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Nepalese Americans are citizens, Dreamer or permanent residents of the United States of America who trace their family descent to Nepal. This article is a list of notable Nepalese Americans.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prominent Academia and Educationists

Ankur Agrawal, Professor of Computer Science at St. Edwards's University
Parag Pathak, Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Deepak Shimkhada, Adjunct professor at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California
Ram I. Mahato, Professor of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, United States.
Uttam Raj Bhandary, Emeritus Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Entertainment and media

Daya Vaidya, Actress
Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Actor
Prabal Gurung, Fashion designer
Curtis Waters, Canadian-American musician
Arthur Gunn, Singer, American Idol (season 18) Runner-up, 2020
Kiran Gajmer, Singer Voice of Nepal winner, 2021
Manita Devkota, Model
Sujita Basnet, Model
Sajjan Raj Vaidya, Singer
Bartika Eam Rai, Singer
Kiran Chetry, News anchor
Jane Dipika Garrett, Body positivity advocate
Sauriyan Sapkota, Actor
Parijita Bastola, Singer
Asha Magrati, Screenwriter, producer, and actor

Literature and art

Gautama V. Vajracharya, Sanskritist
Samrat Upadhyay, Author
Pratyoush Onta, Historian
Kashish Bastola, Nepali-American writer

Science and technology

Lujendra Ojha, Planetary scientist in NASA, Assistant Professor of Planetary Science at Rutgers University
Chandra Prasad Giri, Remote sensing professor
Bhaskar Thapa, Tunnel engineering expert
Yadav Pandit, Nuclear physics scientist
Bodhraj Acharya, Molecular biology expert

Politics

Harry Bhandari, member of Maryland House of Delegates, first Nepali-American state legislator
Nabaraj KC, first Nepali American candidate to run for the New York City Council in Queens
Sarahana Shrestha, member of New York State Assembly
Shiva Rajbhandari, climate activist, member of Boise, Idaho school board

Sports

Kanishka Chaugai, American domestic cricketer
Prithu Baskota, Cricketer
Basanta Regmi, Cricketer
Pradip Humagain, Soccer Manager

References

Budiman, Abby. "Nepalese in the U.S. Fact Sheet". Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
"Nepalese Population in the USA by Cities". Mero Kalam. 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
"MIT Biology; Uttam RajBhandary". MIT Biology. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
"Tenzing Norgay Trainor | Actor". IMDb. Retrieved 2024-06-09.
"Sauriyan Sapkota | Actor". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
"The Voice's Parijita Bastola on Being the Show's First Nepali-American Contestant: 'It's Super Cool'". Peoplemag. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
"Asha Magrati". Peoplemag. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
"Harvard's Diversity Problem Goes Deeper than Race". Time. Retrieved 2023-09-14.

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