List of personalities of the city of Mumbai

This is a list of well-known people who were born in the Indian city of Mumbai (until 1996 Bombay).

John Abraham

Sonali Bendre

Homi Jehangir Bhabha

David Campbell Bannerman

A.

John Abraham (born 1972), actor
Ashim Ahluwalia (* 1972), film director and producer
Jeannette Altwegg (* 1930), British figure skater
Anil Ambani (* 1959), businessman
Nita Ambani (* 1963), philanthropist and sports official
Arjun Appadurai (* 1949), Indian-American ethnologist
Amrita Arora (* 1981), film actress
Malaika Arora Khan (* 1973), model and actress
Kiran Ashar (1947-2017), cricketer

B.

Abhishek Bachchan (born 1976), actor
Ramesh Balsekar (1917–2009), philosopher and writer
Maple Batalia (1992-2011), Indian-Canadian actress
Sonali Bendre (* 1975), actress and model
Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909–1966), Indian physicist of Parsis descent
Homi K. Bhabha (* 1949), writer
Jagdish Bhagwati (* 1934), economist
Sanjay Leela Bhansali (* 1965), director
Divya Bharti (1974–1993), actress
Alia Bhatt (* 1993), actress and singer
Francis Leo Braganza (1922–2011), Roman Catholic Bishop of Baroda

C.

David Campbell Bannerman (* 1960), British politician
Cletus Colaço (* 1953), religious priest and sociologist
Nazneen Contractor (* 1982), actress
Joseph Cordeiro (1918–1994), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Karachi and Cardinal
Christine Correa (* 1955), jazz singer
Osbert Crawford (1886–1957), English archaeologist

D.

Ileana D'Cruz (* 1987), actress
Genelia D'Souza (* 1987), actress and model
Avinash Dixit (* 1944), American economist
Datta Dalvi (* 20th century), politician
Mohini Dey (* 1996), musician
Ajay Devgan (born 1969), actor
Ivan Dias (1936–2017), Cardinal Curia of the Roman Catholic Church
Madhuri Dixit (* 1967), actress
Sanjay Dutt (born 1959), actor
Jyoti Prakash Dutta (* 1949), film director and producer

E.

Rolf Edling (* 1943), Swedish fencer
Stig Engström (1934–2000), Swedish prime suspect in the Olov Palme murder
Launceston Elliot (1930) Scottish sportsman

F.

Savio Dominic Fernandes (* 1954), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Bombay

G

Ashok Gadgil (* 1950), physicist
Feroze Gandhi (1912–1960), politician and journalist
Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991), Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989
Sunil Gavaskar (born 1949), cricketer
Dhruba Ghosh (1957-2017), Sarangipieler
Oswald Gracias (* 1944), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mumbai
Baloo Gupte (1934-2005), cricketer
Indira Gurbaxani (1961–2012), economist
Trilok Gurtu (* 1951), musician and singer

H

Zakir Hussain (* 1951), musician
Emraan Hashmi (* 1979), actor

J

Harry Jefferson (1849-1918), British regatta sailor
Karan Johar (* 1972), director
Gayatri Joshi (* 1977), photo model and actress
Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (* 1993), Indian tennis player

K

Kajol , real name Kajol Devgan-Mukherjee (* 1974), actress
Anil Kapoor (* 1956), actor and producer
Anish Kapoor (* 1954), sculptor
Kareena Kapoor (* 1980), actress
Karisma Kapoor (* 1974), actress
Ranbir Kapoor (born 1982), actor
Rishi Kapoor (1952-2020), actor
Shahid Kapoor (born 1981), actor
Shammi Kapoor (1931-2011), actor
Shraddha Kapoor (* 1987), film actress
Sonam Kapoor (* 1985), actress and model
Burjor Khurshedji Karanjia (1919–2012), film journalist, film official and book author
Arthur Edwin Kennelly (1861–1939), American electrical engineer
Persis Khambatta (1948–1998), actress
Aamir Khan (* 1965), actor, producer and film director
Farah Khan (* 1965), director and choreographer
Fardeen Khan (born 1974), actor
Sohail Khan (born 1970), actor
Akshaye Khanna (born 1975), actor
Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (* 2000), young actor
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British writer, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Isha Koppikar (* 1976), actress
Sanjeev Kumar (1938–1985), actor
Meena Kumari (1932–1972), actress
Rohini Kuner (* 1970), German pharmacologist

M.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981), philosopher and writer
Anu Malik (* 1960), composer
Zubin Mehta (* 1936), conductor
Anthony de Mello (1931–1987), Jesuit priest and spiritual teacher
Ismail Merchant (1936–2005), Indo-British film producer
Sania Mirza (* 1986), tennis player
Rohinton Mistry (born 1952), writer
Sohrab Modi (1897–1984), film director and actor
Yukta Mookhey (* 1979), model and Miss World 1999
Dom Moraes (1938–2004), writer and poet

N

Kruttika Nadig (* 1988), chess player
Kiran Nagarkar (1942-2019), writer
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917), politician
Nutan , real name Nutan Samarth (1936–1991), actress

O

Vivek Oberoi (born 1976), actor
Merle Oberon (1911–1979), Anglo-Indian actress

P

Jeevak Parpia (* 1952), physicist
Amisha Patel (* 1975), actress
Medha Patkar (* 1954), ecologist and civil rights activist
Meher Pestonji (* 1946), writer and human rights activist
Freida Pinto (* 1984), actress, presenter and model

Q

Fazal Qureshi (* 1961), tabla player and composer
Taufiq Qureshi (* 1962), percussionist and composer

R.

Purav Raja (* 1985), tennis player
Karan Rastogi (* 1986), tennis player
Bharat Ratra (* 1960), astrophysicist
John Rodrigues (* 1967), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Bombay
Hrithik Roshan (* 1974), actor
Rakesh Roshan (* 1949), film director and actor
Salman Rushdie (* 1947), Indo-British writer

S.

Taruni Sachdeva (1998–2012), actress
Rajan Sankaran (* 1960), homeopath
Keshav Sathe (1928–2012), tabla player
Jackie Shroff (born 1957), actor
Ranveer Singh (born 1985), actor
Manil Suri (* 1959), American writer and mathematics professor of Indian descent

T

Ayesha Takia (* 1986), actress
Ayush Tandon (born 1998), actor
Tanisha , real name Tanisha Mukherjee (* 1978), actress
Ratan Tata (* 1937), manager
Torin Thatcher (1905–1981), British film and stage actor
Sachin Tendulkar (* 1973), cricketer
David Trim (* 1969), British historian

U

Emil Usteri (1839–1914), Swiss Jesuit and university professor in Bombay

W.

Bahman Pestonji Wadia (1881–1958), theosophist and writer
Terence Hanbury White (1906–1964), writer

Y

John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar (1807–1876), British colonial administrator and second Governor General of Canada

Z

Fareed Zakaria (* 1964), journalist