List of Nepalese Americans

Lists of Americans

By US state
By ethnicity

* Afghan
* African Americans
* African-American Jews
* Alabama Creoles
* Albanian
* Algerian
* Amish
* Anglo-Americans
* Angolan
* Antiguan and Barbudan
* Arab
* Argentine
* Armenian
* Asian
* Assyrian
* Australian
* Austrian
* Azerbaijani

* Bahamian
* Baloch
* Bangladeshi
* Barbadian
* Basque
* Belarusian
* Belgian
* Belizean
* Beninese
* Berber
* Bermudian
* Bissau-Guinean
* Bolivian
* Bosniak
* Bosnian
* Brazilian
* British
* Bulgarian
* Burmese

* Caucasian peoples
* Chechen
* Circassian
* Georgian
* Californios
* Cambodian
* Cameroonian
* Canadian
* Canarian
* Isleños
* Louisiana Isleños
* Cape Verdean
* Catalan
* Caribbean
* Garifuna
* Indo-Caribbean
* Central Asian
* Afghan
* Kazakh
* Tajikistani
* Uzbek
* Chamorros
* Chilean
* Chinese
* Fuzhou
* Hakka
* Hoklo
* Hongkonger
* Colombian
* Congolese
* Coptic
* Cornish
* Cossack
* Costa Rican
* Croatian
* Cuban
* Cypriot
* Czech

* Danish
* Dominican Americans (Dominica)
* Dominican Americans (Dominican Republic)
* Dutch
* Dutch West Indian

* Ecuadorian
* Egyptian
* English
* Equatoguinean
* Eritrean
* Estonian

* Faroese
* Fijian
* Indo-Fijian
* Filipino
* Finnish
* French
* French-Canadian
* French Polynesian
* Frisian
* Fula

* Gabonese
* Galician
* Gambian
* German
* Ghanaian
* Greek
* Greenlandic
* Grenadian
* Guatemalan
* Guinean
* Guyanese

* Habesha peoples
* Ethiopian
* Eritrean
* Haitian
* Hmong
* Honduran
* Hongkongese
* Hungarian

* Icelandic
* Igbo
* Indian
* Bengali
* Gujarati
* Indo-Caribbean
* Indo-Fijian
* Malayali
* Punjabi
* Tamil
* Telugu
* Indonesian
* Iranian
* Iraqi
* Irish
* Irish Travellers
* Israeli
* Italian
* Iu Mien
* Ivorian

* Jamaican
* Japanese
* Jews
* African-American Jews
* Guamanian Jews
* Melungeon Jews
* Old Stock Jews
* Puerto Rican Jews
* Syrian Jews
* Jordanian

* Kalmyk
* Karen
* Kashubian
* Kazakh
* Kenyan
* Kittian and Nevisian
* Korean
* Kurdish
* Kuwaiti

* Laotian
* Latino
* Latvian
* Lebanese
* Liberian
* Libyan
* Liechtensteiner
* Lithuanian
* Louisiana Cajun
* Louisiana Creole
* Luxembourg

* Macedonian
* Malawian
* Maldivian
* Malian
* Maltese
* Malaysian
* Manx
* Māori
* Marshallese
* Mauritanian
* Métis
* Mexican
* Melungeon
* Melungeon Jews
* Micronesian
* Moldovan
* Mongolian
* Montenegrin
* Moroccan

* Native American
* Native Hawaiian
* Nepalese
* New Zealand
* Nicaraguan
* Nigerian
* Igbo
* Yoruba
* Nuevomexicano
* Norwegian

* Old Stock

* Pakistani
* Baloch
* Punjabi
* Sindhi
* Palauan
* Palestinian
* Panamanian
* Paraguayan
* Peruvian
* Polish
* Portuguese
* Puerto Rican

* Romani
* Bashalde
* Romanian
* Russian
* Russian Mennonites
* Rusyn

* Saint Lucian
* Salvadoran
* Sammarinese
* Samoan
* Saudi
* Scotch-Irish
* Scottish
* Senegalese
* Serbian
* Sicilian
* Sierra Leonean
* Singaporean
* Slovak
* Slovene
* Somali
* Sorbian
* South African
* South Asian
* Bangladeshi
* Bhutanese
* Indian
* Indo-Caribbean
* Indo-Fijian
* Nepalese
* Pakistani
* Sri Lankan
* South Sudanese
* Spanish
* Hispanos
* Sri Lankan
* Sudanese
* Surinamese
* Swedish
* Swiss
* Syrian

* Taiwan
* Tajik
* Tanzanian
* Tejanos
* Thai
* Tibetan
* Togolese
* Tongan
* Trinidadian and Tobagonian
* Tunisian
* Turkish

* Ugandan
* Ukrainian
* Uruguayan
* Uzbek
* Uyghur

* Venezuelan
* Vietnamese
* Vincentian
* Virgin Islander

* Welsh

* Yemeni
* Yoruba
* Yugoslav

* Zimbabwean

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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.[1]

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

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* [1]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[2]

## Entertainment and media

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* Daya Vaidya, Actress
* Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Actor[3]
* 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
* Mayadevi Ross, Actress
* Jane Dipika Garrett, Body positivity advocate
* Sauriyan Sapkota, Actor[4]
* Parijita Bastola, Singer[5]
* Asha Magrati, Screenwriter, producer, and actor[6]

## Literature and art

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* Gautama V. Vajracharya, Sanskritist
* Samrat Upadhyay, Author
* Pratyoush Onta, Historian
* Kashish Bastola, Nepali-American writer[7]
* Sudipbhadra Khanal , Nepali Poet (metric poetry)

## Science and technology

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* 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

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* 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

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

## References

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1. ^ Budiman, Abby. "Nepalese in the U.S. Fact Sheet". Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
2. ^ "MIT Biology; Uttam RajBhandary". MIT Biology. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
3. ^ "Tenzing Norgay Trainor | Actor". IMDb. Retrieved June 9, 2024.
4. ^ "Sauriyan Sapkota | Actor". IMDb. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
5. ^ "The Voice's Parijita Bastola on Being the Show's First Nepali-American Contestant: 'It's Super Cool'". Peoplemag. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
6. ^ "Asha Magrati". Peoplemag. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
7. ^ "Harvard's Diversity Problem Goes Deeper than Race". Time. Retrieved September 14, 2023.

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