List of Famous people born in Pune, India
Manoj Mukund Naravane
General Manoj Mukund Naravane PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC is a four star general of the Indian Army and the 28th Chief of the Army Staff (COAS). He took over from General Bipin Rawat on 31 December 2019 after the latter completed his term as the COAS. Prior to his appointment as the COAS, the general served as the 40th Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS) of the Indian Army, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of Eastern Command and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Army Training Command.
Prakash Javadekar
Prakash Keshav Javadekar is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and currently serving as the Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
Sachiin J Joshi
Sachiin Joshi also spelt as Sachin Joshi born on 7 August 1984 is an Business Man & an Indian film actor, producer known for his works in Tollywood and Bollywood. He was born to Jagdish Joshi and his second wife. His father is the owner of the JMJ group of industries. Sachiin also owns the Dambulla franchise of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) called as Dambulla Viikings.
Meher Baba
Meher Baba was an Indian spiritual master who claimed to be his era's Avatar, or God in human form. A major spiritual figure of the 20th century, he was the central figure around the "Meher Baba Movement", and estimates of his following range from the hundreds of thousands to the millions. His followers were concentrated in India, but with a significant number in the United States, Europe and Australia.
Balaji Baji Rao
Shrimant Peshwa Balaji Bajirao Bhat, also known as Nana Saheb, was the 8th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire in India. He was appointed as Peshwa in 1740 upon the death of his illustrious father, the Peshwa Bajirao I.
Vinod Dham
Vinod Dham is an engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is known as 'Father of the Pentium Chip' for his contribution to the development of Intel's Pentium micro-processor He is a mentor, advisor and sits on the boards of companies, including startups funded through his India-based fund Indo-US Venture Partners, where he is the founding managing director.
Sanket Bhosale
Sanket Bhosale(born 9 May 1988) is an Indian comedian known for his work predominantly in Hindi Television. He is able to mimic voices of many Bollywood and Hollywood actors. He is a mimicry artist, actor, comedian, show anchor and a doctor. He is specially known for his mimicry of Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt. He made his mimicry debut with the 2012 Laugh India Laugh. He has worked at BIG FM 92.7 in 2013. Sanket Bhosale was among top 10 finalists in Laugh India Laugh. Recently he has been in the lime-light by training RK to adopt the style and mannerism of Sanjay Dutt in the Bio-pic Sanju.
Tannishtha Chatterjee
Tannishtha Chatterjee is an Indian film actress and director best known in the west for her performance in the British film Brick Lane (2007), the film adaptation of Monica Ali's best selling novel of the same name for which she was nominated best actress at the British Independent Film Awards. Her other notable roles have been in Academy Award-winning German director Florian Gallenberger's film Shadows of Time, Road, Movie with Abhay Deol, Dekh Indian Circus, for which she won the National Film Award – Special Jury Award / Special Mention and Marathi film Doctor Rakhmabai for which she has won the Best Actress Award at RIFF and PIFF. In 2019 she directed her first feature film Roam Rome Mein.
Kshama Sawant
Kshama Sawant is an American politician and economist who has served on the Seattle City Council since 2014. She is a member of Socialist Alternative.
Amruta Khanvilkar
Amruta Khanvilkar Malhotra is an Indian actress. She was born in Mumbai. She worked in Hindi and Marathi movies and known for her appearance in Ishq Bector's-"Aye Hip Hopper". She is popular for her dancing and participating in Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 10.