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This is a list of notable people from Maharashtra, India
Art
Actors
Nana Patekar
Riteish DeshmukhActresses
Urmila Matondkar
Sonali BendreDirectors
Sachin PilgaonkarVisual 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
Zubin Mehta
Lata Mangeshkar
Asha Bhosle- 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
Sachin Tendulkar
Rohit SharmaHockey
Shooting
Other sports
Criminals and gangsters
See also
References