马拉地人（英语：Marathi people，或Maharashtrians ），以马拉地语为母语的族群，属于印度-雅利安人，主要居住在印度马哈拉施特拉邦与印度西部。他们的母语马拉地语，是印度-雅利安语支中的分支之一，这个族群的历史，可以追溯到一千年前。在1674年创建的马拉地帝国，就是由马拉地人创建。

The Marathi people or Maharashtrians (Marathi:marāṭhī māṇsē (मराठी माणसे), mahārāṣṭrīya māṇsē (महाराष्ट्रीय माणसे)) is an ethnic group of India that inhabits the Maharashtra region and as well as some border districts such as Belgaon and Karwar of Karnataka and Madgaon of Goa states in western India. Their language, Marathi, is part of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages. The group has been classified by British colonial era anthropologists as either Indo-Aryan or Scytho-Dravidian. Although their history goes back more than two millennia, the community came to prominence when Maratha warriors under Shivaji Maharaj established the Maratha Empire in 1674. Marathi people are credited to a large extent for ending the Mughal rule in India.