Reformers
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale (9 May 1866-19 February 1914) – Established the Servants of India Society & represented Indian interests in the Imperial Legislative Council, Mahatma Gandhi considered him his guru
- Jagannath Shankarshet, (10 February 1803 – 31 July 1865) philanthropist and educationalist.
- Mahadev Govind Ranade – Reformer, Author and one of the founding members of Indian National Congress.
- Dhondo Keshav Karve – Maharshi Karve fought for the upliftment of women, started a college for them and established the First Indian University for women, renamed SNDT Women's University. He was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1958
- Raghunath Karve – Pioneer of Family Planning and Birth Control clinics in India schools, animal shelters and medical centres. Cleanliness was his mantra
- Jyotiba Phule (April 11, 1827 — November 28, 1890) – Mahatma Jyotiba Phule started education for women and struggled hard for the upliftment of the depressed classes
- Savitribai Phule – She was the First Female teacher of the First Women's school in India
- Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj – King of Kolhapur princely state, known for his social reforms and upliftment of depressed classes.
- Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil – Worked to spread education to the last person
- Maharshi Vitthal Ramji Shinde – Selfless work for the removal of untouchability and other suppressed casts
- Sane Guruji – Socialist leader and reformer.
- Nanasaheb Parulekar – Great work for orphanage
- Pandita Ramabai – She championed the cause of emancipation of Indian women
- Gopal Ganesh Agarkar – Was a founding member of the Deccan Education Society in 1884, also was the first editor of Kesari, a prominent Marathi weekly which was started by Lokmanya Tilak
- Narayan Chandavarkar – He was regarded by some as the "leading Hindu reformer of western India"
- Vishnu Shastri pandit -He founded punar vivah tojak mandal (1827 - 1876 )
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“... every woman’s organization recognizes that reformers are far more common than feminists, that the passion to look after your fellow man, and especially woman, to do good to her in your way is far more common than the desire to put into every one’s hand the power to look after themselves.”
—Crystal Eastman (1881–1928)
“We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It was the fact that the tyrant must give place to him, or he to the tyrant, that distinguished him from all the reformers of the day that I know.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)