...
  
  
• Kuldeep Pawar
  Kuldeep Pawar
  Kuldeep Pawar is an actor in the Marathi language film industry of India. He is from Maharashtra province.-Some Kuldeep Pawar Films:* Mardani * Gupchup Gupchup * Gosht Dhamal Namyachi...
  
  
• Laxmikant Berde
  Laxmikant Berde
  Lakshmikant Berde was an Indian actor who appeared in Marathi and Hindi movies.- Early life :From his early years, Lakshmikant was interested in acting...
  
  
• Mahesh Kothare
  Mahesh Kothare
  Mahesh Kothare is an actor, director and producer of Marathi and Hindi films. He has been working with Indian cinema since when he was small child. He acted as a child artist in well known movie Raja Aur Rank, Chhota Bhai, Mere Laal, Ghar Ghar ki Kahani...
  
  
• Makarand Anaspure
  Makarand Anaspure
  Makarand Madhukar Anaspure is an Indian actor. He is popular on television and has acted in several Marathi movies in his career...
  
  
• Makarand Deshpande
• Master Vinaayak
  Master Vinaayak
  Master Vinayak was an Indian actor and film director. Born Winayak Damodar Karnataki in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India, he was married to actress Meenaxi Shirodkar. He was the father of actress Nanda, born 8 January 1939, the brother of cinematographer Vasudev Karnataki, and the stepbrother of actor...
  
  
• Milind Gunaji
  Milind Gunaji
  Milind Gunaji is an actor in Marathi and Hindi theater, TV and film and also writer. Most known for his roles in films like Devdas , Godmother , Virasat , Fareb , Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa and Dev , both by Govind Nihalani.He has been the host of travel show, Bhatkanti on Zee Marathi channel about...
  
  
• Milind Soman
  Milind Soman
  Milind Soman is a Scottish-born Indian model and actor. He was born in Scotland and lived in England for seven years before his family moved back to India.-Professional life:...
  
  
• Mohan Gokhale
  Mohan Gokhale
  Mohan Gokhale was an Indian film, television and theater actor who has worked in art films such as Sparsh, Bhavni Bhavai and Mirch Masala. He became popular because of his role in the Doordarshan television serial Mr. Yogi...
  
  
• Nana Patekar
  Nana Patekar
  Vishwanath "Nana" Patekar is an Indian actor and filmmaker.-Biography:Born Vishwanath Patekar in Murud-Janjira, Maharashtra, to Dinkar Patekar and his wife Sanjanabai Patekar. He is an alumnus of the Sir J.J...
  
  
• Nilu Phule
  Nilu Phule
  Nilu Phule was an Indian actor known for his roles in the Marathi language movies and Marathi theatre. Nilu Phule had acted in around 250 Marathi and Hindi movies during his film career....
  
  
• Nishikant Kamat
  Nishikant Kamat
  Nishikanth Kamat, मराठी - निशिकांत कामत is an Indian filmmaker. His debut film, Dombivali Fast earned him accolades in Marathi Cinema, as it went on to become the biggest Marathi film of the year...
  
  
• Prashant Damle
  Prashant Damle
  Prashant Damle is a versatile Marathi actor who has acted in numerous Marathi dramas, movies and television serials for over 15 years. His drama Gela Madhav Kunikade set records by having more than 1200 performances over a period of 15 years, and is still running.He is very enthusiastic, with a...
  
  
• Ritesh Deshmukh
• Sachin Khedekar
  Sachin Khedekar
  Sachin Khedekar is an Indian actor and director, best known for his roles in Astitva, Imtihaan, and as Netaji in Shyam Benegal's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero...
  
  
• Sachin Pilgaonkar
  Sachin (actor)
  Sachin Pilgaonkar often known by his first name Sachin, is an Indian film and television actor, director and producer.Starting as a child actor, in Marathi film, Ha Majha Marg Ekla , he went on to act in around 65 films as a child artiste, before switching to adult roles, and giving hits like Geet...
  
  
• Sadashiv Amrapurkar
  Sadashiv Amrapurkar
  Sadashiv Amrapurkar is a popular actor who is well known for his performances in Marathi and Hindi films in the 1980s and 90s.He received the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role in 1991 for Sadak — the first time the award was instituted...
  
  
• Sandeep Kulkarni
  Sandeep Kulkarni
  Sandeep Kulkarni is an actor from India who is also a painter. An actor from theatre, television, and films, his work is popular among Hindi and Marathi audience....
  
  
• Sanjay Narvekar
  Sanjay Narvekar
  Sanjay Narvekar is an Indian actor from the state of Maharashtra. He has worked in Marathi and Hindi stage plays and movies.He has played lead roles in many Marathi films and supporting roles in Hindi films. His portrayal of Sanjay Dutt's sidekick 'Dedh Phutiya' Sanjay Narvekar is an Indian actor...
  
  
• Sayaji Shinde
  Sayaji Shinde
  Sayaji Shinde is a Marathi film and multilingual actor from India who has acted in Bollywood, Tollywood and Kollywood. He was born in a small village near Satara, Maharashtra.-Career:...
  
  
• Shahu Modak
  Shahu Modak
  Shahu Modak was an Indian actor who acted in many Hindi as well as Marathi movies. Shahu Modak was mostly famous for the mythological characters that he played. He mostly played the roles of Lord Krishna and Sant Dyaneshwar.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Shivaji Satham
  Shivaji Satham
  Shivaji Satam is renowned Indian TV serial and film actor. He has appeared in many Hindi as well as Marathi films. In Hindi his famous films are Vaastav, Ghulam-E-Mustafa, Yeshwant, China Gate, Taxi No 9211, Jis Desh Me Ganga Reheta Hai, Hu Tu Tu. In Marathi he has got recognition through movies...
  
  
• Shreyas Talpade
  Shreyas Talpade
  -Early life:Talpade was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, in a Marathi family. He attended Shree Ram Welfare Society's High School in Andheri-West. He is married to Deepti Talpade. Shreyas met his wife Deepti when he went to her college as a celebrity...
  
  
• Sudhir Joshi
  Sudhir Joshi
  Sudhir Joshi was Indian Marathi actor and comedian.Born in Dadar, Joshi attended Pinto Villa and later Kirti College to obtain his BA Economics. He also studied law at Kirti. He worked as a sales executive at the publishing company Blackie and Sons...
  
  
• Subodh Bhave
  Subodh Bhave
  Subodh Bhave , born in Pune and now residing in Mumbai is a Marathi actor. He has acted in numerous Marathi tele-serials, movies and theatre and has won applauds from many noted professionals....
  
  
• Vikram Gokhale
  Vikram Gokhale
  Vikram Gokhale is an well known Indian film, television and stage actor, notable for his roles in Marathi theatre and Hindi films and television...
  
  

Actresses

• Alka Kubal
  Alka Kubal
  Alka Kubal is a popular Marathi film actress from Mumbai, India. She has worked in many Marathi movies and some Hindi Bollywood movies as well. Her film Maherchi Sadi made her a superstar and a household name in Maharashtra. She has worked along noted actors such as Dada Kondke, Ashok Saraf,...
  
  
• Aditi Govitrikar
• Ashwini Bhave
  Ashwini Bhave
  Ashwini Bhave is an Indian actress from a Maharashtrian Koknastha Bramhin family in Mumbai. She has worked in many Marathi films and some Hindi films. She has performed along with Madhuri Dixit-Nene in many countries...
  
  
• Bhavana
  Bhavana
  Bhāvanā literally means "development" or "cultivating" or "producing" in the sense of "calling into existence." It is an important concept in Buddhist praxis...
  
  
• Durga Khote
  Durga Khote
  Durga Khote was an Indian actress, starting as one of the foremost leading ladies of her times, she remained active in Hindi and Marathi cinema, as well as theatre, for over 50 years, starring in around 200 films and numerous theatre productions....
  
  
• Isha Koppikar
• Jayshree Gadkar
  Jayshree Gadkar
  Jayshree Gadkar was a noted Marathi movie actress and a star of Marathi cinema in the 1960s.-Early life:...
  
  
• Lalita Pawar
  Lalita Pawar
  Lalita Pawar was a prolific Indian actress, who later became famous as character actress, appearing in over 700 films in Hindi and Marathi cinema, where she gave hits like, Netaji Palkar , made by Bhalji Pendharkar, New Hana Pictures’ Sant Damaji, Navyug Chitrapat’s Amrit, written by VS Khandekar,...
  
  
• Leela Chitnis
  Leela Chitnis
  Leela Chitnis was an early actress in the Indian film industry.-Early life:She was born in Dharwar, Karnataka to an English professor. She was one of the first educated film actresses...
  
  
• Kimi Katkar
  Kimi Katkar
  Kimi Katkar was a successful model and popular actress of Bollywood from the 1980s to the early 1990s.-Career:Kimi Katkar made her acting debut in the 1985 film, Patthar Dil as a supporting actress. Later that year, she starred in Tarzan , where she played the lead opposite Hemant Birje...
  
  
• Madhuri Dixit
  Madhuri Dixit
  Madhuri Dixit is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Hindi films. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, she established herself as one of Hindi cinema's leading actresses and most accomplished dancers. She appeared in numerous commercially successful films and was recognised for several of...
  
  
• Mamta Kulkarni
  Mamta Kulkarni
  Mamta Mukhund Kulkarni is a former Bollywood Actress. During the 90s, she was part of several commercial successes such as Karan Arjun , Sabse Bada Khiladi , Aashiq Awara , Krantiveer among others.-Acting career:Kulkarni made her debut through the Tamil film Nanbargal which was released...
  
  
• Namrata Shirodkar
  Namrata Shirodkar
  - Early life and family :Born on 22 January 1972 in a moderate Marathi-speaking family, Namrata Shirodkar is an Aquarian. She used to live in Khar, a suburb in Mumbai. Her sister is the actress Shilpa Shirodkar...
  
  
• Nishigandha Wad
  Nishigandha Wad
  Dr. Nishigandha Wad is an acclaimed Marathi film actor who has acted in Hindi films and in Hindi and Marathi serials. She started acting in commercial cinema around 1989–90 and has acted in more than 100 films....
  
  
• Nivedita Joshi
  Nivedita Joshi
  Nivedita Joshiis an actress in the Marathi and Hindi language film industry of India of the late 1980s and early 1990s.She married with the great Marathi and Hindi actor Ashok Saraf.-Films:* Apnapan ......
  
  
• Nutan
  Nutan
  Nutan Behl , better known as Nutan , was an Indian actress. She appeared in more than 70 Hindi films in a career spanning over four decades...
  
  
• Padmini Kolhapure
  Padmini Kolhapure
  Padmini Kolhapure is an Indian actress who appeared in Bollywood films during the 1970s and 1980s.-Early life:Padmini Kolhapure is from a Maharashtrian family. Her father, Pandharinath Kolhapure is a classical singer whose family was from Kolhapur and Goa. Her mother, whose family hailed from...
  
  
• Pallavi Joshi
  Pallavi Joshi
  Pallavi Joshi is an Indian film/television/model actress. She is a one time National Film Award winning actress. She is the sister of child actor Master Alankar ....
  
  
• Rajashree
  Rajashree
  Rajashree is an Indian novelist and film-maker. She has been working in the Bombay film industry after studying film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India. She has written and directed a film, The Rebel, which won a National Award and was screened at many film festivals. She has...
  
  
• Rohini Hattangadi
  Rohini Hattangadi
  Rohini Hattangadi is an Indian actress of film, theatre and television. She has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film Award, and is the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Kasturba Gandhi in Gandhi...
  
  
• Shilpa Shirodkar
  Shilpa Shirodkar
  Shilpa Shirodkar is an Indian actress who enjoyed a period of popularity in the 1990s.-Early life:Shirodkar is the elder sister of actress and former Miss India Namrata Shirodkar. Shilpa and Namrata started their careers together, but Shilpa started with films and Namrata with modeling; and by the...
  
  
• Shobhana Samarth
• Sonali Bendre
  Sonali Bendre
  Sonali Bendre is an Indian actress and model. She has mostly starred in Bollywood films but has acted in many Telugu films as well as a number of Marathi, Tamil and Kannada films. She was also one of the four judges in the fourth season of Indian Idol and India's Got Talent...
  
  
• Sonali Kulkarni
  Sonali Kulkarni
  Sonali Kulkarni is an Indian actress. She was born in Pune. She has majorly worked in Marathi and Hindi films. She is famous for her role in Dil Chahta Hai.-Career:...
  
  
• Supriya Pathak
  Supriya Pathak
  Supriya Pathak Kapur is an Indian actress hailing from a long line of performers. She is famous for her role in the Indian sitcoms Khichdi and Idhar Udhar.-Family:...
  
  
• Usha Chavan
  Usha Chavan
  Usha Chavan was an Indian movie actress from the 1970s and 1980s. She was the leading lady of the Marathi comedy actor Dada Kondke, in many of his greatly popular Marathi movies.- External links :* **...
  
  
• Urmila Matondkar
  Urmila Matondkar
  Urmila Matondkar is an Indian film actress.Matondkar, who made her screen debut as a child artist in the 1980 film Kalyug, debuted as an adult in Narasimha...
  
  
• Vandana Gupte
  Vandana Gupte
  Vandana Gupte is an eminent Marathi stage actress who has also performed memorable television and film roles.Her most well-known TV role was as the domineering Nilambari Pandey in Zee TV's comedy serial Kareena Kareena....
  
  

Music

• Aarya Ambekar (singer)
• Prabha Atre (singer)
• Ashwini Bhide (singer)
• Asha Bhosle
  Asha Bhosle
  Asha Bhosle is an Indian singer. She is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded Hindi playback singers in India, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies...
  
   (singer)
• Vasantrao Deshpande
  Vasantrao Deshpande
  Vasantrao Deshpande was a renowned Hindustani classical vocalist who was also a brilliant performer of Natya Sangeet. He had a unique style of singing which is still loved by many ardent fans.-Early life and background:...
  
   (classical singer of Patiala Gharana
  Patiala Gharana
  The Patiala gharana is one of the most prominent gharanas of vocal Hindustani classical music. It was initially sponsored by the Maharaja of Patiala, Punjab, which was famous for ghazal, thumri, and khyal.-History:...
  
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• Bal Gandharva
  Bal Gandharva
  Narayan Shripad Rajhans , better known as Bal Gandharva was one of the greatest Marathi singers and stage actors. He was famous for his roles of female characters in Marathi plays, since women were not allowed to act on stage during his time....
  
   (theatre)
• Sawai Gandharva
  Sawai Gandharva
  Rambhau Kundgolkar, popularly known as Pandit Sawai Gandharva , was a popular Hindustani Classical vocalist and Marathi stage actor of the Kirana Gharana. He was the first and foremost disciple of Utd. Abdul Karim Khan and guru of Bharat Ratna laureate Pt. Bhimsen Joshi. Pt...
  
   (singer)
• Avadhoot Gupte (music director)
• Bhimsen Joshi
  Bhimsen Joshi
  Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi ; February 4, 1922 - January 24, 2011) was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition. A member of the Kirana Gharana , he is renowned for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music...
  
   (classical singer)
• Suman Kalyanpur
  Suman Kalyanpur
  Suman Kalyānpur is a female singer from India.Suman Kalyanpur aka Suman Hemadey was born on January 28, 1937 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, , her maiden name being Hemmady. In 1943, her family moved to Mumbai , where she received her musical training. She married Ramanand S...
  
   (singer)
• Kesarbai Kerkar (singer)
• Shri Shrinivas Khale
  Shrinivas Khale
  Shrinivas Vinayak Khale , also known as Khale Kaka, was an Indian composer/music director from Maharashtra, India. He was one of the most respected artists in the Marathi music industry for over six decades...
  
   (music director)
• Mogubai Kurdikar
  Mogubai Kurdikar
  Mogubai Kurdikar was a renowned Hindustani classical music vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana.-Early years and background:...
  
   (singer)
• Deenanath Mangeshkar
  Deenanath Mangeshkar
  Dinanath Mangeshkar was a well-known Marathi theatre actor, a renowned Natya Sangeet musician and an exceptional Hindustani classical vocalist....
  
   (theater)
• Lata Mangeshkar
  Lata Mangeshkar
  Lata Mangeshkar is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional...
  
   (singer)
• Usha Mangeshkar
  Usha Mangeshkar
  Usha Mangeshkar is an Indian singer who has recorded many Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati songs soundtracks.She is daughter of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar & Shevanti . She is the younger sister of singers, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle and elder to her music-director brother Hridaynath Mangeshkar...
  
   (singer)
• Zubin Mehta
  Zubin Mehta
  Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...
  
  , conductor and Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
• Anuradha Paudwal
  Anuradha Paudwal
  Anuradha Paudwal is a popular playback singer in Bollywood in India.She has sung songs in Hindi, Marathi and Nepali.- Biography :She studied at Xavier's College in Mumbai. She was married to the late Arun Paudwal, who worked with music director S. D. Burman as his assistant...
  
   (singer)
• Ashutosh Phatak
  Ashutosh Phatak
  Ashutosh Phatak is an Indian rock artist. He has released two albums: I and Sigh of an Angel. He is the music director for the upcoming Bollywood horror film Help.-References:...
  
   (music director)
• Sadhana Sargam
  Sadhana Sargam
  Sadhana Sargam is an acclaimed Indian playback singer. She is a recipient of the prestigious National Film Award and Filmfare Awards.Sargam has sung in many Indian languages for films, television serials and music albums. She is well known for her 90s Hindi songs and recent South Indian songs. She...
  
   (singer)
• Rahul Vaidya
  Rahul Vaidya
  -Life before fame:The son of an engineer with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, Vaidya grew up in Mumbai, where he studied music under Suresh Wadkar and entered various child talent competitions. While he was a Second Year Junior College student in Mithibai College, he participated in Indian...
  
   (singer)
• Suresh Wadkar
  Suresh Wadkar
  Suresh Ishwar Wadkar is an Indian playback singer. He performs in both Hindi and Marathi films.He has sung songs in some Bhojpuri films and in Konkani.- Early life :...
  
   (singer)
• Bela Shende
  Bela Shende
  Bela Shende is an Indian playback singer. She performed several songs in Bollywood and regional films. 'Su Che' from the film What's Your Raashee?, 'Aata Wajle Ki Baara' and 'Apsara Aali' from Natarang are some of her hits....
  
   (singer)

Politics

• Raj Thackeray
  Raj Thackeray
  Raj Shrikant Thackeray is the founder and president of the right-wing Marathi ethnocentric regional political party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena in the state of Maharashtra, India...
  
  , founder and Chief of the MNS
• Ajit Pawar, Nationalist Congress Party
  Nationalist Congress Party
  The Nationalist Congress Party is a centre to centre left political party primarily based in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Background:...
  
   (NCP)
• Ashok Chavan
  Ashok Chavan
  Ashok Shankarrao Chavan was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Chavan was sworn in on 8 December 2008, after his political party, the Indian National Congress and Vilasrao Deshmukh selected him to be Vilasrao Deshmukh's successor on 5 December 2008. He earlier served as Minister for Cultural...
  
  , former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• B. R. Ambedkar
  B. R. Ambedkar
  Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar , popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, a revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of independent India. He was also the Chairman...
  
  
• Balasaheb Thackeray founder and Chief of the Shivsena
• Balasaheb Vikhe Patil, Indian National Congress
  Indian National Congress
  The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
  
   (INC)
• Chapekar brothers
  Chapekar brothers
  The Chapekar brothers alternatively spelt as Caphekar or Chaphekar , Damodar Hari, Balkrishna Hari and Vasudeo Hari belonged to Chinchwad, then a village, near the former Peshwa capital Pune, in the state of Maharashtra, India.In late 1896, Pune was hit by bubonic plague; by the end of February...
  
  
• Chhagan Bhujbal
  Chhagan Bhujbal
  Chhagan Bhujbal is a politician from the state of Maharashtra, India. At present he is Minister of Public Works & Special Assistance Department, Maharashtra State and Guardian Minister, Nashik District; Member of Legislative Assembly, Yeola Assembly ; Constituency...
  
  
• Datta Meghe
  Datta Meghe
  Datta Raghobaji Meghe is an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress party. He was elected to 15th Lok Sabh from Wardha constituency in Maharashtra state...
  
  , NCP
• Dr Vimal Mundada, Health Minister of Maharashtra
• Dr. Sunil Deshmukh
  Dr. Sunil Deshmukh
  Dr. Sunil Panjabrao Deshmukh is the current Member of Legislative Assembly from the constituency of Amravati, Maharashtra, India. He belongs to the Indian National Congress . He is also the Minister of State for Finance and Planning, Public Works and Energy in the current cabinet of the Government...
  
   (INC), Minister of State
• Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
  Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
  Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was a social reformer from Maharashtra, India during the British Raj.-Early life:Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was born on 14 July 1856 in Tembhu , a village in Satara district now in Sangli district of Maharashtra. Agarkar had his primary education from Karad...
  
  
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  Gopal Krishna Gokhale, CIE was one of the founding social and political leaders during the Indian Independence Movement against the British Empire in India. Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and founder of the Servants of India Society...
  
  
• Gulabrao Patil
  Gulabrao Patil
  Gulabrao Patil was a Co-operative Leader, Member of Parliament -Rajya Sabha India from 1966–1978, an Member of the Legislative Council of Maharashtra 1983-87 and President of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee 1981-82.Famous quote: Power without Prestige, is a Gun without ...
  
  , Congress leader and MP
• Gurudas Kamat
  Gurudas Kamat
  Gurudas Kamat is an Indian politician. He is an advocate by profession. He is from the Indian National Congress. He has represented Mumbai North East constituency of Maharashtra in the Lok Sabha five times ....
  
  , Congress
• Hari Shivaram Rajguru
• Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian National Congress
  Indian National Congress
  The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
  
  
• Manikrao Thakre
  Manikrao Thakre
  Manikrao Thakre is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He became the president of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee in August 2008 replacing Patangrao Kadam....
  
  , Congress
• Manohar Joshi
  Manohar Joshi
  Manohar Gajanan Joshi, is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He is one of the prominent leaders of the Shiv Sena political party. He was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1995–1999.-Background and family:...
  
  , Shiv Sena
• Narayan Rane
  Narayan Rane
  Narayan Rane is an Indian politician. He is currently the Minister for Industry, Port, Employment and Self-employment in the Government of Maharashtra. He was a member of Shiv Sena until July 2005, then he joined Indian National Congress party....
  
  , Congress
• Nitin Gadkari
  Nitin Gadkari
  Nitin Gadkari ;is a senior Indian politician and the current President of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is best known for the works during his tenure as a Public Works Department Minister in the state of Maharashta when he constructed a series of roads, highways and flyovers across the state...
  
  , BJP
• Pramod Mahajan
  Pramod Mahajan
  Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan was a prominent Indian politician. He was one of the most powerful second generation leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party and, at the time of his death, was locked in a power struggle over who would take over the reins of the BJP when the current aging leadership...
  
  , BJP
• Prithviraj Chavan
  Prithviraj Chavan
  Prithviraj Chavan is the current Chief Minister of Maharashtra. The Indian National Congress selected him to be the successor of Ashok Chavan. He is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament...
  
  , Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• R R Patil, NCP
• Raj Thackeray
  Raj Thackeray
  Raj Shrikant Thackeray is the founder and president of the right-wing Marathi ethnocentric regional political party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena in the state of Maharashtra, India...
  
  , founder and Chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
  Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
  The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena is a political party based in Maharashtra operating on the motto of "Sons of the Soil". It was founded on the March 9, 2006 in Mumbai by Raj Thackeray after he left the Shiv Sena due to differences with Uddhav Thackeray and sidelining in major decisions like...
  
  
• Pandurang Mahadev Bapat
  Senapati Bapat
  Pandurang Mahadev Bapat , popularly known as Senapati Bapat, was a major figure in the Indian independence movement....
  
   freedom fighter
• Shankarrao Chavan
  Shankarrao Chavan
  Shankarrao Bhavrao Chavan was an Indian politician who served twice as Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1975 until 1977 and from 13 March 1986 until 24 June 1988...
  
  
• Sharad Pawar
  Sharad Pawar
  Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar , popularly known as SAHEB , is the president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress...
  
  , NCP
• Shivraj Patil
  Shivraj Patil
  Shivraj Vishwanath Patil is an Indian politician and current state Punjab governor and the Administrator of Union Territory of Chandigarh. Previously he had been the Speaker of the 11th Lok Sabha and served the Manmohan Singh cabinet as the Union Minister of Home Affairs...
  
  , former Home Minister of India
• Shrikant Jichkar
  Shrikant Jichkar
  Shrikant Jichkar was an Indian politician and member of the Congress Party.-Personal life:...
  
  , (1954-2004)
• Shripat Amrit Dange, founder of Communist Party of India
• Suresh Kalmadi
  Suresh Kalmadi
  Suresh Kalmadi is an Indian politician and senior sports administrator. He was formerly a member of the Indian National Congress...
  
  , Indian National Congress
• Sushilkumar Shinde
  Sushilkumar Shinde
  Sushilkumar Shinde is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He is currently the Cabinet Minister for Power in the Manmohan Singh government.-Dalit background:...
  
  , Energy Minister
  Energy minister
  An energy minister is a position in many governments responsible for energy production and regulation, developing governmental energy policy, scientific research, and natural resources conservation...
  
   Government of India
• Vilasrao Deshmukh
  Vilasrao Deshmukh
  Vilasrao Dagadojirao Deshmukh , popularly known as Vilasrao is the current Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences....
  
  , former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
  Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
  Vināyak Dāmodar Sāvarkar was an Indian freedom fighter, revolutionary and politician. He was the proponent of liberty as the ultimate ideal. Savarkar was a poet, writer and playwright...
  
  , Hindu Mahasabha leader
• Yashwantrao Chavan
  Yashwantrao Chavan
  Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the division of Bombay State and the fifth Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was a strong Congress leader, Cooperative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as Leader of Common People...
  
  , 1st Chief Minister of Maharashtra and was Deputy Prime Minister of India

Social activists

• Baba Amte
  Baba Amte
  Murlidhar Devidas Amte, popularly known as Baba Amte was an Indian social worker and social activist known particularly for his work for the rehabilitation and empowerment of poor people suffering from leprosy....
  
  
• Dhondo Keshav Karve
  Dhondo Keshav Karve
  Maharshi Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare. In honour of Karve, Queen's Road in Mumbai was renamed to Maharishi Karve Road...
  
  
• Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
  Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
  Banoo Jehangir Coyaji was an Indian physician and activist in family planning and population control. She was director of King Edward Memorial Hospital in Pune, and started programmes of community health workers in rural areas of Maharashtra, the third largest state in India...
  
  , doctor
• Kisan Mehta
  Kisan Mehta
  Kisan Mehta is the President of Save Bombay Committee and Prakruti, nonprofits based in India.- Biography :Kisan Mehta was born on 31 August 1924. He has a B.A. Hons in History & Economics, a LL.B from the Bombay University and Diplomas in Electrical Engineering and Prestressed Concrete...
  
  
• Manibhai Desai
  Manibhai Desai
  Manibhai Bhimbhai Desai was an Indian social activist, associate of Mahatma Gandhi, and a pioneer of rural development who founded the Bharatiya Agro-Industries Foundation in 1967....
  
  , agriculturalist
• Bittu Sahgal
  Bittu Sahgal
  Bittu Sahgal, an Environmental activist, is the founding editor of Sanctuary Asia, India's premier wildlife and ecology magazine. He is member of the National Board for Wildlife He is also at the forefront of the battle to protect India from the worst impacts of climate change.-Early life:Born on...
  
  , environmentalist - editor, Sanctuary Magazine
• Anna Hazare
  Anna Hazare
  Kisan Baburao Hazare , popularly known as Anna Hazare is an Indian social activist and a prominent leader in the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi...
  
  
• Medha Patkar
  Medha Patkar
  Medha Patkar is an Indian social activist. She is known for her role in Narmada Bachao Andolan. She has also filed a public interest petition in the Bombay high court against Lavasa along with other members of National Alliance of People's Movements , including Anna Hazare.-Personal life:Medha...
  
  , Narmada Bachao Andolan, Mumbai
• Mahatma Jyotiba Phule
• Savitribai Phule
  Savitribai Phule
  Savitribai Jotiba Phule was a social reformer, who, along with her husband, Mahatma Jotiba Phule, played an important role in improving women's rights in India during the British Rule....
  
  
• Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
  B. R. Ambedkar
  Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar , popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, a revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of independent India. He was also the Chairman...
  
  
• Abhay Bang

Defence Forces

• Qazi Mir Imdad Ali
  Qazi Mir Imdad Ali
  Qazi Mir Imdad Ali was Military officer during Bhonsle Dynasty in 1835 at Nagpur.-Biography:Mir Imdad Ali was an inherited Qazi by profession from Sakras, District Gurgaon . He was merely 5 years when his father Syed Mohammad Ashraf was assassinated in 1814 by Meo Community at Sakras...
  
  , military officer in 1835
• General Arun S. Vaidya
• Namdeo Jadav
  Namdeo Jadav
  Namdeo Jadav VC was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Yeshwant Ghadge
  Yeshwant Ghadge
  Yeshwant Ghadge VC was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Sachin Waze
  Sachin Waze
  Sachin Hindurao Vaze is a former police officer in the Maharashtra Police Force of India. Vaze is known as an "encounter specialist" with the Mumbai Encounter Squad and was involved with the deaths of as many as 63 criminals. Vaze joined Maharashtra Police Force in 1990 and he resigned on 30...
  
  , former encounter specialist.

Religion

• Saint Gadge Maharaj
  Gadge Maharaj
  Debuji Zhingraji Janorkar , popularly known as Sant Gadge Maharaj or Gadge Baba was a saintly social reformer, a wandering mendicant who held weekly festivals with the help of his disciples across Maharashtra...
  
  , Anjangaon Surji
• Samarth Ramdas
  Samarth Ramdas
  Ramdas was a prominent Marathi saint and religious poet in the Hindu tradition in Maharashtra, India. Samarth Ramdas was a devotee of Lord Hanuman and Lord Rama...
  
  , Sajjangad
  Sajjangad
  Sajjangad meaning Fort of Good People, is located near the city of Satara, India. It is the final resting place of Sant Ramdas, a saint and social reformer in 17th century India...
  
  
• Saint Tukaram
  Tukaram
  Sant Tukaram was a prominent Varkari Sant and spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement in India.Sant Tukaram was born and lived most of his life in Dehu, a town close to Pune in Mahārāshtra, India. He was born to a couple with the family name "More", the descendent of the Mourya Clan with first...
  
  , Dehu
  Dehu
  -Demographics: India census, Dehu had a population of 5340. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Dehu has an average literacy rate of 77%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 83% and, female literacy is 72%. In Dehu, 11% of the population is under 6 years...
  
  
• Saint Namdeva, Pandharpur
  Pandharpur
  Pandharpur is an important pilgrimage city on the Bhimā river in Solāpur district, Maharashtra, India. The Vithoba temple attracts about half a million Hindu pilgrims during the major yātrā in the month of Ashadh ....
  
  
• Saint Dnyaneshwar
  Dnyaneshwar
  Dnyāneshwar , also known as Jñanadeva , was born into a Deshastha Brahmin Kulkarni family.He was a 13th century Maharashtrian Hindu saint , poet, philosopher and yogi of the Nath tradition whose works Bhavartha deepika teeka ,...
  
  , Alandi
  Alandi
  Alandi is a city and a municipal council in Pune district in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Geography:Alandi is located on the banks of the Indrayani River, east of Pune, India. It has an average elevation of .-Demographics:...
  
  
• Saint Eknath
  Eknath
  Eknath was a prominent Marathi scholar and religious poet. He is called a "sant" in the Marathi tradition as are most other religious poets...
  
  , Paithan
  Paithan
  Paithan , formerly Pratishthana, is a city and a municipal council in Aurangabad district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city was the capital of the Sātavāhana empire of ancient India that ruled from 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD...
  
  
• Sai Baba
  Sai Baba of Shirdi
  Sai Baba of Shirdi , also known as Shirdi Sai Baba , was an Indian guru, yogi, and fakir who is regarded by his Hindu and Muslim devotees as a saint....
  
   of Shirdi
• Gajanan Maharaj
  Gajanan Maharaj
  Gajanan Maharaj from Shegaon , Maharashtra, India is a Saint from India. "Sant Gajanan Maharaj Sansthan" is the largest temple trust in the Vidarbha region....
  
  , Shegaon
  Shegaon
  Shegaon is a city and a municipal council in Buldana district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.-Geography:Shegaon is located around 550 km east of the city of Mumbai and 300 km west from the city of Nagpur...
  
  
• Chokha Mela, Mangalvedhe
  Mangalvedhe
  Mangalwedha is a city and a municipal council in Solapur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the birthplace of Shri Jayatirtha also called as Teekacharya, one of the greatest saints of the Dvaita school of Vedanta....
  
  
• Gora Kumbhar
  Gora Kumbhar
  Sant Gora Kumbhar was one of the notable Kumhar/prajapati saints in history. He was a Maharashtra based saint.Sant Gora Kumbhar and other saints also wrote and sung hundreds of Abhangs. The central ideology of this sect was chanting of Namas-kirtana daily. This sampardaya attached least importance...
  
  , Terdhoki
• Saint Bahinabai
  Bahinabai
  Bahinabai or Bahina or Bahini is a Varkari female-saint from Maharashtra, India. She is considered as a disciple of another Varkari poet-saint Tukaram. Born in a brahmin family, Bahinabai was married to a widower at a tender age and spent most of her childhood wandering around Maharashtra along...
  
  
• Saint Janabai
  Janabai
  Janābāi was a Marāthi religious poetess in the Hindu tradition in India, who was born likely in the seventh or the eighth decade of the 13th century. According to folklore, she died in 1350....
  
  , Pandharpur
  Pandharpur
  Pandharpur is an important pilgrimage city on the Bhimā river in Solāpur district, Maharashtra, India. The Vithoba temple attracts about half a million Hindu pilgrims during the major yātrā in the month of Ashadh ....
  
  
• Saint Kanhopatra
  Kanhopatra
  Kanhopatra or Kanhupatra was a 15th century Marathi saint-poetess, venerated by the Varkari sect of Hinduism.Little is known about Kanhopatra. According to most traditional accounts, Kanhopatra was a courtesan and dancing-girl...
  
  , Pandharpur
  Pandharpur
  Pandharpur is an important pilgrimage city on the Bhimā river in Solāpur district, Maharashtra, India. The Vithoba temple attracts about half a million Hindu pilgrims during the major yātrā in the month of Ashadh ....
  
  
• Shri Brahmachaitanya Gondavalekar Maharaj, Gondavale
• Shri Dhondibua
  Shri Dhondibua
  Shri Dhondibua is an Indian spiritual leader hailing from Palus, Maharashtra.His name finds mention in Shri Gajanan Vijay.Many supreme authoritative figures, rich prebendaries, scamps, traders turned yogis, virtuous spiritual aspirants, kings and barons, men, women and children came in contact...
  
  , Palus

Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

• Abhishek Nayar
  Abhishek Nayar
  Abhishek Mohan Nayar is an Indian international cricketer. He plays first class cricket for Mumbai and also represents Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. He is selected for West Indies tour in 2009. He is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace.Abhishek was...
  
  
• Ajit Agarkar
  Ajit Agarkar
  Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar is an Indian international cricketer, who has been on the fringes of the Indian side in both tests and one day matches since his debut in 1998...
  
  
• Ajit Wadekar
  Ajit Wadekar
  Ajit Laxman Wadekar is a former international cricketer. He played domestic first-class cricket for the Mumbai cricket team....
  
  
• Anshuman Gaekwad
  Anshuman Gaekwad
  Anshuman Dattajirao Gaekwad is a former Indian cricketer and two-time Indian national cricket coach. He played in 40 Test matches and 15 One Day Internationals....
  
  
• Baloo Gupte
  Baloo Gupte
  Balkrishna Pandharinath 'Baloo' Gupte was a former Indian cricketer. He was a leg-spinner. He made his debut under Nari Contractor in 1960-61 against Pakistan led by Fazal Mahmood at the Corporation Stadium in Madras . He played three Tests for India between 1960-61 and 1964-65...
  
  
• Chandrasekhar Gadkari
  Chandrasekhar Gadkari
  Lt. Col. Chandrasekhar Vaman Gadkari was an Indian Test cricketer.Gadkari was an attacking batsman, medium pace bowler and a great fielder. He made a fine impression as a fielder in the 1952/53 tour to West Indies in an Indian side that was noted for its fielding...
  
  
• Chandrakant Pandit
  Chandrakant Pandit
  Chandrakant Sitaram Pandit is a former Indian cricketer who played in 5 Tests and 36 ODIs from 1986 to 1992. After his retirement as a player, Pandit became a cricket coach, enjoying successful stints with the Mumbai cricket team.In the 1980s he was given the status of second wicketkeeper behind...
  
  
• Chandrakant Patankar
  Chandrakant Patankar
  Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar is a former Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1955....
  
  
• Chandu Borde
  Chandu Borde
  Chandrakant Gulabrao "Chandu" Borde born 21 July 1934 in Poona In Marathi Christian Family, is a ex-cricketer who was a member of the Indian team between 1958 and 1970. Following his retirement, Borde became a cricket administrator, serving as the Chairman of national selectors...
  
  
• Dattaram Hindlekar
  Dattaram Hindlekar
  Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar was a cricketer who kept wicket for India in Test cricket.Hindlekar toured England in 1936 and 1946 as India's first choice wicket keeper. He opened in the first Test at Lord's in 1936, but chipped a bone in his finger and suffered from blurred vision....
  
  
• Dattu Phadkar
  Dattu Phadkar
  Dattatraya Gajanan "Dattu" Phadkar was an all-rounder who represented India in Test cricket....
  
  
• Dilip Vengsarkar
  Dilip Vengsarkar
  Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar is an Indian cricketer and cricket administrator. He was one of the most stylish batsmen of his time, known as one of the foremost exponents of the drive. He was also known by the nickname 'Colonel'....
  
  
• Hemu Adhikari
  Hemu Adhikari
  Colonel Hemchandra Ramachandra Adhikari was an Indian cricketer, representing his country as both a player and coach in a career that spanned three decades....
  
  
• Hemant Kanitkar
  Hemant Kanitkar
  Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar is a former Indian cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1974. His son, Hrishikesh Kanitkar went on to represent India in the late 1990s....
  
  
• Hrishikesh Kanitkar
  Hrishikesh Kanitkar
  Hrishikesh Hemant Kanitkar is an Indian cricketer and the son of former Indian cricketer Hemant Kanitkar. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler....
  
  
• Khandu Rangnekar
  Khandu Rangnekar
  Khanderao Moreshwar 'Khandu' Rangnekar was an Indian Test cricketer. Rangnekar was an attacking batsman who was considered the best Indian left-hander of his time...
  
  
• Kiran More
  Kiran More
  Kiran Shankar Murat More was the wicket-keeper for the Indian cricket team from 1984 to 1993. He was the Chairman of the Selection Committee of the BCCI till Dilip Vengsarkar took over the job in 2006. He is presently working with Indian Cricket League.-Early career:More played for the India...
  
  
• Manohar Hardikar
  Manohar Hardikar
  Manohar Shankar Hardikar was an Indian Test cricketer.Hardikar represented India in two Tests against West Indies in 1958/9. He was dismissed by Roy Gilchrist off the very first ball that he faced in Test cricket. He then took a wicket with his third ball in Test cricket by dismissing Rohan Kanhai...
  
  
• Nilesh Kulkarni
  Nilesh Kulkarni
  Nilesh Moreshwar Kulkarni is a former Indian cricketer. He is a slow left-arm bowler and left-handed lower order batsman....
  
  
• Paras Mhambrey
  Paras Mhambrey
  Paras Laxmikant Mhambrey is a former Indian cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 3 ODIs from 1996 to 1998....
  
  
• Phiroze Palia
  Phiroze Palia
  Phiroze Edulji Palia was an early Indian cricketer. His first name is sometimes written as Phiroz....
  
  
• Pravin Amre
  Pravin Amre
  Pravin Kalyan Amre is an Indian cricketer.Amre represented India in 11 Test matches scoring one 100 and three 50s with a batting average of 42.50. However, these figures did not help him to become a regular fixture in the national team. He found himself in Indian colours just for two seasons...
  
  
• Polly Umrigar
  Polly Umrigar
  Pahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar was an Indian cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Bombay, and Test cricket in the Indian cricket team, mainly as a middle-order batsman but also bowling occasional medium pace and off spin. He captained the Indian team in eight Test matches from 1955 to...
  
  
• Ramnath Parkar
  Ramnath Parkar
  Ramnath Dhondu Parkar was an Indian cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1972....
  
  
• Ravi Shastri
  Ravi Shastri
  Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri is a former Indian cricketer and captain. He was an all–rounder who batted right-handed and bowled left arm spin. His international career started when he was 18 years old and lasted for 12 years...
  
  
• Sachin Tendulkar
  Sachin Tendulkar
  Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket...
  
  
• Salil Ankola
  Salil Ankola
  Salil Ashok Ankola is a former Indian cricketer who played in one Test and 20 ODIs from 1989 to 1997. He was a member of the Indian cricket team for the 1996 Cricket World Cup....
  
  
• Sameer Dighe
  Sameer Dighe
  Sameer Dighe is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper. His main chance at international cricket did not come until the 1999–2000 season, at which time he was 31 years of age....
  
  
• Sanjay Bangar
  Sanjay Bangar
  Sanjay Bapusaheb Bangar is a retired Indian cricketer. He was an all-rounder and had represented India in Tests and One Day Internationals....
  
  
• Sanjay Manjrekar
  Sanjay Manjrekar
  Sanjay Vijay Manjrekar is a former Indian cricketer. He has a batting average of 37.14 in his 37 Tests between 1987/88 and 1996/97, as opposed to an overall first-class average of 55...
  
  
• Subhash Gupte
  Subhash Gupte
  Subhashchandra Pandharinath "Fergie" Gupte was one of Test cricket's finest spin bowlers. Sir Garry Sobers pronounced him the best leg spinner that it had been his pleasure to see. Gupte flighted and spun the ball sharply, and possessed two different googlies...
  
  
• Sunil Gavaskar
  Sunil Gavaskar
  Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar is a former cricketer who played during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most Test runs and most Test centuries scored by any...
  
  
• Sairaj Bahutule
  Sairaj Bahutule
  Sairaj Bahutule is an Indian cricketer. He is an allrounder who specializes in leg spin bowling....
  
  
• Sandip Patil
• Sanjay Manjrekar
  Sanjay Manjrekar
  Sanjay Vijay Manjrekar is a former Indian cricketer. He has a batting average of 37.14 in his 37 Tests between 1987/88 and 1996/97, as opposed to an overall first-class average of 55...
  
  
• Vijay Hazare
  Vijay Hazare
  Vijay Samuel Hazare was an Indian cricket player from the state of Maharashtra. He captained the Indian cricket team in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953...
  
  
• Vijay Manjrekar
  Vijay Manjrekar
  Vijay Laxman Manjrekar is a former Indian cricketer who played 55 Tests. A small man, he was a fine cutter and hooker of the ball. He was the father of Sanjay Manjrekar....
  
  
• Vijay Merchant
  Vijay Merchant
  Vijaysingh Madhavji Merchant , real name Vijay Madhavji Thakersey was an Indian cricketer. A right-hand batter and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, Merchant played first class cricket for Mumbai cricket team as well as 10 Test matches for India between 1929 and 1951...
  
  
• Vinod Kambli
  Vinod Kambli
  Vinod Ganpat Kambli is a former Indian cricketer, who played for India as a middle order batsman, as well as for Mumbai and Boland, South Africa.He is childhood friend of ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar...
  
  
• Vinoo Mankad
• Zahir Khan

Literature

• Acharya Atre
• Arun Kolatkar
  Arun Kolatkar
  Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar was a poet from Maharashtra, India. Writing in both Marathi and English, his poems found humor in many everyday matters. His poetry had an influence on modern Marathi poets...
  
  
• Baburao Bagul
  Baburao Bagul
  Baburao Bagul was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India; a pioneering of Dalit literature in Marathi and an important figure in the Indian short story during late 20th century, when it experienced a radical departure from the past, with the advent of Dalit writers such as him.He most known for...
  
  
• B. S. Mardhekar
• Dilip Chitre
  Dilip Chitre
  Dilip Purushottam Chitre was one of the foremost Indian writers and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a very important bilingual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he was also a painter and filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Baroda on 17 September 1938...
  
  
• Dulari Qureshi
  Dulari Qureshi
  Dulari Qureshi, hails from Aurangabad, Maharashtra. She holds a Doctorate in Art History; the topic of her thesis being,`Art and Vision of Aurangabad Caves`. She also has a degree in Journalism and a post graduate diploma in Tourism. She has written more than 1,000 articles on art, culture and...
  
  
• G. A. Kulkarni
  G. A. Kulkarni
  G. A. Kulkarni or simply "GA" , was a legendary Marathi writer of short stories.GA grew up in Belgaum. After earning his masters degree, he taught English at JSS College in Dharwad for about 30 years. He had very strong liking for Dharwad and Belgaum. For medical treatment of his eyes, he...
  
  
• G. D. Madgulkar
  G. D. Madgulkar
  Gajānan Digambar Mādgulkar was a prominent Marāthi poet, lyricist, writer and actor from India. He was popularly known in his home state of Maharashtra by just his initials as Ga Di Ma .It can be rightly stated that his contribution to Marathi culture was rich in its content as well as high in...
  
  
• Gangadhar Gadgil
  Gangadhar Gadgil
  Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was born in Mumbai in 1923...
  
  
• Kiran Nagarkar
  Kiran Nagarkar
  Kiran Nagarkar is an Indian novelist, playwright, film and drama critic and screenwriter both in Marathi and English, and is one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India....
  
  
• Kusumagraj
  Kusumagraj
  Vishnu Vāman Shirwādkar , popularly known by his pen name, Kusumāgraj , was an eminent Marathi poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, apart from being a humanist, who wrote of freedom, justice and emancipation of the deprived, In a career spanning five decades starting in...
  
  
• Mangesh Padgaonkar
• P. L. Deshpande
  P. L. Deshpande
  Purushottam Laxman Deshpande was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He was popularly known by his initials पु. ल. Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (8 November 1919 – 12 June 2000) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He was popularly known by his initials पु. ल. Purushottam Laxman...
  
  
• Rajashree
  Rajashree
  Rajashree is an Indian novelist and film-maker. She has been working in the Bombay film industry after studying film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India. She has written and directed a film, The Rebel, which won a National Award and was screened at many film festivals. She has...
  
  
• P. S. Rege
  P. S. Rege
  Purushottam Shivaram Rege was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was born in Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra in 1910. After receiving his degrees in economics from Mumbai and London universities, he taught that subject at various colleges in Maharashtra and Goa...
  
  
• Vasant Abaji Dahake
  Vasant Abaji Dahake
  Vasant Abaji Dahake is a Marathi poet, playwright, short story writer, artist, and critic from Amaravati district in the Maharashtra state of India. He is awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection ` Chitralipi' for the year 2009....
  
  
• Vasant Kanetkar
  Vasant Kanetkar
  Vasant Shankar Kanetkar was a Marathi playwright and novelist from Maharashtra, India.He was born in the town of Rahimatpur in Satara District, Maharashtra...
  
  
• Vijay Tendulkar
  Vijay Tendulkar
  Vijay Tendulkar was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi...
  
  
• Vilas Sarang
  Vilas Sarang
  Vilas Sarang is one of the most significant modernist Indian writer, critic and translator to emerge in the post-independence period....
  
  
• Vinda Karandikar
  Vinda Karandikar
  Govind Vināyak Karandikar , better known as Vindā Karandikar , was a well-known Marathi poet and writer. He was also an essayist, literary critic, and a translator....