This is a list of people who were born in the Indian state of

Arunachal Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares int ...

Mountaineers

* Tapi Mra – mountaineer from India and the first person from Arunachal Pradesh to scale Everest *

Anshu Jamsenpa Anshu Jamsenpa is an Indian mountaineer and the first woman in the world to scale the summit of Mount Everest twice in a season, and the fastest double summiter to do so within 5 days. It is also the fastest double ascent of the tallest crest b ...

– Everester 4 times *

Tine Mena Tine Mena ( hi, तिने मिन, ; born 17 September 1986) is an Indian mountaineer, who on 9 May 2011 became the first woman from Northeast India & Arunachalee woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Early life Tine was born in a ...

– Everester

Social activists

* Nabam Atum *

Binny Yanga Binny Yanga (7 July 1958 – 3 September 2015) was an Indian social worker, a member of the National Planning Commission of India and the founder of Oju Welfare Association (OWA), a non governmental organization based in Arunachal Pradesh, worki ...

Freedom Fighters

* Moje Riba

Journalists

Mamang Dai Mamang Dai is an Indian poet, novelist and journalist based in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. She received Sahitya Academi Award in 2017 for her novel ''The Black Hill''. Life Mamang Dai was born on 23 February 1957 at Pasighat, East Siang dis ...

– journalist, author, poet, and former civil servant based in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh * Dibang –

Aaj Tak ''Aaj Tak'' () is an Indian Hindi-language news channel owned by TV Today Network, part of the New Delhi-based media conglomerate Living Media group (India Today Group) Aaj Tak HD On 14 December 2018, Aaj Tak launched India's first Hindi h ...

journalist; his mother is from Arunachal Pradesh; his father is Punjabi

Politics and bureaucracy

Pema Khandu Pema Khandu (born 21 August 1979) is an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. He is son of former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Dorjee Khandu. Since assuming office of chief minister in July 2016, he and his govern ...

– CM of Arunachal Pradesh *

Kalikho Pul Kalikho Pul (20 July 1969 – 9 August 2016) was an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh for a brief time in 2016. He was elected five times from the Hayuliang Vidhan Sabha constituency re ...

– ex-CM of Arunachal Pradesh *

Gegong Apang Gegong Apang is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh. He served as Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh from 18 January 1980 to 19 January 1999 and again from August 2003 to April 2007. Apang is Arunachal Pradesh's longest serving Chief M ...

– former CM of Arunachal Pradesh *

Mukut Mithi Mukut Mithi is an Indian politician and former Member of the Rajya Sabha. He is a former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. He served as an MLA consecutively from 1983 until his appointment as last Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry and firs ...

– former CM of Arunachal Pradesh; Lt. Governor of

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* Rajani Kanta Patir – former Chief Secretary of Arunachal Pradesh *

Kiren Rijiju Kiren Rijiju (born 19 November 1971) is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh who serves as the Cabinet Minister of Law and Justice in the Government of India. Early life Rijiju was born on 19 November 1971 at Nakhu near Nafra in West K ...

– BJP Member of Parliament; Union minister {{cite web , title = Fourteenth Lok Sabha: Members Bioprofile , publisher = Lok Sabha , url = http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=3972 , accessdate = 2014-05-28 , url-status = dead , archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140529071136/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=3972 , archivedate = 2014-05-29 *

Takam Sanjoy Takam Sanjoy (born 15 May 1967) is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament belonging to the Indian National Congress. In the 2009 general election he was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from th ...

–

INC Inc. or inc may refer to: * Incorporation (business), as a suffix indicating a corporation * ''Inc.'' (magazine), an American business magazine * Inc. No World, a Los Angeles-based band * Indian National Congress, a political party in India * I ...

Member of Parliament * Jomin Tayeng – first

IAS Officer The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. Considered the premier civil service of India, the IAS is one of the three arms of the All India Services along with the Indian ...

; MLA from

Dambuk Dambuk is a Tehsil in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Lower Dibang Valley is the name of the district that contains Tehsil Dambuk. Dambuk is located 30 km towards west from District headquarters Roing. It is 268 km from State c ...

Prem Khandu Thungon Prem Khandu Thungon (born 5 June 1946) is an Indian politician and leader of the Indian National Congress. He was a former central minister of state for Urban Development in the Government of India. He was the Chief Minister of Janata Party led ...

– first Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh * Nabam Tuki – ex-CM of Arunachal Pradesh *

Ninong Ering Ninong Ering (born 3 January 1959) is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He represented the Arunachal East (Lok Sabha constituency) in Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament from 2009 to 2019. He was the Un ...

– Member of Parliament from Arunachal Pradesh and Former Union Minister *

Jarbom Gamlin Jarbom Gamlin (16 April 1961 – 30 November 2014) was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian National Congress political party in Arunachal Pradesh and briefly served as the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. Early life Gamlin was b ...

– ex-CM and former MP *

Shakuntala Doley Gamlin Shakuntala Doley Gamlin is a 1984-batch Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram- Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre IAS officer. She served as Secretary, Dept. of Empowerment of Person With Disabilities, Govt. of India. She also served as Chief Secretary o ...

– former Chief Secretary and secretary for department of empowerment of person with disabilities *

Daying Ering Daying Ering (1929–1970) was an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh. He was the chairman of the Ering Commission which heavily influenced the country's panchayati raj system. Biography Ering was born in an Adi family in Runne village n ...

– politician

Religious leaders

Talom Rukbo Talom Rukbo was the father of Donyi-Polo, a revivalist religious movement based in Arunachal Pradesh which attempts to reconstruct Tani (Adi) animist spirituality. He has criticized Christian missionaries for fraudulent conversion practices in ...

– father of the

Donyi-Polo Donyi-Polo (also Donyi-Poloism) is the designation given to the indigenous religion, of animistic and shamanic type, of the Tani and other Tibeto-Burman peoples of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam in Northeast India. The name "Donyi-Polo" means "Su ...

movement

Philosophers

* Tamo Mibang – Vice-Chancellor; Head of Department of Tribal Studies of

Rajiv Gandhi University Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) (formerly Arunachal University) is the oldest university in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It is located at Rono Hills in Doimukh town, about nine miles from the state capital, Itanagar. The foundation ston ...

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