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MUMBAI
Most Famous People Born in Mumbai, India
- Notable people
- 2,220
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1967
- Most distinctive
- Model 6.6×
Bollywood, end to end. Roughly a third of Mumbai's notable births are actors, and another seventh are people who work in the films those actors star in — choreographers, playback singers, dancers, models, screenwriters. Cricket is the only non-cinema profession that competes for attention, and even that has strong overlap with the celebrity economy. Almost no one in the dataset was born here before 1900, and almost everyone after lives somewhere within a short drive of a film set.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Mumbai during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Mumbai Is Known For
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Actor is Mumbai's biggest profession — 34% of all notables (748).
Mumbai over-indexes on model — 6.6× the global rate.
Mumbai under-produces football — only 0.1× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Mumbai's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Film & TV
- Sports
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Music
- Science
- Other
- Filtered to 1850s Clear ×
Alfred William Alcock
1859 - 1933
Dorabji Tata
1859 - 1932
Rachel Beer
1858 - 1927
Matilda Smith
1854 - 1926
Mancherjee Bhownagree
1851 - 1933
Jamshedji Framji Madan
1857 - 1923
Edward Sassoon
1856 - 1912
Frederick David Sassoon
1853 - 1917
Flora Sassoon
1859 - 1936
George Watson (cricketer, born 1855)
1855 - 1884
Stanley Scott
1854 - 1933
Maxwell Woosnam (priest)
1856 - 1930
Kavasji Palanji Khatau
1857 - 1916
William Blenkins
1852 - 1942