- Municipal Commissioner Of Mumbai
The Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai is the chief of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Though the Mayor is the head of the house, his role is largely ceremonial and almost all powers are vested in the Commissioner. He is responsible for the infrastructure of the city and its maintenance. Sewage, lighting, roads, schools, water, waste all come under his responsibilities. The BEST and the city Fire Brigade are autonomous bodies under the organisation. - Police Commissioner Of Mumbai
The Police Commissioner of Mumbai is the chief of the Mumbai Police. He is appointed by the Maharashtra state government. The headquarters are opposite Crawford Market in South Mumbai. The Commissioner is an Indian Police Service officer. - Aamir Khan
Aamir Hussain Khan (born March 14, 1965) in Mumbai, India, is a highly acclaimed and a National Film Award-winning Indian film actor and producer. - Mallika Sherawat
Mallika Sherawat was born on October 24,1981. She has a degree in philosophy from Miranda House , Delhi University. Mallika, who has earned her reputation by shocking the Indian middle class, was the first Indian woman to get an offer to pose nude for Playboy magazine. She refused the offer, citing her morals and upbringing. - Shahid Kapoor
Shahid Kapoor born February 25 1981 in Mumbai, India is a Bollywood actor and model. - Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar सिचन तेंडुलकर; affectionately called 'the little master', born 24 April, 1973, is a current Indian cricketer who was rated by Wisden (2002) as the second greatest Test batsman ever after Sir Don Bradman. Wisden also rated him as the greatest ever ODI batsman. He holds multiple records such as the leading Test century scorer, Leading ODI century scorer and the most career ODI runs. - Kareena Kapoor
Kareena Kapoor nicknamed "Bebo" is a four-time Filmfare Award-winning Indian popular actress who appears in Bollywood movies. Since her debut in the 2000 film, "Refugee", she has acted in nearly 30 films, majority of them bringing her critical success rather than commercial success. Despite this fact, she has emerged today as one of the top and most versatile actresses from the industry. - Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set at least partly on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism, while a dominant theme of his work is the long, rich and often fraught story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the East and the West. - Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including "The Jungle Book" (1894), "The Second Jungle Book" (1895), "Just So Stories" (1902), and "Puck of Pook's Hill" (1906); his novel, "Kim" (1901); his poems, including "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), and "If—" (1910); and his many short stories, … - Ranjit Hoskote
Ranjit Hoskote (born 29 March 1969) is a contemporary Indian poet, art critic, cultural theorist and independent curator. - Urmila Matondkar
Urmila Matondkar(Devnagri:उर्मिला मातोंडकर) (born on February 4, 1974 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a well-known Indian Bollywood actress. She was earlier known for her bold image. She was India's sex symbol. Today, she is considered a serious actress with many critical acclaimed movies to her name. - Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit (born as Madhuri Shankar Dixit to a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family on May 15, 1967) is an award winning Indian Bollywood actress. She is a native of Mumbai, India. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, she dominated Hindi cinema as a leading actress, appearing in many hit films. She is considered to be an icon of the Bollywood film industry. - Kajol
Kajol Devgan, née Mukherjee, born August 5, 1975 in Mumbai, India, popularly known as Kajol, is six-time Filmfare Award-winning popular Bollywood actress and is one of India's most successful actresses. - Karisma Kapoor
Karisma Kapoor, nicknamed "Lolo" (born 25 June 1974 in Mumbai, India) is an Award-winning popular Indian actress who has worked in many critically and commercially successful Bollywood movies. - Gayatri Joshi
Gayatri Joshi is a model turned Bollywood actress. Her first and only film, is the 2004 released, "Swades". - Amit Varma
Amit Varma is a writer based in Mumbai, India. He has worked in advertising, television and journalism, and has written for such publications as "The Guardian", "The Wall Street Journal" and "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack". He is best known for his blog, India Uncut, which won the "Best Indiblog Award" at the Indibloggies in 2005 and was one of the nominees in 2006. - Tulip Joshi
Tulip Joshi, born 1979, is an Indian model and actress in Bollywood. She was born in Bombay, India, on September 11, 1979, is a Virgoan, and stands 5'6" tall. She has dark-hair, brown eyes, and measures 32.5-26-36. She has two sisters, Selphi and Monalisa. The latter is married to Bollywood actor, Rajat Bedi. She has a nephew, Vivann, and niece, Vera. - Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria (born January 20 1964, Mumbai, India) is a journalist, columnist, author, editor, commentator, and television host specializing in international relations and foreign affairs. He was named Editor of "Newsweek International" in October 2000. He writes a weekly foreign affairs column for "Newsweek", which appears fortnightly in the Washington Post. - Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (b. 1930) is an Indian mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry. He is the Marshall Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. His name is associated with Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory. He was born in a Maharashtrian koknastha Brahmin family. He earned his B.Sc. from Bombay University in 1951, … - Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (Hindi (Devnagiri):सुनिल मनोहर गावसकर) (born July 10, 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra), nicknamed Sunny, was a cricket player during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. Widely regarded as one of the greatest opening batsmen in the Indian Test history, Gavaskar set world records during his career for the most runs and most centuries scored by any batsman. - Smita Jaykar
Smita Jaykar is a famous Indian actress who frequently plays mothers and other supporting roles in Bollywood movies and TV shows. A native of Thakurdwar in Mumbai, she is a Maharashtrian whose husband, Mohan Jaykar, is the son of esteemed Marathi barrister Jaykar. She is renowned for her roles in Marathi television serials and scores of films. Among her 2000s films are "Astitva", "Mujhse Dosti Karoge!" ("Will You Be My Friend?"), … - Aasif Mandvi
Aasif Mandvi (born March 5 1966, Mumbai, India, formerly Bombay) is an Indian American actor. He began appearing as an occasional correspondent on "The Daily Show" on August 9 2006. On March 12, 2007, he was promoted to a regular correspondent. Mandvi played the title role in Merchant Ivory Productions' film "The Mystic Masseur" and is also the recipient of an Obie Award for his critically acclaimed one-man show "Sakina's Restaurant". - Lister Sinclair
Lister Sheddon Sinclair, OC, MA, LL.D. (January 9 1921 - October 16 2006) was a Canadian broadcaster, playwright and polymath. Sinclair was born in Bombay, India to Scottish parents. His father, William Sheddon Sinclair, was a chemical engineer. He was sent to live with an aunt in London when he was 18 months old and did not see his parents again until he was seven. He taught himself to read at the age of five and began his formal education at Colet Court. - Man Mohan Sharma
Mann Mohan Sharma (born May 1, 1937 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan) is an eminent Indian chemical engineer. He was educated at Jodhpur, Mumbai and Cambridge. At the age of 27 years, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering in the University of Mumbai, Department of Chemical Technology. He later went on to become the Director of MUICT, the first chemical engineering professor to do so from MUICT. - Reita Faria
Dr. Reita Faria Powell (born Bombay, date unknown) was the first Indian woman to win the Miss World title of 1966, bringing much recognition to her home country. By winning the crown, she led the way for her successors. After her one year tenure, she refused modeling and films and instead concentrated on medical studies. She lives in Dublin, Ireland with her husband David Powell, and has two children and five grandchildren. - Anosh Irani
Anosh Irani (born 1974) is an Indian-Canadian novelist and playwright. An Irani (like Parsi, but of recent Iranian extraction), he was born and raised in Mumbai, although he has indicated that he personally prefers the city's traditional English name, Bombay. After working in advertising in India, he moved to Vancouver in 1998 to study and pursue writing. His first full-length play, "The Matka King", premiered in October 2003 at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver. - Omar Abdullah
Omar Abdullah (born 10 March, 1970) is a member of 14th Lok Sabha. He represents Srinagar constituency of Jammu and Kashmir. He was a minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government. He is the son of Farooq Abdullah and grandson of Sheikh Abdullah. He is an alumnus of the Burn Hall School Srinagar, Lawrence School, Sanawar and University of Mumbai. In 1998, Omar Abdullah was elected to 12th Lok Sabha. In 1998-99, he was Member, Committee on Transport and Tourism and Member, … - Nina Wadia
Nina Wadia (born 1969 in Bombay, India) is a comedy actress of Parsi descent. - Arun Nayar
Arun Nayar (born December 1964 in Foxhill Court, Burmantofts, Leeds) is chairman, CEO and co-founder of Direction Software Solutions. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from Oxford University and a Masters degree in Physics from Imperial College, London. He is much better known as the husband of British actress Elizabeth Hurley. - Amita Kanekar
Amita Kanekar is a Mumbai-based writer, whose well-received debut novel "A Spoke in the Wheel" was published by Harper Collins Publishers, India. Kanekar teaches comparative mythology at the University of Mumbai. She was born in Goa in 1965. She is currently (2006) working on her second novel. She has lived in the U.S. as a child, and also teaches Architectural History. - Sucheta Dalal
Sucheta Dalal (born ca. 1962) is a business journalist from Mumbai, India. Sucheta completed her graduation in Science (B.Sc) from Karnatak University, Dharwad and later Law (LL.B) from University of Mumbai. She has worked with major business newspapers Business Standard and The Economic Times. For sometime she has even worked as the financial editor for The Times of India. She is married to Debasis Basu, who is a Chartered Accountant by profession. - Tom Alter
Tom Alter (born 1950) is an Indian actor of American origin. As a thespian and television actor, he is most prominently known for his work in Hindi language Indian cinema. A native of the small Uttarakhand city of Mussoorie, Tom Alter is the son of American missionaries and has lived for years between the metropolis of Mumbai and the Himalayan hill station of Landour. As a child, he studied Hindi and Urdu and, as a result, … - Thrity Umrigar
Thrity Umrigar is an Indian writer, who was born in Mumbai and immigrated to the United States when she was 21. She is a journalist and the author of the novels Bombay Time and The Space Between Us. She has written for the Washington Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, among other newspapers, and regularly writes for The Boston Globe's book pages. - Ramakant Achrekar
Ramakant Achrekar (born 1932) is an Indian cricket coach from Mumbai (formerly Bombay). He is most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai. He has been a selector for Mumbai cricket team. His most famous and successful pupil is Sachin Tendulkar who is India's most-capped player and leading run-scorer in both Test and ODI cricket as well as a former national captain. - Partho Sen-Gupta
Partho Sen-Gupta (also spelled Partho Sen Gupta or Partho Sengupta) is an Indian independent film director and script writer. - Annu Kapoor
Annu Kapoor (born 20 February 1945 is an Indian actor and television presenter. - Salim Ali
Sálim Ali, born Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, (November 12, 1896 - July 27, 1987), was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Known as the "Birdman of India", Salim Ali was among the first Indians to conduct systematic bird surveys in India and his books have contributed enormously to the development of professional and amateur ornithology in India. - Neil Towers
George Hugh Neil Towers FRSC (28 September 1923 - 15 November 2004) was Emeritus Professor of Botany at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He was awarded the Flavelle Medal in 1986 and was cited extensively for his work in medicinal phytochemistry and ethnopharmacology of medicinal plants. He was born in Bombay, India and was the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel George William Towers D.S.O., O.B.E. (Royal Engineers). - John Abraham
John Abraham (born December 17, 1972) is a former model turned Bollywood actor. He currently lives in Mumbai, India. - Pratibha Naitthani
Pratiba Naitthani is an Indian professor and activist. She is known for opposing vulgarity and violence on Indian televisions. [ The correct spelling of her name is PRATIBA NAITTHANI] Born in Mumbai,her family hails from Pauri Garhwal,Uttarakhand, Pratiba Natthani is currently based in Mumbai. She currently teaches political science at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Her father Professor Dr. Shahi Shekar Naitthani founded St. Xavier's Hindi department.
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