Mumbai (Bombay)

Famous Citizens

H. J. Bhabha (1909–66), nuclear physicist.

Madhuri Dixit (b. 1967), movie star.

S. M. Gavaskar (b. 1949), cricket-player.

Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy (1783–1859), Parsi businessman, social reformer, and philanthropist, the first Indian to be knighted (1847) by the British Government.

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), English author.

Zubin Mehta (b. 1936), orchestral conductor.

Dom Moraes (b. 1938), writer.

Dr. Dhadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917), first Indian to become a Member of the British House of Commons and President of the Indian National Congress.

Salman Rushdie (b. 1947), Indian-born British writer.

J. N. Tata (1839–1904), industrialist and philanthropist.

Sachin Tendulkar (b. 1973), cricket-player.

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), a leader of the "untouchable" Hindus widely regarded as the chief architect of the Indian constitution.

Amitabh Bacchhan (b. 1942), movie star.

W. M. Haffkine (1860–1930), doctor and discoverer of the plague vaccine.

M.F. Hussein (b. 1915), contemporary artist.

M. A. Jinnah (1875–1948), lawyer, Muslim political leader, and the father of the state of Pakistan.

Sir David Sassoon (1792–1853), Baghdadi-born Jew, business tycoon, and philanthropist.