National heroes of Nepal

• Amar Singh Thapa
  Amar Singh Thapa
  Amar Singh Thapa, also known as "Living lion of Nepal", was the General of the Nepalese forces of western front in the Anglo–Nepalese War. He is regarded as one of the National heroes of Nepal....
  
  
• Amshuvarma
  Amshuvarma
  Aṃshuvarmā was a monarch of the Nepali kingdom of Licchavi between 605 and 621. He is credited with opening trade routes to Tibet, though he is most famous for one of his daughters, Bhrikuti, who married a Tibetan ruler named Tsrong-tsong Gompo . She was instrumental in spreading Buddhism...
  
  
• Anuradha Koirala
  Anuradha Koirala
  Anuradha Koirala is a social activist and the founder and director of Maiti Nepal - a non-profit organization in Nepal dedicated to helping victims of sex trafficking....
  
  
• Araniko
  Araniko
  Araniko or Anige was one of the key figures in the arts of Nepal, Tibet, and Yuan China, and the artistic exchanges in these areas. He was born in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, during the reign of Jaya Bhim Dev Malla...
  
  
• Balbhadra Kunwar
  Balbhadra Kunwar
  Balbhadra Kunwar is a National Hero of Nepal, freedom fighter, Captain, General, etc. Following the Anglo-Nepali War of 1814–1816 he became very famous...
  
  
• Bhakti Thapa
  Bhakti Thapa
  Bhakti Thapa is a National hero of Nepal.He was a patriot involved in the Anglo-Nepalese War. His most important contribution in the war was at the western front of Deothal...
  
  
• Baburam Bhattarai
  Baburam Bhattarai
  Dr. Baburam Bhattarai is a Nepalese politician who became the 35th Prime Minister of Nepal in August 2011. He is a senior Standing Committee Member and vice chairperson of Unified Communist Party of Nepal . His party started a revolutionary People's War in Nepal in 1996 that ultimately led to the...
  
  
• Bhimsen Thapa
  Bhimsen Thapa
  Bhimsen Thapa was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1806 to 1837. After his initial rise to become the prime minister of Nepal during the reign of Rana Bahadur, the successive minority of Girvan Yuddha Shah and Rajendra Bikram Shah, along with the support from Maharani Tripurasundari helped him to...
  
  
• Bhrikuti
  Bhrikuti
  The Nepali Princess Bhrikuti Devi, known to Tibetans as Bal-mo-bza' Khri-btsun, Bhelsa Tritsun or, simply, Khri bTsun , is traditionally considered to have been the first wife of the earliest emperor of Tibet, Songtsän Gampo , and an incarnation of Tara...
  
  
• Iman Singh Chemjong
  Iman Singh Chemjong
  Iman Xin Chemjong or Iman Singh Chemjong was a Limbu historian, writer, linguist, lexicographer, folklorist and philosopher from Nepal. Although some say that his middle name Xin was spelled as Singh due to mainstream Nepalese or Indian influence, others say Singh is correct because in his book...
  
  
• Janaka
  Janaka
  Janaka or Raja Janaka were the kings of Videha Kingdom. Their capital was Mithila, which is believed to be present day Janakpur, Nepal...
  
  
• Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
  Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
  Krishna Prasad Bhattarai was a Nepalese political leader. As a leader of the Nepali Congress Party, he made his position by transitioning Nepal from an absolute monarchy to a democratic multi-party system.Bhattarai was twice the Prime Minister of Nepal, once heading the Interim Government from 19...
  
  
• Khagendra Thapa Magar
  Khagendra Thapa Magar
  Khagendra Thapa Magar , son of Rup Bahadur and Dhana Maya Thapa Magar, was the shortest man in the world, measuring . Formerly the shortest teenager in the world, Magar took the title of shortest man from Edward Nino Hernandez when he turned 18 on October 14, 2010. Magar is a primordial dwarf...
  
  
• Upendra Mahato
  Upendra Mahato
  Dr. Upendra Mahato is one of the richest people of Nepali origin. He currently resides in Russia where he is the president of the Russia-Nepal Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is the Honorary consul General of Nepal in the Republic of Belarus. He is former president of Non Resident Nepalese...
  
  
• Chandra Bahadur Gurung
  Chandra Bahadur Gurung
  Chandra Bahadur Gurung is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal . In the 2008 Constituent Assembly election he was elected from the Mustang-1 constituency, winning 2456 votes.-References:...
  
  
• Harka Bahadur Gurung
• Himani, Crown Princess of Nepal
  Himani, Crown Princess of Nepal
  Himani Shah, Crown Princess of Nepal is the wife of the former heir apparent to the throne of Nepal, Crown Prince Paras.-Biography:...
  
  
• Princess Shruti of Nepal
  Princess Shruti of Nepal
  Princess Shruti was the daughter of King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya, and sister of Crown Prince Dipendra and Prince Nirajan. Princess Shruti studied at Kanti Ishwori Sishu Vidhyalaya in Nepal, St. Mary's school in Nepal, and later at Mayo Girls College in Ajmer, India...
  
  
• Sister Nirmala
  Sister Nirmala
  Sister Nirmala succeeded Mother Teresa as Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity in March 1997.She was born Nirmala Joshi into a Brahmin family in Ranchi . Her parents were Hindu Brahmins from Nepal...
  
  
• Paras, Crown Prince of Nepal
  Paras, Crown Prince of Nepal
  Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev was the heir-apparent to the throne of Nepal from 2001 until the monarchy was abolished by the Interim Constituent Assembly in 2008 following Constituent Assembly elections.-Early life:...
  
  
• Narayan Pokharel
  Narayan Pokharel
  Narayan Prasad Pokharel, , was president of the Nepal branch of the World Hindu Federation. He was killed by gunfire while attending a religious festival after being attacked by six gunmen in Dudrakshya village, Rupandehi District, Nepal about 300 kilometers west of Kathmandu.Maoist rebels...
  
  
• Nagendra Prasad Rijal
  Nagendra Prasad Rijal
  Nagendra Prasad Rijal was the Prime Minister of Nepal from July 16, 1973 to December 1, 1975, and from March 21, 1986 to June 18, 1986. He was born in Telia, in Dhankuta District of Nepal to a wealthy land-owning Brahmin family. His father was Lt...
  
  
• Princess Prerana of Nepal
  Princess Prerana of Nepal
  Princess Prerana Rajya Laxmi Devi Singh is the only daughter of Gyanendra, the last king of Nepal, and Queen Komal.Princess Prearana married Kumar Raj Bahadur Singh, the son of Navraj Bahadur Singh and Usha Devi Singh on January 23, 2003...
  
  
• Rajesh Hamal
  Rajesh Hamal
  Rajesh Hamal is an actor and producer from Tansen, Nepal born on 9 June 1964 in Palpa, Nepal.- Career :He started his career with the movie "Yug Dheki Yug Samma" in 1994.He is considered a dominant figure in bringing professionalism in the Nepalese movie industry.He was brought up in Moscow,...
  
  
• Rajkarnikar
  Rajkarnikar
  The Rajkarnikar are a Newar clan, the original inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley, which is Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, its sister city, Lalitpur, Patan, and Bhaktapur. The Rajkarnikar clan are also called halwais or palma halwais. The traditional Rajkarnikar occupation is making candy and sweet...
  
  
• Ram Bahadur Bomjon
  Ram Bahadur Bomjon
  Ram Bahadur Bomjon , also known as Palden Dorje and now Dharma Sangha, is from Ratanapuri village, Bara district, Nepal...
  
  
• Rambahadur Limbu
  Rambahadur Limbu
  Captain Rambahadur Limbu, VC, MVO is a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Rambahadur Limbu belongs to the Begha Clan of Limbu Nationality of Nepal. He retired with the honorary...
  
  
• Rana (clan)
  Rana (clan)
  Rana is a family name, originally a Hindu ancestry now found in all religions such as Islam, Sikhism, Buddhism etc. Rana is a surname used by the Rajputs of India, Pakistan and Nepal...
  
  
• Karanbahadur Rana
  Karanbahadur Rana
  Karanbahadur Rana VC was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Sukraraj Shastri
  Sukraraj Shastri
  Sukraraj Shastri was a pre-eminent Nepalese intellectual and opposition leader who died as a martyr.- Political :The future statesman was born Sukraraj Joshi in Kathmandu...
  
  
• Sher Bahadur Deuba
  Sher Bahadur Deuba
  Sher Bahadur Deuba is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister. He is the second senior most leader of the Nepali Congress. He has twice been elected as the leader of parliamentary party of the Nepali Congress, thus enabling him to be elected twice as the Prime Minister of Nepal.He has...
  
  
• Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
  Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
  Pasang Lhamu Sherpa was the first Nepali woman to climb the summit of Mount Everest.She was born into a mountaineering family and was involved in climbing from her teens....
  
  
• Kalidas Shrestha
  Kalidas Shrestha
  Kalidas Shrestha is a Nepalese artist, sculptor, social activist, and is the founding chairman of Kamala Memorial Community Service Center. He also founded Nepal Fine Arts College and was his first campus chief. He also serves as an honorable member of Nepal Academy...
  
  
• Surya Bahadur Thapa
  Surya Bahadur Thapa
  Surya Bahadur Thapa has been Prime Minister of Nepal five times, under three different kings, in a political career lasting nearly 50 years. His terms were 1963-64, 1965–69, 1979–83, 1997–98 and 2003-04....
  
  
• Kulbir Thapa
  Kulbir Thapa
  Kulbir Thapa VC was a first Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military award given to British and Commonwealth forces for gallantry in the face of the enemy.He was a Rifleman in the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles, British-Indian Army during the First World War when the...
  
  
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• Muni Sakya
  Muni Sakya
  Muni Sakya is a Nepalese computer programmer credited with helping to usher in Information Technology in Nepal. He's also known for designing computer systems that can be operated in the Nepali language.-Information Technology in Nepal, Muni Sakya:...
  
  

From the Social Sector

• Anuradha Koirala
  Anuradha Koirala
  Anuradha Koirala is a social activist and the founder and director of Maiti Nepal - a non-profit organization in Nepal dedicated to helping victims of sex trafficking....
  
   - Founder of Maiti Nepal
• Mahabir Pun
  Mahabir Pun
  Mahabir Pun is a Nepalese teacher known for his extensive work in applying wireless technologies to develop remote areas of the Himalayas, also known as the Nepal Wireless Networking Project....
  
   - Founder and Leader of Nepal Wireless Project
• Kul Gautam
  Kul Gautam
  Kul Chandra Gautam, from Nepal, is a distinguished international civil servant from Nepal. He was the former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, special advisor to the Prime Minister of Nepal on...
  
   - Former Deputy Director of UNICEF and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations

Models

• Dichen Lachman
  Dichen Lachman
  Dichen Lachman is an Australian actress. She is best known for appearing in the soap opera Neighbours as Katya Kinski and Joss Whedon's science fiction drama television series Dollhouse as Sierra...
  
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• Cecilia Gurung
• Sarah Gurung
• Amisha Basnet
  Amisha Basnet
  Amisha Basnet ., is a Nepali model, dancer and actress who works in Nepali films and television as well as music video. Amisha Basnet has worked in Nepali serials and cinema. She is also a cultural and traditional dancer...
  
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• Bipana Thapa
  Bipana Thapa
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• Jharna Thapa
  Jharna Thapa
  Jharna/Jharana Thapa is a leading Nepali actress. Jharana Thapa has been nominated as brand ambassador for the End Water Poverty campaign in Nepal.-Filmography :-Awards:Won* 2008, Best Actress,Fem Botanica KTV Film Awards 2065, Takdir....
  
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• Jharana Bajracharya
  Jharana Bajracharya
  Jharna Bajracharya Rashid is a Nepali film actress. She was crowned Miss Nepal in 1997, at the age of sixteen.- Early Beginning :...
  
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• Niruta Singh
  Niruta Singh
  Niruta Singh is one of the leading actresses of Nepali cinema. Born in Darjeeling, India, she started her career with the 1993 Tulsi Ghimire classic Dakshina and eventually made her way to become the No. 1 actress of Nepali film industry.-Career:Niruta moved to Nepal after she started acting in...
  
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• Raj Ballav Koirala
  Raj Ballav Koirala
  Raj Ballav Koirala is a Nepali film actor.Raj Ballav Koirala began his career as a radio host, before moving into music videos, modeling, and acting. He starred in the Nepali feature film Parkhi Basen, which ran successfully for more than 100 days in the cinema. It was honored with a massive 100...
  
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• Rajesh Hamal
  Rajesh Hamal
  Rajesh Hamal is an actor and producer from Tansen, Nepal born on 9 June 1964 in Palpa, Nepal.- Career :He started his career with the movie "Yug Dheki Yug Samma" in 1994.He is considered a dominant figure in bringing professionalism in the Nepalese movie industry.He was brought up in Moscow,...
  
  
• Poonam Gurung

Actors, actresses and entertainers

• Amisha Basnet
  Amisha Basnet
  Amisha Basnet ., is a Nepali model, dancer and actress who works in Nepali films and television as well as music video. Amisha Basnet has worked in Nepali serials and cinema. She is also a cultural and traditional dancer...
  
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• Bhuwan K.C.
  Bhuwan K.C.
  Bhuwan K.C. is a Nepali film actor and producer. He has acted in more than a hundred films, including some foreign films, in his film career of almost 30 years. Nepali Babu is one of his hit films...
  
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• Bipana Thapa
  Bipana Thapa
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• Dichen Lachman
  Dichen Lachman
  Dichen Lachman is an Australian actress. She is best known for appearing in the soap opera Neighbours as Katya Kinski and Joss Whedon's science fiction drama television series Dollhouse as Sierra...
  
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• Dilip Rayamajhi
  Dilip Rayamajhi
  Dilip Rayamajhi is a Nepalese actor. His first major role was in the movie Bhanubhankta.-Personal life:...
  
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• Gauri Malla
  Gauri Malla
  Gauri Malla is a leading Nepali actress. In 2002, she was awarded Nepal's "Motion Picture Award" for best leading female. In 2003, she won the "Best Supporting Actress Award" at the first ever Lux Film Awards in Nepal.-Filmography:-External links:...
  
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• Hari Bansha Acharya
  Hari Bansha Acharya
  Hari Bangsa Acharya is a Nepalese actor and a comedian. He is one of the most successful and respected comedians in the Nepalese entertainment industry. He is well known for his method acting. He is one of the comedy duo, "MaHa Jodi", the other one being Madan Krishna Shrestha. He also performs...
  
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• Jal Shah
  Jal Shah
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• Jharana Bajracharya
  Jharana Bajracharya
  Jharna Bajracharya Rashid is a Nepali film actress. She was crowned Miss Nepal in 1997, at the age of sixteen.- Early Beginning :...
  
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• Jharna Thapa
  Jharna Thapa
  Jharna/Jharana Thapa is a leading Nepali actress. Jharana Thapa has been nominated as brand ambassador for the End Water Poverty campaign in Nepal.-Filmography :-Awards:Won* 2008, Best Actress,Fem Botanica KTV Film Awards 2065, Takdir....
  
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• Karishma Manandhar
  Karishma Manandhar
  Karishma Manandhar/ K.C. raised in Jharuarashi, Lalitpur is a Nepali actress. She made her acting debut at the age of 14 in the movie Santaan Opposite very popular Actor Bhuwan K.C.. She is married to the well-known film director Binod Manandhar with whom she worked in the movie Kasturi...
  
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• Madan Krishna Shrestha
  Madan Krishna Shrestha
  Madan Krishna Shrestha is a Nepalese comedian. Together with Hari Bansha Acharya they form MaHa which has been called "probably the most popular comic duo in Nepal".-Family:...
  
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• Mala Sinha
  Mala Sinha
  Mala Sinha is an Indian actress, who has worked in Hindi, Bengali and Nepali films. Recognised for her acting talent and beauty, she went on to become a popular leading actress in Hindi films from the early fifties till late seventies...
  
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• Manisha Koirala
  Manisha Koirala
  Manisha B. Koirala is a Nepali-Indian actress who works in Indian films, as well as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social activist. Koirala has primarily worked in Hindi cinema, though she has appeared in several Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films as well...
  
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• Mukta Ram Acharya
  Mukta Ram Acharya
  Mukta Ram Acharya is a Nepalese actor. This artist achieved inspiration to be an actor by a local drama show when he was taken by the school in his childhood...
  
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• Neer Shah
  Neer Shah
  Neer Bikram Shah, also known as Nir Shah, is a Nepalese movie actor, a poet, lyricist, movie director, and businessman. He is related to the Royal family of Nepal.-Film career:Neer Shah is the producer or co-producer of many Nepali movies...
  
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• Niruta Singh
  Niruta Singh
  Niruta Singh is one of the leading actresses of Nepali cinema. Born in Darjeeling, India, she started her career with the 1993 Tulsi Ghimire classic Dakshina and eventually made her way to become the No. 1 actress of Nepali film industry.-Career:Niruta moved to Nepal after she started acting in...
  
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• Rajesh Hamal
  Rajesh Hamal
  Rajesh Hamal is an actor and producer from Tansen, Nepal born on 9 June 1964 in Palpa, Nepal.- Career :He started his career with the movie "Yug Dheki Yug Samma" in 1994.He is considered a dominant figure in bringing professionalism in the Nepalese movie industry.He was brought up in Moscow,...
  
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• Raj Ballav Koirala
  Raj Ballav Koirala
  Raj Ballav Koirala is a Nepali film actor.Raj Ballav Koirala began his career as a radio host, before moving into music videos, modeling, and acting. He starred in the Nepali feature film Parkhi Basen, which ran successfully for more than 100 days in the cinema. It was honored with a massive 100...
  
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• Shiv Shrestha
  Shiv Shrestha
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• Shiva Shankar
  Shiva Shankar
  Shiva Shankar Manandhar was a singer, music composer of Nepali songs and the chief actor in the first Nepali movie, Aama. For nearly a half century beginning from 1950 to late 1990, his name has probably been mentioned more often in books, journals, lectures and conversations about Nepalese music...
  
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• Sumi Khadka
  Sumi Khadka
  Sumi Khadka is a Nepali Actress & a Nepali beauty queen. She was crowned Miss Nepal 1995 & Miss Kathmandu 1995.-Biography:Sumi Khadka was crowned Miss Nepal 1995 from Ruby Rana Miss Nepal 1994 on the 20 September 1995. She completed at Miss Asia Pacific 1995. She was placed 21 among 50 other...
  
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• Sunil Thapa
  Sunil Thapa
  Sunil Thapa is a leading Nepali actor who has appeared in Bollywood and Nepali films. He started his career in the Hindi-language movie Ek duje ke liye.-Filmography:-External links:* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1325129/...
  
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• Tulsi Ghimire
  Tulsi Ghimire
  Tulsi Ghimire or Tulsi Ghimirey is a Nepali film director, screenwriter, editor, cameraman and lyricist. Ghimire has been involved in more than 21 films.-Personal life:...
  
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• Tripti Nadakar
  Tripti Nadakar
  Tripti Nadakar is a Nepali film actress. Tripti has performed in more than a dozen Nepali films. Her hit movies were Samjhana, Kusume Rumal, Saino and Lahure. She and Bhuwan K.C. were dubbed the first golden couple of Nepali film industry.-Filmography:-External links:*...
  
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• Udit Narayan
  Udit Narayan
  -Career:King of melody, Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December, 1955 in a village called Bhardaha in the Saptari district , Nepal. His father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi.Narayan studied at P.B...
  
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Film makers

• Dayaram Dahal
  Dayaram Dahal
  Dayaram Dahal is a Nepalese film director. He is one of the country's top-paid directors, earning approximately Rs. 300,000 per film. He has recently collaborated on the film Nepal, the first Nepalese feature film partly shot in the United States....
  
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• Hari Bansha Acharya
  Hari Bansha Acharya
  Hari Bangsa Acharya is a Nepalese actor and a comedian. He is one of the most successful and respected comedians in the Nepalese entertainment industry. He is well known for his method acting. He is one of the comedy duo, "MaHa Jodi", the other one being Madan Krishna Shrestha. He also performs...
  
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• Subash Gajurel
  Subash Gajurel
  Subash Gajurel is a film director from Nepal. His film Basain was nominated in 2006 for the 79th Academy Awards in the foreign language film category. Basian deals with the tragic story of how a heavily indebted resident had to leave his village....
  
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• Tulsi Ghimire
  Tulsi Ghimire
  Tulsi Ghimire or Tulsi Ghimirey is a Nepali film director, screenwriter, editor, cameraman and lyricist. Ghimire has been involved in more than 21 films.-Personal life:...
  
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Nepali writers

• Yuyutsu Sharma
  Yuyutsu Sharma
  Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma is a widely traveled Nepali/Indian writer who was born at Nakodar, Punjab and grew up in Nakodar and later at Nangal Township of Shivalik ranges of Mahabharata Hills where his father worked. He moved to Nepal at an early age and now writes in English and Nepali...
  
  
• Parijat
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• Samrat Upadhyay
  Samrat Upadhyay
  Samrat Upadhyay is a Nepalese writer who writes in English. Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing as well as Director of Graduate Studies at Indiana University. He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West. He was born and raised in Kathmandu,...
  
  
• Manjushree Thapa
  Manjushree Thapa
  Manjushree Thapa is a Nepali writer.She grew up in Nepal, Canada and the USA. She began to write upon completing her BFA in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her first book was Mustang Bhot in Fragments...
  
  
• Sushma Joshi
  Sushma Joshi
  Sushma Joshi is a Nepali writer and filmmaker based in Kathmandu, Nepal.End of the World, her book of short stories, was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2009...
  
  
• Toya Gurung
• GANESH BHATTARAI(Ilam)

Nepali poets

• Sidhhi Charan Shrestha
• Bhanubhakta Acharya
  Bhanubhakta Acharya
  Aadikavi Bhanubhakta Acharya was a Nepali poet who translated the Ramayana from Sanskrit to Nepali. He was born in 1814 in Chundi Ramgha in the district of Tanahu, and was educated at home by his grandfather, Shri Krishna Acharya...
  
  
• Laxmi Prasad Devkota
  Laxmi Prasad Devkota
  Laxmi Prasad Devkota , was a Nepali poet.Devkota is considered to be one of the best writers in Nepal. He is best known for the poem "Muna Madan". There are several tributes to the poem Muna Madan...
  
  
• Gopal Prasad Rimal
  Gopal Prasad Rimal
  Gopal Prasad Rimal was a poet from Kathmandu, Nepal.During Rimal's adolescence, he came under the influence of revolutionaries who were aspiring to overthrow the Rana dynasty. Though Rimal had begun his career as a successful poet in 1930 and as a playwright in 1940, it was in 1941 that the real...
  
  
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• Mahananda Sapkota
  Mahananda Sapkota
  Mahananda Sapkota was a Nepalese social worker, etymologist, linguist, and poet. He received several national awards for his contributions to poetry. His social work focused on education and social awareness particularly in eastern Nepal...
  
  
• Motiram Bhatta
  Motiram Bhatta
  Motiram Bhatta a Nepalese Poet, known as an era in Nepali literaturey was born on the Kathmandu in 1866 AD . At the age of six he left his birth place Kathmandu to get studies in Benaras, India. He learned Classical Sanskrit language and some music lessons at the age of fifteen...
  
  

Musicians

• Amber Gurung
  Amber Gurung
  -Early life:Amber Gurung was born in Darjeeling, India, where his father, Ujir Singh Gurung, a former soldier in the British Indian Army, was serving as a policeman. His mother encouraged him to sing and compose as a child, and he taught himself to play both Indian and Western instruments...
  
  
• Amrit Gurung
• Riju Raja Tuladhar.
• Sunit Ratna Kansakar.
• Tara Devi (singer)
  Tara Devi (singer)
  Tara Devi was a Nepali singer. She was known as the "nightingale of Nepal" having recorded over 4,000 songs during her lifetime.. Much of her music revolved around the themes of patriotism and love OhMyNews - 2006-01-23....
  
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• Ram Krishna Dhakal
  Ram Krishna Dhakal
  Ramkrishna Dhakal is a famous Modern, pop and playback singer, Actor and reality show judge from Nepal. He was discovered at an early age by Arjun Pokwal....
  
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• Jhalak Man Gandarbha
  Jhalak Man Gandarbha
  Jhalak Man Gandarbha is one of the most significant Nepali folk singers. He is popular for Gaine Geet or Gandarbha Sangeet, a popular type of folk song sung only by the Gaine or Gandarbha ethnic group of Nepal. He is the first Gaine singer to record Gaine song and is respected for bringing voice...
  
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• Sukmit Gurung
• Narayan Gopal
  Narayan Gopal
  Narayan Gopal Guruacharya is the most prominent and popular singer and composer in the history of Nepali music. He is popularly referred to as "Swar Samrat" in Nepali music. He is also known as "Tragedy King." He is well known as a singer as well as a composer...
  
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• Udit Narayan
  Udit Narayan
  -Career:King of melody, Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December, 1955 in a village called Bhardaha in the Saptari district , Nepal. His father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi.Narayan studied at P.B...
  
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• Ciney Gurung
• Kunti Moktan
• Nepathaya
  Nepathaya
  Nepathya is a popular Nepalese music band that was formed by 3 students from Pokhara, studying in Kathmandu, Nepal in the early 1990s. Nepathya is best known for its blending of folk melodies into new, youth-friendly pop and rock tune...
  
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• Nepsydaz
  Nepsydaz
  Da Nepsydaz is one of the leading hip-hop/rap bands in Nepal. Initially there were four members in this group—Mistah K, Zero Level, Manas and Schizo. These four members first called themselves Da Nepsythugs. Thanks to a fellow rapper, their group name was changed to Da Nepsydaz...
  
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• Phurba Sherpa
  Phurba Sherpa
  Phurba Sherpa ' born September 17, is a Filmmaker, Music Video Director and Nepali singer whose most prominent album, Geet Ek Akshar Ko features the world's first ever one-letter song in the world music industry, "Song of Nepal".-Personal life:Phurba Sherpa was born at September 17 to Mingma Sherpa...
  
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• Sabin Rai
  Sabin Rai
  Sabin Rai is a Nepalese singer. He was born on February 5, 1974, in Dharan, which is in the eastern part of Nepal. He has a huge fan base in Nepal, India and the Nepalese diaspora abroad. He has sometimes been dubbed the Bryan Adams of Nepal due to his similar husky voice with the Canadian...
  
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• Sudip Gurung
• Shiva Shankar
  Shiva Shankar
  Shiva Shankar Manandhar was a singer, music composer of Nepali songs and the chief actor in the first Nepali movie, Aama. For nearly a half century beginning from 1950 to late 1990, his name has probably been mentioned more often in books, journals, lectures and conversations about Nepalese music...
  
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• Rima Gurung Hoda

Nepali mountain climbers

• Apa Sherpa
• Babu Chiri Sherpa
  Babu Chiri Sherpa
  Babu Chiri Sherpa was a Sherpa mountaineer from Nepal. He was a legendary guide who reached the summit of Mount Everest ten times. He held 2 world records on Everest...
  
  
• Pemba Dorjie
  Pemba Dorjie
  Pemba Dorjie is a Sherpa who currently holds the world record for the quickest climb of Mount Everest. On May 23, 2003, he reached the peak in 12 hours and 46 minutes. Lhakpa Gelu beat his record three days later, reaching the peak in 10 hours and 46 minutes. On May 21, 2004, Dorjie beat that...
  
  
• Moni Mulepati
  Moni Mulepati
  Moni Mulepati is the first non-Sherpa Nepalese woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, having reached the peak on 30 May 2005. At the same time, she became the first woman to be married at the summit by marrying her climbing partner Pemba Dorjee Sherpa , a Sherpa who first reached the summit...
  
  
• Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
  Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
  Pasang Lhamu Sherpa was the first Nepali woman to climb the summit of Mount Everest.She was born into a mountaineering family and was involved in climbing from her teens....
  
  
• Sherpa Ang Rita
  Sherpa Ang Rita
  Ang Rita, a Sherpa is a famous mountain climber, who has successfully climbed Mount Everest ten times without the use of supplemental oxygen, and is thus known as "The Snow Leopard"...
  
  
• Shambu Tamang
  Shambu Tamang
  Shambu Tamang is a Sherpa from Nepal and once held the record as the youngest person to successfully ascend Mount Everest, reaching the summit on May 5, 1973. Records differ on his actual age at the time of the successful climb; although most records claim he was 16 years of age, it is currently...
  
  
• Tenzing Norgay
  Tenzing Norgay
  Padma Bhushan, Supradipta-Manyabara-Nepal-Tara Tenzing Norgay, GM born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer...
  
  

Athletes

• Appa Sherpa
  Appa Sherpa
  Apa , nicknamed "Super Sherpa", is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer who holds the record for reaching the summit of Mount Everest more times than any other person. He has climbed the mountain twenty-one times...
  
  , mountain climbers.
• Babu Chiri Sherpa
  Babu Chiri Sherpa
  Babu Chiri Sherpa was a Sherpa mountaineer from Nepal. He was a legendary guide who reached the summit of Mount Everest ten times. He held 2 world records on Everest...
  
  , mountain climbers.
• Pemba Dorjie
  Pemba Dorjie
  Pemba Dorjie is a Sherpa who currently holds the world record for the quickest climb of Mount Everest. On May 23, 2003, he reached the peak in 12 hours and 46 minutes. Lhakpa Gelu beat his record three days later, reaching the peak in 10 hours and 46 minutes. On May 21, 2004, Dorjie beat that...
  
  , mountain climbers.
• Moni Mulepati
  Moni Mulepati
  Moni Mulepati is the first non-Sherpa Nepalese woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, having reached the peak on 30 May 2005. At the same time, she became the first woman to be married at the summit by marrying her climbing partner Pemba Dorjee Sherpa , a Sherpa who first reached the summit...
  
  , mountain climbers.
• Nawang Sherpa
  Nawang Sherpa
  Nawang Sherpa became the first person to climb Mount Everest with a by reaching the summit on May 16, 2004...
  
  , mountain climbers.
• Ang Rita, mountain climbers.
• Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
  Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
  Pasang Lhamu Sherpa was the first Nepali woman to climb the summit of Mount Everest.She was born into a mountaineering family and was involved in climbing from her teens....
  
  , mountain climbers.
• Narayan Gurung, Taekwondo practitioner.

• Chandra Kala Thapa
  Chandra Kala Thapa
  Chandra Kala Thapa is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Nepal.Thapa represented Nepal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed 9th in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of...
  
  , Track and field sprint athlete.
• Manoj Baishya
  Manoj Baishya
  Manoj Baishya, also spelt Manoj Baisya is a Nepalese cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he has played for the Nepal national cricket team since 2005.-Biography:...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Raju Basnet
  Raju Basnet
  Raju Basnet, surname also spelt Basnyat, is a Nepalese cricketer. A left-handed batsman and leg spin bowler, he has played for the Nepal national cricket team since 2004.-Biography:...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Raj Pradhan, Cricketer.
• Dhirendra Chand
  Dhirendra Chand
  Dhirendra Chand is a Nepalese cricketer who has played for the Nepal national cricket team since 2005.-Biography:Born in Nepal, Dhirendra Chand made his début for Nepal in 2005 when he played in the repêchage tournament of the 2005 ICC Trophy, in which Nepal finished third after beating Qatar in a...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Kanishka Chaugai
  Kanishka Chaugai
  Kanishka Chaugai is a Nepalese cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he has played for the Nepal national cricket team since 2004.-Biography:...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Bikash Dali
  Bikash Dali
  Bikash Lal Dali is a Nepalese cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played just once for the Nepal national cricket team, a first-class match against Malaysia in the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup.-References:...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Manoj Katuwal
  Manoj Katuwal
  Manoj Katuwal is a Nepalese cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he played for the Nepal national cricket team between 2002 and 2006 including two first-class matches.-Biography:...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Paras Khadka
  Paras Khadka
  Paras Khadka is a Nepalese cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler, he has played for the Nepal national cricket team since 2004...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Raju Khadka
  Raju Khadka
  Raju Khadka is a Nepalese cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played for the Nepal national cricket team between 1998 and 2004, including two first-class matches. He captained the side between 2002 and 2004.-Biography:Born in Nepal in 1975, Raju Khadka first...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari
  Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari
  Rahendra Bahadur Bhandari is a Nepalese athlete and soldier who has won 2 silver medals in 9th Asian Games and 2 gold medals in 10th Asian Games....
  
  , Athlete.
• Shyam Dhakal
  Shyam Dhakal
  Shyam Dhakal is at this time the highest ranking Alpine skier from Nepal. He participated in the Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 in Val-d'Isère. In the Men's Slalom his time was 2:15.93 making him 68th place. He also participated in the 2010 Vancouver games as one the two participants from...
  
  , Alpine skier
• Sipora Gurung, Volleyball
• Jayaram Khadka
  Jayaram Khadka
  Jayaram Khadka is a cross-country skier who is the first Winter Olympic Athlete from Nepal. He participated in the 2002 Winter Olympics. In the Men's 1.5 km Qualification his time was 4:48.4 making him 70th place. His nation has never won an Olympic medal in Summer or Winter.-References:Biography...
  
  , Cross-country skier
• Dachhiri Sherpa
  Dachhiri Sherpa
  Dachhiri Sherpa is a Nepali cross-country skier who has competed since 2003. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 92nd in the 15 km event at Vancouver in 2010.- Skiing Achievements :...
  
  , Cross-country skier
• Ganesh Thapa
  Ganesh Thapa
  Ganesh Thapa is the present President of the All Nepal Football Association . He is also the outgoing President of the South Asian Football Federation. He is also one of the five vice presidents of the Asian football federation, elected on 6 January 2011.-Background:Before becoming the President of...
  
  , Footballer.
• Binod Das
  Binod Das
  Binod Kumar Das is a Nepalese cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he was the captain of the Nepal national cricket team, having played for them since 2000.-Biography:...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Paras Khadka
  Paras Khadka
  Paras Khadka is a Nepalese cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler, he has played for the Nepal national cricket team since 2004...
  
  , Cricketer
• Paresh Lohani
  Paresh Lohani
  Paresh Prasad Lohani is a Nepalese cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he has played for the Nepal national cricket team since 2000.-Biography:...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Shakti Gauchan
  Shakti Gauchan
  Shakti Prasad Gauchan is a Nepali cricketer. A right-handed batsman and leg spin bowler, he has played for the Nepal national cricket team since 2002.-Biography:...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Mehaboob Alam, Cricketer.
• Sanjam Regmi
  Sanjam Regmi
  Sanjam Regmi is a Nepalese cricketer. A right-handed batsman and off spin bowler, he has played for the Nepal national cricket team since 2001, including two first-class matches.-Biography:...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Sharad Vesawkar
  Sharad Vesawkar
  Sharad Vesawkar is a Nepalese cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he has played for the Nepal national cricket team since 2004.-Biography:Bornfesfs...
  
  , Cricketer.
• Dipendra Chaudhary
  Dipendra Chaudhary
  Dipendra Chaudhary is a Nepali cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he has played for the Nepal national cricket team since 1998, including two first-class matches....
  
  , Cricketer.
• Anil Gurung
  Anil Gurung
  Anil Gurung is a Nepali international football player who made headlines when he was selected for a trial for Chelsea reserve team and Woking F.C in England. Sahara Club, Nepal and Sahara Football Club, UK jointly initiated the trial-selection process...
  
  , Footballer
• Sunil Chhetri, Footballer.
• Ju Manu Rai
  Ju Manu Rai
  Ju Manu Rai is a Nepalese footballer, who currently plays for Nepal Police Club and his national side Nepal-Career:...
  
  , Footballer.
• Hari Khadka
  Hari Khadka
  Hari Khadka , is a former footballer who last played for Zejtun Corinthians F.C..-External links:* *...
  
  , Footballer.
• Tashi Tsering
  Tashi Tsering (footballer)
  Tashi Tsering is a Nepalese footballer who plays for Manang Marsyangdi Club in Nepal. The defender has played for the Nepal national football team since 2005 and the Tibet national football team since 1999.-Club career:...
  
  , Footballer
• Karishma karki
  Karishma karki
  Karishma Karki is Nepali Olympian swimmer. Born: July 18, 1993 in Bansbari, Kathmandu, Nepal .She had participated in Beijing Olympics 2008. Swimmer Karishma Karki has already created national record by bagging 12 gold medals at the Fifth National Games. She was awarded The Best Female Player Of...
  
   , Swimmer

Nepali people of World War II

• Gaje Ghale
  Gaje Ghale
  Gaje Ghale VC was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Bhanbhagta Gurung
  Bhanbhagta Gurung
  Havildar Bhanbhagta Gurung VC was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, awarded for his actions while serving as a Rifleman with the 3rd Battalion of...
  
  
• Lachhiman Gurung
  Lachhiman Gurung
  Lachhiman Gurung VC was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Thaman Gurung
  Thaman Gurung
  Thaman Gurung VC was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Tulbahadur Pun
  Tulbahadur Pun
  Tul Bahadur Pun VC was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He later achieved the rank of Honorary Lieutenant...
  
  
• Sher Bahadur Thapa
  Sher Bahadur Thapa
  Sher Bahadur Thapa VC was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Netrabahadur Thapa
  Netrabahadur Thapa
  Netrabahadur Thapa VC was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...