Murlidhar Devidas Amte,popularly known as Baba Amte,was an Indian social worker and social activist known particularly for his work for the rehabilitation and empowerment of people suffering from leprosy. He has received numerous awards and prizes including the Padma Vibhushan,the Dr. Ambedkar International Award,the Gandhi Peace Prize,the Ramon Magsaysay Award,the Templeton Prize and the Jamnalal Bajaj Award. He is also known as the modern Gandhi of India.
Fergusson College is an autonomous public-private college offering various courses in the streams of arts and science in the city of Pune,India. It was founded in 1885 by Vaman Shriram Apte,Bal Gangadhar Tilak,Vishnushashtri Chiplunkar,Mahadeo Ballal Namjoshi and Gopal Ganesh Agarkar. Professor Vaman Shivram Apte was its first principal. Social reformer,journalist,thinker and educationist Gopal Ganesh Agarkar served as the second principal from August 1892,till his death in June 1895.
Prabha Atre was an Indian classical vocalist from the Kirana gharana. She was awarded all three of the Padma Awards by the Government of India. She died after experiencing breathing difficulty in the early hours and was taken to Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital. She died from cardiac arrest before reaching the hospital. Atre died on 13 January 2024,at the age of 91.
Dinkar Balwant Deodhar was an Indian cricketer. He played first-class cricket from 1911 to 1948.
Homi Nusserwanji Sethna was an Indian nuclear scientist and a chemical engineer,gaining international fame as the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (India) during the time when the first nuclear test,codename Smiling Buddha in Pokhran Test Range in 1974 was conducted. He was the primary and central figure in India's civilian nuclear program as well as the construction of nuclear power plants. In 1991,he was appointed as Sheriff of Mumbai.
Sir Raghunath Purushottam Paranjpye also known as Wrangler Paranjpye was an Indian mathematician and diplomat who served as the 1st High Commissioner of India to Australia from 1945 to 1947. He became the first Indian to achieve the coveted title of Senior Wrangler at the University of Cambridge. Later in life he also served as the Vice Chancellor of many Indian universities.
Michael Ferreira,nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger",is a notable amateur player of English billiards from India,and a three-time Amateur World Champion. He participated in the Indian National Billiards Championship in 1960 for the first time,and in 1964 represented India in the World Amateur Billiards Championship (WABC) held in New Zealand,where he progressed to the semi-finals. In 1977,he won his first World Amateur Billiards Champion title and followed it up with the World Open Billiards Championship title in the same year. He has two other WABC titles. In 1978 he became the first amateur to break the barrier of 1,000 points,in the billiards national championships,and created a new amateur world record by scoring 1,149 points.
Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya was an Indian educationist who founded educational institutes in Maharashtra state in India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan for his service to society in 2000. The Somaiya Vidyavihar educational campus in Mumbai and several colleges in this campus are named after him. He was also an industrialist and founder of Somaiya Group of industries.
Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi (1893–1985) was a Sanskrit scholar and a prominent Indologist of the 20th century who hailed from Maharashtra,India. He was an expert of his times on stone and copper inscriptions and the coinage of ancient India. For his contributions to Indian history he was honoured with the title Mahamahopadhyaya by the British Indian Government in 1941. He was also awarded Padma Bhushan in 1975 by the President of India.
Prakash Gopalrao Pohare is the editor-in-chief of popular Marathi language daily newspaper Deshonnati. He lives in Akola,where the headquarters for Deshonnati are located.
Abasaheb Garware College of Arts and Science is a college located in Pune,India. It is run by the Maharashtra Education Society,a private education institution founded by Vasudeo Balwant Phadke,Vaman Prabhakar Bhave and Laxman Narhar Indapurkar in 1860. The college was established in 1945 and named as "M.E.S College of Arts and Science". It was renamed to its present name in 1970s after a charitable donation by the industrialist Abasaheb Garware to the society.
Rajnikant Shankarrao Arole was born in Supa in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra,India on 10 July 1934,the second child of Shankar and Leelawati Salve Arole. His parents were both schoolteachers and his father became Inspector of Schools. The Aroles raised their three sons and four daughters in the faith of the Church of England,inculcating in them Christian ethical and spiritual values that have guided Rajnikant through a lifetime of public service.
Keki Byramjee Grant (1920–2011) was an Indian cardiologist from Pune,Maharashtra,one of the first and respected cardiologists in the country and the founder of Grant Medical Foundation,which runs the Ruby Hall Clinic,a nationally accredited hospital in Pune. The Government of India honoured him,posthumously in 2011,with Padma Bhushan,the third highest civilian award,for his services to the medical science.
Rajashree Birla is an Indian philanthropist. She is married to the late Aditya Birla. After her husband's death in 1995,Rajashree began working in CSR and charity sectors,developing a large philanthropic organization funded by her family. In 2011,the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Bhushan,the third highest civilian award,for her services to society.
Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej,popularly known as Soli,was an Indian businessperson,entrepreneur and the chairman of Godrej Group,one of the largest conglomerates in India with interests in real estate,consumer products,industrial engineering,appliances,furniture,security and agricultural products. He is a former Sheriff of Mumbai.
Vasantrao Madhavrao Ghatge was an Indian entrepreneur,business magnate,industrialist and a professor. He was the co-founder of Ghatge Patil Transports along with Jaykumar Patil in the year 1945 based in Kolhapur. Ghatge was widely recognized as the pioneer in the road transport sector for revolutionizing transportation of cargo or goods. He was born in Kolhapur to Radhabai and Madhavrao Ghatge. He was raised in Kolhapur in the 1920s and completed Master of Science in Botany in the year 1938 from Fergusson College of Pune.
The Maharashtra Education Society (MES) is one of the oldest private education institutions in Pune,India. It was founded in 1860 as the Poona Native Institution by Waman Prabhakar Bhave,Laxman Nahar Indapurkar,and the revolutionary leader Vasudeo Balwant Phadke.
Gulestan Rustom Billimoria was an Indian philanthropist,social worker,writer and painter,best known for her services for the special needs children of Mumbai. She served as the Sheriff of Mumbai in 1957 and was the lady superintendent of the Alexandra Girls' English Institution,Mumbai from 1922 to 1937.
Rajnikant Devidas Shroff,also known as Rajju Shroff is an Indian businessperson and billionaire,who is the founder and chairman of UPL Limited. In 2020,he was ranked as the #93 richest person in India,with a net worth of $1.5 billion,according to Forbes. The Government of India conferred him India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2021.
Dr. Shashikant Bhalchandra Garware is an Indian industrialist who is the founder chairman and managing director of the Garware Hi-Tech Films Limited. He is considered as the doyen of polyester revolution in Indian which he embarked upon in June 1957.
