List of people from Arunachal Pradesh

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

Mountaineers

• Tapi Mra – mountaineer from India and the first person from Arunachal Pradesh to scale Everest
• Anshu Jamsenpa – Everester 4 times
• Tine Mena – Everester

Social activists

• Binny Yanga
• Nabam Atum
• Robin Hibu

Freedom Fighters

• Moje Riba

Journalists

• Mamang Dai – journalist, author, poet, and former civil servant based in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
• Dibang – Aaj Tak journalist; his mother is from Arunachal Pradesh; his father is Punjabi

Politics and bureaucracy

• Pema Khandu – CM of Arunachal Pradesh
• Kalikho Pul – ex-CM of Arunachal Pradesh
• Gegong Apang – former CM of Arunachal Pradesh
• Mukut Mithi – former CM of Arunachal Pradesh; Lt. Governor of Puducherry
• Rajani Kanta Patir – former Chief Secretary of Arunachal Pradesh
• Kiren Rijiju – BJP Member of Parliament; Union minister
• Takam Sanjoy – INC Member of Parliament
• Jomin Tayeng – first IAS Officer of Arunachal Pradesh; MLA from Dambuk
• Prem Khandu Thungon – first Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
• Nabam Tuki – ex-CM of Arunachal Pradesh
• Ninong Ering – Member of Parliament from Arunachal Pradesh and Former Union Minister
• Jarbom Gamlin – ex-CM and former MP
• Shakuntala Doley Gamlin – former Chief Secretary and secretary for department of empowerment of person with disabilities
• Daying Ering – politician

Religious leaders

• Talom Rukbo – father of the Donyi-Polo movement

Philosophers

• Tamo Mibang – Vice-Chancellor; Head of Department of Tribal Studies of Rajiv Gandhi University

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