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[]

• Jay Chaudhry - CEO and founder of Zscaler a Nasdaq listed company in USA
• M S Banga

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 gallantry award, Mahavir Chakra
• Lieutenant General Ranjit Singh Dyal, PVSM, Mahavir Chakra
• Rattan Nath Sharma
• Major General Anant Singh Pathania Mahavir Chakra Military Cross
• Group Captain Virendera Singh Pathania VrC, Vayusena Medal - first IAF pilot to make confirmed kill of PAK jet in independent India.

Historian[]

• Bipan Chandra

Judicial[]

• Mehr Chand Mahajan
• Deepak Gupta (judge)
• Lokeshwar Singh Panta
• Abhilasha Kumari
• Sanjay Karol

Entertainment and Television[]

• Kangana Ranawat - Bollywood actress
• B. R. Ishara- film director and script writer
• Ravi Bhatia - television actor
• Siddharth Chauhan - film director
• 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[]

• Yashwant Singh Parmar
• Jai Ram Thakur
• Jagat Prakash Nadda
• Prem Kumar Dhumal
• Shanta Kumar
• Virbhadra Singh
• Thakur Ram Lal
• Kaul Singh Thakur
• Mukesh Agnihotri
• Anurag Thakur
• Anand Sharma
• Mahender Singh
• Sukh Ram
• Brij Behari Lal Butail
• G. S. Bali
• Kishan Kapoor
• Satpal Singh Satti
• Thakur Sen Negi
• Vidya Stokes

Himachali stars outside India[]

• Gaurav Sharma (politician) - Medical Doctor and MP in New Zealand
• Siddharth Chauhan - Award Winning Filmmaker

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
• Padma Shri Dr Mahesh Verma - VICE CHANCELLOR GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI
• Padma Shri Dr D.S. Rana - Nephrologist and Chairman, Board of Management, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (India) New Delhi
• Arvind Mohan Kayastha - Biologist
• Anand Mohan - Geologist, Petrologist*
• R.C. Sawhney - Scientist, Professor
• T. R. Sharma - Plant Biologist, Educator
• Vijay Kumar Thakur - Engineer and Nano-technologist
• Omesh Kumar Bharti -
• Padam Shri Dr Jagdev Guleria

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 - silver medalist in Asian Games in boxing 2019
• Hira Lal - Winter Olympian

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

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 Kahluria
• Satyananda Stokes
• Thakur Ram Singh - RSS and Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan

References[]

External links[]

• Prominent Personalities Of Himachal