List of people from Himachal Pradesh

This is a list of famous and notable people from Himachal Pradesh, India. This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity. Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present. Their fame could be brief; what matters is that they were well known during the peak of their popularity.

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, 1999
• Honorary Captain Bhandari Ram - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Major Som Nath Sharma - military personnel; first Param Vir Chakra awardee

Media

• Vijay Kumar - Bollywood Actor
• Mohit Chauhan - Bollywood singer
• Asmita Sood - television actress
• Ravi Bhatia - television actor
• Siddharth Chauhan - independent filmmaker
• Rubina Dilaik - television actress
• Yami Gautam - film actress
• Vishal Karwal - television actor
• Anupam Kher - film actor
• Shivya Pathania - television actress
• Purva Rana - model
• Kangana Ranaut - film actress
• Anuj Sharma - singer, second Indian Idol runner-up
• Shriya Sharma - film actress
• Manohar Singh - theatre and film actor
• Rahul Verma - television actor
• Preity Zinta - film actress
• Bbrt Sharma - R&B, Singer, Music Producer

Politicians

• Prem Kumar Dhumal
• Shanta Kumar
• Virbhadra Singh
• Anurag Thakur
• Jagat Prakash Nadda

Sports

• Manvinder Bisla - cricketer
• Paras Dogra - cricketer
• The Great Khali - wrestler
• Samaresh Jung - sports shooter
• Shiva Keshavan - luge (Winter Olympian)
• Vijay Kumar - sports shooter
• Madan Lal - cricketer (team member of 1983 World Cup-winning team)
• Suman Rawat - athletics
• Manavjit Singh Sandhu - sports shooter
• Charanjit Singh - hockey (1964 Olympics)
• Ajay Thakur - kabaddi player
• Deepak Thakur - hockey

Religion

• Tenzin Gyatso - the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama
• Baba Kanshi Ram - poet and independence activist

Miscellaneous

• Ruskin Bond - writer
• Rattan Chand - Bueaucrat, Government of India
• Sansar Chand
• Kinkri Devi - activist and environmentalist
• Shyam Saran Negi - India's first voter
• Adarsh Rathore - journalist, singer
• General Zorawar Singh
• Satyananda Stokes

External links

• Prominent personalities of Himachal