List of Marathi people

This page is a list of Marathi people. The Marathi people are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group that inhabit the Maharashtra region and state of western India.

Historical

Marathas, prior to 1818.

Politics

Lokmanya Tilak Great freedom fighter
Yashwantrao Chavan - First Chief Minister, Maharashtra,Former Deputy Prime Minister of India
Babasaheb Ambedkar - Architect of Indian Constitution. Received Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1990
Pratibha Patil, President of India and Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces
C D Deshmukh - First Finance Minister of India.
Vilasrao Deshmukh - Current CM, Maharashtra
Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar - RSS leader
Dr. K. B. Hedgewar - Founder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Pramod Mahajan - Senior leader, Bharatiya Janata Party
Shivraj Patil - Current Home Minister of the Republic of India
Sharad Pawar - Founder of NCP, head of the Board of Control for Cricket in India
Vasantdada Patil - Former CM, Maharashtra
Vasundhara Raje - Current CM, Rajasthan
Pratapsinh Rane - Current CM, Goa
Dutta Samant - Communist trade union leader
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar - Freedom Fighter; Revolutionary; Creator of political "Hindutva"
Sushil Kumar Shinde - Former CM, Maharashtra
Balasaheb Thackeray - "Hindu Hriday Samrat" ; Founder of Shiv Sena
Raj Thackeray - Youth Leader ; Founder of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
Lokmanya Tilak - (1856 - 1920) National leader of pre-Gandhi era
Pandit Raghunath Vinayak Dhulekar - Member of Parliament, 1952, Jhansi, Speaker, Vidhan Parishad, 1958, Uttar Pradesh,
Gopal Krishna Gokhale - Political Guru of Mahatma Gandhi
Ram Ganesh Agarakar - Pre-Independence leader
Madhu Dandawate - Socialist leader
Shripad Dange - Communist leader
Balasaheb Kher - Former CM
Nanasaheb Kunte first speaker of LokSabha/Senate of Pt. Nehru
Maharani Gayatri DeviGranddaughter of Sayajirao Gaekwad and Maharani of Jaipur
Balasaheb Desai Former CM of Maharashatra
Vasantrao Naik Former CM of Maharashtra
Vinay Kore Current Minister of NonConventional Eenregy
Dr Raviraj Kulkarni Emerging Young Leader From Marathwada.

Activists

Baba Amte - Activist Worked for people suffering from Lepracy. Awarded Padma Vibhushan in 1986
Vinoba Bhave - Gandhian activist. Awarded Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1983
Anna Hazare - Gandhian activist; Anti-corruption crusader

Reformers

All Saints of Maharashtra
Vishwanath (Tatyasaheb) Kore - He is considered the father of farmers co-operative culture. He established the affluent WARNA empire transforming warnan-nagar into a self contained industrial and educational hub through the co-operative movement.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale - He established the Servants of India Society and represented Indian interests in the Imperial Legislative Council. Mahatma Gandhi considered him his guru.
Dhondo Keshav Karve - Maharshi Karve fought for the upliftment of women, started a college for them and established the first Indian University for women, named SNDT Women's University. He was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1958
Raghunath Karve - Pioneer of Family Planning and Birth Control clinics in India
Gadge Maharaj - He dedicated his life for fight against social evils. He built inns, schools, animal shelters and medical centres. Cleanliness was his mantra
Jyotiba Phule - Mahatma Jyotiba Phule started education for women and struggled hard for the upliftment of the depressed classes (April 11, 1827 — November 28, 1890).
Mahadev Govind Ranade
Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj - Prince of Kolhapur, known for his social work.
Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil-Worked to spread education to the last person
Dr.Babasaheb Ambedakar outstanding work for untouchables
Maharshi Vitthal Ramji Shinde Selfless work for the removal of untouchability and other suppressed
Sharad Joshi Great work for farmers
Shripad Dange Revolutionary communist leader against cast, religion etc
Nanasaheb Parulekar Great work for orphanage
Dr.Datta Samant selfless Trade unions leader.
Ram Ganesh Agarkar Reformist
Dr. Dattaprasad Dabholkar - Propagated scientific, progressive and realistic education among school children
Shyam Manav --keeps alive torch of Ratioanlist thinking in society started by Phule,Ambedkar removing superstitious thoughts from the mind of ordinary people of rural as well as urban Maharashtra.

Academics

Ajit Rangnekar - Deputy Dean, Indian School Of Business, Hyderabad
Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar - Orientologist on whose name BORI is named
Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane - Sanskrit scholar. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of Bombay University. Recipient of Bharat Ratna 1963
Professor Dattatreya Gopal Karve - Professor and economist. First Principal of the Brihan Maharastra College of Commerce.
Irawati Karve - Doctorate in Anthropology from Berlin University in 1930
Professor Kumud Pore- She was an exceptional teacher and an orator, both in English and Marathi.Economist, social reformer and a great moral and intellectual support to number of NGOs in Maharashtra
Colonel Prakash Khandekar - Retired Army Officer and mentor to over 500 officers in the Indian Army
Professor Pramod Khargonekar [1] - Dean, College of Engineering at the University of Florida, and well known researcher in the field of control systems.
Wrangler R. P. Paranjpe - First Indian to become a Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University. He sacrificed higher salaries and worked as the principal of Fergusson College for over twenty years
Professor Suhas Patankar - Inventor of the groundbreaking SIMPLE algorithm for solution of Navier-Stokes equation that revolutionalized the world of Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Dr Pramod Pandurang Vitkar - Director, RS College of Engineering, Pune. Prominent Soil Technologist http://jspmengg.com/jspm/rscoeprinc.html
Professor S.V. Kogekar Principal, Fergusson College, Pune (1957-1964) and Principal of BMCC (1949-50).Beloved Prof of Economics and Political Science. He was an exceptional teacher and an orator, both in English and Marathi. Known for speaking his mind without mincing any words. He was blacklisted for his Kale Memorial Lecture in 1976, during the Emergency, against the extension of the term of the Parliament.

Science and Technology

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar - Mathematician. Known for his contributions to singularity theory and Abhyankar's conjecture
Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar - Founder and Former Executive Director of the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet of the Indian government and recipient of the prestigious Padma Shri award. Instrumental in developing India's first supercomputer, the Param10,000
Ashok Gadgil - Inventor of UV-disinfection method
Anil Kakodkar - Director of BARC and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy
D. R. Kaprekar - Mathematician. Famous for his work on Number Theory
Narendra Karmarkar - Mathematician. Renowned for developing Karmarkar's algorithm
Dr. Raghunath A. Malshekar - Director, CSIR
Dr. Jayant Narlikar - Prominent Astrophysicist His work on conformal gravity theory with Sir Fred Hoyle, called Hoyle-Narlikar theory, demonstrated a synthesis can be achieved between Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and Mach's principle.
Prof. Abhay Ashtekar- known for 'Ashtekar Variables'. He is also regarded as a founder of the theory of Loop quantum gravity
Raj Yavatkar - Intel Fellow
Dr. Sarang A. Kulkarni - Well known Marine Biologist, Scuba Diving Instructor in the country. Youngest scientist to be President of Marathi Vidnyan Parishad at the age of 31. He has discovered several unknown underwater marine biodiversity hotspots in the country. Though he has survived through four encounters with death while doing research in the ocean, still continues to explore new frontiers under ocean which were unknowns to Indians.
Arun Netravali - Chief Scientist & former CEO of Bell Labs.

Cinema And Theatre

Anuradha Rajadhyaksha Actress, ,director and writer of the child drama 'Tethe kara maaze julati'
Abhay RajadhyakshaDirector
Aditi Govitrikar - Model
Ajinkya Dev - Bollywood Actor
Amol Gupte - Bollywood director
Amol Palekar - 70s Bollywood's thinking man's actor and then critically acclaimed director
Anita Dongre - Fashion designer
Anand Modak - Leading Marathi Music Director
Archana Joglekar - Actress
Arun Joglekar famous actor
Ashok Saraf - Leading Marathi actor
Ashutosh Gowarikar - Director of an Indian film nominated for Oscars
Ashwini Bhave - Bollywood Actress
Atmaram Bhende-Stage actor
Atul Kasbekar - Fashion Photographer
Atul Kulkarni - Bollywood actor, theatre artist
Bhagwan Dada- Film director, producer and actor
Bhalji Pendharkar
Bhanu Athaiya - Costume Designer. Recipient of Oscar for her work in the movie Gandhi
Bhagyashree Patwardhan - Bollywood Actress
Bharat Jadhav - leading Marathi theatre performer
Chandrkant Kale Talented stage actor
Dada Kondke - Revolutionised Marathi comedy
Dadasaheb Phalke - Directed the first Indian feature film
David Abraham Cheulkar-Jewish Bollywoodcharacter actor of 60s who died in Toronto, Canada.
Dilip Kulkarni - Stage Marathi theater and Film Marathi actor
Dilip Prabhavalkar - Leading stage artiste. Last seen as Gandhi in Lage Raho Munnabhai
Durga Khote Famous actress
Gautam Rajadhyaksha - Photographer
Gayatri Joshi - Lead actress in Swades
Isha Koppikar - Bollywood Actress
Dr.Jabbar Patel-Director'SaamnaSinhasanDr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
Kajol-Bollywood actress; daughter of Tanuja and Somu Mukherjee
Kimi Katkar - Bollywood Actress
Kuldeep Pawar - Actor
Kashinath Ghanekar Actor
Leela Chitnis Actress
Laxmikant Berde - Leading Marathi actor of 80s and 90s
Madhu Sapre - Former Supermodel
Madhur Bhandarkar - Bollywood director
Madhuri Dixit - Leading actress in Indian cinema in the 90s
Mahesh Manjrekar - Bollywood director
Makrand Deshpande - Actor
Mamta Kulkarni - Bollywood Actress
Milind Soman - Model and Actor
Mohan Agashe - Leading art film and Bollywood actor
Mohan Gokhale(1953-1999) - Mr. Yogi
Mohan Joshi - Popular Bollywood villain of the 90s
Mrinal Kulkarni - Model & Actress
N Chandra - Bollywood director
Namrata Shirodkar - Bollywood Actress
Nana Patekar - Bollywood and leading stage actor
Nanda - actress
Nikhil Kamkolkar - Hollywood director
Nilu Phule - Bollywood actor. A shrewd villain in Marathi cinemas.
Nina Kulkarni - Marathi Stage and Film actress
Nitin Raikwar - Lyricist
Nivedita Joshi - Actress
Nutan - Bollywood actress
Padmini Kolhapure - Bollywood actress
Priya Tendulkar - Bollywood Actress
Rajnikant -Tamil /South Indian Cinema Superstar. Original Name Shivaji Rao Gaekwad
Rajshri - Actress and daughter of V. Shantaram

Rakhi Sawant - model and actress
Ramesh Bhatkar - Actor
Ramesh Deo - Popular villain of 60s Bollywood
Reema Lagoo- Acted in various Marathi dramas, Marathi movies, Bollywood
Renuka Shahane - Bollywood actress
Ritesh Deshmukh - Bollywood actor
Rohini Hattangadi - Bollywood actress
Samir Karnik - Bollywood director
Sachin Khedekar-Bollywood actor movies Subhas Chandra Bose Astitva
Sachin Pilgaonkar-Bollywood &Marathi actor, director& producer fondly known as Sachin.
Sadaf Mohammed Syed a.k.a. Sadha - Popular Tollywood actress
Sai Paranjpe-director, scriptwriter&theatre personality,movies like Sparsh, Katha,Chashme-Badoor,Drishti&Saaz.
Sandeep Soparkar - Choreographer
Savita Prabhune - Actress
Seema Dev - Bollywood Actress
Shahu Modak Actor
Shilpa Shirodkar - Bollywood Actress
Shivaji Satam - Actor

Shobhana Samarth- Actress and mother of Nutan and Tanuja.
Shreyas Talpade - Bollywood actor
Shubha Khote- Actress
Smita Patil - Bollywood actress
Sonali Bendre - Bollywood actress
Sonali Kulkarni - Bollywood actress; was the first Indian actor to work as a lead actress in an all-foreign crew movie, the Italian movie Fuoco Di Su Me
Sulochana - Popular Character actress
Tanuja - Bollywood actress
Tara Deshpande - Bollywood actress
Urmila Matondkar - Popular Bollywood actress
Vandana Gupte - highly acclaimed stage and television actress, daughter of Manik Varma
Varsha Usgaonkar - Goan Marathi and Bollywood actress who ruled Marathi cinema in 90s
Vijaya Mehta - reputed theatre actress and director, chairwoman of NCPA, Mumbai
Vikram Gokhale - Reputed actor
Vikram Phadnis - Fashion designer
Vishram Sawant - Bollywood director
V. Shantaram - Award winning film Director
Viju Khote - Bollywood Actor famous for his role as Kaalia in Sholay
Vijayendra Ghatge Famous Bollywood actor.
Avinash Narkar- Leading Marathi actor
Arun Nalawde- Leading Marathi actor
Sudhir Joshi- Late Marathi actor
Shreeram Lagoo
Ujjwala Raut- Current supermodel
Girish Mohite-Director-Marathi films, Hindi TV serials.films-Vishwas&Hi Porgi Konachi. Popular serials-Sriman Srimati, Hya Gojirvanya Gharat, Gilli Danda, Mrs. Madhuri Dixit etc.
Mahesh Limaye-Cinematographer-corporate, Traffic Signal
Rajendra Joshi - Producer-Director of documentary films- email: tvindia@rediffmail.com

Literature

'Riyasatkar' Govind Sakharam Sardesai - Great Historian and Writer.
'Mahamahopadhyaya' Datto Vaman Potdar - Historian and Editor.
Bhalachandra Nemade - well known novelist. First novel is "Kosala". Other novels include bidhar, Jarila and Jhool.
Ram Ganesh Gadkari One of the best Playwriter
Vasant Kanetkar One of the best Playwriter
Acharya Atre - Popular satirist, editor, activist, writer, also known for his work in "Maharashtra Ekkikaran Chalwal".
Satish AlekarBrilliant playwriter of Theater Academy
Vishram Bedekar Novelist
Malati Bedekar Feminist story writer.
Jaywant Dalvi - Acclaimed playwright
Govind Dandekar
Hamid Dalwai - Acclaimed novelist and social activist
P.L. Deshpande Pu La Deshpande-FamousMarathiwriter, Playwriter,actor, musician
Mahesh Elkunchwar
Gangadhar Gadgil - Popular writer
Chi.V.Joshi Marathi P.G.Woodhouse
V. P. Kale - Famous writer known for his touching stories on middle class
Vinda Karandikar - Jnanapeeth awardee
G.A.Kulkarni Great Short stories
Madhu Mangesh Karnik Great writer.
Irawati Karve Writer, Critic
Datta Raghunath Kavthekar
Arun Kolatkar-Great poet of 20th century marathi poetry
V.S. Khandekar - Jnanapeeth awardee
Ga Di Ma - Modern Valmiki of India
Vyanktesh Madgulkar Very brilliant writer whose stories are translated in Russian
Na Dho Mahanor - Popular poet
Shahir Sable - Famous "Shahir", known for his popular song "Jai Jai Maharashtra Mazaa"
Namdeo Dhasal-worldclass dalit poet
Shivaji Sawant
Shahir Shaikh - Famous poet and "Shahir", known for his work in "Maharashtra Ekkikaran Chalwal".
Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar - "Kusumagraj"-Jnanapeeth awardee
Vijay Tendulkar - Controversial but acclaimed playwright
D.M.Mirasdar Brilliant writer on rural characters.
Harshad Sarpotdar - Talented Humourous writer
Ratnakar Matkari - Supernatural story writer
Shayam Manohar
Dilip Chitre-One of the Great poet, translator,filmmaker, thinker,critic-Should ger 1st Literary Nobel price for marathi.
Mangesh Narayanrao Kale
Sachin Ketkar-Surrealistic poet. Trandlated Recent Marathi Poetry Anthology-Live Update
Saleel Wagh - Influential poet, Published 3 books.
Anirudha punarvasuFamous writer. His stories are always about sophisticated people.
Shankar Patil Famous Brilliant writer on rural characters and a well-known story-teller.
Vishwas Patil-Wrote famous book "PANIPAT"
Daya PawarAutobiographical writer of "Balut"
Mangesh Padgavkar- Famous Marathi poet
Bahinabai Chaudhari- Famous Marathi (Ahirani language) poet
Hemant Divate-Pathbeaking and Influential Poet and Editor/Publisher of Poetry.
Manya Joshi-pathbreaking new generation poet
Vilas Sarang
Gangadhar Mahambare Very classical poet
Shanta Shelke Classical Poet
Arun Sadhu Non Fictional writer. Biographies, journalistic work,
RamShastri or KanetakerNon Fictional writer .Nazi bhasmasuracha udayasta etc.
Sant Tukadoji Maharaj Classical rural poet- Well known Sahityik and Bal-sahityakar.
Prof.Dr.Sharad Rane "Kandil" well known novel. Bal-sahitya puraskar of Maharashtra

Government for his book "Pachamukhi Pandu"

Dr, Shriniwas Janardan Kashalikar: Over 40 books, novels, travellogues, popular science philosophy [Namasmaran, Shambhavi, Bhovara, Suryashodh, Sahasranetra,stress management, kamajeevan, superliving, arogyadeep, smiling Sun etc and artcles and scientific research papers.
Rajendra Joshi Writer- Freelance Journalist.

Music

Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande,(August 10, 1860 – September 19, 1936) was an Indian classical musician widely acclaimed to have brought in a renaissance in Indian music.
Asha Bhosle, (born September 8,1933)- Belongs to the legendary Mangeshkar family
Lata Mangeshkar (born September 28, 1929)- Recipient of Bharat Ratna in 2001
Hridayanath Mangeshkar- Music director (and brother of Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar)
C. Ramchandra,( or Ramchandra Chitalkar), (1918-1977)- Hindi film Music director
Laxmikant Kudalkar,(1937-1998) - of the duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Jatin Lalit - Music composers for films such as Khiladi
Sudhir Phadke(25 July 1919 Kolhapur - 29 July 2002)- Legendary Marathi music composer, composed music for "Geet Ramayan"
Ramlaxman - Music composer of hits like Maine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aapke Hai Kaun
Ashok Patki - Popular Marathi music composer
Suresh Wadkar - Popular trained classical singer
Devaki Pandit - Popular trained classical singer
Sadhana Sargam - Popular Bollywood playback singer
Anuradha Paudwal - Popular devotional and Bollywood playback singer
Ajit Kadkade - Popular folk vocalist
Kishori Amonkar,(born April 10, 1931) - Classical singer
Arun Date - Legendary Marathi playback singer
Milind Ingle - Marathi and Hindi Music
Bal Gandharva [famous singer]
Haribhau Deshpande [famous 'Organ player']
Vasantrao Deshpande
Master. Krushanarao Phulambrikar [famous singer]
Sawai Gandharva [famous singer]
Rahul Deshpande
Vamanrao Deshapande
Balakrushnabua Ichalakaranjikar
Satyashil Deshpande
Salil Kulkarni Famous Musician
Arun Paudwal Gread Music Director of Marathi Cinemas
Anand Modak Music director Theatre Academy

Ganesh Hegde -Popstar

Pop Music

Abhijit sawant - The first Indian Idol
Rahul Vaidya - Indian Idol runner-up
Mahesh Tinaikar - Lead vocalist/guitarist of popular Indian rock band Indus Creed
Prajakta Shukre
Mangesh Borgaokar
Ganesh Hegde--Postar
Suhas Chavan Hindustani Music

Sports

Abhijit Kunte - Chess Grandmaster
Ajit Agarkar- National and Mumbai cricket team bowler
Ajit Wadekar - Cricketing batsman, former Indian captain
Anjali Bhagwat - Former World No.1 ranked Rifle sharp-shooter
Bapu Nadkarni - Bombay and India cricketer
Bhagyashree Thipsay - Chess Champion
Chandrakant Pandit - Former India Wicket Keeper
Chandu Borde - Former Indian Cricketer batsman
Dilip Sardesai- National and Bombay cricketer
Dilip Vengsarkar - Cricketing batsman; First batsman to score three back-to-back centuries at Lord's
Eknath Solkar- National and Bombay cricketer
Gaurav Natekar - Former Davis Cup player
Khashaba Jadhav - First Indian Olympic medalist
Kiran More - Former India Wicket Keeper and chairman, selection committee
Nandu Natekar - Badminton champion, first Indian to win a title abroad - the Men's singles in the Selangor International Tournament in Kuala Lumpur in 1956. The first Arjuna Award winner in 1961.
Nikhil Kanetkar - Badminton player
Pravin Amre- Attacking batsman
Pravin Thipsay - Grandmaster
Sachin Tendulkar - cricketing batsman former Indian captain, scorer of most Test and ODI centuries, most ODI runs in history, known as Little Master to Cricket world
Sandeep Patil - Former India Cricketer
Sanjay Manjrekar - Indian cricket batsman
Sunil Gavaskar - Cricketer batsman, former Indian captain who was the leading run-scorer in Test cricket and was the first to reach 10,000 runs in test cricket.
Surendra Chavan - First Maharashtrian to climb Mt Everest
Rahul Dravid - Marathi but settled in Karnataka, cricketing batsman former Indian captain, known as "The Wall" to Cricket world.
Tushar Khandekar - Hockey Forward, often referred to as "The Goal Poacher" ^[2]
Vijay Hazare - Cricketing batsman
Vijay Manjrekar - Indian cricket batsman
Vinod Kambli - Cricketing batsman
Virdhawal Khade - Asian Champion in Swimming
Narayan Rao Joshi - Chess Champion
Prakash Kamble -Mr. India title winner. Pune
Prakash Koyande-Mr. India title winner, Runner up at Mr. Asia. Mumbai
Jimmy Patel -Mr. India title winner .Pune
Dr.Vedprakah Dhand -Mr. India title winner. Pune

Wrestlers

HindKesari Chaboo pandhari Ranboke A very famous wrestler of AhmadNager
HindKesari Shreepati Khanchanale Famous Wrestler Who won against sadik Punjabi
HindKesari Ganpat Andalkar Famous Wrestler Who won against Goga Punjabi, Also Asian games winner.
Hindkesari Marooti Mane A very famous Wrestler from Sangli and a national champion.
Khashaba Jadhav First Olympic medal for India in 1952
Prof.Khaniwale 7 Dan/ Degrees BlackBelt in 1936 Judo (Japanese Martial Art Wrestling) He started Judo first time in India at Pune.

Business and Industry

Kishore Bopardikar - Calypso Technology Inc
Prasad Pabrekar - Spykar Jeans
Rajeev Samant - Sula Wines
Vijay Samant-CEO of Vical Incorporated. Biotechnology company based in La Jolla, California
Purushottam Narayan Gadgil - Gadgil Jewellers
Abasaheb Garware - Garware group
Dr. Anand Deshpande - Founder, Chairman and MD Persistent Systems
M.S. alias Baburaoji Parkhe (Parkhe Group)
B G Shirke - Shirke Group
Deepak Ghaisas - Iflex
D S Kulkarni - DSK Group
D P Dandekar - Camlin
Chitales - Chitale foods
Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande - Sycamore Networks
K V Pendharkar - Vicco Labs
Mangesh Kale - Co-founder, Precision Automation and Robotics India Ltd
Narendra Kale - Founder & Chairman-Kale consultants Limited
Rajendra Pawar - NIIT
Ranjit Date - Co-founder, Precision Automation and Robotics India Ltd
Ravi Pandit - KPIT Cummins
Shantanurao Kirloskar - Kirloskars group
Dr. Shrinivas Thanedar - CEO, The Chemir Group
Vikram Chowgule - Chowgule Industries
Suhas Patil - Cirrus Logic
Vivek Ranadive - TIBCO
Abhijit Talwalkar - LSI Logic
Ajit Shelat - Nevis Networks
Kiran Deshpande - MBT
Pravin Bhagwat - AirTight Networks
Talwalkars - Talwalkars chain of gyms
Madhukar A. Gujar - Modern Colours & Aniket Interior Designors.
Suresh Kare - Indoco Remedies Ltd
Vitthal Kamat - Kamat Group of Hotels
Anil Lonkar - Rasoya Proteins Ltd
Kishore Chinchwadkar - Reselien Inc
Bal Dixit - Newtec Inc
Pophale - Fem care Pharma Ltd
Prakash Bhalerao - Concio Corp
Dilip Bhide - DB Power Electronic Pvt Ltd
Rajesh Samant - Sula Wines
Ajit Kerkar - Tulip Hospitality Services
Gopal Patwardhan - Autoline Industries
Ajit Kulkarni - Pratibha Industries
Gokhale - Tortoise Mosquito Repellant Fame
P B Deodhar - Aplab Indutries
Ashish Kulkarni - Jadooworks Inc
Manohar Joshi - Kohinoor Group
Samir Bodas - Aztec Software
Kiran Kulkarni - Geodesic Information Systems
P N Gadgil - Gold Merchant
Ram Bhogale - Nirlep Industries
Paranjape - Paranjape Builders
Bedekar - Bedekar Masale
Sachin Jakatdar - Sachin Travels
Pramod Chaudhari - Praj Industries
Kulkarni- Kulkarni Power Tools Ltd
Sapat - Sapat International
Sada Joshi - Joshi Technologies Inc
Jayraj Salgoankar - Owner of Kalnirnay
Ramnath Kare - Kare group of companies
Vinay Phadnis - Sahil Group
M R Chandurkar - IPCA Labs
Deepak Gadre - Gadre Marine Exports
Prakash Gadre - Damodar Shivram & Co. (HP Gold tea)
Kelkar & Vaze - Kelkar Group
Walchandsheth Doshi- Walchandnagar Group of industries
Nilkanthrao Kalyani-Bharat Forge and Kalyani group of industries
Madhaorao Shembekar, Ravi Kashikar,Laxman Aurangabadkar, Makrand Saoji- Ankur Seeds
Sandy Tungare - Vistaar Inc
Dr Deepa Chitre - BIO-VED Pharmaceuticals
Manoj Tirodkar - GTL Infrastructures
N.K. (Annasaheb) Mhatre - Pioneer of Fountain Pen & Organised Poultry Industry in India.Founder of Mhatre Pen & Prabhat Poultry.
Kiran Bhagwat - Disha Technologies
Prakash Ratnaparkhi- Electronica Group
Veena Patil - Kesari Tours & Travels Limited
Dilip Kulkarni - Skypak Speacilists Limited(Poineer in courier ind)
Ghatge Patil Transpoters- Famous Industrailist from Kolhapur
Prof Shivanand Mankekar- Among india top 5 individual investors
Kishore Avarsekar - Unity Infraprojects
Meera Chandavarkar -FDC(Makers of Electral)Pharma Major
Vijay Patankar - Creator and presenter of the Study Skills Program (Sydney, Australia)

Bureaucracy

C. D. Deshmukh - Third Governor of Reserve Bank of India
Madhavrao Godbole - Union Home Secretary who resigned during Babri demolition citing incompetence of Government. His integrity and intellectual honesty is legendary.
N Vittal - Former CVC (Chief Vigilance Commissioner) of India. He is a Tanjore Maharashtrian, currently staying in Chennai.
[{V.B. Samant]]-CEO of Vical Incorporated. Biotechnology company based in La Jolla, California
Dr Narendra Jadhav - a principal advisor to the RBI and a former advisor to the executive director at the IMF,

Marathi Journalists

Kumar Ketkar
Suresh Dwadashiwar
Govind Talwalkar
Dinkar Raikar
Avinash Mantri
Prakash Pohare
Sudheer Pathak
Shrimant Mane
Mahesh Mhatre
Pavin Tokekar
Shrikant Bojewar
Rajeev Khandekar
Bharatkumar Raut
Sukrut Khandekar
Rahi Bhide
Sanjay Raut
Rajendra Joshi

Others

Vijay Kelkar - Advisor to Minister of Finance
Anandi Gopal Joshi - Anandibai Joshi was the first Indian woman doctor to be educated in USA. Anandibai Joshi's life spans just about twenty-two years, from 1865-1887.
Ramdas Padhye - Puppet Master. Was Asian representative at Marilyn Monroe Puppet Fest in 2006
Sharad Upadhye - Famous Astrologer
Dwarkanath Kotnis - A well-known doctor in China who helped Chinese communists army during the World War II. A well-known doctor in China who helped the Chinese and died in 1942 at the age of 32.
Bharat Dabholkar - Adman, Actor, Director and producer. The brain behind Amul commercials.
Rajdeep Sardesai - Sr Journalist and Editor of CNN-IBN
Vishnu Bhagwat - Former Navy Chief of India
Bhushan Ghokale - Vice-chief, Indian Air Force
Arunkumar Vaidya - Chief of Army Staff from 83 through 86
Baba Lomber - former Gangster
Daud Ibrahim - Underworld Don
Arun Gawali - Gangster turned Politician
Chota Rajan - Underworld Gangster
Ravi Paranjape - Painter, illustrator
Devdatta Padekar - Painter
Fine Artist Rahul Deshpande - Painter, Illustrator, Designer

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