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People from Vadodara

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Aurobindo Ghosh

Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)

Dadasaheb Phalke

Indian film producer, director and screenwriter (1870–1944)

founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism

Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi

Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer and educationist (1887-1971)

Hansa Jivraj Mehta

reformist, social activist, freedom-fighter and educator and writer of India

Indian visual artist (1972–2015)

Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai

British economist and politician (born 1940)

Indian businessman and former adviser to the Prime Minister of India

Sayajirao Gaekwad III

Indian Maharaja (1863–1939)

Indian painter (born 1945)

Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh

Indian artist (born 1937)

Abdul Karim Khan

Indian singer (1872–1937)

Behramji Malabari

Indian poet and social reformer (1853–1912)

Indian writer (1926–2023)

Ma Anand Sheela

former chief assistant for the Indian mystic Rajneesh

Prarthana Behere

Indian independence activist

Indian ceramicist (1940-2020)

British political theorist (born 1935)

Fateh Singh Rao Gaekwad, Crown Prince of Baroda

Head of the House of Gaekwad and Indian cricketer and politician (1930-1988)

Nethra Raghuraman

Maharani of Cooch Behar

Meera Deosthale

Indian television actress

writer, painter and filmmaker (1938-2009)

Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt

Indian politician

Ambalal Sarabhai

leading industrialist of Ahmedabad, India

Premanand Bhatt

Indian Gujarati poet

Shareefa Hamid Ali

Indian feminist

painter and sculptor (1920-1987)

Indian freedom fighter

Vasubahen (23 March 1924 ― 13 December 2020), born Vasubahen Ramprasad Bhatt, was Gujarati language story writer and novelist from Gujarat, India. She was a director of various All India Radio stations in Gujarat as well as a Chairman of the Gujarat State Social Welfare Board.

Judge of the Supreme Court of India

Chandravadan Mehta

Gujarati playwright, critic, self-writer, poet and travel writer

Indian-Canadian film director

Indian sculptor (born 1957)

Lalita Ramakrishnan

American microbiologist

Narayan Shridhar Bendre

Indian artist (1910-1992)

Indian singer (born 1988)

Padmarani, also spelled as Padma Rani, (25 January 1937 25 January 2016) was an Indian actress who performed in Gujarati plays, Gujarati films, and Hindi films.

Indian film actress

Gujarati short story writer from India