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List of people from Himachal Pradesh

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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.

Contents

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
  • Soldiger Sh.Saheed Maan Singh from Chauntra Joginder Nagar(H.P),Saheed on 2000 in L O C Kargil.

    • 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
  • Shipra Khanna - MasterChef India Season 2 winner
  • Bbrt Sharma (Musical Artist) Singer-Songwriter, Music Producer

    • Politicians

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

    • Sports

  • Madan Lal - cricketer (team member of 1983 World Cup-winning team)
  • Manvinder Bisla - cricketer
  • Rishi Dhawan - cricketer
  • Paras Dogra - 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 - the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama
  • Baba Kanshi Ram - poet and independence activist

    • Miscellaneous

  • Ruskin Bond - writer
  • Rattan Chand - Bureaucrat, Policy Expert, 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

    • References

    List of people from Himachal Pradesh Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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