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This is a list of notable [[Marathi people]] an [[ethnolinguistic group]] that speaks [[Marathi language|Marathi]], an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language as their [[First language|native language]].
This is a list of notable [[Marathi people]] an [[ethnolinguistic group]] that speaks [[Marathi language|Marathi]], an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] language as their [[First language|native language]].
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==Rulers and generals==
==Dynasties ==
[[File:Shivaji by Raja Ravi Varma.JPG|thumb|150px|[[Shivaji|Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj]]|alt=]][[File:Vadhu Tulapur - Statue of Sambhaji Maharaja.JPG|thumb|150px|[[Sambhaji|Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj]]|alt=]]
[[File:Gautami Putra Satkarni Statue in Amaravathi.jpg|alt=|thumb|150x150px|[[Gautamiputra Satakarni]]]]
[[File:Shivaji Rijksmuseum.jpg|alt=|thumb|189x189px|[[Shivaji|Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj]]]]
[[File:Sambhaji & Kubkullus.jpg|alt=|thumb|181x181px|[[Sambhaji|Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj]]]]
[[File:Maharani Tarabai of Karvir.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Tarabai]]|alt=]]
[[File:Maharani Tarabai of Karvir.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Tarabai]]|alt=]]
[[File:Baji Prabhu Deshpande Statue in Panhala Fort.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Baji Prabhu Deshpande]]|alt=]]
[[File:Enlarged painting of Bajirao I(cropped).jpg|thumb|200x200px|[[Baji Rao I|Peshwa Bajirao]]]]
[[File:Bajirao Peshwa.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Baji Rao I|Peshwa Bajirao]]]]
;Ancient Maharashtrian kingdoms
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;The ancient kingdoms
*[[Satavahana Empire]]
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*[[Traikutaka dynasty]]
*[[Seuna dynasty]]
*[[Chalukya dynasty]]
*[[Satavahana|Satavahana Empire]]
*[[Kadamba dynasty]]
*[[Vakataka dynasty]]
*[[Vakataka dynasty]]
*[[Shilahara]]
*[[Rashtrakuta Empire]]
*[[Rashtrakuta dynasty]]
*[[Shilahara|Shilahara dynasty (Konkan)]]
*[[Yadava dynasty|Yadava Empire]]
}}
}}


; The Jadhav (Sindkhed Raja-Maharashtra)
;Mediaeval Maratha kingdoms
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* [[Lakhuji Jadhav]]
* [[Jijabai]]
* [[Dhanaji Jadhav]]
}}


;The Bhosales (Maharashtra)
;;The Bhosales (Maharashtra)
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* [[Chattrapati Shahu]]<ref name=mar/>
* [[Chattrapati Shahu]]<ref name=mar/>
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* [[Rajaram Chhatrapati]]<ref name=mar/>
* [[Rajaram Chhatrapati]]<ref name=mar/>
* [[Ramaraja]]<ref name=mar/>
* [[Ramaraja]]<ref name=mar/>
* [[Sambhaji]]<ref name="mar">{{cite web | title = Maratha History  |publisher = Gatewayforindia.com  | url = http://www.gatewayforindia.com/history/maratha.htm | access-date = 24 August 2010}}</ref>
* [[Sambhaji]]<ref name="mar">{{cite web | title = Maratha History  |publisher = Gatewayforindia.com  | url = http://www.gatewayforindia.com/history/maratha.htm | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121216064527/http://www.gatewayforindia.com/history/maratha.htm | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 16 December 2012 | access-date = 24 August 2010}}</ref>
* [[Shahaji]]  
* [[Shahaji]]  
* [[Shivaji]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Maratha King Shivaji  |publisher = kamat.com  | url = http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/maharashtra/shivaji.htm | access-date = 24 August 2010}}</ref>
* [[Shivaji]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Maratha King Shivaji  |publisher = kamat.com  | url = http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/maharashtra/shivaji.htm | access-date = 24 August 2010}}</ref>
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;The Peshwe
;;The Jadhavs (Sindkhed Raja-Maharashtra)
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* [[Lakhuji Jadhav]]
* [[Jijabai]]
* [[Dhanaji Jadhav]]
}}
 
;;The Peshwe
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* [[Moropant Trimbak Pingle]]
* [[Moropant Trimbak Pingle]]
*[[Moreshvar Pingale|Nilakanth Moreshvar Pingale]]  
* [[Moreshvar Pingale|Nilakanth Moreshvar Pingale]]  
*[[Ramchandra Pant Amatya]]  
* [[Ramchandra Pant Amatya]]  
*[[Bahiroji Pingale]]  
* [[Bahiroji Pingale]]  
*[[Parshuram Pant Pratinidhi|Parshuram Trimbak Kulkarni]]
* [[Parshuram Pant Pratinidhi|Parshuram Trimbak Kulkarni]]
* [[Balaji Vishwanath]]
* [[Balaji Vishwanath]]
* [[Madhavrao II|Madhav-Rao II]]
* [[Madhavrao II|Madhav-Rao II]]
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;The Bhosales (Thanjavur-Tamil Nadu)
;;The Bhosales (Thanjavur-Tamil Nadu)
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* [[Ekoji I]]  
* [[Ekoji I]]  
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;The Holkars (Indore-Madhya Pradesh)
;;The Holkars (Indore-Madhya Pradesh)
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* [[Ahilyabai Holkar]]
* [[Ahilyabai Holkar]]
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;The Shinde/Scindia (Gwalior-Madhya Pradesh)
;;The Shinde/Scindia (Gwalior-Madhya Pradesh)
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* [[Daulatrao Scindia]]
* [[Daulatrao Scindia]]
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* [[Jayajirao Scindia]]
* [[Jayajirao Scindia]]
* [[Jayapparao Scindia]]
* [[Jayapparao Scindia]]
* [[Mahadji Shinde]]<ref>{{cite book | title = The Great Maratha  |isbn = 9788185431529 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uPq640stHJ0C&pg=PA1 | access-date = 24 August 2010|last1 = Rathod |first1 = N. G. |year = 1994 }}</ref>
* [[Mahadji Shinde]]<ref>{{cite book | title = The Great Maratha  |isbn = 9788185431529 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uPq640stHJ0C&pg=PA1 | access-date = 24 August 2010|last1 = Rathod |first1 = N. G. |year = 1994 |publisher = Sarup & Sons }}</ref>
* [[Ranojirao Scindia]]
* [[Ranojirao Scindia]]
}}
}}


;The Newalkars (Jhansi-Uttar Pradesh)
;;The Newalkars (Jhansi-Uttar Pradesh)
[[File:Rani of jhansi.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Rani of Jhansi|Rani Lakshmibai]]]]
[[File:Rani of jhansi.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Rani of Jhansi|Rani Lakshmibai]]]]
*[[Gangadhar Rao Newalkar]]
*[[Gangadhar Rao Newalkar]]
* [[Lakshmibai]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Jhansi Ki Rani Lakshmibai Biography  |publisher = Liveindia.com  | url = http://www.liveindia.com/freedomfighters/jhansi_ki_rani_laxmi_bai.html | access-date = 24 August 2010}}</ref>
* [[Lakshmibai]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Jhansi Ki Rani Lakshmibai Biography  |publisher = Liveindia.com  | url = http://www.liveindia.com/freedomfighters/jhansi_ki_rani_laxmi_bai.html | access-date = 24 August 2010}}</ref>


; The Gandekars ([[Bhor State|Bhor]]-Maharashtra)
;;The Gandekars ([[Bhor State|Bhor]]-Maharashtra)
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* [[Shankarrao Chimnajirao Gandekar]]
* [[Shankarrao Chimnajirao Gandekar]]
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;The Pawar (Dhar-Madhya Pradesh)
;;The Pawar (Dhar-Madhya Pradesh)
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* [[Hemendra Singh Rao Pawar]]
* [[Hemendra Singh Rao Pawar]]
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;The Ghorpade (Sandur-Karnataka)
;;The Ghorpade (Sandur-Karnataka)
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* [[Murari Rao]]
* [[Murari Rao]]
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;The Gaekwad (Baroda-Gujarat)
;;The Gaekwad (Baroda-Gujarat)
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* [[Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad]]
* [[Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad]]
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==Historic warriors==
==Historic warriors==
;During 17th century and Shivaji's reign
 
[[File:Mahadaji Sindhia.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Mahadaji Shinde]] restored the Maratha domination on northern India]]
;Satavahana Empire(2nd century BCE–Early 3rd century CE)
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*[[Satakarni]]
*[[Simuka]]
*[[Kanha (Satavahana dynasty)|Kanha]]
*[[Gautamiputra Satakarni]]
*[[Vasishthiputra Pulumavi]]
*[[Hāla]]
*[[Vashishtiputra Sātakarni]]
*[[Satakarni II]]
*[[Shalivahana]]
}}
 
;Vakataka dynasty (Mid 3rd century CE-Early 6th century)
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* [[Pravarasena I]]
* [[Vindhyasena]]
* [[Narendrasena]]
* [[Harishena]]
}}
 
;Rashtrakuta Empire (753 CE–982 CE)
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* [[Khemirao Sarnaik]]
* [[Dantidurga]]
* [[Govind Rao Khare]]
* [[Krishna I]]
* [[Bajaji Rao Naik Nimbalkar]]
* [[Dhruva Dharavarsha]]
* [[Bajiprabhu|Baji Prabhu Deshpande]]<ref>{{cite web | title = About Shivaji |publisher = Punepages.com| url = http://www.punepages.com/about-shivaji| access-date = 26 August 2010}}</ref>
* [[Govinda III]]
* [[Dhanaji Jadhav]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Chhatrapati Rajaram  |publisher = history-timeline.deepthi.com | url = http://www.history-timeline.deepthi.com/india-timeline-history/chhatrapati-rajaram.html | access-date = 21 December 2010}}</ref>
* [[Krishna III]]
* [[Firangoji Narsala]]<ref name="shi">{{cite web| title = Chattrapati shivaji maharaj| publisher = Herosofindia.com| url = http://herosofindia.com/?p=72| access-date = 26 August 2010| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110711163656/http://herosofindia.com/?p=72| archive-date = 11 July 2011| df = dmy-all}}</ref>
}}
* [[Gomaji Naik]]
 
;
;Shilahara dynasty of North Konkan (Early 9th century CE-Mid 13th century CE)
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* [[Aparajita]]
* [[Arikesarin]] a.k.a. Keshideva I
* [[Aparaditya I]]
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;Yadava Empire (Mid 9th century CE-Early 14th century CE)
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* [[Bhillama V|Bhillama]] a.k.a. Bhillamadeva
* [[Simhana]] a.k.a. Singhaṇadeva
* [[Krishna of Devagiri|Krishna]] a.k.a. Kānharadeva
* [[Mahadeva of Devagiri|Mahādeva]]
* [[Ramachandra of Devagiri|Rāmachandra]] a.k.a Rāmadeva
}}
 
;During 17th century and Shivaji's reign<ref>[[:commons:File:Baji_Rao_I.png|File:Baji Rao I.png - Wikipedia]]{{Circular reference|date=June 2022}}</ref>
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* [[Baji Rao I|Peshwa Baji Rao I]]
* [[Khemirao Sarnaik]]
* [[Govind Rao Khare]]
* [[Bajaji Rao Naik Nimbalkar]]
* [[Bajiprabhu|Baji Prabhu Deshpande]]<ref>{{cite web | title = About Shivaji |publisher = Punepages.com| url = http://www.punepages.com/about-shivaji| access-date = 26 August 2010}}</ref>
* [[Dhanaji Jadhav]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Chhatrapati Rajaram  |publisher = history-timeline.deepthi.com | url = http://www.history-timeline.deepthi.com/india-timeline-history/chhatrapati-rajaram.html | access-date = 21 December 2010}}</ref>
* [[Firangoji Narsala]]<ref name="shi">{{cite web| title = Chattrapati shivaji maharaj| publisher = Herosofindia.com| url = http://herosofindia.com/?p=72| access-date = 26 August 2010| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110711163656/http://herosofindia.com/?p=72| archive-date = 11 July 2011| df = dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[Gomaji Naik]]
* [[Hambirrao Mohite]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Hambirrao Mohite |publisher = sahyadribooks.com  | url = http://www.sahyadribooks.org/books/senapatihambirraomohite.asp?bid=277 | access-date = 16 December 2010}}</ref>
* [[Hambirrao Mohite]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Hambirrao Mohite |publisher = sahyadribooks.com  | url = http://www.sahyadribooks.org/books/senapatihambirraomohite.asp?bid=277 | access-date = 16 December 2010}}</ref>
* [[Kanhoji Angre]]
* [[Kanhoji Angre]]
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* [[Mudhoji II Bhonsle]]
* [[Mudhoji II Bhonsle]]
* [[Janoji Bhonsle]]
* [[Janoji Bhonsle]]
* [[Holkar|Malharrao Holkar III]]
* [[House of Holkar|Malharrao Holkar III]]
}}
}}


==Indian independence movement==
==Indian independence movement==
;
 
[[File:Bal G. Tilak.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]]]]
[[File:Bal G. Tilak.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]]]]
;  
;  
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;Revolutionaries
;Revolutionaries
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|* [[B R Ambedkar]]
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|* [[B R Ambedkar]]
* [[ Bhaurao Patil]]
* [[Bhaurao Patil]]
* [[Anant Laxman Kanhere]]
* [[Anant Laxman Kanhere]]
* [[Panjabrao Deshmukh]]  
* [[Panjabrao Deshmukh]]  
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* [[Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje]]
* [[Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje]]
* [[Veer Bhai Kotwal]]
* [[Veer Bhai Kotwal]]
* [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]]
* [[Vishnu Ganesh Pingle]]
* [[Vishnu Ganesh Pingle]]
}}
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;Father of Indian armed struggle
;Father of Indian armed struggle{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}
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* [[Vasudev Balwant Phadke]]
* [[Vasudev Balwant Phadke]]
}}
}}


;First political murder in Indian freedom struggle
;First political murder in Indian freedom struggle{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}
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* [[Chapekar brothers]]
* [[Chapekar brothers]]
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;First Secret Society for Independence{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}
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* [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]]
}}
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* [[Vasantdada Patil]]
* [[Vasantdada Patil]]
* [[Nagnath Naikwadi]]
* [[Nagnath Naikwadi]]
* [[Swami Ramanand Tirtha]]
* [[Nath Pai]]
*[[Ranjit Sitaram Pandit|Ranjit Pandit]]
*[[Shivlinga Shivacharya|Shivlinga Shivacharya Maharaj]]
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* [[Mahadev Govind Ranade]]
* [[Mahadev Govind Ranade]]
}}
;First Asian to receive Magsaysay Award (Asia's Nobel)
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* [[Vinoba Bhave]]
}}
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* [[Maharshi Vitthal Ramji Shinde]]
* [[Maharshi Vitthal Ramji Shinde]]
* [[Savitribai Phule]]
* [[Savitribai Phule]]
* [[Dinkarrao Javalkar]]
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;Bene Israeli reformer and scholar
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* [[Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar]]
}}
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* [[Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil]]
* [[Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil]]
* [[Nana Patekar]]
* [[Nana Patekar]]
* [[Nanaji Deshmukh]]<ref name="TNIE1">[http://newindianexpress.com/nation/article216806.ece Social activist Nanaji Deshmukh dead] [[The New Indian Express]] – 28 February 2010</ref>
* [[Nanaji Deshmukh]]<ref name="TNIE1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20140108043818/http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/article216806.ece Social activist Nanaji Deshmukh dead] [[The New Indian Express]] – 28 February 2010</ref>
* [[Nanasaheb Parulekar]]
* [[Nanasaheb Parulekar]]
* [[Narayan Chandavarkar]]
* [[Narayan Chandavarkar]]
* [[Narendra Dabholkar]]
* [[Narendra Dabholkar]]
* [[Pandita Ramabai]]
* [[Pandita Ramabai]]
*[[Ramabai Ranade]]
* [[Prakash Amte]]  
* [[Prakash Amte]]  
* [[Mandakini Amte]]
* [[Mandakini Amte]]
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* [[Shobhana Ranade]]
* [[Shobhana Ranade]]
* [[Damodar Bapat]]
* [[Damodar Bapat]]
}}
*[[Ram Ingole]]}}
 


;Philanthropists  
;Philanthropists  
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* [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj]]
* [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj]]
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;First living recipient of the Param Vir Chakra
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*[[Rama Raghoba Rane]]
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;Third woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank
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*[[Madhuri Kanitkar]]
}}
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* [[Shailesh Tinaikar]]
* [[Shailesh Tinaikar]]
}}
}}
;Param Vir Chakra/Victoria Cross
 
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* [[Yeshwant Ghadge]]
* [[Namdeo Jadhav]]
* [[Rama Raghoba Rane]]
}}
;Others
;Others
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* [[Anil Tipnis]]  
* [[Anil Tipnis]]  
* [[Pradeep Vasant Naik]]
* [[Pradeep Vasant Naik]]
* [[Vivek Ram Chaudhari]]
}}
}}
;Air Marshal
;Air Marshal
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* [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]]
* [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]]
}}  
}}


;Datta Sampraday
;Datta Sampradaya
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* [[Narsimha Saraswati]]
* [[Narsimha Saraswati]]
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* [[Rang Avadhoot]]
* [[Rang Avadhoot]]
* [[Gagangiri Maharaj]]
* [[Gagangiri Maharaj]]
* [[Vasudevanand Saraswati]]
* [[Nana Maharaj Taranekar]]
* [[Janardan Swami]]
}}
}}


;Mahanubhava Sampraday
;Mahanubhava Sampradaya
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* [[Chakradhar Swami]]  
* [[Chakradhar Swami]]  
* [[Mhaimbhat]]
}}
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;Late medieval period Saints (1200-1526)
;Ganapatyas
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* [[Morya Gosavi]]
}}
 
;Late medieval period Saints (1200–1526)
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* [[Mukundraj]]
* [[Gora Kumbhar]]
* [[Gora Kumbhar]]
* [[Santaji Jagnade]]
* [[Santaji Jagnade]]
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* [[Janabai]]  
* [[Janabai]]  
* [[Kanhopatra]]
* [[Kanhopatra]]
* [[Damaji]]
}}
}}


;Early modern period Saints (1526-1858)
;Early modern period Saints (1526–1858)
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* [[Swami Samarth]]
* [[Swami Samarth]]
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;Modern period, independence and after (1858-1947)  
;Modern period, independence and after (1858–1947)  
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* [[Gagangiri Maharaj]]
* [[Gagangiri Maharaj]]
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* [[Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi]]
* [[Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi]]
* [[Ezekiel Isaac Malekar]]
* [[Ezekiel Isaac Malekar]]
}}
;RSS Members
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* [[M. S. Golwalkar]]
* [[Laxman Vasudev Paranjape]]
* [[Mohan Bhagwat]]
* [[Nathuram Godse]]
}}
; Marathi Kirtankar
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* [[Indurikar Maharaj]]
}}
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;Samyukta Maharashtra Movement
;First female Chief Minister of Goa
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* [[Keshavrao Jedhe]]
* [[Shashikala Kakodkar]]
* [[Shreedhar Mahadev Joshi]]
}}
 
;First female Chief Minister of Rajasthan
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* [[Vasundhara Raje]]
}}
 
;First Chief Minister of Goa
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*[[Dayanand Bandodkar]]
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;First Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
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*[[Govind Ballabh Pant]]
}}
 
;First Chief Minister of Bombay State
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* [[B. G. Kher]]
}}
 
;First Hindu and first man of Indian descent to be elected to the Scottish Parliament
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* [[Sandesh Gulhane]]
}}
 
;First General Secretary of the Communist Party of India.
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*[[S.V. Ghate]]
}}
 
;Founder of All India Trade Union Congress
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*[[Narayan Malhar Joshi]]
}}
 
;Goa's first woman parliamentarian
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*[[Sanyogita Rane]]
}}
 
;Samyukta Maharashtra Movement
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* [[Keshavrao Jedhe]]
* [[Shreedhar Mahadev Joshi]]
* [[Shripad Amrit Dange]]
* [[Shripad Amrit Dange]]
* [[Narayan Ganesh Gore]]
* [[Narayan Ganesh Gore]]
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* [[Sharad Pawar]]
* [[Sharad Pawar]]
* [[Nitin Gadkari]]
* [[Nitin Gadkari]]
* [[Manohar Parrikar]]  
* [[Suresh Prabhu]]
* [[Suresh Prabhu]]  
* [[Jyotiraditya Scindia]]  
}}
}}


;Others
;Others
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{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
* [[Marotrao Kannamwar]]
* [[Ashok Chavan]]
* [[Ashok Chavan]]
* [[Ajit Pawar]]
* [[Ajit Pawar]]
* [[Anant Gadgil]]
* [[Anant Gadgil]]
* [[Anand Dighe]]
* [[Babasaheb Ambedkar]]
* [[Babasaheb Ambedkar]]
* [[Bal Thackeray]]
* [[Bal Thackeray]]
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* [[Lokmanya Tilak]]  
* [[Lokmanya Tilak]]  
* [[Manohar Joshi]]  
* [[Manohar Joshi]]  
* [[Mohan Bhagwat]]
* [[Narayan Rane]]  
* [[Narayan Rane]]  
* [[Prakash Ambedkar]]
* [[Prakash Ambedkar]]
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* [[Anil Shirole]]
* [[Anil Shirole]]
* [[Siddharth Shirole]]
* [[Siddharth Shirole]]
* [[S. R. Patil]]
* [[Vivek Narayan Shejwalkar]]
* [[Yashodhara Raje Scindia]]
* [[Chandrakant Patil]]
* [[Udaysingrao Gaikwad]]
* [[Raju Shetti]]
* [[Ruturaj Patil]]
* [[Dhananjay Mahadik]]
* [[Satej Patil]]
* [[C. R. Patil]]
* [[Chandroji Angre]]
* [[Sambhaji Angre]]
* [[Dinkar Rao]]
* [[Kushabhau Thakre]]
}}
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* [[Shri Thanedar]]
* [[Shri Thanedar]]
}}
}}
;Goa legislative Assembly
* [[Govind Gaude]]
* [[Ramesh Tawadkar]]
* [[Subhash Phal Desai]]
* [[Sudin Dhavalikar]]
* [[Nilkanth Halarnkar]]


==Bureaucrats and diplomats==
==Bureaucrats and diplomats==
[[File:Leo Varadkar 2016.jpg|thumb|150px|Leo Varadkar- Irish [[Fine Gael]] politician and former [[Taoiseach]]]]
[[File:Leo Varadkar 2016.jpg|thumb|150px|Leo Varadkar- Irish [[Fine Gael]] politician and [[Taoiseach]]]]
[[File:Y N Sukhtankar.jpg|thumb|150px|Yashwant Narayan Sukthankar was the second [[Cabinet Secretary of India]].
[[File:Y N Sukhtankar.jpg|thumb|150px|Yashwant Narayan Sukthankar was the second [[Cabinet Secretary of India]].
]]  
]]  
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== Founder, jurists and lawyers ==
== Founder, jurists and lawyers ==
;Father of Indian Constitution
;Law and Justice Minister
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* [[B.R. Ambedkar]]
* [[B.R. Ambedkar]]
}}


;Chief Justice of India
;Chief Justice of India
* [[Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud|D. Y. Chandrachud]]
* [[P. B. Gajendragadkar]]
* [[P. B. Gajendragadkar]]
* [[Y. V. Chandrachud]]
* [[Y. V. Chandrachud]]
* [[V.N. Khare]]
* [[V.N. Khare]]
* [[Sharad Arvind Bobde]]
* [[Sharad Arvind Bobde]]
* [[Uday Umesh Lalit]]


;Supreme Court Judges
;Supreme Court Judges
* [[Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar]]
* [[Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar]]
* [[Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud|D. Y. Chandrachud]]
*  
* [[P. B. Sawant]]
* [[P. B. Sawant]]
* [[Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar]]
* [[Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar]]
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* [[V. D. Tulzapurkar]]
* [[V. D. Tulzapurkar]]
* [[J. R. Mudholkar]]
* [[J. R. Mudholkar]]
* [[Hemant Gokhale]]


;International lawyers  
;International lawyers  
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* [[S. B. Tambe]]
* [[S. B. Tambe]]
* [[V. S. Sirpurkar]]
* [[V. S. Sirpurkar]]
}}


==Business, trade and industries==
==Business, trade and industries==
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;Father of Indian Trade Union Movement
;Father of Indian Trade Union Movement
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* [[Narayan Meghaji Lokhande]]
* [[Narayan Meghaji Lokhande]]
}}
}}
 
;Founder of the Asia's first Cooperative sugar factory.
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*[[Vithalrao Vikhe Patil]]
}}
;Others
;Others
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* [[DSK Group|D.S.Kulkarni]]
* [[DSK Group|D.S.Kulkarni]]
* [[Girish Paranjpe]]
* [[Girish Paranjpe]]
* [[Gururaj Deshpande]]
* [[Harsh Chitale]]
* [[Harsh Chitale]]
* [[Hanmant Ramdas Gaikwad]]
* [[Kalpana Saroj]]
* [[Kalpana Saroj]]
* [[Kiran Karnik]]
* [[Kiran Karnik]]
* [[Laxmanrao Kirloskar]]
* [[Laxmanrao Kirloskar]]
* [[Nitin Paranjpe]]<ref>[http://www.hll.com/knowus/board_of_director.asp Hindustan Unilever Limited<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511095657/http://www.hll.com/knowus/board_of_director.asp |date=11 May 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Nitin Paranjpe]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hll.com/knowus/board_of_director.asp|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511095657/http://www.hll.com/knowus/board_of_director.asp|url-status=dead|title=Hindustan Unilever Limited<!-- Bot generated title -->|archivedate=11 May 2008}}</ref>
* [[Panditrao Agashe]]
* [[Panditrao Agashe]]
* [[Rajendra Pawar]]
* [[Rajendra Pawar]]
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* [[Sanjay Kirloskar]]
* [[Sanjay Kirloskar]]
* [[Shri Thanedar]]
* [[Shri Thanedar]]
* [[Sudha Murthy]]
* [[Subhash Runwal]]
* [[Subhash Runwal]]
* [[Suhas Patil]]
* [[Suhas Patil]]
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* [[Vasantrao Ghatge]]
* [[Vasantrao Ghatge]]
* [[Dilip Dandekar]]
* [[Dilip Dandekar]]
* [[Harsh Chitale]]
* [[Mandar Agashe]]
* [[Rajeev Samant]]
* [[Rajeev Samant]]
* [[Sunil Khandbahale]]
* [[Sunil Khandbahale]]
* [[Dajikaka Gadgil]]
* [[Dajikaka Gadgil]]
* [[Vithal Balkrishna Gandhi]]
* [[Leena Tewari]]
* [[Prakash Apte]]
* [[Vivek Ranadivé]]
* [[Sachin S. Lawande]]
* [[Abhi Talwalkar]]
* [[Rajendra Singh Pawar]]
}}
}}


==Fiscal policy leaders==
==Fiscal policy leaders==
;First Indian to be appointed the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
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* [[C. D. Deshmukh]]
}} 
;RBI Governors
;RBI Governors
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* [[Bhalchandra Mungekar]]
* [[Bhalchandra Mungekar]]
* [[Narendra Jadhav]]
* [[Narendra Jadhav]]
* [[Srikant Datar]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=author/online-lokmat|first=2020-10-10|date=2020-10-10|title=मराठी पाऊल पडते पुढे! श्रीकांत दातार हार्वर्ड बिझनेस स्कूलचे नवे डीन|url=https://www.lokmat.com/international/indian-origin-srikant-datar-new-dean-harward-university-a597/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010083516/https://www.lokmat.com/international/indian-origin-srikant-datar-new-dean-harward-university-a597/|archive-date=10 October 2020|access-date=2020-10-10|website=Lokmat|language=mr-IN}}</ref>
* [[Srikant Datar]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-10|title=मराठी पाऊल पडते पुढे! श्रीकांत दातार हार्वर्ड बिझनेस स्कूलचे नवे डीन|url=https://www.lokmat.com/international/indian-origin-srikant-datar-new-dean-harward-university-a597/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010083516/https://www.lokmat.com/international/indian-origin-srikant-datar-new-dean-harward-university-a597/|archive-date=10 October 2020|access-date=2020-10-10|website=Lokmat|language=mr-IN}}</ref>
* [[Sukhadeo Thorat]]
* [[Sukhadeo Thorat]]
* [[Ajit Ranade]]
* [[Ajit Ranade]]
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==Academicians/educationists==
==Academicians/educationists==
[[File:Dr Dhondo Keshav Karve Cropped.png|thumb|[[Dhondo Keshav Karve]]|150px]]
[[File:Dr Dhondo Keshav Karve Cropped.png|thumb|[[Dhondo Keshav Karve]]|150px]]
;Ancient Maharashtrian academicians
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* [[Nagarjuna]]
* [[Śrīpati|Shripati]]
* [[Bhāskara II|Bhaskaracharya]]
* [[Hemadri]] a.k.a. Hemāḍi Panḍita or Hemāḍapanta
* [[Dnyaneshwar|Jñaneśvara]]
* [[Jayatirtha]]
* [[Gaṇeśa Daivajna]]
* [[Bhattoji Dikshita]]
* [[Munishvara]]
* [[Kamalakara]]
* [[Gaga Bhatt|Gagabhatta]]
* [[Jagannatha Samrat]]
* [[Bhaskararaya]]
}}
;Founder of India's First Women University
;Founder of India's First Women University
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;First female teacher of India
;Founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India
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* [[Savitribai Phule]]
* [[G. S. Ghurye]]
}}
}}


;Pioneers in womens education
;Founder and president of the [[Symbiosis Society]]
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* [[Jyotiba Phule]]
* [[S. B. Mujumdar]]
* [[Shalini Moghe]]
* [[Mahadev Govind Ranade|Justice Ranade]]
* [[Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar]]
}}
}}


;Founder of [[Balwadi]]
;Founding director of the [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur]]
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* [[Tarabai Modak]] - One of the earliest child-educationists in India
* [[P. K. Kelkar]]
}}


;Indologists
; Founder of Fergusson College
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* [[Lokmanya Tilak]]
}}
 
;First female teacher of India
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* [[Savitribai Phule]]
}}
 
;First female Indian anthropologist
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* [[Irawati Karve]]
}}
 
;Most qualified person of India
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* [[Shrikant Jichkar]]
}}
 
;Pioneers in women's education
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* [[Jyotiba Phule]]
* [[Shalini Moghe]]
* [[Mahadev Govind Ranade|Justice Ranade]]
* [[Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar]]
}}
 
;Founder of Balwadi
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* [[Tarabai Modak]]
 
;Indologists
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* [[Pandurang Vaman Kane]]
* [[Pandurang Vaman Kane]]
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* [[Ranjitsinh Disale]]
* [[Ranjitsinh Disale]]
}}
;Father of Marathi journalism.
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* [[Balshastri Jambhekar]]
}}
}}


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* [[Dilip Gaonkar]]
* [[Dilip Gaonkar]]
* [[Jayant Pandurang Naik|Jayant Naik]]
* [[Jayant Pandurang Naik|Jayant Naik]]
* [[P. K. Kelkar]]<ref name="Career">{{cite web
| publisher=iPage | work=Dr. P.K. Kelkar | url=http://pkkelkar.info/
| title=Info Page on PK Kelkar | first= Madhura | last= Gopinath | access-date=2 March 2011}}</ref>
* [[Madho Rao Scindia]]
* [[Madho Rao Scindia]]
* [[T. Gopala Rao]]
* [[T. Gopala Rao]]
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* [[Shivrampant Damle]]
* [[Shivrampant Damle]]
* [[Jyoti Gogte]]
* [[Jyoti Gogte]]
* [[Trimbak Krishna Tope]]
}}
}}


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* [[Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni]]
* [[Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni]]
* [[Samir Mitragotri]]
* [[Samir Mitragotri]]
}}
* [[Sagar Jamane]]}}


===Earth sciences===
===Earth sciences===
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}}


;Others
;Father of the Indian Seed Industry
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* [[B. R. Barwale]]
}}
;Others
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* [[Pandurang Khankhoje]]
* [[Waman Bapuji Metre]]
* [[Waman Bapuji Metre]]
* [[Ashok Gadgil]]
* [[Ashok Gadgil]]
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* [[Isaac David Kehimkar]]
* [[Isaac David Kehimkar]]
* [[Sharad P. Kale]]
* [[Sharad P. Kale]]
* [[B.G. Matapurkar]]
}}
}}


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* [[Vijay P. Bhatkar]]
* [[Vijay P. Bhatkar]]
}}
;First U.S. Chief Data Scientist
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* [[DJ Patil]]
}}
}}


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* [[Abhi Talwalkar]]
* [[Abhi Talwalkar]]
* [[Arvind Joshi]]
* [[Aniruddha M. Gole]]
* [[Aniruddha M. Gole]]
* [[Atul Chitnis]]
* [[Atul Chitnis]]
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* [[Sunil Khandbahale]]
* [[Sunil Khandbahale]]
* [[Ashwin Gumaste]]
* [[Ashwin Gumaste]]
* [[DJ Patil]]
* [[Achyut Godbole]]
* [[Achyut Godbole]]
* [[Sanjay Govind Dhande]]
* [[Sanjay Govind Dhande]]
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;First Indian to be Senior Wrangler
;First Indian to be Senior Wrangler
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* [[R. P. Paranjpe]]
* [[R. P. Paranjpye]]
}}
}}


;Others
;Others
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{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
* [[Eknath Ghate]]
* [[Bapudeva Sastri]]
* [[Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi]]
* [[Chandrashekhar Khare]]
* [[Chandrashekhar Khare]]
* [[Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi]]
* [[Eknath Ghate]]
* [[D. R. Kaprekar]]
* [[D. R. Kaprekar]]
* [[Dinesh Thakur (mathematician)|Dinesh Thakur]]
* [[Dinesh Thakur (mathematician)|Dinesh Thakur]]
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* [[Raman Gangakhedkar]]
* [[Raman Gangakhedkar]]
}}
}}
;Immunologist
;Immunologist
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* [[Dwarkanath Kotnis]]  
* [[Dwarkanath Kotnis]]  
* [[Himmatrao Bawaskar]]  
* [[Himmatrao Bawaskar]]  
* [[Iravati Karve]]
* [[Irawati Karve]]
* [[Krishna Chandra Chunekar]]
* [[Krishna Chandra Chunekar]]
* [[Kamal Ranadive]]
* [[Kamal Ranadive]]
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* [[Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade]]
* [[Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade]]
* [[Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme]]
* [[Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme]]
* [[Rajendra Achyut Badwe|Dr. Rajendra Achyut Badwe]]
* [[Rajendra Achyut Badwe]]
* [[Pramod P. Wangikar]]
* [[Pramod P. Wangikar]]
* [[Jerusha Jhirad]]
* [[Jerusha Jhirad]]
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* [[Prabhu B. Patil]]
* [[Prabhu B. Patil]]
* [[Ganesh Bagler]]
* [[Ganesh Bagler]]
* [[Y. V. Phatak]]
* [[Suresh Jadhav (biotechnology executive)]]
}}
}}


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;Astronomy
;Astronomy
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* [[Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar]]
* [[Venkatesh Ketakar|Venkatesh Bapuji Ketakar]]
* [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]]
* [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]]
}}
}}
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===Cinema and theatre===
===Cinema and theatre===
[[Dadasaheb Phalke]], is credited as "The Father of Indian Cinema", made India's first full-length feature''[[Raja Harishchandra]]''   
;Father of Indian Cinema
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[[Dadasaheb Phalke]] - Maker of India's first full-length feature ''[[Raja Harishchandra]]''   
}}
 
[[File:Kochadaiiyaan Rajini.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Rajinikanth]] -Shivaji Rao Gaekwad]]
[[File:Kochadaiiyaan Rajini.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Rajinikanth]] -Shivaji Rao Gaekwad]]
[[File:Nana Patekar snapped at the press meet for movie on Baba Amte 06.jpg|thumb|150px|Nana Patekar]]
[[File:Nana Patekar snapped at the press meet for movie on Baba Amte 06.jpg|thumb|150px|Nana Patekar]]
[[File:Dr Vidyadhar Oke.jpg|thumb|150px|Dr. Vidyadhar Oke with 22-microtone harmonium]]
[[File:Dr Vidyadhar Oke.jpg|thumb|150px|Dr. Vidyadhar Oke with 22-microtone harmonium]]
[[File:Lata Mangeshkar - still 29065 crop.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Lata Mangeshkar]]]]
[[File:Lata Mangeshkar - still 29065 crop.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Lata Mangeshkar]]]]
First Indian to receive the Oscar - [[Bhanu Athaiya]]


First female actress of India - [[Durgabai Kamat]]
;First Indian to receive the Oscar
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[[Bhanu Athaiya]]
}}
 
;First female actress of India  
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|
[[Durgabai Kamat]]
}}


;Dada Saheb Phalke Award - Lifetime Contribution to Cinema
;Dada Saheb Phalke Award - Lifetime contribution to Indian Cinema
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* [[Ruby Myers]]
* [[Durga Khote]]
* [[Durga Khote]]
* [[V. Shantaram]]
* [[V. Shantaram]]
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* [[Mohan Joshi]]
* [[Mohan Joshi]]
* [[Ankush Chaudhari]]
* [[Ankush Chaudhari]]
* [[Arun Sarnaik]]
* [[Ravindra Mahajani]]
* [[Gashmeer Mahajani]]
* [[Akash Thosar]]
* [[Umesh Kamat]]
* [[Pushkar Shrotri]]
* [[Swapnil Joshi]]
* [[Keshavrao Date]]
* [[Shrikant Moghe]]
* [[Master Vithal]]
* [[Harshvardhan Rane]]
}}
}}


 
[[File:Madhuridixit.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Madhuri Dixit]]]][[File:Ashutosh Gowariker at the launch of T P Aggarwal's trade magazine 'Blockbuster' 15.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Ashutosh Gowariker]], directed ''[[Lagaan]]'' (nominated for [[Academy Awards|Oscars]], has 5 [[Filmfare Awards|filmfare]], 7 international awards)<ref name="Ashutosh Gowariker- Biography IMDB">{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332950/|title=Ashutosh Gowariker- Biography IMDB|website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169102/awards|title=Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) Awards|website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>]]
[[File:Madhuridixit.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Madhuri Dixit]]]][[File:Ashutosh Gowariker at the launch of T P Aggarwal's trade magazine 'Blockbuster' 15.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Ashutosh Gowariker]], directed ''[[Lagaan]]'' (nominated for [[Academy Awards|Oscars]], has 5 [[Filmfare Awards|filmfare]], 7 international awards)<ref name="Ashutosh Gowariker- Biography IMDB">{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332950/|title=Ashutosh Gowariker- Biography IMDB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169102/awards|title=Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) Awards}}</ref>]]
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* [[Aditi Sarangdhar]]
* [[Aditi Sarangdhar]]
* [[Aaditi Pohankar]]
* [[Amruta Khanvilkar]]
* [[Amruta Khanvilkar]]
* [[Amruta Patki]]
* [[Ankita Lokhande]]
* [[Ankita Lokhande]]
* [[Anjana Mumtaz]]
* [[Anjana Mumtaz]]
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* [[Bhargavi Chirmule]]
* [[Bhargavi Chirmule]]
* [[Durga Khote]]
* [[Durga Khote]]
* [[Durgabai Kamat]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Indian cinema@100: First women on screen: Durgabai Kamat and her daughter Kamlabai Ghokhle|first=Riya|last=Chakravarty|url=http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/indian-cinema-100-40-firsts-in-indian-cinema-362362|publisher=NDTV |date=3 May 2013 |access-date=9 May 2013}}</ref><ref name=toi>{{cite news |title=Vikram Gokhale has an illustrious family lineage|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-23/did-you-know-/32605578_1_lineage-artiste-durgabai-kamat |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629123325/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-23/did-you-know-/32605578_1_lineage-artiste-durgabai-kamat |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2013 |date=23 January 2013  |work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=9 May 2013}}</ref>
* [[Durgabai Kamat]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Indian cinema@100: First women on screen: Durgabai Kamat and her daughter Kamlabai Ghokhle|first=Riya|last=Chakravarty|url=http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/indian-cinema-100-40-firsts-in-indian-cinema-362362|publisher=NDTV|date=3 May 2013|access-date=9 May 2013|archive-date=4 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504160827/http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/indian-cinema-100-40-firsts-in-indian-cinema-362362|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=toi>{{cite news |title=Vikram Gokhale has an illustrious family lineage|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/us |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130629123325/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-23/did-you-know-/32605578_1_lineage-artiste-durgabai-kamat |url-status=live |archive-date=29 June 2013 |date=23 January 2013  |work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=9 May 2013}}</ref>
* [[Hansa Wadkar]]
* [[Shanta Apte]]
* [[Gauri Pradhan Tejwani]]
* [[Gauri Pradhan Tejwani]]
* [[Gayatri Joshi]]
* [[Jayshree Gadkar]]
* [[Jayshree Gadkar]]
* [[Jyothika]]
* [[Jyothika]]
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* [[Lalita Pawar]]
* [[Lalita Pawar]]
* [[Madhuri Dixit]]
* [[Madhuri Dixit]]
* [[Madhu Sapre]]
* [[Mamta Kulkarni]]  
* [[Mamta Kulkarni]]  
* [[Manasi Moghe]]
* [[Manjari Phadnis]]
* [[Manjari Phadnis]]
* [[Mayuri Kango]]
* [[Mayuri Kango]]
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* [[Mrunal Thakur]]
* [[Mrunal Thakur]]
* [[Mugdha Godse]]
* [[Mugdha Godse]]
* [[Mukta Barve]]
* [[Nagma]]
* [[Nagma]]
* [[Namrata Shirodkar]]  
* [[Namrata Shirodkar]]  
* [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]].
* [[Nanda (actress)|Nanda]]
* [[Nikki Tamboli]]
* [[Nikki Tamboli]]
* [[Nishigandha Wad]]  
* [[Nishigandha Wad]]  
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* [[Shilpa Tulaskar]]
* [[Shilpa Tulaskar]]
* [[Shobhana Samarth]]
* [[Shobhana Samarth]]
* [[Shibani Dandekar]]
* [[Smita Patil]]
* [[Smita Patil]]
* [[Sonali Bendre]]
* [[Sonali Bendre]]
* [[Shraddha Kapoor]]
* [[Sonalee Kulkarni]]
* [[Sonali Kulkarni]]
* [[Sonali Kulkarni]]
* [[Ruby Myers|Sulochana]]
* [[Ruby Myers|Sulochana]]
* [[Sharvari Wagh]]
* [[Shriya Pilgaonkar]]
* [[Shriya Pilgaonkar]]
* [[Supriya Pilgaonkar]]
* [[Supriya Pilgaonkar]]
* [[Supriya Karnik]]
* [[Sulbha Arya]]
* [[Sulbha Arya]]
* [[Tanuja]]  
* [[Tanuja]]  
* [[Tanvi Azmi]]
* [[Tanvi Azmi]]
* [[Tara Deshpande]]
* [[Urmila Matondkar]]
* [[Urmila Matondkar]]
* [[Usha Kiran]]
* [[Usha Kiran]]
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* [[Shilpa Shinde]]  
* [[Shilpa Shinde]]  
* [[Vidya Malvade]]
* [[Vidya Malvade]]
* [[Rohini Hattangadi]]
* [[Sai Deodhar]]
* [[Shivani Surve]]
* [[Meenakshi Shirodkar]]
* [[Leena Chandavarkar]]
* [[Isha Koppikar]]
* [[Nalini Jaywant]]
}}
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* [[Vishram Sawant]]
* [[Vishram Sawant]]
* [[Vishnupant Damle]]
* [[Vishnupant Damle]]
* [[Swapna Waghmare Joshi]]
* [[Satish Rajwade]]
* [[Anant Mane]]
}}
}}


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* [[Madhu Sapre]]  
* [[Madhu Sapre]]  
* [[Mugdha Godse]]  
* [[Mugdha Godse]]  
* [[Gayatri Joshi]]
* [[Rakhi Sawant]]
* [[Rakhi Sawant]]
* [[Ujjwala Raut]]  
* [[Ujjwala Raut]]
* [[Sonali Raut]]  
* [[Manasi Moghe]]
* [[Manasi Moghe]]
* [[Lopamudra Raut]]
* [[Lopamudra Raut]]
* [[Namrata Shirodkar]]
* [[Namrata Shirodkar]]
* [[Meera Deosthale]]
}}
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* [[Karsh Kale]]
* [[Karsh Kale]]
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}}
;Bigg-Boss (Hindi) show winners
*[[Shilpa Shinde]]
*[[Tejasswi Prakash]]


===Literature===
===Literature===
[[File:Vijay Tendulkar.jpg|thumb|150px|Playwright Vijay Tendulkar]]
[[File:Vijay Tendulkar.jpg|thumb|150px|Playwright Vijay Tendulkar]]
;Jnanpith Award Winners - Outstanding Contribution in Literature
 
;Ancient Maharashtrian litterateurs
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* [[Hāla]]
* [[Pravarasena II]]
* [[Bharavi]]
* [[Daṇḍin|Dandi]]
* [[Bhavabhuti]]
* [[Akalajalada]]
* [[Rajashekhara]]
* [[Neelakantha Chaturdhara]]
}}
 
;Jnanpith Award winners - Outstanding contribution in Indian Literature
 
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* [[Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar]]
* [[Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar]]
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* [[Bhalchandra Nemade]]
* [[Bhalchandra Nemade]]
* [[Kusumagraj]]
* [[Kusumagraj]]
* [[D. R. Bendre]]
}}
}}
'''Noted Marathi writers in non-Marathi languages'''
*[[D. R. Bendre ]]- Considered as the greatest Kannada lyric poet of the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ajjampur|first=Madhav|date=2020-01-30|title=The universe's inner voice|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/the-universes-inner-voice/article30691007.ece|access-date=2022-02-11|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
*[[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 language|Hindi]]
;Others
;Others
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* [[Bahinabai Chaudhari]]  
* [[Bahinabai Chaudhari]]  
* [[Bal Samant]]
* [[Bal Samant]]
* [[Bhavabhuti]]
* [[Dattaram Maruti Mirasdar]]  
* [[Dattaram Maruti Mirasdar]]  
* [[Daya Pawar]]
* [[Daya Pawar]]
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* [[Gangadhar Gadgil]]
* [[Gangadhar Gadgil]]
* [[Gopal Ganesh Agarkar]]
* [[Gopal Ganesh Agarkar]]
* [[Govind Purushottam Deshpande]]
* [[Hamid Dalwai]]  
* [[Hamid Dalwai]]  
* [[Hari Narayan Apte]]
* [[Hari Narayan Apte]]
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* [[Shivaji Sawant]]
* [[Shivaji Sawant]]
* [[Shridhar Bhaskar Warnekar]]
* [[Shridhar Bhaskar Warnekar]]
* [[Shrikrishna Raut]]
* Shrikrishna Raut
* [[Sharmila Rege]]
* [[Sharmila Rege]]
* [[Suresh Bhat]]
* [[Suresh Bhat]]
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* [[Vishram Bedekar]]
* [[Vishram Bedekar]]
* [[Vishwas Patil]]
* [[Vishwas Patil]]
* [[Gopal Nilkanth Dandekar]]
* [[Jagdish Khebudkar]]
* [[Shakuntala Karandikar]]
}}
}}


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* [[Arun Sadhu]]
* [[Arun Sadhu]]
* [[Balshastri Jambhekar]]
* [[Balshastri Jambhekar]]
* [[Govind Talwalkar]]
* [[Sham Raj II|Raja Shamraj]]
* [[Nanasaheb Parulekar]]
* [[Nanasaheb Parulekar]]
* [[Waman Gopal Joshi]]
* [[Madhavrao Bagal]]
* [[Madhavrao Bagal]]
* [[Rajdeep Sardesai]]
* [[Atmaram Raoji Bhat]]
* [[Sanjay Raut]]
* [[Yadunath Thatte]]
* [[Shobhaa De]]
* [[Madhav Yeshwant Gadkari]]
* [[Madhav Yeshwant Gadkari]]
* [[Uttam Kamble]]
* [[Govind Talwalkar]]
* [[Ganpatrao Jadhav]]
* [[Ganpatrao Jadhav]]
* [[Vidyadhar Gokhale]]
* [[Vidyadhar Gokhale]]
* [[Praful Bidwai]]
* [[Nikhil Wagle]]
* [[Anubha Bhonsle]]
* [[Anubha Bhonsle]]
* [[Sham Raj II|Raja Shamraj]]
* [[Uttam Kamble]]
* [[Praful Bidwai]]
* [[Sanjay Raut]]
* [[Waman Gopal Joshi]]
* [[Rajdeep Sardesai]]
* [[Shobhaa De]]
}}
}}


====Historians====
====Historians====
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* [[Amrit Gangar]]
* [[Anant Sadashiv Altekar]]
* [[Anant Sadashiv Altekar]]
* [[Babasaheb Purandare]]  
* [[Babasaheb Purandare]]  
* [[Conjeevaram Hayavadana Rao]]
* [[D. R. Bhandarkar]]
* [[Dattatray Balwant Parasnis]]
* [[Dattatraya Ganesh Godse]]
* [[Dattatraya Ganesh Godse]]
* [[V. S. Wakaskar]]
* [[Datto Vaman Potdar]]
* [[Datto Vaman Potdar]]
* [[Dinkar G. Kelkar]]
* [[Gangadhar Pathak]]
* [[Gangadhar Pathak]]
* [[Govind Sakharam Sardesai]]
* [[Govind Sakharam Sardesai]]
* [[K. N. Dikshit]]
* [[M. N. Deshpande]]
* [[Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar|M. K. Dhavalikar]]
* [[Ninad Bedekar]]  
* [[Ninad Bedekar]]  
* [[Prachi Deshpande]]
* [[Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar]]
* [[Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar]]
* [[S. T. Joshi]]
* [[Sadashiv Ranade]]
* [[Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar]]
* [[Sethu Madhav Rao Pagadi]]
* [[Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar]]
* [[Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar]]
* [[Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar]]
* [[Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar]]
* [[V. S. Wakaskar]]
* [[Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi]]
* [[Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi]]
* [[Dattatray Balwant Parasnis]]
* [[Vidyadhar Johrapurkar]]
* [[Dinkar G. Kelkar]]
* [[Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar]]
* [[Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar]]
* [[Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade]]
* [[Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade]]
* [[V. S. Wakankar]]
* [[Vasudeo Sitaram Bendrey]]
* [[Sadashiv Ranade]]
* [[Sethu Madhav Rao Pagadi]]
* [[K. N. Dikshit]]
* [[Conjeevaram Hayavadana Rao]]
* [[Madhukar Keshav Dhavalikar|M. K. Dhavalikar]]
* [[S. T. Joshi]]
* [[Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar]]
* [[Prachi Deshpande]]
* [[Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar]]
* [[Vidyadhar Johrapurkar]]
* [[D. R. Bhandarkar]]
* [[Amrit Gangar]]
* [[M. N. Deshpande]]
* [[Prakashchandra Pandurang Shirodkar]]
}}
}}


=== Other applied arts ===
=== Other applied arts ===


'''Father of Indian Circus''' - [[Vishnupant Moreshwar Chatre]]  
'''Father of Indian Circus''' - [[Vishnupant Moreshwar Chatre]]


'''First Ventriloquist in Modern India''' - [[Y. K. Padhye]]
'''First Ventriloquist in Modern India''' - [[Y. K. Padhye]]
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* [[Anita Dongre]]  
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}}
;Production designers
;Production designers
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* [[Bal Thackeray]]  
* [[Bal Thackeray]]  
* [[Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis]]
* [[S. D. Phadnis]]
* [[D. G. Kulkarni]]
* [[D. G. Kulkarni]]
* [[Maya Kamath]]
* [[Maya Kamath]]
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* [[Anand Bhate]]
* [[Anand Bhate]]
* [[Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar]]
* [[Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar]]
* [[Ashwini Bhide]]
* [[Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande]]
* [[Bal Gandharva]]
* [[Bal Gandharva]]
* [[Bhimsen Joshi]]
* [[C. R. Vyas]]
* [[C. R. Vyas]]
* [[Mysore Sadashiva Rao]]
* [[Mysore Sadashiva Rao]]
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* [[Rahul Deshpande]]
* [[Rahul Deshpande]]
* [[Manjusha Kulkarni-Patil]]
* [[Manjusha Kulkarni-Patil]]
* [[Satish Vyas]]
* [[Satish Vyas (musician)|Satish Vyas]]
* [[Sanjeev Abhyankar]]
* [[Sanjeev Abhyankar]]
* [[Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar]]
* [[Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar]]
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* [[Vishnu Digambar Paluskar]]
* [[Vishnu Digambar Paluskar]]
* [[Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande]]
* [[Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande]]
* [[Vinayakrao Patwardhan]]
* [[K. G. Ginde]]
* [[Sumati Mutatkar]]
* [[Shounak Abhisheki]]
* [[D. V. Paluskar]]
* [[Deenanath Mangeshkar]]
* [[Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale]]
* [[Sawai Gandharva]]
* [[Dhondutai Kulkarni]]
* [[Balakrishnabuwa Ichalkaranjikar]]
* [[B. R. Deodhar]]
* [[Ramdas Kamat]]
* [[Narayanrao Vyas]]
*
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* [[Arun Paudwal]]
* [[Arun Paudwal]]
* [[Anil Mohile]]
* [[Anand Modak]]
* [[C. Ramchandra]]
* [[C. Ramchandra]]
* [[Datta Naik]]
* [[Datta Naik]]
* [[Datta Davjekar]]
* [[Hridaynath Mangeshkar]]
* [[Hridaynath Mangeshkar]]
* [[Laxmikant Kudalkar]]
* [[Laxmikant Kudalkar]]
* [[Ram Kadam (composer)|Ram Kadam]]
* [[Ram Kadam (composer)|Ram Kadam]]
* [[Raamlaxman|Ram-Laxman]]
* [[Raamlaxman|Ram-Laxman]]
* [[Satish Vyas]]
* [[Sudhir Phadke]]
* [[Sudhir Phadke]]
* [[Shrinivas Khale]]
* [[Shrinivas Khale]]
* [[Shridhar Phadke]]
* [[Shridhar Phadke]]
* [[Vasant Desai]]
* [[Vasant Desai]]
}}
* [[Vasant Prabhu]]
* [[Ashok Patki]]
* [[Govindrao Tembe]]
* [[Sneha Khanwalkar]]
* [[Yashwant Dev]]}}


=== Modern music ===
=== Modern music ===
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* [[Ajay−Atul]]
* [[Ajay–Atul]]
* [[Amitraj]]
* [[Ashutosh Phatak]]
* [[Ashutosh Phatak]]
* [[Avdhoot Gupte]]
* [[Avdhoot Gupte]]
* [[Ajit Parab]]
* [[AV Prafullachandra]]
* [[Digvijay Bhonsale]]
* [[Gaurav Dagaonkar]]
* [[Gaurav Dagaonkar]]
* [[Karsh Kale]]
* [[Karsh Kale]]
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* [[Milind Date]]
* [[Milind Date]]
* [[Milind Ingle]]
* [[Milind Ingle]]
* [[Nilesh Moharir]]
* [[Salil Kulkarni]]
* [[Salil Kulkarni]]
* [[Nilesh Moharir]]
* [[Sandeep Shirodkar]]
* [[Sneha Khanwalkar]]
* [[Sneha Khanwalkar]]
}}
* [[Rohan-Rohan]]
* [[Rahul Ranade]]}}


=== Singers ===
=== Singers ===
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* [[Aarya Ambekar]]
* [[Aarya Ambekar]]
* [[Abhijeet Sawant]]
* [[Adarsh Shinde]]
* [[Anupama Deshpande]]
* [[Anupama Deshpande]]
* [[Anuradha Paudwal]]
* [[Anuradha Paudwal]]
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* [[Vaishali Mhade]]
* [[Vaishali Mhade]]
* [[Vaishali Samant]]
* [[Vaishali Samant]]
* [[Avadhoot Gupte]]
* [[Swanand Kirkire]]
* [[Digvijay Bhonsale]]
}}
; Winner of Indian Idol (Season 1)
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* [[Abhijeet Sawant]]
}}
}}


==Sports==
==Sports==
[[File:Sachin Tendulkar at MRF Promotion Event.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Sachin Tendulkar]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/proud-34-maharashtrian-tendulkar-says-mumbai-belongs-to-india-574.html|title=I am proud to be a Maharashtrian - Sachin Tendulkar.|website=IndiaTv}}</ref>]]
[[File:Sachin Tendulkar at MRF Promotion Event.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Sachin Tendulkar]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/proud-34-maharashtrian-tendulkar-says-mumbai-belongs-to-india-574.html|title=I am proud to be a Maharashtrian - Sachin Tendulkar.|website=IndiaTv|date=13 November 2009}}</ref>]]
[[File:Sunny Gavaskar Sahara.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Sunil Gavaskar]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sunny Days : Sunil Gavaskar's Own Story.}}</ref>|alt=]]
[[File:Sunny Gavaskar Sahara.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Sunil Gavaskar]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sunny Days : Sunil Gavaskar's Own Story.}}</ref>|alt=]]


;First Olympic Medal for India
;First Individual Olympic Medal for India
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* [[Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav]]   
* [[Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav]]   
}}
}}


;First Paralympic Medal for India
;First Individual Paralympic Medal for India
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* [[Murlikant Petkar]]
* [[Murlikant Petkar]]
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}}


;First Indian women to cross Gobi Desert
;First Indian woman to cross Gobi Desert
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* [[Sucheta Kadethankar]]
}}
 
; First Indian woman to obtain WIM title
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* [[Sucheta Kadethankar]]   
* [[Jayshree Khadilkar]]   
}}
 
; India's first Olympic Marathon runner
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*[[Phadeppa Dareppa Chaugule]]
}}
}}


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* [[Aavishkar Salvi]]
* [[Aavishkar Salvi]]
* [[Abey Kuruvilla]]  
* [[Abey Kuruvilla]]  
* [[Aditya Tare]]
* [[Ajinkya Rahane]]
* [[Ajinkya Rahane]]
* [[Ajit Agarkar]]
* [[Ajit Agarkar]]
* [[Ajit Wadekar]]
* [[Ajit Wadekar]]
* [[Arjun Tendulkar]]
* [[Anshuman Gaekwad]]
* [[Anshuman Gaekwad]]
* [[Armaan Jaffer]]
* [[Armaan Jaffer]]
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* [[Bapu Nadkarni]]
* [[Bapu Nadkarni]]
* [[Baloo Gupte]]
* [[Baloo Gupte]]
* [[Chandu Sarwate]]
* [[Chandrakant Pandit]]
* [[Chandrakant Pandit]]
* [[Chandrasekhar Gadkari]]
* [[Chandrasekhar Gadkari]]
* [[Chandrakant Patankar]]
* [[Chandrakant Patankar]]
* [[Chandu Borde]]
* [[Chandu Borde]]
* [[Arundhati Kirkire]]
* [[Sanjay Jagdale]]
* [[Dhawal Kulkarni]]
* [[Dhawal Kulkarni]]
* [[Dattu Phadkar]]
* [[Dattu Phadkar]]
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* [[Mona Meshram]]
* [[Mona Meshram]]
* [[Nilesh Kulkarni]]
* [[Nilesh Kulkarni]]
* [[Rahul Dravid]]
* [[Paras Mhambrey]]
* [[Paras Mhambrey]]
* [[Poonam Raut]]
* [[Poonam Raut]]
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* [[Rohan Gavaskar]]
* [[Rohan Gavaskar]]
* [[Rohit Sharma]]
* [[Rohit Sharma]]
* [[Ruturaj Gaikwad]]
* [[Sachin Tendulkar]]
* [[Sachin Tendulkar]]
* [[Salil Ankola]]
* [[Salil Ankola]]
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* [[Sairaj Bahutule]]
* [[Sairaj Bahutule]]
* [[Sandeep Patil]]
* [[Sandeep Patil]]
* [[Shardul Thakur]]
* [[Sanjay Manjrekar]]
* [[Sanjay Manjrekar]]
* [[Shubhangi Kulkarni]]
* [[Shubhangi Kulkarni]]
* [[Smriti Mandhana]]
* [[Smriti Mandhana]]
* [[Surya Kumar Yadav]]
* [[Sunil Gavaskar]]
* [[Sunil Gavaskar]]
* [[Sushil Nadkarni]]
* [[Sushil Nadkarni]]
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* [[Zaheer Khan]]
* [[Wasim Jaffer]]
* [[Wasim Jaffer]]
* [[Pravin Tambe]]
* [[Viraj Bhosale]]
* [[Datta Gaekwad]]
* [[Shivajirao Gaekwad]]
* [[Abhijit Karambelkar]]
* [[C. R. Mohite]]
* [[Nana Joshi]]
* [[Tushar Deshpande]]
* [[Rajvardhan Hangargekar]]
* [[Darshan Nalkande]]
* [[B. B. Nimbalkar]]
}}
=== Chess ===
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* [[Abhijit Kunte]]
* [[Akshayraj Kore]]
* [[Anupama Gokhale]] 
* [[Bhagyashree Thipsay]]
* [[Divya Deshmukh]] 
* [[Eesha Karavade]]
* [[Jayshree Khadilkar]]
* [[Mrunalini Kunte]]
* [[Praveen Thipsay]]
* [[Rohini Khadilkar]]
* [[Ramchandra Sapre]]
* [[Shardul Gagare]]
* [[Swapnil Dhopade]]
* [[Vasanti Khadilkar]]
* [[Abhimanyu Puranik]]
* [[Vidit Gujrathi]]
}}
}}


=== Others ===
=== Others ===
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* [[Abhijit Kunte]] - Chess
 
* [[Aditi Mutatkar]] – Badminton  
* [[Aditi Mutatkar]] – Badminton  
* [[Anjali Bhagwat]] - Shooter
* [[Anjali Bhagwat]] - Shooter
* [[Anupama Gokhale]] - Chess
* [[Ashish Mane]] - Mountaineer
* [[Ashish Mane]] - Mountaineer
* [[Brahmanand Sankhwalkar]] – Footballer  
* [[Brahmanand Sankhwalkar]] – Footballer  
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* [[Krushnaa Patil]] – Mountaineer
* [[Krushnaa Patil]] – Mountaineer
* [[Mahesh Gawli]] – Footballer  
* [[Mahesh Gawli]] – Footballer  
* [[Mrunalini Kunte]] - Chess
* [[Nandu M. Natekar]] – Badminton
* [[Nandu M. Natekar]] – Badminton
* [[Nikhil Kanetkar]] – Badminton
* [[Nikhil Kanetkar]] – Badminton
* [[Praveen Thipsay]] - Chess
* [[Rahi Sarnobat]] - Shooter
* [[Rahi Sarnobat]] - Shooter
* [[Raju Gaikwad]] - Footballer  
* [[Raju Gaikwad]] - Footballer  
* [[Ramchandra Parab]] – Footballer
* [[Ramchandra Parab]] – Footballer
* [[Ramesh Gokhale]] - Bridge
* [[Ramesh Gokhale]] - Bridge
* [[Rohini Khadilkar]] - Chess
* [[Sameer Naik]] – Footballer  
* [[Sameer Naik]] – Footballer  
* [[Tejaswini Sawant]] - Shooter
* [[Tejaswini Sawant]] - Shooter
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* [[Sundeep Waslekar]] - Strategic Foresight Group
* [[Sundeep Waslekar]] - Strategic Foresight Group
* [[Jyoti Amge]] - Smallest women
* [[Jyoti Amge]] - Smallest women
* [[Akshayraj Kore]] - Chess
* [[Bhimrao Kesarkar]] - Silver medalist in men's javelin at Summer Paralympics 1984  
* [[Bhimrao Kesarkar]] - Silver medalist in men's javelin at Summer Paralympics 1984  
* [[Sangram Chougule]] - Bodybuilding
* [[Sunil Jadhav]] - Bodybuilding
}}
}}


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* [[Eli Ben-Menachem]]
* [[Eli Ben-Menachem]]
* [[Ruby Myers]]
* [[Liora Itzhak]]
* [[Liora Itzhak]]
* [[Samson Kehimkar]]
* [[Samson Kehimkar]]
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}}


;Uttarkhand
;Uttarakhand
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* [[Govind Ballabh Pant]]
* [[Govind Ballabh Pant]]
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* [[Mangesh Panchal]]
* [[Mangesh Panchal]]
* [[Arvinn Gadgil]]
* [[Arvinn Gadgil]]
* [[Sandesh Gulhane]]
}}
;Mexico
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*[[Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje]]
}}
}}


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* [[Raj Date]]
* [[Raj Date]]
* [[Michelle Khare]]
* [[Michelle Khare]]
}}
;UAE
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* [[Zulekha Daud]] UAE's first Woman Doctor


}}
}}


== Awardee ==
== Awardee ==
;First Indian to receive Magsaysay Award (Asia's Nobel)
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* [[Vinoba Bhave]]
}}
;Ramon Magsaysay - Asia's Noble
;Ramon Magsaysay - Asia's Noble
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* [[B. R. Ambedkar]]
* [[B. R. Ambedkar]]
* [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
* [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
* [[Bhimsen Joshi]]
* [[Sachin Tendulkar]]
* [[Sachin Tendulkar]]
* [[Nanaji Deshmukh]]
* [[Nanaji Deshmukh]]
}}
}}
;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 ==
== See also ==
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==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 18:08, 22 February 2026


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

Dynasties[edit | edit source]

Gautamiputra Satakarni
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj
Tarabai
Peshwa Bajirao
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)
Rani Lakshmibai
The Gandekars (Bhor-Maharashtra)
The Pawar (Dhar-Madhya Pradesh)
The Ghorpade (Sandur-Karnataka)
The Gaekwad (Baroda-Gujarat)

Historic warriors[edit | edit source]

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[10]
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[edit | edit source]

Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Shahu of Kolhapur
Jyotirao Phule
Vishnu Ganesh Pingle
Leaders of Ist War of Indian Independence (1857)
Revolutionaries
Father of Indian unrest
Father of Indian armed struggle[citation needed]
First political murder in Indian freedom struggle[citation needed]
First Secret Society for Independence[citation needed]
Others

Humanitarians and reformers[edit | edit source]

Babasaheb Ambedkar
Jyotirao Phule
Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj
Father of renaissance of western India
Reformers
Bene Israeli reformer and scholar
Social activists


Philanthropists

Defence leaders[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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

Bureaucrats and diplomats[edit | edit source]

Leo Varadkar- Irish Fine Gael politician and Taoiseach
Yashwant Narayan Sukthankar was the second Cabinet Secretary of India.
Foreign Service
Indian Administrative Service
Indian Civil Service

Founder, jurists and lawyers[edit | edit source]

Law and Justice Minister
Chief Justice of India
Supreme Court Judges
International lawyers
Others

Business, trade and industries[edit | edit source]

Baba Kalyani was chairman and managing director of Bharat Forge.
Father of Indian Trade Union Movement
Founder of the Asia's first Cooperative sugar factory.
Others

Fiscal policy leaders[edit | edit source]

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

Academicians/educationists[edit | edit source]

Dhondo Keshav Karve
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
Indologists
Global Teacher Prize recipient
Father of Marathi journalism.
Others

Sciences[edit | edit source]

Dr. Anandi Gopal Joshi, first Indian lady doctor and physician
Astrophysicists Jayant Narlikar

Chemistry[edit | edit source]

Earth sciences[edit | edit source]

First Indian Women to Antarctica
Seed Mother of India
Father of the Indian Seed Industry
Others

Engineering and technology[edit | edit source]

Father of Indian Super Computers
First U.S. Chief Data Scientist
Others

Mathematics and statistics[edit | edit source]

First Indian to be Senior Wrangler
Others

Medicine and surgery[edit | edit source]

First Indian Female Physician
First Indian Female to receive PhD
Father of Pathology and Medical Research
ICMR Scientists
Immunologist
Others

Physics[edit | edit source]

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
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

Industrial design[edit | edit source]

Arts[edit | edit source]

Cinema and theatre[edit | edit source]

Father of Indian Cinema
Dadasaheb Phalke - Maker of India's first full-length feature Raja Harishchandra
Rajinikanth -Shivaji Rao Gaekwad
Nana Patekar
Dr. Vidyadhar Oke with 22-microtone harmonium
Lata Mangeshkar
First Indian to receive the Oscar
First female actress of India
Dada Saheb Phalke Award - Lifetime contribution to Indian Cinema
Actors
Asha Bhosle
Madhuri Dixit
Ashutosh Gowariker, directed Lagaan (nominated for Oscars, has 5 filmfare, 7 international awards)[27][28]
Actresses
Directors
Models and beauty pageant winners
Hollywood
Bigg-Boss (Hindi) show winners

Literature[edit | edit source]

Playwright Vijay Tendulkar
Ancient Maharashtrian litterateurs
Jnanpith Award winners - Outstanding contribution in Indian Literature

Noted Marathi writers in non-Marathi languages

Others

Columnists and journalists[edit | edit source]

Historians[edit | edit source]

Other applied arts[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

Hindustani classical music[edit | edit source]

Music directors[edit | edit source]

Modern music[edit | edit source]

Singers[edit | edit source]

Winner of Indian Idol (Season 1)

Sports[edit | edit source]

Sachin Tendulkar[32]
Sunil Gavaskar[33]
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[edit | edit source]

Chess[edit | edit source]

Others[edit | edit source]

Outside Maharashtra[edit | edit source]

Bene Israel
Thanjavur
Uttarakhand
United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe
Mexico
South East and Far East
Canada
Australia
United States
UAE

Awardee[edit | edit source]

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.
Param Vir Chakra - India's highest military decoration, awarded for displaying distinguished acts of valour during wartime.
Victoria Cross
Padma Vibhushan- Second Highest Civilian Award of India
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize

Criminals and Gangsters[edit | edit source]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

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