List of people from Maharashtra
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This is a list of famous and notable people from Maharashtra, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief, what matters is that they were well-known during the peak of their popularity.
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Business and Industry
Movies
Actors
Actresses
Music
- Zakir Hussain, Tabla maestro
- Zubin Mehta, Composer and Performer
- Mohammad Rafi
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Asha Bhosle
Politics
- B. R. Ambedkar, Untouchable leader
- Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena supremo
- Datta Meghe, NCP
- Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian National Congress
- Manohar Joshi, Shiv Sena
- R R Patil, NCP
- Sagar Meghe, BJP
- Shrikant Jichkar, (1954-2004)
- Sharad Pawar, NCP
- Suresh Kalmadi, Indian National Congress
- Sushilkumar Shinde, chief minister of Maharashtra
- Vilasrao Deshmukh, chief minister of Maharashtra
- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Hindu Mahasabha supremo
Pramod Mahajan, BJP
Religion
Sports
- Sachin Tendulkar, Cricket
- Sunil Gavaskar, Cricket
- Ajit Agarkar, Cricket
- Sanjay Manjrekar,cricket
- Dilip Vengsarkar,cricket
- Vinod Kambli,cricket
- Anjali Vedpathak-Bhagwat,Shooting
Literature
- P.L.Deshpande
- Aacharya Atre
- Namdev Dhasal
- Vijay Tendulkar
- Satish Alekar
- Dilip Chitre
- Arun Kolatkar
- Vasant Abaji Dahake
- B.S. Mardhekar
- P.S.Rege
- Shyam Manohar
- Vilas Sarang
- Bhau Padhye
- Kiran Nagarkar
- GA Kulkarni
See also: List of people by India state