Nirmala may refer to:
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Nirmalamma
Nirmalamma (18 July 1920 – 19 February 2009) was an Indian actress in the Telugu cinema. She has acted in more than 800 films. She was well known for her grandmother roles in several films.She won two Nandi Awards.
Early life
She was born in ...
(1920–2009), Indian Telugu film actress
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Nirmala Bhuria
Nirmala Bhuria is minister of state for health in Government of Madhya Pradesh in India. She was elected to Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 2008 from Petlawad in Jhabua district
Jhabua is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in centra ...
, Indian politician in Madhya Pradesh
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Nirmala Chennappa, Indian Kannada film director, theatre actress and producer
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Nirmala Deshpande (1929–2008), Indian social activist
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Nirmala Devi (1927–1996), Indian film actress and Hindustani classical vocalist
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Nirmala Devi (wrestler)
Nirmala Devi (born 26 June 1984) is an Indian freestyle wrestler. She won a silver medal in the women's freestyle 48 kg event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
She was born to Ishwar Singh and Kitabo Devi. Nirmala is the eldest of Ishwar Sin ...
(born 1984), Indian freestyle wrestler
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Nirmala Erevelles Nirmala Erevelles is a Professor in the Social Foundations of Education and Instructional Department of Education Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies at the University of Alabama. She publishes about various topics related to disability, in ...
, American academic, professor at the University of Alabama
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Nirmala Gavit
Nirmala Gavit is a Shiv Sena politician from Nashik district, Maharashtra. She was a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
The Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha or the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the legislature of ...
, Indian politician in Maharashtra
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Nirmala Govindarajan
Nirmala Govindarajan is an Indian novelist and journalist. Her novel ''Taboo'' (2019) was shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize and was longlisted for the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize in 2020.
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, Indian writer and journalist
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Nirmala Joshi (1934–2015), Indian Catholic religious sister
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Nirmala Kotalawala
Nirmala Kotalawala MP (born 29 September 1965) was Sri Lanka's Deputy Minister of Highways and a Member of Parliament representing the Kalutara Electoral District
Kalutara electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral distri ...
(born 1965), Sri Lankan politician
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Kamini Nirmala Mendis, Sri Lankan malariologist
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Nirmala Panta
Nirmala Panta, a 13-year-old girl from Kanchanpur, Nepal, was found raped and murdered in a sugarcane field near her home on 27 July 2018, after she had gone missing the day before. The news of the incident went viral on social media and recei ...
(2004–2018), Nepalese rape victim
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Nirmala Patwardhan (1928–2007), Indian ceramic artist
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Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar
Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar is the former Mayor of Mumbai and an advocate. She was elected as the mayor in year 1994. Part of the Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply ...
, Indian politician and mayor of Mumbai
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Nirmala Rajasekar, Indian veena player
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Gaveet Nirmala Ramesh, Indian politician in Maharashtra
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Nirmala Rao
Nirmala Rao (born 1959, Hyderabad, India) is a British academic and the current vice chancellor of Krea University. She also served as vice chancellor of the Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh from 1 February 2017 and as Pr ...
(born 1959), British academic, vice-chancellor of the Asian University for Women
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Nirmala Visweswara Rao, Indian classical dancer
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Nirmala S Maurya
Nirmala S Mourya is a first women Vice Chancellor of Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. Former Registrar of Higher Education and Research Institute, Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha, Madras.
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Mahatma ...
(born 1958), Indian academic, vice-chancellor of Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University
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Nirmala Sankhwar
Nirmala Sankhwar is an Indian politician and a member of 17th Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh of India. She represents the ‘Rasulabad’ constituency in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh.
Political career
Nirmala Sankhwar contested U ...
(born 1969), Indian politician in Uttar Pradesh
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Nirmala Sheoran
Nirmala Sheoran (born 15 July 1995) is an Indian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres event.
Early life and career
Sheoran was born in Chehad Khurd village of Haryana state's Bhiwani district.
She qualified for two events at the 2016 S ...
(born 1995), Indian sprinter
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Nirmala Sitharaman (born 1959), Indian Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs
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Nirmala Srivastava
Nirmala Srivastava (née Nirmala Salve; 21 March 192323 February 2011), also known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, was the founder and guru of Sahaja Yoga, a new religious movement sometimes classified as a cult. She claimed to have been born fully ...
(1923–2011), founder and guru of Sahaja Yoga
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Nirmala Wadhwani
Nirmla Wadhwani is a politician from Gujarat and was minister for Women and Child Development in Vijay Rupani's cabinet. She represented Naroda in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly.
Biography
Wadhwani is of Sindhi heritage. She was previousl ...
, Indian politician in Gujarat
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Sant Nirmala (fl. 14th century), Maharashtrian sant, sister of Chokhamela
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Sellappan Nirmala
Sellappan Nirmala (born 1952 or 1953) is an Indian doctor who discovered the first case of HIV in India in 1986. In 1985, aged 32, she was working as a microbiology student in Chennai (Madras) and for her dissertation, began collecting blood ...
(born 1952/53), Indian doctor who discovered the first HIV case in India
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Vennira Aadai Nirmala (born 1948), Indian Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu film actress
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Vijaya Nirmala (born 1946), Indian Telugu film actress and director
Others
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''Nirmala'' (novel), a 1926 novel by Munshi Premchand
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''Nirmala'' (1938 film), an Indian social drama film by Franz Osten
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''Nirmala'' (1948 film), an Indian social drama film by P. V. Krishna Iyer
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, a Sikh religious order
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''Nirmala'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae
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Nirmala UI, an Indic writing system font on Microsoft Windows
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Nirmala Bhavan Higher Secondary School, a Catholic private school in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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Nirmal (disambiguation)
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