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Shantideva
Shantideva (Sanskrit: Śāntideva; ; ; ; ) was an 8th-century CE Indian philosopher, Buddhist monk, poet, and scholar at the mahavihara of Nalanda. He was an adherent of the Mādhyamaka philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Abhayadatta Sri also lists Shantideva as one of the eighty-four mahasiddhas and is known as Bhusuku Pa (布苏固巴).
Bhaskara-I
7th-century Indian mathematician
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer and educationist (1887-1971)

Hemachandra
Hemachandra () was a 12th century Śvetāmbara Jaina ācārya, scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher, yogi, grammarian, law theorist, historian, lexicographer, rhetorician, logician, and prosodist. Noted as a prodigy by his contemporaries, he gained the title kalikālasarvajña, "the knower of all knowledge in his times" and is also regarded as father of the Gujarati language.

Dadu Dayal
Indian saint
Sitanshu Yashaschandra
Gujarati poet

Syed Waheed Ashraf
Indian Sufi scholar and poet
Wajihuddin Alvi
Krishnalal Mohanlal Jhaveri
Indian writer from Gujarat
Usha Chinoy
Indian educationist and musician
Haku Shah
Piyush Ramani Aap Vadodara (1934–2019)
Yashovijay
Yashovijaya (, 1624–1688), a seventeenth-century Jain philosopher-monk, was an Indian philosopher and logician. He was a thinker, prolific writer and commentator who had a strong and lasting influence on Jainism. He was a disciple of Muni Nayavijaya in the lineage of Jain monk Hiravijaya (belonging to the Tapa Gaccha tradition of Śvetāmbara Jains) who influenced the Mughal Emperor Akbar to give up eating meat. He is also known as Yashovijayji with honorifics like Mahopadhyaya or Upadhyaya or Gani.
Vidyaben Shah
Indian activist (1922-2020)

Bholabhai Patel
Indian Gujarati language author
Urmi Desai
Indian linguist
Lalla
Lalla ( 720–790 CE) was an Indian mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer who belonged to a family of astronomers. Lalla was the son of Trivikrama Bhatta and the grandson of Śâmba. He lived in central India, possibly in the Lāṭa region in modern south Gujarat. Lalla was known as being one of the leading Indian astronomers of the eighth century.
Only two of his works are currently thought to be extant.
Prabodh Pandit
Gujarati linguist (1923–1975)

Chakradhar Swami
Indian philosopher, Founder of Mahanubhava Sect in Vaishnavism
Rasiklal Parikh
Gujarati Writer (1897–1982)