List of people from Himachal Pradesh
This is a list of notable people from Himachal Pradesh, India.
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Arts
- 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
Defence
- Captain Vikram Batra - officer of the Indian Army; posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra
- Lt. Saurabh Kalia - military personnel
- 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 Som Nath Sharma - military personnel; first Param Vir Chakra awardee
- Lieutenant Colonel Dhan Singh Thapa - military personnel; Param Vir Chakra awardee.
- Major Sudhir Kumar Walia - military personnel; Ashoka Chakra awardee
- Brigadier Sher Jung Thapa,The Hero of Skardu, recipients of Indian Army's second highest gallantary award, Mahavir Chakra
Media
- 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
- Deepu Himachali - Singer , song Lyricist, Director
- Purva Rana - model
- Kangana Ranaut - film actress
- Priya Rajvansh - film actress
- Ajay Saklani - producer, director
- 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
- Ramesh Chand Sawhney - Engineer, Professor
- T. R. Sharma - Plant Biologist, Educator
- Anand Mohan - Geologist, Petrologist
- Arvind Mohan Kayastha - Biologist
- Vijay Kumar Thakur - Engineer and Nano-technologist
- D.S. Rana - Nephrologist
Sports
- Madan Lal - cricketer (team member of 1983 World Cup-winning team)
- Manvinder Bisla - cricketer
- Rishi Dhawan - cricketer
- Paras Dogra - cricketer
- Sushma Verma - cricketer
- The Great Khali - wrestler
- Samaresh Jung - sports shooter
- Shiva Keshavan - luge (Winter Olympian)
- Vijay Kumar - sports shooter
- Suman Rawat - athletics
- Manavjit Singh Sandhu - sports shooter
- Charanjit Singh - hockey (1964 Olympics)
- Ajay Thakur - kabaddi player
- Deepak Thakur - hockey
Religion
- Tenzin Gyatso - fourteenth and current Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former Head of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile.
- Baba Kanshi Ram - poet and independence activist
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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