List of Chitpavan Brahmins

This is a list of notable members of the Chitpavan Brahmin community.

• Balaji Vishwanath and his descendants, Bajirao I, Chimaji Appa, Balaji Bajirao, Raghunathrao, Sadashivrao Bhau, Madhavrao I, Narayanrao, Madhavrao II, and Bajirao II^[1]
• Nana Fadnavis (1742–1800), regent to Madhavrao II^[2]
• The Patwardhans, military leaders under the Peshwa^[3] and later rulers of various princely states
• Balaji Pant Natu, spied for the British against the Peshwa era Maratha Empire and raised the Union Jack over Shaniwar Wada.^[4]
• Lokhitwadi (Gopal Hari Deshmukh) (1823–1892), social reformer^[5][6]
• Vishnubawa Brahmachari (1825–1871), 19th-century Marathi Hindu revivalist^[7]
• Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901),^[8] judge and social reformer. Given the title of Rao Bahadur.^[9]
• Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar (1850–1882),^[10] essayist, editor of Nibandha Mala, a Marathi journal, educator, mentor to Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, founder of the Chitrashala press^[11]
• Vasudev Balwant Phadke (1845–1883),^[12] a petty government clerk in Pune who led an armed rebellion against the British. Later an Educator.^[13]
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920),^[14] educator, writer and early nationalist leader with widespread appeal. Described by British colonial administration as the "Father of Indian Unrest"^[15][16]
• Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856 – June 1895),^[17] journalist, educator and social reformer
• Keshavsut (Krishnaji Keshav Damle) (15 March 1866 – 7 November 1905), Marathi-language poet^[18]
• Vaman Shivram Apte (1858–1892), Indian lexicographer^[19]
• Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858–1962),^[20] social reformer and advocate of women's education
• Anandibai Joshi (1865–1887), first Indian woman to get a medical degree from a university in the west – Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania – in 1886^[21]
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915),^[22] early nationalist leader on the moderate wing of the Congress party
• Ramabai Mahadev Ranade (1862–1925), woman social acitivist, reformer, founder of Seva Sadan Pune and wife of Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade
• Chapekar brothers (1873–1899), (1879–1899), brothers who assassinated British plague commissioner Walter Rand for his heavy-handed approach to plague relief in Pune in 1897^[23]
• Gangadhar Nilkanth Sahasrabuddhe, a social reformer, who, along with two other reformers – Chairman Surendranath Tipnis of the Mahad Municipality and A. V. Chitre – helped Ambedkar during the Mahad Satyagraha^[24][25][26]
• Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar (1872–1947),^[27] writer, journalist, nationalist leader. served on the Viceroy's Executive Council (1924–29)
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar^[28][29] (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966), freedom fighter, social reformer and formulator of the Hindutva philosophy. Popularly known as Veer Savarkar ("Brave" Savarkar)^[30]
• Senapati Bapat (12 November 1880 – 28 November 1967), prominent Indian freedom fighter who acquired title of Senapati, meaning "Commander"^[31]
• Dadasaheb Phalke (30 April 1870 – 16 February 1944), pioneer of Indian film industry^[32]
• Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar (25 November 1872 – 26 August 1948), editor of Kesari and Navakal^[33]
• Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (1860–1936), eminent maestro of Hindustani classical music^[34]
• Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade (1863–1926), historian^[35]
• Pandurang Vaman Kane (1880–1972), Indologist and Bharat Ratna awardee^[36]
• Anant Laxman Kanhere (1891–1910), Indian nationalist and revolutionary, hanged for the assassination of British Collector of Nashik, A. M. T. Jackson in 1910^[a]
• Vinoba Bhave (1895–1982), Gandhian leader and freedom fighter^[40]
• Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre (1896–1981), poet and writer in the Kannada language. Winner of the Jnanpith Award^[41]
• Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (10 January 1896 – 12 January 1966), Congress leader and Member of Nehru's cabinet^[40]
• Babasaheb Apte (1903–1971), an early RSS pracharak^[42]
• Irawati Karve (1905–1970), anthropologist^[43]
• Nathuram Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949), Mahatma Gandhi's assassin^[44]
• Narayan Apte (1911–1949) – co-conspirator in the assassination of Gandhi^[44]
• Gopal Godse (1919–2005) – co-conspirator in the assassination of Gandhi and Nathuram Godse's younger brother^[45]
• Ramachandra Dattatrya Ranade (1886–1956) was an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, and social revolutionary^[46]
• Pandurang Shastri Athavale (1920–2003) was an Indian activist philosopher, spiritual leader, social revolutionary and religion reformist who founded the Swadhyaya Parivar (Swadhyaya Family) in 1954^[47]
• Madhuri Dixit (born 1967) – Bollywood actress^[48]