Contents

• Academics
• Artists
• Athletes
• Cricketers
• Footballers
• Swimmers
• Taekwondo
• Other athletes
• Entertainment
• Actors
• Filmmakers
• Singers
• Other entertainers
• Entrepreneurs
• Humanitarians
• Mountaineers
• Politicians
• Royal and former ruling family
• Scientists
• Physicians
• Writers
• Poets
• Journalists
• Playwrights
• Prose writers
• Other notables
• References

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This is a list of notable Nepali people.

Academics

• Harka Gurung, geologist, anthropologist, and author
• Gautama V. Vajracharya, historian
• Surya Subedi, legal academic

Artists

Athletes

Entertainment

Entrepreneurs

• Binod Chaudhary, businessman, industrialist, and philanthropist
• Karna Shakya, businessman, industrialist, and philanthropist

Humanitarians

• Pushpa Basnet, founder of Nepal's Early Childhood Development Center
• Anil Chitrakar, founder of Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness
• Sunita Danuwar, founder of Shakti Samuha, an anti-sex trafficking organization
• Tikendra Dal Dewan, retired British Army Gurkha, campaigner for Gurkha welfare
• Durga Ghimire, founder of ABC Nepal, an anti-sex trafficking organization
• Jagadish Ghimire, political analyst, founder of Tamakoshi Sewa Samiti community development organization
• Angur Baba Joshi, education activist and first female school principal in Nepal
• Daya Bir Singh Kansakar, founder of Paropakar Organization, Nepal's first social service organization
• Anuradha Koirala, founder of Maiti Nepal, which supports victims of sex trafficking
• Sarina Prabasi, CEO of WaterAid America
• Mahabir Pun, founder of the Nepal Wireless Networking Project
• Indira Ranamagar, founder of Prisoner's Assistance Nepal
• Himani Shah, chairman of the Himani Trust, former crown princess of Nepal
• Tara Devi Tuladhar, social worker and education activist

Mountaineers

Politicians

Royal and former ruling family

• Princess Jayanti of Nepal
• Princess Jyotshana Basnyat of Nepal
• Queen Tripurasundari of Nepal

Scientists

• Muni Sakya, computer scientist
• Drona Prakash Rasali, veterinarian
• Bodhraj Acharya, biochemist
• Sushila Maharjan, biochemist, biotechnologist
• Lujendra Ojha, planetary scientist

Writers

Other notables

• Bhawana Ghimire, CEO of Cricket Association of Nepal from 2014 to 2016
• Asta Narayan Manandhar, established the first bicycle shop in Kathmandu in 1925

References