Marathi Christians - Notable Marathi Christians

Notable Marathi Christians

• Chandu Borde is a former cricket player from the Pune district. He played for the Indian cricket team in 83 matches between 1958 and 1969. His younger brother Ramesh was also a noteworthy cricket player.
• Vijay Hazare was a cricket player from the Solapur district. He captained the Indian cricket team in fourteen matches between 1951 and 1953. He also captained Baroda, with whom he won the Ranji Trophy in 1959. Hazare is considered by many to be one of the best middle-order bats to play for India.
• Shahu Modak was a Marathi/Hindi movie actor from Ahmednagar. He primarily acted as Lord Krishna in 29 mythological films.
• Baba Padamji was a Brahmin and a Christian convert. An author of over 100 books, his Yamunaparyatan is considered the first novel of Marathi literature.
• Pandita Ramabai was a social reformer, activist, and evangelist. She was born a Brahmin and later converted to Christianity.
• Lakshmibai Tilak, the wife of Narayan Wamanrao Tilak, was a writer who received recognition for her autobiography Smruti Chitre (स्मृतिचित्रे). When her husband died in the process of writing Khristayana (क्रिस्तायन), a Marathi epic about the life of Jesus, she completed it, adding 64 chapters of her own.
• Narayan Wamanrao Tilak, the husband of Lakshmibai Tilak, was a Marathi poet born in Maharashtra as Brahmin. He converted to Christianity, and later wrote many Christian songs and bhajans in Marathi.
• Harish Salve, Renowned Jurist.
• NKP Salve, Former Union Minister and Congress Leader from Vidarbha.