List of Marathi people

This is a list of notable Marathi people an ethnolinguistic group that speaks Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language as their native language.

Dynasties

Ancient Maharashtrian kingdoms

Mediaeval Maratha kingdoms

;The Bhosales (Maharashtra)

;The Jadhavs (Sindkhed Raja-Maharashtra)

;The Peshwe

;The Bhosales (Thanjavur-Tamil Nadu)

;The Holkars (Indore-Madhya Pradesh)

;The Shinde/Scindia (Gwalior-Madhya Pradesh)

;The Newalkars (Jhansi-Uttar Pradesh)

• Gangadhar Rao Newalkar
• Lakshmibai

;The Gandekars (Bhor-Maharashtra)

;The Pawar (Dhar-Madhya Pradesh)

;The Ghorpade (Sandur-Karnataka)

;The Gaekwad (Baroda-Gujarat)

Historic warriors

Satavahana Empire(2nd century BCE–Early 3rd century CE)

Vakataka dynasty (Mid 3rd century CE-Early 6th century)

Rashtrakuta Empire (753 CE–982 CE)

Shilahara dynasty of North Konkan (Early 9th century CE-Mid 13th century CE)

Yadava Empire (Mid 9th century CE-Early 14th century CE)

During 17th century and Shivaji's reign

During 18th century and Peshwa rule

The 27-year war - India's longest fought war (1680–1707)

Leaders of Anglo Maratha Wars I, II, III (1775–1818)

Indian independence movement

Leaders of Ist War of Indian Independence (1857)

Revolutionaries

Father of Indian unrest

Father of Indian armed struggle

First political murder in Indian freedom struggle

First Secret Society for Independence

Others

Humanitarians and reformers

Father of renaissance of western India

Reformers

Bene Israeli reformer and scholar

Social activists

Philanthropists

Defence leaders

Father of Indian Navy

First living recipient of the Param Vir Chakra

Third woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank

ARMY

Generals

Lieutenant Generals

Others

NAVY

Admirals

Vice/Rear Admirals

Others

AIR FORCE

Air Chief Marshal

Air Marshal

Others

Religion and spirituality

Father of Hindu Nationalism in India

Datta Sampradaya

Mahanubhava Sampradaya

Warkari Movement

Ganapatyas

Late medieval period Saints (1200–1526)

Early modern period Saints (1526–1858)

Swadhyaya Movement

Prarthana Samaj

Modern period, independence and after (1858–1947)

RSS Members

Marathi Kirtankar

Politics

Speaker of Lok Sabha

First female President of India

Deputy Prime Minister of India

First female Chief Minister of Goa

First female Chief Minister of Rajasthan

First Chief Minister of Goa

First Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

First Chief Minister of Bombay State

First Hindu and first man of Indian descent to be elected to the Scottish Parliament

First General Secretary of the Communist Party of India.

Founder of All India Trade Union Congress

Goa's first woman parliamentarian

Samyukta Maharashtra Movement

Union Cabinet Ministers

Others

United Kingdom and Irish politics

American politics

Goa legislative Assembly

• Govind Gaude
• Ramesh Tawadkar
• Subhash Phal Desai
• Sudin Dhavalikar
• Nilkanth Halarnkar

Bureaucrats and diplomats

Foreign Service

Indian Administrative Service

Indian Civil Service

Founder, jurists and lawyers

Law and Justice Minister

Chief Justice of India

• D. Y. Chandrachud
• P. B. Gajendragadkar
• Y. V. Chandrachud
• V.N. Khare
• Sharad Arvind Bobde
• Uday Umesh Lalit

Supreme Court Judges

• Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar
• P. B. Sawant
• Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar
• Hemant Laxman Gokhale
• Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai
• U. U. Lalit
• Sujata Manohar
• V. D. Tulzapurkar
• J. R. Mudholkar
• Hemant Gokhale

International lawyers

• Harish Salve
• M. R. Jayakar
• Sakharam Ganesh Pandit

Others

• Moropant Vishvanath Joshi
• G. S. Khaparde
• Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai
• J. R. Mudholkar
• Naresh Harishchandra Patil
• Ujjwal Nikam
• S. B. Tambe
• V. S. Sirpurkar

Business, trade and industries

Father of Indian Trade Union Movement

Founder of the Asia's first Cooperative sugar factory.

Others

Fiscal policy leaders

First Indian to be appointed the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

RBI Governors

Economists

Academicians/educationists

Ancient Maharashtrian academicians

Founder of India's First Women University

Founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India

Founder and president of the Symbiosis Society

Founding director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Founder of Fergusson College

First female teacher of India

First female Indian anthropologist

Most qualified person of India

Pioneers in women's education

Founder of Balwadi

• Tarabai Modak

Indologists

Global Teacher Prize recipient

Father of Marathi journalism.

Others

Sciences

Chemistry

Earth sciences

First Indian Women to Antarctica

Seed Mother of India

Father of the Indian Seed Industry

Others

Engineering and technology

Father of Indian Super Computers

First U.S. Chief Data Scientist

Others

Mathematics and statistics

First Indian to be Senior Wrangler

Others

Medicine and surgery

First Indian Female Physician

First Indian Female to receive PhD

Father of Pathology and Medical Research

ICMR Scientists

Immunologist

Others

Physics

Astronomy

Nuclear scientists

Fellow of Royal Society

Theoretical physicists

Astro - physicists

ISRO and DRDO scientists

Indian Institute Of Technology(IIT) - Chairman/Directors

Aerospace engineering

Others

Industrial design

• Satyendra Pakhale
• Sumant Moolgaokar

Arts

Cinema and theatre

Father of Indian Cinema

First Indian to receive the Oscar

First female actress of India

Dada Saheb Phalke Award - Lifetime contribution to Indian Cinema

Actors

Actresses

Directors

Models and beauty pageant winners

Hollywood

Bigg-Boss (Hindi) show winners

• Shilpa Shinde
• Tejasswi Prakash

Literature

Ancient Maharashtrian litterateurs

Jnanpith Award winners - Outstanding contribution in Indian Literature

Noted Marathi writers in non-Marathi languages

• D. R. Bendre- Considered as the greatest Kannada lyric poet of the 20th century.
• Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh - One of the pioneers of modern Hindi poetry.
• Kaloji Narayana Rao- One of the greatest Telugu poets. His birth anniversary is celebrated as Telangana Language Day
• Madhavrao Sapre - Writer and journalist in Hindi

Others

Columnists and journalists

Historians

Other applied arts

Father of Indian Circus - Vishnupant Moreshwar Chatre

First Ventriloquist in Modern India - Y. K. Padhye

Father of Indian Comic Books - Anant Pai

Photographers/cinematographers

Costume/fashion designers

Production designers

Cartoonists

Sculptors

Painters

Calligraphers/typographers

Music

Hindustani classical music

Music directors

Modern music

Singers

Winner of Indian Idol (Season 1)

Sports

First Individual Olympic Medal for India

First Individual Paralympic Medal for India

First Indian to score 100 international 100's

First Indian woman to cross Gobi Desert

First Indian woman to obtain WIM title

India's first Olympic Marathon runner

Cricket

Chess

Others

Outside Maharashtra

Bene Israel

Thanjavur

Uttarakhand

United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe

Mexico

South East and Far East

Canada

Australia

United States

UAE

Awardee

First Indian to receive Magsaysay Award (Asia's Nobel)

Ramon Magsaysay - Asia's Noble

Bharat Ratna - Highest Civilian Award

Ashok Chakra - India's highest peacetime military decoration award for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield.

• Hemant Karkare
• Vijay Salaskar
• Ashok Kamte
• Tukaram Omble
• Jagannath Raoji Chitnis
• Vijay Salaskar

Param Vir Chakra - India's highest military decoration, awarded for displaying distinguished acts of valour during wartime.

• Rama Raghoba Rane
• Ardeshir Tarapore

Victoria Cross

• Yeshwant Ghadge
• Namdeo Jadhav

Padma Vibhushan- Second Highest Civilian Award of India

• Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher
• Hari Vinayak Pataskar
• Kaka Kalelkar
• Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi
• P. B. Gajendragadkar
• C. D. Deshmukh
• Premlila Vithaldas Thackersey
• Baba Amte
• Lakshman Shastri Joshi
• Pandurang Shastri Athavale
• Nanaji Deshmukh
• Lata Mangeshkar
• Kishori Amonkar
• Jayant Narlikar
• Nirmala Deshpande
• V. N. Khare
• Asha Bhosle
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Anil Kakodkar
• Vijay Kelkar
• Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
• Sharad Pawar
• Balwant Moreshwar Purandare
• Prabha Atre
• M. F. Husain
• Arun Shridhar Vaidya
• Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre
• Rajinikanth
• Madhav Shrihari Aney
• Kaloji Narayana Rao

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize

• Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane
• Madhav Gadgil
• Jayant B. Udgaonkar
• Dinakar Mashnu Salunke
• Shekhar C. Mande
• Sanjeev Galande
• Shubha Tole
• Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale
• Raghavendra Gadagkar
• Bal Dattatreya Tilak
• Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre
• Girjesh Govil
• Pramod Sadasheo Moharir
• Janardan Ganpatrao Negi
• Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre
• Ashwin Gumaste
• Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni
• Yogesh M. Joshi
• Ashish Kishore Lele
• Vivek Ranade
• Vivek Borkar
• Jyeshtharaj Joshi
• B. D. Kulkarni
• Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme
• Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
• Kapil Hari Paranjape
• Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar
• Eknath Prabhakar Ghate
• Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
• Ramanath Cowsik
• Varun Sahni
• Atish Dabholkar
• Umesh Waghmare
• Nissim Kanekar
• Mandar Madhukar Deshmukh
• Chetan Eknath Chitnis
• Santosh G. Honavar
• Vidita Ashok Vaidya

Criminals and Gangsters

• Arun Gawli, Indian gangster turned politician
• Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, Indian crime lord and terrorist who was founder of D-company.
• Shabir Ibrahim Kaskar, Indian gangster
• Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje (often known as Chota Rajan), Indian gangster
• Maya Dolas, Indian gangster and former member of D-company
• Manya Surve, Indian gangster
• Dilip Buwa, Indian gangster and sharpshooter
• Ravi Pujari, Indian gangster and extortionist
• Chota Shakeel, Indian gangster and lieutenant of Dawood Ibrahim.

See also

• List of people from Maharashtra
• List of people from Nagpur

References