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List of people from Himachal Pradesh

This is a list of notable people from Himachal Pradesh, India.

Arts

  • Nainsukh - Painter of Kangra school of painting
  • Gambhari Devi (1922-2013) - folk singer, folklorist
  • Norah Richards - theatre
  • Nicholas Roerich - painter, lived in Kullu valley with Helena Roerich
  • Sobha Singh - painter, lived in Andretta Village, Palampur, Kangra
  • Vijay Sharma Painter and art Historian

Business

Defence

  • Major Som Nath Sharma - military personnel; first Param Vir Chakra awardee
  • Lieutenant Colonel Dhan Singh Thapa - military personnel; Param Vir Chakra awardee.
  • Captain Vikram Batra - officer of the Indian Army; posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra
  • Rifleman Sanjay Kumar - captured the Tiger Hill post in Kargil war; Param Vir Chakra awardee
  • Honorary Captain Bhandari Ram - recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Major Sudhir Kumar Walia - military personnel; Ashoka Chakra awardee
  • Lt. Saurabh Kalia - military personnel
  • Brigadier Sher Jung Thapa,The Hero of Skardu, recipients of Indian Army's second highest gallantary award, Mahavir Chakra
  • Lieutenant General Ranjit Singh Dyal, PVSM, Mahavir Chakra
  • Rattan Nath Sharma
  • Major General Anant Singh Pathania MVC, MC

Historian

Judicial

Entertainment and Television

  • Kangana Ranawat- Bollywood actress
  • B. R. Ishara- Film director and script writer
  • Ravi Bhatia - television actor
  • Siddharth Chauhan - independent filmmaker
  • Mohit Chauhan - Bollywood singer
  • Prem Chopra - Bollywood Actor
  • Rubina Dilaik - television actress
  • Yami Gautam - film actress
  • Vishal Karwal - television actor
  • Shipra Khanna - chef
  • Anupam Kher - film actor
  • Ashish R Mohan - film director
  • Shivya Pathania - television actress
  • Purva Rana - model
  • Priya Rajvansh - film actress
  • Anuj Sharma - singer
  • Shriya Sharma - film actress
  • Manohar Singh - theatre and film actor
  • Asmita Sood - television actress
  • Preity Zinta - film actress
  • Adarsh Rathore - journalist, singer
  • Ankush Bhardwaj - singer

Politicians

Science and Education

  • Padma Shri Dr Randeep Guleria- Director AIIMS New Delhi and Professor and Head Department of Pulmonary Disease and Sleeping Disorders
  • Padma Shri Dr Jagat Ram Ophthalmologist and Director PGI Chandigarh
  • Arvind Mohan Kayastha - Biologist
  • Anand Mohan - Geologist, Petrologist
  • D.S. Rana - Nephrologist
  • R.C. Sawhney - Scientist, Professor
  • T. R. Sharma - Plant Biologist, Educator
  • Vijay Kumar Thakur - Engineer and Nano-technologist
  • Omesh Kumar Bharti Epidemiologist

Sports

  • Suman Rawat - athletics
  • Manvinder Bisla - cricketer
  • Rishi Dhawan - cricketer
  • Paras Dogra - cricketer
  • Madan Lal - cricketer (team member of 1983 World Cup-winning team)
  • Sushma Verma - cricketer (India women's national cricket team)
  • Charanjit Singh - hockey (1964 Olympics)
  • Deepak Thakur - hockey
  • Ajay Thakur - kabaddi player
  • Shiva Keshavan - luge (Winter Olympian)
  • Samaresh Jung - sports shooter
  • Vijay Kumar - sports shooter
  • Manavjit Singh Sandhu - sports shooter
  • The Great Khali - wrestler
  • [Ashish kumar] gold medalist of asian games in boxing 2019

Religion

Non Himachalis making great contribution

  • B. N. Goswamy
  • Timothy A. Gonsalves - academician, entrepreneur

Miscellaneous

  • Rattan Chand - bureaucrat, policy expert, Government of India
  • Sansar Chand
  • Kinkri Devi - activist and environmentalist
  • Shyam Saran Negi - India's first voter
  • General Zorawar Singh
  • Satyananda Stokes
  • Thakur Ram Singh - RSS and Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan

References

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