List of Nepalese Americans

This article is a list of notable Nepalese Americans.

Entertainment and media

• Sujita Basnet, model
• Kiran Chetry, broadcast journalist
• Manita Devkota, model
• Kiran Gajmer, singer
• Jane Dipika Garrett, model and body positivity advocate
• Richa Ghimire, actress
• Arthur Gunn, singer
• Prabal Gurung, fashion designer
• Resh Marhatta, actor
• Bartika Eam Rai, singer
• Saranga Shrestha, actress
• Tenzing Norgay Trainor, actor
• Daya Vaidya, actress
• Curtis Waters, musician

Literature and art

• Pratyoush Onta, historian
• Deepak Shimkhada, art historian and adjunct professor at Chaffey College
• Samrat Upadhyay, author
• Gautama V. Vajracharya, Sanskritist

Science and technology

• Bodhraj Acharya, biochemist
• Lujendra Ojha, planetary scientist and assistant Professor of Planetary Science at Rutgers University
• Ram I. Mahato, pharmaceutical scientist and professor at University of Nebraska Medical Center
• Hemanta Mishra, conservationist
• Yadav Pandit, nuclear physicist
• Parag Pathak, economist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Dona Sarkar, software engineer
• Bhaskar Thapa, tunnel engineer

Politics

• Harry Bhandari, member of Maryland House of Delegates, first Nepali-American state legislator
• Sarahana Shrestha, member of New York State Assembly

Sports

• Prithu Baskota, cricketer
• Kanishka Chaugai, cricketer
• Pradip Humagain, soccer coach
• Basanta Regmi, cricketer
• Ang Dorje Sherpa, mountaineer
• Lhakpa Sherpa, mountaineer
• Debendra Thapa, boxer