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List of people from Maharashtra

This is a list of notable people from Maharashtra, India.

Art

  • Mangesh Tendulkar
  • Pramod Kamble
  • Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis

Actors

Main article: List of Marathi film actors
Nana Patekar
Riteish Deshmukh

Actresses

Madhuri Dixit
Urmila Matondkar
Sonali Bendre

Directors

Mahesh Manjrekar
Sachin Pilgaonkar
Rohit Shetty

Visual artists

  • Maria Marshall

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
  • Deepak Ghaisas, Iflex
  • Kalpana Saroj, Kamani Tubes
  • Kiran Karnik, former president of NASSCOM, 2007–08
  • Rahul Bajaj, Bajaj Group
  • Rajendra Pawar, NIIT
  • S L Kirloskar (Shantanurao), Kirloskar group
  • Subhash Runwal, Runwal Group Chairman
  • Vikram Pandit, Citigroup CEO
  • Vivek Ranadive, TIBCO
  • Walchand Hirachand, Walchand Group of Industries

Defence forces

Gallantry honors

Param Vir Chakra

Journalism

  • Nanasaheb Parulekar, founder editor of Sakal

Literature

Medicine

  • B. K. Misra, neurosurgeon

Music

Zubin Mehta
Lata Mangeshkar
Asha Bhosle

Police

  • Sachin Waze
  • Vijay Salaskar
  • Hemant Karkare
  • Ashok Kamte
  • Tukaram Omble

Politics

Rajya Sabha members

  • List of Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra

Chief ministers

Others

Religion

Rulers

Scientists

Social activists

Sports

Hockey

Badminton

Contract bridge

  • Jaggy Shivdasani
  • Orlando Campos
  • Ramesh Gokhale
  • Keshav Samant, popularly known as Anand Samant

Chess

Mountaineerng

  • Ashish Mane

Cricket

Sachin Tendulkar
Rohit Sharma

Shooting

Tennis

  • Gaurav Natekar

Wrestling

  • Khashaba Jadhav, won first Olympic individual bronze medal for India

Criminals and gangsters

See also

References

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