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.
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
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
References
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