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Political figures

Balaji Janardan Bhanu (Nana Phadnavis)^[1] (1742-1800) - minister and statesman of the Maratha Empire during the Peshwai; mastermind of the Barabhai council; supplemented Pune’s water supply with his own water canal from village Narhe, Ambegaon to Shaniwarwada.^[2]
Balaji Vishwanath Bhat (Nanasheb Peshwe) (1720-1761) - 8th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, in the court of Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj of Satara and then his successor Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj (Ramaraja); built Katraj canals to supply water, bridges, temples and lodges for travellers in Pune.^[2]
Narayan Balaji Bhat (Narayanrao Peshwe) (1755-1773) - 10th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, in the court of Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj (Ramaraja) of Satara; Narayan Peth in Pune is named after him.
Vishwanath Balaji Bhat (Bajirao Peshwe) (1700-1740) - 7th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, in the court of Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj of Satara; responsible for shifting the administrative capital of the Maratha Empire to Pune; built the Shaniwarwada.
Jijabai Bhosale (Rajmata Jijabai) (1598-1674) – wife of Shahajiraje Bhosale, jahagirdar of Pune; mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj who raised him during 1640s in Pune.
Ghashiram Savaldas (Ghashiram Kotwal) (-1791) - kotwal of Pune city; carried out major civil works, constructed a temple, a tank at Hadapsar, and a garden on the road to Hadapsar; created Navapura Peth to the east of Bhavani Peth.^[3]^[4]

Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856–1895) – journalist, educationalist and social reformer; co-founder of multiple educational institutions including the Deccan Education Society, New English School and Fergusson College; editor of Kesari and founder and editor of Sudharak.^[5]
Pandurang Mahadev Bapat (Senapati Bapat) (1880-1967) - initially a revolutionary and later a satyagrahi in the Indian independence movement; studied bomb-making with the India House group in London, and Paris, and disseminated this knowledge amongst revolutionaries after returning to India; led the Mulshi satyagraha against the building of the Mulshi dam.^[6]^[7]
Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915)^[8] – early nationalist leader on the moderate wing of the Congress party; mentor to Mahatma Gandhi; founder of the Servants of India Society.
Jyotirao Govindrao Phule (Mahatma Jyotiba Phule) (1827-1890) - started the first indegenously run girls' school in India; as a social reformer worked for women's right to education, Hindu widow remarriage while also starting an infanticide prevention centre for pregnant widows, and against caste discrimination; formed the Satyashodhak Samaj alongwith his followers.
Gopal Hari Shidhaye (Lokahitawadi Gopal Hari Deshmukh) (1823-1892) – social reformer, wrote articles aimed at social reform in Marathi society in the weekly Prabhakar under the pen name Lokhitawadi.^[9]
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) - indian nationalist leader

Vitthalrao Gadgil – Leader of Indian National Congress
Anil Shirole - Ex-Member of Parliament from Pune, Former Big Leader of Pune and BJP.
Siddharth Shirole - Present Member of Legislative Assembly from Shivajinagar Assembly Constituency Pune, Present Leader of Shivajinagar, Pune and BJP.
Bal Thackeray (1926-2012) – founder of the Shiv Sena; born in Pune.

^ Bari, Prachi (22 June 2019). "Journey of freedom fighters, now showing at 240-year-old wada in Pune". Hindustan Times. Hindustan Times. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b Palande-Datar, Saili (9 March 2022). "Sutradhara's Tales: Many shades of Maratha Machivalli – Nana Phadnis". Hindustan Times. Hindustan Times. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
^ Palande-Datar, Saili (24 November 2021). "Sutradhara's Tales: City's watch and ward — famous and infamous kotwals of Pune". Hindustan Times. Hindustan Times. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
^ vamadevananda. "Journal : The Historical Ghashiram Kotwal". Truth Within, Shines Without. vamadevananda. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
^ Wolpert, Stanley A. (April 1991). Tilak and Gokhale: Revolution and Reform in the Making of Modern India. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0195623925.
^ "Senapati Bapat". University of California Press (Page 190). January 1975. ISBN 9780520024076. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
^ "Senapati Bapat". Indian Culture. National Virtual Library of India. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
^ Wolpert, Stanley A. (April 1991). Tilak and Gokhale: Revolution and Reform in the Making of Modern India. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0195623925.
^ Kavlekar, K., 1983, | Politics of Social Reform in Maharashtra. Political Thought and Leadership of Lokmanya Tilak, p.202.