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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 * Nirmala Bhuria, Indian politician in Madhya Pradesh *

Nirmala Chennappa Nirmala Chennappa or Nirmala Sathya is an Indian film director, actress, producer and technician in the Kannada film industry. She was participated as contestant in BIGG BOSS Kannada season 8. Awards Career Nirmala Chennappa has been part of m ...

, Indian Kannada film director, theatre actress and producer *

Nirmala Deshpande Nirmala Deshpande (17 October 1929 – 1 May 2008) was a noted Indian social activist who had embraced Gandhi and philosophy. She devoted her adult life to the promotion of communal harmony and service to women, tribal people, and the disposses ...

(1929–2008), Indian social activist *

Nirmala Devi Nirmala Devi, also known as Nirmala Arun (7 June 1927 15 June 1996), was an Indian actress in the 1940s and a Hindustani classical vocalist of the Patiala Gharana. She is the mother of Bollywood actor Govinda. Nirmala Devi was the wife of t ...

(1927–1996), Indian film actress and Hindustani classical vocalist * Nirmala Devi (wrestler) (born 1984), Indian freestyle wrestler * Nirmala Erevelles, American academic, professor at the University of Alabama * Nirmala Gavit, Indian politician in Maharashtra * Nirmala Govindarajan, Indian writer and journalist *

Nirmala Joshi Maria Nirmala Joshi (23 July 1934 – 23 June 2015) was an Indian Catholic Religious Sister who succeeded Nobel laureate Mother Teresa as the head of her Missionaries of Charity and expanded the movement overseas. After taking over the charity ...

(1934–2015), Indian Catholic religious sister * Nirmala Kotalawala (born 1965), Sri Lankan politician *

Kamini Nirmala Mendis Kamini Nirmala Mendis is a Sri Lankan professor emeritus at the University of Colombo and former malaria expert at the World Health Organization (WHO). Education Mendis went to Visakha Vidyalaya school in Colombo. She went to the University of ...

, Sri Lankan malariologist * Nirmala Panta (2004–2018), Nepalese rape victim *

Nirmala Patwardhan Nirmala Patwardhan (1928–2008) was an eminent ceramic artist from India. Born in Hyderabad, Sindh, she grew up in Japan and studied art under Nandalal Bose at Santiniketan before working with Ulrich Gunther at Stuttgart, Ray Finch and Bernard Le ...

(1928–2007), Indian ceramic artist * Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar, Indian politician and mayor of Mumbai *

Nirmala Rajasekar Nirmala Rajasekar is a Carnatic Saraswati veena player, composer, vocalist, and educator. One of the world's premier veena players, Rajasekar has performed at Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, the Madras Music Academy, Narada Gana Sabha, Sawai ...

, Indian veena player *

Gaveet Nirmala Ramesh Gaveet Nirmala Ramesh is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. She is a two-term member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Constituency Gaveet Nirmala Ramesh was elected from the Igatpuri assembly constituency Maharashtra. Political P ...

, Indian politician in Maharashtra *

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 Pro-D ...

(born 1959), British academic, vice-chancellor of the Asian University for Women *

Nirmala Visweswara Rao Dr Nirmala Visweswara Rao (born 29 May 1969) is a classical dancer in kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam, Bharathanatyam Early life She was born to the Kamana Ramchandar Rao and Seetha Maha Lakshmi. She started learning dance at the age of 10 years fro ...

, Indian classical dancer * Nirmala S Maurya (born 1958), Indian academic, vice-chancellor of Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University * Nirmala Sankhwar (born 1969), Indian politician in Uttar Pradesh *

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 *

Nirmala Sitharaman Nirmala Sitharaman (born 18 August 1959) is an Indian economist and politician serving as the Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of India since 2019. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha, upper house of the Indian Parliament, since 2014. S ...

(born 1959), Indian Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs *

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 *

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 previously ...

, Indian politician in Gujarat *

Sant Nirmala Sant Nirmala (Marathi: संत निर्मळा) was a poet in 14th-century Maharashtra, India. As the younger sister of Chokhamela, she was deemed equally holy with her brother and thus is also deemed a Hindu saint. Nirmala was married ...

(fl. 14th century), Maharashtrian sant, sister of Chokhamela *

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 s ...

(born 1952/53), Indian doctor who discovered the first HIV case in India *

Vennira Aadai Nirmala Vennira Aadai Nirmala (born as A. B. Shanthi in Kumbakonam) is an Indian actress who has appeared in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. She was a prominent lead actress from 1960s and 70s. She is credited as Ushakumari in Malayalam film indust ...

(born 1948), Indian Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu film actress *

Vijaya Nirmala Vijaya Nirmala (born Nidudavolu Nirmala; 20 February 1946 – 27 June 2019) was an Indian actress, director, and producer known for her works predominantly in Telugu cinema along with a few Malayalam and Tamil films. In a career spanning over si ...

(born 1946), Indian Telugu film actress and director

Others

* ''Nirmala'' (novel), a 1926 novel by Munshi Premchand * ''Nirmala'' (1938 film), an Indian social drama film by Franz Osten * ''Nirmala'' (1948 film), an Indian social drama film by P. V. Krishna Iyer * Nirmala (sect), a Sikh religious order * ''Nirmala'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae *

Nirmala UI Nirmala UI is an Indic scripts typeface created by Tiro Typeworks and commissioned by Microsoft. It was first released with Windows 8 in 2012 as a UI font and currently supports languages using Bengali–Assamese, Devanagari, Kannada, Gujarati, ...

, an Indic writing system font on Microsoft Windows *

Nirmala Bhavan Higher Secondary School Nirmala Bhavan Higher Secondary School, founded in 1964, is a girls school run by the Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament(S.A.B.S). This religious congregation was founded in 1908 by the first Bishop of Changanacherry, Mar Thomas K ...

, a Catholic private school in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India *

Nirmala Convent High School Nirmala Convent High School (NCHS) is a K-10 English medium co-educational convent school in Nashik, Maharashtra, India that was established in 1964. It is governed by the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception and affilia ...

, a Catholic private school in Nashik, Maharashtra, India {{disambiguation, surname