This is a list of notable residents of Mumbai, India. Residents may be known as Mumbaikars (in Marathi), or Bombayites.
Sport
Cricketers
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 Arthur Lang
Footballers Steven Dias Rahul Bheke Shilton D'Silva Ashutosh Mehta
Field hockey Yuvraj Valmiki
Kickboxing Sarah Avraham, Indian-born Israeli kickboxer, 2014 Women's World Thai-Boxing Champion
Motor racing Jehan Daruvala, Formula 2 racing driver
Running Raj Vadgama, ultramarathon runner
Snooker Aditya Mehta, World Games gold medallist
Business
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
Actors and directors 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 Mohan Kapur Jahangir Pestonji Khambhata Amruta Khanvilkar Rajeev Khinchi Sonali Kulkarni Sonalee Kulkarni Ashmith Kunder Aamir Khan Dharmesh Vyas Salman Khan Dada Kondke Mahesh Kothare Mahesh Manjrekar Ishaa Koppikar 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 Akshaye Khanna
Music
Conductors
Zubin Mehta
Lyricists, musicians and singers Javed Akhtar Aarya Ambekar Asha Bhosle Rahul Dev Burman Ajay–Atul Naezy - rapper Savani Ravindra Rohit Raut Sadhana Sargam Geeta Dutt Lata Mangeshkar Usha Mangeshkar Freddie Mercury Mohammed Rafi Geetika Varde, classical singer Hridaynath Mangeshkar Rahul Vaidya Vaishali Samant Abhijeet Sawant Bela Shende Aditya Narayan Divine - rapper
Writers and journalists
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 Uddhav Thackeray, ex-CM Maharashtra Urmila Asher, chef, influencer and business owner popularly known as "Gujju Ben" Aditya Thackeray, politician Sunil Dutt, politician Troy Costa (born 1975), fashion designer Kekoo Gandhy (1920–2012), art gallery owner, founded Gallery Chemould in 1963 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 Ranvir Shah, cultural activist and philanthropist Jagannath Shankarshet, philanthropist and educationalist Rufus Pereira, Roman Catholic priest and exorcist Karan Singh (born 1991), Indian magician Tarun Tahiliani, fashion designer 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 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 Abdul Rehman Shakir Patni, politician Devika Rotawan, survivor of the 2008 Mumbai attacks Judah Reuben, cricket umpire 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, 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 Zubin Mehta, conductor Usha Desai, environmentalist
Academics
Dolly Dastoor (born 1969), clinical psychologist and Zoroastrian leader
Mahmood Mamdani (born 1946)
Alexander George Ogston (1911–1996), biochemist, born in Mumbai
References