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Famous People with Links to Nainital
Elsie Inglis, Scottish physician and social reformer
Jim Corbett, hunter of man-eating tigers, author, conservationist and namesake
of Jim Corbett National Park
Percy Hobart, British major general and military engineer
Govind Ballabh Pant, statesman and leader of India's independence movement,
first Indian Premier of British India, the first Chief Minister of Uttar
Pradesh and the first Home Minister of India
Orde Charles Wingate,
British general and commander of the Chindits in Burma during World War
II
Sam Manekshaw, Indian
Army Chief of Staff during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Som Nath Sharma, India's first Param Vir Chakra award winner
Narayan Dutt Tiwari, Indian leader and politician, Former Governor of Andhra
Pradesh, Former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, and former
Finance Minister of India.
Amitabh Bachchan, Legendary Bollywood Actor. (Sherwood College)
Naseeruddin Shah, Art films and Bollywood Actor (St
Joseph's College)
Danny Denzongpa,
Bollywood Actor (Birla
Vidhya Mandir)
Anup Jalota, Singer
Late Nirmal Pandey, Bollywood Actor & Singer
Dilip Tahil, Bollywood Actor (Sherwood
College)
Kabir Bedi, Bollywood Actor (Sherwood
College)
Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change.
Krishna Chandra Pant,
former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India
Sudhir Kakar, renowned psychoanalyst
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
Lalit Modi, Indian
Premier League (IPL) Chairman and RCA President (St Joseph's College)
Bibhudatta Patnaik,
Famous Researcher
Soham Swami, Great Guru and Yogi
Manish Krishnanand Pandey, Famous Cricketer who plays for Karnataka and
Bangalore
Chandra 'Channi' Kumar Arora, former Hockey International and Coach
Manasvi Mamgai, Miss
India World 2010
Prof Ajay Rawat, Uttarakhand
Ratan, Best Citizen of India, Best RTI Citizen of India
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