Mehera Jehangir Irani - "Radha"

Meher Baba's chief woman disciple.

Sukkur, British India

Manija Sheriar Irani - "Mani"

Meher Baba's sister.

Pune

Meheru Rustom Irani - "Mehroo"

Close circle member.

Goher Rustom Irani - "Dr. Goher"

Doctor and close circle member.

Naja Rustom Irani

Close circle member.

Kitty Davy - "Saroja"

Close circle member. On the Blue Bus tours in India in the late 1930s. At Baba's request lived her later years on Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach.

London

Madeleine Estelle Gayley - "Rano"

Artist. Painted Theme of Creation chart for Baba's principle book God Speaks as well as the Ten Circles chart. Close circle member.

New York

Mani Beheram Desai - "Mansari"

Close early circle member. By Baba's order lived on Meherabad Hill by Baba's samadhi for many years, never to cross the railroad tracks except for medical attention.

Pune

Khorshed Kaikhushru Irani

Close circle member and Soonamasi's daughter. Called Little Khorshed to differentiate her from Big Khorshed who was the wife of Baba's elder brother Jamshed. When Jamshed died Big Khorshed came to live with Baba in his ashram but later moved.

Valubai Bhau Pawar - "Valu"

Close circle member.

Katie Rustom Irani
(also spelled Katy)

Goher's sister and close circle member.

Sushi Ganesh Deorukhkar

Close circle member.

Ardeshir Shapurji Baria - "Kaka"
(often named Kaka Baria)

Close circle member.

Aspandiar Rustom Irani - "Pendu"

Cousin of Baba and close circle member.

Eruch Byramshaw Jessawala

Main interpreter of Baba's alphabet board and gestural sign language. Close circle member.

Rustom Behram Irani

Bomanji's brother, circle member.

Karachi

Ali Akbar Shapur Zaman - "Aloba"

Close circle member.

Iran

Vishnu Narayan Deorukhar

Under Baba's guidance since age 15; said by Baba to be the reincarnation of the French Emperor Napoleon I.

Laxman Gangadar Jangle - "Jangle Master"

Close circle member, originally employed as a servant. Married to Muktabai.

Francis Brabazon

Poet, founded Avatar's Abode near Brisbane, Australia. Close circle member.

Born London, Immigrated to Australia

Jal Sheriar Irani

Baba's brother and close circle member.

Pune

William Donkin

Medical doctor who wrote The Wayfarers about Baba's work with the masts. Close circle member.

Faredoon Nawrosjee Driver - "Padri"
(sometimes spelled Faredun)

Close circle member. Left in charge of Meherabad during the New Life.

Sidhu D. Kamble

Close circle member.

Tukaram Laxman Chavan - "Mohammed the Mast"

Close circle member. A mast who lived with Baba and remained his disciple until his death in Meherabad in 2003.

Sonawadi

Bala Tambat

Close circle member.

Adi Kaikhushru Irani - "Adi Sr."

Baba's second secretary, remaining so to the end of Baba's life. Close circle member.

Arnavaz N. Dadachanji

Close circle member.

Ramjoo Abdulla

Author of Ramjoo's Diaries which documents Baba's work from 1922-1929. Close circle member.

Lonavla

Beheram Faredoon Irani - "Behramji", "Buasaheb" or "Barrister"

Meher Baba's first disciple. Close circle member.

Kaikobad Feram Dastur

Parsi priest, God-realized at time of death. Close circle member.

Abdul Ghani Munsiff - "Ghani"

Baba's boyhood friend. Close circle member.

Pune

Feramroz Hormsuji Dadachanji - "Chanji"

Baba's first secretary. Close circle member.

Moreshwar Ramchandra Dhakephalkar - "Dhake"

Began as teacher in Hazrat Babajan School.

Rustom Irani - "Masaji"

Pendu's and Naja's father.

Muktabai

Jangle's wife.

Sanjeevani Moreshwar Dhakephalkar

Dhake's wife.

Meherjee Ardeshir Karkaria and his wife, Homai

Pune

Munshi Rahim - "Munshiji"

Devout Muslim.

Kasba Peth

Naval C. Talati

Influential person in Bombay.

Khak Saheb

Manzil-e-Meem and Poona.

Jamshed Sheriar Irani

Baba's elder brother, died in 1927.

Pune

Walter and Hedi Mertens

Switzerland

Khodadad Farhad Irani - "Nervous"

Manzil-e-Meem.

Sampath Aiyangar

Devount Hindu.

Madras

Swamiji

Vedic Pandit.

Arjun Supekar

Owned paan-tobacco shop in Kasba Peth.

Kasba Peth

Kondiram

Hindu disciple in Manzil-e-Meem.

Sayyed Jamadar

Poona and Manzil-e-Meem.

Kaikhushru Keki Irani - "Lattoos"

Boyhood friend.

Faredoon Masa

Uncle, married to Shirinmai's sister Dowla.

Khan Saheb Kaikhushru Irani

Donated all Meherabad land.

Biharilal

Lived in Meherabad as mandali, late 1920s.

Kaikhushru Masa

Soonamasi's husband.

Bombay

Kunjbihari Choubey

Translated Baba's Discourses into Hindi.

Manek Ranji

Old devotee in Rahuri, near Nasik, India.

Sadhu Christian Leik

Meherabad disciple, 1920s.

Estonia

Saraswati Deorukhar

Vishnu Narayan Deorukhar's mother; cooked for Baba.

Nadirsha N. Dastur

Lived in Meherabad as mandali late 1920s.

Chowdhari

A cook in Manzil-e-Meem.

Kasba Peth

Abdur Rehman - "Barsoap"

Manzil-e-Meem.

Dowlat Padir

Meher Ashram student 1927.

Lewis Charles Nelhams

First Christian mandali, died 1925.

Jamboo Mama

Beheramji's maternal uncle.

Poona

Quentin Tod

London actor, died of malnutrition in 1947.

London

Garrett Fort

Hollywood screenwriter - suicide 1937

Sohrabji M. Desai

Gujarati literary scholar.

Navsari, India

Gangaram Pawar - "Ajoba"

Hindu disciple in Manzil-e-Meem.

Ahmed Khan Gavai

Muslim disciple in Manzil-e-Meem.

Tehemtan

Eldest son of Naoroji and Bachamai Dadachanji.

Khodadad Moondegar Irani

Sheriar's elder brother.

Iran

Shah Khodadad

Baba's cousin, 1st son of uncle Khodadad.

Pulad Khodadad

Baba's cousin, 2nd son of uncle Khodadad.

Swami Bhabhanand

Suicide in 1941 from guilt for murder.

Nusserwan Kerawala

Banu Satha's husband.

Dr. Y. G. Karkal

Medical physician who worked with the poor in hospital at Meherabad, 1920s; died in Meherabad, 1927.

Genu Chambhar

Prem Ashram boy, liberated in 1929.

John

Meher Ashram student - Christian.

Ram Nath

Meher Ashram student - Hindu.

Bala Supekar

Brother of Arjun Supekar.

Lonavla

Ali Akbar Jr. - "Majnun"

Persian Prem Ashram Boy.

Abdulla Pakrawan - "Chhota Baba"

Prem Ashram boy.

Sohrabji Vakil

Parsi devotee from Surat.

Surat

Faredoon Irani

Baidul's son - Meher Ashram student.

Beheram Irani

Baidul's son - died young in Iran, 1930s.

Hormazdiar Irani

Baidul's son - died young in Iran, 1930s.

Bapu Ghante

Brahmin in Poona and Manzil-e-Meem.

Kashinath - "Kashiya"

The laundryman at Manzil-e-Meem.

Lala Pathan

Watchman in Ranchi, Nasik and Meherabad.

Chintaman Rao

Devotee from Ahmednagar.

Ahmednagar

Beheram M. Desai

Mansari's father.

Navsari

Ardeshir N. Desai

Keki Desai's father.

Delhi

Manekji Confectioner

Kaka Baria's sister's husband.

N. Namdar Dastur

Parsi - worked in Meher Ashram school.

Rustom Dinyar

Lived as mandali at Meherabad, late 1920s.

Bhausaheb

Dattu Mehendarge's father.

Rashid Khusroo Irani

Meher Ashram boy.

Jaffrabad, Iran

Jamshed Beheram Sheermard

Baidul's father-in-law.

Iran

Sheermard Khorband Irani

Prem Ashram boy.

Iran

Esfandiar Vesali

Prem Ashram boy.

Iran

Sohrab Jehangir Irani

Parsi

Iran

Khan Bahadur Pudumji

Influential person in Bombay.

Bombay

Palanji Motiwala

Close friend of Eruch's father, Papa Jessawala.

Jabalpur

Motabava Khajotia

Elderly Jessawala family friend.

Nagpur

Naoroji R. Satha

Gaimai Jessawala's saintly father.

Nagpur

Merwan Kaikhushru Irani

Member of Kaikhushru family.

Golvadwala Sohrabji Irani
- "the Old Man"

Masaji's cousin.

Golvadwala's son

Died young.

Dhunjibhoy Kerawala

Jal Kerawala's father.

Nagpur

Sakkur

Faithful servant in Prem Ashram.

Beheram Rustom Salengi

Baba's personal servant.

Ardeshir Khodaram Irani

Meher Ashram schoolboy.

Kaikhusroo

Owner of an ice cream shop Baba frequented.

Hormuzd Boman Irani

Pilamai's husband.

Karachi

Kasam

Ramjoo Abdulla's son - died young.

Faredoon Irani

Dowla Mondi's son.

Poona

Otto Billo

Father of Irene Billo.

Switzerland

Behli Jehangir Irani -
(Spelled his name "Baily")

Baba's closest boyhood friend, worked in "mad ashram".

Pune

Rustom Jehangir Irani

Baily's brother.

Pune

Sohrab Rustom Irani

Sailor's brother.

Pune

Bejanji Ramji

Friend of Soma Desai.

Navsari

Dr. K. Daruwala

Medical physician in Meher Ashram.

Jamshed Mehta

Friend of Mahatma Gandhi.

Karachi

Sadashiv Patel's uncle

Hindu in Poona.

Pune

Jaka Seth

Ramjoo Abdulla's father-in-law.

Lonavla

Jamshed Irani

One of Baba's several cousins.

Bombay

Khodadad Masa

Uncle, married to Shireenmai's sister, Banu.

Arjun Supekar's father

Hindu in Kaba Peth.

Kasba Peth

Jal Kerawala

Papa Jessawala's friend - influential in Nagpur.

Nagpur

Jehangir Damania

Shireen Satha's husband.

Ahmednagar

Rustom L. Elavia

Gustadji Hansotia's cousin.

Gujarat

Sohrab Mavali

Parsi devotee.

Rashid Irani

Baba's cousin, son of Khodadad and Banu.

Hormusdiar Beheram Irani

Baidul's son - died young in Iran, 1930s.

Khooramshar, Iran

Faredoon Irani - "Pedroo"

Baidul's son - Meher Ashram student.

Babu

Anna 104's brother-in-law.

Ahmednagar

Dinshaw

Baba's Uncle, Shireenmai's brother.

Pune

Nonny Gayley

Mother of Rano Gayley.

New York

Countess Nadine Tolstoy

Married to Leo Tolstoy's son Ilya.

Russia

Mabel Ryan - "Firozeh"

Ballet friend of Margaret Craske.

London

Dowla Masi F. Irani

Shireenmai's sister.

Lonavla

Pilamasi R. Irani

Pendu's and Naja's mother.

Pune

Kakubai Deorukhar

Vishnu's mother.

Pune

Naja B. Irani - "Najudi"

Sailor's first wife.

Kasba Peth

Jibboo Irshad

Ramjoo Abdulla's daughter - died young.

Freny Masi N. Driver

Padri's mother - Daulatmai's sister.

Yeshoda Gadekar

Gadekar's mother.

Ahmednagar

Kamlabai Dhakephalkar

Dhake's first wife.

Ahmednagar

Mrs. Kalemama

Wife of Kalemama.

Ahmednagar

Christine McNaughton

Scottish girl, came to India in 1933. Killed during a German air raid on London in 1941.

Scotland

Shanti

Daughter of Kaka Shahane.

Ahmednagar

Gita S. Patel

Sadashiv's wife.

Pune

Banubai M. Confectioner

Kaka Baria's sister - very devout.

Banubai Lakdawala

Nargis Kotwal's paternal aunt.

Bombay

Khorshed Pastakia

Devoted Parsi.

Karachi, Pakistan

Banu Irani

Baidul's daughter - died young.

Zohra Pirzade

Sayyed Saheb's wife.

Nasik

Daughter of Sayyed Saheb

Died young.

Mrs. Burjor Dahiwala

Neighbor near Manzil-e-Meem ashram.

Dhakubai

Arangaon villager - willed her property to Baba.

Arangaon

Khodabad Circlewala's daughter

Dairyman's wife.

Bombay

Mehera Khodaram Irani

Wife of cinema owner.

Nasik

C. D. Deshmukh's mother

Devout Hindu.

Nagpur

Shirinbai Sohrab Irani

Mehera J. Irani and Padri's saintly maternal grandmother.

Pune

Bhikaiji N. Hansotia

Gustadji's mother.

Gujarat

Dhondibai

Baba's nanny when he was infant.

Pune

Sita

Worked as cook at Meherabad, Arangaon villager.

Arangaon

Helena Davy

Mother of Herbert and Kitty Davy.

London

Meredith Roland Starr

Introduced Baba to the west.

London

Dinamai Satha

Wife of Jemi Satha.

Ahmednagar

Shanta

Meherabad servant, wife of Kashiya - laundryman.

Sunder Bhagaji

Loyal servant at Meherabad.

Bhikaiji Desai

Member of large Parsi family.

Navsari

Baijimai Boman Desai

Soma Desai's sister.

Navsari

Jagannath Gangaram Jakkal
- "Anna 104"

Hindu man who became a mandali member at the age of thirty-six in 1925.

Anna Jakkal

Wife of Anna 104.

Ahmednagar

Rawatmani

Aunt, wife of Shireenmai's brother, Dinshaw.

Chingutai

Kalemama's daughter.

Ahmednagar

Pila Homi

Homi Satha's wife.

Ahmednagar

Khorshed Jehangir Damania or Khorshedmai - "Fuimai" which means "Father's sister"

Was betrothed to Eruch Jessawala by Baba. However, although married, they never lived together and Baba later ended all contact with her for following a guru Baba said was a false saint named Mangharam Mirchandani.

Maina Patel

Sadashiv's daughter - died young.

Jeejabai

Sadashiv Patel's mother-in-law.

Pune

Gustadji Hansotia - "Gustadji"
(also spelled Gustadjee)

Baba's best friend and "Shadow" - God-realized upon death in 1958 at Meherazad.

Daulatmai

Mehera J. and Freiny J. Irani's saintly mother.

Gulmai K. Irani

Baba's "Spiritual mother".

Ahmednagar

Rustom K. Irani

Adi K. Irani's elder brother, hermit in Rishikesh.

Dr. Nilu Godse

Killed in Udtara auto accident, 1956 - died in Baba's physical presence, as he wished.

Rustom Jafrabadi - "Baidul"

Employed at a tea shop opposite Char Bawdi where Babajan would visit daily and drink tea, he became a mandali in 1922.

Khodadad K. Irani - "Asthma"

Zoroastrian textile mill worker and a relative of Adi's, heard about Meher Baba from Gulmai and was permitted to stay in Manzil-e-Meem and became a mandali.

Khodadad Rustom Irani - nicknamed "Khodu," then "Sailor"

Boyhood friend of Baba's.

Kim Tolhurst - "Ayisha"
(Katherine Anna Tolhurst)

Student of martial arts, met Baba at Devonshire, England at the request of her judo teacher Koizumi and became a close devotee.

Gabriel Pascal - "Phoenix" & "Panther"

Hollywood Film producer.

Hungary

Margaret Scott

Met Meher Baba for the first time traveling on the ship from Honolulu, Hawaii to Shanghai, China in January 1935, and again in Myrtle Beach, May 1952. Died on Baba's birthday in 1955.

New York

Jean and Malcolm Schloss

The couple that sponsored Baba's first trip to America. Malcolm was an author and poet who along with Charles Purdom wrote Three Incredible Weeks with Meher Baba.

Harmon, New York

Princess Norina Matchabelli - "Noorjehan" meaning "light of the world"

Actress, perfume manufacturer, co-founder with Elizabeth Patterson of the Meher Spiritual Center.

Florence, Italy

Will and Mary Backett
- Baba's "Archangels"

Met Baba in England at Russell Road and Margaret Craske's apartment and became a close devotees.

England

Charles Benjamin Purdom

British literary scholar, biographer, and editor, usually credited as C. B. Purdom. Wrote The God-Man and edited an early edition of the Discourses God to Man and Man to God.

London

Douglas Eve

Friend of Charles Purdom.

London

Warren Healey

Printed literature about Baba in America.

Beryl Williams

Distributed Baba's photographs in America sent from India by sister Mani.

New York

Elizabeth Chapin Patterson
- "Dilruba"

Co-founder of the Meher Spiritual Center with Princess Norina Matchabelli.

Zillah Brown - "Mumtaz"

Kitty Davy's niece.

London

Margaret Craske - "Zulekha"

Ballet teacher.

London

Delia DeLeon - "Leyla"

London

Carrie Ben Shammai

Devotee from Israel who was part of arrival party to meet Baba at Idlewild Airport on July 20th, 1956.

Israel

Ruth White - "Old Soldier"

Lived to be 100 years old in Myrtle Beach.

United States

Jane Barry Haynes

Actress, Head of Meher Spiritual Center in 1980s and 90s.

United States

Charles C. Haynes

Met Baba as a child in Myrtle Beach. Baba called him his minister. He later became a doctor of divinity.

United States

Wendy Haynes

Met Baba as a child in Myrtle Beach.

United States

John Haynes

Met Baba as a child in Myrtle Beach.

United States

Ann Conlon

Met Meher Baba at East West Gathering, 1962.

United States

Darwin and Jean Shaw

Very early American followers.

United States

Phyllis and Lyn Ott - "Phylyn"

Artists who met Baba in 1965 (Phyllis also in 1964). Established residence on Meher Spiritual Center in 1966.

United States

Tom and Yvonne Riley

Met Meher Baba together in Myrtle Beach, 1958; Tom again in India in 1962.

Woodstock, New York

Fred and Ella Winterfeldt - "Fredella"

Baba watched an entire Yankees game on television in Fred and Ella's New York apartment; Fred was also at the Three Incredible Weeks.

Germany

Frank Eaton

Original caretaker at the Meher Spiritual Center; met Meher Baba in Myrtle Beach in the 1950s.

Myrtle Beach

Harold and Virginia Rudd with son Raphael

Met Meher Baba in Myrtle Beach.

New York

Ralph and Stella Hernandez with daughter Libby

Met Meher Baba in Myrtle Beach.

Cuba and Florida

Kecha and Henry Kashouty

Virginia, United States

Erwin and Edward Luck
- "Divine Idiots"

New York

Rick Chapman - "Moochewalla"
("the man with the mustache")

Fullbright scholar who met Meher Baba for five minutes in the 1960s, one of Baba's drug "apostles" asked by Baba to spread his message against street drugs.

California

Robert Dreyfuss

Hitchhiked to India and met Baba in 1964.

United States

Dana Field

Eccentric dietician, slept on the floor with Baba's pictures on his bed.

California

John Bass

New York

Irene Billo

Switzerland

Murshida Rabia Martin

First Murshida of Sufism in America, appointed by Hazrat Inayat Khan, brought the Sufis to Baba.

Don E. Stevens

American oil executive and Sufi who wrote the original introduction to God Speaks.

Imlay, Nevada
(moved to CA 4 years old)

Murshida Ivy Oneita Duce

First Murshida of Sufism Reoriented.

San Francisco

Terry Duce

Husband of Ivy Duce, big-oil businessman.

Charmian Duce Knowles

Daughter of Ivy Duce.

United States

Filis Frederick
- "Filadele" (with Adele Wolkin)

Editor of Awakener Magazine.

New York

Adele Wolkin
- "Filadele" (with Filis Frederick)

California

Agnes Baron

Established Meher Mount in Ojai, California.

Stella Dufresne

Met Baba at the Delmonico Hotel in New York, and Myrtle Beach.

Lived in New York, Montreal

Ludwig H. Dimpfl

Wrote glossary for God Speaks.

Herbert Davy

Brother of Kitty Davy.

London

Jeanne Robinson Adriel

Wrote the book, Avatar.

Alexander Markey

Co-founder with Jean Adriel of Meher Mount in Ojai, California in 1948.

Anita De Caro Vieillard
- "Chuchulu"

Zurich, Switzerland

Roger Viellard

Chuchulu's husband.

Byramshaw Jessawala
- "Papa Jessawala"

Eruch's father.

Gaimai Byramshaw Jessawala

Eruch's mother.

Meherwan Byramshaw Jessawala

Eruch's brother.

Manu Byramshaw Jessawala

Eruch's sister.

Meheru Jessawala

Eruch's sister.

Sam and Roshan Kerawalla

Adi Sheriar Irani - "Adi, Jr."

Baba's brother.

Gulu A. Irani

Adi Jr.'s first wife and Viloo's younger sister, who died after giving birth to Baba's brother Adi's son (Baba's nephew) Dara Irani.

Freni Irani

Adi Jr.s second wife.

Ahmednagar

Chintaman Vishnu Natu - "Bal"

Dolly and Jal Dastoor

Dr. C. D. Deshmukh or Chakradkar Dharnidharr Deshmukh

Indian professor of philosophy and original editor of Meher Baba's Discourses.

Dr. Harry Kenmore

Baba's chiropractor.

Bhau Kalchuri - "Bhauji"
(born Vir Singh Kalchuri)

Baba's night watchman, author, principle biographer, and chairman of Avatar Meher Baba Trust.

A. R. Abdulla

Ramjoo Abdulla's son.

Sarosh and Viloo Irani

Sarosh elected mayor of Ahmednagar in 1952, Viloo housed many guests for Baba in her home known as Viloo Villa in Ahmednagar.

Dara and Amrit Irani

Dara is Baba's nephew. Meher Baba arranged their marriage and performed their wedding in 1968.

Rustom and Sorab Irani

Baba's twin nephews.

Nariman Dadachanji

Husband of Arnavaz, married by Baba but she lived with women mandali (LM 2827).

Will and Mary Backett

Initiated into Sufism by Inayat Khan.

Graham and Lettice Stokes

Baba stayed in their home in Greenwich Village in 1932.

New York

Keki and Freiny Nalavala

Naosherwan Nalavala - "Anzar"

Editor of Glow International.

Parmeshwari Dayal Nigam - "Pukar"

Hamirpur

Keshav Narayan Nigam

Writer of sacred "Meher Chalisa".

Hamirpur

Dr. Ram Gundo Ginde

Famous Bombay surgeon who wrote Meher Baba's death certificate in 1969.

Minoo Kharas

Circle member.

Eruchshaw - "Pesu"

Ruano Bogislav - "The Eagle"

Lived in the Nasik ashram in India for several months during 1936-37.

Paris

Marion Florsheim - "Energy"

Charles ("Tex") Hightower

Dance student of Margaret Craske.

United States

Bili Eaton

New York

Sylvia Gaines

Mildred Kyle

Buried near Baba's Samadhi.

Laura and Lee Delavigne
- Baba's "Neighbors"

Sufis

United States

Andy and Peggy Muir

United States

Kaikhushru J. Pleader

Kept in a room for two and a half years only on milk. God-realized at time of death.

Savak and Nargis Kotwal

Savak and Nargis Kotwal's family, Hilla, Najoo and Adi

Soli Kotwal

Brother of Savak Kotwal.

Bombay

Venkoba Rao

Kaka Shahane

Slamson

Gustadji's brother.

Krishna Nair

Baba's night watchmen during the 1940s and early 1950s.

Amrathlal K. Deshi

Jim and Rhoda Mistry

Adi and Rhoda Dubash

Anna Kale

Murli Kale

Sittaram Dattatrey Deshmukh
- "Chhagan"

Mandali from very early days to end.

Ahmednagar

Pandurang S. Deshmukh
- "Pandoba"

Feram B. Workingboxwala

Bhagubai

Jamadar's wife.

Dowla

Baidul's daughter.

Kakubai Deorukhar

Naggu

Meheru's sister.

Nargis

Savak's wife.

Pilamai Hormuzd

Baba's "Spiritual sister".

Radhabai

Sidhu's wife.

Sarwar

Baidul's daughter.

Shantabai

Chhagan's wife.

Silla

Pilamai's daughter.

Soltoon

Baidul's wife.

Soonamasi Engineer

Mother of Dolly Dastur.

Khorshed Irani

Nicknamed Big-Korshed to differentiate her from Soonamasi's daughter. Wife of Baba's brother Jamshed. Joined the women mandali in 1926 after Jamshed's death. She later re-married and eventually moved north to Karachi, though she kept in touch with Baba's family.

Soonamasi Irani

Mother of Small Khorshed.

Ramchandra Bapu Kale
- "Kalemama"

Kuppuswami

Lala Kamble

Ramchander Gaikwad

Rama, Sheela, and Mehernath Kalchuri

Shatrugna Kumar

Edward (Ned) and
Dorothea (Dottie) Foote

Elizabeth Sacalis

Deirdre Eaton

Virginia Gloor Sadowsky

Donald Mahler

Viola Slayton Farber

Peter Saul

Mik and Ursula Hamilton

Couple who met Baba for five minutes at Meherazad in 1966. Baba asked them to help spread his message on drugs in the west.

U.S.A., Germany

Gulnar and Jehangu Sukhadwalla

Baba's niece and her husband.

Sam Cohen

Brooklyn, New York

Edith Bradbury

United States

Fred Marks

London

Robert and Yvonne Antoni

Paris, France

André Aron

Paris, France

Alfredo and Consuella de Sides

Paris, France

Bunty Kelly Bernstein

One of Margaet Craske's dance students.

United States

Bernice Ivory

United States

Leatrice Shaw Johnston

Daughter of Darwin and Jeanne Shaw.

United States

Renae Shaw

Daughter of Darwin and Jeanne Shaw.

United States

Hoshang Bharucha

Known as Dr. Bharucha. Medical doctor.

Navsari

Cowas Vesuna

Navsari

Phillipe Dupuis

New York

Fred Frey

California

John Ballantyne

Australia

Ben Hayman

Texas

Max Haefliger

Switzerland

Frank S. Hendrick

Pacific Coast of U.S.A.

Tom Sharpley

Dorothy and Tom Hopkinson

Co-authored Much Silence' together.

London

Nana Kher

Attendant at Meher Baba's samadhi.

Madhusudan

Yeshwant Rao

Narendra and Sheila Thade

Bal Kishan Bakhshi and his wife, Meher Kanta

Established Meher Dham centre in Dehra Dun.

Elcha Mistry

Jagannath N. Hellan

Known generally as Hellan.

Was Deo Kain and his wife, Harjiwan Lal and family

Keki and Dhun Desai

Ader Ardeshir Desai

Dhun Satha

Crippled with muscular dystrophy.

Trailokya Nath Dhar

Often named simply T. N. Dhar.

Delhi

P. H. Ganjoo

Delhi

Kishan Singh

Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Prakashwati Sharma

Mistress of Kishan Singh.

Adi and Dolly Arjani

Karachi, Pak.

Denis and Joan O'Brien

Australia

Meheru Damania

Eruch Jessawala's younger sister, cooked on Blue Bus travels 1938-39, died of cancer at age 32. Marriage to Savak Damania was arranged by Baba.

Burjor and Sheroo Chacha

Opened their home to Baba's companions in "The New Life" phase of Baba's life. Secretly took two photographs of Baba and the men begging in their white kafnis, green turbans and white canvas shoes.

Enid Corfe

Italy

Harish Chander Kochar

Lawyer

Curshed Talati

Died in London at 21 of heart failure taking Baba's name. Ashes buried at Meherabad.

Naval and Dina Talati

Parents of Curshed and his sisters Jeroo and Perviz.

Naoroji and Bachamai Dadachanji and their children Tehemtan, Arnavaz, Nargis, Rhoda and Soona.

Bombay

Rustom and Freny Dadachanji

Joseph Harb

California

G. S. N. Moorty, his wife Saviti, and their baby that they brought to Baba.

Calcutta

Stan and Clarice Adams and their children Noel, Cynthia and Colin

Cynthia made a trip of her own to India and met Baba again in 1964.

Australia

Ena Lemmon

Australia

Elsie Smart

Australia

John and Joan Bruford and their son Bernard

Australia

Reg Paffle

Australia

Lorna and Robert Rouse

Australia

Oswald and Betty Hall

Australia

Bill and Joan Le Page and their children Michael, Jenny, and Ruthie

Australia

Pophali Pleader

Lawyer and big Baba worker.

Sadashiv Patel

Shivnath Vibhuti Gademali

Known as Vibhuti, very early long time disciple.

Vithal Bhokre

Madhusudan and Subhadra Bundellu

Married bhajan singers from Poona. Baba blessed and attended their wedding at Guruprasad.

Matra Dutta Shastri

Hamirpur

Bachoobhai Jairam Soni

Bhajan singer.

Navsari

Maharani Shantadevi

Maharani of Baroda, Owned a palace called Guruprasad in Pune that she frequently put at Baba's disposal and later became a close follower. Cut ribbon for Mehersthan center built by Kodury Krishna Rao in Kovvur.

Yogi Shuddhanand Bharati

Wrote Meher Mahima (Glory of Meher). Seen in orange robes seated on the Dais near Baba in films of the 1962 East-West darshan.

Pondicherry

Kutumba Sastry Tadimeti

Baba nominated him as First Chairman of Trust - 'K'in "KDRM", a team jointly named.

Dhanapati Rao Naidu Tota

'D' in KDRM.

Ranga Rao Yarremsetty

'R' in KDRM.

Malllikarjuna Rao Chaganti

'M' in KDRM.

Manikyal Rao

Vijaywada-baba calls him 'Manik' (a gem).

Rammohan Rao Majeti

In first contact- baba identified him as his Host, without any one's introduction, at Vijayawada Railway station in 2nd Andhra tour.

Raghavulu A.V

Now, President; Adhra Centre.

Subba Rao Katta

Host at Eluru. Baba stayed and gave darshan at his farm during two Andhra tours.

Helen Dahm

Swiss painter who painted the interior of Meher Baba's samadhi.

Switzerland

Rogier Gregoire

American who met Meher Baba as an 18-year-old in 1952, at the urging of his mother, Miriam Gregoire.

United States

Jerry Paulson

Young American who met Baba in late 1968 for half an hour, after waiting in India ten months to see him.

United States

Meredith Starr

Introduced Baba to the West. Wrote to Baba when he left hiim, "Give me either the 400 pounds you owe me or illumination; otherwise, I will leave you and expose you as a fraud!" [2]

London

Babadas

Borrowed money in Baba's name without asking. Baba paid back money and cut off all contact [3]

India

Mohan Shahane

[4]

India

Herbert Davy

Brother of Kitty Davy

London

K. J. Dastur

Left Baba and began publishing anti-Baba literature in India, asking Baba for funds to help finance it, which Baba gave him [5]

India

Hy Kraft

Hollywood screenwriter who, at the request of producer Gabriel Pascal, wrote a treatment titled How it All Happened for a movie idea of Baba's in about 1933

New York

Karl Vollmöller

German playwright who wrote a treatment titled This Man David for a movie idea of Baba's in about 1933

Germany

Mahatma Gandhi

Met on the S.S. Rajputana (1932), London, and Bombay, and corresponded

Delhi, India

Thomas A. Watson

Inventor, assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, Met Baba in England in 1931 and invited him to America

United States

Timothy Leary

Researcher, counterculture icon and proponent of the therapeutic spiritual benefits of LSD. Corresponded with Baba who urged him to stop promoting LSD, saying it was spiritually harmful

New York

Ram Dass

Corresponded along with Timothy Leary. Wrote Be Here Now

United States

Louis van Gasteren

Son of Dutch actor Louis van Gasteren Sr. He and three assistants filmed Baba the first and only time in 35mm color movie film with synchronized sound on September 19, 1967 at Meherazad, India

Netherlands

Jan de Bont

Cinematorapher on Van Gasteren's crew who filmed Meher Baba in 1967

Netherlands

Paul Brunton

Brought early western attention to Baba in his 1934 book A Search in Secret India

United States

Margaret Mayo

Margaret Mayo (1882-1951) adapted several of her plays for the silent screen. Her play "Polly of the Circus" became the first film produced by the Goldwyn Company in 1917, of which she was a founding member along with her former husband Edgar Selwyn. She was instrumental in making housing arrangements for Meher Baba at Croton-on Harmon, near New York City, during his fist visit to America in 1931.

Mary Pickford

Held a reception for Meher Baba at her home Pickfair in Hollywood in 1933

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Film actor

New York

Boris Karloff

Film actor [6]

London, Eng.

Cecil B. DeMille

Famous film producer who met Meher Baba in the 1930s and corresponded later in regards to Meher Baba's opinion of his film The Ten Commandments.

Cary Grant

Met Meher Baba in Hollywood [6]

Gary Cooper

Film actor

England

Charles Laughton

Film actor

England

Tallulah Bankhead

Actress (photo)

Virginia Bruce

Actress (photo)

Mahatma Gandhi

Met Meher Baba on the S.S. Rajputana in 1932 and later corresponded

India

Prince Georges V. Matchabelli

Inventor of the now famous perfume brand

Georgia (country)

Ivor Novello

Famous Welsh composer, singer and actor

Ernst Lubitsch

Hollywood director

Germany

John Gilbert

Major star of the silent film era [6]

Utah, U.S.A.

Charles Farrell

American film actor [6]

Florence Vidor

American actress [6]

Texas

Johnny Mack Brown

All-American college football player and film actor [6]

United States

Mercedes de Acosta

Famous writer. Lived with Baba in his ashram in the 1930s for a short time, then left to see Sri Aurobindo.

New York

Paul Brunton

Met Meher Baba in India in the 1930s and wrote about his meeting with Baba and others in his then famous book Search in Secret India.

London

Thomas A. Watson

Inventor, assistant to Alexander Graham Bell in the invention of the telephone.

United States

Karl Vollmöller

Famous playwright especially known for The MIracle

Germany

Gabriel Pascal

Famous Hungarian film producer who met Baba several times and remained a very close follower all his life

Hungary

Garrett Fort

Hollywood screenwriter, close follower

United States

Josef von Sternberg

Austrian-American film director [7]

Vienna, Austria

Maurice Chevalier

Belgian-French actor and singer [7]

Paris, France

Pete Townshend

Rock musician

England

Timothy Busfield

Television Actor

United States

J. M. DeMatteis

Comic Book writer

United States

Jeff Maguire

Hollywood Screenwriter

Connecticut

Danese Cooper

Open-source software advocate

United States

Tamara Mark

Television Actor

United States

Daniel Ladinsky

Poet

United States

Larry Thrasher

Experimental musician

North Carolina

Peter Sumner

Actor

Australia

Biddu

Music Director

India

Tuck Andress

Musician

United States