List of Kunbi people
Appearance
The following is a list of notable Kunbi people
Politics
- Shrikant Jichkar – Member of Parliament, Member of Rajya Sabha, Cabinet Minister of Maharashtra, Managing Editor of Nagpur Times and Nagpur Patrika
- S. K. Wankhede – former BCCI President and State Minister.
- Anant Geete – Member of Parliament and former Union Minister of Power.
- Panjabrao Deshmukh – social reformer, educationist and freedom fighter[citation needed][clarification needed] in Vidarbha.
- Vishnu Gholam – social reformer, NATIONLIST CONGRESS PARTY (Constituent Secretary), KUNBI SENA (FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN), KUNBI SWARAJYA MAHASANGH (CHAIRMAN)
Academics, Writers and Professionals
- Atul Gawande – second generation Harvard professor and doctor, who is also a columnist in US.
- Adv Manish Deorao Gudadhe Patil – Eminent Lawyer and Corporate lobbyist.
- [shrikant borle] - tourism writer, blogger.
Sports
- Sandeep Patil is a cricket player and former coach of the Kenya Cricket Team that reached World Cup Semi-Finals in 2003. He had a record for six fours in a cricket over.
- Aditya Raut – youngest person in the world to swim across five continental channels
- Anshuman Gaekwad – former Indian cricket team coach and Cricket player
Film, music, and modeling
- Rajnikanth (Birth Name:Shivaji Rao Gaikwad), a famous Indian film actor. He is the second-highest paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan.
- Lalita Pawar was a Bollywood actor known as The Mother of all mothers-in-law in films.
- Smita Patil was a Bollywood actress, a two-time Best Actress award winner at the National Film Festival (Bhumika and Chakra) and a Padmashree.
Science and technology
- Vijay Bhatkar – an IT computer scientist from India.