List of people from Uttarakhand

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This is a list of famous and notable people from Uttarakhand, India.

Education and development

• Govind Ballabh Pant, recipient of Bharat Ratna India's highest civilian award, Pantnagar University on his name
• Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University on his name
• Kharag Singh Valdiya, Indian geologist and a former vice chancellor of Kumaon University, in 2007 and in 2015

Arts and culture

• Gunanand Pathik, freedom fighter and poet
• Girish Tiwari (Girda) (1942–2010), poet and folk singer
• Mina Rana, folk singer
• Narendra Singh Negi, folk singer
• Chander Singh Rahi, prominent folk singer and researcher from Uttarakhand. Fondly described as the “Bhishma Pitamah of Uttarakhand folk music”

Cinema

• Ali Abbas Zafar, film director^[1]
• Anukriti Gusain
• Anushka Sharma
• Archana Puran Singh
• Asha Negi
• Barkha Bisht
• Chitrashi Rawat
• Deepak Dobriyal
• Dev Negi
• Fahad Ali
• Hemant Pandey
• Himani Shivpuri
• Jyotsna Chandola
• Kainaat Arora
• Kulraj Randhawa
• Lavanya Tripathi
• Madhurima Tuli
• Manasvi Mamgai
• Neha Kakkar
• Niharika Singh
• Nirmal Pandey
• Prasoon Joshi
• Raghav Juyal
• Ragini Nandwani
• Richa Panai
• Roop Durgapal
• Sakshi Chaudhary
• Shilpa Saklani
• Shruti Bisht
• Sonam Bajwa
• Sonu Kakkar
• Sudhanshu Pandey
• Sukirti Kandpal
• Tigmanshu Dhulia
• Tom Alter
• Udita Goswami,
• Urvashi Rautela
• Varun Badola
• Vibha Anand

Theatre

• B. M. Shah
• Mohan Upreti

Defence

• Surendra Singh Panwar, Lieutenant General
• General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army
• Gabar Singh Negi, Victoria Cross Garhwal Rifles
• Lt. General M. M. Lakhera, ex-Governor of Mizoram, ex-Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry
• Havaldar Gajender Singh, Ashoka Chakra
• Rajesh Singh Adhikari, Maha Vir Chakra
• General Bipin Chandra Joshi, Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army
• Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi, Chief of Naval Staff of Indian Navy
• Major Som Nath Sharma, first recipient of Param Vir Chakra
• Lt. Col. Manabendra Shah
• Major General Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri
• Jaswant Singh Rawat, hero of Indo-China War, 1962; Mahavir Chakra
• Darwan Singh Negi, Victoria Cross from 1st Battalion of 39th Garhwal Rifles
• Ajit Kumar Doval, 5th National Security Adviser of India
• Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat, recipient of Maha Vir Chakra
• Naik Mohan Nath Goswami, recipient of Ashoka Chakra
• Havildar Bahadur Singh Bohra, recipient of Ashoka Chakra
• Ummed Singh Mahra, Captain. He was awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime military decoration.

Police

• Mohan Chand Sharma

Literature

• Manglesh Dabral, Hindi writer, poet
• Sumitranandan Pant, Hindi writer, poet
• Shekhar Pathak, Hindi writer, academic
• Shivani, Hindi writer
• Shailesh Matiyani, Hindi writer
• Manohar Shyam Joshi, writer, screenwriter
• Mrinal Pande, Hindi writer, journalist
• Ruskin Bond, English writer
• Ramachandra Guha, writer, historian
• Girish Tiwari (Girda), writer, poet

Politics

• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna
• Murli Manohar Joshi
• Mala Raj Laxmi Shah
• Mohan Singh Bisht
• Harish Rawat
• K.C. Pant
• N.D. Tiwari
• Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri
• Ram Prasad Nautiyal
• Trivendra Singh Rawat

Chief Ministers

• Nityanand Swami
• Bhagat Singh Koshyari
• Narayan Dutt Tiwari
• Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri
• Ramesh Pokhriyal
• Vijay Bahuguna
• Harish Rawat

Sports

• Abhinav Bindra, shooter; won Olympic gold in the 10 m air rifle event in 2008
• Bachendri Pal, mountaineer; in 1984 became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
• Chandraprabha Aitwal, mountaineer
• Ekta Bisht, first international cricketer from Uttarakhand
• Major Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna, mountaineer; died in the international expedition to the Mount Everest on 18 April 1971
• Hemlata Kala, cricketer
• Jaspal Rana, shooter
• Labhanshu Sharma, wrestler
• Madhumita Bisht, badminton player
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni, cricketer
• Manish Pandey, cricketer
• Nain Singh Rawat, Asian explorer
• Unmukt Chand, cricketer
• Pawan Suyal, cricketer
• Parimarjan Negi
• Mir Ranjan Negi
• Navjit Singh, volleyball player
• Arvind Raturi, youngest mountaineer of Uttarakhand to scale Mount Everest on 19 May 2013
• Jagdish Singh, Winter Olympian

Others

• Pooran Chand Joshi, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Delhi
• Prof. (Dr.) Prem Lal Joshi, academic professor, author
• Sundarlal Bahuguna, Chipko movement leader
• Vandana Shiva, environmentalist
• Yashodhar Mathpal, archaeologist, painter, curator, and rock art conservationist, recipient of the Padma Shri
• Anurag Chauhan, social worker

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