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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 1880s Clear ×
O. G. S. Crawford
1886 - 1957
Ronald Forbes Adam
1885 - 1982
Narayan Hari Apte
1889 - 1971
B. P. Wadia
1881 - 1958
Vishnu Sitaram Sukthankar
1887 - 1943
Athar-Ali Fyzee
1883 - 1963
Marietta Pallis
1882 - 1963
Dinshah Irani
1881 - 1938
Jehangir Hormusjee Ruttonjee
1880 - 1960
Keshavrao Jedhe
1886 - 1959
Dossibai Patell
1881 - 1960
Pirojsha Burjorji Godrej
1882 - 1972
Eric Forbes Adam
1888 - 1925
Hormasji Kanga
1880 - 1945
Navroji Mistri
1885 - 1953
Frank Brooks (sportsman)
1884 - 1952
Rustomji Bomanji Billimoria
Born 1882
Edward Bellew
1882 - 1961