List of people from Himachal Pradesh

This is a list of notable people from Himachal Pradesh, India.

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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 gallantary award, Mahavir Chakra
Lieutenant General Ranjit Singh Dyal, PVSM, Mahavir Chakra
Rattan Nath Sharma
Major General Anant Singh Pathania MVC, MC

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
Arvind Mohan Kayastha - Biologist
Anand Mohan - Geologist, Petrologist
D.S. Rana - Nephrologist
R.C. Sawhney - Scientist, Professor
T. R. Sharma - Plant Biologist, Educator
Vijay Kumar Thakur - Engineer and Nano-technologist
Omesh Kumar Bharti Epidemiologist

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

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