List of people from Mumbai
This is a list of notable residents of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India. Residents may be known as Bombayites, or Mumbaikars (in Marathi).
Sport
Cricketers
- Ajit Agarkar
- Pravin Amre
- Sunil Gavaskar
- Wasim Jaffer
- Vinod Kambli
- Tanmay Mishra
- Chandrakant Pandit
- Sandeep Patil
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Rohit Sharma
- Ravi Shastri
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Dilip Vengsarkar
- Ajit Wadekar
Field hockey
Kickboxing
- Sarah Avraham, Indian-born Israeli kickboxer, 2014 Women's World Thai-Boxing Champion
Business
Businessmen
- Akshay Agrawal
- Anil Ambani
- Mukesh Ambani
- Kumar Mangalam Birla
- Ajay Dhumal
- Adi Godrej
- Sajjan Jindal
- Uday Kotak
- Anand Mahindra
- Deena Mehta
- Ajay Piramal
- Albert Abdullah David Sassoon
- David Sassoon
- Ronnie Screwvala
- Ratan Tata
- Nusli Wadia
Film
Actors and directors
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali, director
- Tamanna Bhatia
- David Abraham Cheulkar
- Ileana D'Cruz
- Bobby Deol
- Ritesh Deshmukh
- Dev, Bengali actor
- Varun Dhawan
- Madhuri Dixit
- Sanjay Dutt
- Karan Johar
- Swapnil Joshi
- Kajol
- Arjun Kapoor
- Kareena Kapoor
- Karisma Kapoor
- Ranbir Kapoor
- Shraddha Kapoor
- Sonam Kapoor
- Aamir Khan
- Salman Khan
- Shah Rukh Khan
- Ishaa Koppikar
- Urmila Matondkar
- Amol Palekar
- Amey Pandya
- Sachin Pilgaonkar
- Hrithik Roshan, actor
- Ashok Saraf
- Subhash Sharma, art director
- Namrata Shirodkar
- Shilpa Shirodkar
- Ranveer Singh
- Shreyas Talpade
- Preity Zinta
Music
Conductors
Lyricists and singers
- Javed Akhtar
- Asha Bhosle
- Rahul Dev Burman
- Geeta Dutt
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Freddie Mercury
- Mohammed Rafi
- Geetika Varde, classical singer [1]
Writers and journalists
- Devyani Chaubal (1942–1995), film journalist and columnist of 60s and 70s
- Firdaus Kanga
- B. K. Karanjia (1919–2012), film journalist and editor, Filmfare and Screen, chairman NFDC
- Rudyard Kipling
- Rohinton Mistry
- Gregory David Roberts
- Salman Rushdie
Others
- Troy Costa (born 1975), fashion designer [2]
- Kekoo Gandhy (1920–2012), art gallery owner, founded Gallery Chemould in 1963 [3]
- Chandrakala A. Hate, author, feminist, social worker, and professor
- Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy, merchant and philanthropist
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah, lawyer, politician, and the founder of Pakistan
- Neha R. Krishna, author, poet
- Kisan Mehta, president of nonprofits
- Abie Nathan, humanitarian and peace activist
- Reshma Qureshi, model and vlogger
- Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney, community leader, philanthropist and industrialist
- Sandra Samuel, nanny who saved the life of two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg during the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks
- Ranvir Shah, cultural activist and philanthropist [4]
- Jagannath Shankarshet, philanthropist and educationalist
- Subhash Sharma, fine artist, creative designer
- Tarun Tahiliani, fashion designer [5]
References
- ^ "United Colours of India". Hindustan Times. January 27, 2009. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ^ "Narendra Modi out to make strong fashion statement in US; hires high-profile designer Troy Costa". The Economic Times. July 21, 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
- ^ "Chemould celebrates fifty years". The Times of India. August 17, 2013. Retrieved 2014-05-24.
- ^ Muthalaly, Shonali (October 30, 2009). "Best of three worlds". The Hindu. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
- ^ "Designs on the bride". India Today. 2008-11-07. Retrieved 2014-05-29.
