List of people from Mumbai
This is a list of notable residents of Mumbai, India. Residents may be known as Mumbaikars (in Marathi), or Bombayites.
Sport
[edit]Cricketers
[edit]- Sachin Tendulkar
- Rohit Sharma
- Sunil Gavaskar
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Shreyas Iyer
- Ajit Agarkar
- Madhav Apte
- Pravin Amre
- Sairaj Bahutule
- Sameer Dighe
- Shivam Dube
- Farokh Engineer
- Subhash Gupte
- Wasim Jaffer
- Vinod Kambli
- Dhawal Kulkarni
- Smriti Mandhana
- Ashok Mankad
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Vijay Manjrekar
- Vijay Merchant
- Sandeep Patil
- Dattu Phadkar
- Ramesh Powar
- Punam Raut
- Jemimah Rodrigues
- Richard Rutnagur
- Ravi Shastri
- Prithvi Shaw
- Eknath Solkar
- Leonard Stileman-Gibbard
- Shardul Thakur
- Polly Umrigar
- Dilip Vengsarkar
- Ajit Wadekar
- Thomas Wainwright
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Douglas Jardine
Footballers
[edit]Field hockey
[edit]Kickboxing
[edit]- Sarah Avraham, Indian-born Israeli kickboxer, 2014 Women's World Thai-Boxing Champion
Motor racing
[edit]- Jehan Daruvala, Formula 2 racing driver
Running
[edit]- Raj Vadgama, ultramarathon runner
Snooker
[edit]- Aditya Mehta, World Games gold medallist
Business
[edit]
- Anil Agarwal
- Anil Ambani
- Mukesh Ambani
- Nita Ambani
- Kumar Mangalam Birla
- Kishore Biyani
- Ghulam Bombaywala
- Radhakishan Damani
- Adi Godrej
- Sajjan Jindal
- Uday Kotak
- Vurjeevandas Madhowdas
- Anand Mahindra
- Deena Mehta
- Ajay Piramal
- Albert Abdullah David Sassoon
- David Sassoon
- Ronnie Screwvala
- Ratan Tata
- Nusli Wadia
- Sunit Khatau
Film
[edit]Actors and directors
[edit]- Harshad Atkari
- Avinash Arun
- Abhishek Bachchan
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali, director
- Prarthana Behere
- Manju Bharti
- Tamannaah Bhatia
- Reshma Bombaywala
- Ankush Chaudhari
- David Abraham Cheulkar
- Ravindra Dave
- Ileana D'Cruz
- Ramesh Deo
- Seema Deo
- Bobby Deol
- Ritesh Deshmukh
- Dev, Bengali actor
- Varun Dhawan
- Madhuri Dixit
- Sanjay Dutt
- Waris Hussein
- Karan Johar
- Swapnil Joshi
- Bhalchandra Kadam, aka Bhau Kadam
- Kajol
- Urmila Kanitkar
- Arjun Kapoor
- Kareena Kapoor
- Karisma Kapoor
- Ranbir Kapoor
- Shraddha Kapoor
- Sonam Kapoor
- Jahangir Pestonji Khambhata
- Amruta Khanvilkar
- Sonali Kulkarni
- Sonalee Kulkarni
- Ashmith Kunder
- Aamir Khan
- Salman Khan
- Dada Kondke
- Mahesh Kothare
- Mahesh Manjrekar
- Ishaa Koppikar
- Vierendrra Lalit, director
- Urmila Matondkar
- Winifred Mayo
- Amol Palekar
- Nana Patekar
- Ameesha Patel
- Sachin Pilgaonkar
- Dilip Prabhavalkar
- Tejashri Pradhan
- Rinku Rajguru
- Hrithik Roshan, actor
- Rakesh Roshan
- Nilesh Sable
- Ashok Saraf
- Shruti Seth
- Manoj Shah
- Namrata Shirodkar
- Shilpa Shirodkar
- Zenobia Shroff, Indian-American actress and comedian
- Ranveer Singh
- Amruta Subhash
- Shreyas Talpade
- Sai Tamhankar
- Shenaz Treasury, actress and vlogger
- Preity Zinta
Music
[edit]Conductors
[edit]
Lyricists and singers
[edit]- Javed Akhtar
- Aarya Ambekar
- Asha Bhosle
- Rahul Dev Burman
- Ajay–Atul
- Savani Ravindra
- Rohit Raut
- Sadhana Sargam
- Geeta Dutt
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Usha Mangeshkar
- Freddie Mercury
- Mohammed Rafi
- Geetika Varde, classical singer[1]
- Hridaynath Mangeshkar
- Rahul Vaidya
- Vaishali Samant
- Abhijeet Sawant
- Bela Shende
- Aditya Narayan
Writers and journalists
[edit]- Devyani Chaubal (1942–1995), film journalist and columnist of the 60s and 70s
- Firdaus Kanga
- B. K. Karanjia (1919–2012), film journalist and editor of Filmfare and Screen, chairman of NFDC
- Rudyard Kipling
- Rohinton Mistry
- Gregory David Roberts
- Salman Rushdie
- Melanie Silgardo (born 1956), poet
- Rishi Vohra
- Fareed Zakaria
- Taran Adarsh
- Mahinder Watsa
- Avabai Bomanji Wadia
- J. Clement Vaz
- Rohini Nilekani
- Seshadri Chari
- Vasudeo Sitaram Bendrey
Others
[edit]- 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
- Abie Nathan, humanitarian and peace activist
- Shibani Dandekar, model, anchor and singer
- Reshma Bombaywala, model, actress and jewellery designer
- 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
- Vidya Chavan, politician, and the founder of Ghar Hakk Jagruti Parishad[4][5][6]
- Ranvir Shah, cultural activist and philanthropist[7]
- Jagannath Shankarshet, philanthropist and educationalist
- Rufus Pereira, Roman Catholic priest and exorcist
- Karan Singh (born 1991), Indian magician
- Tarun Tahiliani, fashion designer[8]
- Zakir Naik - Physician, Islamic preacher, founder of Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and Peace TV
- Sameer Wankhede - Indian officer, worked with NCB
- Regan Gurung (born 1969), author, social psychologist and professor at Oregon State University
- Faheem Ansari, charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks
- Edgar Anstey (psychologist)
- Urmila Balawant Apte, Founder of the BhartiyaStree Shakti organisation
- Pravin Varaiya, professor
- Kamila Tyabji, lawyer
- Ashlesha Thakur, model
- Menaka Thakkar, dance, teacher
- Jagannath Shankarseth, educationist
- Aishwarya Sridhar, wild life photographer
- Matthew Spacie, rugby player
- Karan Singh (magician)
- Preeti Simoes, producer
- Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Ambassador
- Ketaki Sheth, photographer and author
- Surabhi Sharma, filmmaker and educator
- Sheetal Sharma, fashion and costume designer
- Vipul D. Shah, TV producer
- Ashiesh Shah, architect and designer
- Afroz Shah, lawyer
- Leonard John Sedgwick, civil servant
- Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, Australian librarian
- Neela Satyanarayanan, author and civil servant
- Amla Ruia, social activist
- Devika Rotawan, survivor of the 2008 Mumbai attacks
- Judah Reuben, cricket umpire
- Pinky Rajgarhia, child psychologist and beauty queen
- Ashish Rajadhyaksha, film scholar
- Rajesh Pullarwar, artist
- Bapsybanoo Pavry, socialite and aristocrat
- Sheela Patel, activist and academic involved with people living in slums and shanty towns
- J.B. Pardiwala, judge
- Aniruddha B. Pandit, inventor
- Marietta Pallis, ecologist
- Satyajit Padhye, puppeteer
- Morobhatt Dandekar, Hindu pandit
- Tarabai Modak, social worker
- Julião Menezes, freedom fighter
- Shankar Subbanarasayya Mantha, academic and administrator
- Akshay Laxman, stage magician and mentalist
- Bina Sheth Lashkari doorstep school founder
- Johny Lal, cinematographer
- Pradeep Khosla, computer scientist
- Sanjyot Keer, internet personality
- Mumtaz M. Kazi, Indian train engineer
- Kunal Kamra, standup comedian
- Kamal Shedge, typographer
- Pravin Joshi, stage actor
- Rakesh Jhaveri, spiritual leader
- Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Parsi merchant
- Kim Jagtiani, TV host
- Dinshah Irani, lawyer
- Princess India of Afghanistan, Afghan royal
- R. P. Goyal, banker
- Rachel Goenka, chef
- Natwar Gandhi, CFO
- Cecil Fforde, judge
- Munawar Faruqui, standup comedian
- Stig Engström (suspected murderer)
- Vikas Dilawari, conservation architect
- Keshav Desiraju, bureaucrat
- Monty Desai, cricket coach
- Vidya Dehejia, professor
- Percival David, financier
- Souvid Datta, photographer
- Dhunbai Cowasji Jehangir, philanthropist
- Carlos Cordeiro, sports executive
- Darryl Castelino, air force officer
- Bombae, performer
- Bhima of Mahikavati, King
- Jagdish Bhagwati, economist
- Syed Abdullah Barelvi, freedom fighter
- Damodar Bangera, freedom fighter
- Abhijit Banerjee, economist
- Rosalind Ballaster, scholar
- Kelyn Bacon, judge
- Teji Bachchan, social activist, the wife of Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and mother of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan
- Garima Arora, first Indian woman to win a Michelin star
- Keya Wingfield, Indian American chef[9]
- Usha Desai, environmentalist[10]
References
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- ^ "Narendra Modi out to make strong fashion statement in US; hires high-profile designer Troy Costa". The Economic Times. 21 July 2014. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ^ "Chemould celebrates fifty years". The Times of India. 17 August 2013. Archived from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
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- ^ "Designs on the bride". India Today. 7 November 2008. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
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