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

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  • 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
  • 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
  • Akshaye Khanna

Music

Conductors

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  • 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, politican
  • 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)

References