Rashmi Thackeray (née Patankar) is an Indian journalist and the editor-in-chief of Saamana and Marmik.

She is the spouse of Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray and the mother of Aaditya Thackeray.

The daughter of businessman Madhav Patankar of Dombivli, she attended V G Vaze College in Mulund for her Bachelor of Commerce degree.

She joined the Life Insurance Corporation of India as a contract employee in 1987.

[3][4][5] The couple have two sons, Aditya (Former Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Environment Government of Maharashtra) and Tejas.