This is a list of notable people from Himachal Pradesh, India.
Arts[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Jay Chaudhry - CEO and founder of Zscaler a Nasdaq listed company in USA
- M S Banga
Defence[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
Judicial[edit | edit source]
Entertainment and Television[edit | edit source]
- Kangana Ranawat - Bollywood actress
- B. R. Ishara- film director and script writer
- Ravi Bhatia - television actor
- Siddharth Chauhan - independent filmmaker
- 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[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Gaurav Sharma (politician) - Medical Doctor and MP in New Zealand
Science and Education[edit | edit source]
- 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 - Epidemiologist
Sports[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- B. N. Goswamy
- Timothy A. Gonsalves - academician, entrepreneur
Miscellaneous[edit | edit source]
- 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
- Satyananda Stokes
- Thakur Ram Singh - RSS and Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan