Noted Gaud Saraswat Brahmins

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Famous GSBs (Gaud Saraswat Brahmins) in various fields:

Law and Justice

• Sir B. N. Rau, jurist (was judge on International Court in the Hague and President of United Nations Security Council. Prepared the original draft of Constitution of India. Also drafted Constitution of Burma (Myanmar) in 1947.)

• Suresh Tendulkar, former Chief Economic Advisor to Prime Minister

• Justice K. T. Telang (1850-1892) Judge Bombay High Court & Youngest Vice Chancellor of Bombay University. Exceptional legal mind, Educationist, Scholar of Sanskrit

RBI

• Sir B. R. Rau, former Governor of RBI

• Subir Gokarn, present Deputy Governor of RBI

• Shiralkar Shrinath S. : Dy.Governor of Reserve Bank of India from 18th Dec.1970 to 25 July 1976.

Science and technology

• Prof. Jayant Baliga, named by Scientific American one of “Eight Heroes of Semiconductor Revolution”, holder of over 100 patents including that for IGBT

• Arun Netravali, Chief Scientist of Alcatel Lucent, France. Pioneer of digital technology including HDTV, MPEG compression. Formerly President of renowned Bell Labs

• Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Head of Nuclear Programme of India

• Prashant Kamat, rated as one of top 100 chemists of past decade by Times Higher Education Group.

• Achyut Kanvinde, considered as one of forefathers of modern Indian architecture.

Marathi Literature

• Pu La Deshpande

• Kaka Kalelkar (the only person to win Sahitya Akadami award for his writings in two languages - marathi & Gujarati)

• Mama Varerkar, playwright

• Mangesh Padgaonkar, famous poet

• Baa Bha Borkar, poet in marathi and konkani

• Jaywant Dalvi

• Vijay Tendulkar, leading playwright of India

• Ratnakar Matkari

• Arati Prabhu (C. T. Khanolkar)

• Dr. Subhash Bhende

• Laxmanrao Sardessai, noted poet in marathi, konkani as well as Portuguese

• Vijaya Rajadhyaksha

• Vasant Sabnis

• Sunita Deshpande

• Mangesh Rajadhyaksha

• Ramesh Mantri

• Girija Keer

• Pu Shi Rege

• Sumati Kshetramade

• Bal Samant

• Narayan Govind Kalelkar, winner of Sahitya Akadami award in year 1967

• Anant Priolkar

• Ravindra Pinge

• Shridhar Tilve

Kannada Literature

• Girish Karnad, a Jnanapeetha awardeee

• Rashtrakavi M Govinda Pai, one of the greatest Kannada poets. Was fluent in 25 languages.

• Gourish Kaikini, Sanskrit and Kannada scholar

• Jayant Kaikini

• Mangesh V. Nadkarni

• Arvind Nadkarni

• Sundar Nadkarni

• Gangadhar Chittal

• Yashwant Chittal

• Dinakara Desai

• P. Mangesh Rao

• Santosh Kumar Gulwadi

Konkani Literature

• Basti Vaman Shenoy

• Ravindra Kelekar, a Jnanapeetha awardeee

• Shenoi Goembab

• R. V. Pandit

• B.V. Baliga

Other languages writers

• Santha Rama Rau (English writer)

• Uncle Pai (Anant Pai, publisher of Amar Chitra Katha. He was described as the most famous 'Uncle' after Chacha Nehru by former PM Atalji)

Scholars and academicians

• Sir Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar (Sanskrit scholar, Orientalist, social reformer)

• Dharmanand D. Kossambe (Internationally known Scholar of Buddhism)

• Damodar D. Kossambe(Polymath)

• Kashinath Trimbak Telang (Sanskrit scholar, former judge of Mumbai High Court from 1889 till death in 1893 and Vice-Chancellor of Mumbai University. Translated Sanskrit epics in English. Also was the first Secretary of Indian National Congress)

• B. R. Shenoy(Famous economist, first ever economist to speak against socialist planning of India governments)

• Ajit Rangnekar, Dean, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (rated as 12th best business school by Financial Times)

• Rajnarayan Chandavarkar

• S. B. Mujumdar, founder of Symbiosis Society

Doctors

• Dr. Bhau Daji Laud - first doctor of India

• Dwarkanath Kotnis - (Surgeon in China during 1938-42 Second Sino-Japanese War)

• M. G. Kini - considered by the Indian Orthopedic surgical community as the forerunner of Orthopedic Surgery in India

• A. V. Baliga

• Annapoorna Kini

• Dr. Shreedhar Shantaram Ajgaonkar - founder of Diabetic Association of India (1955) and first specialized hospital for the diabetics in Mumbai – now known as S. L. Raheja hospital.

Business and industry

• Vijay Mallya, Chairman of UB Group

• Dr. T. M. A. Pai, founder of Manipal Group and Syndicate Bank

IT industry

• Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder of Infosys

• Rohith Bhat, Robosoft Technologies

• Sunil Gaitonde, founder of GS Labs, member of TiE Board of Directors

Banking

• A. S. R. Pai, Co-founder of Canara Bank

Art and music

• Suman Kalyanpur

• Anuradha Paudwal

• Hema Sardesai

• Laxmikant Kudalkar (of Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo)

• Vasant Desai

• Vasant Prabhu

• Bhaskar Chandavarkar

• Pandit Upendra Bhat,Classical Vocalist

• Mohanrao Palekar,Classical Vocalist

• Pandit Ratnakar Pai,Classical Vocalist

• Ramesh L. Nadkarni,Classical Vocalist

• Aditya Kalyanpur,Tabla Player

• Milind Chittal ,Classical Vocalist

• Nityanand Haldipur,Flautist

• Nandu Bhende

• Uday Benegal of rock band Indus Creed

• Gautam Rajadhyaksha

• Mohan Samant, named among the "hundred leading artists in the world today in TIME magazine in 1963

• V. S. Gaitonde, Painter

• Maya Kamath—Lady cartoonist of international fame

• Puttur Narasimha Nayak

Cinema & theatre

• Dadasaheb (Ramchandra Gopal) Torne – true Father of Indian Cinema (though Dadasaheb Phalke is credited as such), as he created first motion picture in India (Pundlik) in year 1912. He was also the first to open distribution offices, produced first Talkie in India along with Ardeshir Irani (Alam Ara), first double role cinema in India (Aout ghatkecha raja) and also first silver jubilee film in India (Shyam Sunder)

• Guru Dutt (born Vasanth Kumar Shivshankar Padukone), named in the list of CNN’s “top 25 Asian Actors of All Time”

• Shyam Benegal

• Kalpana Lajmi

• Durga Khote - First lady of Indian silver screen. Acted with all distinguished actors of the country of her time

• Leena Chandavarkar

• Amol Palekar

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