List of Famous people born in Pune, India

Radhika Apte is an Indian actress. She began acting in theatre and made her film debut with a brief role in the Hindi fantasy Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! (2005). Apte has since worked in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, and English-language films.

Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi was the first Indian female practitioner of western medicine, alongside Kadambini Ganguly. 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. She was also referred to as Anandibai Joshi and Anandi Gopal Joshi.

Sharad Govindrao Pawar, is an Indian politician with over 60+ years of public service. He holds a position of prominence in Indian politics as well as in the regional politics of Maharashtra. During his long career, Pawar has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on three occasions and held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minister of Agriculture in the Government of India. He is president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress. He leads the NCP delegation in the Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Indian parliament. He is one of the founders of Maha Vikas Aghadi, a post-poll alliance in Maharashtra between Shivsena, NCP, and INC.

Dipika Kakar is an Indian television actress. She is known for playing Simar Bhardwaj in Sasural Simar Ka and portraying Sonakshi Rastogi in Kahaan Hum Kahaan Tum. She participated in the reality show Bigg Boss 12 and emerged as the winner in 2018.

Sadashivrao Peshwa was son of Chimaji Appa and Rakhmabai and the nephew of Bajirao Peshwa. He served as the Sardar Senapati (Commander-in-Chief) of the Maratha army at the third battle of Panipat.

Kashibai was the first wife of Bajirao I, the Peshwa to the fourth Maratha Chhatrapati (Emperor) Shahu. With Bajirao, she had four children, including Balaji Baji Rao and Ragunath Rao. Balaji succeeded Bajirao as Peshwa upon the latter's death in 1740. Also following Bajirao's death, Kashibai fostered her step-son, Shamsher Bahadur, whose mother was Bajirao's second wife, Mastani.

Kedar Mahadev Jadhav is an Indian cricketer who plays for Maharashtra and the Indian national cricket team. He is a batting all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm off-breaks and occasionally keeps wicket. In the Indian Premier League, he plays for the Chennai Super Kings, having previously played for Delhi Daredevils, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kochi Tuskers Kerala.

Supriya Sule is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party and currently a Member of Parliament (MP) in 15th,16th and 17th Lok Sabha representing Baramati.

Shibani Dandekar is an Indian singer, actress, anchor and model. She began her career working as a television anchor in American television. Following her return to India, she began hosting several shows in Hindi television and events, besides working as a model and a singer as well. She was one of the co-hosts of the 2019 ICC cricket World Cup.

Twinkle Khanna is an Indian author, newspaper columnist, interior designer, film producer and actress who worked in Hindi films. In 2015, she released her first non-fiction book, "MrsFunnybones" which was declared a bestseller, making Khanna India's highest-selling woman writer that year. Her second book, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad, a collection of short stories, one of which was based on social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham was later made into National Award-winning feature film, Pad Man with the focus on dispelling taboos around menstruation It was produced under Khanna's production house Mrs. Funnybones Movies which was set up in 2016.