As the richest state in India, it isn’t just the GDP that Maharashtra contributes greatly to. Maharashtra is also home to a number of extremely important people who have made enormous contributions to their respective fields – be it science, sports, politics, arts, social reforms or cinema. Today we are going to know about top 20 famous personalities of Maharashtra. These famous Maharashtrians are ranked by ‘Historical Popularity Index’ (HPI).
Famous Personalities of Maharashtra
Besides being India’s third-largest state, Maharashtra is also one of India’s most progressive states. Many great citizens were born here, making the state, as well as the nation, proud of their good deeds. Famous people have an enormous influence on the next generation. These renowned characters are also a major influence in the choice of their career. The list consists of individuals from a number of fields of interest and occupations that have made their hometown proud not just in the country, but also outside the country. Let us have a look at the famous personalities of Maharashtra.
This list includes all types of personalities in Maharashtra like philosophers, sants, political leaders, social reformers, singers, artists, scientists, and many more. These top 20 the most famous personalities of Maharashtra are ranked according to Historical Popularity Index (HPI) 2022 of Pantheon.
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Top 20 Famous Personalities of Maharashtra
20. Anandi Gopal Joshi (HPI – 56.26)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi is the 20th most famous Marathi Person of all time. Her Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 56.26. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. She is ranked 7th among the most famous female personalities in Maharashtra.
Dr. Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi (31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887) was the first Indian female doctor of western medicine. She was the first woman from the erstwhile Bombay presidency of India to study and graduate with a two-year degree in western medicine in the United States. On 31 March 2018, Google honored her with a Google Doodle to mark her 153rd birth anniversary.
19. NanaSaheb Peshwa II (HPI – 57.04)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Nana Saheb Peshwa II is ranked 19th among the most famous personalities of Maharashtra. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 57.04. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia.
Nana Saheb Peshwa II (19 May 1824 – 24 September 1859) was an Indian Peshwa of the Maratha empire, aristocrat and fighter, who led the rebellion in Kanpur (Cawnpore) during the Great Revolt of 1857. As the adopted son of the exiled Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II, Nana Saheb believed that he was entitled to a pension from the East India Company, but the underlying contractual issues are rather murky.
The Company’s refusal to continue the pension after his father’s death, as well as what he perceived as high-handed policies, led him to join the rebellion. He forced the British garrison in Kanpur to surrender, then murdered the survivors, gaining control of Kanpur for a few days. He later disappeared, after his forces were defeated by a British force that recaptured Kanpur. He later fled to Naimisha Forest in Nepal where he was said to have died in 1859.
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18. Tarabai (HPI – 57.61)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), the Queen Tarabai is ranked 18th among the most famous personalities from Maharashtra. Her Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 57.61. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. She is ranked 6th among the most famous female personalities of Maharashtra.
Tarabai Bhosale (1675 – 1761) was the regent of the Maratha Empire of India from 1700 until 1708. She was the queen of Rajaram Bhonsale, and daughter-in-law of the empire’s founder Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. She is acclaimed for her role in keeping alive the resistance against Mughal occupation of Maratha territories after the death of her husband, and acting as the regent during the minority of her son, Shivaji II.
17. Pandita Ramabai (HPI – 57.63)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Pandita Ramabai is ranked 17th among the most famous personalities from Maharashtra. Her Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 57.63. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. She is ranked 5th among the most famous female personalities of Maharashtra.
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (23 April 1858 – 5 April 1922) was an Indian Social Reformer. She was the first woman to be awarded the titles of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar and Sarasvati after being examined by the faculty of the University of Calcutta. She was one of the ten women delegates of the Congress session of 1889.
During her stay in England in early 1880s she converted to christianity.After that she toured extensively in the United states to collect funds for destitute Indian women.With the funds raised she started Sharada sadan for child widows. In the late 1890s, she founded Mukti Mission, a christian charity at Kedgaon village, forty miles east of the city of Pune. The mission was later named Pandita Ramabai Mukti Mission.
16. Chh. Sambhaji Maharaj (HPI – 58.48)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj is ranked 16th among the most famous people of Maharashtra, and ranked 29th among the most famous kings of India. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 58.48. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia.
Sambhaji Bhosale (14 May 1657 – 11 March 1689) was the second Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire, ruling from 1681 to 1689. He was the eldest son of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire. Sambhaji’s rule was largely shaped by the ongoing wars between the Maratha Empire and the Mughal Empire, as well as other neighbouring powers such as the Siddis, Mysore and the Portuguese in Goa. He defended Maratha territory for 9 years until his death. He was betrayed and brutally tortured and executed by Aurangzeb. After Sambhaji’s death, his brother Rajaram I succeeded him as the next Chhatrapati and continue the Mughal–Maratha Wars.
15. Pratibha Patil (HPI – 59.71)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Prathibha DeviSingh Patil is ranked 15th among the most famous people from Maharashtra. Her Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 59.71. Her biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia. She is ranked 4th among the most famous female personalities in Maharashtra.
Pratibha DeviSingh Patil (born 19 December 1934) is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th president of India spanning from 2007 to 2012. She is the first woman to become the president of India. A member of the Indian National Congress, she previously served as the Governor of Rajasthan from 2004 to 2007, and was a member of Lok Sabha from 1991 to 1996. Patil was born in a Marathi family on 19 December 1934 in the British Raj Indian village of Nadgaon of Jalgaon of Maharashtra, India.
14. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (HPI – 60.68)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is the 14th most famous Maharashtrian of all time. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 60.68. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia.
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966), was an Indian politician, activist, and writer. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while imprisoned at Ratnagiri in 1922.
Savarkar was a leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha. He joined the Hindu Mahasabha and popularized the term Hindutva (Hinduness), previously coined by Chandranath Basu, to create a collective “Hindu” identity as an essence of Bharat (India). Savarkar was an atheist but a pragmatic practitioner of Hindu philosophy.
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13. Mahatma Jotirao Phule (HPI – 60.87)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Jotirao Phule is the 13th most famous Maharashtrian of all time. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 60.87. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia.
Jotirao Govindrao Phule, also known as Mahatma Phule (11 April 1827 – 28 November 1890) was an Indian social activist, thinker, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. His work extended to many fields, including eradication of untouchability and the caste system and for his efforts in educating women and oppressed caste people. He and his wife, Savitribai Phule, were pioneers of women’s education in India.
Phule started his first school for girls in 1848 in Pune at Tatyasaheb Bhide’s residence or Bhidewada. He, along with his followers, formed the Satyashodhak Samaj (Society of Truth Seekers) to attain equal rights for people from lower castes. People from all religions and castes could become a part of this association which worked for the upliftment of the oppressed classes. Phule is regarded as an important figure in the social reform movement in Maharashtra. He was bestowed with honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: “great-souled”, “venerable”) title by Maharashtrian social activist Vithalrao Krishnaji Vandekar in 1888.
12. Sant Namdev (HPI – 60.91)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Sant Namdev is the 12th most famous Marathi Person of all time. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 60.91. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia.
Shri Sant Namdev Maharaj (26 October 1270 – 3 July 1350) was a Marathi Bahujan saint from Narsi, Hingoli, Maharashtra, India within the Varkari tradition of Hinduism. He lived as a devotee of Lord Vitthal of Pandharpur. He is widely regarded as the founder of Varkari tradition.
Namdev was influenced by Vaishnavism and became widely known in India for his devotional songs set to music (bhajan-kirtans). His philosophy contains both nirguna and saguna Brahman elements, with monistic themes. Namdev’s legacy is remembered in modern times in the Varkari tradition, along with those of other gurus, with masses of people walking together in biannual pilgrimages to Pandharpur in Maharashtra.
He is also recognised in the North Indian traditions of the Dadu Panthis, Kabir Panthis and Sikhs. Some hymns of Shri Sant Namdev are included in the Guru Granth Sahib.
11. Acharya Vinoba Bhave (HPI – 61.33)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Acharya Vinoba Bhave is ranked 11th among the most famous personalities of Maharashtra. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 61.33. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia.
Vinayak Narahari, also known as Vinoba Bhave (11 September 1895 – 15 November 1982), was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya (Sanskrit teacher), he is best known for the Bhoodan Movement. He is considered as National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. He was an eminent philosopher. The Gita has been translated into Marathi language by him with the title Geetai.
In 1958 Bhave was the first recipient of the international Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1983.
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10. Gopal Krishna Gokhale (HPI – 61.66)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Gopal Krishna Gokhale is ranked 10th among the most famous personalities of Maharashtra. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 61.66. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale (9 May 1866 – 19 February 1915 was an Indian ‘moderate’ political leader and a social reformer during the Indian independence movement. Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and the founder of the Servants of India Society. Through the Society as well as the Congress and other legislative bodies he served in, Gokhale campaigned for Indian self-rule and for social reforms.
He was the leader of the moderate faction of the Congress party that advocated reforms by working with existing government institutions, and a major member of the Poona Association or the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha. Gokhale was famously a mentor to Mahatma Gandhi in the latter’s formative years.
9. Nathuram Godse (HPI – 63.42)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Nathuram Godse is ranked 9th among the most famous personalities of Maharashtra. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 63.42. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia.
Many people become famous for their good deeds but some for their bad deeds and Nathuram Godse is one such example of that.
Nathuram Vinayak Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. He was born into a Maharashtrian Chitpavan Brahmin family. Godse was a Hindu nationalist from Maharashtra who shot Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range at a multi-faith prayer meeting in Birla House in New Delhi on 30 January 1948. Godse was a member of the political party, the Hindu Mahasabha; and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS); and a popularizer of the work of his mentor Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Godse believed Gandhi to have favoured the political demands of British India’s Muslims during the partition of India of 1947.
Godse was put on trial at the Punjab High Court, at Peterhoff, Shimla. On 8 November 1949, he was sentenced to death. Godse was hanged at Ambala Central Jail on 15 November 1949.
8. Sant Tukaram (HPI – 63.65)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Sant Tukaram is ranked 8th among the most famous people of Maharashtra. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 63.65. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia.
Sant Tukaram Maharaj was a 17th-century Marathi poet, Hindu sant (saint), popularly known as Tuka, Tukobaraya, Tukoba in Maharashtra. He was a Sant of Varkari sampradaya – that venerates the god Vitthal – in Maharashtra, India He was part of the egalitarian, personalized Varkari devotionalism tradition. Tukaram is best known for his devotional poetry called Abhanga and community-oriented worship with spiritual songs known as kirtan.
7. Lata Mangeshkar (HPI – 64.47)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Lata Mangeshkar is ranked 7th among the most famous people from Maharashtra. Her Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 64.47. Her biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia. She is ranked 3rd among the most famous female personalities of Maharashtra.
Lata Mangeshkar (28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is widely considered to have been the greatest and most influential singers in India. Her contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning eight decades gained her honorific titles such as the “Queen of Melody”, “Nightingale of India”, and “Voice of the Millennium”.
Lata recorded songs in over thirty-six Indian languages and a few foreign languages. She received several accolades and honors throughout her career. In 1989, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award was bestowed on her by the Government of India. In 2001, in recognition of her contributions to the nation, she was awarded the Bharat Ratna; she is only the second female singer, after M. S. Subbulakshmi, to receive this honour. France conferred on her its highest civilian award, Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, in 2007.
6. Savitribai Phule (HPI – 66.77)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Savitribai Phule is ranked 6th among the most famous people from Maharashtra. Her Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 66.77. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. She is the second most famous female personalitiy of Maharashtra.
Savitribai Phule (3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897) was an Indian social reformer, educationalist and poet from Maharashtra. Along with her husband Jotirao Phule, in Maharashtra, she played an important and vital role in improving women’s rights in India. She is considered to be the pioneer of India’s feminist movement. Savitribai and her husband founded one of the first modern Indian girls’ school in Pune, at Bhide wada in 1848. She worked to abolish the discrimination and unfair treatment of people based on caste and gender.
On 3 January 2017, the search engine Google marked the 186th anniversary of the birth of Savitribai Phule with a Google doodle. According to the Historical Popularity Index 2022, Savitribai Phule is the most famous female Maharashtrian Personality.
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5. Bal Gangadhar Tilak (HPI – 66.89)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Bal Gangadhar Tilak is ranked 5th among the most famous personalities of Maharashtra. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 66.89. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), also known as Lokmanya Tilak, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist. He was one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. Tilak was the first leader of the Indian independence movement. The British colonial authorities called him “The father of the Indian unrest”.
Tilak was one of the first and strongest advocates of Swaraj (‘self-rule’) and a strong radical in Indian consciousness. He is known for his quote in Marathi: “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it!”. He formed a close alliance with many Indian National Congress leaders including Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Aurobindo Ghose, V. O. Chidambaram Pillai and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
4. Bhāskara II (HPI – 67.74)
According to the Historical Popularity Index, Bhāskarāchārya is ranked 4th among the most famous personalities of Maharashtra. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 67.74. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia.
Bhāskara II (c. 1114 – 1185), also known as Bhāskarāchārya, was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. From verses, in his main work, Siddhānta Shiromani, it can be inferred that he was born in 1114 in Vijjadavida (Vijjalavida) and living in the Sahyadri mountain ranges of Western Ghats, believed to be the town of Patan in Chalisgaon, located in present-day Khandesh region of Maharashtra by scholars.
He is the only ancient mathematician who has been immortalized on a monument. In a temple in Maharashtra, an inscription supposedly created by his grandson Changadeva, lists Bhaskaracharya’s ancestral lineage for several generations before him as well as two generations after him. Colebrooke who was the first European to translate (1817) Bhaskaracharya II’s mathematical classics refers to the family as Maharashtrian Brahmins residing on the banks of the Godavari.
3. Rani Lakshmibai (HPI – 68.91)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Lakshmibai is the 3rd most famous Marathi Person of all time. Her Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 68.91. Her biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. She is the most famous female personality of Maharashtra.
Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi (19 November 1828 — 18 June 1858), was an Indian queen, the Maharani consort of the Maratha princely state of Jhansi from 1843 to 1853 as the wife of Maharaja Gangadhar Rao. She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and became a symbol of resistance to the British Rule In India for Indian nationalists. Rani Lakshmibai was born in the town of Varanasi into a Marathi Karhade Brahmin family.
2. Chh. Shivaji Maharaj (HPI – 74.13)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Chh. Shivaji Maharaj is the 2nd most famous person of Maharashtra. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 74.13. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia. Shivaji Maharaj is the most famous Marathi King as well as the third most famous Indian king of all time.
Shivaji Bhonsale (19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680), also referred to as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan. Shivaji carved out his own independent kingdom from the declining Adilshahi sultanate of Bijapur which formed the genesis of the Maratha Empire. In 1674, he was formally crowned the Chhatrapati of his realm at Raigad Fort.
1. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (HPI – 75.72)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI), Dr BR Ambedkar is ranked 1st among the most famous personalities of Maharashtra of all time. His Historical Popularity Index (HPI) is 75.72. His biography is available in 132 different languages on Wikipedia. Ambedkar is widely regarded as the most intelligent Indian of all time.
Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956), also referred to as Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, is one of the foremost polymaths in history. Ambedkar was a philosopher, economist, jurist, politician, social reformer, journalist, lawyer, author, anthropologist, theologian, social scientist, political scientist, environmentarian, educationist, constitutionalist, polyglot, linguist, orator, historian etc. He was one of the founding fathers of the republic India.
He was the leader of Dalits, who inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism. Ambedkar is recognised as the “Father of the Constitution of India“, who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru.
In 1956, he embraced Buddhism with millions of followers, and revived Buddhism in India. After Emperor Ashoka, Babasaheb has done the most work for the spread of Buddhism in India. Ambedkar was voted “the Greatest Indian” in 2012 by a poll organised by History TV18 and CNN IBN, ahead of Vallabhbhai Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru. Nearly 20 million votes were cast.
Dr. Ambedkar and Chh. Shivaji are the only two Maharashtrian personalities in the top 30 most famous Indian personalities of all time.
About the Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Pantheon aggregates information about individuals’ online popularity. HPI (Historical Popularity Index) is currently made of five components: the “age” of a biography’s character (e.g. Sant Namdev is more than 800 years old), number of Wikipedia language editions in which the biography has a presence (L), the concentration of the pageviews received by a biography across languages (L*), the stability of pageviews over time (CV), and the number of non-English pageviews received by that biography.
Classification
Era
Most of the famous Marathi personalities in the list are from the 19th century. The classification of these famous personalities of Maharashtra according to the century is as follows…
- 12th Century : Bhaskaracharya
- 13th – 14th Century : Saint Namdev
- 17th Century : Shivaji Maharaj, Sant Tukaram, and Sambhaji Maharaj
- 18th Century : Ahilyabai Holkar
- 19th Century : Anandibai Joshi, Nanasaheb Peshwa, Mahatma Phule, Savitribai Phule and Lakshmibai
- 19th – 20th century : Pt. Ramabai, GK Gokhale and BG Tilak
- 20th Century : Dr Ambedkar, VD Savarkar, Vinoba Bhave, and Godse
- 20th – 21st Century : Pratibha Patil and Lata Mangeshkar
Caste and religion
More than half of the list consists of Brahmin persons. Also two persons are also non-Hindus.
If we were to classify them caste-wise, among the 20 popular Maharashtrians one Dhangar (Ahilyabai Holkar), one Rajput (Pratibha Patil), one Shimpi (Sant Namdev), one Mahar (Dr BR Ambedkar), two Malis (Savitribai and Jotirao Phule), three Marathas/ Kunbis (Sambaji, Tukaram and Shivaji Maharaj) and remaining 11 are Brahmins. But Pandita Ramabai, a Brahmin, converted to Christianity.
All twenty persons in this list are born as ‘Hindus’ i.e. born in Hindu families, but two of them renounced Hinduism and embraced another religion. In September 1883, Pandita Ramabai became a Christian while Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar became a Buddhist in October 1956.
Finely, among the 20 most famous Marathi personalities, there are 18 Hindus (of which 10 are Brahmins), 1 Buddhist and 1 Christian.
Among the famous Marathi personalities, 90% are Hindus, but there is a Buddhist person (Dr Ambedkar) on the first rank. Similarly, among the top 30 most famous Indian Persons, 50% are Hindus and 50 are non-Hindus, but there is also a Buddhist person (the Buddha) on the first rank.
Summary
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Question : Who is the most famous personality in Maharashtra?
Answer – Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar is the most famous personality in Maharashtra.
Question : Who is the most famous king in Maharashtra?
Answer – Shivaji Maharaj is the most famous king in Maharashtra.
Question : Who are top 5 Most Famous female personalities in Maharashtra?
Answer – Rani Lakshmi Bai, Savitribai Phule, Lata Mangeshkar, Pratibha Patil and Pandita Ramabai are the top five most famous female personalities in Maharashtra.
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj should be at top most place in terms of popularity.
Thanks for commenting. Please understand that Shivaji Maharaj’s ‘Historical Popularity Index’ (HPI) is lower than that of Babasaheb Ambedkar. So he is on the second rank.
Even, Shivaji Maharaj’s article ranks also second among the most read articles on Marathi Wikipedia of “2022” (see here).
But, Shivaji Maharaj’s article ranks first among the most viewed articles on Marathi Wikipedia of “all time”. Here Babasaheb Ambedkar is second (See here).
I love this article. I would be happy if master blaster Sachin Tendulkar was also included here.